[ANNOUNCE] Intel PRO/100 software developer manual released

[ANNOUNCE] Intel PRO/100 software developer manual released

[Feldman, Scott]

Available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000.

The full title is: 

  Intel 8255x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller Family
  Open Source Software Developer Manual
  Revision 1.0

The manual is intended to support the maintenance of the e100 driver (or the
best driver for the PRO/100 networking hardware ;-).  The manual covers the
82557, 82558, 82559, 82550, and 82551 Ethernet controllers.

I would like to thank Jeff Garzik for encouraging this publication, and for
having the patience to deal with the Intel machine.

I would also like to thank the Intel editors and reviewers: Carolyn
Abrigana, Larry Bates, Julie Donnelly, John Ronciak, Wen-Hwa Tao, Eli
Kupermann, David Valdez, Colleen Culbertson, and especially Glenn Begis for
not giving up.

-scott

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Intel PRO/100 software developer manual released

[Jeff Garzik]

Feldman, Scott wrote:
> Available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000.
> 
> The full title is: 
> 
>   Intel 8255x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller Family
>   Open Source Software Developer Manual
>   Revision 1.0
> 
> The manual is intended to support the maintenance of the e100 driver (or the
> best driver for the PRO/100 networking hardware ;-).  The manual covers the
> 82557, 82558, 82559, 82550, and 82551 Ethernet controllers.
> 
> I would like to thank Jeff Garzik for encouraging this publication, and for
> having the patience to deal with the Intel machine.


I'm surprised that this David (me) actually got through to the Goliath :)

Let me publicly thank Intel NIC team [and related persons] for some 
great work.  You guys have really been responsive both to technical 
issues and also political/community-related issues like this one of 
opening docs.

This is a situation where I really think that opening docs will lead to 
a better overall user experience with Intel hardware on Linux, and 
hopefully serves as a model for other vendors to follow.

Thanks and kudos, Intel!

	Jeff

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Intel PRO/100 software developer manual released

[Anton Blanchard]

> Available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000.
> 
> The full title is: 
> 
>   Intel 8255x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller Family
>   Open Source Software Developer Manual
>   Revision 1.0
> 
> The manual is intended to support the maintenance of the e100 driver (or the
> best driver for the PRO/100 networking hardware ;-).  The manual covers the
> 82557, 82558, 82559, 82550, and 82551 Ethernet controllers.

Nice work guys! This has already answered a few questions I had when
tuning the e100 on ppc64.

Any plans to release similar docs for the e1000?

Anton

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Intel PRO/100 software developer manual released

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:03:50PM -0800, Feldman, Scott wrote:
> 
> Available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000.

Yeah!  Thank you for doing this, I know it must not have been an easy
thing to accomplish.  Hopefully, Linux will be better off because of it.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Intel PRO/100 software developer manual released

[James Morris]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Feldman, Scott wrote:

> The manual is intended to support the maintenance of the e100 driver (or the
> best driver for the PRO/100 networking hardware ;-).  The manual covers the
> 82557, 82558, 82559, 82550, and 82551 Ethernet controllers.

Hi Scott,

This looks great.  Any chance of releasing documentation on the crypto
hardware which resides on the PRO/100 S?  We're currently looking at
adding support for hardware crypto (including IPsec offload) to the
kernel, and it would be good to include the requirements and capabilities
of this card in the design process.


- James
-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@intercode.com.au>

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Intel PRO/100 software developer manual released

[Feldman, Scott]

> Nice work guys! This has already answered a few questions I 
> had when tuning the e100 on ppc64.

Great!  Let us know if you figure out that checksum weirdness you saw the
other day.
 
> Any plans to release similar docs for the e1000?

It's a logical next step, but no definitive schedule.  Let's just leave it
as a goal.

-scott

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Intel PRO/100 software developer manual released

[Feldman, Scott]

> I would also like to thank the Intel editors and reviewers: 
> Carolyn Abrigana, Larry Bates, Julie Donnelly, John Ronciak, 
> Wen-Hwa Tao, Eli Kupermann, David Valdez, Colleen Culbertson, 
> and especially Glenn Begis for not giving up.

Credit is important, and I unintentionally omitted Shaun Sloan.  Thanks
Shaun for your help.

-scott

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Intel PRO/100 software developer manual released

[Feldman, Scott]

> Any chance of releasing documentation on 
> the crypto hardware which resides on the PRO/100 S?

No plans, sorry.

-scott