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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man4/gem.4 b/static/netbsd/man4/gem.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b6489ad8 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man4/gem.4 @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: gem.4,v 1.12 2018/06/02 19:08:34 sevan 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 June 2, 2018 +.Dt GEM 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm gem +.Nd ERI/GEM/GMAC Ethernet device driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "gem* at pci? dev ? function ?" +.Cd "gem* at sbus? slot ? offset ?" +.Pp +Configuration of PHYs may also be necessary. +See +.Xr mii 4 . +.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, as +well as many Sun UltraSPARCs. +.Pp +Cards supported by this driver include: +.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent +.It +Sun GEM Gigabit Ethernet (SX fibre variants) +.It +Sun ERI 10/100 +.It +Apple GMAC +.El +.Pp +The GEM family supports hardware checksumming to assist in computing +IPv4 TCP checksums. +The +.Nm +driver supports this feature of the chip. +See +.Xr ifconfig 8 +for information on how to enable this feature. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr bmtphy 4 , +.Xr ifmedia 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr makphy 4 , +.Xr mii 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Rs +.%T "GEM Gigabit Ethernet ASIC Specification" +.%A Sun Microsystems +.%U http://www.sun.com/processors/manuals/ge.pdf +.Re +.Rs +.%T "Sbus GEM Specification" +.%A Sun Microsystems +.%U http://mediacast.sun.com/users/Barton808/media/gem_sbus-1.pdf +.Re +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver appeared in +.Nx 1.6 . +Support for PCI SX fibre cards was added in +.Nx 5.0 . +Support for SBus SX fibre cards was added in +.Nx 5.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Eduardo Horvath +.Aq eeh@NetBSD.org . +SX fibre support was added by +.An Julian Coleman +.Aq jdc@NetBSD.org . +The man page was written by +.An Thomas Klausner +.Aq wiz@NetBSD.org . +.Sh BUGS +The hardware checksumming support does not support IPv4 UDP, although this was +allowed prior to +.Nx 5.0 . +Also, the hardware IPv4 TCP receive checksumming support has bugs, so this is +disabled. +.Pp +On the SX fibre variants of the hardware, the link will stay down if there is +a duplex mismatch. +Also, packet transmission may fail when in +.Cm half-duplex +mode. |
