Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:51:11 +0000 From: Navdeep Parhar <np@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: marius@FreeBSD.org, gallatin@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NICs not in GENERIC Message-ID: <20120221175111.GA41049@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20120221155656.Horde.kkqxT5jmRSRPQ7C4wSPK1kA@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <20120221155656.Horde.kkqxT5jmRSRPQ7C4wSPK1kA@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:56:56PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Hi, > > is there a specific reason that the following NICs are not (or shall > not be) in GENERIC (at least on i386)? No specific reason for these two: > - if_cxgb > - if_cxgbe But I do prefer to load them as modules (and as late as possible -- after sysctl.conf has been processed and any nmbclusters, nmbjumboXX settings have taken affect). Other than root over NFS, is there any reason to have NIC drivers in GENERIC? Regards, Navdeep
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