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83d290c5 1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
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eca3aeb3 3# (C) Copyright 2000 - 2013
c609719b 4# Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
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5
6Summary:
7========
8
24ee89b9 9This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
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10Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
11processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
12initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
13code.
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15The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
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16the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
17header files in common, and special provision has been made to
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18support booting of Linux images.
19
20Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
21configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
22implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
23add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
24code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
25load and run it dynamically.
26
27
28Status:
29=======
30
31In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
24ee89b9 32Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
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33"working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
34
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35In case of problems see the CHANGELOG file to find out who contributed
36the specific port. In addition, there are various MAINTAINERS files
37scattered throughout the U-Boot source identifying the people or
38companies responsible for various boards and subsystems.
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40Note: As of August, 2010, there is no longer a CHANGELOG file in the
41actual U-Boot source tree; however, it can be created dynamically
42from the Git log using:
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44 make CHANGELOG
45
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47Where to get help:
48==================
49
24ee89b9 50In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
7207b366 51U-Boot, you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
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52<u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
53on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
54Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
55http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
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57
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58Where to get source code:
59=========================
60
7207b366 61The U-Boot source code is maintained in the Git repository at
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62git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
63http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
64
65The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
11ccc33f 66any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
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67available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
68directory.
69
d4ee711d 70Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
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71ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
72
73
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74Where we come from:
75===================
76
77- start from 8xxrom sources
24ee89b9 78- create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
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79- clean up code
80- make it easier to add custom boards
81- make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
82- extend functions, especially:
83 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
84 * S-Record download
85 * network boot
11ccc33f 86 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
24ee89b9 87- create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
c609719b 88- add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
24ee89b9 89- create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
0d28f34b 90- current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
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92
93Names and Spelling:
94===================
95
96The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
97"U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
98in source files etc.). Example:
99
100 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
101
102File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
103
104 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
105
106 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
107
108Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
109the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
110
111 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
112 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
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114
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115Versioning:
116===========
117
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118Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
119were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
120into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
121names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
122Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
123releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
124
125Examples:
c0f40859 126 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
360d883a 127 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
0de21ecb 128 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candidate 1 for September 2010 release
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129
130
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131Directory Hierarchy:
132====================
133
8d321b81 134/arch Architecture specific files
6eae68e4 135 /arc Files generic to ARC architecture
8d321b81 136 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
8d321b81 137 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
8d321b81 138 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
8d321b81 139 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
afc1ce82 140 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
8d321b81 141 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
33c7731b 142 /openrisc Files generic to OpenRISC architecture
a47a12be 143 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
3fafced7 144 /riscv Files generic to RISC-V architecture
7207b366 145 /sandbox Files generic to HW-independent "sandbox"
8d321b81 146 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
33c7731b 147 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
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148/api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
149/board Board dependent files
740f7e5c 150/cmd U-Boot commands functions
8d321b81 151/common Misc architecture independent functions
7207b366 152/configs Board default configuration files
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153/disk Code for disk drive partition handling
154/doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
155/drivers Commonly used device drivers
33c7731b 156/dts Contains Makefile for building internal U-Boot fdt.
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157/examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
158/fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
159/include Header Files
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160/lib Library routines generic to all architectures
161/Licenses Various license files
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162/net Networking code
163/post Power On Self Test
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164/scripts Various build scripts and Makefiles
165/test Various unit test files
8d321b81 166/tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
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168Software Configuration:
169=======================
170
171Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
172rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
173
174There are two classes of configuration variables:
175
176* Configuration _OPTIONS_:
177 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
178 "CONFIG_".
179
180* Configuration _SETTINGS_:
181 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
182 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
6d0f6bcf 183 "CONFIG_SYS_".
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185Previously, all configuration was done by hand, which involved creating
186symbolic links and editing configuration files manually. More recently,
187U-Boot has added the Kbuild infrastructure used by the Linux kernel,
188allowing you to use the "make menuconfig" command to configure your
189build.
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191
192Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
193---------------------------------------------------
194
195For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
ab584d67 196configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_defconfig".
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198Example: For a TQM823L module type:
199
200 cd u-boot
ab584d67 201 make TQM823L_defconfig
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203Note: If you're looking for the default configuration file for a board
204you're sure used to be there but is now missing, check the file
205doc/README.scrapyard for a list of no longer supported boards.
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207Sandbox Environment:
208--------------------
209
210U-Boot can be built natively to run on a Linux host using the 'sandbox'
211board. This allows feature development which is not board- or architecture-
212specific to be undertaken on a native platform. The sandbox is also used to
213run some of U-Boot's tests.
214
6b1978f8 215See board/sandbox/README.sandbox for more details.
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217
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218Board Initialisation Flow:
219--------------------------
220
221This is the intended start-up flow for boards. This should apply for both
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222SPL and U-Boot proper (i.e. they both follow the same rules).
223
224Note: "SPL" stands for "Secondary Program Loader," which is explained in
225more detail later in this file.
226
227At present, SPL mostly uses a separate code path, but the function names
228and roles of each function are the same. Some boards or architectures
229may not conform to this. At least most ARM boards which use
230CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK conform to this.
231
232Execution typically starts with an architecture-specific (and possibly
233CPU-specific) start.S file, such as:
234
235 - arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
236 - arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc83xx/start.S
237 - arch/mips/cpu/start.S
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239and so on. From there, three functions are called; the purpose and
240limitations of each of these functions are described below.
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242lowlevel_init():
243 - purpose: essential init to permit execution to reach board_init_f()
244 - no global_data or BSS
245 - there is no stack (ARMv7 may have one but it will soon be removed)
246 - must not set up SDRAM or use console
247 - must only do the bare minimum to allow execution to continue to
248 board_init_f()
249 - this is almost never needed
250 - return normally from this function
251
252board_init_f():
253 - purpose: set up the machine ready for running board_init_r():
254 i.e. SDRAM and serial UART
255 - global_data is available
256 - stack is in SRAM
257 - BSS is not available, so you cannot use global/static variables,
258 only stack variables and global_data
259
260 Non-SPL-specific notes:
261 - dram_init() is called to set up DRAM. If already done in SPL this
262 can do nothing
263
264 SPL-specific notes:
265 - you can override the entire board_init_f() function with your own
266 version as needed.
267 - preloader_console_init() can be called here in extremis
268 - should set up SDRAM, and anything needed to make the UART work
269 - these is no need to clear BSS, it will be done by crt0.S
270 - must return normally from this function (don't call board_init_r()
271 directly)
272
273Here the BSS is cleared. For SPL, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined, then at
274this point the stack and global_data are relocated to below
275CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR. For non-SPL, U-Boot is relocated to run at the top of
276memory.
277
278board_init_r():
279 - purpose: main execution, common code
280 - global_data is available
281 - SDRAM is available
282 - BSS is available, all static/global variables can be used
283 - execution eventually continues to main_loop()
284
285 Non-SPL-specific notes:
286 - U-Boot is relocated to the top of memory and is now running from
287 there.
288
289 SPL-specific notes:
290 - stack is optionally in SDRAM, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined and
291 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR points into SDRAM
292 - preloader_console_init() can be called here - typically this is
0680f1b1 293 done by selecting CONFIG_SPL_BOARD_INIT and then supplying a
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294 spl_board_init() function containing this call
295 - loads U-Boot or (in falcon mode) Linux
296
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299Configuration Options:
300----------------------
301
302Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
303such information is kept in a configuration file
304"include/configs/<board_name>.h".
305
306Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
307"include/configs/TQM823L.h".
308
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310Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
311kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
312build a config tool - later.
313
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314- ARM Platform Bus Type(CCI):
315 CoreLink Cache Coherent Interconnect (CCI) is ARM BUS which
316 provides full cache coherency between two clusters of multi-core
317 CPUs and I/O coherency for devices and I/O masters
318
319 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_CCI400
320
321 Defined For SoC that has cache coherent interconnect
322 CCN-400
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325
326 Defined for SoC that has cache coherent interconnect CCN-504
327
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328The following options need to be configured:
329
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331
332- Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
6ccec449 333
66412c63 334- 85xx CPU Options:
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335 CONFIG_SYS_PPC64
336
337 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
338 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
339 compliance, among other possible reasons.
340
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341 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
342
343 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
344 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
345 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
346
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347 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
348
349 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
350 tree nodes for the given platform.
351
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353
354 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
355 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
356 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
357
358 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
359 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
360
361 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
362 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
363
364 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
365 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
366 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
367 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
368
369 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
370 this erratum.
371
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372 CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
373 Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
b445bbb4 374 required during NOR boot.
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376 CONFIG_A008044_WORKAROUND
377 Enables a workaround for T1040/T1042 erratum A008044. It is only
b445bbb4 378 required during NAND boot and valid for Rev 1.0 SoC revision
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380 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
381
382 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
383 according to the A004510 workaround.
384
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385 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
386 This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
387 connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
388
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389 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
390 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
391 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
392
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393 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
394 This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
395 connected to the DSP core.
396
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397 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
398 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
399
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400 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
401 Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
402 In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
403 clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
404
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405 CONFIG_SYS_CPC_REINIT_F
406 This CONFIG is defined when the CPC is configured as SRAM at the
a187559e 407 time of U-Boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
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aade2004 409 CONFIG_DEEP_SLEEP
b445bbb4 410 Indicates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
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411 supported, core will start to execute uboot when wakes up.
412
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414 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
415
416 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
417 values is arch specific.
418
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419 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR
420 Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
421 found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx, mpc86xx as well as some ARM core
422 SoCs.
423
424 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
425 Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
426
427 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_EMU
428 Specify emulator support for DDR. Some DDR features such as
429 deskew training are not available.
430
431 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
432 Freescale DDR1 controller.
433
434 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
435 Freescale DDR2 controller.
436
437 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
438 Freescale DDR3 controller.
439
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440 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN4
441 Freescale DDR4 controller.
442
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443 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
444 Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
445
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446 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR1
447 Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
448 Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
449 implemetation.
450
451 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR2
62a3b7dd 452 Board config to use DDR2. It can be enabled for SoCs with
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453 Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
454 implementation.
455
456 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR3
457 Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
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458 Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
459
460 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR3L
461 Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
462 DDR3L controllers.
463
464 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR4
465 Board config to use DDR4. It can be enabled for SoCs with
466 DDR4 controllers.
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468 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
469 Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
470
471 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
472 Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
473
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474 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_CLK_DIV
475 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to IFC controller).
476
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477 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_LBC_CLK_DIV
478 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to eLBC controller).
479
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480 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_PBI
481 It enables addition of RCW (Power on reset configuration) in built image.
482 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
483
484 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_RCW
485 It adds PBI(pre-boot instructions) commands in u-boot build image.
486 PBI commands can be used to configure SoC before it starts the execution.
487 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
488
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489 CONFIG_SPL_FSL_PBL
490 It adds a target to create boot binary having SPL binary in PBI format
491 concatenated with u-boot binary.
492
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493 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
494 Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
495
496 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
497 Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
498
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499 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
500 Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
501 same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for all Power SoCs. But
502 it could be different for ARM SoCs.
503
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504 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
505 DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
506 interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
507 SoCs with ARM core.
508
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509 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_MAIN_NUM_CTRLS
510 Number of controllers used as main memory.
511
512 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_OTHER_DDR_NUM_CTRLS
513 Number of controllers used for other than main memory.
514
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515 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_DP_DDR
516 Defines the SoC has DP-DDR used for DPAA.
517
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518 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
519 Defines the SEC controller register space as Big Endian
520
521 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_LE
522 Defines the SEC controller register space as Little Endian
523
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525 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
526
527 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
528 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
529 relocation.
530
531 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
532
533 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
534 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
535 Possible values are:
536 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
537 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_WA
538 CONF_CM_UNCACHED
539 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
540 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_CE
541 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_COW
542 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_CUW
543 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
544
545 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
546
547 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
548 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
549
550 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
551
552 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
553 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
554 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
555
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556- ARM options:
557 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
558
559 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
560 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
561
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562 COUNTER_FREQUENCY
563 Generic timer clock source frequency.
564
565 COUNTER_FREQUENCY_REAL
566 Generic timer clock source frequency if the real clock is
567 different from COUNTER_FREQUENCY, and can only be determined
568 at run time.
569
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570- Tegra SoC options:
571 CONFIG_TEGRA_SUPPORT_NON_SECURE
572
573 Support executing U-Boot in non-secure (NS) mode. Certain
574 impossible actions will be skipped if the CPU is in NS mode,
575 such as ARM architectural timer initialization.
576
5da627a4 577- Linux Kernel Interface:
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578 CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ
579
580 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
581 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
582 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
583 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
584 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
585 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
586 Linux kernel.
c609719b 587 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
218ca724 588 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
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589 default environment.
