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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/overview.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst | 16 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/overview.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/overview.rst index d638b5a8aadd..199647729251 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/overview.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/overview.rst @@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ PHY and allows physical transmission and reception of Ethernet frames. IRQ config, enable, reset DPNI (Datapath Network Interface) +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contains TX/RX queues, network interface configuration, and RX buffer pool configuration mechanisms. The TX/RX queues are in memory and are identified by queue number. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst index f1d5233e5e51..0a233b17c664 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst @@ -440,6 +440,22 @@ NOTE: For 82599-based network connections, if you are enabling jumbo frames in a virtual function (VF), jumbo frames must first be enabled in the physical function (PF). The VF MTU setting cannot be larger than the PF MTU. +NBASE-T Support +--------------- +The ixgbe driver supports NBASE-T on some devices. However, the advertisement +of NBASE-T speeds is suppressed by default, to accommodate broken network +switches which cannot cope with advertised NBASE-T speeds. Use the ethtool +command to enable advertising NBASE-T speeds on devices which support it:: + + ethtool -s eth? advertise 0x1800000001028 + +On Linux systems with INTERFACES(5), this can be specified as a pre-up command +in /etc/network/interfaces so that the interface is always brought up with +NBASE-T support, e.g.:: + + iface eth? inet dhcp + pre-up ethtool -s eth? advertise 0x1800000001028 || true + Generic Receive Offload, aka GRO -------------------------------- The driver supports the in-kernel software implementation of GRO. GRO has |