Commit dc67e91e authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab Committed by David S. Miller

docs: networking: device drivers: convert freescale/gianfar.txt to ReST

- add SPDX header;
- adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups;
- use :field: markup;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 0d0d976f
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
===========================
The Gianfar Ethernet Driver The Gianfar Ethernet Driver
===========================
Author: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> :Author: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Updated: 2005-07-28 :Updated: 2005-07-28
CHECKSUM OFFLOADING Checksum Offloading
===================
The eTSEC controller (first included in parts from late 2005 like The eTSEC controller (first included in parts from late 2005 like
the 8548) has the ability to perform TCP, UDP, and IP checksums the 8548) has the ability to perform TCP, UDP, and IP checksums
...@@ -15,13 +20,15 @@ packets. Use ethtool to enable or disable this feature for RX ...@@ -15,13 +20,15 @@ packets. Use ethtool to enable or disable this feature for RX
and TX. and TX.
VLAN VLAN
====
In order to use VLAN, please consult Linux documentation on In order to use VLAN, please consult Linux documentation on
configuring VLANs. The gianfar driver supports hardware insertion and configuring VLANs. The gianfar driver supports hardware insertion and
extraction of VLAN headers, but not filtering. Filtering will be extraction of VLAN headers, but not filtering. Filtering will be
done by the kernel. done by the kernel.
MULTICASTING Multicasting
============
The gianfar driver supports using the group hash table on the The gianfar driver supports using the group hash table on the
TSEC (and the extended hash table on the eTSEC) for multicast TSEC (and the extended hash table on the eTSEC) for multicast
...@@ -29,13 +36,15 @@ filtering. On the eTSEC, the exact-match MAC registers are used ...@@ -29,13 +36,15 @@ filtering. On the eTSEC, the exact-match MAC registers are used
before the hash tables. See Linux documentation on how to join before the hash tables. See Linux documentation on how to join
multicast groups. multicast groups.
PADDING Padding
=======
The gianfar driver supports padding received frames with 2 bytes The gianfar driver supports padding received frames with 2 bytes
to align the IP header to a 16-byte boundary, when supported by to align the IP header to a 16-byte boundary, when supported by
hardware. hardware.
ETHTOOL Ethtool
=======
The gianfar driver supports the use of ethtool for many The gianfar driver supports the use of ethtool for many
configuration options. You must run ethtool only on currently configuration options. You must run ethtool only on currently
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...@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Contents: ...@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Contents:
dec/dmfe dec/dmfe
dlink/dl2k dlink/dl2k
freescale/dpaa freescale/dpaa
freescale/gianfar
.. only:: subproject and html .. only:: subproject and html
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