the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 5c2025c40f747c383e6106799f06c4a92cd07201 Author: Bruce Griffith Bruce.Griffith@se-eng.com Date: Tue Apr 23 14:31:55 2013 -0600
AMD Hudson A55E: Remove GEC firmware blob kconfig prompt
The "gigabit ethernet controller" (GEC) block was added to AMD Hudson A55E to integrate ethernet capabilities into an AMD southbridge.
The GEC is designed to work with B50610 and B50610M gigabit PHY chips from Broadcom. These parts may not be generally available in small quantities for embedded development.
The GEC block requires an opaque firmware blob to function. The GEC blob is controlled by AMD and Broadcom and is not available from coreboot.org.
This change removes GEC support from AMD Parmer and AMD Thatcher mainboards since these boards do not have the Broadcom PHY.
AMD has requested that the GEC be hidden for Hudson FCH since the PHY parts are not generally available. This Kconfig option can make it appear that this is a viable and supported way to add Ethernet to an embedded board. It is possible to use the Hudson GEC block with other PHYs, but this requires development of a custom GEC blob and a custom Ethernet driver. A custom GEC blob has been developed for a Micrel PHY, but there is no accompanying driver.
Change-Id: I7a7bf4d41e453390ecf987c9c45ef2434fc1f1a3 Signed-off-by: Bruce Griffith Bruce.Griffith@se-eng.com Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/3127 Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Jens Rottmann JRottmann@LiPPERTembedded.de Reviewed-by: Martin Roth martin.roth@se-eng.com
Build-Tested: build bot (Jenkins) at Fri Apr 26 08:03:17 2013, giving +1 Reviewed-By: Martin Roth martin.roth@se-eng.com at Wed May 1 23:49:05 2013, giving +2 See http://review.coreboot.org/3127 for details.
-gerrit