git: 4ecb23602e03 - stable/13 - rtw88: update man page for loader tunable for >4GB of main memory
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Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 16:43:15 UTC
The branch stable/13 has been updated by bz:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=4ecb23602e03ed3aa0f65ea3935347430f24b04c
commit 4ecb23602e03ed3aa0f65ea3935347430f24b04c
Author: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-05-05 21:17:40 +0000
Commit: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2022-06-03 15:51:52 +0000
rtw88: update man page for loader tunable for >4GB of main memory
Mention the loader tunable from 6a50157090f2d0c5ab8c570d9cf2e2e3535dbdbf
that needs to be set for system with more than 4GB of physical memory.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
(cherry picked from commit 0881eb9665dbfc8a53d9914a9dca1f0473ee1acb)
---
share/man/man4/rtw88.4 | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/share/man/man4/rtw88.4 b/share/man/man4/rtw88.4
index b34fbf96c5df..0ace002e4bde 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/rtw88.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/rtw88.4
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd March 31, 2022
+.Dd May 5, 2022
.Dt rtw88 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -78,11 +78,27 @@ While
supports all 802.11 a/b/g/n and ac
the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11 a/b/g modes.
Support for 802.11 n/ac is to come.
+.Sh LOADER TUNABLES
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Va compat.linuxkpi.skb.mem_limit
+If you are running a 64bit system with more than 4GB of main mmeory
+you need to set this tunable to
+.Sy 1
+in
+.Xr loader.conf 5
+and reboot once to make it effective.
+This tunable will work around a problem with DMA and limit allocations
+for network buffer memory to the lower 32bit of physical memory and
+make the driver work.
+.El
.Sh BUGS
Certainly.
.Pp
Does not seem to work (reliably) on machines with more than 4GB of
main memory.
+See in the
+.Sx LOADER TUNABLES
+section above.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr rtw88fw 4 ,
.Xr wlan 4 ,