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authorwpaul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org>1999-09-22 05:07:51 +0000
committerwpaul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org>1999-09-22 05:07:51 +0000
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Spruce up the ADMtek driver: conver to newbus, miibus and add support
for the AN985 "Centaur" chip, which is apparently the next genetation of the "Comet." The AN985 is also a tulip clone and is similar to the AL981 except that it uses a 99C66 EEPROM and a serial MII interface (instead of direct access to the PHY registers). Also updated various documentation to mention the AN985 and created a loadable module. I don't think there are any cards that use this chip on the market yet: the datasheet I got from ADMtek has boxes with big X's in them where the diagrams should be, and the sample boards I got have chips without any artwork on them.
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@@ -36,25 +36,25 @@
.Sh NAME
.Nm al
.Nd
-ADMtek Inc. AL981 Comet fast ethernet device driver
+ADMtek Inc. AL981 Comet and AN985 Centaur fast ethernet device driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device al0"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded
-controllers based on the ADMtek Inc. AL981 Comet fast ethernet
-controller chip.
+controllers based on the ADMtek Inc. AL981 Comet and AN 985
+Centaur fast ethernet controller chips.
.Pp
The ADMtek chip uses bus master DMA and is designed to be a
DEC 21x4x workalike. The only major difference between the DEC
-and ADMtek parts is that the AL981 receiver filter is programmed
+and ADMtek parts is that the ADMtek receiver filter is programmed
using two special registers where as the DEC chip is programmed
by uploading a special setup frame via the transmit DMA engine.
-The AL981 receive filter can only be programmed with a single
+The AL981 and AN985 can only be programmed with a single
perfect filter entry for the local station address and a 64-bit
multicast hash table; the DEC filter supports several other
-options. The ADMtek fast ethernet controller supports both
+options. The ADMtek fast ethernet controllers support both
10 and 100Mbps speeds in either full or half duplex using
an internal MII transceiver.
.Pp
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