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26.Dd February 19, 2015
27.Dt LLAN 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm llan
31.Nd POWER Logical Lan
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33To compile this driver into the kernel,
34place the following lines in your
35kernel configuration file:
36.Bd -ragged -offset indent
37.Cd "device llan"
38.Ed
39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm
42driver provides support for the inter-partition logical LAN controller
43provided by PAPR-compliant POWER hypervisors (such as PowerVM and PowerKVM).
44On some firmwares, advanced offload features are supported by the hypervisor,
45but these are not currently supported by the driver.
46.Sh SEE ALSO
47.Xr vtnet 4 ,
48.Xr ifconfig 8
49.Sh HISTORY
50The
51.Nm
52device driver appeared in
53.Fx 10.0 .
54.Sh AUTHORS
55.An -nosplit
56The
57.Nm
58driver was written by
59.An Nathan Whitehorn Aq Mt nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org .
60