Add deprecation notice for vxge(4)
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Authored by kbowling on May 9 2018, 2:59 AM.

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gnn

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rS333499: vxge(4): deprecation notice

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This hardware isn't totally ancient, about equal to a mxge(4) or mlx4en(4), but the company was sold to Exar which then promptly exited the Ethernet business so the card was commercially available for under 2 years. On deep search, the only usage of these cards I found was by the importing of the driver. There are code quality issues identified by Brooks and Hiren and no visible use nor maintainership that warrant removal from FreeBSD 12.0.

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Exar's exit was announced less than a week after the driver was committed to HEAD (https://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Exar+%28EXAR%29+Leaves+10-GB+Ethernet+NIC+Market%3B+To+Refocus+Assets/6345076.html) -- it's quite likely this driver has never been used.

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kbowling created this revision.May 9 2018, 2:59 AM

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kbowling edited the test plan for this revision. (Show Details)May 9 2018, 3:11 AM

Tagging @gnn as he committed the original driver in 2011.

Even if we get pushback, we should plan to kill this in 13. We should also break it on i386 in 12 since with 4/4 the management interface writes to kernel memory when it thinks it is writing to userspace.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 9 2018, 4:34 PM

LGTM.

sbruno accepted this revision.May 11 2018, 2:19 PM

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