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29.Dd April 18, 2023
30.Dt GEM 4
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm gem
34.Nd GEM/GMAC Ethernet device driver
35.Sh SYNOPSIS
36To compile this driver into the kernel,
37place the following lines in your
38kernel configuration file:
39.Bd -ragged -offset indent
40.Cd "device miibus"
41.Cd "device gem"
42.Ed
43.Pp
44Alternatively, to load the driver as a
45module at boot time, place the following line in
46.Xr loader.conf 5 :
47.Bd -literal -offset indent
48if_gem_load="YES"
49.Ed
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The
52.Nm
53driver provides support for the GMAC Ethernet hardware found mostly in
54the last Apple PowerBooks G3s and most G4-based Apple hardware.
55.Pp
56All controllers supported by the
57.Nm
58driver have TCP checksum offload capability for both receive and transmit,
59support for the reception and transmission of extended frames for
60.Xr vlan 4
61and a 512-bit multicast hash filter.
62.Sh HARDWARE
63Chips supported by the
64.Nm
65driver include:
66.Pp
67.Bl -bullet -compact
68.It
69Apple GMAC
70.It
71Sun GEM Gigabit Ethernet
72.El
73.Pp
74The
75following add-on cards are known to work with the
76.Nm
77driver at this time:
78.Pp
79.Bl -bullet -compact
80.It
81Sun Gigabit Ethernet PCI 2.0/3.0 (GBE/P)
82(part no.\& 501-4373)
83.El
84.Sh SEE ALSO
85.Xr altq 4 ,
86.Xr miibus 4 ,
87.Xr netintro 4 ,
88.Xr vlan 4 ,
89.Xr ifconfig 8
90.Sh HISTORY
91The
92.Nm
93device driver appeared in
94.Nx 1.6 .
95The first
96.Fx
97version to include it was
98.Fx 5.0 .
99.Sh AUTHORS
100.An -nosplit
101The
102.Nm
103driver was written for
104.Nx
105by
106.An Eduardo Horvath Aq Mt eeh@NetBSD.org .
107It was ported to
108.Fx
109by
110.An Thomas Moestl Aq Mt tmm@FreeBSD.org
111and later on improved by
112.An Marius Strobl Aq Mt marius@FreeBSD.org .
113The man page was written by
114.An Thomas Klausner Aq Mt wiz@NetBSD.org .
115