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authorGiuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>2011-12-20 22:58:20 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-12-21 15:44:34 -0500
commit5b9932685fa40088e989be0d56f7e41e362e9450 (patch)
tree392181a13ff6fdef6890d62cf43d06ecbca50a07
parentbfab27a146ed4d722c6d399f844f955f29cd2b81 (diff)
stmmac: update the driver's documentation (Dec-2011)
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
index 8d67980fabe8..d0aeeadd264b 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt
@@ -4,14 +4,16 @@ Copyright (C) 2007-2010 STMicroelectronics Ltd
4Author: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com> 4Author: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
5 5
6This is the driver for the MAC 10/100/1000 on-chip Ethernet controllers 6This is the driver for the MAC 10/100/1000 on-chip Ethernet controllers
7(Synopsys IP blocks); it has been fully tested on STLinux platforms. 7(Synopsys IP blocks).
8 8
9Currently this network device driver is for all STM embedded MAC/GMAC 9Currently this network device driver is for all STM embedded MAC/GMAC
10(i.e. 7xxx/5xxx SoCs) and it's known working on other platforms i.e. ARM SPEAr. 10(i.e. 7xxx/5xxx SoCs), SPEAr (arm), Loongson1B (mips) and XLINX XC2V3000
11FF1152AMT0221 D1215994A VIRTEX FPGA board.
11 12
12DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a and DWC Ether MAC 10/100 13DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.60a (and older) and DWC Ether MAC 10/100
13Universal version 4.0 have been used for developing the first code 14Universal version 4.0 have been used for developing this driver.
14implementation. 15
16This driver supports both the platform bus and PCI.
15 17
16Please, for more information also visit: www.stlinux.com 18Please, for more information also visit: www.stlinux.com
17 19
@@ -277,5 +279,5 @@ In fact, these can generate an huge amount of debug messages.
277 279
2786) TODO: 2806) TODO:
279 o XGMAC is not supported. 281 o XGMAC is not supported.
280 o Review the timer optimisation code to use an embedded device that will be 282 o Add the EEE - Energy Efficient Ethernet
281 available in new chip generations. 283 o Add the PTP - precision time protocol