On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Navdeep Parhar wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:56:56PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> is there a specific reason that the following NICs are not (or shall >> not be) in GENERIC (at least on i386)? > > No specific reason for these two: > >> - if_cxgb >> - if_cxgbe > > But I do prefer to load them as modules (and as late as possible -- > after sysctl.conf has been processed and any nmbclusters, nmbjumboXX > settings have taken affect). > > Other than root over NFS, is there any reason to have NIC drivers in > GENERIC? >
GENERIC is the kernel profile that's used during installation, and the installer (at one point in time) supported installing over NFS and FTP. GENERIC was also a good smoke test to see if FreeBSD would run on a newly purchased machine, since it included most drivers. Scott _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
