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List:       freebsd-stable
Subject:    Re: Any sync-serial driver users (ce/cp/ctau/cx)?
From:       Ed Maste <emaste () freebsd ! org>
Date:       2020-03-09 17:40:43
Message-ID: CAPyFy2C0kiS4W7g+zEB4O640mHd6k=s53vwN10JnOv+VPC2tPQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 14:03, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 at 15:57, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Given the ~15 years of nothing but API changes to these cards, and the lack of \
> > testing of those changes, and the large technology transitions in net and tty \
> > layers of the system, I'd honestly be surprised if these drivers still work.
> 
> Deprecation notices in review D23928 https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23928.
> 
> As rgrimes points out cx(4) is for an ISA card (Cronyx Sigma family),
> and I assume there's no conflict over removing it. Likewise with ctau,
> which is also ISA, discontinued by the manufacturer and not supported
> in FreeBSD 7+ by them.

I've MFC'd the deprecation notices for cx and ctau and will remove
them from HEAD before too long. glebius@ is going to follow up with
Cronyx for more details about the cards supported by ce and cp. I
would still appreciate any report that these drivers have been used /
tested on contemporary FreeBSD.
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