Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:09:47 +0000 (UTC) From: Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-7@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r194428 - stable/7/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <200906180609.n5I69lDs000634@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: yongari Date: Thu Jun 18 06:09:47 2009 New Revision: 194428 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/194428 Log: MFC r193882 Add alc(4) man page and hook up alc(4) to the build. Added: stable/7/share/man/man4/alc.4 - copied unchanged from r193882, head/share/man/man4/alc.4 Modified: stable/7/share/man/man4/ (props changed) stable/7/share/man/man4/Makefile stable/7/share/man/man4/altq.4 stable/7/share/man/man4/igb.4 (props changed) stable/7/share/man/man4/miibus.4 stable/7/share/man/man4/vlan.4 Modified: stable/7/share/man/man4/Makefile ============================================================================== --- stable/7/share/man/man4/Makefile Thu Jun 18 06:07:58 2009 (r194427) +++ stable/7/share/man/man4/Makefile Thu Jun 18 06:09:47 2009 (r194428) @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ MAN= aac.4 \ ahc.4 \ ahd.4 \ aio.4 \ + alc.4 \ ale.4 \ altq.4 \ amd.4 \ Copied: stable/7/share/man/man4/alc.4 (from r193882, head/share/man/man4/alc.4) ============================================================================== --- /dev/null 00:00:00 1970 (empty, because file is newly added) +++ stable/7/share/man/man4/alc.4 Thu Jun 18 06:09:47 2009 (r194428, copy of r193882, head/share/man/man4/alc.4) @@ -0,0 +1,160 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Pyun YongHyeon +.\" 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 AUTHOR 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 AUTHOR 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. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd June 10, 2009 +.Dt ALC 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm alc +.Nd Atheros AR8131/AR8132 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet driver +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following lines in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device miibus" +.Cd "device alc" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +if_alc_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +device driver provides support for Atheros AR8131 PCI Express +Gigabit Ethernet controllers and Atheros AR8132 PCI Express +Fast Ethernet controllers. +.Pp +All LOMs supported by the +.Nm +driver have TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload for transmit, TCP +segmentation offload (TSO), hardware VLAN tag stripping/insertion +features, Wake On Lan (WOL) and an interrupt moderation mechanism +as well as a 64-bit multicast hash filter. +.Pp +The AR8131/AR8132 supports Jumbo Frames (up to 9216 bytes), which can +be configured via the interface MTU setting. +Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the +.Xr ifconfig 8 +utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames. +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media types: +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP" +.It Cm autoselect +Enable autoselection of the media type and options. +The user can manually override +the autoselected mode by adding media options to +.Xr rc.conf 5 . +.It Cm 10baseT/UTP +Set 10Mbps operation. +.It Cm 100baseTX +Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. +.It Cm 1000baseTX +Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver supports the following media options: +.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex" +.It Cm full-duplex +Force full duplex operation. +.It Cm half-duplex +Force half duplex operation. +.El +.Pp +For more information on configuring this device, see +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Sh HARDWARE +The +.Nm +device driver provides support for the following Ethernet controllers: +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Atheros AR8131 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller +.It +Atheros AR8132 PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller +.El +.Sh LOADER TUNABLES +Tunables can be set at the +.Xr loader 8 +prompt before booting the kernel or stored in +.Xr loader.conf 5 . +.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx" +.It Va hw.alc.msi_disable +This tunable disables MSI support on the Ethernet hardware. +The default value is 0. +.It Va hw.alc.msix_disable +This tunable disables MSI-X support on the Ethernet hardware. +The default value is 0. +.El +.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES +The following variables are available as both +.Xr sysctl 8 +variables and +.Xr loader 8 +tunables: +.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx" +.It Va dev.alc.%d.int_rx_mod +Maximum amount of time to delay receive interrupt processing in +units of 1us. +The accepted range is 0 to 130000, the default is 100(100us). +Value 0 completely disables the interrupt moderation. +.It Va dev.alc.%d.int_tx_mod +Maximum amount of time to delay transmit interrupt processing in +units of 1us. +The accepted range is 0 to 130000, the default is 50000(50ms). +Value 0 completely disables the interrupt moderation. +.It Va dev.alc.%d.process_limit +Maximum amount of Rx frames to be processed in the event loop before +rescheduling a taskqueue. +The accepted range is 32 to 255, the default value is 64 events. +The interface does not need to be brought down and up again before +a change takes effect. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr altq 4 , +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr miibus 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr ng_ether 4 , +.Xr vlan 4 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Pyun YongHyeon +.Aq yongari@FreeBSD.org . +It first appeared in +.Fx 8.0 . Modified: stable/7/share/man/man4/altq.4 ============================================================================== --- stable/7/share/man/man4/altq.4 Thu Jun 18 06:07:58 2009 (r194427) +++ stable/7/share/man/man4/altq.4 Thu Jun 18 06:09:47 2009 (r194428) @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 21, 2009 +.Dd June 10, 2009 .Dt ALTQ 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ are required to use a certain network ca .Nm . They have been applied to the following hardware drivers: .Xr age 4 , +.Xr alc 4 , .Xr ale 4 , .Xr an 4 , .Xr ath 4 , Modified: stable/7/share/man/man4/miibus.4 ============================================================================== --- stable/7/share/man/man4/miibus.4 Thu Jun 18 06:07:58 2009 (r194427) +++ stable/7/share/man/man4/miibus.4 Thu Jun 18 06:09:47 2009 (r194428) @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd November 12, 2008 +.Dd June 10, 2009 .Dt MIIBUS 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ interface: .Bl -tag -compact -width ".Xr fxp 4" .It Xr age 4 Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet +.It Xr alc 4 +Atheros AR8131/AR8132 PCIe Ethernet .It Xr ale 4 Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe Ethernet .It Xr aue 4 @@ -127,6 +129,7 @@ and but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr age 4 , +.Xr alc 4 , .Xr ale 4 , .Xr arp 4 , .Xr aue 4 , Modified: stable/7/share/man/man4/vlan.4 ============================================================================== --- stable/7/share/man/man4/vlan.4 Thu Jun 18 06:07:58 2009 (r194427) +++ stable/7/share/man/man4/vlan.4 Thu Jun 18 06:09:47 2009 (r194428) @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd November 12, 2008 +.Dd June 10, 2009 .Dt VLAN 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ By now, the list of physical interfaces in the hardware is limited to the following devices: .Xr ae 4 , .Xr age 4 , +.Xr alc 4 , .Xr ale 4 , .Xr bce 4 , .Xr bge 4 ,
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