Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 19:28:06 +1000 From: Trev <freebsd-stable@sentry.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-fcp@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers Message-ID: <aa214fa0-48ee-8114-0313-5263a14dd99c@sentry.org> In-Reply-To: <20181004084411.GA50348@FreeBSD.org> References: <20181003210516.GA71565@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <20181004084411.GA50348@FreeBSD.org>
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> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 09:05:16PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote: > FCP-01010 (https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md) > outlines a plan to deprecate most 10/100 Ethernet drivers in FreeBSD 12 > and remove them in FreeBSD 13 to reduce the burden of maintaining and > improving the network stack. > > The current list of drivers slated for REMOVAL is: > > ae, bfe, bm, cs, dme, ed, ep, ex, fe, pcn, rl, sf, smc, sn, > ste, tl, tx, txp, vx, wb, xe > > Please reply to this message with nominations to the exception list. Sill using my Asus EeePC 701 (just bought a new battery pack) for FreeBSD with ae nic (and I do not foresee discontinuing its use any time soon as its serial port comes in handy for talking to other serial devices).help
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