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- Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet MAC driver
-
-Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Altera Corporation
-
-This is the driver for the Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet (TSE) controllers
-using the SGDMA and MSGDMA soft DMA IP components. The driver uses the
-platform bus to obtain component resources. The designs used to test this
-driver were built for a Cyclone(R) V SOC FPGA board, a Cyclone(R) V FPGA board,
-and tested with ARM and NIOS processor hosts separately. The anticipated use
-cases are simple communications between an embedded system and an external peer
-for status and simple configuration of the embedded system.
-
-For more information visit www.altera.com and www.rocketboards.org. Support
-forums for the driver may be found on www.rocketboards.org, and a design used
-to test this driver may be found there as well. Support is also available from
-the maintainer of this driver, found in MAINTAINERS.
-
-The Triple-Speed Ethernet, SGDMA, and MSGDMA components are all soft IP
-components that can be assembled and built into an FPGA using the Altera
-Quartus toolchain. Quartus 13.1 and 14.0 were used to build the design that
-this driver was tested against. The sopc2dts tool is used to create the
-device tree for the driver, and may be found at rocketboards.org.
-
-The driver probe function examines the device tree and determines if the
-Triple-Speed Ethernet instance is using an SGDMA or MSGDMA component. The
-probe function then installs the appropriate set of DMA routines to
-initialize, setup transmits, receives, and interrupt handling primitives for
-the respective configurations.
-
-The SGDMA component is to be deprecated in the near future (over the next 1-2
-years as of this writing in early 2014) in favor of the MSGDMA component.
-SGDMA support is included for existing designs and reference in case a
-developer wishes to support their own soft DMA logic and driver support. Any
-new designs should not use the SGDMA.
-
-The SGDMA supports only a single transmit or receive operation at a time, and
-therefore will not perform as well compared to the MSGDMA soft IP. Please
-visit www.altera.com for known, documented SGDMA errata.
-
-Scatter-gather DMA is not supported by the SGDMA or MSGDMA at this time.
-Scatter-gather DMA will be added to a future maintenance update to this
-driver.
-
-Jumbo frames are not supported at this time.
-
-The driver limits PHY operations to 10/100Mbps, and has not yet been fully
-tested for 1Gbps. This support will be added in a future maintenance update.
-
-1) Kernel Configuration
-The kernel configuration option is ALTERA_TSE:
- Device Drivers ---> Network device support ---> Ethernet driver support --->
- Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet MAC support (ALTERA_TSE)
-
-2) Driver parameters list:
- debug: message level (0: no output, 16: all);
- dma_rx_num: Number of descriptors in the RX list (default is 64);
- dma_tx_num: Number of descriptors in the TX list (default is 64).
-
-3) Command line options
-Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by using:
- altera_tse=dma_rx_num:128,dma_tx_num:512
-
-4) Driver information and notes
-
-4.1) Transmit process
-When the driver's transmit routine is called by the kernel, it sets up a
-transmit descriptor by calling the underlying DMA transmit routine (SGDMA or
-MSGDMA), and initiates a transmit operation. Once the transmit is complete, an
-interrupt is driven by the transmit DMA logic. The driver handles the transmit
-completion in the context of the interrupt handling chain by recycling
-resource required to send and track the requested transmit operation.
-
-4.2) Receive process
-The driver will post receive buffers to the receive DMA logic during driver
-initialization. Receive buffers may or may not be queued depending upon the
-underlying DMA logic (MSGDMA is able queue receive buffers, SGDMA is not able
-to queue receive buffers to the SGDMA receive logic). When a packet is
-received, the DMA logic generates an interrupt. The driver handles a receive
-interrupt by obtaining the DMA receive logic status, reaping receive
-completions until no more receive completions are available.
-
-4.3) Interrupt Mitigation
-The driver is able to mitigate the number of its DMA interrupts
-using NAPI for receive operations. Interrupt mitigation is not yet supported
-for transmit operations, but will be added in a future maintenance release.
