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authorDavid Gwynne <dlg@cvs.openbsd.org>2019-04-17 02:45:03 +0000
committerDavid Gwynne <dlg@cvs.openbsd.org>2019-04-17 02:45:03 +0000
commitad831c782e959a483a90a8cb75b252bbd0910432 (patch)
tree14706b0de0525d2d05c54667d51b775430b174b4 /share
parent18ebdfe8d4e86b35f706920b5eb63704075a3fd5 (diff)
myx can't reconfigure xfp/sfp/sfp+ modules
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/myx.413
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/myx.4 b/share/man/man4/myx.4
index f38dc8a22bb..e893dbdf9b0 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/myx.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/myx.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: myx.4,v 1.5 2013/07/16 16:05:49 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: myx.4,v 1.6 2019/04/17 02:45:02 dlg Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 16 2013 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 17 2019 $
.Dt MYX 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -73,3 +73,12 @@ The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Reyk Floeter Aq Mt reyk@openbsd.org .
+.Sh CAVEATS
+While the firmware supports reading module information for
+.Xr ifconfig 8
+.Cm transceiver
+to use, it does not support writing to the module.
+This prevents configuration of the module, which may prevent
+.Xr ifconfig 8
+from reading the right data from the module where other network
+cards succeed.