diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 6387329a0a6d..62ff93529e9a 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 46153552b43675dd4057cd526331b5bd10f39c7d +refs/heads/master: c3cf560e35509634d72cf809074834d5ea23ab66 diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index 1c955883cf58..2975291e296a 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \ kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \ procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml \ - sis900.xml kernel-api.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \ + kernel-api.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \ gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml ### diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl b/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl deleted file mode 100644 index 6c2cbac93c3f..000000000000 --- a/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,585 +0,0 @@ - - - - - - - -SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet Device Driver - - - -Ollie -Lho - - - -Lei Chun -Chang - - - -Document Revision: 0.3 for SiS900 driver v1.06 & v1.07 -November 16, 2000 - - - 1999 - Silicon Integrated System Corp. - - - - - This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify - it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by - the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or - (at your option) any later version. - - - - This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, - but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of - MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the - GNU General Public License for more details. - - - - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License - along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA - - - - - -This document gives some information on installation and usage of SiS 900/7016 -device driver under Linux. - - - - - - - - - Introduction - - -This document describes the revision 1.06 and 1.07 of SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet -device driver under Linux. The driver is developed by Silicon Integrated -System Corp. and distributed freely under the GNU General Public License (GPL). -The driver can be compiled as a loadable module and used under Linux kernel -version 2.2.x. (rev. 1.06) -With minimal changes, the driver can also be used under 2.3.x and 2.4.x kernel -(rev. 1.07), please see -. If you are intended to -use the driver for earlier kernels, you are on your own. - - - -The driver is tested with usual TCP/IP applications including -FTP, Telnet, Netscape etc. and is used constantly by the developers. - - - -Please send all comments/fixes/questions to -Lei-Chun Chang. - - - - - Changes - - -Changes made in Revision 1.07 - - - - -Separation of sis900.c and sis900.h in order to move most -constant definition to sis900.h (many of those constants were -corrected) - - - - - -Clean up PCI detection, the pci-scan from Donald Becker were not used, -just simple pci_find_*. - - - - - -MII detection is modified to support multiple mii transceiver. - - - - - -Bugs in read_eeprom, mdio_* were removed. - - - - - -Lot of sis900 irrelevant comments were removed/changed and -more comments were added to reflect the real situation. - - - - - -Clean up of physical/virtual address space mess in buffer -descriptors. - - - - - -Better transmit/receive error handling. - - - - - -The driver now uses zero-copy single buffer management -scheme to improve performance. - - - - - -Names of variables were changed to be more consistent. - - - - - -Clean up of auo-negotiation and timer code. - - - - - -Automatic detection and change of PHY on the fly. - - - - - -Bug in mac probing fixed. - - - - - -Fix 630E equalier problem by modifying the equalizer workaround rule. - - - - - -Support for ICS1893 10/100 Interated PHYceiver. - - - - - -Support for media select by ifconfig. - - - - - -Added kernel-doc extratable documentation. - - - - - - - - - Tested Environment - - -This driver is developed on the following hardware - - - - - -Intel Celeron 500 with SiS 630 (rev 02) chipset - - - - - -SiS 900 (rev 01) and SiS 7016/7014 Fast Ethernet Card - - - - - -and tested with these software environments - - - - - -Red Hat Linux version 6.2 - - - - - -Linux kernel version 2.4.0 - - - - - -Netscape version 4.6 - - - - - -NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 18 - - - - - -Samba version 2.0.3 - - - - - - - - - - -Files in This Package - - -In the package you can find these files: - - - - - - -sis900.c - - -Driver source file in C - - - - - -sis900.h - - -Header file for sis900.c - - - - - -sis900.sgml - - -DocBook SGML source of the document - - - - - -sis900.txt - - -Driver document in plain text - - - - - - - - - - Installation - - -Silicon Integrated System Corp. is cooperating closely with core Linux Kernel -developers. The revisions of SiS 900 driver are distributed by the usuall channels -for kernel tar files and patches. Those kernel tar files for official kernel and -patches for kernel pre-release can be download at -official kernel ftp site -and its mirrors. -The 1.06 revision can be found in kernel version later than 