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Commit e389f9ae authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 

* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (107 commits)
  smc911x: fix compilation breakage wjen debug is on
  [netdrvr] eexpress: minor corrections
  add NAPI support to sb1250-mac.c
  ixgb: ROUND_UP macro cleanup in drivers/net/ixgb
  e1000: ROUND_UP macro cleanup in drivers/net/e1000
  Generic HDLC sparse annotations
  e100: Optionally use I/O mode only to access register space
  e100: allow bad MAC address when running with invalid eeprom csum
  ehea: fix for dlpar support
  ehea: fix for sysfs entries
  3C509: Remove unnecessary include of <linux/pm_legacy.h>
  NetXen: Fix for vmalloc issues
  NetXen: Fixes for Power PC architecture
  NetXen: Port swap feature for multi port cards
  NetXen: Removal of redundant macros
  NetXen: Multi PCI support for Quad cards
  NetXen: Removal of redundant argument passing
  NetXen: Use multiple PCI functions
  [netdrvr e100] experiment with doing RX in a similar manner to eepro100
  [PATCH] ieee80211: add missing global needed by IEEE80211_DEBUG_XXXX
  ...
parents f73b0a08 b4cf2058

Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl

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!Enet/core/dev.c

!Enet/ethernet/eth.c

!Iinclude/linux/etherdevice.h

!Edrivers/net/phy/phy.c

!Idrivers/net/phy/phy.c

!Edrivers/net/phy/phy_device.c

!Idrivers/net/phy/phy_device.c

!Edrivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c

!Idrivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c

<!-- FIXME: Removed for now since no structured comments in source

X!Enet/core/wireless.c

-->

Documentation/networking/bcm43xx.txt

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			BCM43xx Linux Driver Project

			============================



About this software

-------------------

Introduction

------------



The goal of this project is to develop a linux driver for Broadcom

BCM43xx chips, based on the specification at 

http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/

Many of the wireless devices found in modern notebook computers are

based on the wireless chips produced by Broadcom. These devices have

been a problem for Linux users as there is no open-source driver

available. In addition, Broadcom has not released specifications

for the device, and driver availability has been limited to the

binary-only form used in the GPL versions of AP hardware such as the

Linksys WRT54G, and the Windows and OS X drivers.  Before this project

began, the only way to use these devices were to use the Windows or

OS X drivers with either the Linuxant or ndiswrapper modules. There

is a strong penalty if this method is used as loading the binary-only

module "taints" the kernel, and no kernel developer will help diagnose

any kernel problems.



The project page is http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/

Development

-----------



This driver has been developed using

a clean-room technique that is described at

http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/ReverseEngineeringProcess. For legal

reasons, none of the clean-room crew works on the on the Linux driver,

and none of the Linux developers sees anything but the specifications,

which are the ultimate product of the reverse-engineering group.



Requirements

------------

Software

--------



Since the release of the 2.6.17 kernel, the bcm43xx driver has been

distributed with the kernel source, and is prebuilt in most, if not

all, distributions.  There is, however, additional software that is

required. The firmware used by the chip is the intellectual property

of Broadcom and they have not given the bcm43xx team redistribution

rights to this firmware.  Since we cannot legally redistribute

the firwmare we cannot include it with the driver. Furthermore, it

cannot be placed in the downloadable archives of any distributing

organization; therefore, the user is responsible for obtaining the

firmware and placing it in the appropriate location so that the driver

can find it when initializing.



To help with this process, the bcm43xx developers provide a separate

program named bcm43xx-fwcutter to "cut" the firmware out of a

Windows or OS X driver and write the extracted files to the proper

location. This program is usually provided with the distribution;

however, it may be downloaded from



http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4547



1)	Linux Kernel 2.6.16 or later

	http://www.kernel.org/

The firmware is available in two versions. V3 firmware is used with

the in-kernel bcm43xx driver that uses a software MAC layer called

SoftMAC, and will have a microcode revision of 0x127 or smaller. The

V4 firmware is used by an out-of-kernel driver employing a variation of

the Devicescape MAC layer known as d80211. Once bcm43xx-d80211 reaches

a satisfactory level of development, it will replace bcm43xx-softmac

in the kernel as it is much more flexible and powerful.



