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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/tulip-user.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/tulip-user.tmpl deleted file mode 100644 index 6520d7a..0000000 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/tulip-user.tmpl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,327 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> -<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" - "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []> - -<book id="TulipUserGuide"> - <bookinfo> - <title>Tulip Driver User's Guide</title> - - <authorgroup> - <author> - <firstname>Jeff</firstname> - <surname>Garzik</surname> - <affiliation> - <address> - <email>jgarzik@pobox.com</email> - </address> - </affiliation> - </author> - </authorgroup> - - <copyright> - <year>2001</year> - <holder>Jeff Garzik</holder> - </copyright> - - <legalnotice> - <para> - This documentation is free software; you can redistribute - it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public - License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either - version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later - version. - </para> - - <para> - This program is distributed in the hope that it will be - useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied - warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. - See the GNU General Public License for more details. - </para> - - <para> - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public - License along with this program; if not, write to the Free - Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, - MA 02111-1307 USA - </para> - - <para> - For more details see the file COPYING in the source - distribution of Linux. - </para> - </legalnotice> - </bookinfo> - - <toc></toc> - - <chapter id="intro"> - <title>Introduction</title> -<para> -The Tulip Ethernet Card Driver -is maintained by Jeff Garzik (<email>jgarzik@pobox.com</email>). -</para> - -<para> -The Tulip driver was developed by Donald Becker and changed by -Jeff Garzik, Takashi Manabe and a cast of thousands. -</para> - -<para> -For 2.4.x and later kernels, the Linux Tulip driver is available at -<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tulip/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/tulip/</ulink> -</para> - -<para> - This driver is for the Digital "Tulip" Ethernet adapter interface. - It should work with most DEC 21*4*-based chips/ethercards, as well as - with work-alike chips from Lite-On (PNIC) and Macronix (MXIC) and ASIX. -</para> - -<para> - The original author may be reached as becker@scyld.com, or C/O - Scyld Computing Corporation, - 410 Severn Ave., Suite 210, - Annapolis MD 21403 -</para> - -<para> - Additional information on Donald Becker's tulip.c - is available at <ulink url="http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html">http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html</ulink> -</para> - - </chapter> - - <chapter id="drvr-compat"> - <title>Driver Compatibility</title> - -<para> -This device driver is designed for the DECchip "Tulip", Digital's -single-chip ethernet controllers for PCI (now owned by Intel). -Supported members of the family -are the 21040, 21041, 21140, 21140A, 21142, and 21143. Similar work-alike -chips from Lite-On, Macronics, ASIX, Compex and other listed below are also -supported. -</para> - -<para> -These chips are used on at least 140 unique PCI board designs. The great -number of chips and board designs supported is the reason for the -driver size and complexity. Almost of the increasing complexity is in the -board configuration and media selection code. There is very little -increasing in the operational critical path length. -</para> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="board-settings"> - <title>Board-specific Settings</title> - -<para> -PCI bus devices are configured by the system at boot time, so no jumpers -need to be set on the board. The system BIOS preferably should assign the -PCI INTA signal to an otherwise unused system IRQ line. -</para> - -<para> -Some boards have EEPROMs tables with default media entry. The factory default -is usually "autoselect". This should only be overridden when using -transceiver connections without link beat e.g. 10base2 or AUI, or (rarely!) -for forcing full-duplex when used with old link partners that do not do -autonegotiation. -</para> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="driver-operation"> - <title>Driver Operation</title> - -<sect1><title>Ring buffers</title> - -<para> -The Tulip can use either ring buffers or lists of Tx and Rx descriptors. -This driver uses statically allocated rings of Rx and Tx descriptors, set at -compile time by RX/TX_RING_SIZE. This version of the driver allocates skbuffs -for the Rx ring buffers at open() time and passes the skb->data field to the -Tulip as receive data buffers. When an incoming frame is less than -RX_COPYBREAK bytes long, a fresh skbuff is allocated and the frame is -copied to the new skbuff. When the incoming frame is larger, the skbuff is -passed directly up the protocol stack and replaced by a newly allocated -skbuff. -</para> - -<para> -The RX_COPYBREAK value is chosen to trade-off the memory wasted by -using a full-sized skbuff for small frames vs. the copying costs of larger -frames. For small frames the copying cost is negligible (esp. considering -that we are pre-loading the cache with immediately useful header -information). For large frames the copying cost is non-trivial, and the -larger copy might flush the cache of useful data. A subtle aspect of this -choice is that the Tulip only receives into longword aligned buffers, thus -the IP header at offset 14 isn't longword aligned for further processing. -Copied frames are put into the new skbuff at an offset of "+2", thus copying -has the beneficial effect of aligning the IP header and preloading the -cache. -</para> - -</sect1> - -<sect1><title>Synchronization</title> -<para> -The driver runs as two independent, single-threaded flows of control. One -is the send-packet routine, which enforces single-threaded use by the -dev->tbusy flag. The other thread is the interrupt handler, which is single -threaded by the hardware and other software. -</para> - -<para> -The send packet thread has partial control over the Tx ring and 'dev->tbusy' -flag. It sets the tbusy flag whenever it's queuing a Tx packet. If the next -queue slot is empty, it clears the tbusy flag when finished otherwise it sets -the 'tp->tx_full' flag. -</para> - -<para> -The interrupt handler has exclusive control over the Rx ring and records stats -from the Tx ring. (The Tx-done interrupt can't be selectively turned off, so -we can't avoid the interrupt overhead by having the Tx routine reap the Tx -stats.) After reaping the stats, it marks the queue entry as empty by setting -the 'base' to zero. Iff the 'tp->tx_full' flag is set, it