On Thu, 2018-05-24 at 01:34 +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 24.05.2018 1:14, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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. > My home router runs 11.1-STABLE/i386 using PC-104 form factor system from the > year 2007 > having AMD Geode processor not capable of 64 bit mode, RAM maxed at 1GB > (2x512MB DIMMs), > UDMA100 IDE/PATA controller and two 100Mbit vr(4) vlan-capable network > interfaces. > > It can route/nat PPPoE connection at 100M wire speed, performs IPSEC at > 33Mbit/s using > cryptodev/onboard AES accelerator while acting as WiFi access point same time > using multi-AP capable AR5212 ath(4) miniPCI (not miniPCI-E) card. > > And I love FreeBSD for that. > >
At $work we still build and ship some products using industrial SBCs similar to what you describe (32-bit Geode processor and vr(4) network driver). That hardware is still available today (and not just on ebay). I think there's a big difference between removing an old driver because the hardware it supports was a marketplace failure and almost no units exist in the wild, and removing old drivers just because they're old. -- Ian _______________________________________________ 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"
