1 Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet MAC driver
3 Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Altera Corporation
5 This is the driver for the Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet (TSE) controllers
6 using the SGDMA and MSGDMA soft DMA IP components. The driver uses the
7 platform bus to obtain component resources. The designs used to test this
8 driver were built for a Cyclone(R) V SOC FPGA board, a Cyclone(R) V FPGA board,
9 and tested with ARM and NIOS processor hosts separately. The anticipated use
10 cases are simple communications between an embedded system and an external peer
11 for status and simple configuration of the embedded system.
13 For more information visit www.altera.com and www.rocketboards.org. Support
14 forums for the driver may be found on www.rocketboards.org, and a design used
15 to test this driver may be found there as well. Support is also available from
16 the maintainer of this driver, found in MAINTAINERS.
18 The Triple-Speed Ethernet, SGDMA, and MSGDMA components are all soft IP
19 components that can be assembled and built into an FPGA using the Altera
20 Quartus toolchain. Quartus 13.1 and 14.0 were used to build the design that
21 this driver was tested against. The sopc2dts tool is used to create the
22 device tree for the driver, and may be found at rocketboards.org.
24 The driver probe function examines the device tree and determines if the
25 Triple-Speed Ethernet instance is using an SGDMA or MSGDMA component. The
26 probe function then installs the appropriate set of DMA routines to
27 initialize, setup transmits, receives, and interrupt handling primitives for
28 the respective configurations.
30 The SGDMA component is to be deprecated in the near future (over the next 1-2
31 years as of this writing in early 2014) in favor of the MSGDMA component.
32 SGDMA support is included for existing designs and reference in case a
33 developer wishes to support their own soft DMA logic and driver support. Any
34 new designs should not use the SGDMA.
36 The SGDMA supports only a single transmit or receive operation at a time, and
37 therefore will not perform as well compared to the MSGDMA soft IP. Please
38 visit www.altera.com for known, documented SGDMA errata.
40 Scatter-gather DMA is not supported by the SGDMA or MSGDMA at this time.
41 Scatter-gather DMA will be added to a future maintenance update to this
44 Jumbo frames are not supported at this time.
46 The driver limits PHY operations to 10/100Mbps, and has not yet been fully
47 tested for 1Gbps. This support will be added in a future maintenance update.
49 1) Kernel Configuration
50 The kernel configuration option is ALTERA_TSE:
51 Device Drivers ---> Network device support ---> Ethernet driver support --->
52 Altera Triple-Speed Ethernet MAC support (ALTERA_TSE)
54 2) Driver parameters list:
55 debug: message level (0: no output, 16: all);
56 dma_rx_num: Number of descriptors in the RX list (default is 64);
57 dma_tx_num: Number of descriptors in the TX list (default is 64).
59 3) Command line options
60 Driver parameters can be also passed in command line by using:
61 altera_tse=dma_rx_num:128,dma_tx_num:512
63 4) Driver information and notes
66 When the driver's transmit routine is called by the kernel, it sets up a
67 transmit descriptor by calling the underlying DMA transmit routine (SGDMA or
68 MSGDMA), and initiates a transmit operation. Once the transmit is complete, an
69 interrupt is driven by the transmit DMA logic. The driver handles the transmit
70 completion in the context of the interrupt handling chain by recycling
71 resource required to send and track the requested transmit operation.
74 The driver will post receive buffers to the receive DMA logic during driver
75 initialization. Receive buffers may or may not be queued depending upon the
76 underlying DMA logic (MSGDMA is able queue receive buffers, SGDMA is not able
77 to queue receive buffers to the SGDMA receive logic). When a packet is
78 received, the DMA logic generates an interrupt. The driver handles a receive
79 interrupt by obtaining the DMA receive logic status, reaping receive
80 completions until no more receive completions are available.
82 4.3) Interrupt Mitigation
83 The driver is able to mitigate the number of its DMA interrupts
84 using NAPI for receive operations. Interrupt mitigation is not yet supported
85 for transmit operations, but will be added in a future maintenance release.
