Looking for bfe(4) (Broadcom BCM4401) users -- considering deprecation

From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 21:15:57 UTC
I have added a note to the bfe driver's man page stating that it is
unmaintained and is a candidate for removal in the future, as it
supports nearly-obsolete hardware, has some known issues (bugs open
for years) and no evidence that anyone is going to fix those issues.

The bfe driver was not removed in Brooks' previous cleanup of old
10/100 drivers (see
https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md) as it was
sufficiently popular. NYC*BUG's dmesg shows a submission with bfe0
from 2020-12-25, and I don't want to remove it if it's being used.
That said, I also don't want us to claim to support this hardware if
the driver is unstable. So, I would like to know if you have bfe(4) in
any systems running FreeBSD (and if so how well it works for you).

There may be an interest in revisiting other 10/100 drivers for
FreeBSD 15.0 but right now I am interested specifically in bfe.