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b75190de 2# (C) Copyright 2000 - 2012
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3# Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
4#
5# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
6# project.
7#
8# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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22#
23
24Summary:
25========
26
24ee89b9 27This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
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28Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
29processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
30initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
31code.
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32
33The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
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34the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
35header files in common, and special provision has been made to
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36support booting of Linux images.
37
38Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
39configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
40implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
41add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
42code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
43load and run it dynamically.
44
45
46Status:
47=======
48
49In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
24ee89b9 50Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
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51"working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
52
24ee89b9 53In case of problems see the CHANGELOG and CREDITS files to find out
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54who contributed the specific port. The MAINTAINERS file lists board
55maintainers.
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57
58Where to get help:
59==================
60
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61In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
62U-Boot you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
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63<u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
64on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
65Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
66http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
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68
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69Where to get source code:
70=========================
71
72The U-Boot source code is maintained in the git repository at
73git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
74http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
75
76The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
11ccc33f 77any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
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78available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
79directory.
80
d4ee711d 81Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
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82ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
83
84
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85Where we come from:
86===================
87
88- start from 8xxrom sources
24ee89b9 89- create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
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90- clean up code
91- make it easier to add custom boards
92- make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
93- extend functions, especially:
94 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
95 * S-Record download
96 * network boot
11ccc33f 97 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
24ee89b9 98- create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
c609719b 99- add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
24ee89b9 100- create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
0d28f34b 101- current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
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102
103
104Names and Spelling:
105===================
106
107The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
108"U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
109in source files etc.). Example:
110
111 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
112
113File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
114
115 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
116
117 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
118
119Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
120the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
121
122 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
123 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
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125
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126Versioning:
127===========
128
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129Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
130were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
131into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
132names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
133Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
134releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
135
136Examples:
c0f40859 137 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
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138 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
139 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candiate 1 for September 2010 release
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140
141
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142Directory Hierarchy:
143====================
144
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145/arch Architecture specific files
146 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
147 /cpu CPU specific files
148 /arm720t Files specific to ARM 720 CPUs
149 /arm920t Files specific to ARM 920 CPUs
6eb0921a 150 /at91 Files specific to Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU
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151 /imx Files specific to Freescale MC9328 i.MX CPUs
152 /s3c24x0 Files specific to Samsung S3C24X0 CPUs
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153 /arm925t Files specific to ARM 925 CPUs
154 /arm926ejs Files specific to ARM 926 CPUs
155 /arm1136 Files specific to ARM 1136 CPUs
156 /ixp Files specific to Intel XScale IXP CPUs
157 /pxa Files specific to Intel XScale PXA CPUs
158 /s3c44b0 Files specific to Samsung S3C44B0 CPUs
159 /sa1100 Files specific to Intel StrongARM SA1100 CPUs
160 /lib Architecture specific library files
161 /avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture
162 /cpu CPU specific files
163 /lib Architecture specific library files
164 /blackfin Files generic to Analog Devices Blackfin architecture
165 /cpu CPU specific files
166 /lib Architecture specific library files
fea25720 167 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
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168 /cpu CPU specific files
169 /lib Architecture specific library files
170 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
171 /cpu CPU specific files
172 /mcf52x2 Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF52x2 CPUs
173 /mcf5227x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5227x CPUs
174 /mcf532x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5329 CPUs
175 /mcf5445x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5445x CPUs
176 /mcf547x_8x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF547x_8x CPUs
177 /lib Architecture specific library files
178 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
179 /cpu CPU specific files
180 /lib Architecture specific library files
181 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
182 /cpu CPU specific files
92bbd64e 183 /mips32 Files specific to MIPS32 CPUs
80421fcc 184 /xburst Files specific to Ingenic XBurst CPUs
8d321b81 185 /lib Architecture specific library files
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186 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
187 /cpu CPU specific files
188 /n1213 Files specific to Andes Technology N1213 CPUs
189 /lib Architecture specific library files
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190 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
191 /cpu CPU specific files
192 /lib Architecture specific library files
a47a12be 193 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
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194 /cpu CPU specific files
195 /74xx_7xx Files specific to Freescale MPC74xx and 7xx CPUs
196 /mpc5xx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xx CPUs
197 /mpc5xxx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xxx CPUs
198 /mpc8xx Files specific to Freescale MPC8xx CPUs
199 /mpc8220 Files specific to Freescale MPC8220 CPUs
200 /mpc824x Files specific to Freescale MPC824x CPUs
201 /mpc8260 Files specific to Freescale MPC8260 CPUs
202 /mpc85xx Files specific to Freescale MPC85xx CPUs
203 /ppc4xx Files specific to AMCC PowerPC 4xx CPUs
204 /lib Architecture specific library files
205 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
206 /cpu CPU specific files
207 /sh2 Files specific to sh2 CPUs
208 /sh3 Files specific to sh3 CPUs
209 /sh4 Files specific to sh4 CPUs
210 /lib Architecture specific library files
211 /sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture
212 /cpu CPU specific files
213 /leon2 Files specific to Gaisler LEON2 SPARC CPU
214 /leon3 Files specific to Gaisler LEON3 SPARC CPU
215 /lib Architecture specific library files
216/api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
217/board Board dependent files
218/common Misc architecture independent functions
219/disk Code for disk drive partition handling
220/doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
221/drivers Commonly used device drivers
222/examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
223/fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
224/include Header Files
225/lib Files generic to all architectures
226 /libfdt Library files to support flattened device trees
227 /lzma Library files to support LZMA decompression
228 /lzo Library files to support LZO decompression
229/net Networking code
230/post Power On Self Test
231/rtc Real Time Clock drivers
232/tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
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234Software Configuration:
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236
237Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
238rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
239
240There are two classes of configuration variables:
241
242* Configuration _OPTIONS_:
243 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
244 "CONFIG_".
245
246* Configuration _SETTINGS_:
247 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
248 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
6d0f6bcf 249 "CONFIG_SYS_".
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250
251Later we will add a configuration tool - probably similar to or even
252identical to what's used for the Linux kernel. Right now, we have to
253do the configuration by hand, which means creating some symbolic
254links and editing some configuration files. We use the TQM8xxL boards
255as an example here.
256
257
258Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
259---------------------------------------------------
260
261For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
262configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_config".
263
264Example: For a TQM823L module type:
265
266 cd u-boot
267 make TQM823L_config
268
11ccc33f 269For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the CPU type as well;
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270e.g. "make cogent_mpc8xx_config". And also configure the cogent
271directory according to the instructions in cogent/README.
272
273
274Configuration Options:
275----------------------
276
277Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
278such information is kept in a configuration file
279"include/configs/<board_name>.h".
280
281Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
282"include/configs/TQM823L.h".
283
284
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285Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
286kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
287build a config tool - later.
288
289
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290The following options need to be configured:
291
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292- CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
293
294- Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
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296- CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
09ea0de0 297 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
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298
299- CPU Module Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
300 Define exactly one of
301 CONFIG_CMA286_60_OLD
302--- FIXME --- not tested yet:
303 CONFIG_CMA286_60, CONFIG_CMA286_21, CONFIG_CMA286_60P,
304 CONFIG_CMA287_23, CONFIG_CMA287_50
305
306- Motherboard Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
307 Define exactly one of
308 CONFIG_CMA101, CONFIG_CMA102
309
310- Motherboard I/O Modules: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
311 Define one or more of
312 CONFIG_CMA302
313
314- Motherboard Options: (if CONFIG_CMA101 or CONFIG_CMA102 are defined)
315 Define one or more of
316 CONFIG_LCD_HEARTBEAT - update a character position on
11ccc33f 317 the LCD display every second with
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318 a "rotator" |\-/|\-/
319
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320- Board flavour: (if CONFIG_MPC8260ADS is defined)
321 CONFIG_ADSTYPE
322 Possible values are:
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323 CONFIG_SYS_8260ADS - original MPC8260ADS
324 CONFIG_SYS_8266ADS - MPC8266ADS
325 CONFIG_SYS_PQ2FADS - PQ2FADS-ZU or PQ2FADS-VR
326 CONFIG_SYS_8272ADS - MPC8272ADS
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328- Marvell Family Member
329 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
330 multiple fs option at one time
331 for marvell soc family
332
c609719b 333- MPC824X Family Member (if CONFIG_MPC824X is defined)
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334 Define exactly one of
335 CONFIG_MPC8240, CONFIG_MPC8245
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11ccc33f 337- 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
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338 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
339 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
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340 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
341 reference PIT/RTC clock
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342 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
343 or XTAL/EXTAL)
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66ca92a5 345- 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
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346 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
347 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
66ca92a5 348 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
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349 See doc/README.MPC866
350
6d0f6bcf 351 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
75d1ea7f 352
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353 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
354 of relying on the correctness of the configured
355 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
356 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
357 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
6d0f6bcf 358 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
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360 CONFIG_SYS_DELAYED_ICACHE
361
362 Define this option if you want to enable the
363 ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
364
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365- 85xx CPU Options:
366 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
367
368 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
369 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
370 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
371
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372 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
373
374 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
375 tree nodes for the given platform.
376
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377 CONFIG_SYS_PPC_E500_DEBUG_TLB
378
379 Enables a temporary TLB entry to be used during boot to work
380 around limitations in e500v1 and e500v2 external debugger
381 support. This reduces the portions of the boot code where
382 breakpoints and single stepping do not work. The value of this
383 symbol should be set to the TLB1 entry to be used for this
384 purpose.
385
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386 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
387
388 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
389 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
390 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
391
392 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
393 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
394
395 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
396 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
397
398 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
399 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
400 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
401 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
402
403 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
404 this erratum.
405
406 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
407
408 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
409 according to the A004510 workaround.
410
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411- Generic CPU options:
412 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
413
414 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
415 values is arch specific.
416
0b953ffc 417- Intel Monahans options:
6d0f6bcf 418 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO
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420 Defines the Monahans run mode to oscillator
421 ratio. Valid values are 8, 16, 24, 31. The core
422 frequency is this value multiplied by 13 MHz.
423
6d0f6bcf 424 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_TURBO_RUN_MODE_RATIO
cf48eb9a 425
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426 Defines the Monahans turbo mode to oscillator
427 ratio. Valid values are 1 (default if undefined) and
cf48eb9a 428 2. The core frequency as calculated above is multiplied
0b953ffc 429 by this value.
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432 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
433
434 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
435 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
436 relocation.
437
438 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
439
440 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
441 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
442 Possible values are:
443 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
444 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_WA
445 CONF_CM_UNCACHED
446 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
447 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_CE
448 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_COW
449 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_CUW
450 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
451
452 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
453
454 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
455 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
456
457 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
458
459 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
460 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
461 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
462
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463- ARM options:
464 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
465
466 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
467 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
468
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469 CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD
470
471 Use this flag to build U-Boot using the Thumb instruction
472 set for ARM architectures. Thumb instruction set provides
473 better code density. For ARM architectures that support
474 Thumb2 this flag will result in Thumb2 code generated by
475 GCC.
476
5da627a4 477- Linux Kernel Interface:
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478 CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ
479
480 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
481 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
482 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
483 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
484 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
485 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
486 Linux kernel.
c609719b 487 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
218ca724 488 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
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489 default environment.
490
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491 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
492
11ccc33f 493 When transferring memsize parameter to linux, some versions
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494 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
495 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
496
fec6d9ee 497 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
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499 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
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500 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
501 concepts).
502
503 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
504 * New libfdt-based support
505 * Adds the "fdt" command
3bb342fc 506 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
213bf8c8 507
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508 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node (only required for
509 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
510 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node (only required for
511 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
f57f70aa 512 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
c2871f03 513 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
f57f70aa 514
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515 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
516 addresses
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518 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
519
520 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
521 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
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523 CONFIG_OF_BOOT_CPU
524
11ccc33f 525 This define fills in the correct boot CPU in the boot
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526 param header, the default value is zero if undefined.
527
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528 CONFIG_OF_IDE_FIXUP
529
530 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
531 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
532 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
533 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
534 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
535 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
536
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537 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
538
539 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
540 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
541 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
542 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
543 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
544 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
545 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
546
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547- vxWorks boot parameters:
548
549 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
550 environments variables: bootfile, ipaddr, serverip, hostname.
551 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
552
553 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_DEVICE - The vxworks device name
554 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_MAC_PTR - Ethernet 6 byte MA -address
555 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_SERVERNAME - Name of the server
556 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_ADDR - Address of boot parameters
557
558 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_ADD_PARAMS
559
560 Add it at the end of the bootline. E.g "u=username pw=secret"
561
562 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
563 the defaults discussed just above.
