FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

[Vladimir Terziev]

I also call for keeping of the ste(4) driver.

We use several 4-head D-Link	DFE-580TX cards. Removing their support would incur serious expenses for us for replacement hardware.


> On 4 Oct 2018, at 09:03, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:
> 
> 04.10.2018 4:05, 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
> 
> "fxpl" should have been "fxp" here, I suppose.
> 
> While I have no objection for general direction, I have doubts about removal of ste(4) and especially rl(4).
> These are cheap 100Mbit VERY popular NICs sold in enourmous values in certain markets
> by vendors like D-Link and TP-Link using various trade names.
> 
> Lack of support for such popular 100M cards won't be good for FreeBSD, I suppose.
> 
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