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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/tulip-user.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/tulip-user.tmpl new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6520d7a1b132 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/tulip-user.tmpl @@ -0,0 +1,327 @@ +<?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> |
