On Sat, 11 May 2019 20:21:46 -0500 Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2019, 12:52 PM Eugene Grosbein <eugen_at_grosbein.net> 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)? > > > More relevant questions might be 1) will these drivers only be removed from FBSD >= 13? 2) what versions of FBSD is Julian now running on his hardware? 3) does he ever plan to upgrade this hardware to >= FBSD 13? I know Julian and he has an amazing collection of old hardware. I suspect that most of it will not even be able to run FBSD 13. > > There are no 100M ed variants. There are some PC Card variants that have > 100M MII connections, but they are limited to about 12Mbps due to bus > limits. Even the PCI ones didn't have 100M mii connections. > -- Gary Jennejohn (gj_at_)Received on Sun May 12 2019 - 04:54:45 UTC
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