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25.\" $FreeBSD$
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27.Dd September 18, 2008
28.Dt AGE 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm age
32.Nd Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet driver
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34To compile this driver into the kernel,
35place the following lines in your
36kernel configuration file:
37.Bd -ragged -offset indent
38.Cd "device miibus"
39.Cd "device age"
40.Ed
41.Pp
42Alternatively, to load the driver as a
43module at boot time, place the following line in
44.Xr loader.conf 5 :
45.Bd -literal -offset indent
46if_age_load="YES"
47.Ed
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51device driver provides support for Attansic/Atheros L1 PCI Express
52Gigabit Ethernet controllers.
53.Pp
54All LOMs supported by the
55.Nm
56driver have TCP/UDP/IP checksum offload for both transmit and
57receive, TCP segmentation offload (TSO), hardware VLAN tag
58stripping/insertion features and an interrupt moderation mechanism
59as well as a 64-bit multicast hash filter.
60.Pp
61The L1 also supports Jumbo Frames (up to 10240 bytes), which can be
62configured via the interface MTU setting.
63Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
64.Xr ifconfig 8
65utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames.
66.Pp
67The
68.Nm
69driver supports the following media types:
70.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
71.It Cm autoselect
72Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
73The user can manually override
74the autoselected mode by adding media options to
75.Xr rc.conf 5 .
76.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
77Set 10Mbps operation.
78.It Cm 100baseTX
79Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
80.It Cm 1000baseTX
81Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
82.El
83.Pp
84The
85.Nm
86driver supports the following media options:
87.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
88.It Cm full-duplex
89Force full duplex operation.
90.It Cm half-duplex
91Force half duplex operation.
92.El
93.Pp
94For more information on configuring this device, see
95.Xr ifconfig 8 .
96.Sh HARDWARE
97The
98.Nm
99driver provides support for LOMs based on
100Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet controller chips, including:
101.Pp
102.Bl -bullet -compact
103.It
104ASUS M2N8-VMX
105.It
106ASUS M2V
107.It
108ASUS M3A
109.It
110ASUS P2-M2A590G
111.It
112ASUS P5B-E
113.It
114ASUS P5B-MX/WIFI-AP
115.It
116ASUS P5B-VMSE
117.It
118ASUS P5K
119.It
120ASUS P5KC
121.It
122ASUS P5KPL-C
123.It
124ASUS P5KPL-VM
125.It
126ASUS P5K-SE
127.It
128ASUS P5K-V
129.It
130ASUS P5L-MX
131.It
132ASUS P5DL2-VM
133.It
134ASUS P5L-VM 1394
135.It
136ASUS G2S
137.El
138.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
139Tunables can be set at the
140.Xr loader 8
141prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
142.Xr loader.conf 5 .
143.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
144.It Va hw.age.msi_disable
145This tunable disables MSI support on the Ethernet hardware.
146The default value is 0.
147.It Va hw.age.msix_disable
148This tunable disables MSI-X support on the Ethernet hardware.
149The default value is 0.
150.El
151.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
152The following variables are available as both
153.Xr sysctl 8
154variables and
155.Xr loader 8
156tunables:
157.Bl -tag -width "xxxxxx"
158.It Va dev.age.%d.int_mod
159Maximum amount of time to delay interrupt processing in units of
1602us.
161The accepted range is 0 to 65000, the default is 50 (100us).
162Value 0 completely disables the interrupt moderation.
163.It Va dev.age.%d.process_limit
164Maximum amount of Rx events to be processed in the event loop before
165rescheduling a taskqueue.
166The accepted range is 30 to 255, the default value is 128 events.
167The interface does not need to be brought down and up again before
168a change takes effect.
169.It Va dev.age.%d.stats
170Display lots of useful MAC counters maintained in the driver.
171.El
172.Sh SEE ALSO
173.Xr altq 4 ,
174.Xr arp 4 ,
175.Xr miibus 4 ,
176.Xr netintro 4 ,
177.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
178.Xr vlan 4 ,
179.Xr ifconfig 8
180.Sh HISTORY
181The
182.Nm
183driver was written by
184.An Pyun YongHyeon
185.Aq yongari@FreeBSD.org .
186It first appeared in
187.Fx 7.1 .
188