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28.Dd February 19, 2015
29.Dt LLAN 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm llan
33.Nd POWER Logical Lan
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35To compile this driver into the kernel,
36place the following lines in your
37kernel configuration file:
38.Bd -ragged -offset indent
39.Cd "device llan"
40.Ed
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42The
43.Nm
44driver provides support for the inter-partition logical LAN controller
45provided by PAPR-compliant POWER hypervisors (such as PowerVM and PowerKVM).
46On some firmwares, advanced offload features are supported by the hypervisor,
47but these are not currently supported by the driver.
48.Sh SEE ALSO
49.Xr vtnet 4 ,
50.Xr ifconfig 8
51.Sh HISTORY
52The
53.Nm
54device driver appeared in
55.Fx 10.0.
56.Sh AUTHORS
57.An -nosplit
58The
59.Nm
60driver was written by
61.An Nathan Whitehorn Aq Mt nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org .
62