590
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591 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
592
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594 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
595 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
596
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599 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
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600 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
601 concepts).
602
603 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
604 * New libfdt-based support
605 * Adds the "fdt" command
3bb342fc 606 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
213bf8c8 607
f57f70aa 608 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
c2871f03 609 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
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612 addresses
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614 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
615
616 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
617 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
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619 CONFIG_OF_SYSTEM_SETUP
620
621 Other code has addition modification that it wants to make
622 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel.
623 This causes ft_system_setup() to be called before booting
624 the kernel.
625
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626 CONFIG_OF_IDE_FIXUP
627
628 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
629 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
630 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
631 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
632 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
633 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
634
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635 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
636
637 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
638 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
639 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
640 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
641 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
642 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
643 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
644
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645- vxWorks boot parameters:
646
647 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
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648 environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask,
649 serverip, gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
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650 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
651
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652 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
653 the defaults discussed just above.
654
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655- Cache Configuration:
656 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
657 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
658 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
659
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661 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
662 controller
663 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
664 controller register space
665
6705d81e 666- Serial Ports:
48d0192f 667 CONFIG_PL010_SERIAL
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669 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
670
48d0192f 671 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL
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673 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
674
675 CONFIG_PL011_CLOCK
676
677 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
678 the clock speed of the UARTs.
679
680 CONFIG_PL01x_PORTS
681
682 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
683 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
684 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
685
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686 CONFIG_SERIAL_HW_FLOW_CONTROL
687
688 Define this variable to enable hw flow control in serial driver.
689 Current user of this option is drivers/serial/nsl16550.c driver
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692 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
693 Select one of the baudrates listed in
6d0f6bcf 694 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
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696- Autoboot Command:
697 CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
698 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
699 define a command string that is automatically executed
700 when no character is read on the console interface
701 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
702
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704 The value of these goes into the environment as
705 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
706 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
11ccc33f 707 RAM and NFS.
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709- Pre-Boot Commands:
710 CONFIG_PREBOOT
711
712 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
713 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
714 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
715 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
716 entering interactive mode.
717
718 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
719 automatically generated or modified. For an example
720 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
721 modified when the user holds down a certain
722 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
723 booting the systems
724
725- Serial Download Echo Mode:
726 CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
727 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
728 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
729 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
730 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
731 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
732 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
733
602ad3b3 734- Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
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735 CONFIG_KGDB_BAUDRATE
736 Select one of the baudrates listed in
6d0f6bcf 737 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
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740 If no commands are needed to boot, you can disable
741 CONFIG_CMDLINE to remove them. In this case, the command line
742 will not be available, and when U-Boot wants to execute the
743 boot command (on start-up) it will call board_run_command()
744 instead. This can reduce image size significantly for very
745 simple boot procedures.
746
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748 CONFIG_REGEX
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749 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
750 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
751 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
752 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
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754- Device tree:
755 CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
756 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
757 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
758 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
759 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
760 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
761
2c0f79e4 762 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
82f766d1 763 be done using one of the three options below:
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764
765 CONFIG_OF_EMBED
766 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
767 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
768 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
769 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
eb3eb602 770 the global data structure as gd->fdt_blob.
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772 CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE
773 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
774 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
775 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
776
777 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
778
779 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
780 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
781 still use the individual files if you need something more
782 exotic.
783
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784 CONFIG_OF_BOARD
785 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use the device tree
786 provided by the board at runtime instead of embedding one with
787 the image. Only boards defining board_fdt_blob_setup() support
788 this option (see include/fdtdec.h file).
789
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790- Watchdog:
791 CONFIG_WATCHDOG
792 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
6abe6fb6 793 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
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794 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx
795 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
796 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
797 available, then no further board specific code should
798 be needed to use it.
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800 CONFIG_HW_WATCHDOG
801 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
802 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
803 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
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805 CONFIG_AT91_HW_WDT_TIMEOUT
806 specify the timeout in seconds. default 2 seconds.
807
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808- Real-Time Clock:
809
602ad3b3 810 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
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811 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
812 following options:
813
c609719b 814 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
4e8b7544 815 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
c609719b 816 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
1cb8e980 817 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
c609719b 818 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
7f70e853 819 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
412921d2 820 CONFIG_RTC_DS1339 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1339 RTC
3bac3513 821 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
9536dfcc 822 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
4c0d4c3b 823 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
2bd3cab3 824 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
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825 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
826 RV3029 RTC.
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828 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
829 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
830
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832 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
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834 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
835 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
836 pins supported by a particular chip.
837
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838 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
839 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
840
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841- I/O tracing:
842 When CONFIG_IO_TRACE is selected, U-Boot intercepts all I/O
843 accesses and can checksum them or write a list of them out
844 to memory. See the 'iotrace' command for details. This is
845 useful for testing device drivers since it can confirm that
846 the driver behaves the same way before and after a code
847 change. Currently this is supported on sandbox and arm. To
848 add support for your architecture, add '#include <iotrace.h>'
849 to the bottom of arch/<arch>/include/asm/io.h and test.
850
851 Example output from the 'iotrace stats' command is below.
852 Note that if the trace buffer is exhausted, the checksum will
853 still continue to operate.
854
855 iotrace is enabled
856 Start: 10000000 (buffer start address)
857 Size: 00010000 (buffer size)
858 Offset: 00000120 (current buffer offset)
859 Output: 10000120 (start + offset)
860 Count: 00000018 (number of trace records)
861 CRC32: 9526fb66 (CRC32 of all trace records)
862
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863- Timestamp Support:
864
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865 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
866 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
867 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
602ad3b3 868 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
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870- Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
871 Zero or more of the following:
872 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
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873 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
874 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
875 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
876 disk/part_efi.c
c649e3c9 877 CONFIG_SCSI) you must configure support for at
923c46f9 878 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
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879
880- IDE Reset method:
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881 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
882 board configurations files but used nowhere!
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884 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
885 be performed by calling the function
886 ide_set_reset(int reset)
887 which has to be defined in a board specific file
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889- ATAPI Support:
890 CONFIG_ATAPI
891
892 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
893
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894- LBA48 Support
895 CONFIG_LBA48
896
897 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
4b142feb 898 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
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899 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
900 support disks up to 2.1TB.
901
6d0f6bcf 902 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
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903 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
904 Default is 32bit.
905
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907 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
908 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
909 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
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910 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
911 devices.
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913 The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
914 SCSI devices found during the last scan.
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c609719b 916- NETWORK Support (PCI):
682011ff 917 CONFIG_E1000
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918 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
919
920 CONFIG_E1000_SPI
921 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
922 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
923 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
924
925 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
926 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
927 example with the "sspi" command.
928
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929 CONFIG_EEPRO100
930 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
11ccc33f 931 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
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932 write routine for first time initialisation.
933
934 CONFIG_TULIP
935 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
936 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
937 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
938
939 CONFIG_NATSEMI
940 Support for National dp83815 chips.
941
942 CONFIG_NS8382X
943 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
944
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946
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947 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
948 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
949
950 CONFIG_RMII
951 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
952
953 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
954 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
955 The driver doen't show link status messages.
956
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957 CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
958 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
959
3bb46d23 960 CONFIG_LAN91C96
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961 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
962
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963 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
964 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
965
3bb46d23 966 CONFIG_SMC91111
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967 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
968
969 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
970 Define this to hold the physical address
971 of the device (I/O space)
972
973 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
974 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
975
976 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
977 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
978 (some hardware wont work with macros)
979
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980 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
981 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
982
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983 CONFIG_FTGMAC100
984 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
985
986 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
987 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
988 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
989 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
990 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
991 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
992 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
993 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
994
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995 CONFIG_SH_ETHER
996 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
997
998 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
999 Define the number of ports to be used
1000
1001 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1002 Define the ETH PHY's address
1003
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1004 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1005 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1006
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1007- PWM Support:
1008 CONFIG_PWM_IMX
5052e819 1009 Support for PWM module on the imx6.
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5e124724 1011- TPM Support:
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1012 CONFIG_TPM
1013 Support TPM devices.
1014
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1015 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_INFINEON
1016 Support for Infineon i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
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1017 per system is supported at this time.
1018
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1019 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
1020 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
1021
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1022 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24
1023 Support for STMicroelectronics TPM devices. Requires DM_TPM support.
1024
1025 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_I2C
1026 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 I2C devices.
1027 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and I2C.
1028
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1029 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_SPI
1030 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 SPI devices.
1031 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and SPI.
1032
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1033 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
1034 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
1035
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1037 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1038 per system is supported at this time.
1039
1040 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1041 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1042 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1043 0xfed40000.
1044
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1045 CONFIG_TPM
1046 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
1047 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
1048 Requires support for a TPM device.
1049
1050 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
1051 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
1052 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
1053
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1055 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
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1057 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1058 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
30d56fae 1059 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
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1060 storage devices.
1061 Note:
1062 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1063 (TEAC FD-05PUB).
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1065 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1066 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1067
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1068 CONFIG_USB_DWC2_REG_ADDR the physical CPU address of the DWC2
1069 HW module registers.
1070
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1072 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1073 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1074 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
11ccc33f 1075 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
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1076 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1077 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
386eda02 1078 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
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1079 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1080 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1081 a Linux host by
1082 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1083 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1084 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1085 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
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1087 CONFIG_USB_DEVICE
1088 Define this to build a UDC device
1089
1090 CONFIG_USB_TTY
1091 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1092 talk to the UDC device
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1094 CONFIG_USBD_HS
1095 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1096 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1097 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1098 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1099 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1100 speed.
1101
6d0f6bcf 1102 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
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1103 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1104 be set to usbtty.
1105
386eda02 1106 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
16c8d5e7 1107 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
386eda02 1108 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
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1109 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1110 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1111 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1112
1113 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1114 Define this string as the name of your company for
1115 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
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1117 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1118 Define this string as the name of your product
1119 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1120
1121 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1122 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1123 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1124 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1125 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
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1127 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1128 Define this as the unique Product ID
1129 for your device
1130 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
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1133 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1134 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1135 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1136 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1137 viewport is supported.
1138 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1139 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
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1140 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1141 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1142 the appropriate value in Hz.
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1145 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1146 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1147 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
71f95118 1148 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
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1149 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1150 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
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1152 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF
1153 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1154
1155 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1156 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1157
1158 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_CLK
1159 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1160
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1161 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_BOOT
1162 Enable some additional features of the eMMC boot partitions.
1163
b3ba6e94 1164- USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
bb4059a5 1165 CONFIG_DFU_OVER_USB
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1166 This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class
1167
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1168 CONFIG_DFU_MMC
1169 This enables support for exposing (e)MMC devices via DFU.
1170
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1171 CONFIG_DFU_NAND
1172 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
1173
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1174 CONFIG_DFU_RAM
1175 This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
1176 Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
1177 allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
1178 one that would help mostly the developer.
1179
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1180 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
1181 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
1182 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
1183 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
1184 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
1185
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1186 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
1187 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
1188 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
1189 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
1190 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
1191 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
1192
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1193 DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
1194 Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
1195 host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
1196 a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
1197
1198 DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
1199 Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
1200 entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
1201 sending again an USB request to the device.
1202
6705d81e 1203- Journaling Flash filesystem support:
b2482dff 1204 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND
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1205 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1206
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1207 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1208 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
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1209 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1210
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1212 See Kconfig help for available keyboard drivers.
1213
1214 CONFIG_KEYBOARD
1215
1216 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1217 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1218 defined in your board-specific files. This option is deprecated
1219 and is only used by novena. For new boards, use driver model
1220 instead.
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1221
1222- Video support:
7d3053fb 1223 CONFIG_FSL_DIU_FB
04e5ae79 1224 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
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1225 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1226 support, and should also define these other macros:
1227
1228 CONFIG_SYS_DIU_ADDR
1229 CONFIG_VIDEO
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1230 CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE
1231 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1232 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1233 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
1234 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1235
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1236 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1237 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
8eca9439 1238 boot. See the documentation file doc/README.video for a
ba8e76bd 1239 description of this variable.
7d3053fb 1240
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1241- LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1242
1243 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1244 display); also select one of the supported displays
1245 by defining one of these:
1246
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1247 CONFIG_ATMEL_LCD:
1248
1249 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1250
fd3103bb 1251 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
c609719b 1252
fd3103bb 1253 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
c609719b 1254
fd3103bb 1255 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
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1257 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1258 Active, color, single scan.
1259
1260 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1261
1262 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
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1263 Active, color, single scan.
1264
1265 CONFIG_SHARP_16x9
1266
1267 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1268 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1269
1270 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1271
1272 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1273 Active, color, single scan.
1274
1275 CONFIG_HLD1045
1276
1277 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1278 Active, color, single scan.
