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.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999
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.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved.
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd November 14, 2011
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.Dt TI 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm ti
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.Nd "Alteon Networks Tigon I and Tigon II Gigabit 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 ti"
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.Cd "options TI_SF_BUF_JUMBO"
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.Cd "options TI_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT"
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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_ti_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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driver provides support for PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on
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the Alteon Networks Tigon Gigabit Ethernet controller chip.
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The Tigon
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contains an embedded R4000 CPU, gigabit MAC, dual DMA channels and
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a PCI interface unit.
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The Tigon II contains two R4000 CPUs and other
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refinements.
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Either chip can be used in either a 32-bit or 64-bit PCI
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slot.
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Communication with the chip is achieved via PCI shared memory
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and bus master DMA.
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The Tigon I and II support hardware multicast
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address filtering, VLAN tag extraction and insertion, and jumbo
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Ethernet frames sizes up to 9000 bytes.
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Note that the Tigon I chipset
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is no longer in active production: all new adapters should come equipped
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with Tigon II chipsets.
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.Pp
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While the Tigon chipset supports 10, 100 and 1000Mbps speeds, support for
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10 and 100Mbps speeds is only available on boards with the proper
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transceivers.
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Most adapters are only designed to work at 1000Mbps,
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however the driver should support those NICs that work at lower speeds
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as well.
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.Pp
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Support for jumbo frames is provided 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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Using jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks,
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such as file transfers and data streaming.
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.Pp
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Header splitting support for Tigon 2 boards (this option has no effect for
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the Tigon 1) can be turned on with the
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.Dv TI_JUMBO_HDRSPLIT
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option.
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See
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.Xr zero_copy 9
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for more discussion on zero copy receive and header splitting.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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driver uses UMA backed jumbo receive buffers, but can be configured
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to use
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.Xr sendfile 2
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buffer allocator.
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To turn on
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.Xr sendfile 2
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buffer allocator, use the
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.Dv TI_SF_BUF_JUMBO
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option.
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.Pp
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Support for vlans is also available using the
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.Xr vlan 4
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mechanism.
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See the
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.Xr vlan 4
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man page for more details.
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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 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.It 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 the
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.Pa /etc/rc.conf
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file.
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.It 10baseT/UTP
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Set 10Mbps operation.
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The
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.Ar mediaopt
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option can also be used to select either
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.Ar full-duplex
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or
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.Ar half-duplex
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modes.
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.It 100baseTX
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Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
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The
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.Ar mediaopt
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option can also be used to select either
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.Ar full-duplex
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or
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.Ar half-duplex
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modes.
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.It 1000baseSX
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Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation.
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Only
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.Ar full-duplex
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mode is supported at this speed.
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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 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.It full-duplex
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Force full-duplex operation.
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.It 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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driver supports Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the
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Alteon Tigon I and II chips.
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The
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.Nm
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driver has been tested with the following adapters:
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.Pp
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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3Com 3c985-SX Gigabit Ethernet adapter (Tigon 1)
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.It
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3Com 3c985B-SX Gigabit Ethernet adapter (Tigon 2)
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.It
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Alteon AceNIC V Gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseSX)
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.It
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Alteon AceNIC V Gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseT)
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.It
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Digital EtherWORKS 1000SX PCI Gigabit adapter
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.It
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Netgear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseSX)
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.It
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Netgear GA620T Gigabit Ethernet adapter (1000baseT)
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.El
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.Pp
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The following adapters should also be supported but have
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not yet been tested:
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.Pp
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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Asante GigaNIX1000T Gigabit Ethernet adapter
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.It
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Asante PCI 1000BASE-SX Gigabit Ethernet adapter
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.It
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Farallon PN9000SX Gigabit Ethernet adapter
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.It
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NEC Gigabit Ethernet
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.It
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Silicon Graphics PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter
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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.ti.%d.dac
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If this tunable is set to 0 it will disable DAC (Dual Address Cycle).
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The default value is 1 which means driver will use full 64bit
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DMA addressing.
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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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The interface has to be brought down and up again before a
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change takes effect when any of the following tunables are
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changed.
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The one microsecond clock tick referenced below is a nominal
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time and the actual hardware may not provide granularity to
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this level.
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For example, on Tigon 2 (revision 6) cards with release 12.0
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the clock granularity is 5 microseconds.
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.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
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.It Va dev.ti.%d.rx_coal_ticks
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This value, receive coalesced ticks, controls the number of clock
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ticks (of 1 microseconds each) that must elapse before the NIC DMAs
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the receive return producer pointer to the Host and generates an
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interrupt.
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This parameter works in conjunction with the rx_max_coal_bds,
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receive max coalesced BDs, tunable parameter.
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The NIC will return the receive return producer pointer to the Host
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when either of the thresholds is exceeded.
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A value of 0 means that this parameter is ignored and receive BDs
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will only be returned when the receive max coalesced BDs value is
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reached.
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The default value is 170.
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.It Va dev.ti.%d.rx_max_coal_bds
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This value, receive max coalesced BDs, controls the number of
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receive buffer descriptors that will be coalesced before the NIC
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updates the receive return ring producer index.
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If this value is set to 0 it will disable receive buffer descriptor
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coalescing.
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The default value is 64.
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.It Va dev.ti.%d.ti_tx_coal_ticks
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This value, send coalesced ticks, controls the number of clock
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ticks (of 1 microseconds each) that must elapse before the NIC DMAs
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the send consumer pointer to the Host and generates an interrupt.
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This parameter works in conjunction with the tx_max_coal_bds,
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send max coalesced BDs, tunable parameter.
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The NIC will return the send consumer pointer to the Host when
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either of the thresholds is exceeded.
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A value of 0 means that this parameter is ignored and send BDs will
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only be returned when the send max coalesced BDs value is reached.
