Subject: RFC: igb: Intel 82575 gigabit ethernet driver (take #3)

From: "Kok, Auke" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:32:28 -0800

All,

here is the third version of the igb (82575) ethernet controller driver. This
driver was previously posted 2007-07-13 and 2007-12-11. Many comments received
were addressed:

- removed indirection wrappers in the same way as e1000e and ixgbe.
- cleaned up largely against sparse, checkpatch
- removed module parameters and moved functionality to ethtool ioctls
- new NAPI API rewrites
- by default the driver runs in multiqueue mode with 2 to 40 RX queues enabled.

and specifically in this version:

- register macro's were condensed for readability
- fixed namespace collisions by renaming functions to igb_*

Since the driver is still too large (allthough the patch shrunk from 558k to 416k
to 407k, almost 38% of its size) to post to this list I am attaching the bzipped
patch here. You can get the same driver alternatively from here:

http://foo-projects.org/~sofar/0001-igb-PCI-Express-82575-Gigabit-Ethernet-driver.patch
[407k]
http://foo-projects.org/~sofar/0001-igb-PCI-Express-82575-Gigabit-Ethernet-driver.patch.bz2
[74k]

or through git:
    git://lost.foo-projects.org/~ahkok/git/linux-2.6 #igb

There are several concerns still open for this driver:
- hardware code is still a large API. we're expecting more hardware to be
supported by this driver in the future. The API has already been scrubbed but we
anticipate that the remaining hooks will be used in the future.
- The register defines are still named "E1000_" as they are mostly identical to
the e1000 chipsets (igb register space is a superset of most recent e1000 register
sets).

Please review,

Cheers,

Auke

---

>>From 4ec9e52f44de0c1c41265c5f326b573643f24da7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Auke Kok <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:55:46 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] igb: PCI-Express 82575 Gigabit Ethernet driver

We are pleased to announce a new Gigabit Ethernet product and its
driver to the linux community. This product is the Intel(R) 82575
Gigabit Ethernet adapter family. Physical adapters will be available
to the public soon. These adapters come in 2- and 4-port versions
(copper PHY) currently. Other variants will be available later.

The 82575 chipset supports significantly different features that
warrant a new driver. The descriptor format is (just like the
ixgbe driver) different. The device can use multiple MSI-X vectors
and multiple queues for both send and receive. This allows us to
optimize some of the driver code specifically as well compared to
the e1000-supported devices.

This version of the igb driver no lnger uses fake netdevices and
incorporates napi_struct members for each ring to do the multi-
queue polling. multi-queue is enabled by default and the driver
supports NAPI mode only.

All the namespace collisions should be gone in this version too. The
register macro's have been condensed to improve readability.

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <[email-masked]>
---
 drivers/net/Kconfig             |   22 +
 drivers/net/Makefile            |    1 +
 drivers/net/igb/Makefile        |   37 +
 drivers/net/igb/e1000_82575.c   | 1269 ++++++++++++
 drivers/net/igb/e1000_82575.h   |  150 ++
 drivers/net/igb/e1000_defines.h |  772 ++++++++
 drivers/net/igb/e1000_hw.h      |  599 ++++++
 drivers/net/igb/e1000_mac.c     | 1505 ++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/igb/e1000_mac.h     |   98 +
 drivers/net/igb/e1000_nvm.c     |  605 ++++++
 drivers/net/igb/e1000_nvm.h     |   40 +
 drivers/net/igb/e1000_phy.c     | 1807 +++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/igb/e1000_phy.h     |   98 +
 drivers/net/igb/e1000_regs.h    |  270 +++
 drivers/net/igb/igb.h           |  300 +++
 drivers/net/igb/igb_ethtool.c   | 1927 ++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c      | 4138 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 17 files changed, 13638 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/Makefile
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/e1000_82575.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/e1000_82575.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/e1000_defines.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/e1000_hw.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/e1000_mac.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/e1000_mac.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/e1000_nvm.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/e1000_nvm.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/e1000_phy.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/e1000_phy.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/e1000_regs.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/igb.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/igb_ethtool.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c