1279
1280 CONFIG_OPTREX_BW
1281
1282 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1283 or
1284 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1285 or
1286 Hitachi SP14Q002
1287
1288 320x240. Black & white.
1289
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1290 CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
1291
b445bbb4 1292 Normally the LCD is page-aligned (typically 4KB). If this is
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1293 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
1294 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
1295 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
1296 a per-section basis.
1297
1298
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1299 CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION
1300
1301 Sometimes, for example if the display is mounted in portrait
1302 mode or even if it's mounted landscape but rotated by 180degree,
1303 we need to rotate our content of the display relative to the
1304 framebuffer, so that user can read the messages which are
1305 printed out.
1306 Once CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is defined, the lcd_console will be
1307 initialized with a given rotation from "vl_rot" out of
1308 "vidinfo_t" which is provided by the board specific code.
1309 The value for vl_rot is coded as following (matching to
1310 fbcon=rotate:<n> linux-kernel commandline):
1311 0 = no rotation respectively 0 degree
1312 1 = 90 degree rotation
1313 2 = 180 degree rotation
1314 3 = 270 degree rotation
1315
1316 If CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is not defined, the console will be
1317 initialized with 0degree rotation.
1318
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1319 CONFIG_LCD_BMP_RLE8
1320
1321 Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
1322
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1323 CONFIG_I2C_EDID
1324
1325 Enables an 'i2c edid' command which can read EDID
1326 information over I2C from an attached LCD display.
1327
7152b1d0 1328- Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
d791b1dc 1329
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1330 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1331 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1332 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
e94d2cd9 1333 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
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1334 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1335 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1336 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1337 loaded very quickly after power-on.
d791b1dc 1338
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1339 CONFIG_SPLASHIMAGE_GUARD
1340
1341 If this option is set, then U-Boot will prevent the environment
1342 variable "splashimage" from being set to a problematic address
ab5645f1 1343 (see doc/README.displaying-bmps).
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1344 This option is useful for targets where, due to alignment
1345 restrictions, an improperly aligned BMP image will cause a data
1346 abort. If you think you will not have problems with unaligned
1347 accesses (for example because your toolchain prevents them)
1348 there is no need to set this option.
1349
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1350 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1351
1352 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1353 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1354 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1355 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1356 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1357 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1358
1359 Example:
1360 setenv splashpos m,m
1361 => image at center of screen
1362
1363 setenv splashpos 30,20
1364 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1365
1366 setenv splashpos -10,m
1367 => vertically centered image
1368 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1369
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1370- Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1371
1372 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1373 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1374 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1375
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1376- Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1377
1378 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1379 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1380 bmp command.
1381
c29fdfc1 1382- Compression support:
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1383 CONFIG_GZIP
1384
1385 Enabled by default to support gzip compressed images.
1386
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1387 CONFIG_BZIP2
1388
1389 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1390 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1391 compressed images are supported.
1392
42d1f039 1393 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
6d0f6bcf 1394 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
42d1f039 1395 be at least 4MB.
d791b1dc 1396
17ea1177 1397- MII/PHY support:
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1398 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1399
1400 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1401
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1402 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1403
1404 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1405 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1406 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1407 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1408
1409 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1410
1411 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1412 command issued before MII status register can be read
1413
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1414- IP address:
1415 CONFIG_IPADDR
1416
1417 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
11ccc33f 1418 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
c609719b 1419 determined through e.g. bootp.
1ebcd654 1420 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
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1421
1422- Server IP address:
1423 CONFIG_SERVERIP
1424
11ccc33f 1425 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
c609719b 1426 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1ebcd654 1427 (Environment variable "serverip")
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1429 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1430
1431 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1432 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1433
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1434- Gateway IP address:
1435 CONFIG_GATEWAYIP
1436
1437 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1438 default router where packets to other networks are
1439 sent to.
1440 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1441
1442- Subnet mask:
1443 CONFIG_NETMASK
1444
1445 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1446 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1447 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1448 forwarded through a router.
1449 (Environment variable "netmask")
1450
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1451- Multicast TFTP Mode:
1452 CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP
1453
1454 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1455 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
11ccc33f 1456 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
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1457 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1458 multicast group.
1459
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1460- BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1461 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1462
1463 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1464 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1465 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1466 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1467 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1468 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1469 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1470 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
6c33c785 1471 following delays are inserted then:
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1473 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1474 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1475 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1476 4th and following
1477 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1478
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1479 CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE
1480
1481 BOOTP packets are uniquely identified using a 32-bit ID. The
1482 server will copy the ID from client requests to responses and
1483 U-Boot will use this to determine if it is the destination of
1484 an incoming response. Some servers will check that addresses
1485 aren't in use before handing them out (usually using an ARP
1486 ping) and therefore take up to a few hundred milliseconds to
1487 respond. Network congestion may also influence the time it
1488 takes for a response to make it back to the client. If that
1489 time is too long, U-Boot will retransmit requests. In order
1490 to allow earlier responses to still be accepted after these
1491 retransmissions, U-Boot's BOOTP client keeps a small cache of
1492 IDs. The CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE controls the size of this
1493 cache. The default is to keep IDs for up to four outstanding
1494 requests. Increasing this will allow U-Boot to accept offers
1495 from a BOOTP client in networks with unusually high latency.
1496
fe389a82 1497- DHCP Advanced Options:
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1498 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1499 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1500
1fe80d79 1501 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1fe80d79 1502 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
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1503 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1504 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1505 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1506 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
2c00e099 1507 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
fe389a82 1508
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1509 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1510 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
fe389a82 1511
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1512 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1513 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1514 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1515 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1516 is not available.
1517
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1518 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1519 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1520 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
5d110f0a 1521 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
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1522 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1523 option 12 to the DHCP server.
fe389a82 1524
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1525 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1526
1527 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1528 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1529 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1530 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1531 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1532 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1533 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1534 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1535 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1536 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1537 this delay.
1538
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1539 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1540 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1541 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1542 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1543 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1544
1545 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1546
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1547 - MAC address from environment variables
1548
1549 FDT_SEQ_MACADDR_FROM_ENV
1550
1551 Fix-up device tree with MAC addresses fetched sequentially from
1552 environment variables. This config work on assumption that
1553 non-usable ethernet node of device-tree are either not present
1554 or their status has been marked as "disabled".
1555
a3d991bd 1556 - CDP Options:
6e592385 1557 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
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1558
1559 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1560
1561 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1562
1563 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1564 of the device.
1565
1566 CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID
1567
1568 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1569 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
11ccc33f 1570 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
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1571
1572 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1573
1574 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1575 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1576
1577 CONFIG_CDP_VERSION
1578
1579 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1580
1581 CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM
1582
1583 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1584
1585 CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER
1586
1587 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1588
1589 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1590
1591 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1592 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1593
1594 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1595
1596 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1597
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1599
1600 Several configurations allow to display the current
1601 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1602 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1603 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1604 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1605 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
79267edd 1606 kernel). Defining CONFIG_LED_STATUS enables this
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1607 feature in U-Boot.
1608
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1609 Additional options:
1610
79267edd 1611 CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
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1612 The status LED can be connected to a GPIO pin.
1613 In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
79267edd 1614 status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
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1615 to include the gpio_led driver in the U-Boot binary.
1616
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1617 CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE
1618 Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
1619 case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
1620 GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
1621 In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
1622 with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
1623
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1625
1626 This enable the NEW i2c subsystem, and will allow you to use
1627 i2c commands at the u-boot command line (as long as you set
1628 CONFIG_CMD_I2C in CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c
1629 based realtime clock chips or other i2c devices. See
1630 common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the command line
1631 interface.
1632
1633 ported i2c driver to the new framework:
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1634 - drivers/i2c/soft_i2c.c:
1635 - activate first bus with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT define
1636 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE
1637 for defining speed and slave address
1638 - activate second bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS2 define
1639 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_2 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_2
1640 for defining speed and slave address
1641 - activate third bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS3 define
1642 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_3 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_3
1643 for defining speed and slave address
1644 - activate fourth bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS4 define
1645 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_4 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_4
1646 for defining speed and slave address
3f4978c7 1647
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1648 - drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c:
1649 - activate i2c driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_FSL
1650 define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_OFFSET for setting the register
1651 offset CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SPEED for the i2c speed and
1652 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SLAVE for the slave addr of the first
1653 bus.
93e14596 1654 - If your board supports a second fsl i2c bus, define
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1655 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_OFFSET for the register offset
1656 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SPEED for the speed and
1657 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SLAVE for the slave address of the
1658 second bus.
1659
1f2ba722 1660 - drivers/i2c/tegra_i2c.c:
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1661 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_TEGRA
1662 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses with a fix speed from
1663 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1f2ba722 1664
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1665 - drivers/i2c/ppc4xx_i2c.c
1666 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX
1667 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1668 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1669
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1671 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC
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1672 - enable bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C1
1673 - enable bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C2
1674 - enable bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C3
1675 - enable bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C4
fac96408 1676 - define speed for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SPEED
1677 - define slave for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SLAVE
1678 - define speed for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SPEED
1679 - define slave for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SLAVE
1680 - define speed for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SPEED
1681 - define slave for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SLAVE
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1682 - define speed for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SPEED
1683 - define slave for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SLAVE
b445bbb4 1684 If those defines are not set, default value is 100000
fac96408 1685 for speed, and 0 for slave.
1686
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1687 - drivers/i2c/rcar_i2c.c:
1688 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RCAR
1689 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses
1690
1691 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_BASE for setting the register channel 0
1692 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_SPEED for for the speed channel 0
1693 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_BASE for setting the register channel 1
1694 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_SPEED for for the speed channel 1
1695 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_BASE for setting the register channel 2
1696 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_SPEED for for the speed channel 2
1697 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_BASE for setting the register channel 3
1698 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_SPEED for for the speed channel 3
1699 - CONFIF_SYS_RCAR_I2C_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
1700
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1701 - drivers/i2c/sh_i2c.c:
1702 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH
1703 - This driver adds from 2 to 5 i2c buses
1704
1705 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE0 for setting the register channel 0
1706 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED0 for for the speed channel 0
1707 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE1 for setting the register channel 1
1708 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED1 for for the speed channel 1
1709 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE2 for setting the register channel 2
1710 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED2 for for the speed channel 2
1711 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE3 for setting the register channel 3
1712 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED3 for for the speed channel 3
1713 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE4 for setting the register channel 4
1714 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED4 for for the speed channel 4
b445bbb4 1715 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
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1717 - drivers/i2c/omap24xx_i2c.c
1718 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_OMAP24XX
1719 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED speed channel 0
1720 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE slave addr channel 0
1721 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED1 speed channel 1
1722 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE1 slave addr channel 1
1723 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED2 speed channel 2
1724 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE2 slave addr channel 2
1725 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED3 speed channel 3
1726 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE3 slave addr channel 3
1727 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED4 speed channel 4
1728 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE4 slave addr channel 4
1729
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1730 - drivers/i2c/zynq_i2c.c
1731 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ
1732 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SPEED for speed setting
1733 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SLAVE for slave addr
1734
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1735 - drivers/i2c/s3c24x0_i2c.c:
1736 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_S3C24X0
1737 - This driver adds i2c buses (11 for Exynos5250, Exynos5420
1738 9 i2c buses for Exynos4 and 1 for S3C24X0 SoCs from Samsung)
1739 with a fix speed from 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1740
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1741 - drivers/i2c/ihs_i2c.c
1742 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS
1743 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1744 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0 speed channel 0
1745 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0 slave addr channel 0
1746 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1747 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1 speed channel 1
1748 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1 slave addr channel 1
1749 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH2 activate hardware channel 2
1750 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2 speed channel 2
1751 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2 slave addr channel 2
1752 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH3 activate hardware channel 3
1753 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3 speed channel 3
1754 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3 slave addr channel 3
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1755 - activate dual channel with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_DUAL
1756 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0_1 speed channel 0_1
1757 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0_1 slave addr channel 0_1
1758 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1_1 speed channel 1_1
1759 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1_1 slave addr channel 1_1
1760 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2_1 speed channel 2_1
1761 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2_1 slave addr channel 2_1
1762 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3_1 speed channel 3_1
1763 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3_1 slave addr channel 3_1
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1765 additional defines:
1766
1767 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
945a18e6 1768 Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use.
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1769
1770 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
1771 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
1772 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
1773 omit this define.
1774
1775 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
1776 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
1777 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
1778 define.