564
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565- Cache Configuration:
566 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
567 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
568 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
569
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571 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
572 controller
573 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
574 controller register space
575
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48d0192f 577 CONFIG_PL010_SERIAL
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579 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
580
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583 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
584
585 CONFIG_PL011_CLOCK
586
587 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
588 the clock speed of the UARTs.
589
590 CONFIG_PL01x_PORTS
591
592 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
593 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
594 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
595
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596 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_RLCR
597
598 Some vendor versions of PL011 serial ports (e.g. ST-Ericsson U8500)
599 have separate receive and transmit line control registers. Set
600 this variable to initialize the extra register.
601
602 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_FLUSH_ON_INIT
603
604 On some platforms (e.g. U8500) U-Boot is loaded by a second stage
605 boot loader that has already initialized the UART. Define this
606 variable to flush the UART at init time.
607
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610 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port
611 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2,
612 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial
613 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE
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615 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
616 port routines must be defined elsewhere
617 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
618
619 CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE
620 Enables console device for a color framebuffer. Needs following
c53043b7 621 defines (cf. smiLynxEM, i8042)
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622 VIDEO_FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN graphic memory organisation
623 (default big endian)
624 VIDEO_HW_RECTFILL graphic chip supports
625 rectangle fill
626 (cf. smiLynxEM)
627 VIDEO_HW_BITBLT graphic chip supports
628 bit-blit (cf. smiLynxEM)
629 VIDEO_VISIBLE_COLS visible pixel columns
630 (cols=pitch)
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631 VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS visible pixel rows
632 VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE bytes per pixel
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633 VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT graphic data format
634 (0-5, cf. cfb_console.c)
ba56f625 635 VIDEO_FB_ADRS framebuffer address
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636 VIDEO_KBD_INIT_FCT keyboard int fct
637 (i.e. i8042_kbd_init())
638 VIDEO_TSTC_FCT test char fct
639 (i.e. i8042_tstc)
640 VIDEO_GETC_FCT get char fct
641 (i.e. i8042_getc)
642 CONFIG_CONSOLE_CURSOR cursor drawing on/off
643 (requires blink timer
644 cf. i8042.c)
6d0f6bcf 645 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c)
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646 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME display time/date info in
647 upper right corner
602ad3b3 648 (requires CONFIG_CMD_DATE)
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649 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO display Linux logo in
650 upper left corner
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651 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO use bmp_logo.h instead of
652 linux_logo.h for logo.
653 Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
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11ccc33f 655 additional board info beside
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656 the logo
657
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658 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is
659 default i/o. Serial console can be forced with
660 environment 'console=serial'.
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662 When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console
663 messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with
664 the "silent" environment variable. See
665 doc/README.silent for more information.
a3ad8e26 666
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668 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
669 Select one of the baudrates listed in
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671 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
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673- Console Rx buffer length
674 With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define
675 the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC.
2b3f12c2 676 This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible.
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677 If using CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN also CONFIG_SYS_MAXIDLE
678 must be defined, to setup the maximum idle timeout for
679 the SMC.
680
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682 Prior to the console being initialised (i.e. serial UART
683 initialised etc) all console output is silently discarded.
684 Defining CONFIG_PRE_CONSOLE_BUFFER will cause U-Boot to
685 buffer any console messages prior to the console being
686 initialised to a buffer of size CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ
687 bytes located at CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR. The buffer is
688 a circular buffer, so if more than CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ
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690 earlier bytes are discarded.
691
692 'Sane' compilers will generate smaller code if
693 CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ is a power of 2
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695- Safe printf() functions
696 Define CONFIG_SYS_VSNPRINTF to compile in safe versions of
697 the printf() functions. These are defined in
698 include/vsprintf.h and include snprintf(), vsnprintf() and
699 so on. Code size increase is approximately 300-500 bytes.
700 If this option is not given then these functions will
701 silently discard their buffer size argument - this means
702 you are not getting any overflow checking in this case.
703
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704- Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds
705 Delay before automatically booting the default image;
706 set to -1 to disable autoboot.
707
708 See doc/README.autoboot for these options that
709 work with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY. None are required.
710 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
711 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_MIN
712 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
713 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT
714 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
715 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
716 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2
717 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR2
718 CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK
719 CONFIG_RESET_TO_RETRY
720
721- Autoboot Command:
722 CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
723 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
724 define a command string that is automatically executed
725 when no character is read on the console interface
726 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
727
728 CONFIG_BOOTARGS
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729 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
730 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
731 environment value "bootargs".
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733 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
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734 The value of these goes into the environment as
735 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
736 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
11ccc33f 737 RAM and NFS.
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739- Pre-Boot Commands:
740 CONFIG_PREBOOT
741
742 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
743 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
744 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
745 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
746 entering interactive mode.
747
748 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
749 automatically generated or modified. For an example
750 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
751 modified when the user holds down a certain
752 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
753 booting the systems
754
755- Serial Download Echo Mode:
756 CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
757 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
758 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
759 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
760 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
761 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
762 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
763
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765 CONFIG_KGDB_BAUDRATE
766 Select one of the baudrates listed in
6d0f6bcf 767 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
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769- Monitor Functions:
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770 Monitor commands can be included or excluded
771 from the build by using the #include files
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772 <config_cmd_all.h> and #undef'ing unwanted
773 commands, or using <config_cmd_default.h>
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774 and augmenting with additional #define's
775 for wanted commands.
776
777 The default command configuration includes all commands
778 except those marked below with a "*".
779
780 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
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781 CONFIG_CMD_BDI bdinfo
782 CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger
783 CONFIG_CMD_BMP * BMP support
784 CONFIG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands
785 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD bootd
786 CONFIG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache
787 CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo
710b9938 788 CONFIG_CMD_CRC32 * crc32
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789 CONFIG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time...
790 CONFIG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support
791 CONFIG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics
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792 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510 * ds4510 I2C gpio commands
793 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO * ds4510 I2C info command
794 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM * ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
795 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST * ds4510 I2C rst command
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796 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
797 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
246c6922 798 CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV edit env variable
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799 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
800 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
0c79cda0 801 CONFIG_CMD_EXPORTENV * export the environment
bdab39d3 802 CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV saveenv
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803 CONFIG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support
804 CONFIG_CMD_FAT * FAT partition support
805 CONFIG_CMD_FDOS * Dos diskette Support
806 CONFIG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect
807 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support
a641b979 808 CONFIG_CMD_GO * the 'go' command (exec code)
a000b795 809 CONFIG_CMD_GREPENV * search environment
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810 CONFIG_CMD_HWFLOW * RTS/CTS hw flow control
811 CONFIG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support
812 CONFIG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support
813 CONFIG_CMD_IMI iminfo
814 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS List all found images
815 CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support
0c79cda0 816 CONFIG_CMD_IMPORTENV * import an environment
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817 CONFIG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo
818 CONFIG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values
819 CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support
820 CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb
1ba7fd25 821 CONFIG_CMD_LDRINFO ldrinfo (display Blackfin loader)
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822 CONFIG_CMD_LINK_LOCAL * link-local IP address auto-configuration
823 (169.254.*.*)
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824 CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb
825 CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads
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826 CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM print md5 message digest
827 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
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828 CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
829 loop, loopw, mtest
830 CONFIG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc
831 CONFIG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support
832 CONFIG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands
68d7d651 833 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS * MTD partition support
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834 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
835 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
e92739d3 836 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X * PCA953x I2C gpio commands
c0f40859 837 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
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838 CONFIG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo
839 CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support
840 CONFIG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
841 host
842 CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O
843 CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump
844 CONFIG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable
845 CONFIG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump
846 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI * SCSI Support
847 CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information
848 (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
849 CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access
850 (4xx only)
f61ec45e 851 CONFIG_CMD_SF * Read/write/erase SPI NOR flash
c6b1ee66 852 CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM print sha1 memory digest
02c9aa1d 853 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
74de7aef 854 CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support
602ad3b3 855 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
7a83af07 856 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPSRV * TFTP transfer in server mode
1fb7cd49 857 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPPUT * TFTP put command (upload)
ca366d0e 858 CONFIG_CMD_TIME * run command and report execution time
602ad3b3 859 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
602ad3b3 860 CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support
c8339f51 861 CONFIG_CMD_MFSL * Microblaze FSL support
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864 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
865 support you can write:
866
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868 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
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870 Other Commands:
871 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
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873 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
602ad3b3 874 (configuration option CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know
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875 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data
876 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or
877 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be
878 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other
879 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an
880 initial stack and some data.
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882
883 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
884
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885- Device tree:
886 CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
887 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
888 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
889 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
890 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
891 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
892
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893 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
894 be done using one of the two options below:
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896 CONFIG_OF_EMBED
897 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
898 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
899 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
900 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
901 the global data structure as gd->blob.
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903 CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE
904 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
905 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
906 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
907
908 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
909
910 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
911 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
912 still use the individual files if you need something more
913 exotic.
914
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916 CONFIG_WATCHDOG
917 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
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918 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
919 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260
920 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
921 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
922 available, then no further board specific code should
923 be needed to use it.
924
925 CONFIG_HW_WATCHDOG
926 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
927 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
928 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
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931 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
932 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
933 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
934 version as printed by the "version" command.
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935 Any change to this variable will be reverted at the
936 next reset.
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939
602ad3b3 940 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
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942 following options:
943
944 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx
945 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
4e8b7544 946 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
c609719b 947 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
1cb8e980 948 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
c609719b 949 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
7f70e853 950 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
3bac3513 951 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
9536dfcc 952 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
4c0d4c3b 953 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
6d0f6bcf 954 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
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955 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
956 RV3029 RTC.
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958 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
959 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
960
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962 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
963 CONFIG_PCA953X_INFO - enable pca953x info command
964
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965 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
966 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
967 pins supported by a particular chip.
968
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970 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
971
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973
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974 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
975 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
976 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
602ad3b3 977 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
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979- Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
980 Zero or more of the following:
981 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
982 CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION MS Dos partition table, traditional on the
983 Intel architecture, USB sticks, etc.
984 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
985 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
986 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
987 disk/part_efi.c
988 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS Memory Technology Device partition table.
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991 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at
923c46f9 992 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
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994- IDE Reset method:
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995 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
996 board configurations files but used nowhere!
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998 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
999 be performed by calling the function
1000 ide_set_reset(int reset)
1001 which has to be defined in a board specific file
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1003- ATAPI Support:
1004 CONFIG_ATAPI
1005
1006 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
1007
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1009 CONFIG_LBA48
1010
1011 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
4b142feb 1012 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
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1014 support disks up to 2.1TB.
1015
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1018 Default is 32bit.
1019
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1021 At the moment only there is only support for the
1022 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
1023 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
1024
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1025 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
1026 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
1027 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
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1029 devices.
6d0f6bcf 1030 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
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1032- NETWORK Support (PCI):
682011ff 1033 CONFIG_E1000
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1034 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
1035
1036 CONFIG_E1000_SPI
1037 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
1038 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
1039 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
1040
1041 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
1042 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
1043 example with the "sspi" command.
1044
1045 CONFIG_CMD_E1000
1046 Management command for E1000 devices. When used on devices
1047 with SPI support you can reprogram the EEPROM from U-Boot.
53cf9435 1048
ac3315c2 1049 CONFIG_E1000_FALLBACK_MAC
11ccc33f 1050 default MAC for empty EEPROM after production.
ac3315c2 1051
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1053 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
11ccc33f 1054 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
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1055 write routine for first time initialisation.
1056
1057 CONFIG_TULIP
1058 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
1059 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
1060 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
1061
1062 CONFIG_NATSEMI
1063 Support for National dp83815 chips.
1064
1065 CONFIG_NS8382X
1066 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
1067
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1069
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1070 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
1071 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
1072
1073 CONFIG_RMII
1074 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
1075
1076 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
1077 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
1078 The driver doen't show link status messages.
1079
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1080 CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
1081 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
1082
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1083 CONFIG_DRIVER_LAN91C96
1084 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
1085
1086 CONFIG_LAN91C96_BASE
1087 Define this to hold the physical address
1088 of the LAN91C96's I/O space
1089
1090 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
1091 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
1092
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1094 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
1095
1096 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
1097 Define this to hold the physical address
1098 of the device (I/O space)
1099
1100 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
1101 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1102
1103 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
1104 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
1105 (some hardware wont work with macros)
1106
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1107 CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
1108 Support for davinci emac
1109
1110 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
1111 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
1112
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1114 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
1115
1116 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
1117 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
1118 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
1119 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
1120 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
1121 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
1122 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
1123 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
1124
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1126 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
1127
c2fff331 1128 CONFIG_SMC911X_BASE
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1129 Define this to hold the physical address
1130 of the device (I/O space)
1131
c2fff331 1132 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
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1133 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1134
c2fff331 1135 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
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1136 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
1137 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
c2fff331 1138 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
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1140 CONFIG_SH_ETHER
1141 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
1142
1143 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
1144 Define the number of ports to be used
1145
1146 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1147 Define the ETH PHY's address
1148
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1149 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1150 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1151
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1152- TPM Support:
1153 CONFIG_GENERIC_LPC_TPM
1154 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1155 per system is supported at this time.
