FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

[Warner Losh]

Well, we're at 1 maybe 2 now. Only 3 more to go for a reprieve. :) You're
running FreeBSD-current on that i386 laptop, right?

Warner

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 6:01 PM Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
wrote:

> I have a laptop (used for i386 testing) with that NIC. The plan is to move
> rl(4) to ports until I no longer need to test i386 on real hardware.
>
> Will this help?
>
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> Cy Schubert
> <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com> or <cy at freebsd.org>
> The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
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> From: Warner Losh
> Sent: 03/10/2018 16:45
> To: Jakub Lach
> Cc: freebsd-arch at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers
>
> Do you have any machines running FreeBSD 12.0 with this interface? The
> requirement is that we have at least 5 real users of the interface on
> FreeBSD 12.
>
> Many of the P III era PCs aren't beefy enough to run FreeBSD very well
> (specifically, they typically lack adequate memory).
>
> QEMU also emulates newer NICs, so you wouldn't be left w/o a solution. The
> NE-2000 is still supported, as well E1000 (em/igb) interfaces.
>
> Warner
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 5:36 PM Jakub Lach <jakub_lach at mailplus.pl> wrote:
>
> > I request to keep rl(4) as it's the standard ethernet card in PIII era
> PCs.
> > Moreover, it's emulated by QEMU too.
> >
> >
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