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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:20:29 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r184872 - head/share/man/man4
Message-ID:  <200811121020.mACAKTPx027729@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: yongari
Date: Wed Nov 12 10:20:29 2008
New Revision: 184872
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/184872

Log:
  Add ale(4) man page and hook up ale(4) to the build.
  Also add Xr to appropriate man pages.

Added:
  head/share/man/man4/ale.4   (contents, props changed)
Modified:
  head/share/man/man4/Makefile
  head/share/man/man4/altq.4
  head/share/man/man4/miibus.4
  head/share/man/man4/vlan.4

Modified: head/share/man/man4/Makefile
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/Makefile	Wed Nov 12 10:01:16 2008	(r184871)
+++ head/share/man/man4/Makefile	Wed Nov 12 10:20:29 2008	(r184872)
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ MAN=	aac.4 \
 	ahc.4 \
 	ahd.4 \
 	aio.4 \
+	ale.4 \
 	altq.4 \
 	amd.4 \
 	${_amdsmb.4} \

Added: head/share/man/man4/ale.4
==============================================================================
--- /dev/null	00:00:00 1970	(empty, because file is newly added)
+++ head/share/man/man4/ale.4	Wed Nov 12 10:20:29 2008	(r184872)
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Pyun YongHyeon
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+.\"    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+.\"    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
+.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+.\" ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd November 12, 2008
+.Dt ALE 4
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm ale
+.Nd Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+To compile this driver into the kernel,
+place the following lines in your
+kernel configuration file:
+.Bd -ragged -offset indent
+.Cd "device miibus"
+.Cd "device ale"
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Alternatively, to load the driver as a
+module at boot time, place the following line in
+.Xr loader.conf 5 :
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+if_ale_load="YES"
+.Ed
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+device driver provides support for Atheros AR8121 PCI Express
+Gigabit Ethernet controller and Atheros AR8113/AR8114 PCI
+Express Fast Ethernet controllers.
+.Pp
+All LOMs supported by the
+.Nm
+driver have TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload for both receive and transmit,
+TCP segmentation offload (TSO), hardware VLAN tag stripping/insertion
+features, Wake On Lan (WOL) and an interrupt coalescing/moderation
+mechanism as well as a 64-bit multicast hash filter.
+.Pp
+The AR8121 also supports Jumbo Frames (up to 8132 bytes), which can
+be configured via the interface MTU setting.
+Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
+.Xr ifconfig 8
+utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames.
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+driver supports the following media types:
+.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
+.It Cm autoselect
+Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
+The user can manually override
+the autoselected mode by adding media options to
+.Xr rc.conf 5 .
+.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
+Set 10Mbps operation.
+.It Cm 100baseTX
+Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
+.It Cm 1000baseTX
+Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
+.El
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+driver supports the following media options:
+.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
+.It Cm full-duplex
+Force full duplex operation.
+.It Cm half-duplex
+Force half duplex operation.
+.El
+.Pp
+For more information on configuring this device, see
+.Xr ifconfig 8 .
+.Sh HARDWARE
+The
+.Nm
+device driver provides support for the following Ethernet controllers:
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact
+.It
+Atheros AR8113 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
+.It
+Atheros AR8114 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
+.It
+Atheros AR8121 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
+.El
+.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
+Tunables can be set at the
+.Xr loader 8
+prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
+.Xr loader.conf 5 .
+.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
+.It Va hw.ale.msi_disable
+This tunable disables MSI support on the Ethernet hardware.
+The default value is 0.
+.It Va hw.ale.msix_disable
+This tunable disables MSI-X support on the Ethernet hardware.
+The default value is 0.
+.El
+.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
+The following variables are available as both
+.Xr sysctl 8
+variables and
+.Xr loader 8
+tunables:
+.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
+.It Va dev.ale.%d.int_rx_mod
+Maximum amount of time to delay receive interrupt processing in
+units of 1us.
+The accepted range is 0 to 130000, the default is 30(30us).
+Value 0 completely disables the interrupt moderation.
+.It Va dev.ale.%d.int_tx_mod
+Maximum amount of time to delay transmit interrupt processing in
+units of 1us.
+The accepted range is 0 to 130000, the default is 1000(1ms).
+Value 0 completely disables the interrupt moderation.
+.It Va dev.ale.%d.process_limit
+Maximum amount of Rx frames to be processed in the event loop before
+rescheduling a taskqueue.
+The accepted range is 32 to 255, the default value is 128 events.
+The interface does not need to be brought down and up again before
+a change takes effect.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr altq 4 ,
+.Xr arp 4 ,
+.Xr miibus 4 ,
+.Xr netintro 4 ,
+.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
+.Xr vlan 4 ,
+.Xr ifconfig 8
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+driver was written by
+.An Pyun YongHyeon
+.Aq yongari@FreeBSD.org .
+It first appeared in
+.Fx 7.1 .

Modified: head/share/man/man4/altq.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/altq.4	Wed Nov 12 10:01:16 2008	(r184871)
+++ head/share/man/man4/altq.4	Wed Nov 12 10:20:29 2008	(r184872)
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd May 27, 2008
+.Dd November 22, 2008
 .Dt ALTQ 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ are required to use a certain network ca
 .Nm .
 They have been applied to the following hardware drivers:
 .Xr age 4 ,
+.Xr ale 4 ,
 .Xr an 4 ,
 .Xr ath 4 ,
 .Xr aue 4 ,

Modified: head/share/man/man4/miibus.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/miibus.4	Wed Nov 12 10:01:16 2008	(r184871)
+++ head/share/man/man4/miibus.4	Wed Nov 12 10:20:29 2008	(r184872)
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 20, 2008
+.Dd November 22, 2008
 .Dt MIIBUS 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ interface:
 .Bl -tag -compact -width ".Xr fxp 4"
 .It Xr age 4
 Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet
+.It Xr ale 4
+Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe Ethernet
 .It Xr aue 4
 ADMtek USB Ethernet
 .It Xr axe 4
@@ -125,6 +127,7 @@ and
 but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr age 4 ,
+.Xr ale 4 ,
 .Xr arp 4 ,
 .Xr aue 4 ,
 .Xr axe 4 ,

Modified: head/share/man/man4/vlan.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/vlan.4	Wed Nov 12 10:01:16 2008	(r184871)
+++ head/share/man/man4/vlan.4	Wed Nov 12 10:20:29 2008	(r184872)
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd May 27, 2008
+.Dd November 22, 2008
 .Dt VLAN 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ By now, the list of physical interfaces 
 in the hardware is limited to the following devices:
 .Xr ae 4 ,
 .Xr age 4 ,
+.Xr ale 4 ,
 .Xr bce 4 ,
 .Xr bge 4 ,
 .Xr cxgb 4 ,



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