-
-4.4) 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.
-
-4.5) PHY Support
-The driver is compatible with PAL to work with PHY and GPHY devices.
-
-4.7) List of source files:
- o Kconfig
- o Makefile
- o altera_tse_main.c: main network device driver
- o altera_tse_ethtool.c: ethtool support
- o altera_tse.h: private driver structure and common definitions
- o altera_msgdma.h: MSGDMA implementation function definitions
- o altera_sgdma.h: SGDMA implementation function definitions
- o altera_msgdma.c: MSGDMA implementation
- o altera_sgdma.c: SGDMA implementation
- o altera_sgdmahw.h: SGDMA register and descriptor definitions
- o altera_msgdmahw.h: MSGDMA register and descriptor definitions
- o altera_utils.c: Driver utility functions
- o altera_utils.h: Driver utility function definitions
-
-5) Debug Information
-
-The driver exports debug information such as internal statistics,
-debug information, MAC and DMA registers etc.
-
-A user may use the ethtool support to get statistics:
-e.g. using: ethtool -S ethX (that shows the statistics counters)
-or sees the MAC registers: e.g. using: ethtool -d ethX
-
-The developer can also use the "debug" module parameter to get
-further debug information.
-
-6) Statistics Support
-
-The controller and driver support a mix of IEEE standard defined statistics,
-RFC defined statistics, and driver or Altera defined statistics. The four
-specifications containing the standard definitions for these statistics are
-as follows:
-
- o IEEE 802.3-2012 - IEEE Standard for Ethernet.
- o RFC 2863 found at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2863.txt.
- o RFC 2819 found at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2819.txt.
- o Altera Triple Speed Ethernet User Guide, found at http://www.altera.com
-
-The statistics supported by the TSE and the device driver are as follows:
-
-"tx_packets" is equivalent to aFramesTransmittedOK defined in IEEE 802.3-2012,
-Section 5.2.2.1.2. This statistics is the count of frames that are successfully
-transmitted.
-
-"rx_packets" is equivalent to aFramesReceivedOK defined in IEEE 802.3-2012,
-Section 5.2.2.1.5. This statistic is the count of frames that are successfully
-received. This count does not include any error packets such as CRC errors,
-length errors, or alignment errors.
-
-"rx_crc_errors" is equivalent to aFrameCheckSequenceErrors defined in IEEE
-802.3-2012, Section 5.2.2.1.6. This statistic is the count of frames that are
-an integral number of bytes in length and do not pass the CRC test as the frame
-is received.
-
-"rx_align_errors" is equivalent to aAlignmentErrors defined in IEEE 802.3-2012,
-Section 5.2.2.1.7. This statistic is the count of frames that are not an
-integral number of bytes in length and do not pass the CRC test as the frame is
-received.
-
-"tx_bytes" is equivalent to aOctetsTransmittedOK defined in IEEE 802.3-2012,
-Section 5.2.2.1.8. This statistic is the count of data and pad bytes
-successfully transmitted from the interface.
-
-"rx_bytes" is equivalent to aOctetsReceivedOK defined in IEEE 802.3-2012,
-Section 5.2.2.1.14. This statistic is the count of data and pad bytes
-successfully received by the controller.
-
-"tx_pause" is equivalent to aPAUSEMACCtrlFramesTransmitted defined in IEEE
-802.3-2012, Section 30.3.4.2. This statistic is a count of PAUSE frames
-transmitted from the network controller.
-
-"rx_pause" is equivalent to aPAUSEMACCtrlFramesReceived defined in IEEE
-802.3-2012, Section 30.3.4.3. This statistic is a count of PAUSE frames
-received by the network controller.
-
-"rx_errors" is equivalent to ifInErrors defined in RFC 2863. This statistic is
-a count of the number of packets received containing errors that prevented the
-packet from being delivered to a higher level protocol.
