NAME
sk
, skc
—
SysKonnect XMAC II and Marvell Yukon
10/100/Gigabit Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS
skc* at pci?
sk* at skc?
brgphy* at mii?
eephy* at mii?
xmphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The sk
driver provides support for
SysKonnect GEnesis and Marvell Yukon 88E8001, 88E8003 and 88E8010 based
Gigabit Ethernet adapters, including the following:
- 3Com 3c940 single port, copper adapter
- 3Com 3c2000-T single port, copper adapter
- Belkin F5D5005 v1000, copper adapter
- D-Link DGE-530T A1, copper adapter
- D-Link DGE-530T B1, copper adapter
- Fujitsu PP028GE1U, multimode fiber adapter
- Fujitsu PP028GE1X, multimode fiber adapter
- Fujitsu PW008GE1U, copper adapter
- Fujitsu PW008GE1X, copper adapter
- Linksys EG1032v2, copper adapter
- Linksys EG1064v2, copper adapter
- SMC 9452TX, copper adapter
- SysKonnect SK-9521 V2.0 single port, copper adapter
- SysKonnect SK-9821 single port, copper adapter
- SysKonnect SK-9821 V2.0 single port, copper adapter
- SysKonnect SK-9822 dual port, copper adapter
- SysKonnect SK-9841 single port, single mode fiber adapter
- SysKonnect SK-9842 dual port, single mode fiber adapter
- SysKonnect SK-9843 single port, multimode fiber adapter
- SysKonnect SK-9843 V2.0 single port, copper adapter
- SysKonnect SK-9844 dual port, multimode fiber adapter
The SysKonnect based adapters consist of two main components: the XaQti Corp. XMAC II Gigabit MAC (sk) and the SysKonnect GEnesis controller ASIC (skc). The XMAC provides the Gigabit MAC and PHY support while the GEnesis provides an interface to the PCI bus, DMA support, packet buffering and arbitration. The GEnesis can control up to two XMACs simultaneously, allowing dual-port NIC configurations.
The Marvell based adapters are a single integrated circuit, but are still presented as a separate MAC (sk) and controller ASIC (skc).
The GEnesis and Yukon 88E8001, 88E8003 and 88E8010 also support a frame size of up to 9000 bytes. Support for Jumbo frames is provided via the interface MTU setting. Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the ifconfig(8) utility configures the adapter to transmit Jumbo frames. Using Jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks, such as file transfers and data streaming.
Hardware receive IP checksum offload for IPv4 is supported.
The sk
driver supports the following media
types:
autoselect
- Enable autoselection of the media type and options. The user can manually override the autoselected mode by adding media options to the appropriate hostname.if(5) file.
10baseT
- Set 10Mbps operation. The
ifconfig(8)
mediaopt
option can also be used to select eitherfull-duplex
orhalf-duplex
modes. 100baseTX
- Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. The
ifconfig(8)
mediaopt
option can also be used to select eitherfull-duplex
orhalf-duplex
modes. 1000baseT
- Set 1000baseT (Gigabit Ethernet) operation over twisted pair. Both
full-duplex
andhalf-duplex
modes are supported. 1000baseSX
- Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation. Both
full-duplex
andhalf-duplex
modes are supported.
The sk
driver supports the following media
options:
full-duplex
- Force full duplex operation.
half-duplex
- Force half duplex operation.
For more information on configuring this device, see
ifconfig(8). To view a list of media types and options supported by
the card, try ifconfig <device> media
. For
example, ifconfig sk0 media
.
SEE ALSO
arp(4), brgphy(4), eephy(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), xmphy(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
XaQti XMAC II datasheet.
SysKonnect GEnesis programming manual, http://www.syskonnect.com.
HISTORY
The sk
device driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 3.0, and OpenBSD
support was added in OpenBSD 2.6.
AUTHORS
The sk
driver was written by
Bill Paul
⟨wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu⟩.