FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

[Luciano Mannucci]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 13:03:01 +0700
Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:
> > 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.
+ 1

I have a lot of them in production systems. It would be a pity that they
will never get a 12.x or newer version ever. I can replace few de cards
but not everything...

Luciano.
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