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Date:      Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:52:03 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
Cc:        fcp-editors@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FCP-0101: Remove (most) 10/100 Ethernet drivers
Message-ID:  <20180830155203.GC21890@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <201808300028.w7U0SxHf093294@slippy.cwsent.com>
References:  <brooks@freebsd.org> <20180829202305.GA19802@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <201808300028.w7U0SxHf093294@slippy.cwsent.com>

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On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 05:28:59PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
> In message <20180829202305.GA19802@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>, Brooks=20
> Davis wr
> ites:
> > My draft FCP to remove most 10/100 Ethertnet drivers is awaiting review
> > by someone who can merge the pull request.  I'd like to put it around
> > for broader review prior to requesting core@ approval:
> >
> > https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/pull/18=3D20
>=20
> In addition I have a laptop that has rl, three running machines with=20
> nfe and and one with vr. In addition to fxp, xl, and dc, that I=20
> mentioned before, this would be very disruptive.

When was the laptop made?  Is the vr onboard or an addon card?  As I'll
ask when I ask for broader feedback: do you plan to be running this
system unchanged except for OS update in 2024?

> Isn't nfe gigabit?

Including nfe was a mistake (the driver says: "NVIDIA nForce MCP Fast
Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet" and I stopped reading at Fast Ethernet
because who ever writes this phrase?).

-- Brooks

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