Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:37:29 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I'd like to axe some drivers Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=X=6khp6QeF=99mNuafGYUcMNxtrWjPU9ZqxS0iUuWEw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E6FE2A08-801E-48C7-B454-10FC010D257E@bsdimp.com> References: <201411201631.27556.jhb@freebsd.org> <E6FE2A08-801E-48C7-B454-10FC010D257E@bsdimp.com>
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On 20 November 2014 14:30, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > tl;dr: kill everything on your list. > > Notes. > > On Nov 20, 2014, at 2:31 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> wl(4): This is a driver for an ancient pre-802.11 wireless adapter. = It >> also includes wlconfig(8). Warner promises he won't test an= y >> patches for this. It's older and slower than wi(4) and that dr= iver >> hasn't really worked in years. (One could make the case for ax= ing >> an(4) and wi(4) as well, but I'm just pushing for wl(4).) > > I had this driver working. In FreeBSD 4.2. I discontinued using this card > back in the 90=E2=80=99s. I discarded this cards themselves a couple of = years > ago. It doesn=E2=80=99t interoperate with anything except itself. Compari= sons to > wi(4) aren=E2=80=99t really relevant.This is ancient hardware, of limited= use to > all but a few arcane people that hasn=E2=80=99t likely be run in a real s= ystem > since before the US knew about Monica... > >> ie(4): Unfortunately, someone actually found one of these and tested = it >> several years ago when I added locking to it. It is the only I= SA >> NIC driver that doesn't have a pccard attachment (you can in th= eory >> still use a pccard NIC in a cardbus slot (though not ExpressCar= d)). >> This also only does 10Mb using PIO (no DMA). It doesn't use >> bus_space. > > No PC Cards using this chip were ever made that I could discover (and > I tried very hard). Not having enough users that care enough to update > it to the latest thing, nor to test it, etc speaks volumes. It=E2=80=99s = hardware that=E2=80=99s > not relevant enough to generate in the 15 years that they=E2=80=99ve been= around. > Other ISA and PC Card drivers have had those fixes done, but we=E2=80=99r= e not > talking about them. ie(4) should be retired. I found an ISA ie(4) NIC on Ebay. Who has a box with ISA ports? :) -adrian
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