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36.Dd August 15, 2004
37.Dt GEM 4
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm gem
41.Nd ERI/GEM/GMAC Ethernet device driver
42.Sh SYNOPSIS
43.Cd "device miibus"
44.Cd "device gem"
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46The
47.Nm
48driver provides support for the GMac Ethernet hardware found mostly in
49the last Apple PowerBooks G3s and most G4-based Apple hardware, as
50well as many Sun UltraSPARCs.
51.Sh HARDWARE
52.Pp
53Cards supported by
54.Nm
55driver include:
56.Pp
57.Bl -bullet -compact
58.It
59Sun GEM gigabit Ethernet
60.It
61Sun ERI 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
62.It
63Apple GMAC
64.El
65.Sh NOTES
66On sparc64 the
67.Nm
68driver respects the
69.Va local-mac-address?
70system configuration variable which can be set in the Open Firmware boot
71monitor using the
72.Ic setenv
73command or by
74.Xr eeprom 8 .
75If set to
76.Dq Li false
77(the default), the
78.Nm
79driver will use the system's default MAC address for all of its devices.
80If set to
81.Dq Li true ,
82the unique MAC address of each interface is used if present rather than
83the system's default MAC address.
84.Pp
85Supported interfaces having their own MAC address include the on-board
86Sun ERI 10/100 Mbps and GEM gigabit Ethernet Interfaces on boards equipped
87with more than one Ethernet interface and the Sun GEM gigabit Ethernet
88add-on cards.
89.Sh SEE ALSO
90.Xr hme 4 ,
91.Xr miibus 4 ,
92.Xr netintro 4 ,
93.Xr eeprom 8 ,
94.Xr ifconfig 8
95.Sh HISTORY
96The
97.Nm
98device driver appeared in
99.Nx 1.6 .
100The first
101.Fx
102version to include it was
103.Fx 5.0 .
104.Sh AUTHORS
105.An -nosplit
106The
107.Nm
108driver was written by
109.An Eduardo Horvath
110.Aq eeh@NetBSD.org .
111The man page was written by
112.An Thomas Klausner
113.Aq wiz@NetBSD.org .
114