[coreboot-gerrit] Patch merged into coreboot/master: 5c2025c AMD Hudson A55E: Remove GEC firmware blob kconfig prompt

[gerrit at coreboot.org]

the following patch was just integrated into master:
commit 5c2025c40f747c383e6106799f06c4a92cd07201
Author: Bruce Griffith <Bruce.Griffith at 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 at se-eng.com>
    Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/3127
    Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net>
    Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
    Reviewed-by: Jens Rottmann <JRottmann at LiPPERTembedded.de>
    Reviewed-by: Martin Roth <martin.roth at se-eng.com>

Build-Tested: build bot (Jenkins) at Fri Apr 26 08:03:17 2013, giving +1
Reviewed-By: Martin Roth <martin.roth at se-eng.com> at Wed May  1 23:49:05 2013, giving +2
See http://review.coreboot.org/3127 for details.

-gerrit