Re: FCP-101: obsolete driver removal planned for 2019-05-18

From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen_at_grosbein.net>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 04:11:07 +0700
11.05.2019 22:59, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

>> 11.05.2019 21:32, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>>
>>>> I've posted a review to remove obsolete 10 and 10/100 Ethernet drivers
>>>> as previous approved in FCP-101.
>>>> The following drivers are slated for
>>>> removal from FreeBSD-HEAD (to be FreeBSD-13):
>>>>
>>>> ae, bm, cs, de, ed, ep, ex, fe, pcn, sf, sn, tl, tx, txp, vx, wb, xe
>>>
>>> OMG ! ed ! That EOL's loads of PC boxes I have (& a show box of
>>> spare)  that will never be able to upgrade.
>>
>> Do those boxes have 10M-only or 100Mbps variants of ed(4)?
>> What kind of hardware do they have (CPU and memory-wise)?
> 
> Thanks for question.  I ran a quick check:
> cd /usr/src; 
> #	Apply my patches:
> #	customise `pwd` 
> #	http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/bin/.csh/customise
> cd /sys/amd64/conf
> grep device [A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z].small | grep ed
> DUAL.small:device ed
> FILM.small:device ed
> KING.small:device ed
> LAPA.small:device ed
> LAPD.small:device ed
> LAPL.small:device ed
> LAPN.small:device ed
> LOFT.small:device ed
> MINI.small:device ed
> SCAN.small:device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 15 iomem 0xd0000 iosiz 0x10000
> SLIM.small:device ed
> SNOW.small:device ed0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 5 iomem 0xc8000
> WIND.small:device ed

I've asked not for configuration files but for description of hardware.
ed(4) supports many different models. Some of them do 10Mbps only
but some are 100M-capable including PCI-connected.

And it's interesting to know what is CPU and memory type/amount of boxes.
Received on Sat May 11 2019 - 19:11:35 UTC

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