FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

[Philip Paeps]

On 2018-10-03 23:05:16 (+0200), Brooks Davis wrote:
>>>> Please direct replies to freebsd-arch <<<
>
> FCP-01010 (https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md) 
> outlines a plan to deprecate most 10/100 Ethernet drivers in FreeBSD 
> 12 and remove them in FreeBSD 13 to reduce the burden of maintaining 
> and improving the network stack.  We have discussed this within the 
> core team and intend to move forward as proposed.  We are solictiting 
> feedback on the list of drivers to be excepted from removal.
>
> The current list of drivers slated for REMOVAL is:
>
> ae, bfe, bm, cs, dme, ed, ep, ex, fe, pcn, rl, sf, smc, sn,
> ste, tl, tx, txp, vx, wb, xe
>
> The current list of drivers that will STAY in the tree is:
>
> dc, ffec, fxpl, hme, le, sis, vr, xl

ae is still popular in many cheap Asian laptops (Asus, Acer, etc).
rl is still popular in many cheap PCI adapters.

I've not encountered any of the others in a very long time.

Philip

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