The 3C509-TX card apparently had a slightly different version of the
chip, and has problems when this register is set. The problem does
not appear on the 3C509{BC} cards, but since only the fxp driver needs
specific bits set, conditionalize on that.
the built-in 1000baseX interface in the Level 1 LXT1001 chip. The Level 1
PHY comes up with the isolate bit in the control register set by default,
but it also has the autonegotiate bit set. When you tell the xmphy driver
to select IFM_AUTO mode, it sees that the autoneg bit is already on, and
thus doesn't bother updating the control register. However this means that
the isolate bit is never turned off (unless you manually select 1000baseSX
full or half duplex mode, which does result in the control register being
modified and the ISO bit being turned off).
This subtle and unusual behavioral difference stopped me from being able
to receive packets on the SMC9462TX card for several days, since isolating
the PHY disconnects it from the MAC's data interface. The fix is to omit
the 'is the autoneg big set?' test, since it doesn't really provide much
of an optimization anyway.
This commit also updates the xmphy driver to support the Jato/Level 1
internal PHY. (I'm not sure how Jato Technologies is related to Level 1:
all I know is the OUI from the PHY ID registers maps to Jato in the OUI
database.) This will be used once I add the if_lge driver to support
the LXT10010 chip.
and DP83821 gigabit ethernet MAC chips and the NatSemi DP83861 10/100/1000
copper PHY. There are a whole bunch of very low cost cards available with
this chipset selling for $150USD or less. This includes the SMC9462TX,
D-Link DGE-500T, Asante GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC, and a couple cards
from Addtron.
This chip supports TCP/IP checksum offload, VLAN tagging/insertion.
2048-bit multicast filter, jumbograms and has 8K TX and 32K RX FIFOs.
I have not done serious performance testing with this driver. I know
it works, and I want it under CVS control so I can keep tabs on it.
Note that there's no serious mutex stuff in here yet either: I need
to talk more with jhb to figure out the right way to do this. That
said, I don't think there will be any problems.
This driver should also work on the alpha. It's not turned on in
GENERIC.
Parag Patel did all of the grunt work, so he gets the credit.
Register definitions and actions inferred from a Linux driver,
so Intel also gets some 'credit'.
We really want to be able to say "auto NWAY", "limited NWAY", and
"no NWAY". Unfortunately, this does not appear to be possible with
the current mediaopt structure.
This commit adds support for Xircom X3201 based cardbus cards.
Support for the TDK 78Q2120 MII is also added.
IBM Etherjet, Intel and Xircom cards uses these chips.
Note that as a result of this commit, some Intel/DEC 21143 based cardbus
cards will also attach, but not get link. That is being looked at.
adapters. This is necessary in order to make this driver work with
the built-in ethernet on the alpha Miata machines. These systems
have a 21143-PC chip on-board and optional daughtercards with either
a 10/100 MII transceiver or a 10baseT/10base2 transceiver. In both
cases, you need to twiddle the GPIO bits on the controller in order
to turn the transceivers on, and you have to read the media info
from the SROM in order to find out what bits to twiddle.
workalike chips (Macronix 98713A/98715 and PNIC II). Timing is somewhat
critical: you need to bring the link as soon as possible after NWAY
is done, and the old one second polling interval was too long. Now
we poll every 10th of a second until NWAY completes (at which point
we return to the 1 second interval again to keep an eye on the link
state).
I tested all the other cards I had on hand to make sure I didn't bust
any of them and they seem to work (including the MII-based 21143 card).
This should fix some autoneg problems with DE500-BA cards and the
built-in 10/100 ethernet on some alpha systems.
(Now before anyone asks why I never noticed this before, the old code
worked just find with the Intel swich I used for testing back in NY.
Apparently not all switches are as picky about the timing.)
