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23
24Summary:
25========
26
27This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
28Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
29processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
30initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
31code.
32
33The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
34the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
35header files in common, and special provision has been made to
36support booting of Linux images.
37
38Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
39configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
40implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
41add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
42code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
43load and run it dynamically.
44
45
46Status:
47=======
48
49In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
50Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
51"working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
52
53In case of problems see the CHANGELOG and CREDITS files to find out
54who contributed the specific port. The MAINTAINERS file lists board
55maintainers.
56
57
58Where to get help:
59==================
60
61In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
62U-Boot you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
63<u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
64on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
65Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
66http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
67
68
69Where to get source code:
70=========================
71
72The U-Boot source code is maintained in the git repository at
73git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
74http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
75
76The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
77any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
78available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
79directory.
80
81Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
82ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
83
84
85Where we come from:
86===================
87
88- start from 8xxrom sources
89- create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
90- clean up code
91- make it easier to add custom boards
92- make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
93- extend functions, especially:
94 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
95 * S-Record download
96 * network boot
97 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
98- create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
99- add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
100- create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
101- current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
102
103
104Names and Spelling:
105===================
106
107The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
108"U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
109in source files etc.). Example:
110
111 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
112
113File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
114
115 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
116
117 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
118
119Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
120the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
121
122 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
123 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
124
125
126Versioning:
127===========
128
129Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
130were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
131into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
132names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
133Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
134releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
135
136Examples:
137 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
138 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
139 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candiate 1 for September 2010 release
140
141
142Directory Hierarchy:
143====================
144
145/arch Architecture specific files
146 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
147 /cpu CPU specific files
148 /arm720t Files specific to ARM 720 CPUs
149 /arm920t Files specific to ARM 920 CPUs
150 /at91rm9200 Files specific to Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU
151 /imx Files specific to Freescale MC9328 i.MX CPUs
152 /s3c24x0 Files specific to Samsung S3C24X0 CPUs
153 /arm925t Files specific to ARM 925 CPUs
154 /arm926ejs Files specific to ARM 926 CPUs
155 /arm1136 Files specific to ARM 1136 CPUs
156 /ixp Files specific to Intel XScale IXP CPUs
157 /pxa Files specific to Intel XScale PXA CPUs
158 /s3c44b0 Files specific to Samsung S3C44B0 CPUs
159 /sa1100 Files specific to Intel StrongARM SA1100 CPUs
160 /lib Architecture specific library files
161 /avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture
162 /cpu CPU specific files
163 /lib Architecture specific library files
164 /blackfin Files generic to Analog Devices Blackfin architecture
165 /cpu CPU specific files
166 /lib Architecture specific library files
167 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
168 /cpu CPU specific files
169 /lib Architecture specific library files
170 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
171 /cpu CPU specific files
172 /mcf52x2 Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF52x2 CPUs
173 /mcf5227x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5227x CPUs
174 /mcf532x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5329 CPUs
175 /mcf5445x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5445x CPUs
176 /mcf547x_8x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF547x_8x CPUs
177 /lib Architecture specific library files
178 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
179 /cpu CPU specific files
180 /lib Architecture specific library files
181 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
182 /cpu CPU specific files
183 /lib Architecture specific library files
184 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
185 /cpu CPU specific files
186 /lib Architecture specific library files
187 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
188 /cpu CPU specific files
189 /74xx_7xx Files specific to Freescale MPC74xx and 7xx CPUs
190 /mpc5xx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xx CPUs
191 /mpc5xxx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xxx CPUs
192 /mpc8xx Files specific to Freescale MPC8xx CPUs
193 /mpc8220 Files specific to Freescale MPC8220 CPUs
194 /mpc824x Files specific to Freescale MPC824x CPUs
195 /mpc8260 Files specific to Freescale MPC8260 CPUs
196 /mpc85xx Files specific to Freescale MPC85xx CPUs
197 /ppc4xx Files specific to AMCC PowerPC 4xx CPUs
198 /lib Architecture specific library files
199 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
200 /cpu CPU specific files
201 /sh2 Files specific to sh2 CPUs
202 /sh3 Files specific to sh3 CPUs
203 /sh4 Files specific to sh4 CPUs
204 /lib Architecture specific library files
205 /sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture
206 /cpu CPU specific files
207 /leon2 Files specific to Gaisler LEON2 SPARC CPU
208 /leon3 Files specific to Gaisler LEON3 SPARC CPU
209 /lib Architecture specific library files
210/api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
211/board Board dependent files
212/common Misc architecture independent functions
213/disk Code for disk drive partition handling
214/doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
215/drivers Commonly used device drivers
216/examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
217/fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
218/include Header Files
219/lib Files generic to all architectures
220 /libfdt Library files to support flattened device trees
221 /lzma Library files to support LZMA decompression
222 /lzo Library files to support LZO decompression
223/net Networking code
224/post Power On Self Test
225/rtc Real Time Clock drivers
226/tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
227
228Software Configuration:
229=======================
230
231Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
232rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
233
234There are two classes of configuration variables:
235
236* Configuration _OPTIONS_:
237 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
238 "CONFIG_".
