Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 01:34:01 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: rgrimes@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: 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: <5B05B419.2070709@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <201805231814.w4NIExZ9036362@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201805231814.w4NIExZ9036362@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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24.05.2018 1:14, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> 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. My home router runs 11.1-STABLE/i386 using PC-104 form factor system from the year 2007 having AMD Geode processor not capable of 64 bit mode, RAM maxed at 1GB (2x512MB DIMMs), UDMA100 IDE/PATA controller and two 100Mbit vr(4) vlan-capable network interfaces. It can route/nat PPPoE connection at 100M wire speed, performs IPSEC at 33Mbit/s using cryptodev/onboard AES accelerator while acting as WiFi access point same time using multi-AP capable AR5212 ath(4) miniPCI (not miniPCI-E) card. And I love FreeBSD for that.
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