On 03 Feb 2014, at 15:23, Tim Daneliuk <tundra_at_tundraware.com> wrote: > On 02/03/2014 07:56 AM, Christian Brueffer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> for some time now we have had two drivers for NVIDIA NForce/MCP network >> chips, namely nve(4) and nfe(4). >> >> The former came first and is based on a binary blob. The latter was >> later ported from OpenBSD and is blob-free. >> >> nfe(4) supports all chips nve(4) supports, in addition to all the newer >> hardware. In essence, nfe(4) has been the de-facto standard driver for >> a long time. nve(4) has been commented out in GENERIC since 2007. >> >> For this reason I propose deprecating nve(4) in 10-STABLE and removing >> it from HEAD. >> >> Does anyone see a reason not to do this? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Christian (wearing my best asbestos suit) >> > > > If you're going to be so very polite about it, how do you > expect us to have a 2000 email chain fight examining > every possible implication of your proposal ... :) in other words, just do it [tm]. > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tim Daneliuk tundra_at_tundraware.com > PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" -- /"\ Best regards, | remko_at_FreeBSD.org \ / Remko Lodder | remko_at_EFnet X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News
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