239
240* Configuration _SETTINGS_:
241 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
242 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
243 "CONFIG_SYS_".
244
245Later we will add a configuration tool - probably similar to or even
246identical to what's used for the Linux kernel. Right now, we have to
247do the configuration by hand, which means creating some symbolic
248links and editing some configuration files. We use the TQM8xxL boards
249as an example here.
250
251
252Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
253---------------------------------------------------
254
255For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
256configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_config".
257
258Example: For a TQM823L module type:
259
260 cd u-boot
261 make TQM823L_config
262
263For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the CPU type as well;
264e.g. "make cogent_mpc8xx_config". And also configure the cogent
265directory according to the instructions in cogent/README.
266
267
268Configuration Options:
269----------------------
270
271Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
272such information is kept in a configuration file
273"include/configs/<board_name>.h".
274
275Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
276"include/configs/TQM823L.h".
277
278
279Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
280kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
281build a config tool - later.
282
283
284The following options need to be configured:
285
286- CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
287
288- Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
289
290- CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
291 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
292
293- CPU Module Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
294 Define exactly one of
295 CONFIG_CMA286_60_OLD
296--- FIXME --- not tested yet:
297 CONFIG_CMA286_60, CONFIG_CMA286_21, CONFIG_CMA286_60P,
298 CONFIG_CMA287_23, CONFIG_CMA287_50
299
300- Motherboard Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
301 Define exactly one of
302 CONFIG_CMA101, CONFIG_CMA102
303
304- Motherboard I/O Modules: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
305 Define one or more of
306 CONFIG_CMA302
307
308- Motherboard Options: (if CONFIG_CMA101 or CONFIG_CMA102 are defined)
309 Define one or more of
310 CONFIG_LCD_HEARTBEAT - update a character position on
311 the LCD display every second with
312 a "rotator" |\-/|\-/
313
314- Board flavour: (if CONFIG_MPC8260ADS is defined)
315 CONFIG_ADSTYPE
316 Possible values are:
317 CONFIG_SYS_8260ADS - original MPC8260ADS
318 CONFIG_SYS_8266ADS - MPC8266ADS
319 CONFIG_SYS_PQ2FADS - PQ2FADS-ZU or PQ2FADS-VR
320 CONFIG_SYS_8272ADS - MPC8272ADS
321
322- Marvell Family Member
323 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
324 multiple fs option at one time
325 for marvell soc family
326
327- MPC824X Family Member (if CONFIG_MPC824X is defined)
328 Define exactly one of
329 CONFIG_MPC8240, CONFIG_MPC8245
330
331- 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
332 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
333 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
334 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
335 reference PIT/RTC clock
336 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
337 or XTAL/EXTAL)
338
339- 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
340 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
341 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
342 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
343 See doc/README.MPC866
344
345 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
346
347 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
348 of relying on the correctness of the configured
349 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
350 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
351 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
352 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
353
354 CONFIG_SYS_DELAYED_ICACHE
355
356 Define this option if you want to enable the
357 ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
358
359- 85xx CPU Options:
360 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
361
362 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
363 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
364 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
365
366- Intel Monahans options:
367 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO
368
369 Defines the Monahans run mode to oscillator
370 ratio. Valid values are 8, 16, 24, 31. The core
371 frequency is this value multiplied by 13 MHz.
372
373 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_TURBO_RUN_MODE_RATIO
374
375 Defines the Monahans turbo mode to oscillator
376 ratio. Valid values are 1 (default if undefined) and
377 2. The core frequency as calculated above is multiplied
378 by this value.
379
380- Linux Kernel Interface:
381 CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ
382
383 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
384 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
385 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
386 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
387 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
388 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
389 Linux kernel.
390 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
391 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
392 default environment.
393
394 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
395
396 When transferring memsize parameter to linux, some versions
397 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
398 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
399
400 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
401
402 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
403 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
404 concepts).
405
406 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
407 * New libfdt-based support
408 * Adds the "fdt" command
409 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
410
411 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node (only required for
412 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
413 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node (only required for
414 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
415 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
416 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
417
418 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
419 addresses
420
421 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
422
423 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
424 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
425
426 CONFIG_OF_BOOT_CPU
427
428 This define fills in the correct boot CPU in the boot
429 param header, the default value is zero if undefined.
