FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

[Mark Millard]

On 2018-Oct-3, at 6:27 PM, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2018-October/019167.html
> 
> talks about removing 10Mbit/100Mbit ethernet drivers. This is not an
> objection to the proposal, just an FYI.
> 
> As I remember all the PowerMac/PowerBook/iMac/iBook G3's did not have 1GBit
> Ethernet built-in: just 10Mbit and 100Mbit. Also the earliest G4's did not
> (e.g., AGP's and 350 MHz PCI), including the PowerPC Mac-mini's. (All the
> G5's had 1Gbit Ethernet as I remember.)
> 
> I'm not sure which FreeBSD drivers covered the various examples of
> lacking 1Gbit Ethernet. The proposal may be eliminating built-in-ethernet
> support for (some of) the oldest of the Apple PowerPC machines for all I
> know.

I was wrong about the G5's: 3 early iMac G5 models do not have
1Gbit Ethernet.

https://everymac.com/systems/by_capability/macs-with-ethernet.html
lists by "Ethernet Capabilities" (actually sub-sorted by the
capability). The list shows about 112 models with built-in
Ethernet but without 1Gbit Ethernet. All are PowerPC based.


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