dwxe(4)

dwxe4

Allwinner emac 10/100/1gb ethernet device

Usage

dwxe* at fdt? rgephy* at mii?

Overview

The dwxe driver provides support for various Ethernet controllers based on the Allwinner EMAC. These controllers are found on the Allwinner A64/H3/H5/H6/H616 SoCs.

The dwxe 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

19 releases since OpenBSD 6.3; the text changed 3 times.

  1. 6.3–6.9
  2. 7.0
  3. 7.1–7.5
  4. 7.6–8.0

History

OpenBSD support for dwxe first appeared in OpenBSD 6.2.

Authors

The dwxe driver was written by 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.