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On 29.11.14 21:15, Don Lewis wrote:
> Catching up ...
>
>> The CardBus ones (dc, fxp, rl, re and xl) are less no-brainerish. Older 64-bit
>> laptops have only CardBus, and some have these built-in. Since these types
>> of systems are rare, and rarely NFS boot, having them as modules is likely
>> fine.
>
> The re interface is very common on recent consumer-grade AMD
> motherboards and it would not be good to break network boot and network
> install on them.

+1

CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) 9650 Quad-Core Processor (2299.97-MHz K8-class CPU)

re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 
0xee00-0xeeff mem 0xfdfff000-0xfdffffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci2

re1: <US Robotics 997902 (RTL8169S) Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xce00-0xceff 
mem 0xfdeff000-0xfdeff0ff irq 21 at device 6.0 on pci3