There are many other product lists, but starting with the two big broadcom
flavors here. I've had a dozen machines with bge, but none of them were listed
in the man page. I don't think these product lists are helpful.

1. If you have a device and want to know if it's supported, there's no reverse
mapping from product to driver. How do I know what driver supports my NC320m
nic? It's faster to plug it in and find out than to read every ethernet man
page looking for it. (And then plugging it in anyway after I don't find it
because these lists are perpetually out of date.)

2. If you have picked a driver and are trying to find a device, these are very
incomplete guides. Most of the devices aren't for sale anymore. Many of the
rest are now revision B or revision C and may or may not work.

I think we are better off not maintaining such lists. We document the chip
(family) supported by the driver. Consult the spec sheet if you want to know
which chip is on your network card.

There may be exceptional circumstances for some drivers, so I'm not planning to
delete all the lists all at once, but deal with one family at a time.

Index: bge.4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man4/bge.4,v
retrieving revision 1.65
diff -u -p -r1.65 bge.4
--- bge.4       27 Jan 2015 01:38:53 -0000      1.65
+++ bge.4       2 Dec 2015 11:25:17 -0000
@@ -45,59 +45,7 @@ The
 .Nm
 driver provides support for various NICs based on the Broadcom BCM570x,
 571x, 572x, 575x, 576x, 578x, 5776x and 5778x Gigabit Ethernet controller
-chips and the 590x and 5779x Fast Ethernet controller chips,
-including the following:
-.Pp
-.Bl -bullet -compact
-.It
-3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-3Com 3c996-SX (1000baseSX)
-.It
-3Com 3c996B-T (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-Allied-Telesis AT-2972LX10/LC
-.It
-Fujitsu PW0G8GE1U (1000baseSX)
-.It
-Fujitsu PW0G8GE2U (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-Fujitsu PW008GE4 (1000baseSX)
-.It
-Fujitsu PW008GE5 (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-Fujitsu PW008QG1U (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP ProLiant NC320T PCI-E Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP ProLiant NC320m PCI-E Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP ProLiant NC370F PCI-X Gigabit NIC (1000baseSX)
-.It
-HP ProLiant NC370T PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP ProLiant NC1020 PCI Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP ProLiant NC6770 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (1000baseSX)
-.It
-HP ProLiant NC7760 embedded PCI Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP ProLiant NC7770 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP ProLiant NC7771 PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP ProLiant NC7780 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP ProLiant NC7781 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP ProLiant NC7782 embedded PCI-X Gigabit NIC (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-Netgear GA302T (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-SysKonnect SK-9D21 (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-SysKonnect SK-9D41 (1000baseSX)
-.El
+chips and the 590x and 5779x Fast Ethernet controller chips.
 .Pp
 The
 .Nm
Index: bnx.4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man4/bnx.4,v
retrieving revision 1.30
diff -u -p -r1.30 bnx.4
--- bnx.4       14 Sep 2014 00:17:09 -0000      1.30
+++ bnx.4       2 Dec 2015 11:25:30 -0000
@@ -44,28 +44,6 @@ The
 .Nm
 driver supports Broadcom's NetXtreme II product family which is made up of
 the BCM5706, BCM5708, BCM5709, and BCM5716 Ethernet controller chips.
-Products using these controller chips include:
-.Pp
-.Bl -bullet -compact
-.It
-HP NC370F PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX)
-.It
-HP NC370T PCI-X Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP Dual NC370i Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP NC373F PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (1000baseSX)
-.It
-HP NC373i PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter 
(10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP NC374m PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit embedded server adapter 
(10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP NC373T PCI Express Multifunction Gigabit server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP NC380T PCI Express Dual Port Multifunction Gigabit server adapter 
(10/100/1000baseT)
-.It
-HP NC382T PCI Express Dual Port server adapter (10/100/1000baseT)
-.El
 .Pp
 The NetXtreme II product family is composed of various Converged NIC (or CNIC)
 Ethernet controllers which support a TCP Offload Engine (TOE),

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