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29.Dd December 26, 2020
30.Dt GEM 4
31.Os
32.Sh NAME
33.Nm gem
34.Nd ERI/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, as
55well as Sun UltraSPARC machines.
56.Pp
57All controllers supported by the
58.Nm
59driver have TCP checksum offload capability for both receive and transmit,
60support for the reception and transmission of extended frames for
61.Xr vlan 4
62and a 512-bit multicast hash filter.
63.Sh HARDWARE
64Chips supported by the
65.Nm
66driver include:
67.Pp
68.Bl -bullet -compact
69.It
70Apple GMAC
71.It
72Sun ERI 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
73.It
74Sun GEM Gigabit Ethernet
75.El
76.Pp
77The
78following add-on cards are known to work with the
79.Nm
80driver at this time:
81.Pp
82.Bl -bullet -compact
83.It
84Sun Gigabit Ethernet PCI 2.0/3.0 (GBE/P)
85(part no.\& 501-4373)
86.El
87.Sh SEE ALSO
88.Xr altq 4 ,
89.Xr miibus 4 ,
90.Xr netintro 4 ,
91.Xr vlan 4 ,
92.Xr ifconfig 8
93.Sh HISTORY
94The
95.Nm
96device driver appeared in
97.Nx 1.6 .
98The first
99.Fx
100version to include it was
101.Fx 5.0 .
102.Sh AUTHORS
103.An -nosplit
104The
105.Nm
106driver was written for
107.Nx
108by
109.An Eduardo Horvath Aq Mt eeh@NetBSD.org .
110It was ported to
111.Fx
112by
113.An Thomas Moestl Aq Mt tmm@FreeBSD.org
114and later on improved by
115.An Marius Strobl Aq Mt marius@FreeBSD.org .
116The man page was written by
117.An Thomas Klausner Aq Mt wiz@NetBSD.org .
118