1779
1780 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
b445bbb4 1781 hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
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1782 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
1783 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
1784 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
1785
1786 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1787 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
1788 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
1789 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
1790 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
1791 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
1792 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1793 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
1794 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
1795 }
1796
1797 which defines
1798 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
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1799 bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
1800 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
1801 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
1802 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
1803 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
3f4978c7 1804 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
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1805 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
1806 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
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1807
1808 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
1809
ce3b5d69 1810- Legacy I2C Support:
ea818dbb 1811 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
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1812 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1813 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
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1814
1815 I2C_INIT
1816
b37c7e5e 1817 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
43d9616c 1818 controller or configure ports.
c609719b 1819
ba56f625 1820 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
b37c7e5e 1821
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1822 I2C_ACTIVE
1823
1824 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1825 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1826 define can be null.
1827
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1828 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1829
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1830 I2C_TRISTATE
1831
1832 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1833 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1834 define can be null.
1835
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1836 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1837
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1838 I2C_READ
1839
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1840 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
1841 false if it is low.
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1843 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1844
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1845 I2C_SDA(bit)
1846
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1847 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1848 is false, it clears it (low).
c609719b 1849
b37c7e5e 1850 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
2535d602 1851 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
ba56f625 1852 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
b37c7e5e 1853
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1854 I2C_SCL(bit)
1855
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1856 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1857 is false, it clears it (low).
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b37c7e5e 1859 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
2535d602 1860 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
ba56f625 1861 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
b37c7e5e 1862
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1864
1865 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1866 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
b37c7e5e 1867 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
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1868 like:
1869
b37c7e5e 1870 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
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1872 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1873
1874 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1875 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1876 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1877 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1878
1879 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1880 the generic GPIO functions.
1881
6d0f6bcf 1882 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
47cd00fa 1883
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1884 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1885 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1886 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1887 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1888 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1889 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1890 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1891 is run early in the boot sequence.
47cd00fa 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
945a18e6 1914 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_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
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1928 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1929
1930 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1931 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1932 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1933 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1934 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1935 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1936 the other.
be5e6181 1937
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1939
1940 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1941 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1942 D/As on the SACSng board)
1943
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1944 CONFIG_SOFT_SPI
1945
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1946 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
1947 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
1948 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
1949 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
1950 defined, the board configuration must define several
1951 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
1952 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
c609719b 1953
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1954 CONFIG_HARD_SPI
1955
1956 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
1957 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
1958 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
c0f40859 1959 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
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1960 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
1961
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1962 CONFIG_SYS_SPI_MXC_WAIT
1963 Timeout for waiting until spi transfer completed.
1964 default: (CONFIG_SYS_HZ/100) /* 10 ms */
1965
0133502e 1966- FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
c609719b 1967
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1968 Enables FPGA subsystem.
1969
1970 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
1971
1972 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
1973 (ALTERA, XILINX)
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0133502e 1975 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
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1977 Enables support for FPGA family.
1978 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
1979
1980 CONFIG_FPGA_COUNT
1981
1982 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
c609719b 1983
6d0f6bcf 1984 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
c609719b 1985
8bde7f77 1986 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
c609719b 1987
6d0f6bcf 1988 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
c609719b 1989
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1990 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
1991 status by the configuration function. This option
1992 will require a board or device specific function to
1993 be written.
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1994
1995 CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY
1996
1997 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
1998 configuration driver.
1999
6d0f6bcf 2000 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
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2001 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2002
6d0f6bcf 2003 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
c609719b 2004
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2005 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2006 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2007 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2008 indicated a CRC error).
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6d0f6bcf 2010 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
c609719b 2011
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2012 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to de-assert
2013 after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
43d9616c 2014 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
11ccc33f 2015 ms.
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6d0f6bcf 2017 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
c609719b 2018
b445bbb4 2019 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
11ccc33f 2020 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
c609719b 2021
6d0f6bcf 2022 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
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43d9616c 2024 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
11ccc33f 2025 200 ms.
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2026
2027- Configuration Management:
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2028 CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET
2029
2030 Some SoCs need special image types (e.g. U-Boot binary
2031 with a special header) as build targets. By defining
2032 CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET in the SoC / board header, this
2033 special image will be automatically built upon calling
6de80f21 2034 make / buildman.
b2b8a696 2035
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2036 CONFIG_IDENT_STRING
2037
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2038 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2039 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
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2040
2041- Vendor Parameter Protection:
2042
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2043 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2044 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
7152b1d0 2045 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
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2046 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2047 protects these variables from casual modification by
2048 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2049 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
11ccc33f 2050 change this behaviour:
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2051
2052 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2053 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
47cd00fa 2054 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
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2055 these parameters.
2056
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2057 Alternatively, if you define _both_ an ethaddr in the
2058 default env _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
11ccc33f 2059 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
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2060 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2061 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2062 read-only.]
2063
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2064 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
2065 for any variable by configuring the type of access
2066 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
2067 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
2068
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2069- Protected RAM:
2070 CONFIG_PRAM
2071
2072 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2073 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2074 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2075 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2076 this default value by defining an environment
2077 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2078 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2079 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2080 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2081 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2082 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2083 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2084
fe126d8b 2085 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
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2086 saveenv
2087
2088 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2089 either, which results in a memory region that will
2090 not be affected by reboots.
2091
2092 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2093 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2094 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2095 following board configurations are known to be
2096 "pRAM-clean":
2097
5b8e76c3 2098 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx,
1b0757ec 2099 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2eb48ff7 2100 FLAGADM
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2102- Access to physical memory region (> 4GB)
2103 Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not
2104 normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures
2105 support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit
2106 machines using physical address extension or similar.
2107 Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which
2108 currently only supports clearing the memory.
2109
c609719b 2110- Error Recovery:
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2111 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2112
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2113 This variable defines the number of retries for
2114 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2115 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2116 default value of 5 is used.
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2118 CONFIG_ARP_TIMEOUT
2119
2120 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2121
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2122 CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT
2123
2124 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2125 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2126 try longer timeout such as
2127 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2128
c609719b 2129- Command Interpreter:
6d0f6bcf 2130 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
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2131
2132 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2133 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2134 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2135
2136 Note:
2137
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2138 In the current implementation, the local variables
2139 space and global environment variables space are
2140 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2141 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2142 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2143 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2144 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
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2146 Global environment variables are those you use
2147 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2148 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2149 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
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2150
2151 To store commands and special characters in a
2152 variable, please use double quotation marks
2153 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2154 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2155 symbols.
2156
b445bbb4 2157- Command Line Editing and History:
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2158 CONFIG_CMDLINE_PS_SUPPORT
2159
2160 Enable support for changing the command prompt string
2161 at run-time. Only static string is supported so far.
2162 The string is obtained from environment variables PS1
2163 and PS2.
2164
a8c7c708 2165- Default Environment:
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2166 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2167
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2168 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2169 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
7152b1d0 2170 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2262cfee 2171
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2172 For example, place something like this in your
2173 board's config file:
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2174
2175 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2176 "myvar1=value1\0" \
2177 "myvar2=value2\0"
2178
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2179 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2180 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2181 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2182 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
7152b1d0 2183 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
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2184 You better know what you are doing here.
2185
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2186 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2187 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
74de7aef 2188 the environment like the "source" command or the
43d9616c 2189 boot command first.
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2191 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
2192
2193 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
b445bbb4 2194 initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
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2195 that so that the environment is not available until
2196 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
2197 this is instead controlled by the value of
2198 /config/load-environment.
2199
f61ec45e 2200- Serial Flash support
00fd59dd 2201 Usage requires an initial 'sf probe' to define the serial
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2202 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2203 commands.
2204
2205 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2206 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2207 flash is present on the system.
2208
2209 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2210 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2211 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2212 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2213
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2215- TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2216 CONFIG_TFTP_PORT
2217
28cb9375 2218 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
ecb0ccd9 2219 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
28cb9375 2220 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
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2221 number generator is used.
2222
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2223 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2224 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2225 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2226
2227 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
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2228 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2229 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2230 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2231 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2232 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2233 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2234
a8c7c708 2235- Show boot progress:
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2236 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2237
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2238 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2239 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2240 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2241 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2242 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2243 the following checkpoints are implemented:
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94fd1316 2245
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2246Legacy uImage format:
2247
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2248 Arg Where When
2249 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
ba56f625 2250 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
c609719b 2251 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
ba56f625 2252 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
c609719b 2253 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
ba56f625 2254 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
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2255 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2256 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2257 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
1372cce2 2258 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
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2259 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2260 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2261 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2262 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
1372cce2 2263 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
c609719b 2264 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
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2265
2266 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2267 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2268 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2269 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2270 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2271 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2272 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
11ccc33f 2273 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
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2274 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2275 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2276
c0f40859 2277 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
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a47a12be 2279 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
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2280 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2281 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
63e73c9a 2282
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2283 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2284 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2285 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2286 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2287 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2288 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2289 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2290 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2291 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2292 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2293 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2294 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2295 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2296 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2297 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2298 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2299 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2300 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2301 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2302 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2303 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2304 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2305 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2306 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2307 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2308 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2309 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2310 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2311 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2312 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2313 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2314 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2315 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2316 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2317 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2318 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2319 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2320 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2321 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2322 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2323 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2324 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2325 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2326 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2327 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2328 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2329 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
2330
2331 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
2332
11ccc33f 2333 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
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2334 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2335 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
2336
2337 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
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2338 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling net_loop()
2339 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in net_loop() occurred
2340 81 common/cmd_net.c net_loop() back without error
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2341 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2342 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
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2343 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2344 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
566a494f 2345 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
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2347FIT uImage format:
2348
2349 Arg Where When
2350 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2351 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2352 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2353 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2354 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2355 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
f773bea8 2356 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
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2357 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2358 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2359 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2360 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2361 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
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2362 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2363 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
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2364 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2365 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2366 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2367 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2368 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2369 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2370 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2371 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2372
2373 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2374 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2375 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
11ccc33f 2376 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
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2377 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2378 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2379 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2380 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2381 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2382 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2383 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2384 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2385 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2386 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2387 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2388 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2389
11ccc33f 2390 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
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2391 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2392
11ccc33f 2393 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
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2394 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2395
11ccc33f 2396 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
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2397 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2398
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2399- Standalone program support:
2400 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2401
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2402 This option defines a board specific value for the
2403 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
2404 overwriting the architecture dependent default
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2405 settings.
2406
2407- Frame Buffer Address:
2408 CONFIG_FB_ADDR
2409
2410 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
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2411 address for frame buffer. This is typically the case
2412 when using a graphics controller has separate video
2413 memory. U-Boot will then place the frame buffer at
2414 the given address instead of dynamically reserving it
2415 in system RAM by calling lcd_setmem(), which grabs
2416 the memory for the frame buffer depending on the
2417 configured panel size.
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2418
2419 Please see board_init_f function.
2420
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2421- Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2422 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP
2423 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2424 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2425
2426 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2427 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2428
2429- MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
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2430 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
2431 This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
2432 erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
2433 of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
2434 wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
2435 counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
2436
2437 The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
2438 other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
2439 However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
2440 life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
2441 to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
2442
2443 default: 4096
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2445 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
2446 This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
2447 expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the
2448 underlying flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR
2449 flash), this value is ignored.
2450
2451 NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM
2452 (Number of Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime.
2453 The maximum expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks
2454 then can be calculated as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)",
2455 which gives 20 for most NANDs (MaxNVB is basically the total
2456 count of eraseblocks on the chip).
2457
2458 To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to
2459 reserve about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
2460 handling. And that will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire
2461 NAND chip, not just the MTD partition UBI attaches. This means
2462 that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip admits maximum 40 bad
2463 eraseblocks, and it is split on two MTD partitions of the same
2464 size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when attaching a
2465 partition.
2466
2467 default: 20
2468
2469 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
2470 Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
2471 in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
2472 only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
2473 The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
2474 the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
2475 attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
2476 a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI parameter
2477 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT to 1 if you want so. Please note
2478 that fastmap-enabled images are still usable with UBI implementations
2479 without fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap
2480 fits into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
2481
2482 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT
2483 Set this parameter to enable fastmap automatically on images
2484 without a fastmap.
2485 default: 0
2486
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2487 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FM_DEBUG
2488 Enable UBI fastmap debug
2489 default: 0
2490
6a11cf48 2491- SPL framework
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2492 CONFIG_SPL
2493 Enable building of SPL globally.
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2495 CONFIG_SPL_LDSCRIPT
2496 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
2497
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2498 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT
2499 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL, BSS included.
2500 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory
2501 used by SPL from _start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
8960af8b 2502 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
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2503 must not be both defined at the same time.
2504
95579793 2505 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE
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2506 Maximum size of the SPL image (text, data, rodata, and
2507 linker lists sections), BSS excluded.
2508 When defined, the linker checks that the actual size does
2509 not exceed it.
