Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 01:20:56 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: PC Card, gone in 13 Message-ID: <CANCZdfqpLiT9KOo5QJuwLgtw__5aU-%2BZUx-U6Pp4_vC_Rcjvdw@mail.gmail.com>
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As discussed in the past, it's time to remove PC Card support. Not CardBus support, but PC Card support. this is the16-bit PCMCIA stuff from long ago. It relied on many 16-bit drivers that have since been removed from the tree. What remains is a shadow of its former self. There used to be two dozen or so drivers. This has dwindled down to 9, none of which are especially relevant (and all of which have replacement hardware available). The drivers to be removed: an, cmx, wi, ng_bt3c Attachments to be removed: ata, fdc, ndis, puc, uart an and wi are old 802.11b drivers that are no longer relevant. cmx is a smart card reader. nb_bt3c is a super-old blue-tooth adapter. None of these are really relevant to a modern or even half modern system. There's no systems that FreeBSD supports that are 16-bit only PC Card systems. They all support CardBus, and there's a number of supported drivers there (though they too are getting old). I've created a review at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26095 to add the deprecation notices. Warner
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