LLAN(4)

💅 LLAN(4) — the powerpc Kernel Interfaces Manual, bestie edition 🦋

okay so this is the manpage for llan, aka the POWER Logical Lan driver, and it lives in the powerpc section of the kernel interfaces manual. yes we're in kernel-land today, put your seatbelt on 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

llan — POWER Logical Lan, the driver that's literally the moment 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so if you want this driver compiled into your kernel (iykyk), you drop these lines into your kernel configuration file:

device llan

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. one line and you're iconic 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so real talk: the llan driver provides support for the inter-partition logical LAN controller — say that five times fast 😭 — and that controller is provided by PAPR-compliant POWER hypervisors (think PowerVM and PowerKVM, the big names).

and here's the tea ☕: on some firmwares, advanced offload features are supported by the hypervisor… but those are not currently supported by the driver. so close yet so far, bestie 💀 don't go expecting them, fr fr.

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• vtnet(4)
• ifconfig(8)

go read those too, they're giving main character energy 🌈

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

the llan device driver appeared in FreeBSD 10.0 — a whole era, honestly. vintage. iconic. periodt 💜

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

the llan driver was written by Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@FreeBSD.org> — thank you for your service, king 🫶

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and that's the whole page!! this beauty is from the Debian crew, dated February 19, 2015 — so when you see LLAN(4) down in the footer, that's just the version-and-date tag saying hi 💖✨ see you in the group chat, bestie 🧚💅