Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 09:58:32 +0900 From: Yonghyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: deprecation of nve(4) in 10-STABLE and removal from 11-CURRENT Message-ID: <20140206005832.GB2810@michelle.cdnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <52EFA015.5070601@FreeBSD.org> References: <52EFA015.5070601@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:56:37PM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote: > Hi, > > for some time now we have had two drivers for NVIDIA NForce/MCP network > chips, namely nve(4) and nfe(4). > > The former came first and is based on a binary blob. The latter was > later ported from OpenBSD and is blob-free. > > nfe(4) supports all chips nve(4) supports, in addition to all the newer > hardware. In essence, nfe(4) has been the de-facto standard driver for > a long time. nve(4) has been commented out in GENERIC since 2007. > > For this reason I propose deprecating nve(4) in 10-STABLE and removing > it from HEAD. > > Does anyone see a reason not to do this? A couple of users were still using nve(4) in the past. I guess the issue might be lack of code for waking up MAC/PHY from powerdown. nfe(4) already has the needed code and should support all known NVIDIA ethernet controllers with full offloading support. So no objection from me.
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