Re: NICs not in GENERIC

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:42:39 -0700
On Feb 22, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> Quoting Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org> (from Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:45:04 -0700):
> 
>> On Feb 21, 2012, at 7:56 AM, 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_gem: is compiled as a module, Apple/Sun, non-x86 only?
>>> - if_hme: is compiled as a module, Sun hardware, non-x86 only?
>> 
>> If these aren't for i386 hardware, then why would they need to be in the i386 GENERIC profile?
> 
> I didn't told they aren't for i386 (Sun and Apple produce(d) x86 hardware). If they would have been non-x86 drivers (I assume you've seen the answer from Marius), the bug would have been that they are build as modules on x86.
> 

Let it go.

Scott
Received on Wed Feb 22 2012 - 14:42:45 UTC

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