88 Ethtool is supported. Driver statistics and internal errors can be taken using:
89 ethtool -S ethX command. It is possible to dump registers etc.
92 The driver is compatible with PAL to work with PHY and GPHY devices.
94 4.7) List of source files:
97 o altera_tse_main.c: main network device driver
98 o altera_tse_ethtool.c: ethtool support
99 o altera_tse.h: private driver structure and common definitions
100 o altera_msgdma.h: MSGDMA implementation function definitions
101 o altera_sgdma.h: SGDMA implementation function definitions
102 o altera_msgdma.c: MSGDMA implementation
103 o altera_sgdma.c: SGDMA implementation
104 o altera_sgdmahw.h: SGDMA register and descriptor definitions
105 o altera_msgdmahw.h: MSGDMA register and descriptor definitions
106 o altera_utils.c: Driver utility functions
107 o altera_utils.h: Driver utility function definitions
111 The driver exports debug information such as internal statistics,
112 debug information, MAC and DMA registers etc.
114 A user may use the ethtool support to get statistics:
115 e.g. using: ethtool -S ethX (that shows the statistics counters)
116 or sees the MAC registers: e.g. using: ethtool -d ethX
118 The developer can also use the "debug" module parameter to get
119 further debug information.
121 6) Statistics Support
123 The controller and driver support a mix of IEEE standard defined statistics,
124 RFC defined statistics, and driver or Altera defined statistics. The four
125 specifications containing the standard definitions for these statistics are
128 o IEEE 802.3-2012 - IEEE Standard for Ethernet.
129 o RFC 2863 found at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2863.txt.
130 o RFC 2819 found at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2819.txt.
131 o Altera Triple Speed Ethernet User Guide, found at http://www.altera.com
133 The statistics supported by the TSE and the device driver are as follows:
135 "tx_packets" is equivalent to aFramesTransmittedOK defined in IEEE 802.3-2012,
136 Section 5.2.2.1.2. This statistics is the count of frames that are successfully
139 "rx_packets" is equivalent to aFramesReceivedOK defined in IEEE 802.3-2012,
140 Section 5.2.2.1.5. This statistic is the count of frames that are successfully
141 received. This count does not include any error packets such as CRC errors,
142 length errors, or alignment errors.
144 "rx_crc_errors" is equivalent to aFrameCheckSequenceErrors defined in IEEE
145 802.3-2012, Section 5.2.2.1.6. This statistic is the count of frames that are
146 an integral number of bytes in length and do not pass the CRC test as the frame
149 "rx_align_errors" is equivalent to aAlignmentErrors defined in IEEE 802.3-2012,
150 Section 5.2.2.1.7. This statistic is the count of frames that are not an
151 integral number of bytes in length and do not pass the CRC test as the frame is
154 "tx_bytes" is equivalent to aOctetsTransmittedOK defined in IEEE 802.3-2012,
155 Section 5.2.2.1.8. This statistic is the count of data and pad bytes
156 successfully transmitted from the interface.
158 "rx_bytes" is equivalent to aOctetsReceivedOK defined in IEEE 802.3-2012,
159 Section 5.2.2.1.14. This statistic is the count of data and pad bytes
160 successfully received by the controller.
162 "tx_pause" is equivalent to aPAUSEMACCtrlFramesTransmitted defined in IEEE
163 802.3-2012, Section 30.3.4.2. This statistic is a count of PAUSE frames
164 transmitted from the network controller.
166 "rx_pause" is equivalent to aPAUSEMACCtrlFramesReceived defined in IEEE
167 802.3-2012, Section 30.3.4.3. This statistic is a count of PAUSE frames
168 received by the network controller.
170 "rx_errors" is equivalent to ifInErrors defined in RFC 2863. This statistic is
171 a count of the number of packets received containing errors that prevented the
172 packet from being delivered to a higher level protocol.
