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authorGiuseppe CAVALLARO <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>2011-12-21 03:58:20 +0000
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
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