1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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4 DEC EtherWORKS Ethernet De4x5 cards
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7 Originally, this driver was written for the Digital Equipment
8 Corporation series of EtherWORKS Ethernet cards:
12 - DE435 TP/COAX/AUI PCI
13 - DE450 TP/COAX/AUI PCI
14 - DE500 10/100 PCI Fasternet
16 but it will now attempt to support all cards which conform to the
17 Digital Semiconductor SROM Specification. The driver currently
18 recognises the following chips:
26 So far the driver is known to work with the following cards:
32 - SMC9332 (w/new SROM)
34 - ZNYX346 10/100 4 port (can act as a 10/100 bridge!)
36 The driver has been tested on a relatively busy network using the DE425,
37 DE434, DE435 and DE500 cards and benchmarked with 'ttcp': it transferred
38 16M of data to a DECstation 5000/200 as follows::
42 DE425 1030k 997k 1170k 1128k
43 DE434 1063k 995k 1170k 1125k
44 DE435 1063k 995k 1170k 1125k
45 DE500 1063k 998k 1170k 1125k in 10Mb/s mode
47 All values are typical (in kBytes/sec) from a sample of 4 for each
48 measurement. Their error is +/-20k on a quiet (private) network and also
49 depend on what load the CPU has.
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53 The ability to load this driver as a loadable module has been included
54 and used extensively during the driver development (to save those long
55 reboot sequences). Loadable module support under PCI and EISA has been
56 achieved by letting the driver autoprobe as if it were compiled into the
57 kernel. Do make sure you're not sharing interrupts with anything that
58 cannot accommodate interrupt sharing!
60 To utilise this ability, you have to do 8 things:
62 0) have a copy of the loadable modules code installed on your system.
63 1) copy de4x5.c from the /linux/drivers/net directory to your favourite
65 2) for fixed autoprobes (not recommended), edit the source code near
66 line 5594 to reflect the I/O address you're using, or assign these when
69 insmod de4x5 io=0xghh where g = bus number
74 autoprobing for modules is now supported by default. You may just
79 to load all available boards. For a specific board, still use
81 3) compile de4x5.c, but include -DMODULE in the command line to ensure
82 that the correct bits are compiled (see end of source code).
83 4) if you are wanting to add a new card, goto 5. Otherwise, recompile a
84 kernel with the de4x5 configuration turned off and reboot.
85 5) insmod de4x5 [io=0xghh]
86 6) run the net startup bits for your new eth?? interface(s) manually
87 (usually /etc/rc.inet[12] at boot time).
90 To unload a module, turn off the associated interface(s)
91 'ifconfig eth?? down' then 'rmmod de4x5'.
93 Automedia detection is included so that in principle you can disconnect
94 from, e.g. TP, reconnect to BNC and things will still work (after a
95 pause while the driver figures out where its media went). My tests
96 using ping showed that it appears to work....
98 By default, the driver will now autodetect any DECchip based card.
99 Should you have a need to restrict the driver to DIGITAL only cards, you
100 can compile with a DEC_ONLY define, or if loading as a module, use the
101 'dec_only=1' parameter.
103 I've changed the timing routines to use the kernel timer and scheduling
104 functions so that the hangs and other assorted problems that occurred
105 while autosensing the media should be gone. A bonus for the DC21040
106 auto media sense algorithm is that it can now use one that is more in
107 line with the rest (the DC21040 chip doesn't have a hardware timer).
108 The downside is the 1 'jiffies' (10ms) resolution.
110 IEEE 802.3u MII interface code has been added in anticipation that some
111 products may use it in the future.
113 The SMC9332 card has a non-compliant SROM which needs fixing - I have
114 patched this driver to detect it because the SROM format used complies
115 to a previous DEC-STD format.
117 I have removed the buffer copies needed for receive on Intels. I cannot
118 remove them for Alphas since the Tulip hardware only does longword
119 aligned DMA transfers and the Alphas get alignment traps with non
120 longword aligned data copies (which makes them really slow). No comment.
122 I have added SROM decoding routines to make this driver work with any
123 card that supports the Digital Semiconductor SROM spec. This will help
124 all cards running the dc2114x series chips in particular. Cards using
125 the dc2104x chips should run correctly with the basic driver. I'm in
126 debt to <mjacob@feral.com> for the testing and feedback that helped get
127 this feature working. So far we have tested KINGSTON, SMC8432, SMC9332
128 (with the latest SROM complying with the SROM spec V3: their first was
129 broken), ZNYX342 and LinkSys. ZNYX314 (dual 21041 MAC) and ZNYX 315
130 (quad 21041 MAC) cards also appear to work despite their incorrectly
133 I have added a temporary fix for interrupt problems when some SCSI cards
134 share the same interrupt as the DECchip based cards. The problem occurs
135 because the SCSI card wants to grab the interrupt as a fast interrupt
136 (runs the service routine with interrupts turned off) vs. this card
137 which really needs to run the service routine with interrupts turned on.
138 This driver will now add the interrupt service routine as a fast
139 interrupt if it is bounced from the slow interrupt. THIS IS NOT A
140 RECOMMENDED WAY TO RUN THE DRIVER and has been done for a limited time
141 until people sort out their compatibility issues and the kernel
142 interrupt service code is fixed. YOU SHOULD SEPARATE OUT THE FAST
143 INTERRUPT CARDS FROM THE SLOW INTERRUPT CARDS to ensure that they do not
144 run on the same interrupt. PCMCIA/CardBus is another can of worms...
146 Finally, I think I have really fixed the module loading problem with
147 more than one DECchip based card. As a side effect, I don't mess with
148 the device structure any more which means that if more than 1 card in
149 2.0.x is installed (4 in 2.1.x), the user will have to edit
150 linux/drivers/net/Space.c to make room for them. Hence, module loading
151 is the preferred way to use this driver, since it doesn't have this
154 Where SROM media detection is used and full duplex is specified in the
155 SROM, the feature is ignored unless lp->params.fdx is set at compile
156 time OR during a module load (insmod de4x5 args='eth??:fdx' [see
157 below]). This is because there is no way to automatically detect full
158 duplex links except through autonegotiation. When I include the
159 autonegotiation feature in the SROM autoconf code, this detection will
160 occur automatically for that case.
162 Command line arguments are now allowed, similar to passing arguments
163 through LILO. This will allow a per adapter board set up of full duplex
164 and media. The only lexical constraints are: the board name (dev->name)
165 appears in the list before its parameters. The list of parameters ends
166 either at the end of the parameter list or with another board name. The
167 following parameters are allowed:
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171 autosense to set the media/speed; with the following
173 TP, TP_NW, BNC, AUI, BNC_AUI, 100Mb, 10Mb, AUTO
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176 Case sensitivity is important for the sub-parameters. They *must* be
177 upper case. Examples::
179 insmod de4x5 args='eth1:fdx autosense=BNC eth0:autosense=100Mb'.
181 For a compiled in driver, in linux/drivers/net/CONFIG, place e.g.::
183 DE4X5_OPTS = -DDE4X5_PARM='"eth0:fdx autosense=AUI eth2:autosense=TP"'
185 Yes, I know full duplex isn't permissible on BNC or AUI; they're just
186 examples. By default, full duplex is turned off and AUTO is the default
187 autosense setting. In reality, I expect only the full duplex option to
188 be used. Note the use of single quotes in the two examples above and the
189 lack of commas to separate items.