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26.Dd December 8, 2021
27.Dt GENET 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm genet
31.Nd "Raspberry Pi 4 / BCM2711 Gigabit Ethernet controller driver"
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33To compile this driver into the kernel,
34place the following lines in the
35kernel configuration file:
36.Bd -ragged -offset indent
37.Cd "device miibus"
38.Cd "device genet"
39.Ed
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Nm
43driver supports the BCM2711 Ethernet controller
44as found on the Raspberry Pi 4.
45.Pp
46The following features are supported in the
47.Nm
48driver in
49.Fx :
50.Pp
51.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
52.It
53IP/TCP/UDP checksum offload for IPv4 and IPv6
54.It
5510/100/1000Mbps operation in full-duplex mode
56.It
5710/100Mbps operation in half-duplex mode
58.El
59.Pp
60Note that the operation of transmit checksum offload is coupled
61for IPv4 and IPv6; to disable it, both must be disabled even if both
62address families are not in use.
63.Pp
64The
65.Nm
66driver supports the following media types:
67.Bl -tag -width ".Cm 10baseT/UTP"
68.It Cm autoselect
69Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
70The user can manually override
71the autoselected mode by adding media options to
72.Xr rc.conf 5 .
73.It Cm 10baseT/UTP
74Set 10Mbps operation.
75The
76.Xr ifconfig 8
77.Cm mediaopt
78option can also be used to select either
79.Cm full-duplex
80or
81.Cm half-duplex
82modes.
83.It Cm 100baseTX
84Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
85The
86.Xr ifconfig 8
87.Cm mediaopt
88option can also be used to select either
89.Cm full-duplex
90or
91.Cm half-duplex
92modes.
93.It Cm 1000baseT
94Set 1000baseT operation over twisted pair.
95Only
96.Cm full-duplex
97mode is supported.
98.El
99.Pp
100The
101.Nm
102driver supports the following media options set with the
103.Cm mediaopt
104option to the
105.Xr ifconfig 8
106command:
107.Bl -tag -width ".Cm full-duplex"
108.It Cm full-duplex
109Force full duplex operation.
110.It Cm half-duplex
111Force half duplex operation.
112.El
113.Pp
114For more information on configuring this device, see
115.Xr ifconfig 8 .
116.Sh HARDWARE
117The
118.Nm
119driver supports the Ethernet controller portion of the Broadcom BCM2711
120on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and related systems.
121It utilizes the BCM54213PE PHY.
122.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
123Tunables can be set at the
124.Xr loader 8
125prompt before booting the kernel or stored in
126.Xr loader.conf 5 .
127The following loader tunable variable is available, and is also
128available as a read-only
129.Xr sysctl 8
130variable:
131.Bl -tag -width indent
132.It Va hw.genet.rx_batch
133The maximum number of packets to pass to the link-layer input routine
134at one time.
135The default is 16.
136.El
137.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
138The following variable is available as a
139.Xr sysctl 8
140variable:
141.Bl -tag -width indent
142.It Va hw.genet.tx_hdr_min
143When the driver is given an output packet in a buffer chain
144in which the first buffer contains only the Ethernet header,
145the number of bytes of the packet to add to the Ethernet header
146in the first buffer.
147Certain packets may be lost if this value is too small.
148The default value is 56, and is sufficient for the observed cases to date.
149.El
150.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
151The
152.Nm
153driver has no diagnostics that are likely in normal operation.
154However, when the
155.Cm debug
156option is set with
157.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
158most failures that cause packet loss in the transmit and receive paths
159cause a cryptic diagnostic message naming the failure.
160These messages generally make sense only when looking at the driver source.
161.Sh SEE ALSO
162.Xr altq 4 ,
163.Xr arp 4 ,
164.Xr miibus 4 ,
165.Xr netintro 4 ,
166.Xr ng_ether 4 ,
167.Xr vlan 4 ,
168.Xr ifconfig 8
169.Sh HISTORY
170The
171.Nm
172device driver first appeared in
173.Fx 13.0 .
174.Sh AUTHORS
175The
176.Nm
177driver was written by
178.An Mike Karels Aq Mt karels@freebsd.org .
179Portions are derived from the bcmgenet driver in
180.Nx
181by Jared McNeill,
182and parts of the structure and common code are from the awg driver
183for the Allwinner EMAC by Jared McNeill.
184