2 # Tulip family network device configuration
6 bool "\"Tulip\" family network device support"
7 depends on PCI || EISA || CARDBUS
9 This selects the "Tulip" family of EISA/PCI network cards.
14 tristate "Early DECchip Tulip (dc2104x) PCI support"
18 This driver is developed for the SMC EtherPower series Ethernet
19 cards and also works with cards based on the DECchip
20 21040 (Tulip series) chips. Some LinkSys PCI cards are
21 of this type. (If your card is NOT SMC EtherPower 10/100 PCI
22 (smc9332dst), you can also try the driver for "Generic DECchip"
23 cards, below. However, most people with a network card of this type
24 will say Y here.) Do read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
25 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
27 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will
31 int "Descriptor Skip Length in 32 bit longwords"
36 Setting this value allows to align ring buffer descriptors into their
37 own cache lines. Value of 4 corresponds to the typical 32 byte line
38 (the descriptor is 16 bytes). This is necessary on systems that lack
39 cache coherence, an example is PowerMac 5500. Otherwise 0 is safe.
40 Default is 0, and range is 0 to 31.
43 tristate "DECchip Tulip (dc2114x) PCI support"
47 This driver is developed for the SMC EtherPower series Ethernet
48 cards and also works with cards based on the DECchip
49 21140 (Tulip series) chips. Some LinkSys PCI cards are
50 of this type. (If your card is NOT SMC EtherPower 10/100 PCI
51 (smc9332dst), you can also try the driver for "Generic DECchip"
52 cards, above. However, most people with a network card of this type
53 will say Y here.) Do read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
54 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
56 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will
60 bool "New bus configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)"
61 depends on TULIP && EXPERIMENTAL
63 This configures your Tulip card specifically for the card and
64 system cache line size type you are using.
66 This is experimental code, not yet tested on many boards.
71 bool "Use PCI shared mem for NIC registers"
74 Use PCI shared memory for the NIC registers, rather than going through
75 the Tulip's PIO (programmed I/O ports). Faster, but could produce
76 obscure bugs if your mainboard has memory controller timing issues.
80 bool "Use RX polling (NAPI)"
83 NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load
84 when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is
85 still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default.
87 If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be
88 deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall),
93 config TULIP_NAPI_HW_MITIGATION
94 bool "Use Interrupt Mitigation"
97 Use HW to reduce RX interrupts. Not strictly necessary since NAPI
98 reduces RX interrupts by itself. Interrupt mitigation reduces RX
99 interrupts even at low levels of traffic at the cost of a small
106 depends on TULIP && SPARC
109 tristate "Generic DECchip & DIGITAL EtherWORKS PCI/EISA"
110 depends on PCI || EISA
113 This is support for the DIGITAL series of PCI/EISA Ethernet cards.
114 These include the DE425, DE434, DE435, DE450 and DE500 models. If
115 you have a network card of this type, say Y and read the
116 Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
117 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. More specific
118 information is contained in
119 <file:Documentation/networking/de4x5.txt>.
121 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will
125 tristate "Winbond W89c840 Ethernet support"
130 This driver is for the Winbond W89c840 chip. It also works with
131 the TX9882 chip on the Compex RL100-ATX board.
132 More specific information and updates are available from
133 <http://www.scyld.com/network/drivers.html>.
136 tristate "Davicom DM910x/DM980x support"
140 This driver is for DM9102(A)/DM9132/DM9801 compatible PCI cards from
141 Davicom (<http://www.davicom.com.tw/>). If you have such a network
142 (Ethernet) card, say Y. Some information is contained in the file
143 <file:Documentation/networking/dmfe.txt>.
145 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will
149 tristate "ULi M526x controller support"
153 This driver is for ULi M5261/M5263 10/100M Ethernet Controller
154 (<http://www.nvidia.com/page/uli_drivers.html>).
156 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will
160 tristate "Xircom CardBus support"
163 This driver is for the Digital "Tulip" Ethernet CardBus adapters.
164 It should work with most DEC 21*4*-based chips/ethercards, as well
165 as with work-alike chips from Lite-On (PNIC) and Macronix (MXIC) and
168 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will
169 be called xircom_cb. If unsure, say N.