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GEM(4)			    Kernel Interfaces Manual			GEM(4)

NAME
       gem -- GEM/GMAC Ethernet	device driver

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

	     device miibus
	     device gem

       Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at	boot time,  place  the
       following line in loader.conf(5):

	     if_gem_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION
       The  gem	 driver	 provides support for the GMAC Ethernet	hardware found
       mostly in the last Apple	PowerBooks G3s and most	G4-based  Apple	 hard-
       ware.

       All  controllers	 supported by the gem driver have TCP checksum offload
       capability for both receive and transmit, support for the reception and
       transmission of extended	frames for vlan(4)  and	 a  512-bit  multicast
       hash filter.

HARDWARE
       Chips supported by the gem driver include:

          Apple GMAC
          Sun GEM Gigabit Ethernet

       The  following  add-on  cards  are known	to work	with the gem driver at
       this time:

          Sun Gigabit Ethernet	PCI 2.0/3.0 (GBE/P) (part no. 501-4373)

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

HISTORY
       The gem device driver appeared in NetBSD	1.6.  The first	 FreeBSD  ver-
       sion to include it was FreeBSD 5.0.

AUTHORS
       The   gem   driver   was	  written   for	  NetBSD  by  Eduardo  Horvath
       <eeh@NetBSD.org>.   It  was  ported  to	FreeBSD	  by   Thomas	Moestl
       <tmm@FreeBSD.org>    and	  later	  on   improved	  by   Marius	Strobl
       <marius@FreeBSD.org>.  The man page  was	 written  by  Thomas  Klausner
       <wiz@NetBSD.org>.

FreeBSD	14.3			April 18, 2023				GEM(4)

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