Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:40:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org> To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf LINT src/sys/modules Makefile src/sys/modules/mii Makefile src/sys/dev/mii Makefile.miidevs devlist2h.awk exphy.c mii.c mii.h mii_physubr.c miidevs miidevs.h miivar.h nsphy.c nsphyreg.h ukphy.c ukphy_subr.c CVSROOT modules ... Message-ID: <199908211740.KAA34227@freefall.freebsd.org>
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wpaul 1999/08/21 10:40:53 PDT
Modified files:
sys/i386/conf LINT
sys/modules Makefile
. modules
sys/conf files
Added files:
sys/modules/mii Makefile
sys/dev/mii Makefile.miidevs devlist2h.awk exphy.c
mii.c mii.h mii_physubr.c miidevs
miidevs.h miivar.h nsphy.c nsphyreg.h
ukphy.c ukphy_subr.c
Log:
This commit adds support for the NetBSD MII abstraction layer and
MII-compliant PHY drivers. Many 10/100 ethernet NICs available today
either use an MII transceiver or have built-in transceivers that can
be programmed using an MII interface. It makes sense then to separate
this support out into common code instead of duplicating it in all
of the NIC drivers. The mii code also handles all of the media
detection, selection and reporting via the ifmedia interface.
This is basically the same code from NetBSD's /sys/dev/mii, except
it's been adapted to FreeBSD's bus architecture. The advantage to this
is that it automatically allows everything to be turned into a
loadable module. There are some common functions for use in drivers
once an miibus has been attached (mii_mediachg(), mii_pollstat(),
mii_tick()) as well as individual PHY drivers. There is also a
generic driver for all PHYs that aren't handled by a specific driver.
It's possible to do this because all 10/100 PHYs implement the same
general register set in addition to their vendor-specific register
sets, so for the most part you can use one driver for pretty much
any PHY. There are a couple of oddball exceptions though, hence
the need to have specific drivers.
There are two layers: the generic "miibus" layer and the PHY driver
layer. The drivers are child devices of "miibus" and the "miibus" is
a child of a given NIC driver. The "miibus" code and the PHY drivers
can actually be compiled and kldoaded as completely separate modules
or compiled together into one module. For the moment I'm using the
latter approach since the code is relatively small.
Currently there are only three PHY drivers here: the generic driver,
the built-in 3Com XL driver and the NS DP83840 driver. I'll be adding
others later as I convert various NIC drivers to use this code.
I realize that I'm cvs adding this stuff instead of importing it
onto a separate vendor branch, but in my opinion the import approach
doesn't really offer any significant advantage: I'm going to be
maintaining this stuff and writing my own PHY drivers one way or
the other.
Revision Changes Path
1.629 +11 -1 src/sys/i386/conf/LINT
1.72 +3 -3 src/sys/modules/Makefile
1.285 +2 -1 CVSROOT/modules
1.236 +20 -0 src/sys/conf/files
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