	You may want to configure your kernel with:

A source for the latest V3 firmware is



	CONFIG_DEBUG_FS (optional):

		-> Kernel hacking

		  -> Debug Filesystem

http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o



2)	SoftMAC IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack extension and patched ieee80211

	modules:

	http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/

Once this file is downloaded, the command

'bcm43xx-fwcutter -w <dir> <filename>'

will extract the microcode and write it to directory

<dir>. The correct directory will depend on your distribution;

however, most use '/lib/firmware'. Once this step is completed,

the bcm3xx driver should load when the system is booted. To see

any messages relating to the driver, issue the command 'dmesg |

grep bcm43xx' from a terminal window. If there are any problems,

please send that output to Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de.



3)	Firmware Files

Although the driver has been in-kernel since 2.6.17, the earliest

version is quite limited in its capability. Patches that include

all features of later versions are available for the stable kernel

versions from 2.6.18. These will be needed if you use a BCM4318,

or a PCI Express version (BCM4311 and BCM4312). In addition, if you

have an early BCM4306 and more than 1 GB RAM, your kernel will need

to be patched.	These patches, which are being updated regularly,

are available at ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches. Look for

combined_2.6.YY.patch. Of course you will need kernel source downloaded

from kernel.org, or the source from your distribution.



	Please try fwcutter. Fwcutter can extract the firmware from various 

	binary driver files. It supports driver files from Windows, MacOS and 

	Linux. You can get fwcutter from http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/.

	Also, fwcutter comes with a README file for further instructions.
 
If you build your own kernel, please enable CONFIG_BCM43XX_DEBUG

and CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC_DEBUG. The log information provided is

essential for solving any problems.

MAINTAINERS

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HOST AP DRIVER

P:	Jouni Malinen

M:	jkmaline@cc.hut.fi

M:	j@w1.fi

L:	hostap@shmoo.com (subscribers-only)

L:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org

L:	hostap@shmoo.com

W:	http://hostap.epitest.fi/

S:	Maintained
@@ -1811,6 +1811,7 @@ P: Jeff Kirsher 
M:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com

P:	Auke Kok

M:	auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com

L:	e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

W:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/

S:	Supported
@@ -1825,6 +1826,7 @@ P: Jeff Kirsher 
M:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com

P:	Auke Kok

M:	auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com

L:	e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

W:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/

S:	Supported
@@ -1839,6 +1841,7 @@ P: Jesse Brandeburg 
M:	jesse.brandeburg@intel.com

P:	Auke Kok

M:	auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com

L:	e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

W:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/

S:	Supported
@@ -2500,6 +2503,19 @@ M: adaplas@gmail.com 
L:	linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net (subscribers-only)

S:	Maintained



NETERION (S2IO) Xframe 10GbE DRIVER

P:	Ramkrishna Vepa

M:	ram.vepa@neterion.com

P:	Rastapur Santosh

M:	santosh.rastapur@neterion.com

P:	Sivakumar Subramani

M:	sivakumar.subramani@neterion.com

P:	Sreenivasa Honnur

M:	sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com

L:	netdev@vger.kernel.org

W:	http://trac.neterion.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/TitleIndex?anonymous

S:	Supported



OPENCORES I2C BUS DRIVER

P:	Peter Korsgaard

M:	jacmet@sunsite.dk

arch/mips/mips-boards/sim/Makefile

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# 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston MA 02111-1307, USA.

#



obj-y := sim_setup.o sim_mem.o sim_time.o sim_int.o sim_cmdline.o

obj-y := sim_platform.o sim_setup.o sim_mem.o sim_time.o sim_int.o \

	 sim_cmdline.o



obj-$(CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK) += sim_console.o

obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += sim_smp.o

arch/mips/mips-boards/sim/sim_platform.c

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/*

 * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public

 * License.  See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive

 * for more details.

 *

 * Copyright (C) 2007 by Ralf Baechle (ralf@linux-mips.org)

 */

#include <linux/init.h>

#include <linux/if_ether.h>

#include <linux/kernel.h>

#include <linux/platform_device.h>



static char mipsnet_string[] = "mipsnet";



static struct platform_device eth1_device = {

	.name		= mipsnet_string,

	.id		= 0,

};



/*

 * Create a platform device for the GPI port that receives the

 * image data from the embedded camera.

 */

static int __init mipsnet_devinit(void)

{

	int err;



	err = platform_device_register(&eth1_device);

	if (err)

		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: registration failed\n", mipsnet_string);



	return err;

}



device_initcall(mipsnet_devinit);