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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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+===========================
+The Gianfar Ethernet Driver
+===========================
+
+:Author: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
+:Updated: 2005-07-28
+
+
+Checksum Offloading
+===================
+
+The eTSEC controller (first included in parts from late 2005 like
+the 8548) has the ability to perform TCP, UDP, and IP checksums
+in hardware.  The Linux kernel only offloads the TCP and UDP
+checksums (and always performs the pseudo header checksums), so
+the driver only supports checksumming for TCP/IP and UDP/IP
+packets.  Use ethtool to enable or disable this feature for RX
+and TX.
+
+VLAN
+====
+
+In order to use VLAN, please consult Linux documentation on
+configuring VLANs.  The gianfar driver supports hardware insertion and
+extraction of VLAN headers, but not filtering.  Filtering will be
+done by the kernel.
+
+Multicasting
+============
+
+The gianfar driver supports using the group hash table on the
+TSEC (and the extended hash table on the eTSEC) for multicast
+filtering.  On the eTSEC, the exact-match MAC registers are used
+before the hash tables.  See Linux documentation on how to join
+multicast groups.
+
+Padding
+=======
+
+The gianfar driver supports padding received frames with 2 bytes
+to align the IP header to a 16-byte boundary, when supported by
+hardware.
+
+Ethtool
+=======
+
+The gianfar driver supports the use of ethtool for many
+configuration options.  You must run ethtool only on currently
+open interfaces.  See ethtool documentation for details.