Commit 5b993268 authored by Giuseppe CAVALLARO's avatar Giuseppe CAVALLARO Committed by David S. Miller

stmmac: update the driver's documentation (Dec-2011)

Signed-off-by: default avatarGiuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent bfab27a1
...@@ -4,14 +4,16 @@ Copyright (C) 2007-2010 STMicroelectronics Ltd ...@@ -4,14 +4,16 @@ Copyright (C) 2007-2010 STMicroelectronics Ltd
Author: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Author: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
This is the driver for the MAC 10/100/1000 on-chip Ethernet controllers 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 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 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 the first code Universal version 4.0 have been used for developing this driver.
implementation.
This driver supports both the platform bus and PCI.
Please, for more information also visit: www.stlinux.com Please, for more information also visit: www.stlinux.com
...@@ -277,5 +279,5 @@ In fact, these can generate an huge amount of debug messages. ...@@ -277,5 +279,5 @@ In fact, these can generate an huge amount of debug messages.
6) TODO: 6) TODO:
o XGMAC is not supported. o XGMAC is not supported.
o Review the timer optimisation code to use an embedded device that will be o Add the EEE - Energy Efficient Ethernet
available in new chip generations. o Add the PTP - precision time protocol
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