From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 23 20:38:36 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4A410656E5; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:38:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::2c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AAF8FC08; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:38:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5NKcZem089436; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:38:35 GMT (envelope-from marius@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from marius@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n5NKcZqw089434; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:38:35 GMT (envelope-from marius@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <200906232038.n5NKcZqw089434@svn.freebsd.org> From: Marius Strobl Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:38:35 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-SVN-Group: head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: svn commit: r194764 - head/share/man/man4 X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:38:36 -0000 Author: marius Date: Tue Jun 23 20:38:35 2009 New Revision: 194764 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/194764 Log: - Update regarding the support for SBus GEM added in r194763. - Improve the description a bit and add a reference to vlan(4). Modified: head/share/man/man4/gem.4 Modified: head/share/man/man4/gem.4 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man4/gem.4 Tue Jun 23 20:36:59 2009 (r194763) +++ head/share/man/man4/gem.4 Tue Jun 23 20:38:35 2009 (r194764) @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd January 15, 2009 +.Dd June 14, 2009 .Dt GEM 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -57,9 +57,16 @@ if_gem_load="YES" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm -driver provides support for the GMac Ethernet hardware found mostly in +driver provides support for the GMAC Ethernet hardware found mostly in the last Apple PowerBooks G3s and most G4-based Apple hardware, as -well as many Sun UltraSPARCs. +well as Sun UltraSPARC machines. +.Pp +All controllers supported by the +.Nm +driver have TCP checksum offload capability for both receive and transmit, +support for the reception and transmission of extended frames for +.Xr vlan 4 +and a 512-bit multicast hash filter. .Sh HARDWARE .Pp Chips supported by the @@ -84,6 +91,9 @@ driver at this time: .It Sun Gigabit Ethernet PCI 2.0/3.0 (GBE/P) (part no.\& 501-4373) +.It +Sun Gigabit Ethernet SBus 2.0/3.0 (GBE/S) +(part no.\& 501-4375) .El .Sh NOTES On sparc64 the @@ -108,15 +118,11 @@ the system's default MAC address. Supported interfaces having their own MAC address include the on-board Sun ERI 10/100 Mbps on boards equipped with more than one Ethernet interface and the Sun Gigabit Ethernet 2.0/3.0 GBE add-on cards. -.Sh CAVEATS -Currently the -.Nm -driver fails to attach to Sun Gigabit Ethernet SBus 2.0/3.0 (GBE/S) cards, -as no SBus front-end has been written so far. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr altq 4 , .Xr miibus 4 , .Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr vlan 4 , .Xr eeprom 8 , .Xr ifconfig 8 .Sh HISTORY @@ -132,9 +138,19 @@ version to include it was .An -nosplit The .Nm -driver was written by +driver was written for +.Nx +by .An Eduardo Horvath .Aq eeh@NetBSD.org . +It was ported to +.Fx +by +.An Thomas Moestl +.Aq tmm@FreeBSD.org +and later on improved by +.An Marius Strobl +.Aq marus@FreeBSD.org . The man page was written by .An Thomas Klausner .Aq wiz@NetBSD.org .