clears both the -tx_full and tbusy flags. -</para> - -</sect1> - - </chapter> - - <chapter id="errata"> - <title>Errata</title> - -<para> -The old DEC databooks were light on details. -The 21040 databook claims that CSR13, CSR14, and CSR15 should each be the last -register of the set CSR12-15 written. Hmmm, now how is that possible? -</para> - -<para> -The DEC SROM format is very badly designed not precisely defined, leading to -part of the media selection junkheap below. Some boards do not have EEPROM -media tables and need to be patched up. Worse, other boards use the DEC -design kit media table when it isn't correct for their board. -</para> - -<para> -We cannot use MII interrupts because there is no defined GPIO pin to attach -them. The MII transceiver status is polled using an kernel timer. -</para> - </chapter> - - <chapter id="changelog"> - <title>Driver Change History</title> - - <sect1><title>Version 0.9.14 (February 20, 2001)</title> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Fix PNIC problems (Manfred Spraul)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Add new PCI id for Accton comet</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Support Davicom tulips</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Fix oops in eeprom parsing</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Enable workarounds for early PCI chipsets</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>IA64, hppa csr0 support</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Support media types 5, 6</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Interpret a bit more of the 21142 SROM extended media type 3</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Add missing delay in eeprom reading</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </sect1> - - <sect1><title>Version 0.9.11 (November 3, 2000)</title> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Eliminate extra bus accesses when sharing interrupts (prumpf)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Barrier following ownership descriptor bit flip (prumpf)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Endianness fixes for >14 addresses in setup frames (prumpf)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Report link beat to kernel/userspace via netif_carrier_*. (kuznet)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Better spinlocking in set_rx_mode.</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Fix I/O resource request failure error messages (DaveM catch)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Handle DMA allocation failure.</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </sect1> - - <sect1><title>Version 0.9.10 (September 6, 2000)</title> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Simple interrupt mitigation (via jamal)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>More PCI ids</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </sect1> - - <sect1><title>Version 0.9.9 (August 11, 2000)</title> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>More PCI ids</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </sect1> - - <sect1><title>Version 0.9.8 (July 13, 2000)</title> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Correct signed/unsigned comparison for dummy frame index</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Remove outdated references to struct enet_statistics</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </sect1> - - <sect1><title>Version 0.9.7 (June 17, 2000)</title> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Timer cleanups (Andrew Morton)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Alpha compile fix (somebody?)</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </sect1> - - <sect1><title>Version 0.9.6 (May 31, 2000)</title> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Revert 21143-related support flag patch</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Add HPPA/media-table debugging printk</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </sect1> - - <sect1><title>Version 0.9.5 (May 30, 2000)</title> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>HPPA support (willy@puffingroup)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>CSR6 bits and tulip.h cleanup (Chris Smith)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Improve debugging messages a bit</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Add delay after CSR13 write in t21142_start_nway</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Remove unused ETHER_STATS code</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Convert 'extern inline' to 'static inline' in tulip.h (Chris Smith)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Update DS21143 support flags in tulip_chip_info[]</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Use spin_lock_irq, not _irqsave/restore, in tulip_start_xmit()</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Add locking to set_rx_mode()</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Fix race with chip setting DescOwned bit (Hal Murray)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Request 100% of PIO and MMIO resource space assigned to card</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Remove error message from pci_enable_device failure</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </sect1> - - <sect1><title>Version 0.9.4.3 (April 14, 2000)</title> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>mod_timer fix (Hal Murray)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>PNIC2 resuscitation (Chris Smith)</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </sect1> - - <sect1><title>Version 0.9.4.2 (March 21, 2000)</title> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Fix 21041 CSR7, CSR13/14/15 handling</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Merge some PCI ids from tulip 0.91x</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Merge some HAS_xxx flags and flag settings from tulip 0.91x</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>asm/io.h fix (submitted by many) and cleanup</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>s/HAS_NWAY143/HAS_NWAY/</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Cleanup 21041 mode reporting</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Small code cleanups</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </sect1> - - <sect1><title>Version 0.9.4.1 (March 18, 2000)</title> - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>Finish PCI DMA conversion (davem)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Do not netif_start_queue() at end of tulip_tx_timeout() (kuznet)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>PCI DMA fix (kuznet)</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>eeprom.c code cleanup</para></listitem> - <listitem><para>Remove Xircom Tulip crud</para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </sect1> - </chapter> - -</book> |