freebsd stable - Oct 2018 - FCP-0101: Deprecating most 10/100 Ethernet drivers

On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 02:26:44PM +0000, Mark Linimon
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 08:44:11AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > OK I guess I can understand removing 10 (I personally haven't seen
> > one in a very long time) but 100 are omnipresent and most of my NICs
> > are in fact 100.
> 
> Sigh.  If you really plan to still be using i386 and 10/100 ether in
> 2024, perhaps you should consider NetBSD.
I don't quite understand why are you grouping 10/100 vs. 1000 rather than
10 vs. 100/1000.

./danfe

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 8:40 AM Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 02:26:44PM +0000, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 08:44:11AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > OK I guess I can understand removing 10 (I personally haven't
seen
> > > one in a very long time) but 100 are omnipresent and most of my
NICs
> > > are in fact 100.
> >
> > Sigh.  If you really plan to still be using i386 and 10/100 ether in
> > 2024, perhaps you should consider NetBSD.
>
> I don't quite understand why are you grouping 10/100 vs. 1000 rather
than
> 10 vs. 100/1000.
>
As far as I know, none of the drivers listed could do 1Gbps. They were all
specifically 10Mbps or 10/100Mbps. Support for 10Mbps or 100Mbps isn't
being removed from the tree: there's still dozens of GigE drivers that can
do those speeds that have PCI or better bus attachments.

Warner