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.Dd February 19, 2015
.Dt LLAN 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm llan
.Nd POWER Logical Lan
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel,
place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
.Bd -ragged -offset indent
.Cd "device llan"
.Ed
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for the inter-partition logical LAN controller
provided by PAPR-compliant POWER hypervisors (such as PowerVM and PowerKVM).
On some firmwares, advanced offload features are supported by the hypervisor,
but these are not currently supported by the driver.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr vtnet 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
device driver appeared in
.Fx 10.0.
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Nathan Whitehorn Aq Mt nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org .