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docs: networking: device drivers: convert freescale/gianfar.txt to ReST

- add SPDX header;
- adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups;
- use :field: markup;
- add to networking/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
===========================
The Gianfar Ethernet Driver
===========================
Author: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Updated: 2005-07-28
:Author: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
:Updated: 2005-07-28
CHECKSUM OFFLOADING
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
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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
Multicasting
============
The gianfar driver supports using the group hash table on the
TSEC (and the extended hash table on the eTSEC) for multicast
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before the hash tables. See Linux documentation on how to join
multicast groups.
PADDING
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
Ethtool
=======
The gianfar driver supports the use of ethtool for many
configuration options. You must run ethtool only on currently

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dec/dmfe
dlink/dl2k
freescale/dpaa
freescale/gianfar
.. only:: subproject and html