spwr(7d) [sunos man page]
spwr(7D) Devices spwr(7D) NAME
spwr - SMC EtherPower II 10/100(9432) Ethernet device driver SYNOPSIS
/dev/spwr DESCRIPTION
The spwr Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, clonable, STREAMS hardware driver supporting the connectionless Data Link Provider Interface, dlpi(7P), over SMC EtherPower II 10/100 controllers. Multiple EtherPower II controllers installed within the system are sup- ported by the driver. The spwr driver provides basic support for the SMC EtherPower II hardware. Functions include chip initialization, frame transmit and receive, multicast support, and error recovery and reporting. APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
The cloning character-special device /dev/spwr is used to access all SMC EtherPower II devices installed within the system. The spwr driver is dependent on /kernel/misc/gld, a loadable kernel module that provides the spwr driver with the DLPI and STREAMS functionality required of a LAN driver. See gld(7d) for more details on the primitives supported by the driver. The values returned by the driver in the DL_INFO_ACK primitive in response to the DL_INFO_REQ from the user are as follows: o The maximum SDU is 1500 ( ETHERMTU). o The minimum SDU is 0. The spwr driver will pad to the mandatory 60-octet minimum packet size. o The DLSAP address length is 8. o The MAC type is DL_ETHER. o The SAP length value is -2, meaning the physical address component is followed immediately by a 2-byte SAP component within the DLSAP address. o The broadcast address value is Ethernet/IEEE broadcast address (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF). FILES
/dev/spwr Character special device. /kernel/drv/spwr.conf Driver configuration file ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |Architecture |x86 | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5), dlpi(7P), gld(7D) SunOS 5.10 2 Dec 1998 spwr(7D)
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mxfe(7D) Devices mxfe(7D) NAME
mxfe - MXFE Fast Ethernet device driver SYNOPSIS
/dev/mxfe* DESCRIPTION
The mxfe is a Solaris STREAMS hardware driver supporting the Data Link Provider Interface (dlpi(7P)) over the Macronix 98715 family (including the Lite-On PNIC-II) of Fast Ethernet controllers. DLPI SPECIFICATIONS
The mxfe driver supports both style 1 and style 2 modes of operation. Physical points of attachment (PPAs) are interpreted as the instance number of the mxfe controller as assigned by the operating system. The relevant fields returned as part of a DL_INFO_ACK response are: o Maximum SDU is 1500. o Minimum SDU is 0. o DLSAP address length is 8. o MAC type is DL_ETHER. o SAP length value is -2, meaning the physical address component is followed immediately by a 2-byte SAP component within the DLSAP address. o Service mode is DL_CLDLS. o Broadcast address value is the 6-byte Ethernet/IEEE broadcast address (ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff). If the SAP provided is zero, IEEE 802.3 mode is assumed and outbound frames will have the frame payload length written into the type field Likewise, inbound frames with a SAP between zero and 1500 are interpreted as IEEE 802.3 frames and delivered to streams that have bound to SAP zero (the 802.3 SAP). FILES
/dev/mxfe* Special character device /kernel/drv/mxfe 32-bit driver binary (x86). /kernel/drv/amd64/mxfe 64-bit ELF kernel module (x86). /kernel/drv/sparcv9/mxfe Driver binary (SPARC). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |SPARC, x86 | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWmxfe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ifconfig(1M), ndd(1M), attributes(5), dlpi(7P) IEEE 802.3 -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2002 SunOS 5.11 31 Aug 2007 mxfe(7D)