FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

Cy Schubert Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com
Thu Oct 4 16:07:36 UTC 2018


People need to submit patches then. OTOH, they can all be moved to ports. IMO, when pkgbase becomes a reality, much of this will become moot. People will be able to mix and match base and ports packages.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alexey Dokuchaev
Sent: 04/10/2018 08:11
To: Warner Losh
Cc: Mark Linimon; freebsd-arch at freebsd.org; freebsd-fcp at freebsd.org; FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List; FreeBSD Net
Subject: Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 08:43:33AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> As far as I know, none of the drivers listed could do 1Gbps.

Right.  My point was that original proposal put 10/100 drivers into one
basket, which is IMHO not fair: 10Mbps cards are rarely seen and used,
100mbps are not, just like 1000bps ones.

That said, I'm okay with deorbiting NICs that cannot do more than 10mbps.
Cards that can do at least 100mbps should stay.  Following up on Ricks'
question, seeing a good example of modernization a certain driver would
help interested people/hw owners to keep drivers for their cards viable.

./danfe
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