430
431 CONFIG_OF_IDE_FIXUP
432
433 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
434 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
435 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
436 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
437 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
438 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
439
440- vxWorks boot parameters:
441
442 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
443 environments variables: bootfile, ipaddr, serverip, hostname.
444 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
445
446 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_DEVICE - The vxworks device name
447 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_MAC_PTR - Ethernet 6 byte MA -address
448 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_SERVERNAME - Name of the server
449 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_ADDR - Address of boot parameters
450
451 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_ADD_PARAMS
452
453 Add it at the end of the bootline. E.g "u=username pw=secret"
454
455 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
456 the defaults discussed just above.
457
458- Serial Ports:
459 CONFIG_PL010_SERIAL
460
461 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
462
463 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL
464
465 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
466
467 CONFIG_PL011_CLOCK
468
469 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
470 the clock speed of the UARTs.
471
472 CONFIG_PL01x_PORTS
473
474 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
475 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
476 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
477
478
479- Console Interface:
480 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port
481 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2,
482 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial
483 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE
484
485 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
486 port routines must be defined elsewhere
487 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
488
489 CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE
490 Enables console device for a color framebuffer. Needs following
491 defines (cf. smiLynxEM, i8042, board/eltec/bab7xx)
492 VIDEO_FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN graphic memory organisation
493 (default big endian)
494 VIDEO_HW_RECTFILL graphic chip supports
495 rectangle fill
496 (cf. smiLynxEM)
497 VIDEO_HW_BITBLT graphic chip supports
498 bit-blit (cf. smiLynxEM)
499 VIDEO_VISIBLE_COLS visible pixel columns
500 (cols=pitch)
501 VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS visible pixel rows
502 VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE bytes per pixel
503 VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT graphic data format
504 (0-5, cf. cfb_console.c)
505 VIDEO_FB_ADRS framebuffer address
506 VIDEO_KBD_INIT_FCT keyboard int fct
507 (i.e. i8042_kbd_init())
508 VIDEO_TSTC_FCT test char fct
509 (i.e. i8042_tstc)
510 VIDEO_GETC_FCT get char fct
511 (i.e. i8042_getc)
512 CONFIG_CONSOLE_CURSOR cursor drawing on/off
513 (requires blink timer
514 cf. i8042.c)
515 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c)
516 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME display time/date info in
517 upper right corner
518 (requires CONFIG_CMD_DATE)
519 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO display Linux logo in
520 upper left corner
521 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO use bmp_logo.h instead of
522 linux_logo.h for logo.
523 Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
524 CONFIG_CONSOLE_EXTRA_INFO
525 additional board info beside
526 the logo
527
528 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is
529 default i/o. Serial console can be forced with
530 environment 'console=serial'.
531
532 When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console
533 messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with
534 the "silent" environment variable. See
535 doc/README.silent for more information.
536
537- Console Baudrate:
538 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
539 Select one of the baudrates listed in
540 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
541 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
542
543- Console Rx buffer length
544 With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define
545 the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC.
546 This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible.
547 If using CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN also CONFIG_SYS_MAXIDLE
548 must be defined, to setup the maximum idle timeout for
549 the SMC.
550
551- Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds
552 Delay before automatically booting the default image;
553 set to -1 to disable autoboot.
554
555 See doc/README.autoboot for these options that
556 work with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY. None are required.
557 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
558 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_MIN
559 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
560 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT
561 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
562 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
563 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2
564 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR2
565 CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK
566 CONFIG_RESET_TO_RETRY
567
568- Autoboot Command:
569 CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
570 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
571 define a command string that is automatically executed
572 when no character is read on the console interface
573 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
574
575 CONFIG_BOOTARGS
576 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
577 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
578 environment value "bootargs".
579
580 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
581 The value of these goes into the environment as
582 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
583 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
584 RAM and NFS.
585
586- Pre-Boot Commands:
587 CONFIG_PREBOOT
588
589 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
590 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
591 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
592 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
593 entering interactive mode.
594
595 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
596 automatically generated or modified. For an example
597 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
598 modified when the user holds down a certain
599 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
600 booting the systems
601
602- Serial Download Echo Mode:
603 CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
604 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
605 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
606 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
607 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
608 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
609 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
610
611- Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
612 CONFIG_KGDB_BAUDRATE
613 Select one of the baudrates listed in
614 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
615
616- Monitor Functions:
617 Monitor commands can be included or excluded
618 from the build by using the #include files
619 "config_cmd_all.h" and #undef'ing unwanted
620 commands, or using "config_cmd_default.h"
621 and augmenting with additional #define's
622 for wanted commands.
