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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/davicom/dm9000.txt b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/davicom/dm9000.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5552e2e575c5..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/davicom/dm9000.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,167 +0,0 @@ -DM9000 Network driver -===================== - -Copyright 2008 Simtec Electronics, - Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk> <ben-linux@fluff.org> - - -Introduction ------------- - -This file describes how to use the DM9000 platform-device based network driver -that is contained in the files drivers/net/dm9000.c and drivers/net/dm9000.h. - -The driver supports three DM9000 variants, the DM9000E which is the first chip -supported as well as the newer DM9000A and DM9000B devices. It is currently -maintained and tested by Ben Dooks, who should be CC: to any patches for this -driver. - - -Defining the platform device ----------------------------- - -The minimum set of resources attached to the platform device are as follows: - - 1) The physical address of the address register - 2) The physical address of the data register - 3) The IRQ line the device's interrupt pin is connected to. - -These resources should be specified in that order, as the ordering of the -two address regions is important (the driver expects these to be address -and then data). - -An example from arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/mach-bast.c is: - -static struct resource bast_dm9k_resource[] = { - [0] = { - .start = S3C2410_CS5 + BAST_PA_DM9000, - .end = S3C2410_CS5 + BAST_PA_DM9000 + 3, - .flags = IORESOURCE_MEM, - }, - [1] = { - .start = S3C2410_CS5 + BAST_PA_DM9000 + 0x40, - .end = S3C2410_CS5 + BAST_PA_DM9000 + 0x40 + 0x3f, - .flags = IORESOURCE_MEM, - }, - [2] = { - .start = IRQ_DM9000, - .end = IRQ_DM9000, - .flags = IORESOURCE_IRQ | IORESOURCE_IRQ_HIGHLEVEL, - } -}; - -static struct platform_device bast_device_dm9k = { - .name = "dm9000", - .id = 0, - .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(bast_dm9k_resource), - .resource = bast_dm9k_resource, -}; - -Note the setting of the IRQ trigger flag in bast_dm9k_resource[2].flags, -as this will generate a warning if it is not present. The trigger from -the flags field will be passed to request_irq() when registering the IRQ -handler to ensure that the IRQ is setup correctly. - -This shows a typical platform device, without the optional configuration -platform data supplied. The next example uses the same resources, but adds -the optional platform data to pass extra configuration data: - -static struct dm9000_plat_data bast_dm9k_platdata = { - .flags = DM9000_PLATF_16BITONLY, -}; - -static struct platform_device bast_device_dm9k = { - .name = "dm9000", - .id = 0, - .num_resources = ARRAY_SIZE(bast_dm9k_resource), - .resource = bast_dm9k_resource, - .dev = { - .platform_data = &bast_dm9k_platdata, - } -}; - -The platform data is defined in include/linux/dm9000.h and described below. - - -Platform data -------------- - -Extra platform data for the DM9000 can describe the IO bus width to the -device, whether or not an external PHY is attached to the device and -the availability of an external configuration EEPROM. - -The flags for the platform data .flags field are as follows: - -DM9000_PLATF_8BITONLY - - The IO should be done with 8bit operations. - -DM9000_PLATF_16BITONLY - - The IO should be done with 16bit operations. - -DM9000_PLATF_32BITONLY - - The IO should be done with 32bit operations. - -DM9000_PLATF_EXT_PHY - - The chip is connected to an external PHY. - -DM9000_PLATF_NO_EEPROM - - This can be used to signify that the board does not have an - EEPROM, or that the EEPROM should be hidden from the user. - -DM9000_PLATF_SIMPLE_PHY - - Switch to using the simpler PHY polling method which does not - try and read the MII PHY state regularly. This is only available - when using the internal PHY. See the section on link state polling - for more information. - - The config symbol DM9000_FORCE_SIMPLE_PHY_POLL, Kconfig entry - "Force simple NSR based PHY polling" allows this flag to be - forced on at build time. - - -PHY Link state polling ----------------------- - -The driver keeps track of the link state and informs the network core -about link (carrier) availability. This is managed by several methods -depending on the version of the chip and on which PHY is being used. - -For the internal PHY, the original (and currently default) method is -to read the MII state, either when the status changes if we have the -necessary interrupt support in the chip or every two seconds via a -periodic timer. - -To reduce the overhead for the internal PHY, there is now the option -of using the DM9000_FORCE_SIMPLE_PHY_POLL config, or DM9000_PLATF_SIMPLE_PHY -platform data option to read the summary information without the -expensive MII accesses. This method is faster, but does not print -as much information. - -When using an external PHY, the driver currently has to poll the MII -link status as there is no method for getting an interrupt on link change. - - -DM9000A / DM9000B ------------------ - -These chips are functionally similar to the DM9000E and are supported easily -by the same driver. The features are: - - 1) Interrupt on internal PHY state change. This means that the periodic - polling of the PHY status may be disabled on these devices when using - the internal PHY. - - 2) TCP/UDP checksum offloading, which the driver does not currently support. - - -ethtool -------- - -The driver supports the ethtool interface for access to the driver -state information, the PHY state and the EEPROM. |