13.05.2019 0:00, Eugene Grosbein wrote:

> 12.05.2019 8:21, Warner Losh 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)?
>>
>> 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. 
> 
> There was RTL8029AS "NE2000-compatible" 100M 32 bit PCI 2.1 adapter.
> Not sure if ed(4) supports RTL8029AS.

Sorry, my memory failed me. RTL8029AS was capable of 10Mbps full duplex (20Mbps 
in total) but had 10BaseT transceiver only.
I wonder what is applicability of 10Mbps hardware these days.


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