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

> On 3 Oct 2018, at 22:05, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> 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
smc is found in the Arm models (simulators) [1]. I?ve seen it in the Foundation
and Architecture Envelope Models. I assume it?s also in the other models, but
don?t have a license for them to check.

Andrew

[1] https://developer.arm.com/products/system-design/fixed-virtual-platforms

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:05 AM Andrew Turner <andrew at fubar.geek.nz>
wrote:
>
> > On 3 Oct 2018, at 22:05, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org>
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
>
> smc is found in the Arm models (simulators) [1]. I?ve seen it in the
> Foundation and Architecture Envelope Models. I assume it?s also in the
> other models, but don?t have a license for them to check.
>
Do we currently support those simulators? I see it is in the VERSATILEPB
simulator that QEMU provides. Does that still work?

Warner