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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 inte-
     grated 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 options

     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 thresh-
     old-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 ex-
	     pressed 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  sup-
	     ported  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 following
     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 cal-
     culation and vlan support by Piotr Ziecik.  This manual page was written by
     Rafal Jaworowski.

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	February 20, 2015			 TSEC(4)

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