Re: NICs not in GENERIC

From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin_at_cs.duke.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:13:14 -0500
On 02/21/12 09:56, 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)?

<....>

> - if_mxge

<....>

Speaking for mxge, it requires the better part of 1MB worth of
firmware files, and it is a rather uncommon device.  I never
added it to GENERIC because I was trying to avoid bloating the
kernel.  It works just fine as a module.

Drew
Received on Tue Feb 21 2012 - 15:13:16 UTC

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