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authormarius <marius@FreeBSD.org>2006-09-01 21:42:22 +0000
committermarius <marius@FreeBSD.org>2006-09-01 21:42:22 +0000
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- s/gigabit/Gigabit/
- Talk about supported chips rather than supported cards as the majority of the hardware supported by gem(4) is on-board. - "the .Nm driver" - Sort the list of supported chips alphabetically. - Sun GEM aren't used on-board though, so don't claim they'd be. - Add a CAVEATS section informing that Sun GEM cards aren't supported so far. MFC after: 1 day
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/gem.4 b/share/man/man4/gem.4
index 62c0094..bcb5ce1 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/gem.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/gem.4
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd August 15, 2004
+.Dd September 1, 2006
.Dt GEM 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -50,17 +50,17 @@ the last Apple PowerBooks G3s and most G4-based Apple hardware, as
well as many Sun UltraSPARCs.
.Sh HARDWARE
.Pp
-Cards supported by
+Chips supported by the
.Nm
driver include:
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
-Sun GEM gigabit Ethernet
+Apple GMAC
.It
Sun ERI 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
.It
-Apple GMAC
+Sun GEM Gigabit Ethernet
.El
.Sh NOTES
On sparc64 the
@@ -83,9 +83,17 @@ the unique MAC address of each interface is used if present rather than
the system's default MAC address.
.Pp
Supported interfaces having their own MAC address include the on-board
-Sun ERI 10/100 Mbps and GEM gigabit Ethernet Interfaces on boards equipped
-with more than one Ethernet interface and the Sun GEM gigabit Ethernet
-add-on cards.
+Sun ERI 10/100 Mbps on boards equipped with more than one Ethernet interface
+and the Sun Gigabit Ethernet 2.0/3.0 GBE add-on cards.
+.Sh CAVEATS
+Currently the
+.Nm
+driver fails to attach to Sun Gigabit Ethernet 2.0/3.0 (GBE/P) cards,
+as the SERDES used on these cards is not supported so far.
+The
+.Nm
+driver will also fail to probe and attach to Sun Gigabit Ethernet 2.0/3.0 (GBE/S) cards,
+as no SBus front-end has been written so far.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr hme 4 ,
.Xr miibus 4 ,
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