Impending NATM removal

[Kevin Bowling]

For consideration, stable/11 will be supported until September 30, 2021
which provides a pretty long window to transition.

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 6:15 AM, Łukasz Wójcik <lukasz.wojcik at zoho.com>
wrote:

> Oh, and mbpool DMA syncing does not work at all and -- at least in patm
> driver -- causes various issues.
>
> This of course can be easily worked around if you choose to let ATM
> ecosystem stay. If my client agrees,
>
> I could also share a patch for patm to make it work with newer ProSUM
> hardware.
>
>
> -ŁW
>
>
>
> On 07-Apr-17 15:08, Łukasz Wójcik wrote:
>
>> Hi Brooks,
>>
>>
>> AFAIK Prosum still manufactures PROATM155M card that utilizes patm driver
>> (which is by the way a little bit outdated and does
>>
>> not support newer variants of ProSUM cards). I also have clients that
>> still use ATM and prosum cards and FreeBSD. My guess is that
>>
>> they're not the only ones. Just my 5cents. The other thing is that
>> ATM/NATM infrastructure in FreeBSD seems to never have been
>>
>> finished.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -ŁW
>>
>>
>> On 07-Apr-17 01:57, Brooks Davis wrote:
>>
>>> As previously threatened, I plan to remove NATM support next week.  This
>>> includes the drivers en(4), fatm(4), hatm(4), and patm(4).  None of
>>> these devices have been manufactured in the last 20 years so it is time
>>> to move on.
>>>
>>> The planned commit can be seen at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9883
>>>
>>> -- Brooks
>>>
>>
>>
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