Updated README etc.

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Florian Pose
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1) General Information
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This is an Open-Source EtherCAT master implementation for Linux 2.6.
This is an open-source EtherCAT master implementation for Linux 2.6.
See the FEATURES file for a list of features. For more information, see
http://etherlab.org/ethercat.
http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat.
or contact
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2) Hardware requirements
The EtherCAT master needs a RTL8139 (or compatible) network interface card to
run. Drivers for other widespread devices (i. e. Intel PRO/100) will be
implemented soon.
The EtherCAT master needs a RTL8139 (or compatible), Intel PRO/1000 or nVidia
nForce network interface card to run. Drivers for other widespread devices (f.
e. Intel PRO/100) will be implemented soon.
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Realtime patches for the Linux kernel are supported, but not required. The
realtime processing has to be done by the calling module (see API
documentation). The EtherCAT master code itself is completely passive (except
for the idle mode).
documentation). The EtherCAT master code itself is passive (except for the idle
mode and EoE).
To avoid frame timeouts, deactivating DMA access for hard drives is
recommented (hdparm -d0 <DEV>).