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

Allan Jude allanjude at freebsd.org
Thu Aug 30 16:14:29 UTC 2018


On 2018-08-30 12:01, Cy Schubert wrote:
> In message <20180830155203.GC21890 at spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>, Brooks 
> Davis wr
> ites:
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>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 05:28:59PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
>>> In message <20180829202305.GA19802 at spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>, Brooks=20
>>> 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=3D20
>>> =20
>>> In addition I have a laptop that has rl, three running machines with=20
>>> nfe and and one with vr. In addition to fxp, xl, and dc, that I=20
>>> 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?
> 
> The vr is on a motherboard and the rl is on a laptop motherboard. The 
> laptop was made about six or seven years ago.
> 

What is the motherboard model?

>>
>>> 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?).
> 
> ahh
> 
> 


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Allan Jude

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