release.txt

网络编程,关于网卡驱动方面的资料.

- Fixed some WOL issues.
- Fixed TSO problems on 5702/03/04.
- Fixed problems with the network_install dd images.

v5.0.14 (12/19/02)

- Made flow control work better.
- Added 10Mbps limit for 5704 WOL.
- Removed 5901 and 5705MFE support.

v5.0.12 (12/12/02)

- Added diagnostics ioctls.
- Enabled flow control by default.

v5.0.11 (12/06/02)

- Fixed data corruption problem on 5705 with TSO enabled.
- Fixed 5701 lockup during initialization.

v5.0.10 (11/20/02)

- Added support for 5705MFE and 5901.
- Added TSO for 5705 A1.
- Fixed ifconfig hang on Intel McKinley.

v5.0.9  (11/08/02)

- Made changes for 5705 A1 chips.

v5.0.8  (11/05/02)

- Fixed ASF problem on 5705.
- Fixed problem with changing MAC address.
- Added MTU change using ifconfig.
- Fixed problem running on AMD X86_64 machines.

v5.0.7  (10/11/02)

- Fixed 5704S link related problems.
- Improved performance slightly on some PCIX machines.
- Fixed GEEPROM to allow full access to NVRAM.

v5.0.6  (10/03/02)

- Fixed problem of 5704S not linking up.
- Added code to support autoneg in 5704S hardware.

v5.0.5  (09/24/02)

- Fine-tuned some parameters for improved performance.
- Added TSO.
- Fixed WOL problems on 5704.
- Fixed the problem of not enabling ASF on the fly.
- Fixed incorrect PCIX speed in proc file.
- Added 5704S support.
- Fixed incorrect PCIX speed in proc file.
- Fixed the initialization failure on 5701 LOMs.

v3.0.12 (08/22/02)

- Fixed the problem of not loading on CIOBE A1.
- Fixed intermittent hang problem when configuring 802.1q VLAN.

v3.0.11 (08/21/02)

- Added DIAG_SUSPEND/DIAG_RESUME ioctls.
- Added some workarounds for 5705.
- Added vlan tag size adjustment when receiving vlan tagged packets.

v3.0.10 (08/07/02)

- Fixed NVRAM write corruption.
- Added check to not allow jumbo MTUs on 5705.
- Added WOL on OEM 5703 Fiber LOM.

v3.0.9 (08/05/02)

- Added support for 5705.

v3.0.8 (07/25/02)

- Fixed VLAN problem with BASP.
- Added new 5704 IDs.
- Added support for 5702FE.

v3.0.7 (07/17/02)

- Changed to enable VLAN tag stripping only when VLAN or BASP is registered.
- Fixed problem of sending bad zero-copy packets.
- Added additional workaround for systems with AMD762.
- Adjusted EEPROM delay loop.

v3.0.6 (06/25/02)

- Fixed an ASF failure.
- Added 802.1Q VLAN
- Added a locking scheme for PHY access.
- Fixed an intermittent crash problem with fiber NICs.
- Adjusted fiber autoneg. logic to work with 3Com 4900SX switch.
- Added netif_carrier_on and netif_carrier_off.

v3.0.5 (05/30/02)

- Fixed occasional hang during load and unload.
- Fixed non-zero statistics when stats_coalesce_ticks is 0.

v3.0.4 (05/15/02)

- Fixed 10Mbps line speed setting bug.
- Fixed problem with jumbo packets.
- Fixed a compile warning on Red Hat 7.3

v3.0.3 (05/13/02)

- Added support for ASF.
- Added 64-bit counters for 64-bit machines.
- Reduced code size.
- Fixed intermittent VPD failures.

v3.0.2 (05/03/02)

- Fixed a bug on PCIX systems.

v3.0.1 (05/02/02)

- Added workaround for Intel ICH and ICH0 chipsets.
- Fixed 5704 related problems.

v3.0.0 (04/22/02)

- Added 5704 support
- Reduced some overhead in the upper/lower driver interface.

v2.2.19 (04/10/02)

