[PATCH net-next 00/15]bnx2x: add BCM57711 and new features
From: Eilon Greenstein <hidden>
Date: 2008-06-23 16:01:44
Hi,
This is another attempt to send this patch with integrated comments.
This patch adds support for two new chips: BCM57711 and its variant the
BCM57711E, adds new link management code, new statistics code, enhanced
self-tests, IPv6 TSO and least but not last TPA, our hardware based LRO
- I would like to thank Ben Hutchings for his comments on the LRO.
Wendy Xiong from IBM contributed the PCIE EEH handling code.
Patches:
01: Rename bnx2x.c to bnx2x_main.c - preparing to breakout the link code
to a new file. This patch is a simple git mv bnx2x.c bnx2x_main.c
and
the necessary Makefile change. Unfortunately, this patch is too big
for the mailing list so it contains only the Makefile diff and the
git mv command
02: Adding bnx2x_link - this part of the patch is just adding the new
files (bnx2x_link.[ch]) without using them (to make the patch
smaller)
03. New link code - Major cleanup, using a separate file for link
related operations, smoother support of external PHY handling with
the device
04: New init infrastructure - support the new initialization for
multi-chip environment, without the microcode
05: Remove old microcode - as part of the microcode replacement
06: New microcode part 1 - 1st part of the new microcode (BLOB)
07: New microcode part 2 - 2nd part of the new microcode (BLOB)
08: New microcode part 3 - 3rd part of the new microcode (BLOB)
09: Add support for BCM57711 HW, re-factoring struct bnx2x to allow this
10: New statistics code, fixes race between stats and close, add
BCM57711
11: Add TPA, Broadcom's HW LRO with ethtool support to allow turning
off the feature when forwarding is enabled
12: Re-factor Tx code, add GSO_6 support
13. Enhanced self test
14: Add PCIE EEH support
15: Update version
Enjoy,
Eilon