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27.Dd April 18, 2023
28.Dt GEM 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm gem
32.Nd GEM/GMAC Ethernet device 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 gem"
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_gem_load="YES"
47.Ed
48.Sh DESCRIPTION
49The
50.Nm
51driver provides support for the GMAC Ethernet hardware found mostly in
52the last Apple PowerBooks G3s and most G4-based Apple hardware.
53.Pp
54All controllers supported by the
55.Nm
56driver have TCP checksum offload capability for both receive and transmit,
57support for the reception and transmission of extended frames for
58.Xr vlan 4
59and a 512-bit multicast hash filter.
60.Sh HARDWARE
61Chips supported by the
62.Nm
63driver include:
64.Pp
65.Bl -bullet -compact
66.It
67Apple GMAC
68.It
69Sun GEM Gigabit Ethernet
70.El
71.Pp
72The
73following add-on cards are known to work with the
74.Nm
75driver at this time:
76.Pp
77.Bl -bullet -compact
78.It
79Sun Gigabit Ethernet PCI 2.0/3.0 (GBE/P)
80(part no.\& 501-4373)
81.El
82.Sh SEE ALSO
83.Xr altq 4 ,
84.Xr miibus 4 ,
85.Xr netintro 4 ,
86.Xr vlan 4 ,
87.Xr ifconfig 8
88.Sh HISTORY
89The
90.Nm
91device driver appeared in
92.Nx 1.6 .
93The first
94.Fx
95version to include it was
96.Fx 5.0 .
97.Sh AUTHORS
98.An -nosplit
99The
100.Nm
101driver was written for
102.Nx
103by
104.An Eduardo Horvath Aq Mt eeh@NetBSD.org .
105It was ported to
106.Fx
107by
108.An Thomas Moestl Aq Mt tmm@FreeBSD.org
109and later on improved by
110.An Marius Strobl Aq Mt marius@FreeBSD.org .
111The man page was written by
112.An Thomas Klausner Aq Mt wiz@NetBSD.org .
113