Re: Proposal to remove driver for the Cabletron EA41x SCSI Ethernetadapter

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> We have a driver for this device in sys/dev/scsipi/if_se.c.  It was pretty popular with the pc532 crowd back in the day because SCSI was the only expansion bus the pc532 had.
> 
> There are changes coming to the network stack and it's unlikely that (a) anyone has such a device to test it, and (b) that the driver even works currently because it's been so long since probably anyone ran this code.
> 
> I propose we remove this driver.

There were some users also on port-mac68k:
 https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mac68k/2006/11/06/0000.html
 https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-mac68k/2007/12/07/0002.html

Note there is another Ethernet-over-SCSI solution using RaspberyPi
as a SCSI device:
 http://retropc.net/gimons/rascsi/index.html
and rin@ has a driver for it (based on se(4)): 
 https://twitter.com/labdrunker/status/961526192334499840
 https://twitter.com/labdrunker/status/963418617722281985

It's still worth to consider and design about Ethernet-over-SCSI layer.

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Izumi Tsutsui