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NTB(4)			     Kernel Interfaces Manual			  NTB(4)

NAME
     ntb -- Non-Transparent Bridge subsystem

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

	   device ntb

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

	   ntb_load="YES"

     The following tunables are settable from the loader(8):

     hw.ntb.debug_level
     Driver debug level.  The default value is 0, higher means more verbose.

     hint.ntb_hw.X.config
     Configures a set of NTB functions, separated by commas, and their resource
     allocation.  Each function can be configured as:
     "[<name>][:<mw>[:<spad>[:<db>]]]", where: name is a name of the driver to
     attach (empty means any), mw is a number of memory windows to allocate
     (empty means all available), spad is a number of scratchpad registers to
     allocate (empty means all available), db is a number of doorbells to
     allocate (empty means all available).  The default configuration is empty
     string, which means single function with all available resources, allowing
     any driver to attach.

DESCRIPTION
     Non-Transparent  Bridges  connect	two  computer systems with PCIe link(s),
     providing each of them limited access to others  memory  space,  scratchpad
     registers	and interrupts.  The ntb subsystem uses those resources provided
     in generic way by hardware drivers and splits them  between  several  func-
     tions, according to specified configuration.

SEE ALSO
     if_ntb(4), ntb_hw_amd(4), ntb_hw_intel(4), ntb_hw_plx(4), ntb_transport(4)

AUTHORS
     The  ntb  subsystem  was  developed by Intel and originally written by Carl
     Delsey <carl@FreeBSD.org>.  Later improvements were done by Conrad E. Meyer
     <cem@FreeBSD.org> and Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>.

FreeBSD 15.1			 August 29, 2019			  NTB(4)

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