felix(4)

felix4

Driver for microchip ocelot felix switch

Usage

To compile this driver into the kernel the following lines must be present in the kernel configuration file:

options SOC_NXP_LS device pci device fdt device mdio device enetc device etherswitch device felix

Overview

The felix driver provides a management interface to Microchip Ocelot Felix switch (VSC9959) found in NXP LS1028A SoC. It is a PCI device, part of the larger ENETC root complex. The driver is using etherswitch(4) framework.

This driver supports only dot1q vlan. dot1q support port base addtag, striptag, dropuntagged, dropuntagged.

Examples

Configure dot1q vlan by etherswitchcfg command.

# etherswitchcfg config vlan_mode dot1q

Configure port 5 is tagging port.

# etherswitchcfg port5 addtag

Disable port 5 is tagging port.

# etherswitchcfg port5 -addtag

Releases

9 releases since FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE; the text changed 2 times.

  1. 14.0–14.4
  2. 14.5–15.1
  3. 16.0

History

The felix device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 14.0.

Authors

The felix driver was written by Kornel Duleba ⟨[email protected]⟩ and Lukasz Hajec ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.