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2511 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
2512 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
6a11cf48 2513
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2514 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
2515 Address to relocate to. If unspecified, this is equal to
2516 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
2517
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2518 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
2519 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
2520
2521 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
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2522 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL BSS.
2523 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory used
2524 by SPL from __bss_start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
8960af8b 2525 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
6ebc3461 2526 must not be both defined at the same time.
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2527
2528 CONFIG_SPL_STACK
2529 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
2530
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2531 CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
2532 When defined, SPL will panic() if the image it has
2533 loaded does not have a signature.
2534 Defining this is useful when code which loads images
2535 in SPL cannot guarantee that absolutely all read errors
2536 will be caught.
2537 An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which will
2538 consider that a completely unreadable NAND block is bad,
2539 and thus should be skipped silently.
2540
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2541 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
2542 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
2543 relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
2544 CONFIG_SPL_STACK.
2545
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2546 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
2547 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
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2548 When this option is set the full malloc is used in SPL and
2549 it is set up by spl_init() and before that, the simple malloc()
2550 can be used if CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F is defined.
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2552 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
2553 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
6a11cf48 2554
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2555 CONFIG_SPL_OS_BOOT
2556 Enable booting directly to an OS from SPL.
2557 See also: doc/README.falcon
2558
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2559 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
2560 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
2561 about the running system.
2562
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2563 CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
2564 Arch init code should be built for a very small image
2565
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2566 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION
2567 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
2568 used in raw mode
2569
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2570 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_KERNEL_SECTOR
2571 Sector to load kernel uImage from when MMC is being
2572 used in raw mode (for Falcon mode)
2573
2574 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTOR,
2575 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTORS
2576 Sector and number of sectors to load kernel argument
2577 parameters from when MMC is being used in raw mode
2578 (for falcon mode)
2579
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2580 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_FS_BOOT_PARTITION
2581 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
2582 used in fs mode
2583
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2584 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
2585 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from filesystem
2586
2587 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_KERNEL_NAME
7ad2cc79 2588 Filename to read to load kernel uImage when reading
fae81c72 2589 from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
7ad2cc79 2590
fae81c72 2591 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_ARGS_NAME
7ad2cc79 2592 Filename to read to load kernel argument parameters
fae81c72 2593 when reading from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
7ad2cc79 2594
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2595 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
2596 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
2597 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
2598 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
2599 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
2600
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2601 CONFIG_SPL_SKIP_RELOCATE
2602 Avoid SPL relocation
2603
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2604 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE
2605 Include nand_base.c in the SPL. Requires
2606 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS.
2607
2608 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS
2609 SPL uses normal NAND drivers, not minimal drivers.
2610
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2611 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_IDENT
2612 SPL uses the chip ID list to identify the NAND flash.
2613 Requires CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE.
2614
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2615 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_ECC
2616 Include standard software ECC in the SPL
2617
95579793 2618 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
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2619 Support for NAND boot using simple NAND drivers that
2620 expose the cmd_ctrl() interface.
95579793 2621
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2622 CONFIG_SPL_UBI
2623 Support for a lightweight UBI (fastmap) scanner and
2624 loader
2625
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2626 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_RAW_ONLY
2627 Support to boot only raw u-boot.bin images. Use this only
2628 if you need to save space.
2629
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2630 CONFIG_SPL_COMMON_INIT_DDR
2631 Set for common ddr init with serial presence detect in
2632 SPL binary.
2633
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2634 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
2635 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
2636 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
2637 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
2638 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
2639 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
7d4b7955 2640 to read U-Boot
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2642 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BOOT
2643 Add support NAND boot
2644
95579793 2645 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
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2646 Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
2647
2648 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
2649 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
2650
2651 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
2652 Size of image to load
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2654 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
7d4b7955 2655 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
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2656
2657 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
2658 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
b445bbb4 2659 data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
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2661 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
2662 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
6a11cf48 2663
74752baa 2664 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO
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2665 Image offset to which the SPL should be padded before appending
2666 the SPL payload. By default, this is defined as
2667 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2668 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2669 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
74752baa 2670
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2671 CONFIG_SPL_TARGET
2672 Final target image containing SPL and payload. Some SPLs
2673 use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
2674 example if more than one image needs to be produced.
2675
b527b9c6 2676 CONFIG_SPL_FIT_PRINT
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2677 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
2678 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
2679 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
2680 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
2681
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2682- TPL framework
2683 CONFIG_TPL
2684 Enable building of TPL globally.
2685
2686 CONFIG_TPL_PAD_TO
2687 Image offset to which the TPL should be padded before appending
2688 the TPL payload. By default, this is defined as
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2689 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2690 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2691 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
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2693- Interrupt support (PPC):
2694
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2695 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2696 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
11ccc33f 2697 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
d4ca31c4 2698 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
11ccc33f 2699 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
d4ca31c4 2700 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
11ccc33f 2701 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
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2702 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2703 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2704 general timer_interrupt().
a8c7c708 2705
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2707Board initialization settings:
2708------------------------------
2709
2710During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
2711to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
2712before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
2713following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
2714architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
2715typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
2716
2717- CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
2718- CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
2719- CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
2720- CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
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2722Configuration Settings:
2723-----------------------
2724
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2725- CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit.
2726 Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.
2727
6d0f6bcf 2728- CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
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2729 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2730
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2731- CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2732 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2733
6d0f6bcf 2734- CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
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2735 prompt for user input.
2736
6d0f6bcf 2737- CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
c609719b 2738
6d0f6bcf 2739- CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
c609719b 2740
6d0f6bcf 2741- CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
c609719b 2742
6d0f6bcf 2743- CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
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2744 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2745 booted
2746
6d0f6bcf 2747- CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
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2748 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2749
6d0f6bcf 2750- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
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2751 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2752 simple memory test.
2753
6d0f6bcf 2754- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
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2755 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2756 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2757
e8149522 2758- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE
e61a7534 2759 Only implemented for ARMv8 for now.
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2760 If defined, the size of CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE memory
2761 is substracted from total RAM and won't be reported to OS.
2762 This memory can be used as secure memory. A variable
e61a7534 2763 gd->arch.secure_ram is used to track the location. In systems
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2764 the RAM base is not zero, or RAM is divided into banks,
2765 this variable needs to be recalcuated to get the address.
2766
aabd7ddb 2767- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE:
6d0f6bcf 2768 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
14f73ca6 2769 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
11ccc33f 2770 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
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2771 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2772 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2773 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
5e12e75d 2774 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
14f73ca6 2775 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
5e12e75d 2776 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
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2777
2778 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2779 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2780 be touched.
2781
2782 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2783 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2784 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2785 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2786 problems.
2787
6d0f6bcf 2788- CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
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2789 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2790
6d0f6bcf 2791- CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
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2792 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2793
6d0f6bcf 2794- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
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2795 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2796
6d0f6bcf 2797- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
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2798 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2799 make config files to be same as the text base address
14d0a02a 2800 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
6d0f6bcf 2801 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
c609719b 2802
6d0f6bcf 2803- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
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2804 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2805 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2806 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2807 flash sector.
c609719b 2808
6d0f6bcf 2809- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
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2810 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2811
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2812- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
2813 Size of the malloc() pool for use before relocation. If
2814 this is defined, then a very simple malloc() implementation
2815 will become available before relocation. The address is just
2816 below the global data, and the stack is moved down to make
2817 space.
2818
2819 This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
2820 within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
2821 is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
b445bbb4 2822 The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
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2823 U-Boot relocates itself.
2824
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2825- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
2826 Provides a simple and small malloc() and calloc() for those
2827 boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is
2828 enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START).
2829
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2830- CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY:
2831 Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be
2832 typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped
2833 uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would
2834 otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For
2835 some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the
2836 cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed
2837 are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding
2838 cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e.
2839 if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the
2840 size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of
2841 one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has
2842 written to another region in the same cache-line. This can
2843 happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for
2844 buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g.
2845 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).
2846
2847 Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
2848
6d0f6bcf 2849- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
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2850 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
2851 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
6d0f6bcf 2852 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
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2853 to adjust this setting to your needs.
2854
6d0f6bcf 2855- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
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2856 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
2857 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
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2858 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
2859 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
1bce2aeb 2860 environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
7d721e34 2861 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
c0f40859 2862 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
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2863 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
2864 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
2865 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
c609719b 2866
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2867- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
2868 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
2869 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
2870 is enabled.
2871
2872- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
2873 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
2874 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2875
2876- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
2877 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
2878 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2879
6d0f6bcf 2880- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
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2881 Max number of Flash memory banks
2882
6d0f6bcf 2883- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
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2884 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
2885
6d0f6bcf 2886- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
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2887 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
2888
6d0f6bcf 2889- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
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2890 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
2891
6d0f6bcf 2892- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
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2893 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
2894
6d0f6bcf 2895- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
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2896 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
2897
6d0f6bcf 2898- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
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2899 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
2900 instead of U-Boot software protection.
2901
6d0f6bcf 2902- CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
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2903
2904 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
2905 without this option such a download has to be
2906 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
2907 copy from RAM to flash.
2908
2909 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
2910 you can check if the download worked before you erase
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2911 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
2912 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
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2913 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
2914
6d0f6bcf 2915- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
43d9616c 2916 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
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2917 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
2918
00b1883a 2919- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
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2920 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
2921 in the drivers directory
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2923- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
2924 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
2925 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
2926 to the MTD layer.
2927
6d0f6bcf 2928- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
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2929 Use buffered writes to flash.
2930
2931- CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
2932 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
2933 write commands.
2934
6d0f6bcf 2935- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
5568e613
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2936 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
2937 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
2938 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
2939 optionally available.
2940
9a042e9c
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2941- CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
2942 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
2943 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
2944 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
2945
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2946- CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY
2947 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
2948 against the source after the write operation. An error message
2949 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
2950 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
2951 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
2952 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
2953 this option if you really know what you are doing.
2954
6d0f6bcf 2955- CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
11ccc33f
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2956 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
2957 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
53cf9435
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2958 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
2959 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
11ccc33f 2960 on high Ethernet traffic.
53cf9435
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2961 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
2962
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2963- CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
2964
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2965 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
2966 internally to store the environment settings. The default
2967 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
2968 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
2969 lib/hashtable.c for details.
ea882baf 2970
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2971- CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
2972- CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
1bce2aeb 2973 Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when
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2974 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
2975 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
2976 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
2977
2978 The format of the list is:
2979 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
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2980 access_attribute = [a|r|o|c]
2981 attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute]
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2982 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
2983 list = entry[,list]
2984
2985 The type attributes are:
2986 s - String (default)
2987 d - Decimal
2988 x - Hexadecimal
2989 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
2990 i - IP address
2991 m - MAC address
2992
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2993 The access attributes are:
2994 a - Any (default)
2995 r - Read-only
2996 o - Write-once
2997 c - Change-default
2998
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2999 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3000 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
b445bbb4 3001 environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
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3002
3003 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3004 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
3005 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
3006 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
3007 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
3008 ".flags" variable.
3009
bdf1fe4e
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3010 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
3011 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to define the same
3012 flags without explicitly listing them for each variable.
3013
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3014- CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
3015 If defined, don't allow the -f switch to env set override variable
3016 access flags.
3017
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3018The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
3019of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
3020following configurations:
3021
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3022- CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
3023
3024 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
3025 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
3026
c609719b 3027BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
b445bbb4 3028in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the
11ccc33f 3029console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
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3030U-Boot will hang.
3031
3032Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3033environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3034keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3035to save the current settings.
3036
0a85a9e7
LG
3037BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
3038"saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
fc54c7fa
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3039environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
3040but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
0a85a9e7 3041
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3042- CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
3043
3044 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
3045 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
3046 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
3047
e881cb56 3048Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
c609719b 3049has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
00caae6d 3050created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use env_get_f()
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3051until then to read environment variables.
3052
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3053The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
3054is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
3055with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
3056necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
3057"baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
3058have any device yet where we could complain.]
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3059
3060Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
3061the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
85ec0bcc 3062use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
c609719b 3063
6d0f6bcf 3064- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
42d1f039 3065 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
fc3e2165 3066
6d0f6bcf 3067 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
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3068 also needs to be defined.
3069
6d0f6bcf 3070- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
42d1f039 3071 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
c609719b 3072
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3073- CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
3074 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
3075 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
3076 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
3077 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
3078 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
3079
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3080- CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
3081 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
3082 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
3083 to do this.
3084
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3085- CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
3086 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
3087 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
3088 present.
3089
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3090- CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT:
3091 Maximum size of the U-Boot image. When defined, the
3092 build system checks that the actual size does not
3093 exceed it.
