Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 14:06:26 +0200 From: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, 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: <20181004120626.GA39489@elch.exwg.net> In-Reply-To: <20181004084411.GA50348@FreeBSD.org> References: <20181003210516.GA71565@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <20181004084411.GA50348@FreeBSD.org>
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## Alexey Dokuchaev (danfe@FreeBSD.org): > > 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 > > Holy shit! OK I guess I can understand removing 10 (I personally haven't > seen one in a very long time) but 100 are omnipresent and most of my NICs > are in fact 100. Don't panic - they're talking about removing the 100 MBps NICS, not the 100 GBps NICs. Jokes aside - obviously there are very different populations of NICS. Here, the only 100MBps interface is in the IP phone, and I would guess that even most consumer hardware comes with a GBps interface on board (heck, even RPis have a GBit interface, even if can't use more than 30% of it's bandwith). Checking with a hardware-dealer: very few NICs in their catalog are 100MBps, most are gigabit-grade. I would have expected that things look different in the embedded world... On the other hand, some data centers I know routinely use 10GBps, and 1 GBps is considered "legacy" there. So, perceptions are very different... let's keep this rational and make a list of cards still in use. Regards, Christoph -- Spare Space
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