2.3.15 and pre-2.2.14, -and 1.07 revision can be found in kernel version 2.4.0. -If you have no prior experience in networking under Linux, please read -Ethernet HOWTO and -Networking HOWTO available from -Linux Documentation Project (LDP). - - - -The driver is bundled in release later than 2.2.11 and 2.3.15 so this -is the most easy case. -Be sure you have the appropriate packages for compiling kernel source. -Those packages are listed in Document/Changes in kernel source -distribution. If you have to install the driver other than those bundled -in kernel release, you should have your driver file -sis900.c and sis900.h -copied into /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ first. -There are two alternative ways to install the driver - - - -Building the driver as loadable module - - -To build the driver as a loadable kernel module you have to reconfigure -the kernel to activate network support by - - - -make menuconfig - - - -Choose Loadable module support --->, -then select Enable loadable module support. - - - -Choose Network Device Support --->, select -Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit). -Then select EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers, -and choose SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support -to M. - - - -After reconfiguring the kernel, you can make the driver module by - - - -make modules - - - -The driver should be compiled with no errors. After compiling the driver, -the driver can be installed to proper place by - - - -make modules_install - - - -Load the driver into kernel by - - - -insmod sis900 - - - -When loading the driver into memory, some information message can be view by - - - - -dmesg - - -or - - -cat /var/log/message - - - - -If the driver is loaded properly you will have messages similar to this: - - - -sis900.c: v1.07.06 11/07/2000 -eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10, 00:00:e8:83:7f:a4. -eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1. -eth0: Using SiS 900 Internal MII PHY as default - - - -showing the version of the driver and the results of probing routine. - - - -Once the driver is loaded, network can be brought up by - - - -/sbin/ifconfig eth0 IPADDR broadcast BROADCAST netmask NETMASK media TYPE - - - -where IPADDR, BROADCAST, NETMASK are your IP address, broadcast address and -netmask respectively. TYPE is used to set medium type used by the device. -Typical values are "10baseT"(twisted-pair 10Mbps Ethernet) or "100baseT" -(twisted-pair 100Mbps Ethernet). For more information on how to configure -network interface, please refer to -Networking HOWTO. - - - -The link status is also shown by kernel messages. For example, after the -network interface is activated, you may have the message: - - - -eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex - - - -If you try to unplug the twist pair (TP) cable you will get - - - -eth0: Media Link Off - - - -indicating that the link is failed. - - - - -Building the driver into kernel - - -If you want to make the driver into kernel, choose Y -rather than M on -SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support -when configuring the kernel. Build the kernel image in the usual way - - - -make clean - -make bzlilo - - - -Next time the system reboot, you have the driver in memory. - - - - - - - Known Problems and Bugs - - -There are some known problems and bugs. If you find any other bugs please -mail to lcchang@sis.com.tw - - - - - -AM79C901 HomePNA PHY is not thoroughly tested, there may be some -bugs in the on the fly change of transceiver. - - - - - -A bug is hidden somewhere in the receive buffer management code, -the bug causes NULL pointer reference in the kernel. This fault is -caught before bad things happen and reported with the message: - - -eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping - - -which can be viewed with dmesg or -cat /var/log/message. - - - - - -The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet -by ifconfig causes the media link down. - - - - - - - - - Revision History - - - - - - -November 13, 2000, Revision 1.07, seventh release, 630E problem fixed -and further clean up. - - - - - -November 4, 1999, Revision 1.06, Second release, lots of clean up -and optimization. - - - - - -August 8, 1999, Revision 1.05, Initial Public Release - - - - - - - - - Acknowledgements - - -This driver was originally derived form -Donald Becker's -pci-skeleton and -rtl8139 drivers. Donald also provided various suggestion -regarded with improvements made in revision 1.06. - - - -The 1.05 revision was created by -Jim Huang, AMD 79c901 -support was added by Chin-Shan Li. - - - - -List of Functions -!Idrivers/net/sis900.c - - - diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX b/trunk/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX index 5b01d5cc4e95..b1181ce232d9 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX +++ b/trunk/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX @@ -92,8 +92,6 @@ routing.txt - the new routing mechanism shaper.txt - info on the module that can shape/limit transmitted traffic. -sis900.txt - - SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet device driver info. sk98lin.txt - Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx compliant Gigabit Ethernet Adapter family driver info diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/networking/sis900.txt b/trunk/Documentation/networking/sis900.txt deleted file mode 100644 index bddffd7385ae..000000000000 --- a/trunk/Documentation/networking/sis900.