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The Broadcom BCM5785 GbE MAC integrated in the AMD Hudson-E1 requires a secret sauce firmware blob to work. As Broadcom wasn't willing to send us any documentation (or a firmware adapted to our Micrel PHY) I had to figure out everything by myself in many weeks of hard detective work. In the end we had to settle for a different solution, the modified firmware I devised for the Micrel KSZ9021 PHY on our early FrontRunner-AF prototypes is no longer needed for the production version. However the information contained here might be very useful for others who'd like to use a competing PHY instead of Broadcom's 50610, so it should not get lost. And of course the unmodified, but now in large parts documented Selfboot Patch is needed to get Ethernet on AMD Inagua. The code introduced here should make the Hudson's internal MAC usable without having to add the proprietary firmware blob. - At least in theory. Unfortunately we've been unable to actually test this patch on Inagua, therefore the broadcom_init() call in mainboard.c was left commented out. If you have the hardware and can confirm it works please enable it. The fun thing is: as Broadcom refused to do any business with us at all, or send us any documentation, we never had to sign an NDA with them. This leaves me free to publish everything I have found out. :-) Change-Id: I94868250591862b376049c76bd21cb7e85f82569 Signed-off-by: Jens Rottmann <JRottmann@LiPPERTembedded.de> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/2831 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> |
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- coreboot README ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) found in most computers. coreboot performs a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a payload. With the separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot can scale from specialized applications that run directly firmware, run operating systems in flash, load custom bootloaders, or implement firmware standards, like PC BIOS services or UEFI. This allows for systems to only include the features necessary in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space required. coreboot was formerly known as LinuxBIOS. Payloads -------- After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any desired "payload" can be started by coreboot. See http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads for a list of supported payloads. Supported Hardware ------------------ coreboot supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards. For details please consult: * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices Build Requirements ------------------ * gcc / g++ * make Optional: * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation) * iasl (for targets with ACPI support) * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets) * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig') * flex and bison (for regenerating parsers) Building coreboot ----------------- Please consult http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO for details. Testing coreboot Without Modifying Your Hardware ------------------------------------------------ If you want to test coreboot without any risks before you really decide to use it on your hardware, you can use the QEMU system emulator to run coreboot virtually in QEMU. Please see http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU for details. Website and Mailing List ------------------------ Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development guidelines and more can be found on the coreboot website: http://www.coreboot.org You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list: http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist Copyright and License --------------------- The copyright on coreboot is owned by quite a large number of individual developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details. coreboot is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)", and some files are licensed under the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which were derived from other projects, other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply. Please check the individual source files for details. This makes the resulting coreboot images licensed under the GPL, version 2.