# HG changeset patch
# User Florian Pose <fp@igh-essen.com>
# Date 1201901675 0
# Node ID c7e600cd28126e36e24230917cad6927139db84f
# Parent  0a0994fdafb8f97bad70d50e2d0f1042c5e17a90
Updated README etc.

diff -r 0a0994fdafb8 -r c7e600cd2812 INSTALL
--- a/INSTALL	Fri Feb 01 21:22:22 2008 +0000
+++ b/INSTALL	Fri Feb 01 21:34:35 2008 +0000
@@ -9,14 +9,12 @@
 Building and installing
 =======================
 
-The building and installation procedure is described in section 2.1 in the
-EtherCAT master documentation available from http://etherlab.org/ethercat.
+The build and installation procedure is described in section 2.1 in the
+documentation available from http://etherlab.org/en/ethercat.
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-For the impatient:
-
-The procedure mainly consists of calling
+For the impatient: The procedure mainly consists of calling
 
 $ ./configure
 $ make modules
@@ -26,7 +24,7 @@
 # make install
 # make modules_install
 
-...and copying the init script and sysconfig file from $prefix/etc to the
+...and copying the init script and sysconfig file from $PREFIX/etc to the
 appropriate locations and customizing the sysconfig file.
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff -r 0a0994fdafb8 -r c7e600cd2812 README
--- a/README	Fri Feb 01 21:22:22 2008 +0000
+++ b/README	Fri Feb 01 21:34:35 2008 +0000
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
 1) General Information
 ======================
 
-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
 
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@
 
 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.
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@
 
 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>).
diff -r 0a0994fdafb8 -r c7e600cd2812 README.EoE
--- a/README.EoE	Fri Feb 01 21:22:22 2008 +0000
+++ b/README.EoE	Fri Feb 01 21:34:35 2008 +0000
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@
 environment with Ethernet-over-EtherCAT devices.
 
 A virtual network interface will appear for every EoE-capable slave. The
-interface naming scheme is eoeXsY, where X is the master index and Y is the
-slave's ring position. Please provide a network configuration file for any of
-these interfaces. On SUSE systems, these can look like the following:
+interface naming scheme is either eoeXsY, where X is the master index and Y is
+the slave's ring position, or (if the slave has an alias set) eoeXaZ, where Z
+is the (decimal) alias address. Please provide a network configuration file for
+any of these interfaces. On SUSE systems, these can look like the following:
 
 /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eoe0s14:
 IPADDRESS=10.0.0.14/8
diff -r 0a0994fdafb8 -r c7e600cd2812 TODO
--- a/TODO	Fri Feb 01 21:22:22 2008 +0000
+++ b/TODO	Fri Feb 01 21:34:35 2008 +0000
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 * Remove ecdb.h and let lsec output PDO information 'cut-and-pastable' for
   applications.
 * Update documentation.
+* Create table of supported network devices and add link inside README.
 
 Future issues: