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24.\" $FreeBSD$
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26.Dd May 2, 2019
27.Dt MGB 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm mgb
31.Nd "Microchip LAN743x PCIe Gigabit Ethernet driver"
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33To load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in
34.Xr loader.conf 5 :
35.Bd -literal -offset indent
36if_mgb_load="YES"
37.Ed
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41driver is experimental, and is not yet connected to the build.
42.Pp
43The
44.Nm
45device driver provides support for PCIe Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on
46Microchip's LAN7430 and LAN7431.
47.Pp
48For more information on configuring this device, see
49.Xr ifconfig 8 .
50.Sh HARDWARE
51The
52.Nm
53driver supports:
54.Pp
55.Bl -bullet -compact
56.It
57Microchip LAN7430 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controller with PHY
58.It
59Microchip LAN7431 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet controller with RGMII interface
60.El
61.Sh SEE ALSO
62.Xr arp 4 ,
63.Xr miibus 4 ,
64.Xr ifconfig 8
65.Sh CAVEATS
66The driver does not yet implement support for many hardware features,
67including:
68.Bl -bullet -compact
69.It
70Multiple RX queue support
71.It
72RX and TX checksum offload
73.It
74Hardware VLAN tagging or untagging
75.It
76Multicast receive packet filtering
77.It
78Wake on LAN (WoL)
79.It
80LSO
81.It
82RSS
83.El
84.Pp
85LAN7431 support is completely untested.
86