FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 04:26:45PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 5:07 PM Rodney W. Grimes <
> > freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:33:35PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > > > > > I'd also suggest that rl stands in stark contrast to the cs, wb, sn,
> > > smc,
> > > > > > sf, tl, tx and vr drivers, which nobody has mentioned in this
> > > thread, and
> > > > > > which I doubt are in use in any FreeBSD system of any age today.
> > > > >
> > > > > vr is used by my TV driver laptop:
> > > > > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/novatech-8355/
> > > > > vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
> > > 1500
> > > > >         options=82808<VLAN_MTU,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
> > > > >         ether 00:40:d0:5e:26:38
> > > > >         inet 192.168.91.65 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.91.255
> > > > >         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX
> > > <full-duplex,flowcontrol,rxpause,txpause>)
> > > > >         status: active
> > > > >
> > > > > Which currently runs 8.4-RELEASE & eg xrandr, but I'll upgrade soon
> > > > > when I also configure it to receive from a raspberry-pi TV VPN server.
> > > >
> > > > The above was a typo.  vr is on the the STAY list.
> > > >
> > > > -- Brooks
> > > Brooks,
> > >         Is there a public revised version of FCP-0101 that reflects the
> > > feedback which is what core is voting on?
> > >
> > 
> > Its on github, just like it's been the whole time for anybody to see,
> > submit pull requests against and track:
> 
> I have no gh account, desires no gh account, so have no way to
> submit a change request other than through direct email to
> brooks or another gh user.  This is fundementally flawed.
> 
> > https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md
> 
> Thank you for the link, I had looked at it before MeetBSD,
> which did not have most of the recent changes done "a day ago".
> 
> Isnt this document now in a frozen state while core reviews/votes?

I sent it to a vote at c224c67557297d7cba909ad008542cb60980cc6b only
to notice a bug in table rendering.  I submitted a pull request fix
that and a missing word which was merged since neither was material.  I
suppose they could have waited or been skipped, but there's no value in
the FCP process being bound by the sort of pointless rigidity that led
to -DPOSIX_MISTAKE in every libc compile line.

-- Brooks
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