FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com
Tue Oct 23 22:14:27 UTC 2018


Hi, Reference:
> From:		Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org>
> Date:		Tue, 23 Oct 2018 22:10:37 +0000

Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
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> 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, sm=
> c,
> > > sf, tl, tx and vr drivers, which nobody has mentioned in this thread, a=
> nd
> > > which I doubt are in use in any FreeBSD system of any age today.
> >=20
> > vr is used by my TV driver laptop:
> > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/novatech-8355/
> > vr0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 15=
> 00
> >         options=3D82808<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,rx=
> pause,txpause>)
> >         status: active
> >=20
> > 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.

Great, Thanks.

Cheers,
Julian
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