623
624 The default command configuration includes all commands
625 except those marked below with a "*".
626
627 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
628 CONFIG_CMD_BDI bdinfo
629 CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger
630 CONFIG_CMD_BMP * BMP support
631 CONFIG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands
632 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD bootd
633 CONFIG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache
634 CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo
635 CONFIG_CMD_CRC32 * crc32
636 CONFIG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time...
637 CONFIG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support
638 CONFIG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics
639 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510 * ds4510 I2C gpio commands
640 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO * ds4510 I2C info command
641 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM * ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
642 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST * ds4510 I2C rst command
643 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
644 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
645 CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV edit env variable
646 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
647 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
648 CONFIG_CMD_EXPORTENV * export the environment
649 CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV saveenv
650 CONFIG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support
651 CONFIG_CMD_FAT * FAT partition support
652 CONFIG_CMD_FDOS * Dos diskette Support
653 CONFIG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect
654 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support
655 CONFIG_CMD_GO * the 'go' command (exec code)
656 CONFIG_CMD_GREPENV * search environment
657 CONFIG_CMD_HWFLOW * RTS/CTS hw flow control
658 CONFIG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support
659 CONFIG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support
660 CONFIG_CMD_IMI iminfo
661 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS List all found images
662 CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support
663 CONFIG_CMD_IMPORTENV * import an environment
664 CONFIG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo
665 CONFIG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values
666 CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support
667 CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb
668 CONFIG_CMD_LDRINFO ldrinfo (display Blackfin loader)
669 CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb
670 CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads
671 CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM print md5 message digest
672 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
673 CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
674 loop, loopw, mtest
675 CONFIG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc
676 CONFIG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support
677 CONFIG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands
678 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS * MTD partition support
679 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
680 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
681 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X * PCA953x I2C gpio commands
682 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
683 CONFIG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo
684 CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support
685 CONFIG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
686 host
687 CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O
688 CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump
689 CONFIG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable
690 CONFIG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump
691 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI * SCSI Support
692 CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information
693 (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
694 CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access
695 (4xx only)
696 CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM print sha1 memory digest
697 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
698 CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support
699 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
700 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
701 CONFIG_CMD_VFD * VFD support (TRAB)
702 CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support
703 CONFIG_CMD_FSL * Microblaze FSL support
704
705
706 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
707 support you can write:
708
709 #include "config_cmd_all.h"
710 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
711
712 Other Commands:
713 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
714
715 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
716 (configuration option CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know
717 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data
718 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or
719 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be
720 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other
721 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an
722 initial stack and some data.
723
724
725 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
726
727- Watchdog:
728 CONFIG_WATCHDOG
729 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
730 support. There must be support in the platform specific
731 code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260 CPUs, the
732 SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
733 register.
734
735- U-Boot Version:
736 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
737 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
738 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
739 version as printed by the "version" command.
740 This variable is readonly.
741
742- Real-Time Clock:
743
744 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
745 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
746 following options:
747
748 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx
749 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
750 CONFIG_RTC_MC13783 - use MC13783 RTC
751 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
752 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
753 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
754 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
755 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
756 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
757 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
758 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
759 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
760 RV3029 RTC.
761
762 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
763 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
764
765- GPIO Support:
766 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
767 CONFIG_PCA953X_INFO - enable pca953x info command
768
769 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
770 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
771 pins supported by a particular chip.
772
773 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
774 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
775
776- Timestamp Support:
777
778 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
779 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
780 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
781 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
782
783- Partition Support:
784 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION
785 and/or CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION
786
787 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
788 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at
789 least one partition type as well.
790
791- IDE Reset method:
792 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
793 board configurations files but used nowhere!
794
795 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
796 be performed by calling the function
797 ide_set_reset(int reset)
798 which has to be defined in a board specific file
799
800- ATAPI Support:
801 CONFIG_ATAPI
802
803 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
804
805- LBA48 Support
806 CONFIG_LBA48
807
808 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
809 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
810 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
811 support disks up to 2.1TB.
812
813 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
814 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
815 Default is 32bit.
816
817- SCSI Support:
818 At the moment only there is only support for the
819 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
820 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
821
822 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
823 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
824 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
825 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
826 devices.
827 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
828
829- NETWORK Support (PCI):
830 CONFIG_E1000
831 Support for Intel 8254x gigabit chips.
832
833 CONFIG_E1000_FALLBACK_MAC
834 default MAC for empty EEPROM after production.
