From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 07:12:10 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0585A909; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:12:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mtaout.vnode.se (mtaout.vnode.se [192.121.62.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD740230; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:12:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ymer.vnode.se (h71n10-th-c-d4.ias.bredband.telia.com [81.234.63.71]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mtaout.vnode.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 723B2B0591; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:56:28 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:02:07 +0100 From: Joel Dahl To: John Baldwin , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'd like to axe some drivers Message-ID: <20141121070207.GA19348@ymer.vnode.se> Mail-Followup-To: John Baldwin , arch@freebsd.org References: <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org> <20141120220752.GI24601@funkthat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141120220752.GI24601@funkthat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:12:10 -0000 On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 02:07:52PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > John Baldwin wrote this message on Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 16:31 -0500: > > I'm >< close to removing timeout/untimeout from the tree. As part of this I > > have updated several older drivers to use callout(9), but most of those > > patches were untested. Keeping old code around that no one uses does add > > future work as tree-wide API changes are made as well as things like locking > > (note that several of these drivers weren't locked until I recently changed > > them). To that end, here is my short list of things that I think we can bid > > farewell to in 11. Note that many of these are for ISA devices. > > > 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 I have amd64 machines with dc, fxp, pcn, rl and xl cards, so please don't remove these from GENERIC. I think I have bfe, vr and ed cards as well, but I have to check if they're in i386 or amd64 machines. -- Joel