[U-Boot] Uboot Ethernet driver for Broadcom BCM5481 PHY

Matheos Worku Matheos.Worku at Sun.COM
Tue Nov 11 22:14:18 CET 2008


Ben Warren wrote:
> Matheos Worku wrote:
>> Ben Warren wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Matheos,
>>>
>>> Matheos Worku wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if  a uboot ethernet PHY driver for Broadcom 
>>>> BCM5481 PHY exists?
>>>>  
>>>>   
>>> What are you connecting it to?
>>>  
>>>
>> Ben,
>>
>> The CPU I would be using is Freescale MPC85XX family (with built in 
>> GIANFAR  MAC). RJ45 on the networking  side.
>> Regards
>> Matheos
> There's in-tree support for the BCM5461 and BCM5464 in 
> drivers/net/tsec.c (which is the gianfar driver), and support for the 
> BMC5481 on the UEC driver (drivers/qe/uec.c).  Between the two you 
> should be able to get this working pretty easily.  There's slow 
> ongoing work on unifying the PHY drivers, but it's not there yet.
>
> regards,
> Ben
Ben,

Thanks a lot for the info.
Regards
Matheos



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