SF(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual SF(4)
NAME
sf - Adaptec AIC-6915 Starfire PCI 10/100 Ethernet device
SYNOPSIS
sf* at pci?
sqphy* at mii?
DESCRIPTION
The sf driver provides support for Adaptec Duralink Fast Ethernet
adapters based on the Adaptec AIC-6915 "Starfire" chipset. This includes
the following:
o ANA-62011 64-bit single port 10/100baseTX
o ANA-62022 64-bit dual port 10/100baseTX
o ANA-62044 64-bit quad port 10/100baseTX
o ANA-69011 32-bit single port 10/100baseTX
o ANA-62020 64-bit single port 100baseFX
The AIC-6915 is a bus master controller with an MII interface. It
supports high and low priority transmit and receive queues, TCP/IP
checksum offload, multiple DMA descriptor formats and both polling and
producer/consumer DMA models. The AIC-6915 receive filtering options
include a 16 entry perfect filter, a 512-bit hash table for multicast
addresses, a 512-bit hash table for priority address matching and VLAN
filtering. An external MII-compliant transceiver is required for media
interfacing.
Multiport adapters consist of several AIC-6915 controllers connected via
a PCI to PCI bridge. Each controller is treated as a separate interface
by the sf driver.
The sf 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 hostname.if(5) file.
10baseT Set 10Mbps operation. The mediaopt option can also be used
to select either full-duplex or half-duplex modes.
100baseTX Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation. The mediaopt option
can also be used to select either full-duplex or half-duplex
modes.
The sf 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).
SEE ALSO
arp(4), ifmedia(4), intro(4), netintro(4), pci(4), sqphy(4),
hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8)
The Adaptec AIC-6915 Programmer's Manual,
https://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides/aic6915_pg.pdf.
HISTORY
The sf device driver first appeared in OpenBSD 2.7.
AUTHORS
The sf driver was written by Jason R. Thorpe <
[email protected]> and
ported to OpenBSD by Martin Reindl <
[email protected]>.
BUGS
The sf driver does not support the IPv4/TCP/UDP checksum function of the
AIC-6915.
The sf driver does not support the VLAN function of the AIC-6915.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 February 18, 2022 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8