Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 08:43:33 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-fcp@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers Message-ID: <CANCZdfovmVe6NavyYviEAkfGLWmByCvh78sB4KOxmO_L3HSqhw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20181004144011.GA70537@FreeBSD.org> References: <20181003210516.GA71565@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <20181004084411.GA50348@FreeBSD.org> <20181004142644.GA17270@lonesome.com> <20181004144011.GA70537@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 8:40 AM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 02:26:44PM +0000, Mark Linimon wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 08:44:11AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Sigh. If you really plan to still be using i386 and 10/100 ether in > > 2024, perhaps you should consider NetBSD. > > I don't quite understand why are you grouping 10/100 vs. 1000 rather than > 10 vs. 100/1000. > As far as I know, none of the drivers listed could do 1Gbps. They were all specifically 10Mbps or 10/100Mbps. Support for 10Mbps or 100Mbps isn't being removed from the tree: there's still dozens of GigE drivers that can do those speeds that have PCI or better bus attachments. Warner
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