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       Broadcom Management Application Programming Interface
                       for RedHat Linux
                        Version 3.0.9

              Copyright (c) 2002 Broadcom Corporation
                       All rights reserved.
                          Nov. 1, 2002


Table of Contents
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    1.  Overview
    2.  Limitation
    3.  Installation
    4.  Files
    5.  Uninstall - RPM package
    6.  Known Problems
    7.  Logs


1. Overview
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BMAPI is a share library that provides vrious management APIs for
ethernet network controllers. BMAPI also provides many advance
features to manage and configure Broadcom made 570x based gigabit
ethernet controllers.




2. Limitation
-------------

BMAPI supports Red Hat 7.3 for i386 architecture. Application should
define symbol 'LINUX' before include 'bcmtype.h' and 'BMAPI.h'.
Currently, BMAPI for Linux implements only part of BMAPI APIs.



3. Installation
---------------
To install the RPM package, run

    % rpm -i bmapilnx-{version}.{arch}.rpm



4. Files
--------

    libbmapi.so.{version}   BMAPI share library
    bcmtype.h               commonly use type header file for BMAPI
    BMAPI.h                 BMAPI header file
    release.txt             this file



5. Uninstall - RPM package
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To uninstall RPM package, 

    % rpm -e bmapilnx



6. Known Problems
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7. Logs
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v3.0.9
- Support 'ui_number' field.

v3.0.8
- Support ASF on 5705.

v3.0.7
- Fix ClearQuest:
  5616: BMAPI get system asf table doesnt work.

v3.0.6
- Require driver v4.0.1 or later.
- Support ASF SNMP community name.
ATTENTION: Support 5700, 5701, 5702 and 5703 based adapters ONLY.

v2.2.25
- Require driver v3.0.11 or later.
- Support 'dhcp_enabled' attribute.
- Support 'default_gateway' attribute.
- BmapiSetASFTable() will generate chip reset to make changes take
  effect immediately.

v2.2.24
- Fix ClearQuest:
  5043: ASF status (in BM_ASF_CFG struc) is mismatched when compared
  between DOS diag and bmapilnx.
- Release version for 'man page' remains the same.

v2.2.23
- Add man pages for APIs support on Linux platform.

v2.2.22
- First release for Linux. Support Redhat Linux 7.3 on i386
  architecture.
- Require Broadcom miniport driver for Linux (module name bcm5700)
  version 3.0.6 or later.
