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4.9 KiB
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162 lines
4.9 KiB
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.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Pyun YongHyeon
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd November 12, 2008
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.Dt ALE 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm ale
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.Nd Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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To compile this driver into the kernel,
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place the following lines in your
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kernel configuration file:
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.Bd -ragged -offset indent
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.Cd "device miibus"
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.Cd "device ale"
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Alternatively, to load the driver as a
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module at boot time, place the following line in
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.Xr loader.conf 5 :
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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if_ale_load="YES"
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.Ed
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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device driver provides support for Atheros AR8121 PCI Express
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Gigabit Ethernet controllers and Atheros AR8113/AR8114 PCI
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Express Fast Ethernet controllers.
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.Pp
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All LOMs supported by the
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.Nm
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driver have TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload for both receive and transmit,
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TCP segmentation offload (TSO), hardware VLAN tag stripping/insertion
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features, Wake On Lan (WOL) and an interrupt coalescing/moderation
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mechanism as well as a 64-bit multicast hash filter.
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.Pp
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The AR8121 also supports Jumbo Frames (up to 8132 bytes), which can
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be configured via the interface MTU setting.
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Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports the following media types:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
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.It Cm autoselect
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Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
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The user can manually override
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the autoselected mode by adding media options to
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.Xr rc.conf 5 .
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.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
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Set 10Mbps operation.
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.It Cm 100baseTX
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Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
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.It Cm 1000baseTX
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Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports the following media options:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
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.It Cm full-duplex
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Force full duplex operation.
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.It Cm half-duplex
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Force half duplex operation.
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.El
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.Pp
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For more information on configuring this device, see
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.Xr ifconfig 8 .
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.Sh HARDWARE
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The
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.Nm
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device driver provides support for the following Ethernet controllers:
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.Pp
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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Atheros AR8113 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
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.It
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Atheros AR8114 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
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.It
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Atheros AR8121 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
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.El
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.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
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Tunables can be set at the
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.Xr loader 8
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prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
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.Xr loader.conf 5 .
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.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
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.It Va hw.ale.msi_disable
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This tunable disables MSI support on the Ethernet hardware.
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The default value is 0.
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.It Va hw.ale.msix_disable
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This tunable disables MSI-X support on the Ethernet hardware.
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The default value is 0.
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.El
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.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
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The following variables are available as both
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.Xr sysctl 8
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variables and
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.Xr loader 8
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tunables:
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.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
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.It Va dev.ale.%d.int_rx_mod
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Maximum amount of time to delay receive interrupt processing in
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units of 1us.
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The accepted range is 0 to 130000, the default is 30(30us).
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Value 0 completely disables the interrupt moderation.
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.It Va dev.ale.%d.int_tx_mod
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Maximum amount of time to delay transmit interrupt processing in
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units of 1us.
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The accepted range is 0 to 130000, the default is 1000(1ms).
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Value 0 completely disables the interrupt moderation.
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.It Va dev.ale.%d.process_limit
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Maximum amount of Rx frames to be processed in the event loop before
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rescheduling a taskqueue.
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The accepted range is 32 to 255, the default value is 128 events.
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The interface does not need to be brought down and up again before
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a change takes effect.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr altq 4 ,
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.Xr arp 4 ,
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.Xr miibus 4 ,
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.Xr netintro 4 ,
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.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
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.Xr vlan 4 ,
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.Xr ifconfig 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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driver was written by
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.An Pyun YongHyeon Aq Mt yongari@FreeBSD.org .
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It first appeared in
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.Fx 7.1 .
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