1156
1157 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1158 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1159 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1160 0xfed40000.
1161
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1163 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
4d13cbad 1164 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define
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1165 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1166 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
30d56fae 1167 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
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1168 storage devices.
1169 Note:
1170 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1171 (TEAC FD-05PUB).
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1172 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
1173 CONFIG_USB_CLOCK
1174 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
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1175 CONFIG_PSC3_USB
1176 for USB on PSC3
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1177 CONFIG_USB_CONFIG
1178 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
1179 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
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1180 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100
1181 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100
6d0f6bcf 1182 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
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1183 May be defined to allow interrupt polling
1184 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
4d13cbad 1185
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1186 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1187 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1188
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1189- USB Device:
1190 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1191 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1192 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
11ccc33f 1193 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
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1194 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1195 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
386eda02 1196 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
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1197 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1198 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1199 a Linux host by
1200 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1201 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1202 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1203 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
386eda02 1204
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1205 CONFIG_USB_DEVICE
1206 Define this to build a UDC device
1207
1208 CONFIG_USB_TTY
1209 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1210 talk to the UDC device
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1212 CONFIG_USBD_HS
1213 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1214 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1215 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1216 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1217 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1218 speed.
1219
6d0f6bcf 1220 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
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1221 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1222 be set to usbtty.
1223
1224 mpc8xx:
6d0f6bcf 1225 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
16c8d5e7 1226 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
6d0f6bcf 1227 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
386eda02 1228
6d0f6bcf 1229 CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0xBLAH
16c8d5e7 1230 Derive USB clock from brgclk
6d0f6bcf 1231 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0x04
16c8d5e7 1232
386eda02 1233 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
16c8d5e7 1234 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
386eda02 1235 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
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1236 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1237 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1238 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1239
1240 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1241 Define this string as the name of your company for
1242 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
386eda02 1243
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1244 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1245 Define this string as the name of your product
1246 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1247
1248 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1249 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1250 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1251 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1252 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
386eda02 1253
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1254 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1255 Define this as the unique Product ID
1256 for your device
1257 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
4d13cbad 1258
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1259- ULPI Layer Support:
1260 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1261 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1262 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1263 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1264 viewport is supported.
1265 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1266 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
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71f95118 1268- MMC Support:
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1269 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1270 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1271 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
71f95118 1272 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
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1273 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1274 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
71f95118 1275
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1276 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF
1277 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1278
1279 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1280 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1281
1282 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_CLK
1283 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1284
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1285- Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1286 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE,
1287 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV
1288 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1289
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1290 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1291 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
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1292 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1293
6d0f6bcf 1294 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART
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1295 Define this to create an own partition. You have to provide a
1296 function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num)
1297
1298 If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to
6d0f6bcf 1299 #define CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_SINGLE_PART 1
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1300 to disable the command chpart. This is the default when you
1301 have not defined a custom partition
1302
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1303- FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem write function support:
1304 CONFIG_FAT_WRITE
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1305
1306 Define this to enable support for saving memory data as a
1307 file in FAT formatted partition.
1308
1309 This will also enable the command "fatwrite" enabling the
1310 user to write files to FAT.
c30a15e5 1311
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1312- Keyboard Support:
1313 CONFIG_ISA_KEYBOARD
1314
1315 Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard
1316 support
1317
1318 CONFIG_I8042_KBD
1319 Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and
1320 GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support.
1321 Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc
1322 for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking.
1323
1324- Video support:
1325 CONFIG_VIDEO
1326
1327 Define this to enable video support (for output to
1328 video).
1329
1330 CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000
1331
1332 Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip
1333
1334 CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM
b79a11cc 1335 Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The
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1336 video output is selected via environment 'videoout'
1337 (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is
1338 assumed.
1339
b79a11cc 1340 For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is
11ccc33f 1341 selected via environment 'videomode'. Two different ways
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1342 are possible:
1343 - "videomode=num" 'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers.
6e592385 1344 Following standard modes are supported (* is default):
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1346 Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024
1347 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1348 8 bits | 0x301* 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307
1349 15 bits | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319
1350 16 bits | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A
1351 24 bits | 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B
1352 -------------+---------------------------------------------
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1353 (i.e. setenv videomode 317; saveenv; reset;)
1354
b79a11cc 1355 - "videomode=bootargs" all the video parameters are parsed
7817cb20 1356 from the bootargs. (See drivers/video/videomodes.c)
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1357
1358
c1551ea8 1359 CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806
43d9616c 1360 Enable Epson SED13806 driver. This driver supports 8bpp
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1361 and 16bpp modes defined by CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_8BPP
1362 or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP
1363
7d3053fb 1364 CONFIG_FSL_DIU_FB
04e5ae79 1365 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
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1366 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1367 support, and should also define these other macros:
1368
1369 CONFIG_SYS_DIU_ADDR
1370 CONFIG_VIDEO
1371 CONFIG_CMD_BMP
1372 CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE
1373 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1374 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1375 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
1376 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1377
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1378 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1379 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1380 boot. See the documentation file README.video for a
1381 description of this variable.
7d3053fb 1382
682011ff 1383- Keyboard Support:
8bde7f77 1384 CONFIG_KEYBOARD
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1386 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1387 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1388 defined in your board-specific files.
1389 The only board using this so far is RBC823.
a6c7ad2f 1390
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1391- LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1392
1393 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1394 display); also select one of the supported displays
1395 by defining one of these:
1396
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1397 CONFIG_ATMEL_LCD:
1398
1399 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1400
fd3103bb 1401 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
c609719b 1402
fd3103bb 1403 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
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fd3103bb 1405 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
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1407 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1408 Active, color, single scan.
1409
1410 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1411
1412 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
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1413 Active, color, single scan.
1414
1415 CONFIG_SHARP_16x9
1416
1417 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1418 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1419
1420 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1421
1422 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1423 Active, color, single scan.
1424
1425 CONFIG_HLD1045
1426
1427 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1428 Active, color, single scan.
1429
1430 CONFIG_OPTREX_BW
1431
1432 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1433 or
1434 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1435 or
1436 Hitachi SP14Q002
1437
1438 320x240. Black & white.
1439
1440 Normally display is black on white background; define
6d0f6bcf 1441 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
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7152b1d0 1443- Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
d791b1dc 1444
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1445 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1446 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1447 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
e94d2cd9 1448 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
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1449 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1450 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1451 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1452 loaded very quickly after power-on.
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1454 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1455
1456 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1457 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1458 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1459 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1460 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1461 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1462
1463 Example:
1464 setenv splashpos m,m
1465 => image at center of screen
1466
1467 setenv splashpos 30,20
1468 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1469
1470 setenv splashpos -10,m
1471 => vertically centered image
1472 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1473
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1474- Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1475
1476 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1477 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1478 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1479
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1480- Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1481
1482 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1483 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1484 bmp command.
1485
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1486- Compression support:
1487 CONFIG_BZIP2
1488
1489 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1490 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1491 compressed images are supported.
1492
42d1f039 1493 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
6d0f6bcf 1494 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
42d1f039 1495 be at least 4MB.
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1497 CONFIG_LZMA
1498
1499 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1500 images is included.
1501
1502 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1503 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1504 formula:
1505
1506 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1507
1508 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1509 and Literal pos bits.
1510
1511 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1512 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1513 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1514 a very small buffer.
1515
1516 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1517 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
6d0f6bcf 1518 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
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1520- MII/PHY support:
1521 CONFIG_PHY_ADDR
1522
1523 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1524
1525 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1526
1527 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1528
1529 CONFIG_PHY_GIGE
1530
1531 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
11ccc33f 1532 detection of gigabit PHY is included.
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1533
1534 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1535
1536 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1537 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1538 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1539 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1540
1541 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1542
1543 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1544 command issued before MII status register can be read
1545
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1547 CONFIG_ETHADDR
c68a05fe 1548 CONFIG_ETH1ADDR
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1550 CONFIG_ETH3ADDR
c68a05fe 1551 CONFIG_ETH4ADDR
1552 CONFIG_ETH5ADDR
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1554 Define a default value for Ethernet address to use
1555 for the respective Ethernet interface, in case this
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1557
1558- IP address:
1559 CONFIG_IPADDR
1560
1561 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
11ccc33f 1562 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
c609719b 1563 determined through e.g. bootp.
1ebcd654 1564 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
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1565
1566- Server IP address:
1567 CONFIG_SERVERIP
1568
11ccc33f 1569 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
c609719b 1570 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1ebcd654 1571 (Environment variable "serverip")
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1573 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1574
1575 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1576 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1577
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1578- Gateway IP address:
1579 CONFIG_GATEWAYIP
1580
1581 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1582 default router where packets to other networks are
1583 sent to.
1584 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1585
1586- Subnet mask:
1587 CONFIG_NETMASK
1588
1589 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1590 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1591 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1592 forwarded through a router.
1593 (Environment variable "netmask")
1594
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1596 CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP
1597
1598 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1599 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
11ccc33f 1600 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
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1601 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1602 multicast group.
1603
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1604- BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1605 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1606
1607 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1608 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1609 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1610 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1611 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1612 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1613 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1614 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
6c33c785 1615 following delays are inserted then:
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1617 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1618 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1619 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1620 4th and following
1621 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1622
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1625 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1626
1627 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1628 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1629 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1630 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1631 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1632 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1633 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1634 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2
1635 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1636 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1637 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1638 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
2c00e099 1639 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
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1641 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1642 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
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1644 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1645 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1646 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1647 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1648 is not available.
1649
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1650 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1651 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1652 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1653 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1654 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1655 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1656 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1fe80d79 1657 is defined.
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1659 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1660 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1661 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
5d110f0a 1662 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
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1663 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1664 option 12 to the DHCP server.
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1666 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1667
1668 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1669 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1670 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1671 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1672 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1673 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1674 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1675 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1676 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1677 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1678 this delay.
1679
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1680 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1681 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1682 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1683 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1684 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1685
1686 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1687
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6e592385 1689 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
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1690
1691 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1692
1693 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1694
1695 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1696 of the device.
1697
1698 CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID
1699
1700 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1701 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
11ccc33f 1702 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
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1704 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1705
1706 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1707 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1708
1709 CONFIG_CDP_VERSION
1710
1711 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1712
1713 CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM
1714
1715 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1716
1717 CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER
1718
1719 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1720
1721 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1722
1723 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1724 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1725
1726 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1727
1728 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1729
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1731
1732 Several configurations allow to display the current
1733 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1734 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1735 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1736 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1737 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1738 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this
1739 feature in U-Boot.
1740
1741- CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
1742
1743 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
1744 on those systems that support this (optional)
1745 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
1746
1747- I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C | CONFIG_SOFT_I2C
1748
b37c7e5e 1749 These enable I2C serial bus commands. Defining either of
945af8d7 1750 (but not both of) CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C will
11ccc33f 1751 include the appropriate I2C driver for the selected CPU.
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945af8d7 1753 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
602ad3b3 1754 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
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1755 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
1756 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
43d9616c 1757 command line interface.
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bb99ad6d 1759 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
b37c7e5e 1760
945af8d7 1761 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C configures u-boot to use a software (aka
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1762 bit-banging) driver instead of CPM or similar hardware
1763 support for I2C.
c609719b 1764
945af8d7 1765 There are several other quantities that must also be
b37c7e5e 1766 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C.
c609719b 1767
6d0f6bcf 1768 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
945af8d7 1769 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
6d0f6bcf 1770 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
11ccc33f 1771 the CPU's i2c node address).
945af8d7 1772
8d321b81 1773 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
a47a12be 1774 (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
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1775 and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
1776 eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
1777 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
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1779 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
1780
1781 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1782 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1783 in progress. Reset the slave devices by sending start
1784 commands until the slave device responds.
1785
945af8d7 1786 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
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1788 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SOFT_I2C)
1789 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1790 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
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1791
1792 I2C_INIT
1793
b37c7e5e 1794 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
43d9616c 1795 controller or configure ports.
c609719b 1796
ba56f625 1797 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
b37c7e5e 1798
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1799 I2C_PORT
1800
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1801 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
1802 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
1803 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
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1804
1805 I2C_ACTIVE
1806
1807 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1808 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1809 define can be null.
