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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-06 17:22:09 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-06 17:22:09 -0800
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parent9f42f126154786e6e76df513004800c8c633f020 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1958 commits) net: pack skb_shared_info more efficiently net_sched: red: split red_parms into parms and vars net_sched: sfq: extend limits cnic: Improve error recovery on bnx2x devices cnic: Re-init dev->stats_addr after chip reset net_sched: Bug in netem reordering bna: fix sparse warnings/errors bna: make ethtool_ops and strings const xgmac: cleanups net: make ethtool_ops const vmxnet3" make ethtool ops const xen-netback: make ops structs const virtio_net: Pass gfp flags when allocating rx buffers. ixgbe: FCoE: Add support for ndo_get_fcoe_hbainfo() call netdev: FCoE: Add new ndo_get_fcoe_hbainfo() call igb: reset PHY after recovering from PHY power down igb: add basic runtime PM support igb: Add support for byte queue limits. e1000: cleanup CE4100 MDIO registers access e1000: unmap ce4100_gbe_mdio_base_virt in e1000_remove ...
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@@ -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