Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:44:01 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Navdeep Parhar <np@freebsd.org> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, marius@freebsd.org, gallatin@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NICs not in GENERIC Message-ID: <47CCC607-7D0E-4077-9EA8-4BE20DF4F112@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20120221175111.GA41049@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20120221155656.Horde.kkqxT5jmRSRPQ7C4wSPK1kA@webmail.leidinger.net> <20120221175111.GA41049@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Navdeep Parhar wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:56:56PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there a specific reason that the following NICs are not (or shall >> not be) in GENERIC (at least on i386)? > > No specific reason for these two: > >> - if_cxgb >> - if_cxgbe > > But I do prefer to load them as modules (and as late as possible -- > after sysctl.conf has been processed and any nmbclusters, nmbjumboXX > settings have taken affect). > > Other than root over NFS, is there any reason to have NIC drivers in > GENERIC? > GENERIC is the kernel profile that's used during installation, and the installer (at one point in time) supported installing over NFS and FTP. GENERIC was also a good smoke test to see if FreeBSD would run on a newly purchased machine, since it included most drivers. Scotthelp
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