1810
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1811 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1812
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1813 I2C_TRISTATE
1814
1815 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1816 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1817 define can be null.
1818
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1819 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1820
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1821 I2C_READ
1822
1823 Code that returns TRUE if the I2C data line is high,
1824 FALSE if it is low.
1825
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1826 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1827
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1828 I2C_SDA(bit)
1829
1830 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1831 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1832
b37c7e5e 1833 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
2535d602 1834 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
ba56f625 1835 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
b37c7e5e 1836
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1837 I2C_SCL(bit)
1838
1839 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1840 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1841
b37c7e5e 1842 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
2535d602 1843 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
ba56f625 1844 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
b37c7e5e 1845
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1847
1848 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1849 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
b37c7e5e 1850 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
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1851 like:
1852
b37c7e5e 1853 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
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1856
1857 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1858 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1859 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1860 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1861
1862 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1863 the generic GPIO functions.
1864
6d0f6bcf 1865 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
47cd00fa 1866
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1867 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1868 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1869 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1870 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1871 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1872 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1873 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1874 is run early in the boot sequence.
47cd00fa 1875
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1876 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
1877
1878 An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
1879 defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
1880 boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
1881 is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
1882 using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
1883 controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
1884 i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
1885 controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
1886
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1887 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
1888
1889 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
1890 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
1891 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
1892
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1893 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1894
1895 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
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1896 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1897 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
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1898 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1899
6d0f6bcf 1900 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
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1901
1902 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
c0f40859 1903 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
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1904 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1905 a 1D array of device addresses
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1906
1907 e.g.
1908 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
c0f40859 1909 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
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1910
1911 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1912
c0f40859 1913 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
6d0f6bcf 1914 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MULTI_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
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1915
1916 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1917
6d0f6bcf 1918 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
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1919
1920 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1921 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1922
6d0f6bcf 1923 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
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1924
1925 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1926 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1927
6d0f6bcf 1928 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
0dc018ec
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1929
1930 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
1931 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
1932
6d0f6bcf 1933 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
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1934
1935 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
1936 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
1937 specified DTT device.
1938
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1939 CONFIG_FSL_I2C
1940
1941 Define this option if you want to use Freescale's I2C driver in
7817cb20 1942 drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c.
be5e6181 1943
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1944 CONFIG_I2C_MUX
1945
1946 Define this option if you have I2C devices reached over 1 .. n
1947 I2C Muxes like the pca9544a. This option addes a new I2C
1948 Command "i2c bus [muxtype:muxaddr:muxchannel]" which adds a
1949 new I2C Bus to the existing I2C Busses. If you select the
1950 new Bus with "i2c dev", u-bbot sends first the commandos for
1951 the muxes to activate this new "bus".
1952
1953 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS must be also defined, to use this
1954 feature!
1955
1956 Example:
1957 Adding a new I2C Bus reached over 2 pca9544a muxes
1958 The First mux with address 70 and channel 6
1959 The Second mux with address 71 and channel 4
1960
1961 => i2c bus pca9544a:70:6:pca9544a:71:4
1962
1963 Use the "i2c bus" command without parameter, to get a list
1964 of I2C Busses with muxes:
1965
1966 => i2c bus
1967 Busses reached over muxes:
1968 Bus ID: 2
1969 reached over Mux(es):
1970 pca9544a@70 ch: 4
1971 Bus ID: 3
1972 reached over Mux(es):
1973 pca9544a@70 ch: 6
1974 pca9544a@71 ch: 4
1975 =>
1976
1977 If you now switch to the new I2C Bus 3 with "i2c dev 3"
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1978 u-boot first sends the command to the mux@70 to enable
1979 channel 6, and then the command to the mux@71 to enable
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1980 the channel 4.
1981
1982 After that, you can use the "normal" i2c commands as
f9a78b8d 1983 usual to communicate with your I2C devices behind
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1984 the 2 muxes.
1985
1986 This option is actually implemented for the bitbanging
1987 algorithm in common/soft_i2c.c and for the Hardware I2C
1988 Bus on the MPC8260. But it should be not so difficult
1989 to add this option to other architectures.
1990
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1991 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1992
1993 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1994 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1995 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1996 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1997 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1998 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1999 the other.
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2001- SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
2002
2003 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
2004 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
2005 D/As on the SACSng board)
2006
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2007 CONFIG_SH_SPI
2008
2009 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
2010 only SH7757 is supported.
2011
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2012 CONFIG_SPI_X
2013
2014 Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing.
2015 (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X)
2016
2017 CONFIG_SOFT_SPI
2018
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2019 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
2020 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
2021 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
2022 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
2023 defined, the board configuration must define several
2024 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
2025 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
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2027 CONFIG_HARD_SPI
2028
2029 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
2030 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
2031 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
c0f40859 2032 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
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2033 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
2034
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2035 CONFIG_MXC_SPI
2036
2037 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
2e3cd1cd 2038 SoCs. Currently i.MX31/35/51 are supported.
38254f45 2039
0133502e 2040- FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
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2042 Enables FPGA subsystem.
2043
2044 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
2045
2046 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
2047 (ALTERA, XILINX)
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0133502e 2049 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
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2051 Enables support for FPGA family.
2052 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
2053
2054 CONFIG_FPGA_COUNT
2055
2056 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
c609719b 2057
6d0f6bcf 2058 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
c609719b 2059
8bde7f77 2060 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
c609719b 2061
6d0f6bcf 2062 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
c609719b 2063
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2064 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
2065 status by the configuration function. This option
2066 will require a board or device specific function to
2067 be written.
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2068
2069 CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY
2070
2071 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
2072 configuration driver.
2073
6d0f6bcf 2074 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
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2075 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2076
6d0f6bcf 2077 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
c609719b 2078
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2079 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2080 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2081 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2082 indicated a CRC error).
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6d0f6bcf 2084 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
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2086 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert
2087 after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II
2088 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
11ccc33f 2089 ms.
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6d0f6bcf 2091 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
c609719b 2092
43d9616c 2093 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during
11ccc33f 2094 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
c609719b 2095
6d0f6bcf 2096 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
c609719b 2097
43d9616c 2098 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
11ccc33f 2099 200 ms.
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2100
2101- Configuration Management:
2102 CONFIG_IDENT_STRING
2103
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2104 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2105 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
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2106
2107- Vendor Parameter Protection:
2108
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2109 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2110 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
7152b1d0 2111 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
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2112 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2113 protects these variables from casual modification by
2114 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2115 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
11ccc33f 2116 change this behaviour:
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2117
2118 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2119 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
47cd00fa 2120 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
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2121 these parameters.
2122
2123 Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR
2124 _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
11ccc33f 2125 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
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2126 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2127 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2128 read-only.]
2129
2130- Protected RAM:
2131 CONFIG_PRAM
2132
2133 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2134 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2135 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2136 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2137 this default value by defining an environment
2138 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2139 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2140 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2141 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2142 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2143 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2144 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2145
fe126d8b 2146 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
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2147 saveenv
2148
2149 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2150 either, which results in a memory region that will
2151 not be affected by reboots.
2152
2153 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2154 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2155 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2156 following board configurations are known to be
2157 "pRAM-clean":
2158
2159 ETX094, IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
2160 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON, LANTEC,
544d97e9 2161 FLAGADM, TQM8260
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2162
2163- Error Recovery:
2164 CONFIG_PANIC_HANG
2165
2166 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
2167 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
2168 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
11ccc33f 2169 system where you want the system to reboot
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2170 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
2171 useful during development since you can try to debug
2172 the conditions that lead to the situation.
2173
2174 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2175
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2176 This variable defines the number of retries for
2177 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2178 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2179 default value of 5 is used.
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2182
2183 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2184
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2185 CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT
2186
2187 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2188 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2189 try longer timeout such as
2190 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2191
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8078f1a5 2193 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
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2194
2195 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
2196
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2197 Note that this feature has NOT been implemented yet
2198 for the "hush" shell.
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2199
2200
6d0f6bcf 2201 CONFIG_SYS_HUSH_PARSER
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2202
2203 Define this variable to enable the "hush" shell (from
2204 Busybox) as command line interpreter, thus enabling
2205 powerful command line syntax like
2206 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||'
2207 constructs ("shell scripts").
2208
2209 If undefined, you get the old, much simpler behaviour
2210 with a somewhat smaller memory footprint.
2211
2212
6d0f6bcf 2213 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
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2214
2215 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2216 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2217 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2218
2219 Note:
2220
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2221 In the current implementation, the local variables
2222 space and global environment variables space are
2223 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2224 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2225 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2226 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2227 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
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2229 Global environment variables are those you use
2230 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2231 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2232 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
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2233
2234 To store commands and special characters in a
2235 variable, please use double quotation marks
2236 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2237 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2238 symbols.
2239
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2240- Commandline Editing and History:
2241 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
2242
11ccc33f 2243 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
b9365a26 2244 commandline input operations
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a8c7c708 2246- Default Environment:
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2247 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2248
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2249 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2250 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
7152b1d0 2251 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2262cfee 2252
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2253 For example, place something like this in your
2254 board's config file:
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2255
2256 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2257 "myvar1=value1\0" \
2258 "myvar2=value2\0"
2259
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2260 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2261 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2262 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2263 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
7152b1d0 2264 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
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2265 You better know what you are doing here.
2266
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2267 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2268 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
74de7aef 2269 the environment like the "source" command or the
43d9616c 2270 boot command first.
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2272 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_CONFIG
2273
2274 Define this in order to add variables describing the
2275 U-Boot build configuration to the default environment.
2276 These will be named arch, cpu, board, vendor, and soc.
2277
2278 Enabling this option will cause the following to be defined:
2279
2280 - CONFIG_SYS_ARCH
2281 - CONFIG_SYS_CPU
2282 - CONFIG_SYS_BOARD
2283 - CONFIG_SYS_VENDOR
2284 - CONFIG_SYS_SOC
2285
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2287 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
2288
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2289 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
2290 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
2291 commands cp, md...
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2293- Serial Flash support
2294 CONFIG_CMD_SF
2295
2296 Defining this option enables SPI flash commands
2297 'sf probe/read/write/erase/update'.
2298
2299 Usage requires an initial 'probe' to define the serial
2300 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2301 commands.
2302
2303 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2304 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2305 flash is present on the system.
2306
2307 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2308 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2309 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2310 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2311
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2312- SystemACE Support:
2313 CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
2314
2315 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
2316 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
11ccc33f 2317 of the chip must also be defined in the
6d0f6bcf 2318 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
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2319
2320 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
6d0f6bcf 2321 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
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2322
2323 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
2324 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
2325
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2326- TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2327 CONFIG_TFTP_PORT
2328
28cb9375 2329 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
ecb0ccd9 2330 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
28cb9375 2331 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
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2332 number generator is used.
2333
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2334 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2335 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2336 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2337
2338 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
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2339 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2340 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2341 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2342 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2343 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2344 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2345
a8c7c708 2346- Show boot progress:
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2347 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2348
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2349 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2350 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2351 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2352 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2353 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2354 the following checkpoints are implemented:
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2356- Detailed boot stage timing
2357 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE
2358 Define this option to get detailed timing of each stage
2359 of the boot process.
2360
2361 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_USER_COUNT
2362 This is the number of available user bootstage records.
2363 Each time you call bootstage_mark(BOOTSTAGE_ID_ALLOC, ...)
2364 a new ID will be allocated from this stash. If you exceed
2365 the limit, recording will stop.
