FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 23 23:11:34 UTC 2018


On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 04:06:48PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes 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?

https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md has been updated
throughout the feedback process as drivers were moved to the STAY list,
errors were found, etc.  It also contains a summary of responses and the
hard data we have.

-- Brooks
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