Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 17:59:02 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FCP-101: obsolete driver removal planned for 2019-05-18 Message-ID: <201905111559.x4BFx2Fe030820@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Sat, 11 May 2019 21:48:08 %2B0700." <3c911071-f794-1e27-87e1-16a789a95852@grosbein.net>
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Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 11.05.2019 21:32, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > >> I've posted a review to remove obsolete 10 and 10/100 Ethernet drivers > >> as previous approved in FCP-101. > >> The following drivers are slated for > >> removal from FreeBSD-HEAD (to be FreeBSD-13): > >> > >> ae, bm, cs, de, ed, ep, ex, fe, pcn, sf, sn, tl, tx, txp, vx, wb, xe > > > > OMG ! ed ! That EOL's loads of PC boxes I have (& a show box of > > spare) that will never be able to upgrade. > > Do those boxes have 10M-only or 100Mbps variants of ed(4)? > What kind of hardware do they have (CPU and memory-wise)? Thanks for question. I ran a quick check: cd /usr/src; # Apply my patches: # customise `pwd` # http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/bin/.csh/customise cd /sys/amd64/conf grep device [A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z].small | grep ed DUAL.small:device ed FILM.small:device ed KING.small:device ed LAPA.small:device ed LAPD.small:device ed LAPL.small:device ed LAPN.small:device ed LOFT.small:device ed MINI.small:device ed SCAN.small:device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 15 iomem 0xd0000 iosiz 0x10000 SLIM.small:device ed SNOW.small:device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 5 iomem 0xc8000 WIND.small:device ed My master config file is http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/jhs/sys/amd64/conf/HOLZ (Its public but only for my convenience, not asking anyone to struggle with that!) None of those machines are newish, & some very old, some obsolete, some still very useful, eg host SCAN running 4.11 embedded ! http://berklix.com/scanjet/ I need to look more what I can scrap, but ed was extremely common once, inc for pcmcia, I bet loads of machine have embedded ed & ed0. If its a shortage of hardware is the problem let me know. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, Consultant Systems Engineer, BSD Linux Unix, Munich Aachen Kent http://stolenvotes.uk Brexit ref. stole votes from 700,000 Brits in EU. Lies bought; Groups fined; 1.9 M young had no vote, 1.3 M old leavers died.
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