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Oh, and mbpool DMA syncing does not work at all and -- at least in patm 
driver -- causes various issues.

This of course can be easily worked around if you choose to let ATM 
ecosystem stay. If my client agrees,

I could also share a patch for patm to make it work with newer ProSUM 
hardware.


-ŁW


On 07-Apr-17 15:08, Łukasz Wójcik wrote:
> Hi Brooks,
>
>
> AFAIK Prosum still manufactures PROATM155M card that utilizes patm 
> driver (which is by the way a little bit outdated and does
>
> not support newer variants of ProSUM cards). I also have clients that 
> still use ATM and prosum cards and FreeBSD. My guess is that
>
> they're not the only ones. Just my 5cents. The other thing is that 
> ATM/NATM infrastructure in FreeBSD seems to never have been
>
> finished.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> -ŁW
>
>
> On 07-Apr-17 01:57, Brooks Davis wrote:
>> As previously threatened, I plan to remove NATM support next week.  This
>> includes the drivers en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and patm(4).  None of
>> these devices have been manufactured in the last 20 years so it is time
>> to move on.
>>
>> The planned commit can be seen at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9883
>>
>> -- Brooks
>
>
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