This patch increases the Burst Address alignment from 64 to 1024 in the
Spidernet driver. This improves transmit performance for large packets.
From: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
This patch adds version information as reported by
ethtool -i to the Spidernet driver.
From: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Add the ethtool -S (show statistics) feature to the Spidernet ethernet
driver. I have tested it extensively and believe it is ready to be
applied.
Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Add ethtool -g (show ring sizes) support to the Spidernet network driver.
Signed-off-by: James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
With this patch TX queue descriptors are not chained per default any more.
The pointer to next descriptor is set only when next descriptor is prepaired
for transfer. Also the mechanism of checking wether Spider is ready has been
changed: it checks not for CARDOWNED flag in status of previous descriptor
but for a TXDMAENABLED flag in Spider's register.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Shchetynin <maxim@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
We found a new chip setting that we need in order
to make the driver work more reliable.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Performance optimizations, changes in these areas:
- RX and TX checksum offload
- correct maximum MTU
- don't use TX interrupts anymore, use a timer instead
- remove some superfluous barriers
- improve RX RAM full handling
From: Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Osterkamp <jens.osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
The driver incorrectly used dma_addr_t to describe
HW structures and consequently broke when that type
was changed in 2.6.15-rc.
This changed spidernet to use u32 for 32 bit HW defined
structure elements.
From: Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
This patch adds a driver for a new 1000 Mbit ethernet NIC. It is
integrated on the south bridge that is used for our Cell Blades.
The code gets the MAC address from the Open Firmware device tree, so it
won't compile on platforms other than ppc64.
This is the first public release, so I don't expect the first version to
get merged, but I'd aim for integration within the 2.6.13 time frame.
Cc: Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Linas Vepstas
Jim Lewis
Jeff Garzik
Jim Lewis
Jens Osterkamp
Jens Osterkamp
Arnd Bergmann