- Fixed a panic problem on 5700 under heavy traffic on certain machines.
- Reduced code size slightly.
- Added necessary delays after changes to GPIO.

v2.2.18 (04/03/02)

- Added new OEM subsystem IDs.
- Fixed some ethtool problems.

v2.2.17 (04/02/02)

- Adjusted some delay loops to avoid hangs during intermittent failures.

v2.3.0 (03/29/02)

- Special version with external memory and Mini ring support.

v2.2.12 (03/27/02)

- Minor fix for some fiber related issues.

v2.2.11 (03/23/02)

- Adjusted fiber autoneg scheme to be consistent with other Broadcom
  drivers.

v2.2.10 (03/21/02)

- Changed Fiber LED to software control.
- Fixed 4 GByte boundary check for 5700.

v2.2.9 (03/13/02)

- Fixed a hang problem on 5703S with cable disconnected.

v2.2.8 (03/07/02)

- More changes to fiber autonegotiation - interrupt with polling backup
  for fiber link changes.

v2.2.7 (03/06/02)

- Made some changes to autonegotiation of fiber.

v2.2.6 (03/05/02)

- Added fix for 5703S.
- Improved adaptive interrupt coalescing.
- Fixed a problem in WOL.

v2.2.5 (02/27/02)

- Fixed a big endian problem.

v2.2.4 (02/27/02)

- Added new device IDs for 5703/5702.
- Fixed parity error NMIs with 5703 on PCIX systems.
- Added Ethernet@WireSpeed.

v2.2.3 (02/07/02)

- Fixed EEPROM corruption during repeated load/unload of the driver.
- Changed driver to use polling for fiber link changes.

v2.2.1 (01/23/02)

- Increased eeprom timing delays for slower clocks.

v2.2.0 (01/22/02)

- First release for 5702/5703 A1.

v2.0.34 (01/04/02)

- Fixed data corruption problem on PCIX systems under heavy traffic.

v2.0.32 (01/02/02)

- No change.

v2.0.31 (12/14/01)

- Changed i/o accesses to use writel/readl macros.
- Fixed problem when loading driver on an OEM LOM with no cable attached.
- Fixed problem of setting IFF_ALLMULTI.
- Changed to use pci_map_page to map the zero copy transmit fragments.

v2.0.28 (11/05/01)

- Added SIOCETHTOOL ioctl support.

v2.0.27 (10/26/01)

- Fixed a link up problem for an OEM LOM.

v2.0.26 (10/25/01)

- Added 5702 support.

v2.0.25 (10/22/01)

- Added Rx_Short_Fragments and other counters.
- Added code to detect AMD762 Northbridge and enable PCI ordering on that chip.

v2.0.24 (09/19/01)

- Fixed intermittent link failures.

v2.0.21 (09/14/01)

- Fixed zero copy failure.

v2.0.19 (09/11/01)

- Fixed the problem of over reporting CRC errors.
- Fixed the problem of late collisions in 1000Mbps half duplex.

v2.0.18 (08/24/01)

- Added same fix in 2.0.17 for the latest A3 chips.

v2.0.17 (08/22/01)

- Fixed a lock-up problem when loading fibre card with no cable attached.

v2.0.16 (08/18/01)

- Fixed a panic caused by an interrupt before the NIC is fully initialized.

v2.0.15 (08/14/01)

- Fixed a problem that caused unnecessary resets to the chip during
heavy traffic.

v2.0.14 (08/09/01)

- Lowered core clock freq. in latest 5701 chip in 100Mbps WOL mode.

v2.0.12 (08/02/01)

- Fixed a 100Mbps fixed speed problem.
- Fixed the accidental clearing of RX stats during link changes.
- Added reentrancy protection in tasklet so that it will work on RH7.2 beta3.

v2.0.11 (07/19/01)

- Fixed some fiber autonegotiation problems.

v2.0.10 (07/13/01)

- Added promiscuous mode support.
- Improved performance, especially on 5700 chips.

v2.0.9 (07/04/01)

- Fixed IA64 DMA alignment problem.

v2.0.8 (07/03/01)