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,257 +0,0 @@ - -SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet Device Driver - -Ollie Lho - -Lei Chun Chang - - Copyright © 1999 by Silicon Integrated System Corp. - - This document gives some information on installation and usage of SiS - 900/7016 device driver under Linux. - - This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify - it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by - the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at - your option) any later version. - - This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but - WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of - MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU - General Public License for more details. - - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License - along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 - USA - _________________________________________________________________ - - Table of Contents - 1. Introduction - 2. Changes - 3. Tested Environment - 4. Files in This Package - 5. Installation - - Building the driver as loadable module - Building the driver into kernel - - 6. Known Problems and Bugs - 7. Revision History - 8. Acknowledgements - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 1. Introduction - - This document describes the revision 1.06 and 1.07 of SiS 900/7016 - Fast Ethernet device driver under Linux. The driver is developed by - Silicon Integrated System Corp. and distributed freely under the GNU - General Public License (GPL). The driver can be compiled as a loadable - module and used under Linux kernel version 2.2.x. (rev. 1.06) With - minimal changes, the driver can also be used under 2.3.x and 2.4.x - kernel (rev. 1.07), please see Chapter 5. If you are intended to use - the driver for earlier kernels, you are on your own. - - The driver is tested with usual TCP/IP applications including FTP, - Telnet, Netscape etc. and is used constantly by the developers. - - Please send all comments/fixes/questions to Lei-Chun Chang. - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 2. Changes - - Changes made in Revision 1.07 - - 1. Separation of sis900.c and sis900.h in order to move most constant - definition to sis900.h (many of those constants were corrected) - 2. Clean up PCI detection, the pci-scan from Donald Becker were not - used, just simple pci_find_*. - 3. MII detection is modified to support multiple mii transceiver. - 4. Bugs in read_eeprom, mdio_* were removed. - 5. Lot of sis900 irrelevant comments were removed/changed and more - comments were added to reflect the real situation. - 6. Clean up of physical/virtual address space mess in buffer - descriptors. - 7. Better transmit/receive error handling. - 8. The driver now uses zero-copy single buffer management scheme to - improve performance. - 9. Names of variables were changed to be more consistent. - 10. Clean up of auo-negotiation and timer code. - 11. Automatic detection and change of PHY on the fly. - 12. Bug in mac probing fixed. - 13. Fix 630E equalier problem by modifying the equalizer workaround - rule. - 14. Support for ICS1893 10/100 Interated PHYceiver. - 15. Support for media select by ifconfig. - 16. Added kernel-doc extratable documentation. - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 3. Tested Environment - - This driver is developed on the following hardware - - * Intel Celeron 500 with SiS 630 (rev 02) chipset - * SiS 900 (rev 01) and SiS 7016/7014 Fast Ethernet Card - - and tested with these software environments - - * Red Hat Linux version 6.2 - * Linux kernel version 2.4.0 - * Netscape version 4.6 - * NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 18 - * Samba version 2.0.3 - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 4. Files in This Package - - In the package you can find these files: - - sis900.c - Driver source file in C - - sis900.h - Header file for sis900.c - - sis900.sgml - DocBook SGML source of the document - - sis900.txt - Driver document in plain text - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 5. Installation - - Silicon Integrated System Corp. is cooperating closely with core Linux - Kernel developers. The revisions of SiS 900 driver are distributed by - the usuall channels for kernel tar files and patches. Those kernel tar - files for official kernel and patches for kernel pre-release can be - download at official kernel ftp site and its mirrors. The 1.06 - revision can be found in kernel version later than 2.3.15 and - pre-2.2.14, and 1.07 revision can be found in kernel version 2.4.0. If - you have no prior experience in networking under Linux, please read - Ethernet HOWTO and Networking HOWTO available from Linux Documentation - Project (LDP). - - The driver is bundled in release later