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TSEC(4)		       powerpc Kernel Interfaces Manual		       TSEC(4)

NAME
       tsec -- Freescale Three-Speed Ethernet Controller device	driver

SYNOPSIS
       To  compile  this  driver into the kernel, place	the following lines in
       your kernel configuration file:

	     device tsec
	     device miibus

DESCRIPTION
       The tsec	driver provides	support	for the	 gigabit  Ethernet  controller
       integrated in some of the Freescale system-on-chip devices.

       The tsec	driver supports	the following media types:

       autoselect	     Enable  autoselection  of	the media type and op-
			     tions

       10baseT/UTP	     Set 10Mbps	operation

       100baseTX	     Set 100Mbps operation

       1000baseT	     Set 1000baseT operation

       The tsec	driver supports	the following media options:

       full-duplex	     Set full duplex operation

       The tsec	driver supports	polled operation when the system is configured
       with DEVICE_POLLING kernel option, see polling(4) for more details.

       The tsec	driver supports	reception and transmission of extended	frames
       for vlan(4).  This capability of	tsec can be controlled by means	of the
       vlanmtu parameter to ifconfig(8).

       The  tsec  driver supports interrupts coalescing	(IC) so	that raising a
       transmit/receive	frame interrupt	 is  delayed,  if  possible,  until  a
       threshold-defined  period  of  time has elapsed,	or a threshold-defined
       frame counter has been reached (whichever occurs	first).	 The following
       sysctls regulate	this behaviour:

       dev.tsec.X.int_coal.rx_time

       dev.tsec.X.int_coal.rx_count

       dev.tsec.X.int_coal.tx_time

       dev.tsec.X.int_coal.tx_count

	       Value of	0 for either time or count disables IC	on  the	 given
	       path.  Time value 1-65535 corresponds to	a real time period and
	       is expressed in units equivalent	to 64 ticks of the TSEC	clock.
	       Count 1-255 represents the number of frames (note that value of
	       1  is  equivalent to IC disabled).  User	provided values	larger
	       than supported will be trimmed to the maximum supported.	  More
	       details are available in	the reference manual of	the device.

HARDWARE
       Gigabit Ethernet	controllers built into the following Freescale system-
       on-chip devices are known to work with the tsec driver:

          MPC8349
          MPC8533, MPC8541, MPC8555

       The  enhanced version of	the controller (eTSEC),	integrated in the fol-
       lowing devices, is also supported by this driver:

          MPC8548, MPC8572

SEE ALSO
       altq(4),	 arp(4),  miibus(4),  netintro(4),  ng_ether(4),   polling(4),
       vlan(4),	ifconfig(8)

HISTORY
       The tsec	device driver first appeared in	FreeBSD	8.0.

AUTHORS
       The base	version	of tsec	device driver was written by Piotr Kruszynski.
       It  has	been extended with polling and interrupt coalescing support by
       Rafal Jaworowski.  It has been further  enhanced	 with  multicast,  h/w
       checksum	 calculation  and  vlan	 support by Piotr Ziecik.  This	manual
       page was	written	by Rafal Jaworowski.

FreeBSD	15.0		       February	20, 2015		       TSEC(4)

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