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@@ -43,19 +43,26 @@ Alteon Networks Tigon I and Tigon II gigabit ethernet driver
The
.Nm
driver provides support for PCI gigabit ethernet adapters based on
-the Alteon Networks Tigon gigabit ethernet controller chip. The Tigon
+the Alteon Networks Tigon gigabit ethernet controller chip.
+The Tigon
contains an embedded R4000 CPU, gigabit MAC, dual DMA channels and
-a PCI interface unit. The Tigon II contains two R4000 CPUs and other
-refinements. Either chip can be used in either a 32-bit or 64-bit PCI
-slot. Communication with the chip is achieved via PCI shared memory
-and bus master DMA. The Tigon I and II support hardware multicast
+a PCI interface unit.
+The Tigon II contains two R4000 CPUs and other
+refinements.
+Either chip can be used in either a 32-bit or 64-bit PCI
+slot.
+Communication with the chip is achieved via PCI shared memory
+and bus master DMA.
+The Tigon I and II support hardware multicast
address filtering, VLAN tag extraction and insertion, and jumbo
-ethernet frames sizes up to 9000 bytes. Note that the Tigon I chipset
+ethernet frames sizes up to 9000 bytes.
+Note that the Tigon I chipset
is no longer in active production: all new adapters should come equipped
with Tigon II chipsets.
.Pp
There are several PCI boards available from both Alteon and other
-vendors that use the Tigon chipset under OEM contract. The
+vendors that use the Tigon chipset under OEM contract.
+The
.Nm
driver has been tested with the following Tigon-based adapters:
.Bl -bullet -offset indent
@@ -77,7 +84,8 @@ Silicon Graphics PCI gigabit ethernet adapter
.Pp
While the Tigon chipset supports 10, 100 and 1000Mbps speeds, support for
10 and 100Mbps speeds is only available on boards with the proper
-transceivers. Most adapters are only designed to work at 1000Mbps,
+transceivers.
+Most adapters are only designed to work at 1000Mbps,
however the driver should support those NICs that work at lower speeds
as well.
.Pp
@@ -90,7 +98,8 @@ such as file transfers and data streaming.
.Pp
Support for vlans is also available using the
.Xr vlan 4
-mechanism. See the
+mechanism.
+See the
.Xr vlan 4
man page for more details.
.Pp
@@ -106,14 +115,16 @@ the autoselected mode by adding media options to the
.Pa /etc/rc.conf
file.
.It 10baseT/UTP
-Set 10Mbps operation. The
+Set 10Mbps operation.
+The
.Ar mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
.Ar full-duplex
or
.Ar half-duplex modes.
.It 100baseTX
-Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation. The
+Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation.
+The
.Ar mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
.Ar full-duplex
@@ -121,7 +132,8 @@ or
.Ar half-duplex
modes.
.It 1000baseSX
-Set 1000Mbps (gigabit ethernet) operation. Only full
+Set 1000Mbps (gigabit ethernet) operation.
+Only full
.Ar full-duplex
mode is supported at this speed.
.El
@@ -149,21 +161,25 @@ A fatal initialization error has occurred.
The driver failed to allocate memory for per-device instance information
during initialization.
.It "ti%d: failed to enable memory mapping!"
-The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping. This might
+The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping.
+This might
happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot.
.It "ti%d: no memory for jumbo buffers!"
The driver failed to allocate memory for jumbo frames during
initialization.
.It "ti%d: bios thinks we're in a 64 bit slot, but we aren't"
The BIOS has programmed the NIC as though it had been installed in
-a 64-bit PCI slot, but in fact the NIC is in a 32-bit slot. This happens
-as a result of a bug in some BIOSes. This can be worked around on the
+a 64-bit PCI slot, but in fact the NIC is in a 32-bit slot.
+This happens
+as a result of a bug in some BIOSes.
+This can be worked around on the
Tigon II, but on the Tigon I initialization will fail.
.It "ti%d: board self-diagnostics failed!"
The ROMFAIL bit in the CPU state register was set after system
startup, indicating that the on-board NIC diagnostics failed.
.It "ti%d: unknown hwrev"
-The driver detected a board with an unsupported hardware revision. The
+The driver detected a board with an unsupported hardware revision.
+The
.Nm
driver supports revision 4 (Tigon 1) and revision 6 (Tigon 2) chips
and has firmware only for those devices.
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