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| author | Giuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> | 2011-12-21 03:58:20 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-12-21 15:44:34 -0500 |
| commit | 5b9932685fa40088e989be0d56f7e41e362e9450 (patch) | |
| tree | 392181a13ff6fdef6890d62cf43d06ecbca50a07 /Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt | |
| parent | bfab27a146ed4d722c6d399f844f955f29cd2b81 (diff) | |
stmmac: update the driver's documentation (Dec-2011)
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt index 8d67980fabe..d0aeeadd264 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt @@ -4,14 +4,16 @@ Copyright (C) 2007-2010 STMicroelectronics Ltd Author: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> This is the driver for the MAC 10/100/1000 on-chip Ethernet controllers -(Synopsys IP blocks); it has been fully tested on STLinux platforms. +(Synopsys IP blocks). Currently this network device driver is for all STM embedded MAC/GMAC -(i.e. 7xxx/5xxx SoCs) and it's known working on other platforms i.e. ARM SPEAr. +(i.e. 7xxx/5xxx SoCs), SPEAr (arm), Loongson1B (mips) and XLINX XC2V3000 +FF1152AMT0221 D1215994A VIRTEX FPGA board. -DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a and DWC Ether MAC 10/100 -Universal version 4.0 have been used for developing the first code -implementation. +DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.60a (and older) and DWC Ether MAC 10/100 +Universal version 4.0 have been used for developing this driver. + +This driver supports both the platform bus and PCI. Please, for more information also visit: www.stlinux.com @@ -277,5 +279,5 @@ In fact, these can generate an huge amount of debug messages. 6) TODO: o XGMAC is not supported. - o Review the timer optimisation code to use an embedded device that will be - available in new chip generations. + o Add the EEE - Energy Efficient Ethernet + o Add the PTP - precision time protocol |