Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:01:07 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, fcp-editors@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FCP-0101: Remove (most) 10/100 Ethernet drivers Message-ID: <201808301601.w7UG17Ze075081@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> of "Thu, 30 Aug 2018 15:52:03 -0000." <20180830155203.GC21890@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
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In message <20180830155203.GC21890@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>, Brooks Davis wr ites: > > > --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 05:28:59PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote: > > In message <20180829202305.GA19802@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>, Brooks=20 > > Davis wr > > ites: > > > My draft FCP to remove most 10/100 Ethertnet drivers is awaiting review > > > by someone who can merge the pull request. I'd like to put it around > > > for broader review prior to requesting core@ approval: > > > > > > https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/pull/18=3D20 > >=20 > > In addition I have a laptop that has rl, three running machines with=20 > > nfe and and one with vr. In addition to fxp, xl, and dc, that I=20 > > mentioned before, this would be very disruptive. > > When was the laptop made? Is the vr onboard or an addon card? As I'll > ask when I ask for broader feedback: do you plan to be running this > system unchanged except for OS update in 2024? The vr is on a motherboard and the rl is on a laptop motherboard. The laptop was made about six or seven years ago. > > > Isn't nfe gigabit? > > Including nfe was a mistake (the driver says: "NVIDIA nForce MCP Fast > Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet" and I stopped reading at Fast Ethernet > because who ever writes this phrase?). ahh -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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