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61.Dd April 23, 2020
62.Dt SK 4
63.Os
64.Sh NAME
65.Nm sk ,
66.Nm skc ,
67.Nm msk ,
68.Nm mskc
69.Nd SysKonnect XMAC II and Marvell GMAC based Gigabit Ethernet
70.Sh SYNOPSIS
71.Cd "skc* at pci? dev ? function ?"
72.Cd "sk* at skc?"
73.Cd "mskc* at pci? dev ? function ?"
74.Cd "msk* at mskc?"
75.Sh DESCRIPTION
76The
77.Nm sk
78driver provides support for SysKonnect based Gigabit Ethernet adapters
79and Marvell based Gigabit Ethernet adapters, including the following:
80.Pp
81.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact
82.It
83SK-9821 SK-NET GE-T single port, copper adapter
84.It
85SK-9822 SK-NET GE-T dual port, copper adapter
86.It
87SK-9841 SK-NET GE-LX single port, single mode fiber adapter
88.It
89SK-9842 SK-NET GE-LX dual port, single mode fiber adapter
90.It
91SK-9843 SK-NET GE-SX single port, multimode fiber adapter
92.It
93SK-9844 SK-NET GE-SX dual port, multimode fiber adapter
94.It
95SK-9521 V2.0 single port, copper adapter (32-bit)
96.It
97SK-9821 V2.0 single port, copper adapter
98.It
99SK-9843 V2.0 single port, copper adapter
100.It
1013Com 3c940 single port, copper adapter
102.It
103Belkin Gigabit Desktop Network PCI Card, single port, copper (32-bit)
104.It
105D-Link DGE-530T single port, copper adapter
106.It
107Linksys EG1032v2 single-port, copper adapter
108.It
109Linksys EG1064v2 single-port, copper adapter
110.El
111.Pp
112The
113.Nm msk
114driver provides support for the Marvell Yukon-2 based Gigabit Ethernet
115adapters, including the following:
116.Pp
117.Bl -bullet -offset indent -compact
118.It
119Marvell Yukon 88E8035, copper adapter
120.It
121Marvell Yukon 88E8036, copper adapter
122.It
123Marvell Yukon 88E8038, copper adapter
124.It
125Marvell Yukon 88E8050, copper adapter
126.It
127Marvell Yukon 88E8052, copper adapter
128.It
129Marvell Yukon 88E8053, copper adapter
130.It
131Marvell Yukon 88E8055, copper adapter
132.It
133SK-9E21 1000Base-T single port, copper adapter
134.It
135SK-9E22 1000Base-T dual port, copper adapter
136.It
137SK-9E81 1000Base-SX single port, multimode fiber adapter
138.It
139SK-9E82 1000Base-SX dual port, multimode fiber adapter
140.It
141SK-9E91 1000Base-LX single port, single mode fiber adapter
142.It
143SK-9E92 1000Base-LX dual port, single mode fiber adapter
144.It
145SK-9S21 1000Base-T single port, copper adapter
146.It
147SK-9S22 1000Base-T dual port, copper adapter
148.It
149SK-9S81 1000Base-SX single port, multimode fiber adapter
150.It
151SK-9S82 1000Base-SX dual port, multimode fiber adapter
152.It
153SK-9S91 1000Base-LX single port, single mode fiber adapter
154.It
155SK-9S92 1000Base-LX dual port, single mode fiber adapter
156.It
157SK-9E21D 1000Base-T single port, copper adapter
158.El
159.Pp
160The SysKonnect based adapters consist of two main components: the
161XaQti Corp. XMAC II Gigabit MAC
162.Pq Nm sk
163and the SysKonnect GEnesis controller ASIC
164.Pq Nm skc .
165The XMAC provides the Gigabit MAC and PHY support
166while the GEnesis provides an interface to the PCI bus, DMA support,
167packet buffering and arbitration.
168The GEnesis can control up to two XMACs simultaneously,
169allowing dual-port NIC configurations.
170.Pp
171The Marvell based adapters are a single integrated circuit, but are
172still presented as a separate MAC
173.Pq Nm sk
174and controller ASIC
175.Pq Nm skc .
176At this time, there are no dual-port Marvell based NICs.
