FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net
Tue Oct 23 23:26:50 UTC 2018


> 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?


-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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