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authorSevan Janiyan <sevan@FreeBSD.org>2017-08-18 20:35:35 +0000
committerSevan Janiyan <sevan@FreeBSD.org>2017-08-18 20:35:35 +0000
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Add Thunderbolt Apple interfaces to the bge(4) supported list.
Document message reported by kernel upon removal in DIAGNOSTIC section. Document shortcomings in BUGS section. Approved by: bcr (mentor) MFC after: 5 days Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11771
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=322674
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/bge.418
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/bge.4 b/share/man/man4/bge.4
index 474b48fa5ff1..50c0cf9c9b8c 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/bge.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/bge.4
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd January 19, 2012
+.Dd August 18, 2017
.Dt BGE 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ following:
.It
3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX)
.It
+Apple Thunderbolt Display (10/100/1000baseTX)
+.It
+Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (10/100/1000baseTX)
+.It
Dell PowerEdge 1750 integrated BCM5704C NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
.It
Dell PowerEdge 2550 integrated BCM5700 NIC (10/100/1000baseTX)
@@ -236,6 +240,9 @@ during initialization.
The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping.
This might
happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot.
+.It "bge%d: firmware handshake timed out, found 0xffffffff"
+The device was physically disconnected from the system, or there is a problem with
+the device causing it to stop responding to the host it is attached to.
.It "bge%d: no memory for jumbo buffers!"
The driver failed to allocate memory for jumbo frames during
initialization.
@@ -262,3 +269,12 @@ The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@windriver.com .
+.Sh BUGS
+Hotplug is not currently supported in
+.Fx ,
+hence, Thunderbolt interfaces need to be connected prior to system power up on
+Apple systems in order for the interface to be detected.
+Also, due to the lack of hotplug support, Thunderbolt-based interfaces must not be removed
+while the system is up as the kernel is currently unable to cope with a
+.Nm
+interface disappearing.