> Am 23.05.18 um 20:14 schrieb Rodney W. Grimes: > >> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:41:17AM -0700, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > >>> If end of sales and support is enough to remove 10g driver from the > >>> kernel, > >>> can we please delete all 10Mbit, 100Mbit 10+ year old drivers from the > >>> kernel? > >> > >> Depends on how many existing users we want to screw over. Not everyone > >> replaces all their hardware every 2 years, folks. > > > > And some of us buy 2 year old hardware because it is cheap, > > and serves our needs just fine. Even 8 year old servers > > make usable machines today. > > > >> The difference is that the Exar chips failed in the marketplace; very > >> few seem to have made it out into the wild. > >> > >> Given, 10Mbit-only things are way past their sell-by date. > > > > Do we even have any 10Mbit only drivers? I think that all the > > 10mbit drivers also support 100mbit devices, but maybe there > > are some odd cases I cant remeber. > > AFAIK and FWIW: > > ed(4), le(4) on amd64 and on i386 (ISA and PCI)
ed(4) has many 100 mbit cards. I recall recently booting something that showed up with an ed0: le(4) has some 100 mbit cards. Mostly supersceded by lnc(4) > ex(4), ep(4) on i386 (ISA and PCcard) These are truely dead, IMHO. -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
