Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 12:16:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> Cc: rgrimes@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r333388 - in head: . share/man/man4 sys/conf sys/dev/nxge sys/modules sys/modules/nxge tools/kerneldoc/subsys tools/tools tools/tools/nxge usr.sbin/bsdconfig/share Message-ID: <201805231916.w4NJGN9d036638@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <034afbd6-a83a-b753-15fa-5f42eba24b51@freebsd.org>
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> 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) ed(4) has many 100 mbit cards. I recall recently booting something that showed up with an ed0: le(4) has some 100 mbit cards. Mostly supersceded by lnc(4) > ex(4), ep(4) on i386 (ISA and PCcard) These are truely dead, IMHO. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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