igb: PCI-Express 82575 Gigabit Ethernet driver

We are pleased to announce a new Gigabit Ethernet product and its
driver to the linux community. This product is the Intel(R) 82575
Gigabit Ethernet adapter family. Physical adapters will be available
to the public soon. These adapters come in 2- and 4-port versions
(copper PHY) currently. Other variants will be available later.

The 82575 chipset supports significantly different features that
warrant a new driver. The descriptor format is (just like the
ixgbe driver) different. The device can use multiple MSI-X vectors
and multiple queues for both send and receive. This allows us to
optimize some of the driver code specifically as well compared to
the e1000-supported devices.

This version of the igb driver no lnger uses fake netdevices and
incorporates napi_struct members for each ring to do the multi-
queue polling. multi-queue is enabled by default and the driver
supports NAPI mode only.

All the namespace collisions should be gone in this version too. The
register macro's have been condensed to improve readability.

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig
index f87d9ff3311a..af40ff434def 100644
--- a/drivers/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig
@@ -2019,6 +2019,28 @@ config IP1000
           To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
           will be called ipg.  This is recommended.
 
+config IGB
+       tristate "Intel(R) 82575 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support"
+       depends on PCI
+       ---help---
+         This driver supports Intel(R) 82575 gigabit ethernet family of
+         adapters.  For more information on how to identify your adapter, go
+         to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at:
+
+         <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm>
+
+         For general information and support, go to the Intel support
+         website at:
+
+         <http://support.intel.com>
+
+         More specific information on configuring the driver is in
+         <file:Documentation/networking/e1000.txt>.
+
+         To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read
+         <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>.  The module
+         will be called igb.
+
 source "drivers/net/ixp2000/Kconfig"
 
 config MYRI_SBUS