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On 04/10/2018 13:54, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 9:50 PM Andy Farkas <andyf@andyit.com.au 
> <mailto:andyf@andyit.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     On 04/10/2018 07:05, Brooks Davis wrote:
>     >>>> Please direct replies to freebsd-arch <<<
>     > The current list of drivers slated for REMOVAL is:
>     >
>     > ae, bfe, bm, cs, dme, ed, ep, ex, fe, pcn, rl, sf, smc, sn,
>     > ste, tl, tx, txp, vx, wb, xe
>     >
>     > The current list of drivers that will STAY in the tree is:
>     >
>     > dc, ffec, fxpl, hme, le, sis, vr, xl
>     >
>
>     I do not see:
>
>     de0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0
>     mtu 1500
>          ether 00:00:c0:bf:6a:e4
>          inet 172.22.2.34 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 172.22.2.47
>          inet6 fe80::200:c0ff:febf:6ae4%de0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>          nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>          media: Ethernet 10base2/BNC
>          status: active
>
>     on the list.
>
>     FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Thu Jun 30 03:52:15 UTC 2016
>     (yes, a very old version, but you know.... if it ain't broke,
>     don't fix it)
>
>
> Are you planning on upgrading?
>
> de should have been on the list to go.... Its a fairly uncommon NIC....
>
>

I guess I won't be upgrading. I tried, but PC-BSD won't update anymore.

I use this box to MOP boot my Vaxen, with tftp and bootparamd.

NetBSD is looking like the option for me.

-andyf