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authorwpaul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org>1999-12-28 02:01:18 +0000
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This commit adds device driver support for the ADMtek AN986 Pegasus
USB ethernet chip. Adapters that use this chip include the LinkSys USB100TX. There are a few others, but I'm not certain of their availability in the U.S. I used an ADMtek eval board for development. Note that while the ADMtek chip is a 100Mbps device, you can't really get 100Mbps speeds over USB. Regardless, this driver uses miibus to allow speed and duplex mode selection as well as autonegotiation. Building and kldloading the driver as a module is also supported. Note that in order to make this driver work, I had to make what some may consider an ugly hack to sys/dev/usb/usbdi.c. The usbd_transfer() function will use tsleep() for synchronous transfers that don't complete right away. This is a problem since there are times when we need to do sync transfers from an interrupt context (i.e. when reading registers from the MAC via the control endpoint), where tsleep() us a no-no. My hack allows the driver to have the code poll for transfer completion subject to the xfer->timeout timeout rather that calling tsleep(). This hack is controlled by a quirk entry and is only enabled for the ADMtek device. Now, I'm sure there are a few of you out there ready to jump on me and suggest some other approach that doesn't involve a busy wait. The only solution that might work is to handle the interrupts in a kernel thread, where you may have something resembling a process context that makes it okay to tsleep(). This is lovely, except we don't have any mechanism like that now, and I'm not about to implement such a thing myself since it's beyond the scope of driver development. (Translation: I'll be damned if I know how to do it.) If FreeBSD ever aquires such a mechanism, I'll be glad to revisit the driver to take advantage of it. In the meantime, I settled for what I perceived to be the solution that involved the least amount of code changes. In general, the hit is pretty light. Also note that my only USB test box has a UHCI controller: I haven't I don't have a machine with an OHCI controller available. Highlights: - Updated usb_quirks.* to add UQ_NO_TSLEEP quirk for ADMtek part. - Updated usbdevs and regenerated generated files - Updated HARDWARE.TXT and RELNOTES.TXT files - Updated sysinstall/device.c and userconfig.c - Updated kernel configs -- device aue0 is commented out by default - Updated /sys/conf/files - Added new kld module directory
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+.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999
+.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ee.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved.
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+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd December 25, 1999
+.Dt AUE 4 i386
+.Os FreeBSD
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm aue
+.Nd
+ADMtek AN986 Pegasus USB Ethernet driver
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Cd "controller uhci0"
+.Cd "controller ohci0"
+.Cd "controller usb0"
+.Cd "controller miibus0"
+.Cd "device aue0"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+driver provides support for USB ethernet adapters based on the ADMtek
+AN986 Pegasus chipset, including the LinkSys USB100TX, the Billionton
+Systems USB100 and the Melco Inc. LU-ATX. The Pegasus contains a 10/100
+ethernet MAC with MII interface and is designed to work with both
+ethernet and HomePNA transceivers. Although designed to interface with
+100Mbps peripherals, the existing USB standard specifies a maximum
+transfer speed of 12Mbps. Users should therefore not expect to actually
+achieve 100Mbps speeds with these devices.
+.Pp
+The Pegasus supports a 64-bit multicast hash table, single perfect
+filter entry for the station address and promiscuous mode. Packets are
+received and transmitted over separate USB bulk transfer endpoints.
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+driver supports the following media types:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+.It autoselect
+Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
+The user can manually override
+the autoselected mode by adding media options to the
+.Pa /etc/rc.conf
+file.
+.It 10baseT/UTP
+Set 10Mbps operation. The
+.Ar mediaopt
+option can also be used to enable
+.Ar full-duplex
+operation. Not specifying
+.Ar full duplex
+implies
+.Ar half-duplex
+mode.
+.It 100baseTX
+Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation. The
+.Ar mediaopt
+option can also be used to enable
+.Ar full-duplex
+operation. Not specifying
+.Ar full duplex
+implies
+.Ar half-duplex
+mode.
+.El
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+driver supports the following media options:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
+.It full-duplex
+Force full duplex operation. The interface will operate in
+half duplex mode if this media option is not specified.
+.El
+.Pp
+For more information on configuring this device, see
+.Xr ifconfig 8 .
+.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
+.Bl -diag
+.It "aue%d: watchdog timeout"
+A packet was queued for transmission and a transmit command was
+issued, however the device failed to acknowledge the transmission
+before a timeout expired.
+.It "aue%d: no memory for rx list"
+The driver failed to allocate an mbuf for the receiver ring.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr arp 4 ,
+.Xr netintro 4 ,
+.Xr ifconfig 8
+.Rs
+.%T ADMtek AN986 data sheet
+.%O http://www.admtek.com.tw
+.Re
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+device driver first appeared in
+.Fx 4.0 .
+.Sh AUTHORS
+The
+.Nm
+driver was written by
+.An Bill Paul Aq wpaul@ee.columbia.edu .
+.Sh BUGS
+For some reason, outgoing bulk transfers (i.e. packet transmissions)
+fail if the transfer is exactly a multiple of 64 bytes in size. The
+.Nm
+driver works around this by padding such transfers up by one additional
+byte. This does not affect connectivity, however it does cause packets
+to occasionaly appear on the wire with one additional byte for no good
+reason. It is not known if this bug is due to a problem with Pegasus
+chip itself or some peculiarity of the underlying USB support.
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