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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c2cbac --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl @@ -0,0 +1,585 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" + "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []> + +<book id="SiS900Guide"> + +<bookinfo> + +<title>SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet Device Driver</title> + +<authorgroup> +<author> +<firstname>Ollie</firstname> +<surname>Lho</surname> +</author> + +<author> +<firstname>Lei Chun</firstname> +<surname>Chang</surname> +</author> +</authorgroup> + +<edition>Document Revision: 0.3 for SiS900 driver v1.06 & v1.07</edition> +<pubdate>November 16, 2000</pubdate> + +<copyright> + <year>1999</year> + <holder>Silicon Integrated System Corp.</holder> +</copyright> + +<legalnotice> + <para> + This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify + it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by + the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or + (at your option) any later version. + </para> + + <para> + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, + but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of + MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the + GNU General Public License for more details. + </para> + + <para> + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License + along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software + Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA + </para> +</legalnotice> + +<abstract> +<para> +This document gives some information on installation and usage of SiS 900/7016 +device driver under Linux. +</para> +</abstract> + +</bookinfo> + +<toc></toc> + +<chapter id="intro"> + <title>Introduction</title> + +<para> +This document describes the revision 1.06 and 1.07 of SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet +device driver under Linux. The driver is developed by Silicon Integrated +System Corp. and distributed freely under the GNU General Public License (GPL). +The driver can be compiled as a loadable module and used under Linux kernel +version 2.2.x. (rev. 1.06) +With minimal changes, the driver can also be used under 2.3.x and 2.4.x kernel +(rev. 1.07), please see +<xref linkend="install"/>. If you are intended to +use the driver for earlier kernels, you are on your own. +</para> + +<para> +The driver is tested with usual TCP/IP applications including +FTP, Telnet, Netscape etc. and is used constantly by the developers. +</para> + +<para> +Please send all comments/fixes/questions to +<ulink url="mailto:lcchang@sis.com.tw">Lei-Chun Chang</ulink>. +</para> +</chapter> + +<chapter id="changes"> + <title>Changes</title> + +<para> +Changes made in Revision 1.07 + +<orderedlist> +<listitem> +<para> +Separation of sis900.c and sis900.h in order to move most +constant definition to sis900.h (many of those constants were +corrected) +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +Clean up PCI detection, the pci-scan from Donald Becker were not used, +just simple pci_find_*. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +MII detection is modified to support multiple mii transceiver. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +Bugs in read_eeprom, mdio_* were removed. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +Lot of sis900 irrelevant comments were removed/changed and +more comments were added to reflect the real situation. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +Clean up of physical/virtual address space mess in buffer +descriptors. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +Better transmit/receive error handling. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +The driver now uses zero-copy single buffer management +scheme to improve performance. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +Names of variables were changed to be more consistent. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +Clean up of auo-negotiation and timer code. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +Automatic detection and change of PHY on the fly. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +Bug in mac probing fixed. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +Fix 630E equalier problem by modifying the equalizer workaround rule. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +Support for ICS1893 10/100 Interated PHYceiver. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +Support for media select by ifconfig. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +Added kernel-doc extratable documentation. +</para> +</listitem> + +</orderedlist> +</para> +</chapter> + +<chapter id="tested"> + <title>Tested Environment</title> + +<para> +This driver is developed on the following hardware + +<itemizedlist> +<listitem> + +<para> +Intel Celeron 500 with SiS 630 (rev 02) chipset +</para> +</listitem> +<listitem> + +<para> +SiS 900 (rev 01) and SiS 7016/7014 Fast Ethernet Card +</para> +</listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +and tested with these software environments + +<itemizedlist> +<listitem> + +<para> +Red Hat Linux version 6.2 +</para> +</listitem> +<listitem> + +<para> +Linux kernel version 2.4.0 +</para> +</listitem> +<listitem> + +<para> +Netscape version 4.6 +</para> +</listitem> +<listitem> + +<para> +NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 18 +</para> +</listitem> +<listitem> + +<para> +Samba version 2.0.3 +</para> +</listitem> + +</itemizedlist> + +</para> + +</chapter> + +<chapter id="files"> +<title>Files in This Package</title> + +<para> +In the package you can find these files: +</para> + +<para> +<variablelist> + +<varlistentry> +<term>sis900.c</term> +<listitem> +<para> +Driver source file in C +</para> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry> +<term>sis900.h</term> +<listitem> +<para> +Header file for sis900.c +</para> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry> +<term>sis900.sgml</term> +<listitem> +<para> +DocBook SGML source of the document +</para> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +<varlistentry> +<term>sis900.txt</term> +<listitem> +<para> +Driver document in plain text +</para> +</listitem> +</varlistentry> + +</variablelist> +</para> +</chapter> + +<chapter id="install"> + <title>Installation</title> + +<para> +Silicon Integrated System Corp. is cooperating closely with core Linux Kernel +developers. The revisions of SiS 900 driver are distributed by the usuall channels +for kernel tar files and patches. Those kernel tar files for official kernel and +patches for kernel pre-release can be download at +<ulink url="http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/">official kernel ftp site</ulink> +and its mirrors. +The 