3094
c609719b 3095Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
dc7c9a1a 3096---------------------------------------------------
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6d0f6bcf 3098- CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
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3099 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
3100
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3101- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
3102 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
3103 PowerPC SOCs.
3104
3105- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
3106 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
3107 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
3108
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3109- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
3110 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
3111 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
c0f40859 3112 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
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3113 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
3114 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
3115 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
3116
3117 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
3118 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
3119
3120- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
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3121 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
3122 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
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3123 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3124 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3125
3126- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
3127 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
3128 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3129 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3130
3131- CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
3132 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
3133 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
3134
7f6c2cbc 3135- Floppy Disk Support:
6d0f6bcf 3136 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
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3137
3138 the default drive number (default value 0)
3139
6d0f6bcf 3140 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
7f6c2cbc 3141
11ccc33f 3142 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
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3143 (default value 1)
3144
6d0f6bcf 3145 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
7f6c2cbc 3146
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3147 defines the offset of register from address. It
3148 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
11ccc33f 3149 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
7f6c2cbc 3150
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3151 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
3152 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
43d9616c 3153 default value.
7f6c2cbc 3154
6d0f6bcf 3155 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
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3156 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
3157 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
b445bbb4 3158 source code. It is used to make hardware-dependent
43d9616c 3159 initializations.
7f6c2cbc 3160
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3161- CONFIG_IDE_AHB:
3162 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
3163 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
3164 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
3165 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
3166 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
b445bbb4 3167 is required.
0abddf82 3168
6d0f6bcf 3169- CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
efe2a4d5 3170 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
907208c4 3171 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx systems only]
c609719b 3172
6d0f6bcf 3173- CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
c609719b 3174
7152b1d0 3175 Start address of memory area that can be used for
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3176 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
3177 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
3178 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
3179 will become available only after programming the
3180 memory controller and running certain initialization
3181 sequences.
3182
3183 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
907208c4 3184 - MPC8xx: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
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6d0f6bcf 3186- CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
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3187
3188 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
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3189 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
3190 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
c609719b 3191 data is located at the end of the available space
553f0982 3192 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
acd51f9d 3193 GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
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3194 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
3195 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
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3196
3197 Note:
3198 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
3199 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
6d0f6bcf 3200 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
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3201 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
3202 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
3203
6d0f6bcf 3204- CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
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6d0f6bcf 3206- CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
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3207 SDRAM timing
3208
6d0f6bcf 3209- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
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3210 periodic timer for refresh
3211
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3212- FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
3213 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
3214 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
3215 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
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3216 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
3217
3218- SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
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3219 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
3220 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
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3221 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
3222
69fd2d3b 3223- CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
b445bbb4 3224 Only scan through and get the devices on the buses.
69fd2d3b
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3225 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
3226 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
3227 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
3228 by coreboot or similar.
3229
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3230- CONFIG_PCI_INDIRECT_BRIDGE:
3231 Enable support for indirect PCI bridges.
3232
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3233- CONFIG_SYS_SRIO:
3234 Chip has SRIO or not
3235
3236- CONFIG_SRIO1:
3237 Board has SRIO 1 port available
3238
3239- CONFIG_SRIO2:
3240 Board has SRIO 2 port available
3241
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3242- CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
3243 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
3244
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3245- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
3246 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3247
3248- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
3249 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3250
3251- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
3252 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3253
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3254- CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
3255 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
3256 a 16 bit bus.
3257 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
a430e916 3258 Example of drivers that use it:
66bd1846 3259 - drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c
a430e916 3260 - drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
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3261
3262- CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
3263 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
3264 a default value will be used.
3265
bb99ad6d 3266- CONFIG_SPD_EEPROM
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3267 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
3268 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
3269
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3270 SPD_EEPROM_ADDRESS
3271 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
3272
6d0f6bcf 3273- CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
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3274 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
3275 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
3276 to something your driver can deal with.
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3278- CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
3279 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
3280 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
3281 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
3282 header files or board specific files.
3283
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3284- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
3285 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
3286
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3287- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_SYNC_REFRESH
3288 Enable sync of refresh for multiple controllers.
3289
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3290- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_BIST
3291 Enable built-in memory test for Freescale DDR controllers.
3292
6d0f6bcf 3293- CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
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3294 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
3295 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
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3297- CONFIG_RMII
3298 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
3299 Note that this is a global option, we can't
3300 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
3301
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3302- CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
3303 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
3304 The syntax is:
3305
3306 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
3307
3308 Where address/count indicate a memory area
3309 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
3310 area should have.
3311
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3312- CONFIG_LOOPW
3313 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
493f420e 3314 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
56523f12 3315
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3316- CONFIG_MX_CYCLIC
3317 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
3318 "md/mw" commands.
3319 Examples:
3320
efe2a4d5 3321 => mdc.b 10 4 500
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3322 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
3323
efe2a4d5 3324 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
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3325 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
3326
efe2a4d5 3327 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
493f420e 3328 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
7b466641 3329
8aa1a2d1 3330- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
3fafced7 3331 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS, RISC-V only] If this variable is defined, then certain
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3332 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
3333 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
3334 relocate itself into RAM.
3335
3336 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
3337 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
3338 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
3339 these initializations itself.
8aa1a2d1 3340
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3341- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT_ONLY
3342 [ARM926EJ-S only] This allows just the call to lowlevel_init()
90211f77 3343 to be skipped. The normal CP15 init (such as enabling the
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3344 instruction cache) is still performed.
3345
401bb30b 3346- CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
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3347 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3348 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
3349 compiling a NAND SPL.
400558b5 3350
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3351- CONFIG_TPL_BUILD
3352 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3353 that is executed after the SPL and before the actual U-Boot.
3354 It is loaded by the SPL.
3355
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3356- CONFIG_SYS_MPC85XX_NO_RESETVEC
3357 Only for 85xx systems. If this variable is specified, the section
3358 .resetvec is not kept and the section .bootpg is placed in the
3359 previous 4k of the .text section.
3360
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3361- CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
3362 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
3363 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
3364 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
3365 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
3366 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
3367 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
3368 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
3369
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3370- CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
3371 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
3372 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
b16f521a 3373
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3374- CONFIG_SYS_NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE
3375 Option to disable subpage write in NAND driver
3376 driver that uses this:
3377 drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
3378
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3379Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
3380-----------------------------------
3381
3382The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
3383loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
3384This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3385are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3386within that device.
3387
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3388- CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR
3389 The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The
3390 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3391 is also specified.
3392
3393- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR
3394 The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The
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3395 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3396 is also specified.
3397
3398- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
3399 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
3400 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
3401 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
3402 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
3403
3404- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
3405 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
3406 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
3407 virtual address in NOR flash.
3408
3409- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
3410 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
3411 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
3412
3413- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
3414 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
3415 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
3416
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3417- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
3418 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
3419 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
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3420 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
3421 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
3422 master's memory space.
f2717b47 3423
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3424Freescale Layerscape Management Complex Firmware Support:
3425---------------------------------------------------------
3426The Freescale Layerscape Management Complex (MC) supports the loading of
3427"firmware".
3428This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3429are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3430within that device.
3431
3432- CONFIG_FSL_MC_ENET
3433 Enable the MC driver for Layerscape SoCs.
3434
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3435Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support:
3436-------------------------------------------
3437The Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support supports the loading of
3438"Debug Server firmware" and triggering SP boot-rom.
3439This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting.
3440
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3441- CONFIG_SYS_MC_RSV_MEM_ALIGN
3442 Define alignment of reserved memory MC requires
5c055089 3443
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3444Reproducible builds
3445-------------------
3446
3447In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
3448process have to be set to a fixed value.
3449
3450This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
3451SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is to be set on the build host's shell, not as a configuration
3452option for U-Boot or an environment variable in U-Boot.
3453
3454SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should be set to a number of seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
3455
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3456Building the Software:
3457======================
3458
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3459Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
3460and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
3461all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
3462(potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
3463recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
3464which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
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3466If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
3467have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
3468you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
3469Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
3470necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
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3472 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
3473 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
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2f8d396b
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3475Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
3476 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
3477 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
3478 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
3479
3480 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
3481
3482 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
3483 be executed on computers running Windows.
3484
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3485U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
3486sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
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3487is done by typing:
3488
ab584d67 3489 make NAME_defconfig
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ab584d67 3491where "NAME_defconfig" is the name of one of the existing configu-
4d675ae6 3492rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
db01a2ea 3493
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3494Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
3495 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
3496 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
3497 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
11ccc33f 3498 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
2729af9d 3499
ab584d67 3500 make TQM823L_defconfig
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3501 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
3502
ab584d67 3503 make TQM823L_LCD_defconfig
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3504 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
3505
3506 etc.
3507
3508
3509Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
3510images ready for download to / installation on your system:
3511
3512- "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
3513- "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
3514- "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
3515
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3516By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
3517in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
3518this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
3519
35201. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
3521
3522 make O=/tmp/build distclean
ab584d67 3523 make O=/tmp/build NAME_defconfig
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3524 make O=/tmp/build all
3525
adbba996 35262. Set environment variable KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the desired location:
baf31249 3527
adbba996 3528 export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/build
baf31249 3529 make distclean
ab584d67 3530 make NAME_defconfig
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3531 make all
3532
adbba996 3533Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
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3534variable.
3535
215bb1c1
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3536User specific CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS can be passed to the compiler by
3537setting the according environment variables KCPPFLAGS, KAFLAGS and KCFLAGS.
3538For example to treat all compiler warnings as errors:
3539
3540 make KCFLAGS=-Werror
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3541
3542Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
3543for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
3544native "make".
3545
3546
3547If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
3548to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
3549steps:
3550
3c1496cd 35511. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
2729af9d 3552 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3c1496cd
PS
3553 the "Makefile" and a "<board>.c".
35542. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3555 your board.
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35563. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3557 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
ab584d67 35584. Run "make <board>_defconfig" with your new name.
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35595. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3560 to be installed on your target system.
35616. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3562 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
3563
3564
3565Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3566==============================================================
3567
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3568If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3569or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
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3570provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
3571the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
218ca724 3572official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
2729af9d 3573
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3574But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3575cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
2729af9d 3576the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
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3577just run the buildman script (tools/buildman/buildman), which will
3578configure and build U-Boot for ALL supported system. Be warned, this
3579will take a while. Please see the buildman README, or run 'buildman -H'
3580for documentation.
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3581
3582
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3583See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
3584
3585
3586Monitor Commands - Overview:
3587============================
3588
3589go - start application at address 'addr'
3590run - run commands in an environment variable
3591bootm - boot application image from memory
3592bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
44f074c7 3593bootz - boot zImage from memory
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3594tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3595 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3596 (and eventually "gatewayip")
1fb7cd49 3597tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
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3598rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3599diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3600loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3601loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3602md - memory display
3603mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3604nm - memory modify (constant address)
3605mw - memory write (fill)
3606cp - memory copy
3607cmp - memory compare
3608crc32 - checksum calculation
0f89c54b 3609i2c - I2C sub-system
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3610sspi - SPI utility commands
3611base - print or set address offset
3612printenv- print environment variables
3613setenv - set environment variables
3614saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3615protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3616erase - erase FLASH memory
3617flinfo - print FLASH memory information
10635afa 3618nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
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3619bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3620iminfo - print header information for application image
3621coninfo - print console devices and informations
3622ide - IDE sub-system
3623loop - infinite loop on address range
56523f12 3624loopw - infinite write loop on address range
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3625mtest - simple RAM test
3626icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3627dcache - enable or disable data cache
3628reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3629echo - echo args to console
3630version - print monitor version
3631help - print online help
3632? - alias for 'help'
3633
3634
3635Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3636========================================
3637
3638TODO.
3639
3640For now: just type "help <command>".
3641
3642
3643Environment Variables:
3644======================
3645
3646U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3647can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
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3649Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3650"printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3651without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3652environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3653working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3654environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
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3656Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3657
3658List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
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2729af9d 3660 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
c609719b 3661
2729af9d 3662 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
c609719b 3663
2729af9d 3664 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
4a6fd34b 3665
2729af9d 3666 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
c609719b 3667
2729af9d 3668 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
c609719b 3669
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3670 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3671 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3672 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3673 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3674 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3675 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
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3676 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
3677 bootm_mapsize.
3678
c0f40859 3679 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
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3680 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
3681 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
3682 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
3683 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
3684 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
3685 used otherwise.
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3686
3687 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3688 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3689 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3690 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3691 environment variable.
3692
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3693 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3694 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3695 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3696
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3697 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3698 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3699 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3700 load any image using TFTP
c609719b 3701
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3702 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3703 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3704 be automatically started (by internally calling
3705 "bootm")
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3707 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3708 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3709 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3710 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3711 data.
