[U-Boot] Any interest in support for BCM5718 (a.k.a Tigon3) PCIe Ethernet chipset?

[Simon Glass]

Hi Chris,

On 5 June 2014 21:24, Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (Joe, Simon, I'm not sure if this counts as "networking" or "driver
> model" but figured it was close enough to warrant an Cc).
>
> We're looking at a new board design and are planning on using a
> BCM5718 to provide a couple of Ethernet ports. The chipset is
> supported in Linux using the tg3.c driver. I was planning on creating
> an equivalent driver in u-boot using e1000.c as a guide and probably
> borrowing heavily from the Linux driver.
>
> Is anyone else actively looking at Broadcom based chipset/NICs? Any
> tips as for where to start or pitfalls to expect?

I'm not aware of anything myself, but it sounds like a good idea. If
you feel able to convert 'eth' over to driver model that would be
great too. There are only a small number of operations.

Regards,
Simon