Re: Include DaynaPort by default in GENERIC?

[Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling%kev009.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 5:33 PM Mouse <mouse%rodents-montreal.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> >>> That depends on whether it's qe at qec (quad 10Mb) or be at qec
> >>> (quad 10/100).
> >> I will likely shut the machine down and remove the quad qe card.  It
> >> really serves no useful purpose at 10Mbit/sec.
> > We built the whole damn world on 10Mbps 35 years ago.  Worked great
> > then.
>
> Works great now, too...provided your expectations have stood still for
> the last 35 years.
>
> Most people's haven't.  Not even mine.  I've been spoiled by 100Mb and,
> to a lesser extent, gigabit.
>
> Not that I consider 10Mb useless.  My desktop is an SS20 with nothing
> but 10Mb.  (It has a qec/qe in it, but not for the sake of bandwidth;
> it's so that I can reach each of my three major house subnets from said
> desktop even when my house router is down.)  I even (slightly recently,
> ca. 2015 maybe?) netbooted a machine over an Ethernet-over-serial
> netlink - it took *forever* to boot, but it worked.  I forget how fast
> it was, but probably either 115200 or 38400.

It seems like NetBSD has lagg(4) for link aggregation.

On an SS20, it could be more useful than you think because each
network flow might hash onto a different CPU.  A lot of things need to
be implemented for that to happen and be maximally efficient and it
doesn't benefit single TCP stream performance though.

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