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# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 230339 19-Jan-2012 yongari

Reflect tunable name change made in r230337.


# 230288 17-Jan-2012 yongari

Document dev.bge.%d.msi_disable tunable.


# 228205 02-Dec-2011 yongari

Add more controllers that support jumbo frame.


# 215780 23-Nov-2010 marius

Remove the description of the link0 link option, since r215297 the master
media option generally should be used instead. Actually I think the lists
of media types should be removed from the manual pages of MAC drivers
altogether and users just pointed to the output of `ifconfig -m` instead;
even before r215297 there were several outdated descriptions, technically
it's wrong most of the time as not the MAC drivers support these media
types but actually the PHY drivers do and it generally doesn't make sense
to maintain these lists in every manual page of a driver as the media is
auto-detected.


# 214968 07-Nov-2010 yongari

Use shorten model name instead of showing all controller model
numbers. bge(4) supports too many models such that it's
unreasonable to list all these controllers in one line description
of name. While I'm here mention that BCM590x/BCM5779x is Fast
Ethernet controller.
bge(4) still lacks support for some controllers but supporting
these controllers should be easy now and adding new controllers
do not require touching .Nd any more.

Obtained from: OpenBSD


# 211597 21-Aug-2010 yongari

Document newly introduced tunable dev.bge.%d.forced_udpcsum.
While I'm here also mention tunable dev.bge.%d.forced_collapse.


# 198473 25-Oct-2009 brueffer

Spell out the name of the month.


# 197834 07-Oct-2009 stas

- Document new revisions of chips supported.


# 192395 19-May-2009 joel

Add Dell PowerEdge R200 and R300 to the hardware section.


# 187315 15-Jan-2009 marius

Sync the description of jumbo frame support with reality as of r185812;
it's also supported with BCM5702 (matched by BGE_ASICREV_BCM5703) but
bge(4) currently doesn't with neither BCM5714 nor BCM5780.

Prodded by: scf
MFC after: 3 days


# 174903 25-Dec-2007 remko

Mention support for the 5722 driver in bge.4 as well.


# 169881 22-May-2007 jkim

Remove BCM5704S specific tunable (hw.bge.fake_autoneg) and
auto-detect the condition.


# 166347 30-Jan-2007 brueffer

Add the 3Com 3c996-SX.

Submitted by: Johan Ström
MFC after: 3 days


# 166346 30-Jan-2007 brueffer

Xref altq(4) for drivers that support it according to altq(4).


# 162825 29-Sep-2006 ru

Spelling.


# 162584 23-Sep-2006 scottl

Add documentation on the new bge tunable. Also put the tunable docs into a
separate section.


# 159484 10-Jun-2006 brueffer

Be explicit about which chips support jumbo frames.

Suggested by: Brad Smith
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 3 days


# 158019 25-Apr-2006 mr

document the new tunable.


# 154328 13-Jan-2006 thompsa

Add the HP NC7771 adapter to the list of known products.


# 152555 17-Nov-2005 brueffer

Mention BCM5752 support in two more places.


# 152453 15-Nov-2005 glebius

Add BCM5752 to HARDWARE section.


# 151655 25-Oct-2005 brueffer

Xref polling(4).


# 151046 07-Oct-2005 trhodes

Work around an apparent mdoc(7) bug.

Spotted by: marius
Discussed with: ru


# 148220 21-Jul-2005 trhodes

Break long lines and kill a few instances of EOL whitespace.

Noticed by: ru


# 148145 18-Jul-2005 trhodes

Add a "Load module on start up" comment, similar to mac_*.4 pages[1].
Quote .Cd and .Nd text.
Bump doc date.

Requested by: some user through ru
Supported by: ru, dwmalone, brueffer


# 146487 22-May-2005 brueffer

BCM5789 support.

MFC after: 3 days


# 146423 19-May-2005 brueffer

Document support for the 5714.

MFC after: 3 days


# 138994 17-Dec-2004 brueffer

BCM5721 is supported as well.


# 138902 15-Dec-2004 brueffer

First update for the 5750/5751 chips.

MFC after: 3 days


# 134755 04-Sep-2004 brueffer

Properly capitalize Gigabit Ethernet

MFC after: 3 days


# 131570 04-Jul-2004 simon

Add a HARDWARE section which lists supported devices. The actual
device listings has been moved (and in some cases more or less
rewritten) from the DESCRIPTION section.

This will be used later for automatically generating device listings
in the Hardware Notes, by parsing the manual pages.

Reviewed in principle by: ru, hrs, trhodes
No objections: -doc, re
Section name inspired by: NetBSD


# 130392 12-Jun-2004 cperciva

s/mbps/Mbps/
We don't support any 10 millibit-per-second network cards.

PR: docs/67719
Submitted by: Linh Pham
MFC after: 1 week


# 130250 08-Jun-2004 brueffer

Fix typo

Obtained from: DragonFly BSD
MFC after: 3 days


# 129818 28-May-2004 simon

Add the integrated NICs on the Dell PowerEdge 1750 and 2650 to the list
of supported devices.


# 120054 14-Sep-2003 ru

Get rid of duplicates.


# 115187 20-May-2003 ru

Removed hard sentence break.


# 112625 25-Mar-2003 ps

Add some HP cards to the supported list of cards. Also mention
that 1000BaseTX only supports full-duplex.

Submitted by: John Cagle <john.cagle@hp.com>


# 110946 15-Feb-2003 trhodes

Xref miibus(4).


# 103104 08-Sep-2002 jdp

Mention support for the on-board NICs on IBM x235 servers.

Be more precise when referring to the chip family (BCM570x) vs.
specific models (e.g., BCM5700).

MFC after: 1 month


# 89835 26-Jan-2002 jdp

Add support for the Netgear GA302T 10/100/1000 adapter. Given that
it's a 32-bit card, it's quite nice for $75.

MFC after: 3 days


# 89610 21-Jan-2002 mpp

Ispell sweep of share/man/man4.


# 85550 26-Oct-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police:

- Minor markup nits.
- Arrange for appearance in 4.5.


# 84059 27-Sep-2001 wpaul

Add device driver support for the Broadcom BCM570x family of gigabit
ethernet controllers. This adds support for the 3Com 3c996-T, the
SysKonnect SK-9D21 and SK-9D41, and the built-in gigE NICs on
Dell PowerEdge 2550 servers. The latter configuration hauls ass:
preliminary measurements show TCP speeds of over 900Mbps using
only normal size frames.

TCP/IP checksum offload, jumbo frames and VLAN tag insertion/stripping
are supported, as well as interrupt moderation.

Still need to fix autonegotiation support for 1000baseSX NICs, but
beyond that, driver is pretty solid.