VTE(4)

VTE(4) | Kernel Interfaces Manual | VTE(4)

# NAME

vte — Vortex86 RDC R6040 Fast Ethernet driver

# SYNOPSIS

vte* at pci? dev ? function ?

Configuration of PHYs is necessary. See rdcphy(4).

# DESCRIPTION

The vte device driver provides support for RDC R6040 Fast Ethernet controller which is commonly found on Vortex86 System On a Chip (SoC).

The RDC R6040 has integrated 10/100 PHY for 10/100Mbps support in full or half-duplex. The controller supports interrupt moderation mechanism, a 64-bit multicast hash filter, VLAN over-size frame and four station addresses. The vte device driver uses three station addresses out of four as perfect multicast filter.

# SYSCTL VARIABLES

The following variables are available

hw.vte.vte<x>.int_rxct
  Maximum number of packets to fire RX completion interrupt. The accepted range is 0 (disable interrupt moderation) to 15, the default is 0.
hw.vte.vte<x>.int_txct
  Maximum number of packets to fire TX completion interrupt. The accepted range is 0 (disable interrupt moderation) to 15, the default is 0.

# SEE ALSO

ifmedia(4), mii(4), netintro(4), vlan(4), ifconfig(8)

DM&P Electronics Inc. Vortex86, http://www.dmp.com.tw.

# HISTORY

The vte driver was written for FreeBSD by Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@FreeBSD.org> and ported to NetBSD by Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@NetBSD.org>. The vte device driver first appeared in NetBSD 6.0.

January 23, 2011 | NetBSD 7.0