freebsd stable - Jan 2019 - Reminder: FCP-101: pending removal of some 10/100 Ethernet drivers

We are currently planning to remove the following less-popular 10/100
Ethernet drivers in the March/April timeframe:

ae, bm, cs, de, dme, ed, ep, ex, fe, pcn, sf, sn, tl, tx, txp, vx, wb, xe

All of these drivers generate warnings in FreeBSD 12 and to the best of
my knowledge, none have cleared the bar specified in the FCP[0]:

https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md

The easiest way for you to provide data to help our decision making is
to upload dmesgs to https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/.  If you have a
installations of FreeBSD 12 that are dependent on one of these NICs and
you can not report them this way, please feel free to contact me
directly.

-- Brooks

[0] I've received a couple reports of ae(4) devices, but still not 5 of
them.
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:43:44PM +0000, Brooks Davis
wrote:
> We are currently planning to remove the following less-popular 10/100
> Ethernet drivers in the March/April timeframe:
> 
> ae, bm, cs, de, dme, ed, ep, ex, fe, pcn, sf, sn, tl, tx, txp, vx, wb, xe
> 
> All of these drivers generate warnings in FreeBSD 12 and to the best of
> my knowledge, none have cleared the bar specified in the FCP[0]:
> 
> https://github.com/freebsd/fcp/blob/master/fcp-0101.md
Hi,

The above document states that the support lifetime for FreeBSD 12 is 2023.

The expected EOL (but not decided) for 12 is June 30, 2020 however, according to
https://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup

So, hardware in some of my machines will only be supported until sometime next
year.

-- 
Joel