than 2.2.11 and 2.3.15 so this - is the most easy case. Be sure you have the appropriate packages for - compiling kernel source. Those packages are listed in Document/Changes - in kernel source distribution. If you have to install the driver other - than those bundled in kernel release, you should have your driver file - sis900.c and sis900.h copied into /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ first. - There are two alternative ways to install the driver - _________________________________________________________________ - -Building the driver as loadable module - - To build the driver as a loadable kernel module you have to - reconfigure the kernel to activate network support by - -make menuconfig - - Choose "Loadable module support --->", then select "Enable loadable - module support". - - Choose "Network Device Support --->", select "Ethernet (10 or - 100Mbit)". Then select "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers", and - choose "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" to "M". - - After reconfiguring the kernel, you can make the driver module by - -make modules - - The driver should be compiled with no errors. After compiling the - driver, the driver can be installed to proper place by - -make modules_install - - Load the driver into kernel by - -insmod sis900 - - When loading the driver into memory, some information message can be - view by - -dmesg - - or -cat /var/log/message - - If the driver is loaded properly you will have messages similar to - this: - -sis900.c: v1.07.06 11/07/2000 -eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10, 00:00:e8:83:7f:a4. -eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1. -eth0: Using SiS 900 Internal MII PHY as default - - showing the version of the driver and the results of probing routine. - - Once the driver is loaded, network can be brought up by - -/sbin/ifconfig eth0 IPADDR broadcast BROADCAST netmask NETMASK media TYPE - - where IPADDR, BROADCAST, NETMASK are your IP address, broadcast - address and netmask respectively. TYPE is used to set medium type used - by the device. Typical values are "10baseT"(twisted-pair 10Mbps - Ethernet) or "100baseT" (twisted-pair 100Mbps Ethernet). For more - information on how to configure network interface, please refer to - Networking HOWTO. - - The link status is also shown by kernel messages. For example, after - the network interface is activated, you may have the message: - -eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex - - If you try to unplug the twist pair (TP) cable you will get - -eth0: Media Link Off - - indicating that the link is failed. - _________________________________________________________________ - -Building the driver into kernel - - If you want to make the driver into kernel, choose "Y" rather than "M" - on "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" when configuring - the kernel. Build the kernel image in the usual way - -make clean - -make bzlilo - - Next time the system reboot, you have the driver in memory. - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 6. Known Problems and Bugs - - There are some known problems and bugs. If you find any other bugs - please mail to lcchang@sis.com.tw - - 1. AM79C901 HomePNA PHY is not thoroughly tested, there may be some - bugs in the "on the fly" change of transceiver. - 2. A bug is hidden somewhere in the receive buffer management code, - the bug causes NULL pointer reference in the kernel. This fault is - caught before bad things happen and reported with the message: - eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping which can be - viewed with dmesg or cat /var/log/message. - 3. The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet - by ifconfig causes the media link down. - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 7. Revision History - - * November 13, 2000, Revision 1.07, seventh release, 630E problem - fixed and further clean up. - * November 4, 1999, Revision 1.06, Second release, lots of clean up - and optimization. - * August 8, 1999, Revision 1.05, Initial Public Release - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 8. Acknowledgements - - This driver was originally derived form Donald Becker's pci-skeleton - and rtl8139 drivers. Donald also provided various suggestion regarded - with improvements made in revision 1.06. - - The 1.05 revision was created by Jim Huang, AMD 79c901 support was - added by Chin-Shan Li. diff --git a/trunk/drivers/net/Kconfig b/trunk/drivers/net/Kconfig index 11ca9f03b43e..bdf294d2df26 100644 --- a/trunk/drivers/net/Kconfig +++ b/trunk/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -1613,11 +1613,7 @@ config SIS900 ---help--- This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on the SiS 900 and SiS 7016 chips. The SiS 900 core is also embedded in - SiS 630 and SiS 540 chipsets. If you have one of those, say Y and - read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available at - . Please read - and comments at the - beginning of for more information. + SiS 630 and SiS 540 chipsets. This driver also supports AMD 79C901 HomePNA so that you can use your phone line as a network cable.