gcu(4)

gcu4

Intel ep80579 global configuration unit

Usage

gcu* at pci?

Overview

The gcu driver provides access to the miibus that is hidden behind the GCU device. It is used to control PHYs on embedded designs utilizing Intel's EP80579 chips.

The GCU also provides access to CAN, SSP and TDM signal strength drivers, but since they are not supported by OpenBSD the driver does not provide any functionality related to them.

Releases

35 releases since OpenBSD 4.7; the text changed 3 times.

  1. 4.7
  2. 4.8–5.2
  3. 5.3
  4. 5.4–8.0

History

The gcu driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.7.

Authors

The gcu driver was written by Dariusz Swiderski ⟨[email protected]⟩, partially based on the FreeBSD driver released by Intel under the ISC license.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.