dwge(4)

dwge4

Synopsys designware gmac 10/100/1gb ethernet device

Usage

dwge* at fdt? rgephy* at mii?

Overview

The dwge driver provides support for various Ethernet controllers based on the Synopsys DesignWare GMAC core. These controllers are typically found on SoCs, such as the Allwinner A20/A31 and Rockchip RK3288/RK3399 ARM SoCs.

The dwge driver supports several media types, which are selected via the ifconfig(8) command. The supported media types are:

media autoselect

Attempt to autoselect the media type (default)

media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex

Use 1000baseT on copper, full duplex

media 1000baseT mediaopt half-duplex

Use 1000baseT on copper, half duplex

media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex

Use 100baseTX, full duplex

media 100baseTX mediaopt half-duplex

Use 100baseTX, half duplex

Releases

21 releases since OpenBSD 6.1; the text changed 5 times.

  1. 6.1
  2. 6.2–6.5
  3. 6.6–6.9
  4. 7.0
  5. 7.1–7.3
  6. 7.4–8.0

History

The dwge driver first appeared in NetBSD 7.0. It was ported to OpenBSD 6.1 and rewritten for OpenBSD 6.6.

Authors

The dwge driver was written by Matt Thomas and Martin Husemann for NetBSD and rewritten by Mark Kettenis ⟨[email protected]⟩ and Patrick Wildt ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.