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CONFIG_BGMAC:

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_BGMAC has multiple definitions:

found in `drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/Kconfig`

The configuration item CONFIG_BGMAC:

prompt:
type: tristate
depends on: (none)
defined in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/Kconfig
found in Linux kernels: 4.8–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.11, 6.12-rc+HEAD
modules built: bgmac

Help text

This enables the integrated ethernet controller support for many Broadcom (mostly iProc) SoCs. An appropriate bus interface driver needs to be enabled to select this.

BCMA bus GBit core support found in `drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/Kconfig`

The configuration item CONFIG_BGMAC:

prompt: BCMA bus GBit core support
type: tristate
depends on: ( CONFIG_BCMA && CONFIG_BCMA_HOST_SOC ) && ( CONFIG_HAS_DMA ) && ( CONFIG_BCM47XX || CONFIG_ARCH_BCM_5301X || CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST )
defined in drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/Kconfig
found in Linux kernels: 3.9–3.19, 4.0–4.7
modules built: bgmac

Help text

This driver supports GBit MAC and BCM4706 GBit MAC cores on BCMA bus. They can be found on BCM47xx SoCs and provide gigabit ethernet. In case of using this driver on BCM4706 it's also requires to enable BCMA_DRIVER_GMAC_CMN to make it work.