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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt44
2 files changed, 41 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/can.txt b/Documentation/networking/can.txt
index ac295399f0d4..a06741898f29 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/can.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/can.txt
@@ -232,16 +232,16 @@ solution for a couple of reasons:
arbitration problems and error frames caused by the different
ECUs. The occurrence of detected errors are important for diagnosis
and have to be logged together with the exact timestamp. For this
- reason the CAN interface driver can generate so called Error Frames
- that can optionally be passed to the user application in the same
- way as other CAN frames. Whenever an error on the physical layer
+ reason the CAN interface driver can generate so called Error Message
+ Frames that can optionally be passed to the user application in the
+ same way as other CAN frames. Whenever an error on the physical layer
or the MAC layer is detected (e.g. by the CAN controller) the driver
- creates an appropriate error frame. Error frames can be requested by
- the user application using the common CAN filter mechanisms. Inside
- this filter definition the (interested) type of errors may be
- selected. The reception of error frames is disabled by default.
- The format of the CAN error frame is briefly described in the Linux
- header file "include/linux/can/error.h".
+ creates an appropriate error message frame. Error messages frames can
+ be requested by the user application using the common CAN filter
+ mechanisms. Inside this filter definition the (interested) type of
+ errors may be selected. The reception of error messages is disabled
+ by default. The format of the CAN error message frame is briefly
+ described in the Linux header file "include/linux/can/error.h".
4. How to use Socket CAN
------------------------
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ solution for a couple of reasons:
defaults are set at RAW socket binding time:
- The filters are set to exactly one filter receiving everything
- - The socket only receives valid data frames (=> no error frames)
+ - The socket only receives valid data frames (=> no error message frames)
- The loopback of sent CAN frames is enabled (see chapter 3.2)
- The socket does not receive its own sent frames (in loopback mode)
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ solution for a couple of reasons:
4.1.2 RAW socket option CAN_RAW_ERR_FILTER
As described in chapter 3.4 the CAN interface driver can generate so
- called Error Frames that can optionally be passed to the user
+ called Error Message Frames that can optionally be passed to the user
application in the same way as other CAN frames. The possible
errors are divided into different error classes that may be filtered
using the appropriate error mask. To register for every possible
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ solution for a couple of reasons:
rcvlist_all - list for unfiltered entries (no filter operations)
rcvlist_eff - list for single extended frame (EFF) entries
- rcvlist_err - list for error frames masks
+ rcvlist_err - list for error message frames masks
rcvlist_fil - list for mask/value filters
rcvlist_inv - list for mask/value filters (inverse semantic)
rcvlist_sff - list for single standard frame (SFF) entries
@@ -784,13 +784,13 @@ solution for a couple of reasons:
$ ip link set canX type can restart-ms 100
Alternatively, the application may realize the "bus-off" condition
- by monitoring CAN error frames and do a restart when appropriate with
- the command:
+ by monitoring CAN error message frames and do a restart when
+ appropriate with the command:
$ ip link set canX type can restart
- Note that a restart will also create a CAN error frame (see also
- chapter 3.4).
+ Note that a restart will also create a CAN error message frame (see
+ also chapter 3.4).
6.6 Supported CAN hardware
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
index ab1e8d7004c5..5cb9a1972460 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Currently this network device driver is for all STM embedded MAC/GMAC
(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 3.60a (and older) and DWC Ether MAC 10/100
-Universal version 4.0 have been used for developing this driver.
+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.
@@ -54,27 +54,27 @@ net_device structure enabling the scatter/gather feature.
When one or more packets are received, an interrupt happens. The interrupts
are not queued so the driver has to scan all the descriptors in the ring during
the receive process.
-This is based on NAPI so the interrupt handler signals only if there is work to be
-done, and it exits.
+This is based on NAPI so the interrupt handler signals only if there is work
+to be done, and it exits.
Then the poll method will be scheduled at some future point.
The incoming packets are stored, by the DMA, in a list of pre-allocated socket
buffers in order to avoid the memcpy (Zero-copy).
4.3) Timer-Driver Interrupt
-Instead of having the device that asynchronously notifies the frame receptions, the
-driver configures a timer to generate an interrupt at regular intervals.
-Based on the granularity of the timer, the frames that are received by the device
-will experience different levels of latency. Some NICs have dedicated timer
-device to perform this task. STMMAC can use either the RTC device or the TMU
-channel 2 on STLinux platforms.
+Instead of having the device that asynchronously notifies the frame receptions,
+the driver configures a timer to generate an interrupt at regular intervals.
+Based on the granularity of the timer, the frames that are received by the
+device will experience different levels of latency. Some NICs have dedicated
+timer device to perform this task. STMMAC can use either the RTC device or the
+TMU channel 2 on STLinux platforms.
The timers frequency can be passed to the driver as parameter; when change it,
take care of both hardware capability and network stability/performance impact.
-Several performance tests on STM platforms showed this optimisation allows to spare
-the CPU while having the maximum throughput.
+Several performance tests on STM platforms showed this optimisation allows to
+spare the CPU while having the maximum throughput.
4.4) WOL
-Wake up on Lan feature through Magic and Unicast frames are supported for the GMAC
-core.
+Wake up on Lan feature through Magic and Unicast frames are supported for the
+GMAC core.
4.5) DMA descriptors
Driver handles both normal and enhanced descriptors. The latter has been only
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ Several driver's information can be passed through the platform
These are included in the include/linux/stmmac.h header file
and detailed below as well:
- struct plat_stmmacenet_data {
+struct plat_stmmacenet_data {
+ char *phy_bus_name;
int bus_id;
int phy_addr;
int interface;
@@ -124,19 +125,24 @@ and detailed below as well:
void (*bus_setup)(void __iomem *ioaddr);
int (*init)(struct platform_device *pdev);
void (*exit)(struct platform_device *pdev);
+ void *custom_cfg;
+ void *custom_data;
void *bsp_priv;
};
Where:
+ o phy_bus_name: phy bus name to attach to the stmmac.
o bus_id: bus identifier.
o phy_addr: the physical address can be passed from the platform.
If it is set to -1 the driver will automatically
detect it at run-time by probing all the 32 addresses.
o interface: PHY device's interface.
o mdio_bus_data: specific platform fields for the MDIO bus.
- o pbl: the Programmable Burst Length is maximum number of beats to
+ o dma_cfg: internal DMA parameters
+ o pbl: the Programmable Burst Length is maximum number of beats to
be transferred in one DMA transaction.
GMAC also enables the 4xPBL by default.
+ o fixed_burst/mixed_burst/burst_len
o clk_csr: fixed CSR Clock range selection.
o has_gmac: uses the GMAC core.
o enh_desc: if sets the MAC will use the enhanced descriptor structure.
@@ -160,8 +166,9 @@ Where:
this is sometime necessary on some platforms (e.g. ST boxes)
where the HW needs to have set some PIO lines or system cfg
registers.
- o custom_cfg: this is a custom configuration that can be passed while
- initialising the resources.
+ o custom_cfg/custom_data: this is a custom configuration that can be passed
+ while initialising the resources.
+ o bsp_priv: another private poiter.
For MDIO bus The we have:
@@ -180,7 +187,6 @@ Where:
o irqs: list of IRQs, one per PHY.
o probed_phy_irq: if irqs is NULL, use this for probed PHY.
-
For DMA engine we have the following internal fields that should be
tuned according to the HW capabilities.
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