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.\" $NetBSD: ti.4,v 1.9 2004/02/14 16:45:01 joda Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: ti.4,v 1.10 2004/02/15 22:54:27 snj Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999
.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved.
@ -50,19 +50,23 @@ driver provides support for PCI gigabit
.Tn Ethernet
adapters based on the Alteon Networks Tigon gigabit
.Tn 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
address filtering, VLAN tag extraction and insertion, and jumbo
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 address filtering,
VLAN tag extraction and insertion, and jumbo
.Tn 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.
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
@ -92,9 +96,9 @@ 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,
however the driver should support those NICs that work at lower speeds
as well.
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
Support for jumbo frames is provided via the interface MTU setting.
Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
@ -111,7 +115,8 @@ driver supports the following media types:
.It autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
.It 10baseT/UTP
Set 10Mbps operation. The
Set 10Mbps operation.
The
.Ar mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
.Ar full-duplex
@ -120,7 +125,8 @@ or
.It 100baseTX
Set 100Mbps (fast
.Tn Ethernet )
operation. The
operation.
The
.Ar mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
.Ar full-duplex
@ -129,12 +135,14 @@ or
modes.
.It 1000baseSX
Set 1000Mbps (gigabit
.Tn Ethernet over multimode fiber ) operation. Only full
.Tn Ethernet over multimode fiber ) operation.
Only full
.Ar full-duplex
mode is supported at this speed.
.It 1000baseT
Set 1000Mbps (gigabit
.Tn Ethernet over twisted pair ) operation. Only full
.Tn Ethernet over twisted pair ) operation.
Only full
.Ar full-duplex
mode is supported at this speed.
.El
@ -154,7 +162,8 @@ The Algeon Tigon and Tigon II support IPv4/TCP/UDP checksumming in
hardware.
The
.Nm
supports this feature of the chip's firmware. See
supports this feature of the chip's firmware.
See
.Xr ifconfig 8
for information on how to enable this feature.
.Pp
@ -171,14 +180,16 @@ 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
Tigon II, but on the Tigon I initialization will fail.
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.