2366
2367 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_REPORT
2368 Define this to print a report before boot, similar to this:
2369
2370 Timer summary in microseconds:
2371 Mark Elapsed Stage
2372 0 0 reset
2373 3,575,678 3,575,678 board_init_f start
2374 3,575,695 17 arch_cpu_init A9
2375 3,575,777 82 arch_cpu_init done
2376 3,659,598 83,821 board_init_r start
2377 3,910,375 250,777 main_loop
2378 29,916,167 26,005,792 bootm_start
2379 30,361,327 445,160 start_kernel
2380
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2381Legacy uImage format:
2382
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2383 Arg Where When
2384 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
ba56f625 2385 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
c609719b 2386 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
ba56f625 2387 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
c609719b 2388 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
ba56f625 2389 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
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2390 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2391 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2392 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
1372cce2 2393 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
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2394 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2395 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2396 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2397 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
1372cce2 2398 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
c609719b 2399 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
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2400
2401 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2402 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2403 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2404 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2405 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2406 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2407 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
11ccc33f 2408 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
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2409 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2410 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2411
c0f40859 2412 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
c609719b 2413
a47a12be 2414 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
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2415 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2416 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
63e73c9a 2417
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2418 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2419 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2420 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2421 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2422 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2423 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2424 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2425 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2426 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2427 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2428 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2429 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2430 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2431 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2432 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2433 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2434 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2435 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2436 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2437 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2438 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2439 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2440 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2441 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2442 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2443 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2444 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2445 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2446 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2447 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2448 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2449 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2450 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2451 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2452 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2453 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2454 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2455 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2456 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2457 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2458 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2459 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2460 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2461 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2462 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2463 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2464 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
2465
2466 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
2467
11ccc33f 2468 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
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2469 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2470 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
2471
2472 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
2473 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling NetLoop()
11ccc33f 2474 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in NetLoop() occurred
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2475 81 common/cmd_net.c NetLoop() back without error
2476 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2477 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
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2478 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2479 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
566a494f 2480 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
c609719b 2481
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2482FIT uImage format:
2483
2484 Arg Where When
2485 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2486 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2487 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2488 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2489 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2490 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
f773bea8 2491 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
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2492 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2493 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2494 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2495 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2496 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
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2497 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2498 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
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2499 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2500 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2501 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2502 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2503 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2504 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2505 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2506 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2507
2508 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2509 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2510 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
11ccc33f 2511 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
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2512 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2513 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2514 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2515 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2516 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2517 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2518 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2519 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2520 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2521 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2522 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2523 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2524
11ccc33f 2525 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
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2526 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2527
11ccc33f 2528 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
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2529 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2530
11ccc33f 2531 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
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2532 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2533
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2534- Standalone program support:
2535 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2536
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2537 This option defines a board specific value for the
2538 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
2539 overwriting the architecture dependent default
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2540 settings.
2541
2542- Frame Buffer Address:
2543 CONFIG_FB_ADDR
2544
2545 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
2546 address for frame buffer.
2547 Then system will reserve the frame buffer address to
2548 defined address instead of lcd_setmem (this function
6feff899 2549 grabs the memory for frame buffer by panel's size).
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2550
2551 Please see board_init_f function.
2552
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2553- Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2554 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP
2555 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2556 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2557
2558 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2559 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2560
2561- MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2562 CONFIG_MTD_DEVICE
2563
2564 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
2565 Needed for mtdparts command support.
2566
2567 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2568
2569 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
2570 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
2571
6a11cf48 2572- SPL framework
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2573 CONFIG_SPL
2574 Enable building of SPL globally.
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2576 CONFIG_SPL_LDSCRIPT
2577 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
2578
2579 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE
2580 Maximum binary size (text, data and rodata) of the SPL binary.
2581
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2582 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
2583 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
6a11cf48 2584
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2585 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
2586 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
2587
2588 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2589 Maximum binary size of the BSS section of the SPL binary.
2590
2591 CONFIG_SPL_STACK
2592 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
2593
2594 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
2595 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2596
2597 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
2598 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
6a11cf48 2599
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2600 CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
2601 Support for common/libcommon.o in SPL binary
6a11cf48 2602
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2603 CONFIG_SPL_LIBDISK_SUPPORT
2604 Support for disk/libdisk.o in SPL binary
6a11cf48 2605
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2606 CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT
2607 Support for drivers/i2c/libi2c.o in SPL binary
6a11cf48 2608
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2609 CONFIG_SPL_GPIO_SUPPORT
2610 Support for drivers/gpio/libgpio.o in SPL binary
6a11cf48 2611
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2612 CONFIG_SPL_MMC_SUPPORT
2613 Support for drivers/mmc/libmmc.o in SPL binary
6a11cf48 2614
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2615 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR,
2616 CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_MAX_SIZE_SECTORS,
2617 CONFIG_SYS_MMC_SD_FAT_BOOT_PARTITION
2618 Address, size and partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from
2619 when the MMC is being used in raw mode.
2620
2621 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT
2622 Support for fs/fat/libfat.o in SPL binary
2623
2624 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
2625 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from FAT
2626
2627 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
2628 Support for drivers/mtd/nand/libnand.o in SPL binary
2629
2630 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
2631 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
2632 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
2633 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
2634 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
2635 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
2636 to read U-Boot with CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
2637
2638 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
2639 Location in NAND for CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE to read U-Boot
2640 from.
2641
2642 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
2643 Location in memory for CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE to load U-Boot
2644 to.
2645
2646 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
2647 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
2648 data. This is used for example on davinci plattforms.
2649
2650 CONFIG_SPL_OMAP3_ID_NAND
2651 Support for an OMAP3-specific set of functions to return the
2652 ID and MFR of the first attached NAND chip, if present.
2653
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2654 CONFIG_SPL_SERIAL_SUPPORT
2655 Support for drivers/serial/libserial.o in SPL binary
6a11cf48 2656
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2657 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_FLASH_SUPPORT
2658 Support for drivers/mtd/spi/libspi_flash.o in SPL binary
6a11cf48 2659
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2660 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUPPORT
2661 Support for drivers/spi/libspi.o in SPL binary
6a11cf48 2662
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2663 CONFIG_SPL_LIBGENERIC_SUPPORT
2664 Support for lib/libgeneric.o in SPL binary
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2666Modem Support:
2667--------------
2668
566e5cf4 2669[so far only for SMDK2400 boards]
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11ccc33f 2671- Modem support enable:
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2672 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT
2673
2674- RTS/CTS Flow control enable:
2675 CONFIG_HWFLOW
2676
2677- Modem debug support:
2678 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG
2679
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2680 Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg())
2681 for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000.
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2683- Interrupt support (PPC):
2684
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2685 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2686 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
11ccc33f 2687 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
d4ca31c4 2688 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
11ccc33f 2689 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
d4ca31c4 2690 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
11ccc33f 2691 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
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2692 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2693 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2694 general timer_interrupt().
a8c7c708 2695
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2696- General:
2697
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2698 In the target system modem support is enabled when a
2699 specific key (key combination) is pressed during
2700 power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally
11ccc33f 2701 (autoboot). The key_pressed() function is called from
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2702 board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy
2703 function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem
2704 initialization.
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2706 If there are no modem init strings in the
2707 environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the
2708 previous output (banner, info printfs) will be
11ccc33f 2709 suppressed, though.
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2710
2711 See also: doc/README.Modem
2712
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2713Board initialization settings:
2714------------------------------
2715
2716During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
2717to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
2718before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
2719following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
2720architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
2721typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
2722
2723- CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
2724- CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
2725- CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
2726- CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
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2728Configuration Settings:
2729-----------------------
2730
6d0f6bcf 2731- CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
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2732 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2733
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2734- CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2735 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2736
6d0f6bcf 2737- CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
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2738 prompt for user input.
2739
6d0f6bcf 2740- CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
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6d0f6bcf 2742- CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
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6d0f6bcf 2744- CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
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6d0f6bcf 2746- CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
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2747 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2748 booted
2749
6d0f6bcf 2750- CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
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2751 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2752
6d0f6bcf 2753- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET
8bde7f77 2754 Suppress display of console information at boot.
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6d0f6bcf 2756- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
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2757 If the board specific function
2758 extern int overwrite_console (void);
2759 returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the
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2760 serial port, else the settings in the environment are used.
2761
6d0f6bcf 2762- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE
8bde7f77 2763 Enable the call to overwrite_console().
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6d0f6bcf 2765- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE
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2766 Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings.
2767
6d0f6bcf 2768- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
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2769 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2770 simple memory test.
2771
6d0f6bcf 2772- CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
8bde7f77 2773 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
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6d0f6bcf 2775- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
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2776 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2777 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2778
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2779- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE (PPC only):
2780 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
14f73ca6 2781 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
11ccc33f 2782 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
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2783 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2784 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2785 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
5e12e75d 2786 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
14f73ca6 2787 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
5e12e75d 2788 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
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2789
2790 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2791 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2792 be touched.
2793
2794 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2795 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2796 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2797 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2798 problems.
2799
6d0f6bcf 2800- CONFIG_SYS_TFTP_LOADADDR:
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2801 Default load address for network file downloads
2802
6d0f6bcf 2803- CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
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2804 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2805
6d0f6bcf 2806- CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
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2807 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2808
6d0f6bcf 2809- CONFIG_SYS_MBIO_BASE:
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2810 Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a
2811 Cogent motherboard)
2812
6d0f6bcf 2813- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
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2814 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2815
6d0f6bcf 2816- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
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2817 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2818 make config files to be same as the text base address
14d0a02a 2819 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
6d0f6bcf 2820 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
c609719b 2821
6d0f6bcf 2822- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
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2823 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2824 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2825 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2826 flash sector.
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6d0f6bcf 2828- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
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2829 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2830
6d0f6bcf 2831- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
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2832 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
2833 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
6d0f6bcf 2834 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
15940c9a
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2835 to adjust this setting to your needs.
2836
6d0f6bcf 2837- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
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2838 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
2839 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
7d721e34
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2840 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
2841 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
2842 enviroment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
2843 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
c0f40859 2844 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
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2845 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
2846 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
2847 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
c609719b 2848
fca43cc8
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2849- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
2850 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
2851 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
2852 is enabled.
2853
2854- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
2855 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
2856 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2857
2858- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
2859 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
2860 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2861
6d0f6bcf 2862- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
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2863 Max number of Flash memory banks
2864
6d0f6bcf 2865- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
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2866 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
2867
6d0f6bcf 2868- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
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2869 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
2870
6d0f6bcf 2871- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
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2872 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
2873
6d0f6bcf 2874- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
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2875 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
2876
6d0f6bcf 2877- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
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2878 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
2879
6d0f6bcf 2880- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
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2881 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
2882 instead of U-Boot software protection.
2883
6d0f6bcf 2884- CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
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2885
2886 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
2887 without this option such a download has to be
2888 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
2889 copy from RAM to flash.
2890
2891 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
2892 you can check if the download worked before you erase
11ccc33f
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2893 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
2894 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
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2895 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
2896
6d0f6bcf 2897- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
43d9616c 2898 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
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2899 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
2900
00b1883a 2901- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
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2902 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
2903 in the drivers directory
c609719b 2904
91809ed5
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2905- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
2906 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
2907 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
2908 to the MTD layer.
2909
6d0f6bcf 2910- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
96ef831f
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2911 Use buffered writes to flash.
2912
2913- CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
2914 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
2915 write commands.
2916
6d0f6bcf 2917- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
5568e613
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2918 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
2919 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
2920 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
2921 optionally available.
2922
9a042e9c
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2923- CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
2924 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
2925 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
2926 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
2927
6d0f6bcf 2928- CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
11ccc33f
MZ
2929 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
2930 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
53cf9435
SR
2931 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
2932 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
11ccc33f 2933 on high Ethernet traffic.
53cf9435
SR
2934 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
2935
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2936- CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
2937
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2938 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
2939 internally to store the environment settings. The default
2940 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
2941 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
2942 lib/hashtable.c for details.
ea882baf 2943
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2944The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
2945of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
2946following configurations:
2947
c3eb3fe4
MF
2948- CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
2949
2950 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
2951 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
2952
5a1aceb0 2953- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
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2954
2955 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
2956
2957 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
2958 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
2959 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
2960 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
2961 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
2962 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
2963 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
2964 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
2965 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
2966 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
2967 between U-Boot and the environment.
2968
0e8d1586 2969 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
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2970
2971 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
2972 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
2973 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
2974 for this sector is given here.
2975
6d0f6bcf 2976 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
c609719b 2977
0e8d1586 2978 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
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2979
2980 This is just another way to specify the start address of
2981 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
0e8d1586 2982 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET).
c609719b 2983
0e8d1586 2984 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
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2985
2986 Size of the sector containing the environment.
2987
2988
2989 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
2990 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
2991 the environment.
2992
0e8d1586 2993 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
c609719b 2994
5a1aceb0 2995 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
0e8d1586 2996 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
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2997 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
2998 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
2999
3000 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
3001 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
3002 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
3003 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
3004 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
3005 updating the environment in flash makes it always
3006 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
3007 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
3008 RAM, your target system will be dead.
3009
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3010 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
3011 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
c609719b 3012
43d9616c 3013 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
11ccc33f 3014 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
3e38691e 3015 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
43d9616c 3016 a "saveenv" operation.
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3017
3018BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
3019source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
3020accordingly!
3021
3022
9314cee6 3023- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
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3024
3025 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
3026 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
3027 environment.
3028
0e8d1586
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3029 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
3030 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
c609719b 3031
11ccc33f 3032 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
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3033 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
3034 can just be read and written to, without any special
3035 provision.
