FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

[Cy Schubert]

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ROD.OUTLOOK.COM>, Rick Macklem writes:
> Warner Losh wrote:
> >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?
> My main development machine has a bfe in it, so I will definitely be
> keeping a driver for it going. I don't care if it goes away from head/current
> .
> (I can leave the driver somewhere for anyone else that wants it, although
>  I'm not  a ports guy, so someone else would have to put it in ports.)
> The other box I run FreeBSD on is an fxp, so I'll be doing the same for it, i
> f/when it gets deleted. I find these machines work fine, but I don't do ZFS.
> [stuff snipped]

Ahh, the old laptop used for i386 testing has had ZFS on it since I got 
it. Initially with only 768 MB RAM. It was the the one talked about in 
the ZFS tuning wiki. It's got more RAM now, still with ZFS and no 
special ZFS tuning except to reduce bshift to 13 and reduce the vdev 
cache to 5 MB.

It'll probably become a hand-me-down for the grandkids when I teach 
them programming. Junior committers, hopefully. I'm sure they'll want 
something newer shortly later.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.