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The default value is 2000.
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.It Va dev.ti.%d.tx_max_coal_bds
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This value, send max coalesced BDs, controls the number of send
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buffer descriptors that will be coalesced before the NIC updates
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the send consumer index.
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If this value is set to 0 it will disable send buffer descriptor
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coalescing.
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The default value is 32.
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.It Va dev.ti.%d.tx_buf_ratio
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This value controls the ratio of the remaining memory in the NIC
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that should be devoted to transmit buffer vs. receive buffer.
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The lower 7 bits are used to indicate the ratio in 1/64th increments.
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For example, setting this value to 16 will set the transmit buffer
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to 1/4 of the remaining buffer space.
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In no cases will the transmit or receive buffer be reduced below
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68 KB.
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For a 1 MB NIC the approximate total space for data buffers is
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800 KB.
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For a 512 KB NIC that number is 300 KB.
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The default value is 21.
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.It Va dev.ti.%d.stat_ticks
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The value, stat ticks, controls the number of clock ticks
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(of 1 microseconds each) that must elapse before the NIC DMAs
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the statistics block to the Host and generates a STATS_UPDATED
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event.
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If set to zero then statistics are never DMAed to the Host.
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It is recommended that this value be set to a high enough
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frequency to not mislead someone reading statistics refreshes.
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Several times a second is enough.
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The default value is 2000000 (2 seconds).
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.El
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.Sh IOCTLS
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In addition to the standard
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.Xr socket 2
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.Xr ioctl 2
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calls implemented by most network drivers, the
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.Nm
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driver also includes a character device interface that can be used for
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additional diagnostics, configuration and debugging.
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With this character
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device interface, and a specially patched version of
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.Xr gdb 1 ,
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the user can
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debug firmware running on the Tigon board.
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.Pp
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These ioctls and their arguments are defined in the
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.In sys/tiio.h
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header file.
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.Bl -tag -width ".Dv ALT_WRITE_TG_MEM"
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.It Dv TIIOCGETSTATS
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Return card statistics DMAed from the card into kernel memory approximately
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every 2 seconds.
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(That time interval can be changed via the
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.Dv TIIOCSETPARAMS
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ioctl.)
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The argument is
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.Vt "struct ti_stats" .
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.It Dv TIIOCGETPARAMS
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Get various performance-related firmware parameters that largely affect how
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interrupts are coalesced.
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The argument is
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.Vt "struct ti_params" .
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.It Dv TIIOCSETPARAMS
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Set various performance-related firmware parameters that largely affect how
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interrupts are coalesced.
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The argument is
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.Vt "struct ti_params" .
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.It Dv TIIOCSETTRACE
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Tell the NIC to trace the requested types of information.
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The argument is
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.Vt ti_trace_type .
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.It Dv TIIOCGETTRACE
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Dump the trace buffer from the card.
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The argument is
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.Vt "struct ti_trace_buf" .
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.It Dv ALT_ATTACH
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This ioctl is used for compatibility with Alteon's Solaris driver.
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They apparently only have one character interface for debugging, so they have
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to tell it which Tigon instance they want to debug.
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This ioctl is a noop for
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.Fx .
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.It Dv ALT_READ_TG_MEM
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Read the requested memory region from the Tigon board.
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The argument is
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.Vt "struct tg_mem" .
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.It Dv ALT_WRITE_TG_MEM
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Write to the requested memory region on the Tigon board.
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The argument is
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.Vt "struct tg_mem" .
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.It Dv ALT_READ_TG_REG
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Read the requested register from the Tigon board.
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The argument is
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.Vt "struct tg_reg" .
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.It Dv ALT_WRITE_TG_REG
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Write to the requested register on the Tigon board.
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The argument is
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.Vt "struct tg_reg" .
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/ti[0-255]" -compact
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.It Pa /dev/ti[0-255]
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Tigon driver character interface.
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.El
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.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
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.Bl -diag
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.It "ti%d: couldn't map memory"
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A fatal initialization error has occurred.
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.It "ti%d: couldn't map interrupt"
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A fatal initialization error has occurred.
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.It "ti%d: no memory for softc struct!"
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The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information
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during initialization.
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.It "ti%d: failed to enable memory mapping!"
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The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping.
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This might
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happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot.
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.It "ti%d: no memory for jumbo buffers!"
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The driver failed to allocate memory for jumbo frames during
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initialization.
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.It "ti%d: bios thinks we're in a 64 bit slot, but we aren't"
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The BIOS has programmed the NIC as though it had been installed in
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a 64-bit PCI slot, but in fact the NIC is in a 32-bit slot.
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This happens
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as a result of a bug in some BIOSes.
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This can be worked around on the
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Tigon II, but on the Tigon I initialization will fail.
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.It "ti%d: board self-diagnostics failed!"
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The ROMFAIL bit in the CPU state register was set after system
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startup, indicating that the on-board NIC diagnostics failed.
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.It "ti%d: unknown hwrev"
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The driver detected a board with an unsupported hardware revision.
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The
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.Nm
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driver supports revision 4 (Tigon 1) and revision 6 (Tigon 2) chips
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and has firmware only for those devices.
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.It "ti%d: watchdog timeout"
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The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
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the network connection (cable).
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr sendfile 2 ,
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.Xr altq 4 ,
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.Xr arp 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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.Xr zero_copy 9
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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device driver first appeared in
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.Fx 3.0 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An -nosplit
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The
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.Nm
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driver was written by
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.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@bsdi.com .
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The header splitting firmware modifications, character
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.Xr ioctl 2
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interface and debugging support were written by
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.An Kenneth Merry Aq Mt ken@FreeBSD.org .
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Initial zero copy support was written by
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.An Andrew Gallatin Aq Mt gallatin@FreeBSD.org .
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