NAME
ice —
Intel Ethernet 800 series PCI Express
1Gb/10Gb/25Gb/50Gb/100Gb Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS
ice* at pci?
DESCRIPTION
The ice driver supports Intel 800 series
controllers based on the Intel E810 and E823 Ethernet chipsets, including
the following:
- Intel E810-C SFP/QSFP
- Intel E810-XXV SFP/QSFP
- Intel E823-L SFP/QSFP
- Intel E823-L 10G/1G
FILES
Intel 800 series controllers contain basic firmware which allows the device to be used with single Tx/Rx queues and without any hardware offloading features enabled. For full functionality, the device needs the following firmware file, which is loaded by the driver when the system boots:
- /etc/firmware/ice-ddp
This firmware file is not free because Intel refuses to grant distribution rights without contractual obligations. As a result, even though OpenBSD includes the driver, the firmware file cannot be included and users have to download the file on their own.
A prepackaged version of the firmware can be installed using fw_update(8).
SEE ALSO
arp(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
HISTORY
The ice driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 12.2. OpenBSD
support was added in OpenBSD 7.7.
AUTHORS
The ice driver was written by Intel and
ported to OpenBSD by Stefan
Sperling
<stsp@openbsd.org>.