Commit Graph

5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
wpaul
b76ff977ec Update the Tigon driver firmware images to the latest release from
Alteon (12.6.15).
1999-09-22 06:43:16 +00:00
peter
3b842d34e8 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
wpaul
bc1ae7010e Convert the Alteon Tigon gigabit ethernet driver to newbus. Also upgrade
to the latest firmware release from Alteon (12.3.12).
1999-07-23 02:10:11 +00:00
wpaul
6db3645dee Upgrade firmware images Alteon's latest release (12.3.10). This fixes a
bug in the stats accounting (nicSendBDs counter was bogus when TX ring was
configured to be in host memory).

Update if_tireg.h to look for new firmware fix level.
1999-05-03 17:44:53 +00:00
wpaul
477aac47c6 Add driver support for gigabit ethernet adapters based on the Alteon
Networks Tigon 1 and Tigon 2 chipsets. There are a _lot_ of OEM'ed
gigabit ethernet adapters out there which use the Alteon chipset so
this driver covers a fair amount of hardware. I know that it works with
the Alteon AceNIC, 3Com 3c985 and Netgear GA620, however it should also
work with the DEC/Compaq EtherWORKS 1000, Silicon Graphics Gigabit
ethernet board, NEC Gigabit Ethernet board and maybe even the IBM and
and Sun boards. The Netgear board is the cheapest (~$350US) but still
yields fairly good performance.

Support is provided for jumbo frames with all adapters (just set the
MTU to something larger than 1500 bytes), as well as hardware multicast
filtering and vlan tagging (in conjunction with the vlan support in
-current, which I should merge into -stable soon). There are some hooks
for checksum offload support, but they're turned off for now since
FreeBSD doesn't have an officially sanctioned way to support checksum
offloading (yet).

I have not added the 'device ti0' entry to GENERIC since the driver
with all the firmware compiled in is quite large, and it doesn't really
fit into the category of generic hardware.
1999-04-06 17:08:31 +00:00