3036
3037BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
3038in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the
11ccc33f 3039console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
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3040U-Boot will hang.
3041
3042Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3043environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3044keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3045to save the current settings.
3046
3047
bb1f8b4f 3048- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
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3049
3050 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
3051 device and a driver for it.
3052
0e8d1586
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3053 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3054 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
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3055
3056 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
3057 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
3058
6d0f6bcf 3059 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
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3060 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
3061 The default address is zero.
3062
6d0f6bcf 3063 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
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3064 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
3065 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
3066 would require six bits.
3067
6d0f6bcf 3068 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
c609719b 3069 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
ba56f625 3070 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
c609719b 3071
6d0f6bcf 3072 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
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3073 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
3074 that this is NOT the chip address length!
3075
6d0f6bcf 3076 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
5cf91d6b
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3077 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
3078 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
3079 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
3080 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
3081 byte chips.
3082
3083 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
3084 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
3085 in the chip address.
3086
6d0f6bcf 3087 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
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3088 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
3089
548738b4
HS
3090 - CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C
3091 define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your
3092 EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.
3093
3094 - CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS
3095 if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over
3096 I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this
3097 EEPROM. For example:
3098
a9046b9e 3099 #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS "pca9547:70:d\0"
548738b4
HS
3100
3101 EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over
3102 a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.
c609719b 3103
057c849c 3104- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
5779d8d9 3105
d4ca31c4 3106 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
5779d8d9
WD
3107 want to use for the environment.
3108
0e8d1586
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3109 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3110 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
3111 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
5779d8d9
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3112
3113 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
3114 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
3115 at the specified address.
3116
0a85a9e7
LG
3117- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_REMOTE:
3118
3119 Define this if you have a remote memory space which you
3120 want to use for the local device's environment.
3121
3122 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
3123 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
3124
3125 These two #defines specify the address and size of the
3126 environment area within the remote memory space. The
3127 local device can get the environment from remote memory
fc54c7fa 3128 space by SRIO or PCIE links.
0a85a9e7
LG
3129
3130BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
3131"saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
fc54c7fa
LG
3132environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
3133but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
0a85a9e7 3134
51bfee19 3135- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
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3136
3137 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
3138 for the environment.
3139
0e8d1586
JCPV
3140 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3141 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
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3142
3143 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
fdd813de
SW
3144 area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
3145 aligned to an erase block boundary.
5779d8d9 3146
fdd813de 3147 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
e443c944 3148
0e8d1586 3149 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
fdd813de
SW
3150 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
3151 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
c0f40859 3152 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_RENDUND must be
fdd813de
SW
3153 aligned to an erase block boundary.
3154
3155 - CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):
3156
3157 Specifies the length of the region in which the environment
3158 can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's
3159 block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than
3160 are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within
3161 the range to be avoided.
3162
3163 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):
3164
3165 Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the
3166 environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The
3167 "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset.
3168 Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when
3169 using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.
e443c944 3170
b74ab737
GL
3171- CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
3172
3173 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
3174 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
3175 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
3176
6d0f6bcf 3177- CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
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3178
3179 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
3180 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
3181 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
3182 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
3183 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
3184 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
3185 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
3186
e881cb56 3187Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
c609719b 3188has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
cdb74977 3189created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f()
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3190until then to read environment variables.
3191
85ec0bcc
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3192The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
3193is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
3194with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
3195necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
3196"baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
3197have any device yet where we could complain.]
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3198
3199Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
3200the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
85ec0bcc 3201use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
c609719b 3202
6d0f6bcf 3203- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
42d1f039 3204 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
fc3e2165 3205
6d0f6bcf 3206 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
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3207 also needs to be defined.
3208
6d0f6bcf 3209- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
42d1f039 3210 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
c609719b 3211
f5675aa5
RM
3212- CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
3213 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
3214 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
3215 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
3216 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
3217 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
3218
c609719b 3219Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
dc7c9a1a 3220---------------------------------------------------
c609719b 3221
6d0f6bcf 3222- CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
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3223 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
3224
6d0f6bcf 3225- CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
c609719b 3226 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
2535d602 3227
42d1f039
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3228 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
3229 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
3230 the IMMR register after a reset.
c609719b 3231
e46fedfe
TT
3232- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
3233 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
3234 PowerPC SOCs.
3235
3236- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
3237 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
3238 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
3239
3240 CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR must also be set to this value,
3241 for cross-platform code that uses that macro instead.
3242
3243- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
3244 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
3245 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
c0f40859 3246 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
e46fedfe
TT
3247 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
3248 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
3249 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
3250
3251 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
3252 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
3253
3254- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
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3255 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
3256 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
e46fedfe
TT
3257 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3258 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3259
3260- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
3261 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
3262 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3263 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3264
3265- CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
3266 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
3267 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
3268
7f6c2cbc 3269- Floppy Disk Support:
6d0f6bcf 3270 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
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WD
3271
3272 the default drive number (default value 0)
3273
6d0f6bcf 3274 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
7f6c2cbc 3275
11ccc33f 3276 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
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WD
3277 (default value 1)
3278
6d0f6bcf 3279 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
7f6c2cbc 3280
43d9616c
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3281 defines the offset of register from address. It
3282 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
11ccc33f 3283 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
7f6c2cbc 3284
6d0f6bcf
JCPV
3285 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
3286 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
43d9616c 3287 default value.
7f6c2cbc 3288
6d0f6bcf 3289 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
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WD
3290 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
3291 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
3292 source code. It is used to make hardware dependant
3293 initializations.
7f6c2cbc 3294
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3295- CONFIG_IDE_AHB:
3296 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
3297 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
3298 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
3299 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
3300 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
3301 is requierd.
3302
6d0f6bcf 3303- CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
efe2a4d5 3304 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
25d6712a 3305 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
c609719b 3306
6d0f6bcf 3307- CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
c609719b 3308
7152b1d0 3309 Start address of memory area that can be used for
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3310 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
3311 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
3312 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
3313 will become available only after programming the
3314 memory controller and running certain initialization
3315 sequences.
3316
3317 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
3318 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
3319 - MPC824X: data cache
3320 - PPC4xx: data cache
3321
6d0f6bcf 3322- CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
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3323
3324 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
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JCPV
3325 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
3326 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
c609719b 3327 data is located at the end of the available space
553f0982 3328 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
6d0f6bcf
JCPV
3329 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
3330 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
3331 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
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3332
3333 Note:
3334 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
3335 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
6d0f6bcf 3336 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
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3337 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
3338 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
3339
6d0f6bcf 3340- CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
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6d0f6bcf 3342- CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
c609719b 3343
6d0f6bcf 3344- CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
c609719b 3345
6d0f6bcf 3346- CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
c609719b 3347
6d0f6bcf 3348- CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
c609719b 3349
6d0f6bcf 3350- CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
c609719b 3351
6d0f6bcf 3352- CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
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3353 SDRAM timing
3354
6d0f6bcf 3355- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
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3356 periodic timer for refresh
3357
6d0f6bcf 3358- CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
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3360- FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
3361 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
3362 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
3363 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
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3364 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
3365
3366- SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
6d0f6bcf
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3367 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
3368 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
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3369 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
3370
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3371- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
3372 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
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3373 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
3374 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
3375
6d0f6bcf 3376- CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
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3377 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
3378 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
3379
6d0f6bcf 3380- CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
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3381 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
3382 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
3383
6d0f6bcf 3384- CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
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3385 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
3386 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
3387
6d0f6bcf 3388- CONFIG_SYS_USE_OSCCLK:
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3389 Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful,
3390 wrong setting might damage your board. Read
3391 doc/README.MBX before setting this variable!
3392
6d0f6bcf 3393- CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
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3394 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
3395 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
3396 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
3397 cpm_8260.h.
ea909b76 3398
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3399- CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
3400 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
3401 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
3402 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
3403 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
3404 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
3405 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
3406 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
a47a12be 3407 Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
5d232d0e 3408
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3409- CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE:
3410 Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
3411 required.
3412
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3413- CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
3414 Only scan through and get the devices on the busses.
3415 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
3416 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
3417 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
3418 by coreboot or similar.
3419
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3420- CONFIG_SYS_SRIO:
3421 Chip has SRIO or not
3422
3423- CONFIG_SRIO1:
3424 Board has SRIO 1 port available
3425
3426- CONFIG_SRIO2:
3427 Board has SRIO 2 port available
3428
3429- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
3430 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3431
3432- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
3433 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3434
3435- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
3436 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3437
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3438- CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_16
3439 Defined to tell the NDFC that the NAND chip is using a
3440 16 bit bus.
3441
3442- CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
3443 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
3444 a default value will be used.
3445
bb99ad6d 3446- CONFIG_SPD_EEPROM
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3447 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
3448 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
3449
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3450 SPD_EEPROM_ADDRESS
3451 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
3452
6d0f6bcf 3453- CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
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3454 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
3455 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
3456 to something your driver can deal with.
bb99ad6d 3457
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3458- CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
3459 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
3460 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
3461 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
3462 header files or board specific files.
3463
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3464- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
3465 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
3466
6d0f6bcf 3467- CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
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3468 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
3469 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
2ad6b513 3470
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3471- CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
3472 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
3473
3474- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
3475 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
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3476 to the given FEC; i. e.
3477 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
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3478 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
3479
3480 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
3481
3482- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
3483 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
3484 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
3485
3486- CONFIG_RMII
3487 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
3488 Note that this is a global option, we can't
3489 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
3490
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3491- CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
3492 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
3493 The syntax is:
3494
3495 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
3496
3497 Where address/count indicate a memory area
3498 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
3499 area should have.
3500
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3501- CONFIG_LOOPW
3502 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
602ad3b3 3503 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
56523f12 3504
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3505- CONFIG_MX_CYCLIC
3506 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
3507 "md/mw" commands.
3508 Examples:
3509
efe2a4d5 3510 => mdc.b 10 4 500
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3511 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
3512
efe2a4d5 3513 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
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3514 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
3515
efe2a4d5 3516 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
602ad3b3 3517 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
7b466641 3518
8aa1a2d1 3519- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
afc1ce82 3520 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain
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3521 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
3522 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
3523 relocate itself into RAM.
3524
3525 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
3526 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
3527 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
3528 these initializations itself.
8aa1a2d1 3529
401bb30b 3530- CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
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3531 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3532 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
3533 compiling a NAND SPL.
400558b5 3534
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3535- CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMCPY
3536 CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET
3537 If these options are used a optimized version of memcpy/memset will
3538 be used if available. These functions may be faster under some
3539 conditions but may increase the binary size.
3540
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3541Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
3542-----------------------------------
3543
3544The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
3545loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
3546This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3547are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3548within that device.
3549
3550- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_ADDR
3551 The address in the storage device where the firmware is located. The
3552 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3553 is also specified.
3554
3555- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
3556 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
3557 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
3558 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
3559 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
3560
3561- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
3562 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
3563 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
3564 virtual address in NOR flash.
3565
3566- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
3567 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
3568 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
3569
3570- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
3571 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
3572 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
3573
3574- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_SPIFLASH
3575 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SPI
3576 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
3577
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3578- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
3579 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
3580 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
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3581 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
3582 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
3583 master's memory space.
f2717b47 3584
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3585Building the Software:
3586======================
3587
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3588Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
3589and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
3590all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
3591(potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
3592recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
3593which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
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3595If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
3596have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
3597you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
3598Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
3599necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
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3601 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
3602 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
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3604Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
3605 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
3606 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
3607 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
3608
3609 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
3610
3611 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
3612 be executed on computers running Windows.
3613
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3614U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
3615sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
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3616is done by typing:
3617
3618 make NAME_config
3619
218ca724 3620where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing configu-
4d675ae6 3621rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
db01a2ea 3622
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3623Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
3624 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
3625 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
3626 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
11ccc33f 3627 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
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3628
3629 make TQM823L_config
3630 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
3631
3632 make TQM823L_LCD_config
3633 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
3634
3635 etc.
3636
3637
3638Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
3639images ready for download to / installation on your system:
3640
3641- "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
3642- "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
3643- "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
3644
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3645By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
3646in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
3647this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
3648
36491. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
3650
3651 make O=/tmp/build distclean
3652 make O=/tmp/build NAME_config
3653 make O=/tmp/build all
3654
36552. Set environment variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location:
3656
3657 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3658 make distclean
3659 make NAME_config
3660 make all
3661
3662Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the BUILD_DIR environment
3663variable.
3664
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3665
3666Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
3667for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
3668native "make".
3669
3670
3671If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
3672to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
3673steps:
3674
36751. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel
4d675ae6
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3676 "boards.cfg" file, using the existing entries as examples.
