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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 hardware.

     All controllers supported by the gem driver have TCP checksum offload capa-
     bility  for both receive and transmit, support for the reception and trans-
     mission 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 version 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 ports 15.1		 April 18, 2023 			  GEM(4)

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