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This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$
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.\" $FreeBSD$
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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.\"
.Dd July 22, 1999
* remove i386 specific mark * some style and syntax fixes * some duplicated $FreeBSD$ tags removed
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.Dt SF 4
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm sf
.Nd
Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" PCI fast ethernet adapter driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
Second round of config related changes to the manpages. device blah0 -> device blah for PCI devices and busses.
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.Cd "device miibus"
.Cd "device sf"
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for Adaptec Duralink fast ethernet adapters
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based on the Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" chipset.
This includes the
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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following:
Minor formatting tweak: compact the supported adapter list.
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.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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.It
ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter
.It
ANA-62022 64-bit dual port 10/100baseTX adapter
.It
ANA-62044 64-bit quad port 10/100baseTX adapter
.It
ANA-69011 32-bit single port 10/100baseTX adapter
.It
ANA-62020 64-bit single port 100baseFX adapter
.El
.Pp
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The AIC-6915 is a bus master controller with an MII interface.
It
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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supports high and low priority transmit and receive queues, TCP/IP
checksum offload, multiple DMA descriptor formats and both polling
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and producer/consumer DMA models.
The AIC-6915 receive filtering
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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options include a 16 entry perfect filter, a 512-bit hash table
for multicast addresses, a 512-bit hash table for priority address
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matching and VLAN filtering.
An external MII-compliant transceiver
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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is required for media interfacing.
.Pp
Multiport adapters consist of several AIC-6915 controllers connected
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via a PCI to PCI bridge.
Each controller is treated as a separate
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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interface by the
.Nm
driver.
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver supports the following media types:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
.It autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
The user can manually override
the autoselected mode by adding media options to the
.Pa /etc/rc.conf
file.
.It 10baseT/UTP
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Set 10Mbps operation.
The
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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.Ar mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
.Ar full-duplex
or
.Ar half-duplex
modes.
.It 100baseTX
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Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation.
The
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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.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:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
.It full-duplex
Force full duplex operation
.It half-duplex
Force half duplex operation.
.El
.Pp
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It "sf%d: couldn't map memory"
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A fatal initialization error has occurred.
This may
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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happen if the PCI BIOS not configured the device, which may be because
the BIOS has been configured for a "Plug and Play" operating system.
The "Plug and Play OS" setting int he BIOS should be set to "no" or
Use Fx macro wherever possible.
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"off" in order for PCI devices to work properly with
.Fx .
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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.It "sf%d: couldn't map ports"
A fatal initialization error has occurred.
happen if the PCI BIOS not configured the device, which may be because
the BIOS has been configured for a "Plug and Play" operating system.
The "Plug and Play OS" setting int he BIOS should be set to "no" or
Use Fx macro wherever possible.
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"off" in order for PCI devices to work properly with
.Fx .
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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.It "sf%d: couldn't map interrupt"
A fatal initialization error has occurred.
.It "sf%d: no memory for softc struct!"
The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information
during initialization.
.It "sf%d: failed to enable I/O ports/memory mapping!"
The driver failed to initialize PCI I/O port or shared memory access.
This might happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot.
.It "sf%d: watchdog timeout"
The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
the network connection (cable).
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr arp 4 ,
.Xr netintro 4 ,
Move netgraph node type man pages from section 8 to section 4.
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.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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.Rs
Update the Starfire driver comments and man page to include the URL of the AIC-6915 Programmer's Manual which I finally found online at Adaptec's site.
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.%T The Adaptec AIC-6915 Programmer's Manual
.%O ftp://ftp.adaptec.com/pub/BBS/userguides/aic6915_pg.pdf
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver first appeared in
.Fx 3.0 .
Various man page cleanup: - Sort xrefs - FreeBSD.ORG -> FreeBSD.org - Be consistent with section names as outlined in mdoc(7). - Other misc mdoc cleanup. PR: doc/13144 Submitted by: Alexey M. Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>
1999-08-15 10:48:36 +00:00
.Sh AUTHORS
This commit adds device driver support for Adaptec Duralink PCI fast ethernet controllers based on the AIC-6915 "Starfire" controller chip. There are single port, dual port and quad port cards, plus one 100baseFX card. All are 64-bit PCI devices, except one single port model. The Starfire would be a very nice chip were it not for the fact that receive buffers have to be longword aligned. This requires buffer copying in order to achieve proper payload alignment on the alpha. Payload alignment is enforced on both the alpha and x86 platforms. The Starfire has several different DMA descriptor formats and transfer mechanisms. This driver uses frame descriptors for transmission which can address up to 14 packet fragments, and a single fragment descriptor for receive. It also uses the producer/consumer model and completion queues for both transmit and receive. The transmit ring has 128 descriptors and the receive ring has 256. This driver supports both FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/alpha, and uses newbus so that it can be compiled as a loadable kernel module. Support for BPF and hardware multicast filtering is included.
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The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu .
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