3677 Follow the instructions there to keep the boards in order.
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36782. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
3679 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3680 the "Makefile", a "<board>.c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds".
36813. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3682 your board
36833. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3684 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
36854. Run "make <board>_config" with your new name.
36865. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3687 to be installed on your target system.
36886. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3689 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
3690
3691
3692Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3693==============================================================
3694
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3695If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3696or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
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3697provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
3698the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
218ca724 3699official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
2729af9d 3700
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3701But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3702cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
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3703the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
3704just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot
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3705for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can
3706select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE'
3707environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the ELDK cross tools
3708you can type
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3709
3710 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3711
3712or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type
3713
3714 CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL
3715
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3716When using the MAKEALL script, the default behaviour is to build
3717U-Boot in the source directory. This location can be changed by
3718setting the BUILD_DIR environment variable. Also, for each target
3719built, the MAKEALL script saves two log files (<target>.ERR and
3720<target>.MAKEALL) in the <source dir>/LOG directory. This default
3721location can be changed by setting the MAKEALL_LOGDIR environment
3722variable. For example:
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3723
3724 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3725 export MAKEALL_LOGDIR=/tmp/log
3726 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3727
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3728With the above settings build objects are saved in the /tmp/build,
3729log files are saved in the /tmp/log and the source tree remains clean
3730during the whole build process.
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3731
3732
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3733See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
3734
3735
3736Monitor Commands - Overview:
3737============================
3738
3739go - start application at address 'addr'
3740run - run commands in an environment variable
3741bootm - boot application image from memory
3742bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
44f074c7 3743bootz - boot zImage from memory
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3744tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3745 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3746 (and eventually "gatewayip")
1fb7cd49 3747tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
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3748rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3749diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3750loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3751loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3752md - memory display
3753mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3754nm - memory modify (constant address)
3755mw - memory write (fill)
3756cp - memory copy
3757cmp - memory compare
3758crc32 - checksum calculation
0f89c54b 3759i2c - I2C sub-system
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3760sspi - SPI utility commands
3761base - print or set address offset
3762printenv- print environment variables
3763setenv - set environment variables
3764saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3765protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3766erase - erase FLASH memory
3767flinfo - print FLASH memory information
3768bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3769iminfo - print header information for application image
3770coninfo - print console devices and informations
3771ide - IDE sub-system
3772loop - infinite loop on address range
56523f12 3773loopw - infinite write loop on address range
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3774mtest - simple RAM test
3775icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3776dcache - enable or disable data cache
3777reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3778echo - echo args to console
3779version - print monitor version
3780help - print online help
3781? - alias for 'help'
3782
3783
3784Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3785========================================
3786
3787TODO.
3788
3789For now: just type "help <command>".
3790
3791
3792Environment Variables:
3793======================
3794
3795U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3796can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
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3798Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3799"printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3800without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3801environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3802working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3803environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
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3805Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3806
3807List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
c609719b 3808
2729af9d 3809 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
c609719b 3810
2729af9d 3811 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
c609719b 3812
2729af9d 3813 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
4a6fd34b 3814
2729af9d 3815 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
c609719b 3816
2729af9d 3817 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
c609719b 3818
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3819 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3820 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3821 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3822 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3823 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3824 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
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3825 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
3826 bootm_mapsize.
3827
c0f40859 3828 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
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3829 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
3830 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
3831 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
3832 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
3833 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
3834 used otherwise.
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3835
3836 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3837 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3838 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3839 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3840 environment variable.
3841
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3842 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3843 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3844 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3845
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3846 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3847 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3848 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3849 load any image using TFTP
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3851 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3852 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3853 be automatically started (by internally calling
3854 "bootm")
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3856 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3857 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3858 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3859 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3860 data.
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3862 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
3863 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
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3864 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
3865 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
3866 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
3867 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
3868 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
3869 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
3870 access it during the boot procedure.
3871
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3872 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
3873 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
3874 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
3875 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
3876 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
3877 must be accessible by the kernel.
3878
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3879 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
3880 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
3881 defined.
3882
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3883 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3884 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3885 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3886 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3887 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3888
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3889 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3890 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3891 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3892 is usually what you want since it allows for
3893 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3894 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
6d0f6bcf 3895 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
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3896 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3897 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3898 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3899 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
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3901 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3902 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3903 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3904 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3905 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3906 12 MB as well - this can be done with
c609719b 3907
2729af9d 3908 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
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3910 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3911 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3912 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3913 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3914 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3915 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3916 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
c609719b 3917
2729af9d 3918 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
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3920 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3921 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
c609719b 3922
2729af9d 3923 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
a3d991bd 3924
2729af9d 3925 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
a3d991bd 3926
2729af9d 3927 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
a3d991bd 3928
2729af9d 3929 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
a3d991bd 3930
2729af9d 3931 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
c609719b 3932
e2a53458 3933 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
c609719b 3934
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3935 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
3936 For example you can do the following
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3938 => setenv ethact FEC
3939 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
3940 => setenv ethact SCC
3941 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
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3943 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3944 available network interfaces.
3945 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3946
c96f86ee 3947 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
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3948 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3949 When set to "once" the network operation will
3950 fail when all the available network interfaces
3951 are tried once without success.
3952 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3953 themselves.
c609719b 3954
b4e2f89d 3955 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
a1cf027a 3956
28cb9375 3957 tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
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3958 UDP source port.
3959
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3960 tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
3961 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
3962
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3963 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
3964 we use the TFTP server's default block size
3965
3966 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
3967 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
3968 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
3969 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
3970 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
3971 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
3972 with unreliable TFTP servers.
3973
3974 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
11ccc33f 3975 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
2729af9d 3976 VLAN tagged frames.
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3978The following image location variables contain the location of images
3979used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
3980not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
3981variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
3982server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
3983loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
3984flash or offset in NAND flash.
3985
3986*Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
3987boards currenlty use other variables for these purposes, and some
3988boards use these variables for other purposes.
3989
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3990Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
3991----- --------- ----------- --------------
3992u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
3993Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
3994device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
3995ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
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3997The following environment variables may be used and automatically
3998updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
3999depending the information provided by your boot server:
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4001 bootfile - see above
4002 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
4003 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
4004 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
4005 hostname - Target hostname
4006 ipaddr - see above
4007 netmask - Subnet Mask
4008 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
4009 serverip - see above
c1551ea8 4010
c1551ea8 4011
2729af9d 4012There are two special Environment Variables:
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4014 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
4015 as type string and/or serial number
4016 ethaddr - Ethernet address
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4018These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
4019the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
4020once they have been set once.
c609719b 4021
f07771cc 4022
2729af9d 4023Further special Environment Variables:
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4025 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
4026 with the "version" command. This variable is
4027 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
f07771cc 4028
f07771cc 4029
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4030Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
4031only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
f07771cc 4032
f07771cc 4033
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4034Command Line Parsing:
4035=====================
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4037There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
4038the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
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4040Old, simple command line parser:
4041--------------------------------
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4043- supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
4044- several commands on one line, separated by ';'
fe126d8b 4045- variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
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4046- special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
4047 for example:
fe126d8b 4048 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
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4049- You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
4050 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
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4052Hush shell:
4053-----------
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4055- similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
4056 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
4057 until...do...done, ...
4058- supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
4059 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
4060 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
4061 command
4062
4063General rules:
4064--------------
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4066(1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
4067 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
4068 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
4069 executed anyway.
c609719b 4070
2729af9d 4071(2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
11ccc33f 4072 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
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4073 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
4074 variables are not executed.
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4076Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
4077=======================================
c609719b 4078
11ccc33f 4079Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
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4080such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
4081"working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
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4083Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
4084MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
4085"eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
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4087If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
4088in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
4089ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
4090variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
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4092o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
4093 environment, the SROM's address is used.
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4095o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
4096 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
4097 used.
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4099o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
4100 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
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4102o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
4103 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
4104 warning is printed.
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4106o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
4107 is raised.
c609719b 4108
ecee9324 4109If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
c0f40859 4110will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
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4111may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
4112The naming convention is as follows:
4113"ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
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4115Image Formats:
4116==============
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4118U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
4119images in two formats:
4120
4121New uImage format (FIT)
4122-----------------------
4123
4124Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
4125to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
4126components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
4127SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
4128
4129
4130Old uImage format
4131-----------------
4132
4133Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
4134preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
4135details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
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4137* Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
4138 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
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4139 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
4140 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
4141 INTEGRITY).
7b64fef3 4142* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
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4143 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
4144 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
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4145* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
4146* Load Address
4147* Entry Point
4148* Image Name
4149* Image Timestamp
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4151The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
4152and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
4153CRC32 checksums.
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4154
4155
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4156Linux Support:
4157==============
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4159Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
4160easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
4161U-Boot.
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4163U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
4164special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
4165"initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
4166instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
4167serves several purposes:
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4169- the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
4170 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
4171 Flash memory footprint)
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4173- it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
4174 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
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4176- the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
4177 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
4178 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
4179 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
4180 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
4181 software is easier now.
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4184Linux HOWTO:
4185============
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4187Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
4188---------------------------------------
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4190U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
4191configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
4192(no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
4193Linux :-).
c609719b 4194
a47a12be 4195But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
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4197Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
4198include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
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4199Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
4200and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
6d0f6bcf 4201as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
24ee89b9 4202
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4204Configuring the Linux kernel:
4205-----------------------------
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4207No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
4208device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
4209
4210
4211Building a Linux Image:
4212-----------------------
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4214With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
4215not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
4216"uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
4217U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
4218which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
4219100% compatible format.
4220
4221Example:
4222
4223 make TQM850L_config
4224 make oldconfig
4225 make dep
4226 make uImage
4227
4228The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
4229encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
4230CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
4231
4232* build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
4233
4234* convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
4235
4236 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
4237 -R .note -R .comment \
4238 -S vmlinux linux.bin
4239
4240* compress the binary image:
4241
4242 gzip -9 linux.bin
4243
4244* package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
4245
4246 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
4247 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
4248 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
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4251The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
4252with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
4253combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
4254byte header containing information about target architecture,
4255operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
4256stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
4257
4258"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
4259print the header information, or to build new images.
4260
4261In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
4262contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
4263checksum verification:
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4265 tools/mkimage -l image
4266 -l ==> list image header information
4267
4268The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
4269from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
4270
4271 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
4272 -n name -d data_file image
4273 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
4274 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
4275 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4276 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
4277 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
4278 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
4279 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
4280 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
4281
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4282Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
4283address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
4284kernel version:
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4285
4286- 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
4287- 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
4288
4289So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
4290
4291 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4292 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
a47a12be 4293 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
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4294 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
4295 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4296 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4297 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4298 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4299 Load Address: 0x00000000
4300 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4301
4302To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
4303
4304 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
4305 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4306 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4307 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4308 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4309 Load Address: 0x00000000
4310 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4311
4312NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
4313speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
4314needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
4315need to be uncompressed:
4316
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4318 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4319 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
a47a12be 4320 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
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4321 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
4322 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4323 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4324 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
4325 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
4326 Load Address: 0x00000000
4327 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4328
4329
4330Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
4331when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
4332
4333 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
4334 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
4335 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
4336 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4337 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
4338 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4339 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
4340 Load Address: 0x00000000
4341 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4342
4343
4344Installing a Linux Image:
4345-------------------------
4346
4347To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
4348you must convert the image to S-Record format:
4349
4350 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
4351
4352The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
4353image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
4354address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
4355specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
4356command.
4357
4358Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
4359TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
4360
4361 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
4362
4363 .......... done
4364 Erased 8 sectors
4365
4366 => loads 40100000
4367 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4368 ~>examples/image.srec
4369 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
4370 ...
4371 15989 15990 15991 15992
4372 [file transfer complete]
4373 [connected]
4374 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
4375
4376
4377You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
218ca724 4378this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
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4379corruption happened:
4380
4381 => imi 40100000
4382
4383 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4384 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4385 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4386 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4387 Load Address: 00000000
4388 Entry Point: 0000000c
4389 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4390
4391
4392Boot Linux:
4393-----------
4394
4395The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
4396memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
4397of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
4398parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
4399"printenv" and "setenv" commands:
4400
4401
4402 => printenv bootargs
4403 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
4404
4405 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4406
4407 => printenv bootargs
4408 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4409
4410 => bootm 40020000
4411 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
4412 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
4413 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4414 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
4415 Load Address: 00000000
4416 Entry Point: 0000000c
4417 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4418 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4419 Linux version 2.2.13 (wd@denx.local.net) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Jul 19 02:35:17 MEST 2000
4420 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4421 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4422 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4423 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
4424 ...
