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[Warner Losh]

On Wed, May 23, 2018, 12:44 PM Stefan Esser <se at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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)
>

My plans are to retire PC Card and these drivers in 13. Machines that have
this hardware still run 12 OK. Packages make them upgradable still, but its
clear the hand writing is on the wall.

Ed and ep also support 100M, but are unable to do line rate.

Warner

Warner

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