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| author | Deepak SIKRI <deepak.sikri@st.com> | 2012-04-04 04:33:20 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-04-04 18:39:23 -0400 |
| commit | 55f9a4d6facb35198ddb88a8fe21ca2ee753af7a (patch) | |
| tree | 7d5117dcf6ec24bb4b501d95992d3ce25725ce4b /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | f142af2e2064546ac470e8690acbd189b3584e67 (diff) | |
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stmmac: Define CSUM offload engine Types
This patch explicitly defines the CSUM offload engine type which need
(not mandatory) to be passed from the platform code.
STMMAC core supports two check sum offload engine types- Type-1 & Type-2.
Also, there are STMMAC cores that do not have the check sum offload
capabilities.
The behaviour of Type-1 & Type-2 cores related to provision of checksum
increases the packet length for Type-1 cores by 2, as the checksum is appended
at the end of data packet and the same is made accountable in the DMA status.
The STMMAC cores beyond Version-3.5 provide HW interface registers which allows
the user to read the HW capabilities, while to support the previous cores the
information related to HW capabilities has to be provided from the platform
code.
The Type-1 cores which do not have the HW register interface need this
information.
This patch also updates the driver's doc.
Signed-off-by: Deepak Sikri <deepak.sikri@st.com>
Hacked-by: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt index d0aeeadd264b..61f40a3fa7ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/stmmac.txt @@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ and detailed below as well: int has_gmac; int enh_desc; int tx_coe; + int rx_coe; int bugged_jumbo; int pmt; int force_sf_dma_mode; @@ -140,6 +141,8 @@ Where: o has_gmac: uses the GMAC core. o enh_desc: if sets the MAC will use the enhanced descriptor structure. o tx_coe: core is able to perform the tx csum in HW. + o rx_coe: the supports three check sum offloading engine types: + type_1, type_2 (full csum) and no RX coe. o bugged_jumbo: some HWs are not able to perform the csum in HW for over-sized frames due to limited buffer sizes. Setting this flag the csum will be done in SW on |