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Add ethernet driver release notes for 3.7 release.

Signed-off-by: Declan Snyder <declan.snyder@nxp.com>
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@ -662,13 +662,83 @@ Drivers and Sensors
* Ethernet
* Deprecated eth_mcux driver in favor of the reworked nxp_enet driver.
* Driver nxp_enet is no longer experimental.
* All boards and SOCs with :dtcompatible:`nxp,kinetis-ethernet` compatible nodes
reworked to use the new :dtcompatible:`nxp,enet` binding.
* Added support for PTP on compatible STM32 series (STM32F7, STM32H5 and STM32H7).
* Added ethernet QOS driver to NXP MCXN947
* Added 1 GigE to NXP mimxrt1170
* Introduced :kconfig:option:`CONFIG_ETH_DRIVER_RAW_MODE`. This option allows building
ethernet drivers without the zephyr L2 ethernet layer.
* Removed the ethernet-fixed-link DT binding.
* Removed VLAN handling from ethernet drivers since it is now handled by the
generic ethernet L2 code.
* Implemented/reworked HW MAC Address filtering in the eth_mcux, eth_nxp_enet,
and eth_nxp_s32_gmac, eth_stm32, and eth_nxp_s32_netc drivers.
* New Drivers
* Added new eth_nxp_enet_qos driver for the ethernet controller present on NXP MCXN SOCs.
* Added support for adin1100 phy.
* Added support for the Realtek RTL8211F phy.
* NXP ENET driver changes
* eth_nxp_enet driver is no longer experimental.
* Deprecated eth_mcux driver.
* All boards and SOCs with :dtcompatible:`nxp,kinetis-ethernet` compatible nodes
reworked to use the new :dtcompatible:`nxp,enet` binding.
* Added support for network device power management with nxp_enet driver on Kinetis platforms.
* Converted eth_nxp_enet driver to use a dedicated workqueue for RX
managed by the kernel rather than a manual infinite loop.
* Disabled hardware checksum acceleration when IPV6 is enabled with eth_nxp_enet, since
the hardware does not support accelerating ICMPv6 checksums.
* Added support for :dtcompatible:`nxp,enet1g`.
* Added support to use a fused MAC address for nxp_enet MAC on some platforms.
* Fixed issue with LAA bit not being set and a confusing description of the nxp,unique-mac
property used with the nxp_enet driver.
* Fixed cache maintain being enabled when using a noncache DMA buffer in nxp_enet driver.
* Added MMIO mappings to nxp_enet driver.
* Clarified DSA supported with eth_nxp_enet.
* NXP S32 ethernet changes
* The eth_nxp_s32_gmac driver now implies :kconfig:option:`CONFIG_MDIO`.
* eth_nxp_s32_netc driver updated to use new MBOX API.
* Adin2111 driver changes
* Corrected the bitfield position of IAMSK1 TX_READY_MASK in adin2111 driver.
* Changed adin2111 driver to always append crc32 to the end of the frame.
* Adjusted eth_adin2111 driver to have the appropriate multicaster filter mask.
* Fixed the "generic SPI without crc8" mode of adin2111 driver.
* Added Open Alliance SPI protocol support to the adin2111 driver.
* Added custom driver extension APIs for adin2111 driver.
* Enabled support for promiscuous mode in the adin2111 driver.
* Moved OA buffers out of device data of the adin2111 driver to save ~32KB of space
when using the generic SPI protocol.
* Fixed a build warning in eth_adin2111 driver on 64-bit platforms.
* Various small changes to adin2111 driver.
* STM32 ethernet driver changes
* Added support for PTP on compatible STM32 series (STM32F7, STM32H5 and STM32H7).
* Changed eth_stm32 to use phy APIs to access the phy to avoid collisions when multitasking.
* Removed legacy STM32Cube HAL API support for STM32 F4, F7, and H7 series.
* Added support for RX/TX timestamping to eth_stm32_hal driver.
* ESP32 ethernet driver changes
* Added support to esp32 ethernet driver to set the MAC address during runtime.
* Updated esp32 ethernet driver to work with the version 5.1 of hal_espressif.
* Fixed build of esp32 ethernet driver when :kconfig:option:`CONFIG_NET_STATISTICS` is enabled.
* Other ethernet driver changes
* Added link status detection to the w5500 ethernet driver, configurable via kconfig.
* Added ability to set MAC address at runtime with eth_liteeth driver.
* Fixed issue in the eth_stellaris driver where it was previously not taken into account
that the number of interrupts received by the driver may be less than the number of
data packets received by the ethernet controller.
* Added a devicetree property for the enc28j60 to set the RX filter.
* Fixed ESTAT TXABRT bit not being cleared on error in the enc28j60 driver.
* Added conditions to enable ptp_clock driver implementation for the native_posix
ethernet driver when PTP subsystem is enabled.
* Fixed DSA driver for KSZ8xxx to correctly initialize LAN devices.
* Fixed the wrong register address being used for tail tag enable in ksz8863.
* Phy driver changes
* Fixed various control issues with the KSZ8081 phy driver regarding
resets, autonegotiation, link detection, and missing/spamming logging messages.
* Changed property names of the reset and interrupt gpios in the KSZ8081 DT binding.
* Fixed bus fault in phy_mii driver when using fixed-link mode.
* Flash
@ -1741,6 +1811,9 @@ Tests and Samples
* BT LE Coded PHY is now runtime tested in CI with the nrf5x bsim targets.
* External ethernet network interfaces have been disabled in the ``tests/net`` tests, since these
tests are meant to use simulated network interfaces.
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