FCP-0101: Remove (most) 10/100 Ethernet drivers

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 05:28:59PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
> In message <20180829202305.GA19802 at spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>, Brooks 
> Davis wr
> ites:
> > My draft FCP to remove most 10/100 Ethertnet drivers is awaiting review
> > by someone who can merge the pull request.  I'd like to put it around
> > for broader review prior to requesting core@ approval:
> >
> > https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/pull/18=20
> 
> In addition I have a laptop that has rl, three running machines with 
> nfe and and one with vr. In addition to fxp, xl, and dc, that I 
> mentioned before, this would be very disruptive.

When was the laptop made?  Is the vr onboard or an addon card?  As I'll
ask when I ask for broader feedback: do you plan to be running this
system unchanged except for OS update in 2024?

> Isn't nfe gigabit?

Including nfe was a mistake (the driver says: "NVIDIA nForce MCP Fast
Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet" and I stopped reading at Fast Ethernet
because who ever writes this phrase?).

-- Brooks
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