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34.Dd March 14, 2007
35.Dt CXGB 4
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm cxgb
39.Nd "Chelsio T3 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter driver"
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41To compile this driver into the kernel,
42place the following lines in your
43kernel configuration file:
44.Bd -ragged -offset indent
45.Cd "device firmware"
46.Cd "device cxgb"
47.Ed
48.Pp
49To load the driver as a
50module at boot time, place the following line in
51.Xr loader.conf 5 :
52.Bd -literal -offset indent
53if_cxgb_load="YES"
54.Ed
55.Sh DESCRIPTION
56The
57.Nm
58driver supports Transmit/Receive checksum offload,
59Jumbo Frames, TCP segmentation offload (TSO), Large Receive Offload (LRO),
60VLAN hardware insertion / extraction, and VLAN checksum offload.
61For further hardware information, see
62.Pa http://www.chelsio.com/ .
63.Pp
64For questions related to hardware requirements,
65refer to the documentation supplied with your Chelsio T3 adapter.
66All hardware requirements listed apply to use with
67.Fx .
68.Pp
69Support for Jumbo Frames is provided via the interface MTU setting.
70Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
71.Xr ifconfig 8
72utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames.
73The maximum MTU size for Jumbo Frames is 9000.
74.Pp
75For more information on configuring this device, see
76.Xr ifconfig 8 .
77.Sh HARDWARE
78The
79.Nm
80driver supports 10 Gigabit and 1 Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the T3 and T3B chipset:
81.Pp
82.Bl -bullet -compact
83.It
84Chelsio 10GBase-CX4
85.It
86Chelsio 10GBase-LR
87.It
88Chelsio 10GBase-SR
89.El
90.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
91Tunables can be set at the
92.Xr loader 8
93prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
94.Xr loader.conf 5 .
95.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
96.Bl -diag
97.It "cxgb%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: memory"
98A fatal initialization error has occurred.
99.It "cxgb%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: interrupt"
100A fatal initialization error has occurred.
101.It "cxgb%d: Could not find firmware image %s"
102The appropriate firmware kld module was not installed.
103This is a fatal initialization error.
104.El
105.Sh SUPPORT
106For general information and support,
107go to the Chelsio support website at:
108.Pa http://www.chelsio.com/ .
109.Pp
110If an issue is identified with the released source code on the supported kernel
111with a supported adapter, email the specific information related to the
112issue to
113.Aq Mt support@chelsio.com .
114.Sh SEE ALSO
115.Xr altq 4 ,
116.Xr arp 4 ,
117.Xr netintro 4 ,
118.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
119.Xr ifconfig 8
120.Sh HISTORY
121The
122.Nm
123device driver first appeared in
124.Fx 6.3
125and
126.Fx 7.0 .
127.Sh AUTHORS
128.An -nosplit
129The
130.Nm
131driver was written by
132.An Kip Macy Aq Mt kmacy@FreeBSD.org
133with substantial support from
134.An Scott Long Aq Mt scottl@FreeBSD.org .
135