-
-"tx_errors" is equivalent to ifOutErrors defined in RFC 2863. This statistic
-is a count of the number of packets that could not be transmitted due to errors.
-
-"rx_unicast" is equivalent to ifInUcastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This
-statistic is a count of the number of packets received that were not addressed
-to the broadcast address or a multicast group.
-
-"rx_multicast" is equivalent to ifInMulticastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This
-statistic is a count of the number of packets received that were addressed to
-a multicast address group.
-
-"rx_broadcast" is equivalent to ifInBroadcastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This
-statistic is a count of the number of packets received that were addressed to
-the broadcast address.
-
-"tx_discards" is equivalent to ifOutDiscards defined in RFC 2863. This
-statistic is the number of outbound packets not transmitted even though an
-error was not detected. An example of a reason this might occur is to free up
-internal buffer space.
-
-"tx_unicast" is equivalent to ifOutUcastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This
-statistic counts the number of packets transmitted that were not addressed to
-a multicast group or broadcast address.
-
-"tx_multicast" is equivalent to ifOutMulticastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This
-statistic counts the number of packets transmitted that were addressed to a
-multicast group.
-
-"tx_broadcast" is equivalent to ifOutBroadcastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This
-statistic counts the number of packets transmitted that were addressed to a
-broadcast address.
-
-"ether_drops" is equivalent to etherStatsDropEvents defined in RFC 2819.
-This statistic counts the number of packets dropped due to lack of internal
-controller resources.
-
-"rx_total_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsOctets defined in RFC 2819.
-This statistic counts the total number of bytes received by the controller,
-including error and discarded packets.
-
-"rx_total_packets" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts defined in RFC 2819.
-This statistic counts the total number of packets received by the controller,
-including error, discarded, unicast, multicast, and broadcast packets.
-
-"rx_undersize" is equivalent to etherStatsUndersizePkts defined in RFC 2819.
-This statistic counts the number of correctly formed packets received less
-than 64 bytes long.
-
-"rx_oversize" is equivalent to etherStatsOversizePkts defined in RFC 2819.
-This statistic counts the number of correctly formed packets greater than 1518
-bytes long.
-
-"rx_64_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts64Octets defined in RFC 2819.
-This statistic counts the total number of packets received that were 64 octets
-in length.
-
-"rx_65_127_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts65to127Octets defined in RFC
-2819. This statistic counts the total number of packets received that were
-between 65 and 127 octets in length inclusive.
-
-"rx_128_255_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts128to255Octets defined in
-RFC 2819. This statistic is the total number of packets received that were
-between 128 and 255 octets in length inclusive.
-
-"rx_256_511_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts256to511Octets defined in
-RFC 2819. This statistic is the total number of packets received that were
-between 256 and 511 octets in length inclusive.
-
-"rx_512_1023_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts512to1023Octets defined in
-RFC 2819. This statistic is the total number of packets received that were
-between 512 and 1023 octets in length inclusive.
-
-"rx_1024_1518_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts1024to1518Octets define
-in RFC 2819. This statistic is the total number of packets received that were
-between 1024 and 1518 octets in length inclusive.
-
-"rx_gte_1519_bytes" is a statistic defined specific to the behavior of the
-Altera TSE. This statistics counts the number of received good and errored
-frames between the length of 1519 and the maximum frame length configured
-in the frm_length register. See the Altera TSE User Guide for More details.
-
-"rx_jabbers" is equivalent to etherStatsJabbers defined in RFC 2819. This
-statistic is the total number of packets received that were longer than 1518
-octets, and had either a bad CRC with an integral number of octets (CRC Error)
-or a bad CRC with a non-integral number of octets (Alignment Error).
-
-"rx_runts" is equivalent to etherStatsFragments defined in RFC 2819. This
-statistic is the total number of packets received that were less than 64 octets
-in length and had either a bad CRC with an integral number of octets (CRC
-error) or a bad CRC with a non-integral number of octets (Alignment Error).