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diff --git a/share/man/man4/miibus.4 b/share/man/man4/miibus.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a38595 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/man/man4/miibus.4 @@ -0,0 +1,184 @@ +.\" Written by Tom Rhodes for the FreeBSD Project. +.\" Please see the /usr/src/COPYRIGHT file for copyright information. +.\" +.\" This document takes information from the IEEE 802.3 Standard +.\" along with various comments from Peter Wemm, Robert Watson, and Bill Paul. +.\" Originally this file looked much like the NetBSD mii(4) manual page, but +.\" I doubt you would ever notice due to large differences. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd April 14, 2010 +.Dt MIIBUS 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm miibus +.Nd IEEE 802.3 Media Independent Interface network bus +.Sh SYNOPSIS +For most network interface cards (NIC): +.Cd "device miibus" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides an interconnection between the Media Access Control (MAC) +sublayer, the Physical Layer entities (PHY), Station Management (STA) +entities, and the PHY Layer as defined by the IEEE 802.3 Standard. +.Pp +The +.Nm +layer allows network device drivers to share common support +code for various external PHY devices. +Most 10/100 network interface cards either use an MII transceiver +or have built-in transceivers that can be programmed using an MII +interface. +The +.Nm +driver currently handles all of the media detection, +selection, and reporting using the ifmedia interface. +A generic driver has been included for all PHYs that are not +handled by a specific driver, this is possible because all +10/100 PHYs implement the same general register set along with +their vendor specific register set. +.Pp +The following network device drivers use the +.Nm +interface: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -compact -width ".Xr fxp 4" +.It Xr age 4 +Attansic/Atheros L1 Gigabit Ethernet +.It Xr alc 4 +Atheros AR8131/AR8132 PCIe Ethernet +.It Xr ale 4 +Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe Ethernet +.It Xr aue 4 +ADMtek USB Ethernet +.It Xr axe 4 +ASIX Electronics AX88172 USB Ethernet +.It Xr bce 4 +Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet +.It Xr bfe 4 +Broadcom BCM4401 Ethernet +.It Xr bge 4 +Broadcom BCM570xx Gigabit Ethernet +.It Xr cas 4 +Sun Cassini/Cassini+ and National Semiconductor DP83065 Saturn +.It Xr dc 4 +DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes +.It Xr ed 4 +NE[12]000, SMC Ultra, 3c503, DS8390 cards +.It Xr et 4 +Agere ET1310 Gigabit Ethernet +.It Xr fxp 4 +Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B +.It Xr gem 4 +Sun ERI, Sun GEM and Apple GMAC Ethernet +.It Xr hme 4 +Sun HME Ethernet +.It Xr jme 4 +JMicron JMC250 Gigabit/JMC260 Fast Ethernet +.It Xr lge 4 +Level 1 LXT1001 NetCellerator Gigabit Ethernet +.It Xr msk 4 +Marvell/SysKonnect Yukon II Gigabit Ethernet +.It Xr nfe 4 +NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter +.It Xr nge 4 +National Semiconductor DP83820/DP83821 Gigabit Ethernet +.It Xr nve 4 +NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Adapter +.It Xr pcn 4 +AMD Am79C97x PCI 10/100 +.It Xr re 4 +RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S +.It Xr rl 4 +RealTek 8129/8139 +.It Xr rue 4 +RealTek RTL8150 USB To Fast Ethernet +.It Xr sf 4 +Adaptec AIC-6915 +.It Xr sge 4 +Silicon Integrated Systems SiS190/191 Ethernet +.It Xr sis 4 +Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 900/SiS 7016 +.It Xr sk 4 +SysKonnect SK-984x and SK-982x Gigabit Ethernet +.It Xr ste 4 +Sundance ST201 (D-Link DFE-550TX) +.It Xr stge 4 +Sundance/Tamarack TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet +.It Xr tl 4 +Texas Instruments ThunderLAN +.It Xr tx 4 +SMC EtherPower II (83c170) +.It Xr udav 4 +Davicom DM9601 USB Ethernet +.It Xr vge 4 +VIA VT612x PCI Gigabit Ethernet +.It Xr vr 4 +VIA Rhine, Rhine II +.It Xr wb 4 +Winbond W89C840F +.It Xr xl 4 +3Com 3c90x +.El +.Sh COMPATIBILITY +The implementation of +.Nm +was originally intended to have similar API interfaces +to +.Bsx 3.0 +and +.Nx , +but as a result are not well behaved newbus device drivers. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr age 4 , +.Xr alc 4 , +.Xr ale 4 , +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr aue 4 , +.Xr axe 4 , +.Xr bce 4 , +.Xr bfe 4 , +.Xr bge 4 , +.Xr cas 4 , +.Xr dc 4 , +.Xr ed 4 , +.Xr et 4 , +.Xr fxp 4 , +.Xr gem 4 , +.Xr hme 4 , +.Xr jme 4 , +.Xr lge 4 , +.Xr msk 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr nfe 4 , +.Xr nge 4 , +.Xr nve 4 , +.Xr pcn 4 , +.Xr re 4 , +.Xr rl 4 , +.Xr rue 4 , +.Xr sf 4 , +.Xr sge 4 , +.Xr sis 4 , +.Xr sk 4 , +.Xr ste 4 , +.Xr stge 4 , +.Xr tl 4 , +.Xr tx 4 , +.Xr udav 4 , +.Xr vge 4 , +.Xr vr 4 , +.Xr wb 4 , +.Xr xl 4 +.Sh STANDARDS +More information on MII can be found in the IEEE 802.3 Standard. +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +driver first appeared in +.Fx 3.3 . +.Sh AUTHORS +This manual page was written by +.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org . |
