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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 14:02:27 -0400 |
| commit | 6d8bdc65446a704d0750217efd05532fc641ea7d (patch) | |
| tree | 8ae6d698b3c9801750a8b117b3842fb369872a3a /static/openbsd/man4/rl.4 | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man4/rl.4 b/static/openbsd/man4/rl.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e769b715 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man4/rl.4 @@ -0,0 +1,222 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: rl.4,v 1.37 2013/07/16 16:05:49 schwarze Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 +.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>. 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. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by Bill Paul. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY Bill Paul 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 Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD +.\" 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: rl.4,v 1.7 1998/12/24 18:52:47 wpaul Exp $ +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $ +.Dt RL 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm rl +.Nd Realtek 8129/8139 10/100 Ethernet device +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "rl* at pci?" +.Cd "rl* at cardbus?" +.Cd "rlphy* at mii?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for PCI Ethernet adapters and embedded +controllers based on the Realtek 8129 and 8139 Fast Ethernet controller +chips. +This includes, among others, the following cards: +.Pp +.Bl -item -offset indent -compact +.It +Accton MPX5030 CardBus +.It +Allied Telesyn AT2550 +.It +Corega FEther CB-TXD 10/100 Ethernet +.It +D-Link DFE-520TX C1, DFE-530TX+, DFE-538TX, DFE-690TXD +.It +Encore ENL832-TX-RENT 10/100 M PCI +.It +Genius GF100TXR +.It +KTX-9130TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet +.It +Longshine LCS-8038TX-R +.It +NDC Communications NE100TX-E +.It +Netgear FA311 v2 +.It +Netronix Inc. EA-1210 NetEther 10/100 +.It +Nortel BayStack 21 +.It +OvisLink LEF-8129TX, LEF-8139TX +.It +SMC EZ Card 10/100 PCI 1211-TX +.It +TRENDnet TE100-PCBUSR CardBus +.El +.Pp +The Realtek controllers use bus master DMA but do not use a +descriptor-based data transfer mechanism. +The receiver uses a single fixed size ring buffer from which packets must be +copied into mbufs. +For transmission, there are only four outbound packet +address registers which require all outgoing packets to be stored +as contiguous buffers. +Furthermore, outbound packet buffers must be longword aligned or else +transmission will fail. +.Pp +The 8129 differs from the 8139 in that the 8139 has an internal +PHY which is controlled through special direct access registers +whereas the 8129 uses an external PHY via an MII bus. +The 8139 supports both 10 and 100Mbps speeds in either full or half duplex. +The 8129 can support the same speeds and modes given an appropriate +PHY chip. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media types: +.Bl -tag -width full-duplex +.It autoselect +Enable autoselection of the media type and options. +This is only supported if the PHY chip attached to the Realtek controller +supports NWAY autonegotiation. +The user can manually override the autoselected mode by adding media options +to the appropriate +.Xr hostname.if 5 +file. +.It 10baseT +Set 10Mbps operation. +The +.Ar mediaopt +option can also be used to select either +.Ar full-duplex +or +.Ar half-duplex +modes. +.It 100baseTX +Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. +The +.Ar mediaopt +option can also be used to select either +.Ar full-duplex +or +.Ar half-duplex +modes. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media options: +.Bl -tag -width full-duplex +.It full-duplex +Force full duplex operation. +.It half-duplex +Force half duplex operation. +.El +.Pp +Note that the 100baseTX media type is only available if supported +by the adapter. +For more information on configuring this device, see +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "rl0: couldn't map memory" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "rl0: couldn't map interrupt" +A fatal initialization error has occurred. +.It "rl0: watchdog timeout" +The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with +the network connection (cable). +.It "rl0: no memory for rx list" +The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring. +.It "rl0: no memory for tx list" +The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the transmitter ring when +allocating a pad buffer or collapsing an mbuf chain into a cluster. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr ifmedia 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr rlphy 4 , +.Xr hostname.if 5 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Rs +.%B The Realtek 8129 and 8139 datasheets +.%O ftp.realtek.com.tw:/lancard/data sheet +.Re +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 3.0 . +.Ox +support first appeared in +.Ox 2.5 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu . +.Sh BUGS +Since outbound packets must be longword aligned, the transmit +routine has to copy an unaligned packet into an mbuf cluster buffer +before transmission. +The driver abuses the fact that the cluster buffer +pool is allocated at system startup time in a contiguous region starting +at a page boundary. +Since cluster buffers are 2048 bytes, they are +longword aligned by definition. +The driver probably should not be +depending on this characteristic. +.Pp +The Realtek data sheets are of especially poor quality: the grammar +and spelling are awful and there is a lot of information missing, +particularly concerning the receiver operation. +One particularly important fact that the data sheets fail to mention +relates to the way in which the chip fills in the receive buffer. +When an interrupt is posted to signal that a frame has been received, +it is possible that another frame might be in the process of being +copied into the receive buffer while the driver is busy handling +the first one. +If the driver +manages to finish processing the first frame before the chip is done +DMAing the rest of the next frame, the driver may attempt to process +the next frame in the buffer before the chip has had a chance to finish +DMAing all of it. +.Pp +The driver can check for an incomplete frame by inspecting the frame +length in the header preceding the actual packet data: an incomplete +frame will have the magic length of 0xFFF0. +When the driver encounters this value, it knows that it has finished +processing all currently available packets. +Neither this magic value nor its significance are +documented anywhere in the Realtek data sheets. |
