Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:37:10 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'd like to axe some drivers Message-ID: <573D346B-3AB8-4EC7-A03F-1B2B1291A5BC@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20141120220752.GI24601@funkthat.com> References: <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org> <20141120220752.GI24601@funkthat.com>
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--Apple-Mail=_C482C710-CB01-4158-AE8A-D63219028179 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Nov 20, 2014, at 3:07 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote: > I'm fine w/ removing these... Should we do some house cleaning on > amd64's GENERIC too? >=20 > amd64's GENERIC has a lot of ISA or 100Mbit ethernet cards that are > clearly not going to be used on these machines... >=20 > My recommended list to remove: > ae, bfe, dc, fxp, hme?, pcn, rl, tx, vr, wb, xl, cs, ed, ex, ep, fe, > sn, xe All the PC Card ones (cs, ed, ex, ep, fe, sn, xe) are no brainers to = remove from GENERIC. hme is a Sparc-centric card, so can go. 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. Of the others, only pcn may be relevant enough to stay. At one time it = was in there because one of the virtualization programs (qemu? virtual box?) = had that as its default network config. Warner --Apple-Mail=_C482C710-CB01-4158-AE8A-D63219028179 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUbm0WAAoJEGwc0Sh9sBEAa/cP/jhK2R08n/CQLGvDukmkQx4+ iekvuJJmcruerSsi50HUHz3fqurSjXNGzaOu1+/MR7ueMu25WpDTS1u2ufs8s33E FSqKyigx3wPDEeaJLNzHSX0eVx89cHLpG0huuHV1/EwV2CWKQ1Zpfn5LYzPsEavx b1YPrlF5sI25jgj1doglzbvyEiIBQJBjCaQHPXfWSfSRaSEhtsw4MAG2FXAhXeuB My0OYwmx3s0ijK6T1vMjP6DYvIINh9scKbzuPpz7yd7KktGEKkSpyKSovRlO0GYF HAhsyqXBmswvO8mSHFeIutFLSFQwwIiW83crFFqPz6LMlL8ePl0p+0yy0GpyB27j /cCYpJzLm/b1b2lkGRSVp+gU4JajPNgwFYN+or1qZttnTOqaZjCdjVIO9FU2vk4a PwJFJ6atRqYoYrsFexsx8Z9RGfVzQZCk73rY9SqwgH6r8tiRE2Wgw7pzDzcbG6C1 onYw//VxsznfopyN4SQ/3EZxTDuum4kyu99WK7DuV/8SkntOtmLrV70HY1wxsWMh K4PlegmRKUnUcHrwl9BGTysWE0WIYEEdsBU+Zg/YfZbf6MklQ4g8J469/DzHQMmz M5ZByB0TkjBjz6aPncO+wtGSFe0vbqdGrCRkhoK7OC198h2rSfSwf5WYKLasQRxE JweNGALIutTJvBULS5wA =/vg0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_C482C710-CB01-4158-AE8A-D63219028179--
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