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6 .TH CHXGE 7D "Jan 17, 2005"
8 chxge \- Chelsio Ethernet network interface controllers
18 The \fBchxge\fR Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable,
19 STREAMS hardware driver supporting the connectionless Data Link Provider
20 Interface, \fBdlpi\fR(7P), over Chelsio NIC controllers. Multiple (and mixed)
21 NIC controllers installed within the system are supported by the driver. The
22 \fBchxge\fR driver provides basic support for the NIC hardware. Functions
23 include chip initialization, frame transmit and receive, and error recovery and
25 .SH APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
28 The cloning, character-special device \fB/dev/chxge\fR is used to access NIC
29 devices installed within the system.
33 The \fBchxge\fR driver is dependent on \fB/kernel/misc/gld\fR, a loadable
34 kernel module that provides the \fBchxge\fR driver with the DLPI and STREAMS
35 functionality required of a LAN driver. See \fBgld\fR(7D) for more details on
36 the primitives supported by the driver.
39 The values returned by the driver in the DL_INFO_ACK primitive in response to
45 Default Maximum SDU is 1500 (ETHERMTU).
51 dlsap address length is 8.
63 The sap length value is -2, meaning the physical address component is
64 followed immediately by a 2-byte sap component within the DLSAP address.
70 Broadcast address value is Ethernet/IEEE broadcast address
80 Character special device.
86 \fB/kernel/drv/sparcv9/chxge\fR
89 SPARC chxge driver binary.
95 \fB/kernel/drv/chxge\fR
98 x86 platform kernel module. (32-bit).
104 \fB/kernel/drv/amd64/chxge\fR
107 x86 platform kernel module. (64-bit).
113 See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
121 ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
123 Architecture SPARC, x86
129 \fBnetstat\fR(1M), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBgld\fR(7D), \fBdlpi\fR(7P),
130 \fBgld\fR(9F), \fBgld_mac_info\fR(9S)