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author | np <np@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-12-18 20:37:49 +0000 |
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committer | np <np@FreeBSD.org> | 2013-12-18 20:37:49 +0000 |
commit | 2067ea331b74a2cf174a721e8a608a7592c8b983 (patch) | |
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parent | ce16a97371169a2ff661ae838180ec527f383e52 (diff) | |
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cxgbe.4: Belated update to the man page to reflect T5 support.
MFC after: 1 day
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/cxgbe.4 | 68 |
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/cxgbe.4 b/share/man/man4/cxgbe.4 index 93925a7..68540c3 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/cxgbe.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/cxgbe.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2012, Chelsio Inc +.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2013, Chelsio Inc .\" All rights reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without @@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd February 25, 2012 +.Dd December 18, 2013 .Dt CXGBE 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm cxgbe -.Nd "Chelsio T4 10Gb and 1Gb Ethernet adapter driver" +.Nd "Chelsio T4 and T5 based 40Gb, 10Gb, and 1Gb Ethernet adapter driver" .Sh SYNOPSIS To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your @@ -50,13 +50,14 @@ module at boot time, place the following lines in .Xr loader.conf 5 : .Bd -literal -offset indent t4fw_cfg_load="YES" +t5fw_cfg_load="YES" if_cxgbe_load="YES" .Ed .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver provides support for PCI Express Ethernet adapters based on -the Chelsio Terminator 4 (T4) ASIC. +the Chelsio Terminator 4 and Terminator 5 ASICs (T4 and T5). The driver supports Jumbo Frames, Transmit/Receive checksum offload, TCP segmentation offload (TSO), Large Receive Offload (LRO), VLAN tag insertion/extraction, VLAN checksum offload, VLAN TSO, and @@ -65,11 +66,50 @@ For further hardware information and questions related to hardware requirements, see .Pa http://www.chelsio.com/ . .Pp +Note that ports of T5 cards are named cxl and attach to a t5nex parent device +(in contrast to ports named cxgbe that attach to a t4nex parent for a T4 card). +Loader tunables with the hw.cxgbe prefix apply to both T4 and T5 cards. +The sysctl MIBs are at dev.t5nex and dev.cxl for T5 cards and at dev.t4nex and +dev.cxgbe for T4 cards. + +.Pp For more information on configuring this device, see .Xr ifconfig 8 . .Sh HARDWARE The .Nm +driver supports 40Gb, 10Gb and 1Gb Ethernet adapters based on the T5 ASIC +(ports will be named cxl): +.Pp +.Bl -bullet -compact +.It +Chelsio T580-CR +.It +Chelsio T580-LP-CR +.It +Chelsio T580-LP-SO-CR +.It +Chelsio T560-CR +.It +Chelsio T540-CR +.It +Chelsio T540-LP-CR +.It +Chelsio T522-CR +.It +Chelsio T520-LL-CR +.It +Chelsio T520-CR +.It +Chelsio T520-SO +.It +Chelsio T520-BT +.It +Chelsio T504-BT +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm driver supports 10Gb and 1Gb Ethernet adapters based on the T4 ASIC: .Pp .Bl -bullet -compact @@ -139,8 +179,8 @@ by default (all values are in microseconds) and the index selects a value from this list. The default value is 1 for both 10Gb and 1Gb ports, which means the timer value is 5us. -Different cxgbe interfaces can be assigned different values at any time via the -dev.cxgbe.X.holdoff_tmr_idx sysctl. +Different interfaces can be assigned different values at any time via the +dev.cxgbe.X.holdoff_tmr_idx or dev.cxl.X.holdoff_tmr_idx sysctl. .It Va hw.cxgbe.holdoff_pktc_idx_10G .It Va hw.cxgbe.holdoff_pktc_idx_1G The packet-count index value to use to delay interrupts. @@ -149,8 +189,8 @@ and the index selects a value from this list. The default value is -1 for both 10Gb and 1Gb ports, which means packet counting is disabled and interrupts are generated based solely on the holdoff timer value. -Different cxgbe interfaces can be assigned different values via the -dev.cxgbe.X.holdoff_pktc_idx sysctl. +Different interfaces can be assigned different values via the +dev.cxgbe.X.holdoff_pktc_idx or dev.cxl.X.holdoff_pktc_idx sysctl. This sysctl works only when the interface has never been marked up (as done by ifconfig up). .It Va hw.cxgbe.qsize_txq @@ -161,16 +201,16 @@ software queuing. See .Xr ifnet 9 . The default value is 1024. -Different cxgbe interfaces can be assigned different values via the -dev.cxgbe.X.qsize_txq sysctl. +Different interfaces can be assigned different values via the +dev.cxgbe.X.qsize_txq sysctl or dev.cxl.X.qsize_txq sysctl. This sysctl works only when the interface has never been marked up (as done by ifconfig up). .It Va hw.cxgbe.qsize_rxq The size, in number of entries, of the descriptor ring used for an rx queue. The default value is 1024. -Different cxgbe interfaces can be assigned different values via the -dev.cxgbe.X.qsize_rxq sysctl. +Different interfaces can be assigned different values via the +dev.cxgbe.X.qsize_rxq or dev.cxl.X.qsize_rxq sysctl. This sysctl works only when the interface has never been marked up (as done by ifconfig up). .It Va hw.cxgbe.interrupt_types @@ -231,6 +271,10 @@ The .Nm device driver first appeared in .Fx 9.0 . +Support for T5 cards first appeared in +.Fx 9.2 +and +.Fx 10.0 . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The |