diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 6734439f1349..f6422788063f 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 134fbadf028a5977a1b06b0253d3ee33e6f0c642 +refs/heads/master: 48de8cb7847d040c8892701c1ff3c55eff1f46b4 diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt b/trunk/Documentation/fb/efifb.txt similarity index 66% rename from trunk/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt rename to trunk/Documentation/fb/efifb.txt index 316ec9bb7deb..a59916c29b33 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/fb/imacfb.txt +++ b/trunk/Documentation/fb/efifb.txt @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -What is imacfb? +What is efifb? =============== This is a generic EFI platform driver for Intel based Apple computers. -Imacfb is only for EFI booted Intel Macs. +efifb is only for EFI booted Intel Macs. Supported Hardware ================== @@ -16,16 +16,16 @@ MacMini How to use it? ============== -Imacfb does not have any kind of autodetection of your machine. +efifb does not have any kind of autodetection of your machine. You have to add the following kernel parameters in your elilo.conf: Macbook : - video=imacfb:macbook + video=efifb:macbook MacMini : - video=imacfb:mini + video=efifb:mini Macbook Pro 15", iMac 17" : - video=imacfb:i17 + video=efifb:i17 Macbook Pro 17", iMac 20" : - video=imacfb:i20 + video=efifb:i20 -- Edgar Hucek diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt b/trunk/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7ee770b5ef5f --- /dev/null +++ b/trunk/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ + STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Synopsys Ethernet driver + +Copyright (C) 2007-2010 STMicroelectronics Ltd +Author: Giuseppe Cavallaro + +This is the driver for the MAC 10/100/1000 on-chip Ethernet controllers +(Synopsys IP blocks); it has been fully tested on STLinux platforms. + +Currently this network device driver is for all STM embedded MAC/GMAC +(7xxx SoCs). + +DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a and DWC Ether MAC 10/100 +Universal version 4.0 have been used for developing the first code +implementation. + +Please, for more information also visit: www.stlinux.com + +1) Kernel Configuration +The kernel configuration option is STMMAC_ETH: + Device Drivers ---> Network device support ---> Ethernet (1000 Mbit) ---> + STMicroelectronics 10/100/1000 Ethernet driver (STMMAC_ETH) + +2) Driver parameters list: + debug: message level (0: no output, 16: all); + phyaddr: to manually provide the physical address to the PHY device; + dma_rxsize: DMA rx ring size; + dma_txsize: DMA tx ring size; + buf_sz: DMA buffer size; + tc: control the HW FIFO threshold; + tx_coe: Enable/Disable Tx Checksum Offload engine; + watchdog: transmit timeout (in milliseconds); + flow_ctrl: Flow control ability [on/off]; + pause: Flow Control Pause Time; + tmrate: timer period (only if timer optimisation is configured). + +3) Command line options +Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by using: + stmmaceth=dma_rxsize:128,dma_txsize:512 + +4) Driver information and notes + +4.1) Transmit process +The xmit method is invoked when the kernel needs to transmit a packet; it sets +the descriptors in the ring and informs the DMA engine that there is a packet +ready to be transmitted. +Once the controller has finished transmitting the packet, an interrupt is +triggered; So the driver will be able to release the socket buffers. +By default, the driver sets the NETIF_F_SG bit in the features field of the +net_device structure enabling the scatter/gather feature. + +4.2) Receive process +When one or more packets are received, an interrupt happens. The interrupts +are not queued so the driver has to scan all the descriptors in the ring during +the receive process. +This is based on NAPI so the interrupt handler signals only if there is work to be +done, and it exits. +Then the poll method will be scheduled at some future point. +The incoming packets are stored, by the DMA, in a list of pre-allocated socket +buffers in order to avoid the memcpy (Zero-copy). + +4.3) Timer-Driver Interrupt +Instead of having the device that asynchronously notifies the frame receptions, the +driver configures a timer to generate an interrupt at regular intervals. +Based on the granularity of the timer, the frames that are received by the device +will experience different levels of latency. Some NICs have dedicated timer +device to perform this task. STMMAC can use either the RTC device or the TMU +channel 2 on STLinux platforms. +The timers frequency can be passed to the driver as parameter; when change it, +take care of both hardware capability and network stability/performance impact. +Several performance tests on STM platforms showed this optimisation allows to spare +the CPU while having the maximum throughput. + +4.4) WOL +Wake up on Lan feature through Magic Frame is only supported for the GMAC +core. + +4.5) DMA descriptors +Driver handles both normal and enhanced descriptors. The latter has been only +tested on DWC Ether MAC 10/100/1000 Universal version 3.41a. + +4.6) Ethtool support +Ethtool is supported. Driver statistics and internal errors can be taken using: +ethtool -S ethX command. It is possible to dump registers etc. + +4.7) Jumbo and Segmentation Offloading +Jumbo frames are supported and tested for the GMAC. +The GSO has been also added but it's performed in software. +LRO is not supported. + +4.8) Physical +The driver is compatible with PAL to work with PHY and GPHY devices. + +4.9) Platform information +Several information came from the platform; please refer to the +driver's Header file in include/linux directory. + +struct plat_stmmacenet_data { + int bus_id; + int pbl; + int has_gmac; + void (*fix_mac_speed)(void *priv, unsigned int speed); + void (*bus_setup)(unsigned long ioaddr); +#ifdef CONFIG_STM_DRIVERS + struct stm_pad_config *pad_config; +#endif + void *bsp_priv; +}; + +Where: +- pbl (Programmable Burst Length) is maximum number of + beats to be transferred in one DMA transaction. + GMAC also enables the 4xPBL by default. +- fix_mac_speed and bus_setup are used to configure internal target + registers (on STM platforms); +- has_gmac: GMAC core is on board (get it at run-time in the next step); +- bus_id: bus identifier. + +struct plat_stmmacphy_data { + int bus_id; + int phy_addr; + unsigned int phy_mask; + int interface; + int (*phy_reset)(void *priv); + void *priv; +}; + +Where: +- bus_id: bus identifier; +- phy_addr: physical address used for the attached phy device; + set it to -1 to get it at run-time; +- interface: physical MII interface mode; +- phy_reset: hook to reset HW function. + +TODO: +- Continue to make the driver more generic and suitable for other Synopsys + Ethernet controllers used on other architectures (i.e. ARM). +- 10G controllers are not supported. +- MAC uses Normal descriptors and GMAC uses enhanced ones. + This is a limit that should be reviewed. MAC could want to + use the enhanced structure. +- Checksumming: Rx/Tx csum is done in HW in case of GMAC only. +- Review the timer optimisation code to use an embedded device that seems to be + available in new chip generations. diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt b/trunk/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt index f4dd3bf99d12..98d14cb8a85d 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt +++ b/trunk/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt @@ -119,10 +119,18 @@ the codec slots 0 and 1 no matter what the hardware reports. Interrupt Handling ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -In rare but some cases, the interrupt isn't properly handled as -default. You would notice this by the DMA transfer error reported by -ALSA PCM core, for example. Using MSI might help in such a case. -Pass `enable_msi=1` option for enabling MSI. +HD-audio driver uses MSI as default (if available) since 2.6.33 +kernel as MSI works better on some machines, and in general, it's +better for performance. However, Nvidia controllers showed bad +regressions with MSI (especially in a combination with AMD chipset), +thus we disabled MSI for them. + +There seem also still other devices that don't work with MSI. If you +see a regression wrt the sound quality (stuttering, etc) or a lock-up +in the recent kernel, try to pass `enable_msi=0` option to disable +MSI. If it works, you can add the known bad device to the blacklist +defined in hda_intel.c. In such a case, please report and give the +patch back to the upstream developer. HD-AUDIO CODEC diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c b/trunk/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c index 4cf72f3fa8e9..ba45803a2216 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c +++ b/trunk/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c @@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ int main(void) ret = -1; break; } - ret = fsync(fd); - if (ret) - break; sleep(10); } close(fd); diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c b/trunk/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c index a750532ffcf8..63fdc34ceb98 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c +++ b/trunk/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-test.c @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ static void keep_alive(void) */ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { + int flags; + fd = open("/dev/watchdog", O_WRONLY); if (fd == -1) { @@ -41,12 +43,14 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) if (argc > 1) { if (!strncasecmp(argv[1], "-d", 2)) { - ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, WDIOS_DISABLECARD); + flags = WDIOS_DISABLECARD; + ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &flags); fprintf(stderr, "Watchdog card disabled.\n"); fflush(stderr); exit(0); } else if (!strncasecmp(argv[1], "-e", 2)) { - ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, WDIOS_ENABLECARD); + flags = WDIOS_ENABLECARD; + ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &flags); fprintf(stderr, "Watchdog card enabled.\n"); fflush(stderr); exit(0); diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/trunk/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt index 4cc4ba9d7150..eb7132ed8bbc 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt +++ b/trunk/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt @@ -222,11 +222,10 @@ returned value is the temperature in degrees fahrenheit. ioctl(fd, WDIOC_GETTEMP, &temperature); Finally the SETOPTIONS ioctl can be used to control some aspects of -the cards operation; right now the pcwd driver is the only one -supporting this ioctl. +the cards operation. int options = 0; - ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, options); + ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, &options); The following options are available: diff --git a/trunk/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dm365.c b/trunk/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dm365.c index 27772e18e45b..0d6ee583f65c 100644 --- a/trunk/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dm365.c +++ b/trunk/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dm365.c @@ -758,7 +758,6 @@ static u8 dm365_default_priorities[DAVINCI_N_AINTC_IRQ] = { [IRQ_MMCINT] = 7, [IRQ_DM365_MMCINT1] = 7, [IRQ_DM365_PWMINT3] = 7, - [IRQ_DDRINT] = 4, [IRQ_AEMIFINT] = 2, [IRQ_DM365_SDIOINT1] = 2, [IRQ_TINT0_TINT12] = 7, diff --git a/trunk/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c b/trunk/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c index 02d939853b88..53137387aee1 100644 --- a/trunk/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c +++ b/trunk/arch/arm/mach-davinci/dma.c @@ -1267,7 +1267,8 @@ int edma_start(unsigned channel) /* EDMA channel with event association */ pr_debug("EDMA: ER%d %08x\n", j, edma_shadow0_read_array(ctlr, SH_ER, j)); - /* Clear any pending error */ + /* Clear any pending event or error */ + edma_write_array(ctlr, EDMA_ECR, j, mask); edma_write_array(ctlr, EDMA_EMCR, j, mask); /* Clear any SER */ edma_shadow0_write_array(ctlr, SH_SECR, j, mask); diff --git a/trunk/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/da8xx.h b/trunk/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/da8xx.h index cc9be7fee627..03acfd39042b 100644 --- a/trunk/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/da8xx.h +++ b/trunk/arch/arm/mach-davinci/include/mach/da8xx.h @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ * * Author: Mark A. Greer * - * 2007, 2009 (c) MontaVista Software, Inc. This file is licensed under + * 2007, 2009-2010 (c) MontaVista Software, Inc. This file is licensed under * the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. This program * is licensed "as is" without any warranty of any kind, whether express * or implied. @@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ #include