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bfe: add unmaintained / deprecation notice

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bfe: add unmaintained / deprecation notice

The bfe (Broadcom BCM4401 10/100 Ethernet) driver has known bugs and no
active maintenance. There have been no changes other than sweeping tree
changes, typo corrections etc. since 2008 a far as I can tell. Add a
note in the man page so that users expectations are correctly set, and
indicate that it may be removed in the future.

I did not add a gone_in() call in the driver itself as there is no
specific target version for removal, and this driver has evidence of
recent use (dmesg, PRs).

PR: 201947, 213751
Reviewed by: brooks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40625

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Provenance
emasteAuthored on Jun 20 2023, 12:44 PM
Reviewer
brooks
Differential Revision
D40625: bfe: add unmaintained / deprecation notice
Parents
rG38efd4df23cf: rtld-elf: Mark tls_init_align __unused in free_tls for Variant I TLS.
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