Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 23:55:22 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-fcp@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers Message-ID: <201810232155.w9NLtM4Y080783@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Thu, 04 Oct 2018 12:54:28 -0700." <15FCEA6B-C017-40C5-8193-8C7AA3F563CC@mail.sermon-archive.info>
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Doug Hardie wrote:
> I have a number of production servers that only have bge and I don't see that listed in either category. None of them are running FreeBSD 12 yet as it has not been released. Also there are some with rl. Those are add-on boards so they could be changed, but would require extensive effort as the machines are about a 4 hour drive from here and would require reconfiguration (an error prone process when you are tired).
bge is also used by my main laptop with current Oct 15 18:33 /boot/kernel/kernel
bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=c019b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
Doug, I think bge must be safe as man 4 bge:
"bge - Broadcom BCM57xx/BCM590x Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver"
& Brooks proposal was ... "a plan to deprecate most 10/100 Ethernet drivers"
Cheers,
Julian
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