- Fixed panic during ifdown.

v2.0.7 (07/01/01)

- Fixed problems with fibre cards.
- Added 100Mbps WOL for 5701 B2 chip.

v2.0.6 (06/22/01)

- Improved adaptive receive interrupt coalescing.
- Added LED blinking ioctl.
- Added support for new boards.
- Fixed hang problem when cable is not attached.

v2.0.5 (06/18/01)

- Some performance improvements.
- Added adaptive receive interrupt coalescing.
- Preliminary release for IA64.

v2.0.4 (06/01/01)

- Fixed a problem with multiple cards using jumbo frames.

v2.0.3 (05/22/01)

- Fixed panic during hotplug.
- Fixed RPM error on Mandrake.

v2.0.2 (05/21/01)

- Fixed a spin lock problem.

v2.0.1 (05/18/01)

- Fixed memory leak when unloading driver.

v1.5.6 (05/11/01)

- Added additional OEM support.
- Added Wake-On-LAN support.

v1.5.4 (05/04/01)

- Fixed interrupt and TX hung problem on 5701.
- Added OEM strings.

v1.5.3 (04/26/01)

- Fixed parameter defaults.
- Added /proc filesystem reporting.

v1.5.2 (04/18/01)

- Fixed bug in transmit IP checksum.

v1.5.1 (04/15/01)

- Added scatter/gather, HIGHMEM DMA, and IP transmit checksum offload for the
  TUX kernel.
- Added support of BCM5701.

v1.5.0 (03/14/01)

- Added Fibre transceiver support.

v1.4.6 (02/14/01)

- Fixed the problem of dropping VLAN tagged 802.2/802.3 frames.
- Fixed Makefile to work in non Red Hat environments.
- Fixed the problem of over-counting receive errors.

v1.4.5 (01/31/01)

- Added PCI-X support for BCM5700.
- Fixed Jumbo frame problems by modifying some thresholds and increased
Jumbo frame size to 9K.

v1.4.4 (01/18/01)

- Fixed the problem of transmit congestion during very heavy traffic in pre-
2.4.0 kernels.

v1.4.3 (01/10/01)

- Changed driver to use new PCI DMA functions in 2.4 kernel.

v1.4.2 (01/03/01)

- Changed driver to use spin locks for SMP machines.
- Added spin locks around PRIVATE ioctls for MII registers .

v1.4.1 (12/26/00)

- Made changes for B1 chips.

v1.4.0 (12/19/00)

- Made changes for 2.4.0 kernel.

v1.3.8 (12/13/00)

- Fixed the problem of setting a user assigned MAC address.
- Added VLAN support for BASP.

v1.3.7 (12/01/00)

- Added code to handle BCM5401 B0 phy chips.

v1.3.6 (11/22/00)

- Fixed LED problems.

v1.3.5 (11/21/00)

- Fixed some flow control auto negotiation problems.

v1.3.4 (11/17/00)

- Fixed a problem of missing interrupts.
- Resolved all fixed speed related problems.

v1.3.3 (11/13/00)

- Fixed the problem of memory allocation failure in some machines.

v1.3.2 (11/09/00)

- Made more changes regarding fixed speeds. Also removed manual selection
  of 1000 Mbps.
- Made a SRPM package.

v1.03b (10/31/00)

- Fixed problems #452, #441, #364, and other speed related problems in the
  Lower Module.

v1.03 (10/30/00)

- Released Lower Module as tigon3.o.

v1.02c (10/27/00)

- Fixed the fixed speed problem in Lower Module.

v1.02b (10/24/00)

- Added new parameters for flow control settings.
- Fixed problem with uninitialized statistics counters (problem #338).

v1.02  (10/16/00)

- Modified for B0 chips, should also work for other chips.
- Reenabled TCP/UDP receive hardware checksums.

v1.01b (10/09/00)

- Changed driver to use pci* routines instead of pcibios* routines to obtain
  the correct IRQ on some MP machines.
- Resolved Problems #253, #257.

v1.01 (09/27/00)

- Added statistics collection function.
- Added ju