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Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 03:02:58 UTC
The branch releng/14.3 has been updated by ziaee:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=5dbcb9bfd02ceaedc942ed892488c0c770c213eb
commit 5dbcb9bfd02ceaedc942ed892488c0c770c213eb
Author: Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-05-12 01:37:17 +0000
Commit: Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-05-22 02:58:47 +0000
arswitch.4: Improve title and add HARDWARE
For visibility in apropos and inclusion in the hardware release notes.
MFC after: 3 days
Reviewed by: adrian (previous), mhorne
Approved by: mhorne (mentor)
Approved by: re (cperciva)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50322
(cherry picked from commit 9692d5e15e9bd7e628b06d655522477ce8c5b6fe)
(cherry picked from commit 1343a5b616ec4e11047c5024bb844e7275f84ddd)
---
share/man/man4/arswitch.4 | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/share/man/man4/arswitch.4 b/share/man/man4/arswitch.4
index 3ec7316ae6e7..5bcd6c6810ee 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/arswitch.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/arswitch.4
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd August 8, 2023
+.Dd May 11, 2025
.Dt ARSWITCH 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm arswitch
-.Nd driver for Atheros Fast Ethernet switch
+.Nd Atheros AR8000 series Ethernet switch driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device mdio"
.Cd "device etherswitch"
@@ -35,18 +35,8 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-device driver provides a management interface to multiple Atheros
-fast ethernet switch chips:
-.Bl -tag -compact -width "AR8216"
-.It AR8216
-Fast Ethernet Switch
-.It AR8226
-.It AR8316
-Six-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
-.It AR8327
-Seven-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
-.El
-.Pp
+driver provides a management interface to Atheros AR8000 series Ethernet
+switch controllers.
The driver uses an
.Xr mdio 4
or
@@ -70,6 +60,23 @@ and
are mutually exclusive.
.Pp
Setting the switch MAC address is not supported.
+.Sh HARDWARE
+The
+.Nm
+driver supports the following Ethernet switch controllers:
+.Pp
+.Bl -bullet -compact
+.It
+Atheros AR8327 Seven-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
+.It
+Atheros AR8316 Six-port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
+.It
+Atheros AR8236 Six-port Fast Ethernet Switch
+.It
+Atheros AR8226 Six-port Fast Ethernet Switch
+.It
+Atheros AR8216 Six-port Fast Ethernet Switch
+.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr etherswitch 4 ,
.Xr etherswitchcfg 8