NICs not in GENERIC

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> (from Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:45:04 -0700):

> On Feb 21, 2012, at 7:56 AM, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a specific reason that the following NICs are not (or  
>> shall not be) in GENERIC (at least on i386)?
>> - if_cas: is compiled as a module, Sun hardware, non-x86 only?
>> - if_gem: is compiled as a module, Apple/Sun, non-x86 only?
>> - if_hme: is compiled as a module, Sun hardware, non-x86 only?
>
> If these aren't for i386 hardware, then why would they need to be in  
> the i386 GENERIC profile?

I didn't told they aren't for i386 (Sun and Apple produce(d) x86  
hardware). If they would have been non-x86 drivers (I assume you've  
seen the answer from Marius), the bug would have been that they are  
build as modules on x86.

Bye,
Alexander.

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