4425
11ccc33f 4426If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
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4427the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
4428format!) to the "bootm" command:
4429
4430 => imi 40100000 40200000
4431
4432 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4433 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4434 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4435 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4436 Load Address: 00000000
4437 Entry Point: 0000000c
4438 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4439
4440 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
4441 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4442 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4443 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4444 Load Address: 00000000
4445 Entry Point: 00000000
4446 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4447
4448 => bootm 40100000 40200000
4449 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
4450 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4451 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4452 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4453 Load Address: 00000000
4454 Entry Point: 0000000c
4455 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4456 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4457 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
4458 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4459 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4460 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4461 Load Address: 00000000
4462 Entry Point: 00000000
4463 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4464 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
4465 Linux version 2.2.13 (wd@denx.local.net) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Jul 19 02:32:08 MEST 2000
4466 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
4467 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4468 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4469 ...
4470 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
4471 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
4472
4473 bash#
4474
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4475Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
4476-----------
4477
4478First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
4479titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
4480following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
4481flat device tree:
4482
4483=> print oftaddr
4484oftaddr=0x300000
4485=> print oft
4486oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
4487=> tftp $oftaddr $oft
4488Speed: 1000, full duplex
4489Using TSEC0 device
4490TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
4491Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
4492Load address: 0x300000
4493Loading: #
4494done
4495Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
4496=> tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
4497Speed: 1000, full duplex
4498Using TSEC0 device
4499TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
4500Filename 'uImage'.
4501Load address: 0x200000
4502Loading:############
4503done
4504Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
4505=> print loadaddr
4506loadaddr=200000
4507=> print oftaddr
4508oftaddr=0x300000
4509=> bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
4510## Booting image at 00200000 ...
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4511 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
4512 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4513 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
0267768e 4514 Load Address: 00000000
a9398e01 4515 Entry Point: 00000000
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4516 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4517 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4518Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
4519Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
4520Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
4521[snip]
4522
4523
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4524More About U-Boot Image Types:
4525------------------------------
4526
4527U-Boot supports the following image types:
4528
4529 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
4530 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
4531 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
4532 the Standalone Program.
4533 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
4534 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
4535 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
4536 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
4537 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
4538 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
4539 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
4540 being started.
4541 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
4542 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
4543 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
4544 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
4545 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
4546 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
4547
4548 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
4549 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
4550 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
4551 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
4552 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
4553 a multiple of 4 bytes).
4554
4555 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
4556 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
4557 flash memory.
4558
4559 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
4560 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
4561 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
4562 as command interpreter.
4563
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4564Booting the Linux zImage:
4565-------------------------
4566
4567On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
4568using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
4569as the syntax of "bootm" command.
4570
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4571Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_INITRD_RAW allows user to supply
4572kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
4573address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
4574format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
4575
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4576
4577Standalone HOWTO:
4578=================
4579
4580One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
4581run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
4582U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
4583
4584Two simple examples are included with the sources:
4585
4586"Hello World" Demo:
4587-------------------
4588
4589'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
4590application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
4591It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
4592like that:
4593
4594 => loads
4595 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4596 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
4597 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4598 [file transfer complete]
4599 [connected]
4600 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4601
4602 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
4603 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4604 Hello World
4605 argc = 7
4606 argv[0] = "40004"
4607 argv[1] = "Hello"
4608 argv[2] = "World!"
4609 argv[3] = "This"
4610 argv[4] = "is"
4611 argv[5] = "a"
4612 argv[6] = "test."
4613 argv[7] = "<NULL>"
4614 Hit any key to exit ...
4615
4616 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4617
4618Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
4619handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
4620Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
4621The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
4622character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
4623controlled by the following keys:
4624
4625 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
4626 b - enable interrupts and start timer
4627 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
4628 q - quit application
4629
4630 => loads
4631 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4632 ~>examples/timer.srec
4633 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4634 [file transfer complete]
4635 [connected]
4636 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4637
4638 => go 40004
4639 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4640 TIMERS=0xfff00980
4641 Using timer 1
4642 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
4643
4644Hit 'b':
4645 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
4646 Enabling timer
4647Hit '?':
4648 [q, b, e, ?] ........
4649 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
4650Hit '?':
4651 [q, b, e, ?] .
4652 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
4653Hit '?':
4654 [q, b, e, ?] .
4655 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
4656Hit '?':
4657 [q, b, e, ?] .
4658 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
4659Hit 'e':
4660 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
4661Hit 'q':
4662 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4663
4664
4665Minicom warning:
4666================
4667
4668Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
4669"minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
4670consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
4671Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
4672especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
4673use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command).
4674
4675Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
4676configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
4677
4678 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
4679 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
4680 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
4681
4682
4683NetBSD Notes:
4684=============
4685
4686Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
4687(build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
4688
4689Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
4690NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
4691need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
4692Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
4693attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
4694missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
4695
4696 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
4697 # mkdir powerpc
4698 # ln -s powerpc machine
4699 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
4700 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
4701
4702Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
4703and U-Boot include files.
4704
4705Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
4706stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
4707proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
4708tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
2a8af187 4709meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
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4710
4711
4712Implementation Internals:
4713=========================
4714
4715The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
4716implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
4717inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
4718hardware.
4719
4720
4721Initial Stack, Global Data:
4722---------------------------
4723
4724The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
4725starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
4726system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
4727This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
4728is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
4729at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
4730options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
4731models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
4732MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
4733locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
4734
218ca724 4735 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
0668236b 4736 U-Boot mailing list:
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4737
4738 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4739 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
4740 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4741 ...
4742
4743 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4744 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4745 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4746 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4747 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
11ccc33f 4748 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
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4749 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4750 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
4751
4752 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4753 is another option for the system designer to use as an
11ccc33f 4754 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
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4755 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4756 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4757 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4758 used.
4759
6d0f6bcf 4760 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
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4761 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4762 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
8a316c9b 4763 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
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4764 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4765 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4766 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4767 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4768 you get the config right.
4769
4770 -Chris Hallinan
4771 DS4.COM, Inc.
4772
4773It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4774code for the initialization procedures:
4775
4776* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4777 to write it.
4778
11ccc33f 4779* Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitely initialized
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4780 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4781 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
4782
4783* Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4784 that.
4785
4786Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
4787normal global data to share information beween the code. But it
4788turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4789simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4790functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4791functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4792the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4793place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4794reserve for this purpose.
4795
4796When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4797relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4798GCC's implementation.
4799
4800For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4801 R1: stack pointer
e7670f6c 4802 R2: reserved for system use
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4803 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4804 R5-R10: parameter passing
4805 R13: small data area pointer
4806 R30: GOT pointer
4807 R31: frame pointer
4808
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4809 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4810 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4811 going back and forth between asm and C)
2729af9d 4812
e7670f6c 4813 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
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4814
4815 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4816 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4817 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4818 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4819 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4820 624 text + 127 data).
4821
c4db335c 4822On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here:
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4823 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
4824
c4db335c 4825 ==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data
4c58eb55 4826
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4827On ARM, the following registers are used:
4828
4829 R0: function argument word/integer result
4830 R1-R3: function argument word
4831 R9: GOT pointer
4832 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking if enabled)
4833 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4834 R12: temporary workspace
4835 R13: stack pointer
4836 R14: link register
4837 R15: program counter
4838
4839 ==> U-Boot will use R8 to hold a pointer to the global data
4840
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4841On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
4842 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
4843
4844 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4845
4846 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4847 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4848
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4849On NDS32, the following registers are used:
4850
4851 R0-R1: argument/return
4852 R2-R5: argument
4853 R15: temporary register for assembler
4854 R16: trampoline register
4855 R28: frame pointer (FP)
4856 R29: global pointer (GP)
4857 R30: link register (LP)
4858 R31: stack pointer (SP)
4859 PC: program counter (PC)
4860
4861 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
4862
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4863NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4864or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
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4865
4866Memory Management:
4867------------------
4868
4869U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4870MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
4871
4872The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4873controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4874memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4875physical memory banks.
4876
4877U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4878TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4879booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4880to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
6d0f6bcf 4881memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
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4882configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4883Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
4884
4885Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4886of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
4887
4888So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
4889this:
4890
4891 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
4892 :
4893 0x0000 1FFF
4894 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
4895 :
4896 :
4897
4898 :
4899 :
4900 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
4901 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
4902 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
4903 :
4904 0x00FD FFFF
4905 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
4906 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
4907 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
4908 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
4909
4910
4911System Initialization:
4912----------------------
c609719b 4913
2729af9d 4914In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
11ccc33f 4915(on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
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4916configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory.
4917To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
4918To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
4919initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
4920which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
4921part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
4922the caches and the SIU.
4923
4924Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
4925preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
4926(multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
4927on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
4928programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
4929simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
4930banks.
4931
4932When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
4933different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
4934bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
49350x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
4936contiguous memory starting from 0.
4937
4938Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
4939and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
4940Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
4941pages, and the final stack is set up.
4942
4943Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
4944until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
4945running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
4946new address in RAM.
4947
4948
4949U-Boot Porting Guide:
4950----------------------
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4952[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
4953list, October 2002]
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4954
4955
6c3fef28 4956int main(int argc, char *argv[])
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4957{
4958 sighandler_t no_more_time;
c609719b 4959
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4960 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
4961 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
c609719b 4962
2729af9d 4963 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
6c3fef28 4964 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
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4965 return 0;
4966 }
4967
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4968 Download latest U-Boot source;
4969
0668236b 4970 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
2729af9d 4971
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4972 if (clueless)
4973 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
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4974
4975 while (learning) {
4976 Read the README file in the top level directory;
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4977 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
4978 Read applicable doc/*.README;
2729af9d 4979 Read the source, Luke;
6c3fef28 4980 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
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4981 }
4982
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4983 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
4984 Buy a BDI3000;
4985 else
2729af9d 4986 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
2729af9d 4987
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4988 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
4989 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
4990 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
4991 } else {
4992 Create your own board support subdirectory;
4993 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
4994 }
4995 Edit new board/<myboard> files
4996 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
4997
4998 while (!accepted) {
4999 while (!running) {
5000 do {
5001 Add / modify source code;
5002 } until (compiles);
5003 Debug;
5004 if (clueless)
5005 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
5006 }
5007 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
5008 if (reasonable critiques)
5009 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
5010 else
5011 Defend code as written;
2729af9d 5012 }
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5013
5014 return 0;
5015}
5016
5017void no_more_time (int sig)
5018{
5019 hire_a_guru();
5020}
5021
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5023Coding Standards:
5024-----------------
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2729af9d 5026All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
2c051651 5027coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
7ca9296e 5028"scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
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5029
5030Source files originating from a different project (for example the
5031MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
5032reformated to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
5033sources.
5034
5035Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
5036Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
5037in your code.
c609719b 5038
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5039Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
5040- remove any trailing white space
7ca9296e 5041- use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
2729af9d 5042- make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
7ca9296e 5043- do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
2729af9d 5044- do not add trailing empty lines to source files
180d3f74 5045
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5046Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
5047with a request to reformat the changes.
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5048
5049
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5050Submitting Patches:
5051-------------------
c609719b 5052
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5053Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
5054establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
5055may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
c609719b 5056
0d28f34b 5057Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
218ca724 5058
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5059Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
5060see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
5061
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5062When you send a patch, please include the following information with
5063it:
c609719b 5064
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5065* For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
5066 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
5067 patch actually fixes something.
c609719b 5068
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5069* For new features: a description of the feature and your
5070 implementation.
c609719b 5071
2729af9d 5072* A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
c609719b 5073
2729af9d 5074* For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file
c609719b 5075
2729af9d 5076* When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add this
7ca9296e 5077 board to the MAINTAINERS file, too.
c609719b 5078
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5079* If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
5080 document these in the README file.
c609719b 5081
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5082* The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
5083 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
7ca9296e 5084 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
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5085 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
5086 with some other mail clients.
5087
5088 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
5089 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
5090 GNU diff.
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5092 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
5093 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
5094 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
5095 affected files).
6dff5529 5096
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5097 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
5098 and compressed attachments must not be used.
c609719b 5099
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5100* If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
5101 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
52f52c14 5102
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5103* Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
5104 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
8bde7f77 5105
52f52c14 5106
2729af9d 5107Notes:
c609719b 5108
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5109* Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched
5110 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
5111 for any of the boards.
c609719b 5112
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5113* Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
5114 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
5115 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
c609719b 5116
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5117* If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
5118 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
5119 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
5120 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
5121 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
5122 modification.
90dc6704 5123
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5124* Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
5125 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
5126 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
5127 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.