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diff --git a/share/man/man4/stge.4 b/share/man/man4/stge.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..bfcaab0533c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/stge.4 @@ -0,0 +1,202 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: stge.4,v 1.7 2003/02/14 15:20:20 grant Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2001 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation +.\" by Jason R. Thorpe. +.\" +.\" 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 NETBSD FOUNDATION, INC. 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 FOUNDATION 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 23, 2010 +.Dt STGE 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm stge +.Nd Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet adapter 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 stge" +.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_stge_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +device driver provides support for various NICs based on the +Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet controller chip. +.Pp +The Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 is found on the D-Link DGE-550T +and the Antares Microsystems Gigabit Ethernet board. +It uses an external PHY or an external 10-bit interface. +.Pp +All NICs supported by the +.Nm +driver have TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload for both receive and +transmit, hardware VLAN tag stripping/insertion features, and +receive interrupt moderation mechanism as well as a 64-bit +multicast hash filter. +The Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 supports TBI (ten bit interface) +and GMII transceivers, which means it can be used with either +copper or 1000baseX fiber applications. +.Pp +The Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 also supports jumbo frames, 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. +The +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Cm mediaopt +option can also be used to select either +.Cm full-duplex +or +.Cm half-duplex +modes. +.It Cm 100baseTX +Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. +The +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Cm mediaopt +option can also be used to select either +.Cm full-duplex +or +.Cm half-duplex +modes. +.It Cm 1000baseTX +Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair. +The Sundance/Tamarack supports 1000Mbps in +.Cm autoselect +mode only. +.\" .It Cm 1000baseSX +.\" Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation. +.\" Both +.\" .Cm full-duplex +.\" and +.\" .Cm half-duplex +.\" modes are supported. +.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 +driver provides support for various NICs based on the Sundance/Tamarack +TC9021 based Gigabit Ethernet controller chips, including: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Antares Microsystems Gigabit Ethernet +.It +ASUS NX1101 Gigabit Ethernet +.It +D-Link DL-4000 Gigabit Ethernet +.It +IC Plus IP1000A Gigabit Ethernet +.It +Sundance ST-2021 Gigabit Ethernet +.It +Sundance ST-2023 Gigabit Ethernet +.It +Sundance TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet +.It +Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet +.El +.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES +The following variables are available as both +.Xr sysctl 8 +variables and +.Xr loader 8 +tunables: +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Va dev.stge.%d.rxint_nframe +Number of frames between RxDMAComplete interrupts. +The accepted range is 1 to 255, default value is 8 frames. +The interface has to be brought down and up again before a change takes effect. +.It Va dev.stge.%d.rxint_dmawait +Maximum amount of time to wait in 1us increments before issuing +an Rx interrupt if the number of frames received is less than +.Va rxint_nframe . +The accepted range is 0 to 4194, default value is 30 microseconds. +The interface has 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 polling 4 , +.Xr vlan 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver was ported from +.Nx +and first appeared in +.Fx 6.2 . +The +.Nx +version was written by +.An Jason R. Thorpe +.Aq thorpej@NetBSD.org . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was ported by +.An Pyun YongHyeon +.Aq yongari@FreeBSD.org . |