1.06 revision can be found in kernel version later than 2.3.15 and pre-2.2.14, +and 1.07 revision can be found in kernel version 2.4.0. +If you have no prior experience in networking under Linux, please read +<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">Ethernet HOWTO</ulink> and +<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">Networking HOWTO</ulink> available from +Linux Documentation Project (LDP). +</para> + +<para> +The driver is bundled in release later than 2.2.11 and 2.3.15 so this +is the most easy case. +Be sure you have the appropriate packages for compiling kernel source. +Those packages are listed in Document/Changes in kernel source +distribution. If you have to install the driver other than those bundled +in kernel release, you should have your driver file +<filename>sis900.c</filename> and <filename>sis900.h</filename> +copied into <filename class="directory">/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/</filename> first. +There are two alternative ways to install the driver +</para> + +<sect1> +<title>Building the driver as loadable module</title> + +<para> +To build the driver as a loadable kernel module you have to reconfigure +the kernel to activate network support by +</para> + +<para><screen> +make menuconfig +</screen></para> + +<para> +Choose <quote>Loadable module support ---></quote>, +then select <quote>Enable loadable module support</quote>. +</para> + +<para> +Choose <quote>Network Device Support ---></quote>, select +<quote>Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)</quote>. +Then select <quote>EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers</quote>, +and choose <quote>SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support</quote> +to <quote>M</quote>. +</para> + +<para> +After reconfiguring the kernel, you can make the driver module by +</para> + +<para><screen> +make modules +</screen></para> + +<para> +The driver should be compiled with no errors. After compiling the driver, +the driver can be installed to proper place by +</para> + +<para><screen> +make modules_install +</screen></para> + +<para> +Load the driver into kernel by +</para> + +<para><screen> +insmod sis900 +</screen></para> + +<para> +When loading the driver into memory, some information message can be view by +</para> + +<para> +<screen> +dmesg +</screen> + +or + +<screen> +cat /var/log/message +</screen> +</para> + +<para> +If the driver is loaded properly you will have messages similar to this: +</para> + +<para><screen> +sis900.c: v1.07.06 11/07/2000 +eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10, 00:00:e8:83:7f:a4. +eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1. +eth0: Using SiS 900 Internal MII PHY as default +</screen></para> + +<para> +showing the version of the driver and the results of probing routine. +</para> + +<para> +Once the driver is loaded, network can be brought up by +</para> + +<para><screen> +/sbin/ifconfig eth0 IPADDR broadcast BROADCAST netmask NETMASK media TYPE +</screen></para> + +<para> +where IPADDR, BROADCAST, NETMASK are your IP address, broadcast address and +netmask respectively. TYPE is used to set medium type used by the device. +Typical values are "10baseT"(twisted-pair 10Mbps Ethernet) or "100baseT" +(twisted-pair 100Mbps Ethernet). For more information on how to configure +network interface, please refer to +<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">Networking HOWTO</ulink>. +</para> + +<para> +The link status is also shown by kernel messages. For example, after the +network interface is activated, you may have the message: +</para> + +<para><screen> +eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex +</screen></para> + +<para> +If you try to unplug the twist pair (TP) cable you will get +</para> + +<para><screen> +eth0: Media Link Off +</screen></para> + +<para> +indicating that the link is failed. +</para> +</sect1> + +<sect1> +<title>Building the driver into kernel</title> + +<para> +If you want to make the driver into kernel, choose <quote>Y</quote> +rather than <quote>M</quote> on +<quote>SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support</quote> +when configuring the kernel. Build the kernel image in the usual way +</para> + +<para><screen> +make clean + +make bzlilo +</screen></para> + +<para> +Next time the system reboot, you have the driver in memory. +</para> + +</sect1> +</chapter> + +<chapter id="problems"> + <title>Known Problems and Bugs</title> + +<para> +There are some known problems and bugs. If you find any other bugs please +mail to <ulink url="mailto:lcchang@sis.com.tw">lcchang@sis.com.tw</ulink> + +<orderedlist> + +<listitem> +<para> +AM79C901 HomePNA PHY is not thoroughly tested, there may be some +bugs in the <quote>on the fly</quote> change of transceiver. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +A bug is hidden somewhere in the receive buffer management code, +the bug causes NULL pointer reference in the kernel. This fault is +caught before bad things happen and reported with the message: + +<computeroutput> +eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping +</computeroutput> + +which can be viewed with <literal remap="tt">dmesg</literal> or +<literal remap="tt">cat /var/log/message</literal>. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet +by ifconfig causes the media link down. +</para> +</listitem> + +</orderedlist> +</para> +</chapter> + +<chapter id="RHistory"> + <title>Revision History</title> + +<para> +<itemizedlist> + +<listitem> +<para> +November 13, 2000, Revision 1.07, seventh release, 630E problem fixed +and further clean up. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +November 4, 1999, Revision 1.06, Second release, lots of clean up +and optimization. +</para> +</listitem> + +<listitem> +<para> +August 8, 1999, Revision 1.05, Initial Public Release +</para> +</listitem> + +</itemizedlist> +</para> +</chapter> + +<chapter id="acknowledgements"> + <title>Acknowledgements</title> + +<para> +This driver was originally derived form +<ulink url="mailto:becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov">Donald Becker</ulink>'s +<ulink url="ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/pci-skeleton.c" +>pci-skeleton</ulink> and +<ulink url="ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/rtl8139.c" +>rtl8139</ulink> drivers. Donald also provided various suggestion +regarded with improvements made in revision 1.06. +</para> + +<para> +The 1.05 revision was created by +<ulink url="mailto:cmhuang@sis.com.tw">Jim Huang</ulink>, AMD 79c901 +support was added by <ulink url="mailto:lcs@sis.com.tw">Chin-Shan Li</ulink>. +</para> +</chapter> + +<chapter id="functions"> +<title>List of Functions</title> +!Idrivers/net/sis900.c +</chapter> + +</book> |
