android_kernel_motorola_sm6375/drivers/net
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Thomas Petazzoni c5aff18204 net: mvneta: driver for Marvell Armada 370/XP network unit
This patch contains a new network driver for the network unit of the
ARM Marvell Armada 370 and the Armada XP. Both SoCs use the PJ4B
processor, a Marvell-developed ARM core that implements the ARMv7
instruction set.

Compared to previous ARM Marvell SoCs (Kirkwood, Orion, Discovery),
the network unit in Armada 370 and Armada XP is highly different. This
is the reason why this new 'mvneta' driver is needed, while the older
ARM Marvell SoCs use the 'mv643xx_eth' driver.

Here is an overview of the most important hardware changes that
require a new, specific, driver for the network unit of Armada 370/XP:

 - The new network unit has a completely different design and layout
   for the RX and TX descriptors. They are now organized as a simple
   array (each RX and TX queue has base address and size of this
   array) rather than a linked list as in the old SoCs.

 - The new network unit has a different RXQ and TXQ management: this
   management is done using special read/write counter registers,
   while in the Old SocS, it was done using the Ownership bit in RX
   and TX descriptors.

 - The new network unit has different interrupt registers

 - The new network unit way of cleaning of interrupts is not done by
   writing to the cause register, but by updating per-queue counters

 - The new network unit has different GMAC registers (link, speed,
   duplex configuration) and different WRR registers.

 - The new network unit has lots of new units like PnC (Parser and
   Classifier), PMT, BM (Memory Buffer Management), xPON, and more.

The driver proposed in the current patch only handles the basic
features. Additional hardware features will progressively be supported
as needed.

This code has originally been written by Rami Rosen
<[email protected]>, and then reviewed and cleaned up by Thomas
Petazzoni <[email protected]>.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
2012-11-16 10:21:26 +01:00
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appletalk net: Use PTR_RET rather than if(IS_ERR(.. [1] 2012-08-06 13:30:02 -07:00
arcnet
bonding bonding: fix second off-by-one error 2012-11-01 11:53:44 -04:00
caif caif: fix NULL pointer check 2012-07-24 13:54:16 -07:00
can can: sja1000: fix/add miniPCIe/cPCI PC/104Plus PCI/104e PEAK-System boards 2012-10-24 10:53:49 +02:00
cris cris: fix eth_v10.c build error 2012-08-03 20:32:31 -07:00
dsa
ethernet net: mvneta: driver for Marvell Armada 370/XP network unit 2012-11-16 10:21:26 +01:00
fddi fddi: 64 bit bug in smt_add_para() 2012-09-01 22:44:13 -04:00
hamradio sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/net/hamradio 2012-10-06 03:04:43 +09:00
hippi
hyperv hyperv: Add buffer for extended info after the RNDIS response message. 2012-10-02 14:39:31 -04:00
ieee802154 workqueue: avoid using deprecated functions 2012-10-02 16:01:31 -07:00
irda drivers/net/irda/sh_sir.c: fix error return code 2012-10-07 14:37:11 -04:00
phy drivers/net/phy/mdio-bitbang.c: Call mdiobus_unregister before mdiobus_free 2012-11-02 21:36:06 -04:00
plip
ppp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-09-28 14:40:49 -04:00
slip drivers: net: Remove casts to same type 2012-06-06 09:31:33 -07:00
team team: set qdisc_tx_busylock to avoid LOCKDEP splat 2012-10-04 15:53:48 -04:00
usb usbnet: ratelimit kevent may have been dropped warnings 2012-11-09 16:59:32 -05:00
vmxnet3 vmxnet3: must split too big fragments 2012-11-02 21:58:09 -04:00
wan farsync: fix support for over 30 cards 2012-10-09 13:54:59 -04:00
wimax wimax/i2400m: use is_zero_ether_addr() instead of memcmp() 2012-08-24 13:30:26 -04:00
wireless drivers/net: use tasklet_kill in device remove/close process 2012-11-03 15:10:15 -04:00
xen-netback xen: netback: handle compound page fragments on transmit. 2012-10-10 22:50:45 -04:00
dummy.c net: fix race condition in several drivers when reading stats 2012-07-22 12:12:32 -07:00
eql.c
ifb.c
Kconfig vxlan: Depend on CONFIG_INET 2012-10-02 14:37:31 -04:00
LICENSE.SRC
loopback.c net: loopback: set default mtu to 64K 2012-09-24 16:23:53 -04:00
macvlan.c netlink: add attributes to fdb interface 2012-10-01 18:39:44 -04:00
macvtap.c macvtap: rcu_dereference outside read-lock section 2012-08-12 13:40:48 -07:00
Makefile vxlan: virtual extensible lan 2012-10-01 18:39:45 -04:00
mdio.c
mii.c
netconsole.c netconsole: remove a redundant netconsole_target_put() 2012-08-20 02:59:49 -07:00
rionet.c rapidio/rionet: rework to support multiple RIO master ports 2012-10-06 03:05:23 +09:00
sb1000.c
Space.c
sungem_phy.c
tun.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2012-10-02 11:11:09 -07:00
veth.c veth: Allow to create peer link with given ifindex 2012-08-09 16:18:07 -07:00
virtio_net.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
vxlan.c vxlan: don't expire permanent entries 2012-10-31 13:42:12 -04:00
xen-netfront.c Features: 2012-10-07 07:13:01 +09:00