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[Cy Schubert]

Except for old computers and old software that segfaults on 64-bit, how many people still use i386?

Full disclosure: I'd like to see i386 deorbited before I retire.

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Cy Schubert
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The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Esser
Sent: 23/05/2018 11:44
To: rgrimes at freebsd.org; Mark Linimon
Cc: Gleb Smirnoff; Sean Bruno; svn-src-head at freebsd.org; svn-src-all at freebsd.org; src-committers at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: svn commit: r333388 - in head: . share/man/man4 sys/confsys/dev/nxge sys/modules sys/modules/nxge tools/kerneldoc/subsys tools/toolstools/tools/nxge usr.sbin/bsdconfig/share

Am 23.05.18 um 20:14 schrieb Rodney W. Grimes:
>> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:41:17AM -0700, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>>> If end of sales and support is enough to remove 10g driver from the kernel,
>>> can we please delete all 10Mbit, 100Mbit 10+ year old drivers from the kernel?
>>
>> Depends on how many existing users we want to screw over.  Not everyone
>> replaces all their hardware every 2 years, folks.
> 
> And some of us buy 2 year old hardware because it is cheap,
> and serves our needs just fine.   Even 8 year old servers
> make usable machines today.
> 
>> The difference is that the Exar chips failed in the marketplace; very
>> few seem to have made it out into the wild.
>>
>> Given, 10Mbit-only things are way past their sell-by date.
> 
> Do we even have any 10Mbit only drivers?  I think that all the
> 10mbit drivers also support 100mbit devices, but maybe there
> are some odd cases I cant remeber.

AFAIK and FWIW:

ed(4), le(4) on amd64 and on i386 (ISA and PCI)
ex(4), ep(4) on i386 (ISA and PCcard)

Regards, STefan