Remove support for the Arcnet protocol.
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Authored by brooks on Apr 13 2018, 3:16 PM.

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jhibbits
vangyzen

Commits

rS332514: Manpages are .gz files.
rS332512: Remove device cm which was removed in r332490.
rS332500: sys: remove 'cm' from notes
rS332490: Remove support for the Arcnet protocol.

Summary

While Arcnet has some continued deployment in industrial controls, the
lack of drivers for any of the PCI, USB, or PCIe NICs on the market
suggests such users aren't running FreeBSD.

Evidence in the PR database suggests that the cm(4) driver (our sole Arcnet NIC) was broken in 5.0 and has not worked since.

PR: 182297

Test Plan

tinderbox build

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No Test Coverage

Build Status

Buildable 16127
Build 16080: arc lint + arc unit

Event Timeline

brooks created this revision.Apr 13 2018, 3:16 PM

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Harbormaster completed remote builds in B16127: Diff 41432.Apr 13 2018, 3:16 PM

jhibbits accepted this revision.Apr 13 2018, 3:21 PM

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 13 2018, 3:21 PM

See PR182297: [cm] ArcNet driver fails to detect the link address - and does not work at all. It appears this driver did not work in 5.x and has remained broken since then.

brooks edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)Apr 13 2018, 5:55 PM

tinderbox passes (excluding arches that have been broken for a while)

vangyzen accepted this revision.Apr 13 2018, 8:04 PM

Committed in rS332490, followups in rS332500, rS332512 , and rS332514.