Quoting Marius Strobl <marius_at_alchemy.franken.de> (from Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:42:52 +0100): > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:56:40PM +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)? >> - if_cas: is compiled as a module, Sun hardware, non-x86 only? >> - if_cxgb >> - if_cxgbe >> - if_gem: is compiled as a module, Apple/Sun, non-x86 only? >> - if_hme: is compiled as a module, Sun hardware, non-x86 only? >> - if_ic: no man-page >> - if_ipheth: no man-page >> - if_mos: USB NIC >> - if_mxge >> - if_my >> - if_nxge >> - if_vtnet: virtual NIC for hypervisors >> > > As for cas(4), gem(4) and hme(4) the corresponding MACs also exist as > add-on cards and these drivers work just fine on x86 (actually should > do so on all architectures). Although some people also use or at least > used these cards in x86 machines, I thought it still would be uncommon > enough to put cards built for OFW machines into x86 ones to deliberately > not add these drivers to the x86 GENERICs. Fell free to do so if you > want though. The GENERIC kernel on i386 takes about 15 MB on disk. The modules for cas/gem/hme take about 115 KB. It does not look like this would hurt from a file size perspective, but would give the benefit of users of the GENERIC kernel to have those NICs work out of the box in the installer. Bye, Alexander. -- A person who has nothing looks at all there is and wants something. A person who has something looks at all there is and wants all the rest. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild _at_ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137Received on Wed Feb 22 2012 - 07:52:59 UTC
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