assumed that the MDIO bus was a direct child of the Ethernet interface. It
may not be and indeed on many device trees is not. While here, add proper
locking for MII transactions, which may be on a bus shared by several MACs.
Hardware donated by: Benjamin Perrault
- interrupt coalescing
- polling
- jumbo frames
- multicast
- VLAN tagging
The enhanced version of the chip (eTSEC) can also take advantage of:
- TCP/IP checksum calculation h/w offloading
Obtained from: Freescale, Semihalf
TSEC is the MAC engine offering 10, 100 or 1000 Mbps speed and is found on
different Freescale parts (MPC83xx, MPC85xx). Depending on the silicon version
there are up to four TSEC units integrated on the chip.
This driver also works with the enhanced version of the controller (eTSEC),
which is backwards compatible, but doesn't take advantage of its additional
features (various off-loading mechanisms) at the moment.
Approved by: cognet (mentor)
Obtained from: Semihalf
MFp4: e500
