2 IBM PCI Pit/Pit-Phy/Olympic CHIPSET BASED TOKEN RING CARDS README
4 Release 0.2.0 - Release
5 June 8th 1999 Peter De Schrijver & Mike Phillips
6 Release 0.9.C - Release
7 April 18th 2001 Mike Phillips
10 Erik De Cock, Adrian Bridgett and Frank Fiene for their
12 Donald Champion for the cardbus support
13 Kyle Lucke for the dma api changes.
14 Jonathon Bitner for hardware support.
15 Everybody on linux-tr for their continued support.
19 The driver accepts four options: ringspeed, pkt_buf_sz,
20 message_level and network_monitor.
22 These options can be specified differently for each card found.
24 ringspeed: Has one of three settings 0 (default), 4 or 16. 0 will
25 make the card autosense the ringspeed and join at the appropriate speed,
26 this will be the default option for most people. 4 or 16 allow you to
27 explicitly force the card to operate at a certain speed. The card will fail
28 if you try to insert it at the wrong speed. (Although some hubs will allow
29 this so be *very* careful). The main purpose for explicitly setting the ring
30 speed is for when the card is first on the ring. In autosense mode, if the card
31 cannot detect any active monitors on the ring it will not open, so you must
32 re-init the card at the appropriate speed. Unfortunately at present the only
33 way of doing this is rmmod and insmod which is a bit tough if it is compiled
36 pkt_buf_sz: This is this initial receive buffer allocation size. This will
37 default to 4096 if no value is entered. You may increase performance of the
38 driver by setting this to a value larger than the network packet size, although
39 the driver now re-sizes buffers based on MTU settings as well.
41 message_level: Controls level of messages created by the driver. Defaults to 0:
42 which only displays start-up and critical messages. Presently any non-zero
43 value will display all soft messages as well. NB This does not turn
44 debugging messages on, that must be done by modified the source code.
46 network_monitor: Any non-zero value will provide a quasi network monitoring
47 mode. All unexpected MAC frames (beaconing etc.) will be received
48 by the driver and the source and destination addresses printed.
49 Also an entry will be added in /proc/net called olympic_tr%d, where tr%d
50 is the registered device name, i.e tr0, tr1, etc. This displays low
51 level information about the configuration of the ring and the adapter.
52 This feature has been designed for network administrators to assist in
53 the diagnosis of network / ring problems. (This used to OLYMPIC_NETWORK_MONITOR,
54 but has now changed to allow each adapter to be configured differently and
55 to alleviate the necessity to re-compile olympic to turn the option on).
59 The driver will detect multiple cards and will work with shared interrupts,
60 each card is assigned the next token ring device, i.e. tr0 , tr1, tr2. The
61 driver should also happily reside in the system with other drivers. It has
62 been tested with ibmtr.c running, and I personally have had one Olicom PCI
63 card and two IBM olympic cards (all on the same interrupt), all running
68 The driver can handle a MTU size upto either 4500 or 18000 depending upon
69 ring speed. The driver also changes the size of the receive buffers as part
70 of the mtu re-sizing, so if you set mtu = 18000, you will need to be able
71 to allocate 16 * (sk_buff with 18000 buffer size) call it 18500 bytes per ring
72 position = 296,000 bytes of memory space, plus of course anything
73 necessary for the tx sk_buff's. Remember this is per card, so if you are
74 building routers, gateway's etc, you could start to use a lot of memory
78 6/8/99 Peter De Schrijver and Mike Phillips