177.Pp
178The
179.Nm
180driver configures dual port SysKonnect adapters such that each XMAC
181is treated as a separate logical network interface.
182Both ports can operate independently of each other and can be connected
183to separate networks.
184The SysKonnect driver software currently only uses the second port on
185dual port adapters for failover purposes: if the link
186on the primary port fails, the SysKonnect driver will automatically
187switch traffic onto the second port.
188.Pp
189The XaQti XMAC II supports full and half duplex operation with
190autonegotiation.
191The XMAC also supports unlimited frame sizes.
192Support for jumbo frames is provided via the interface MTU setting.
193Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
194.Xr ifconfig 8
195utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit jumbo frames.
196Using jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks,
197such as file transfers and data streaming.
198.Pp
199Hardware TCP/IP checksum offloading for IPv4 is available but not
200supported by the driver.
201.Pp
202The following media types and options (as given to
203.Xr ifconfig 8 )
204are supported:
205.Bl -tag -width xxx -offset indent
206.It Cm media No autoselect
207Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
208The user can manually override
209the autoselected mode.
210.\" by adding media options to the appropriate
211.Xr ifconfig.if 5
212.\" file.
213.It Cm media No 1000baseSX Cm mediaopt No full-duplex
214Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation on fiber and force full-duplex mode.
215.It Cm media No 1000baseSX Cm mediaopt No half-duplex
216Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation on fiber and force half-duplex mode.
217.It Cm media No 1000baseT Cm mediaopt No full-duplex
218Set 1000Mbps (Gigabit Ethernet) operation and force full-duplex mode.
219.El
220.Pp
221For more information on configuring this device, see
222.Xr ifconfig 8 .
223To view a list of media types and options supported by the card, try
224.Ic ifconfig Fl m Aq Mt device .
225For example,
226.Ic ifconfig Fl m Ar sk0 .
227.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
228.Bl -diag
229.It "sk%d: couldn't map memory"
230A fatal initialization error has occurred.
231.It "sk%d: couldn't map ports"
232A fatal initialization error has occurred.
233.It "sk%d: couldn't map interrupt"
234A fatal initialization error has occurred.
235.It "sk%d: failed to enable memory mapping!"
236The driver failed to initialize PCI shared memory mapping.
237This might happen if the card is not in a bus-master slot.
238.It "sk%d: no memory for jumbo buffers!"
239The driver failed to allocate memory for jumbo frames during
240initialization.
241.It "sk%d: watchdog timeout"
242The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with
243the network connection (cable).
244.El
245.Sh SEE ALSO
246.Xr ifmedia 4 ,
247.Xr intro 4 ,
248.Xr netintro 4 ,
249.Xr pci 4 ,
250.Xr ifconfig.if 5 ,
251.Xr ifconfig 8
252.Rs
253.%T XaQti XMAC II datasheet
254.%U http://www.xaqti.com
255.Re
256.Rs
257.%T SysKonnect GEnesis programming manual
258.%U http://www.syskonnect.com
259.Re
260.Sh HISTORY
261The
262.Nm
263device driver first appeared in
264.Fx 3.0 .
265.Ox
266support was added in
267.Ox 2.6 .
268.Nx
269support was added in
270.Nx 2.0 .
271.Pp
272The
273.Nm msk
274driver first appeared in
275.Ox 4.0 ,
276and was ported to
277.Nx 4.0 .
278.Sh AUTHORS
279.An -nosplit
280The
281.Nm
282driver was written by
283.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu .
284Support for the Marvell Yukon-2 was added by
285.An Mark Kettenis Aq Mt kettenis@openbsd.org .
286.Sh BUGS
287Support for checksum offload is unimplemented.
288Particularly for Yukon-II hardware, there are multiple different
289receive and transmit offload silicon bugs which have to be worked
290around in software when using hardware offloading.
291For this reason, support for hardware offloading
292is not very desirable for these controllers, and unlikely to be
293ever implemented.
294.Pp
295Performance with at least some Marvell-based adapters is poor,
296especially on loaded PCI buses or when the adapters are behind
297PCI-PCI bridges.
298It is believed that this is because the Marvell parts have
299significantly less buffering than the original SysKonnect cards
300had.
301