[U-Boot-Users] MPC8439E + Marvell 888E1111 (blah!)

[David Hawkins <dwh@ovro.caltech.edu>]

Hi all,

I'm designing an MPC8349E-based board. I'll be
working on the PCB layout starting next week.

To minimize my porting effort for both U-Boot and
Linux, I decided to copy the MPC8349E-MDS-PB reference
design and use the Marvell 888E1111 gigabit transceiver
for the network interface.

I find that the Marvell chipset documents are proprietary
and require the signing of an NDA to access.

Now, I can go ahead and do this, but it offends my sense
of 'openness'. I plan to release the design of the board
and all its software when I'm done, so it irks me to
select a datasheet that is hidden.

I haven't looked at all the Freescale reference boards,
so its possible there are different GbE transceivers on
other boards.

I know that I could probably use any number of
chipsets, however, my original intent was to
minimize my software effort.

I anyone has a recommendation for an alternative
I'd be interested in hearing about it. Unfortunately
I do need the speed of GbE, so 100Mbit interfaces
won't cut-it.

Freescale guys; Kim, Timur, any other reference
designs that perhaps I should take a look at.

Network guys; whats a popular interface that I shouldn't
have any trouble getting to work with the 8349E?

I'll go track down the ITX board documents and see
what it has on it ...

Cheers!
Dave