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3713 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
3714 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
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3715 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
3716 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
3717 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
3718 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
3719 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
3720 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
3721 access it during the boot procedure.
3722
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3723 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
3724 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
3725 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
3726 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
3727 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
3728 must be accessible by the kernel.
3729
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3730 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
3731 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
3732 defined.
3733
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3734 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3735 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3736 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3737 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3738 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3739
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3740 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3741 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3742 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3743 is usually what you want since it allows for
3744 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3745 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
6d0f6bcf 3746 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
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3747 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3748 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3749 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3750 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
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3752 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3753 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3754 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3755 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3756 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3757 12 MB as well - this can be done with
c609719b 3758
2729af9d 3759 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
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3761 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3762 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3763 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3764 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3765 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3766 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3767 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
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2729af9d 3769 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
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3771 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3772 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
c609719b 3773
2729af9d 3774 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
a3d991bd 3775
2729af9d 3776 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
a3d991bd 3777
2729af9d 3778 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
a3d991bd 3779
2729af9d 3780 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
a3d991bd 3781
2729af9d 3782 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
c609719b 3783
e2a53458 3784 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
c609719b 3785
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3786 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
3787 For example you can do the following
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3789 => setenv ethact FEC
3790 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
3791 => setenv ethact SCC
3792 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
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3794 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3795 available network interfaces.
3796 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3797
c96f86ee 3798 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
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3799 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3800 When set to "once" the network operation will
3801 fail when all the available network interfaces
3802 are tried once without success.
3803 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3804 themselves.
c609719b 3805
b4e2f89d 3806 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
a1cf027a 3807
b445bbb4 3808 silent_linux - If set then Linux will be told to boot silently, by
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3809 changing the console to be empty. If "yes" it will be
3810 made silent. If "no" it will not be made silent. If
3811 unset, then it will be made silent if the U-Boot console
3812 is silent.
3813
f5fb7346 3814 tftpsrcp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
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3815 UDP source port.
3816
f5fb7346 3817 tftpdstp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
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3818 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
3819
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3820 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
3821 we use the TFTP server's default block size
3822
3823 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
3824 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
3825 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
3826 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
3827 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
3828 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
3829 with unreliable TFTP servers.
3830
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3831 tftptimeoutcountmax - maximum count of TFTP timeouts (no
3832 unit, minimum value = 0). Defines how many timeouts
3833 can happen during a single file transfer before that
3834 transfer is aborted. The default is 10, and 0 means
3835 'no timeouts allowed'. Increasing this value may help
3836 downloads succeed with high packet loss rates, or with
3837 unreliable TFTP servers or client hardware.
3838
c96f86ee 3839 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
11ccc33f 3840 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
2729af9d 3841 VLAN tagged frames.
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3843 bootpretryperiod - Period during which BOOTP/DHCP sends retries.
3844 Unsigned value, in milliseconds. If not set, the period will
3845 be either the default (28000), or a value based on
3846 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT, if defined. This value has
3847 precedence over the valu based on CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT.
3848
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3849The following image location variables contain the location of images
3850used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
3851not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
3852variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
3853server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
3854loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
3855flash or offset in NAND flash.
3856
3857*Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
aed9fed9 3858boards currently use other variables for these purposes, and some
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3859boards use these variables for other purposes.
3860
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3861Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
3862----- --------- ----------- --------------
3863u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
3864Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
3865device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
3866ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
dc0b7b0e 3867
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3868The following environment variables may be used and automatically
3869updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
3870depending the information provided by your boot server:
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3872 bootfile - see above
3873 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
3874 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
3875 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
3876 hostname - Target hostname
3877 ipaddr - see above
3878 netmask - Subnet Mask
3879 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
3880 serverip - see above
c1551ea8 3881
c1551ea8 3882
2729af9d 3883There are two special Environment Variables:
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3885 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
3886 as type string and/or serial number
3887 ethaddr - Ethernet address
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3889These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
3890the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
3891once they have been set once.
c609719b 3892
f07771cc 3893
2729af9d 3894Further special Environment Variables:
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3896 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
3897 with the "version" command. This variable is
3898 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
f07771cc 3899
f07771cc 3900
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3901Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
3902only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
f07771cc 3903
f07771cc 3904
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3905Callback functions for environment variables:
3906---------------------------------------------
3907
3908For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change
b445bbb4 3909when their values are changed. This functionality allows functions to
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3910be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or
3911deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side
3912effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.
3913
3914The callbacks are named and associated with a function using the
3915U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK macro in your board or driver code.
3916
3917These callbacks are associated with variables in one of two ways. The
3918static list can be added to by defining CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC
3919in the board configuration to a string that defines a list of
3920associations. The list must be in the following format:
3921
3922 entry = variable_name[:callback_name]
3923 list = entry[,list]
3924
3925If the callback name is not specified, then the callback is deleted.
3926Spaces are also allowed anywhere in the list.
3927
3928Callbacks can also be associated by defining the ".callbacks" variable
3929with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will
3930override any association in the static list. You can define
3931CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
b445bbb4 3932".callbacks" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
170ab110 3933
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3934If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
3935regular expression. This allows multiple variables to be connected to
3936the same callback without explicitly listing them all out.
3937
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3938The signature of the callback functions is:
3939
3940 int callback(const char *name, const char *value, enum env_op op, int flags)
3941
3942* name - changed environment variable
3943* value - new value of the environment variable
3944* op - operation (create, overwrite, or delete)
3945* flags - attributes of the environment variable change, see flags H_* in
3946 include/search.h
3947
3948The return value is 0 if the variable change is accepted and 1 otherwise.
170ab110 3949
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3950Command Line Parsing:
3951=====================
f07771cc 3952
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3953There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
3954the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
c609719b 3955
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3956Old, simple command line parser:
3957--------------------------------
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3959- supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
3960- several commands on one line, separated by ';'
fe126d8b 3961- variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
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3962- special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
3963 for example:
fe126d8b 3964 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
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3965- You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
3966 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
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3968Hush shell:
3969-----------
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3971- similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
3972 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
3973 until...do...done, ...
3974- supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
3975 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
3976 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
3977 command
3978
3979General rules:
3980--------------
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3982(1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
3983 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
3984 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
3985 executed anyway.
c609719b 3986
2729af9d 3987(2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
11ccc33f 3988 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
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3989 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
3990 variables are not executed.
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3992Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
3993=======================================
c609719b 3994
11ccc33f 3995Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
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3996such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
3997"working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
c609719b 3998
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3999Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
4000MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
4001"eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
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4003If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
4004in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
4005ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
4006variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
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4008o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
4009 environment, the SROM's address is used.
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4011o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
4012 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
4013 used.
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4015o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
4016 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
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4018o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
4019 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
4020 warning is printed.
c609719b 4021
2729af9d 4022o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
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4023 is raised. If CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR is defined, then in this case
4024 a random, locally-assigned MAC is used.
c609719b 4025
ecee9324 4026If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
c0f40859 4027will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
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4028may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
4029The naming convention is as follows:
4030"ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
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4032Image Formats:
4033==============
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4035U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
4036images in two formats:
4037
4038New uImage format (FIT)
4039-----------------------
4040
4041Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
4042to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
4043components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
4044SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
4045
4046
4047Old uImage format
4048-----------------
4049
4050Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
4051preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
4052details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
c609719b 4053
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4054* Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
4055 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
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4056 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
4057 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
4058 INTEGRITY).
daab59ac 4059* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, Intel x86,
afc1ce82 4060 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
daab59ac 4061 Currently supported: ARM, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
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4062* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
4063* Load Address
4064* Entry Point
4065* Image Name
4066* Image Timestamp
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4068The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
4069and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
4070CRC32 checksums.
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4071
4072
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4073Linux Support:
4074==============
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4076Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
4077easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
4078U-Boot.
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4080U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
4081special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
4082"initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
4083instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
4084serves several purposes:
c609719b 4085
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4086- the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
4087 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
4088 Flash memory footprint)
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4090- it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
4091 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
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4093- the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
4094 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
4095 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
4096 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
4097 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
4098 software is easier now.
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4101Linux HOWTO:
4102============
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4104Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
4105---------------------------------------
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4107U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
4108configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
4109(no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
4110Linux :-).
c609719b 4111
a47a12be 4112But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
24ee89b9 4113
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4114Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
4115include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
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4116Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
4117and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
6d0f6bcf 4118as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
24ee89b9 4119
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4120Note that U-Boot now has a driver model, a unified model for drivers.
4121If you are adding a new driver, plumb it into driver model. If there
4122is no uclass available, you are encouraged to create one. See
4123doc/driver-model.
4124
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4126Configuring the Linux kernel:
4127-----------------------------
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4129No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
4130device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
4131
4132
4133Building a Linux Image:
4134-----------------------
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4136With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
4137not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
4138"uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
4139U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
4140which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
4141100% compatible format.
4142
4143Example:
4144
ab584d67 4145 make TQM850L_defconfig
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4146 make oldconfig
4147 make dep
4148 make uImage
4149
4150The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
4151encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
4152CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
4153
4154* build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
4155
4156* convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
4157
4158 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
4159 -R .note -R .comment \
4160 -S vmlinux linux.bin
4161
4162* compress the binary image:
4163
4164 gzip -9 linux.bin
4165
4166* package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
4167
4168 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
4169 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
4170 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
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4173The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
4174with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
4175combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
4176byte header containing information about target architecture,
4177operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
4178stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
4179
4180"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
4181print the header information, or to build new images.
4182
4183In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
4184contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
4185checksum verification:
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4187 tools/mkimage -l image
4188 -l ==> list image header information
4189
4190The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
4191from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
4192
4193 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
4194 -n name -d data_file image
4195 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
4196 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
4197 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4198 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
4199 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
4200 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
4201 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
4202 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
4203
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4204Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
4205address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
4206kernel version:
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4207
4208- 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
4209- 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
4210
4211So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
4212
4213 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4214 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
a47a12be 4215 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
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4216 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
4217 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4218 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4219 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4220 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4221 Load Address: 0x00000000
4222 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4223
4224To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
4225
4226 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
4227 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4228 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4229 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4230 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4231 Load Address: 0x00000000
4232 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4233
4234NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
4235speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
4236needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
4237need to be uncompressed:
4238
a47a12be 4239 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
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4240 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4241 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
a47a12be 4242 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
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4243 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
4244 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4245 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4246 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
4247 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
4248 Load Address: 0x00000000
4249 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4250
4251
4252Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
4253when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
4254
4255 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
4256 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
4257 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
4258 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4259 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
4260 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4261 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
4262 Load Address: 0x00000000
4263 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4264
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4265The "dumpimage" is a tool to disassemble images built by mkimage. Its "-i"
4266option performs the converse operation of the mkimage's second form (the "-d"
4267option). Given an image built by mkimage, the dumpimage extracts a "data file"
4268from the image:
4269
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4270 tools/dumpimage -i image -T type -p position data_file
4271 -i ==> extract from the 'image' a specific 'data_file'
4272 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4273 -p ==> 'position' (starting at 0) of the 'data_file' inside the 'image'
a804b5ce 4274
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4275
4276Installing a Linux Image:
4277-------------------------
4278
4279To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
4280you must convert the image to S-Record format:
4281
4282 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
4283
4284The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
4285image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
4286address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
4287specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
4288command.
4289
4290Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
4291TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
4292
4293 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
4294
4295 .......... done
4296 Erased 8 sectors
4297
4298 => loads 40100000
4299 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4300 ~>examples/image.srec
4301 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
4302 ...
4303 15989 15990 15991 15992
4304 [file transfer complete]
4305 [connected]
4306 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
4307
4308
4309You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
218ca724 4310this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
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4311corruption happened:
4312
4313 => imi 40100000
4314
4315 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4316 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4317 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4318 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4319 Load Address: 00000000
4320 Entry Point: 0000000c
4321 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4322
4323
4324Boot Linux:
4325-----------
4326
4327The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
4328memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
4329of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
4330parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
4331"printenv" and "setenv" commands:
4332
4333
4334 => printenv bootargs
4335 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
4336
4337 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4338
4339 => printenv bootargs
4340 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4341
4342 => bootm 40020000
4343 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
4344 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
4345 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4346 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
4347 Load Address: 00000000
4348 Entry Point: 0000000c
4349 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4350 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4351 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
4352 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4353 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4354 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4355 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
4356 ...
