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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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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? > > amd64's GENERIC has a lot of ISA or 100Mbit ethernet cards that are > clearly not going to be used on these machines... > > 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----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-----
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