174 "tx_errors" is equivalent to ifOutErrors defined in RFC 2863. This statistic
175 is a count of the number of packets that could not be transmitted due to errors.
177 "rx_unicast" is equivalent to ifInUcastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This
178 statistic is a count of the number of packets received that were not addressed
179 to the broadcast address or a multicast group.
181 "rx_multicast" is equivalent to ifInMulticastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This
182 statistic is a count of the number of packets received that were addressed to
183 a multicast address group.
185 "rx_broadcast" is equivalent to ifInBroadcastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This
186 statistic is a count of the number of packets received that were addressed to
187 the broadcast address.
189 "tx_discards" is equivalent to ifOutDiscards defined in RFC 2863. This
190 statistic is the number of outbound packets not transmitted even though an
191 error was not detected. An example of a reason this might occur is to free up
192 internal buffer space.
194 "tx_unicast" is equivalent to ifOutUcastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This
195 statistic counts the number of packets transmitted that were not addressed to
196 a multicast group or broadcast address.
198 "tx_multicast" is equivalent to ifOutMulticastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This
199 statistic counts the number of packets transmitted that were addressed to a
202 "tx_broadcast" is equivalent to ifOutBroadcastPkts defined in RFC 2863. This
203 statistic counts the number of packets transmitted that were addressed to a
206 "ether_drops" is equivalent to etherStatsDropEvents defined in RFC 2819.
207 This statistic counts the number of packets dropped due to lack of internal
208 controller resources.
210 "rx_total_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsOctets defined in RFC 2819.
211 This statistic counts the total number of bytes received by the controller,
212 including error and discarded packets.
214 "rx_total_packets" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts defined in RFC 2819.
215 This statistic counts the total number of packets received by the controller,
216 including error, discarded, unicast, multicast, and broadcast packets.
218 "rx_undersize" is equivalent to etherStatsUndersizePkts defined in RFC 2819.
219 This statistic counts the number of correctly formed packets received less
222 "rx_oversize" is equivalent to etherStatsOversizePkts defined in RFC 2819.
223 This statistic counts the number of correctly formed packets greater than 1518
226 "rx_64_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts64Octets defined in RFC 2819.
227 This statistic counts the total number of packets received that were 64 octets
230 "rx_65_127_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts65to127Octets defined in RFC
231 2819. This statistic counts the total number of packets received that were
232 between 65 and 127 octets in length inclusive.
234 "rx_128_255_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts128to255Octets defined in
235 RFC 2819. This statistic is the total number of packets received that were
236 between 128 and 255 octets in length inclusive.
238 "rx_256_511_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts256to511Octets defined in
239 RFC 2819. This statistic is the total number of packets received that were
240 between 256 and 511 octets in length inclusive.
242 "rx_512_1023_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts512to1023Octets defined in
243 RFC 2819. This statistic is the total number of packets received that were
244 between 512 and 1023 octets in length inclusive.
246 "rx_1024_1518_bytes" is equivalent to etherStatsPkts1024to1518Octets define
247 in RFC 2819. This statistic is the total number of packets received that were
248 between 1024 and 1518 octets in length inclusive.
250 "rx_gte_1519_bytes" is a statistic defined specific to the behavior of the
251 Altera TSE. This statistics counts the number of received good and errored
252 frames between the length of 1519 and the maximum frame length configured
253 in the frm_length register. See the Altera TSE User Guide for More details.
255 "rx_jabbers" is equivalent to etherStatsJabbers defined in RFC 2819. This
256 statistic is the total number of packets received that were longer than 1518
257 octets, and had either a bad CRC with an integral number of octets (CRC Error)
258 or a bad CRC with a non-integral number of octets (Alignment Error).
260 "rx_runts" is equivalent to etherStatsFragments defined in RFC 2819. This
261 statistic is the total number of packets received that were less than 64 octets
262 in length and had either a bad CRC with an integral number of octets (CRC
263 error) or a bad CRC with a non-integral number of octets (Alignment Error).