4357
11ccc33f 4358If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
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4359the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
4360format!) to the "bootm" command:
4361
4362 => imi 40100000 40200000
4363
4364 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4365 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4366 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4367 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4368 Load Address: 00000000
4369 Entry Point: 0000000c
4370 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4371
4372 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
4373 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4374 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4375 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4376 Load Address: 00000000
4377 Entry Point: 00000000
4378 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4379
4380 => bootm 40100000 40200000
4381 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
4382 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4383 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4384 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4385 Load Address: 00000000
4386 Entry Point: 0000000c
4387 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4388 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4389 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
4390 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4391 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4392 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4393 Load Address: 00000000
4394 Entry Point: 00000000
4395 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4396 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
4397 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
4398 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
4399 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4400 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4401 ...
4402 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
4403 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
4404
4405 bash#
4406
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4407Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
4408-----------
4409
4410First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
4411titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
4412following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
4413flat device tree:
4414
4415=> print oftaddr
4416oftaddr=0x300000
4417=> print oft
4418oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
4419=> tftp $oftaddr $oft
4420Speed: 1000, full duplex
4421Using TSEC0 device
4422TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
4423Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
4424Load address: 0x300000
4425Loading: #
4426done
4427Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
4428=> tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
4429Speed: 1000, full duplex
4430Using TSEC0 device
4431TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
4432Filename 'uImage'.
4433Load address: 0x200000
4434Loading:############
4435done
4436Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
4437=> print loadaddr
4438loadaddr=200000
4439=> print oftaddr
4440oftaddr=0x300000
4441=> bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
4442## Booting image at 00200000 ...
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4443 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
4444 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4445 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
0267768e 4446 Load Address: 00000000
a9398e01 4447 Entry Point: 00000000
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4448 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4449 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4450Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
4451Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
4452Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
4453[snip]
4454
4455
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4456More About U-Boot Image Types:
4457------------------------------
4458
4459U-Boot supports the following image types:
4460
4461 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
4462 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
4463 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
4464 the Standalone Program.
4465 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
4466 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
4467 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
4468 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
4469 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
4470 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
4471 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
4472 being started.
4473 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
4474 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
4475 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
4476 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
4477 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
4478 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
4479
4480 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
4481 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
4482 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
4483 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
4484 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
4485 a multiple of 4 bytes).
4486
4487 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
4488 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
4489 flash memory.
4490
4491 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
4492 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
4493 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
4494 as command interpreter.
4495
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4496Booting the Linux zImage:
4497-------------------------
4498
4499On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
4500using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
4501as the syntax of "bootm" command.
4502
8ac28563 4503Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
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4504kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
4505address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
4506format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
4507
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4508
4509Standalone HOWTO:
4510=================
4511
4512One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
4513run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
4514U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
4515
4516Two simple examples are included with the sources:
4517
4518"Hello World" Demo:
4519-------------------
4520
4521'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
4522application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
4523It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
4524like that:
4525
4526 => loads
4527 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4528 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
4529 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4530 [file transfer complete]
4531 [connected]
4532 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4533
4534 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
4535 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4536 Hello World
4537 argc = 7
4538 argv[0] = "40004"
4539 argv[1] = "Hello"
4540 argv[2] = "World!"
4541 argv[3] = "This"
4542 argv[4] = "is"
4543 argv[5] = "a"
4544 argv[6] = "test."
4545 argv[7] = "<NULL>"
4546 Hit any key to exit ...
4547
4548 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4549
4550Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
4551handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
4552Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
4553The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
4554character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
4555controlled by the following keys:
4556
4557 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
4558 b - enable interrupts and start timer
4559 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
4560 q - quit application
4561
4562 => loads
4563 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4564 ~>examples/timer.srec
4565 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4566 [file transfer complete]
4567 [connected]
4568 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4569
4570 => go 40004
4571 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4572 TIMERS=0xfff00980
4573 Using timer 1
4574 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
4575
4576Hit 'b':
4577 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
4578 Enabling timer
4579Hit '?':
4580 [q, b, e, ?] ........
4581 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
4582Hit '?':
4583 [q, b, e, ?] .
4584 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
4585Hit '?':
4586 [q, b, e, ?] .
4587 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
4588Hit '?':
4589 [q, b, e, ?] .
4590 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
4591Hit 'e':
4592 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
4593Hit 'q':
4594 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4595
4596
4597Minicom warning:
4598================
4599
4600Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
4601"minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
4602consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
4603Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
4604especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
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4605use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
4606http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
4607for help with kermit.
4608
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4609
4610Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
4611configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
4612
4613 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
4614 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
4615 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
4616
4617
4618NetBSD Notes:
4619=============
4620
4621Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
4622(build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
4623
4624Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
4625NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
4626need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
4627Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
4628attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
4629missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
4630
4631 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
4632 # mkdir powerpc
4633 # ln -s powerpc machine
4634 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
4635 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
4636
4637Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
4638and U-Boot include files.
4639
4640Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
4641stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
4642proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
4643tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
2a8af187 4644meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
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4645
4646
4647Implementation Internals:
4648=========================
4649
4650The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
4651implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
4652inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
4653hardware.
4654
4655
4656Initial Stack, Global Data:
4657---------------------------
4658
4659The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
4660starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
4661system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
4662This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
4663is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
4664at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
4665options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
4666models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
4667MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
4668locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
4669
218ca724 4670 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
0668236b 4671 U-Boot mailing list:
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4672
4673 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4674 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
4675 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4676 ...
4677
4678 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4679 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4680 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4681 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4682 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
11ccc33f 4683 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
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4684 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4685 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
4686
4687 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4688 is another option for the system designer to use as an
11ccc33f 4689 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
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4690 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4691 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4692 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4693 used.
4694
6d0f6bcf 4695 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
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4696 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4697 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
8a316c9b 4698 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
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4699 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4700 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4701 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4702 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4703 you get the config right.
4704
4705 -Chris Hallinan
4706 DS4.COM, Inc.
4707
4708It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4709code for the initialization procedures:
4710
4711* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4712 to write it.
4713
b445bbb4 4714* Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized
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4715 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4716 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
4717
4718* Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4719 that.
4720
4721Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
b445bbb4 4722normal global data to share information between the code. But it
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4723turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4724simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4725functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4726functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4727the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4728place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4729reserve for this purpose.
4730
4731When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4732relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4733GCC's implementation.
4734
4735For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4736 R1: stack pointer
e7670f6c 4737 R2: reserved for system use
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4738 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4739 R5-R10: parameter passing
4740 R13: small data area pointer
4741 R30: GOT pointer
4742 R31: frame pointer
4743
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4744 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4745 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4746 going back and forth between asm and C)
2729af9d 4747
e7670f6c 4748 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
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4749
4750 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4751 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4752 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4753 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4754 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4755 624 text + 127 data).
4756
4757On ARM, the following registers are used:
4758
4759 R0: function argument word/integer result
4760 R1-R3: function argument word
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4761 R9: platform specific
4762 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
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4763 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4764 R12: temporary workspace
4765 R13: stack pointer
4766 R14: link register
4767 R15: program counter
4768
12eba1b4
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4769 ==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data
4770
4771 Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.
2729af9d 4772
0df01fd3
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4773On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
4774 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
4775
4776 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4777
4778 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4779 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4780
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4781On NDS32, the following registers are used:
4782
4783 R0-R1: argument/return
4784 R2-R5: argument
4785 R15: temporary register for assembler
4786 R16: trampoline register
4787 R28: frame pointer (FP)
4788 R29: global pointer (GP)
4789 R30: link register (LP)
4790 R31: stack pointer (SP)
4791 PC: program counter (PC)
4792
4793 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
4794
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4795NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4796or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
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4798On RISC-V, the following registers are used:
4799
4800 x0: hard-wired zero (zero)
4801 x1: return address (ra)
4802 x2: stack pointer (sp)
4803 x3: global pointer (gp)
4804 x4: thread pointer (tp)
4805 x5: link register (t0)
4806 x8: frame pointer (fp)
4807 x10-x11: arguments/return values (a0-1)
4808 x12-x17: arguments (a2-7)
4809 x28-31: temporaries (t3-6)
4810 pc: program counter (pc)
4811
4812 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4813
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4814Memory Management:
4815------------------
4816
4817U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4818MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
4819
4820The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4821controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4822memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4823physical memory banks.
4824
4825U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4826TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4827booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4828to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
6d0f6bcf 4829memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
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4830configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4831Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
4832
4833Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4834of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
4835
4836So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
4837this:
4838
4839 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
4840 :
4841 0x0000 1FFF
4842 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
4843 :
4844 :
4845
4846 :
4847 :
4848 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
4849 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
4850 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
4851 :
4852 0x00FD FFFF
4853 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
4854 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
4855 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
4856 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
4857
4858
4859System Initialization:
4860----------------------
c609719b 4861
2729af9d 4862In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
11ccc33f 4863(on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
b445bbb4 4864configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory.
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4865To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
4866To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
4867initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
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4868which provide such a feature like), or in a locked part of the data
4869cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core, the caches and
4870the SIU.
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4871
4872Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
4873preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
4874(multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
4875on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
4876programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
4877simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
4878banks.
4879
4880When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
4881different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
4882bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
48830x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
4884contiguous memory starting from 0.
4885
4886Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
4887and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
4888Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
4889pages, and the final stack is set up.
4890
4891Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
4892until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
4893running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
4894new address in RAM.
4895
4896
4897U-Boot Porting Guide:
4898----------------------
c609719b 4899
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4900[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
4901list, October 2002]
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4902
4903
6c3fef28 4904int main(int argc, char *argv[])
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4905{
4906 sighandler_t no_more_time;
c609719b 4907
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4908 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
4909 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
c609719b 4910
2729af9d 4911 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
6c3fef28 4912 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
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4913 return 0;
4914 }
4915
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4916 Download latest U-Boot source;
4917
0668236b 4918 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
2729af9d 4919
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4920 if (clueless)
4921 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
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4922
4923 while (learning) {
4924 Read the README file in the top level directory;
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4925 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
4926 Read applicable doc/*.README;
2729af9d 4927 Read the source, Luke;
6c3fef28 4928 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
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4929 }
4930
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4931 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
4932 Buy a BDI3000;
4933 else
2729af9d 4934 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
2729af9d 4935
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4936 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
4937 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
4938 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
4939 } else {
4940 Create your own board support subdirectory;
4941 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
4942 }
4943 Edit new board/<myboard> files
4944 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
4945
4946 while (!accepted) {
4947 while (!running) {
4948 do {
4949 Add / modify source code;
4950 } until (compiles);
4951 Debug;
4952 if (clueless)
4953 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
4954 }
4955 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
4956 if (reasonable critiques)
4957 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
4958 else
4959 Defend code as written;
2729af9d 4960 }
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4961
4962 return 0;
4963}
4964
4965void no_more_time (int sig)
4966{
4967 hire_a_guru();
4968}
4969
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4971Coding Standards:
4972-----------------
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2729af9d 4974All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
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4975coding style; see the kernel coding style guide at
4976https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html, and the
4977script "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
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4978
4979Source files originating from a different project (for example the
4980MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
b445bbb4 4981reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
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4982sources.
4983
4984Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
4985Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
4986in your code.
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4988Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
4989- remove any trailing white space
7ca9296e 4990- use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
2729af9d 4991- make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
7ca9296e 4992- do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
2729af9d 4993- do not add trailing empty lines to source files
180d3f74 4994
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4995Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
4996with a request to reformat the changes.
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4997
4998
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4999Submitting Patches:
5000-------------------
c609719b 5001
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5002Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
5003establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
5004may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
c609719b 5005
0d28f34b 5006Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
218ca724 5007
0668236b 5008Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
1dade18e 5009see https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
0668236b 5010
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5011When you send a patch, please include the following information with
5012it:
c609719b 5013
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5014* For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
5015 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
5016 patch actually fixes something.
c609719b 5017
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5018* For new features: a description of the feature and your
5019 implementation.
c609719b 5020
2729af9d 5021* A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
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5023* For major contributions, add a MAINTAINERS file with your
5024 information and associated file and directory references.
c609719b 5025
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5026* When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a
5027 maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.
c609719b 5028
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5029* If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
5030 document these in the README file.
c609719b 5031
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5032* The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
5033 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
7ca9296e 5034 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
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5035 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
5036 with some other mail clients.
5037
5038 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
5039 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
5040 GNU diff.
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5042 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
5043 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
5044 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
5045 affected files).
6dff5529 5046
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5047 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
5048 and compressed attachments must not be used.
c609719b 5049
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5050* If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
5051 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
52f52c14 5052
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5053* Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
5054 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
8bde7f77 5055
52f52c14 5056
2729af9d 5057Notes:
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6de80f21 5059* Before sending the patch, run the buildman script on your patched
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5060 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
5061 for any of the boards.
c609719b 5062
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5063* Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
5064 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
5065 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
c609719b 5066
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5067* If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
5068 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
5069 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
5070 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
5071 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
5072 modification.
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5074* Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
5075 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
5076 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
5077 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.