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diff --git a/static/freebsd/man4/gem.4 b/static/freebsd/man4/gem.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..62a8c7b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/freebsd/man4/gem.4 @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: gem.4,v 1.2 2003/02/14 15:20:18 grant Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. +.\" 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 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. +.\" +.Dd April 18, 2023 +.Dt GEM 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm gem +.Nd GEM/GMAC Ethernet device 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 gem" +.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_gem_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for the GMAC Ethernet hardware found mostly in +the last Apple PowerBooks G3s and most G4-based Apple hardware. +.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 +Chips supported by the +.Nm +driver include: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Apple GMAC +.It +Sun GEM Gigabit Ethernet +.El +.Pp +The +following add-on cards are known to work with the +.Nm +driver at this time: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Sun Gigabit Ethernet PCI 2.0/3.0 (GBE/P) +(part no.\& 501-4373) +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr altq 4 , +.Xr miibus 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr vlan 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver appeared in +.Nx 1.6 . +The first +.Fx +version to include it was +.Fx 5.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written for +.Nx +by +.An Eduardo Horvath Aq Mt eeh@NetBSD.org . +It was ported to +.Fx +by +.An Thomas Moestl Aq Mt tmm@FreeBSD.org +and later on improved by +.An Marius Strobl Aq Mt marius@FreeBSD.org . +The man page was written by +.An Thomas Klausner Aq Mt wiz@NetBSD.org . |