835
836 CONFIG_EEPRO100
837 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
838 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
839 write routine for first time initialisation.
840
841 CONFIG_TULIP
842 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
843 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
844 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
845
846 CONFIG_NATSEMI
847 Support for National dp83815 chips.
848
849 CONFIG_NS8382X
850 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
851
852- NETWORK Support (other):
853
854 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
855 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
856
857 CONFIG_RMII
858 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
859
860 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
861 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
862 The driver doen't show link status messages.
863
864 CONFIG_DRIVER_LAN91C96
865 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
866
867 CONFIG_LAN91C96_BASE
868 Define this to hold the physical address
869 of the LAN91C96's I/O space
870
871 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
872 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
873
874 CONFIG_DRIVER_SMC91111
875 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
876
877 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
878 Define this to hold the physical address
879 of the device (I/O space)
880
881 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
882 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
883
884 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
885 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
886 (some hardware wont work with macros)
887
888 CONFIG_FTGMAC100
889 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
890
891 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
892 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
893 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
894 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
895 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
896 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
897 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
898 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
899
900 CONFIG_SMC911X
901 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
902
903 CONFIG_SMC911X_BASE
904 Define this to hold the physical address
905 of the device (I/O space)
906
907 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
908 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
909
910 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
911 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
912 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
913 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
914
915 CONFIG_SH_ETHER
916 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
917
918 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
919 Define the number of ports to be used
920
921 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
922 Define the ETH PHY's address
923
924 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
925 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
926
927- USB Support:
928 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
929 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define
930 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
931 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
932 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
933 storage devices.
934 Note:
935 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
936 (TEAC FD-05PUB).
937 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
938 CONFIG_USB_CLOCK
939 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
940 CONFIG_PSC3_USB
941 for USB on PSC3
942 CONFIG_USB_CONFIG
943 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
944 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
945 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100
946 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100
947 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
948 May be defined to allow interrupt polling
949 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
950
951- USB Device:
952 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
953 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
954 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
955 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
956 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
957 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
958 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
959 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
960 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
961 a Linux host by
962 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
963 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
964 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
965 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
966
967 CONFIG_USB_DEVICE
968 Define this to build a UDC device
969
970 CONFIG_USB_TTY
971 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
972 talk to the UDC device
973
974 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
975 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
976 be set to usbtty.
977
978 mpc8xx:
979 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
980 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
981 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
982
983 CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0xBLAH
984 Derive USB clock from brgclk
985 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0x04
986
987 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
988 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
989 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
990 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
991 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
992 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
993
994 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
995 Define this string as the name of your company for
996 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
997
998 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
999 Define this string as the name of your product
1000 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1001
1002 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1003 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1004 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1005 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1006 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
1007
1008 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1009 Define this as the unique Product ID
1010 for your device
1011 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
1012
1013
1014- MMC Support:
1015 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1016 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1017 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
1018 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
1019 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1020 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
1021
1022- Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1023 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE,
1024 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV
1025 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1026
1027 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1028 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
1029 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1030
1031 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART
1032 Define this to create an own partition. You have to provide a
1033 function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num)
1034
1035 If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to
1036 #define CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_SINGLE_PART 1
1037 to disable the command chpart. This is the default when you
1038 have not defined a custom partition
1039
1040- Keyboard Support:
1041 CONFIG_ISA_KEYBOARD
1042
1043 Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard
1044 support
1045
1046 CONFIG_I8042_KBD
1047 Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and
1048 GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support.
1049 Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc
1050 for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking.
1051
1052- Video support:
1053 CONFIG_VIDEO
1054
1055 Define this to enable video support (for output to
1056 video).
1057
1058 CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000
1059
1060 Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip
1061
1062 CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM
1063 Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The
1064 video output is selected via environment 'videoout'
1065 (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is
1066 assumed.
1067
1068 For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is
1069 selected via environment 'videomode'. Two different ways
1070 are possible:
1071 - "videomode=num" 'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers.
1072 Following standard modes are supported (* is default):
1073
1074 Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024
1075 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1076 8 bits | 0x301* 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307
1077 15 bits | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319
1078 16 bits | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A
1079 24 bits | 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B
1080 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1081 (i.e. setenv videomode 317; saveenv; reset;)
1082
1083 - "videomode=bootargs" all the video parameters are parsed
1084 from the bootargs. (See drivers/video/videomodes.c)
1085
1086
1087 CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806
1088 Enable Epson SED13806 driver. This driver supports 8bpp
1089 and 16bpp modes defined by CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_8BPP
1090 or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP
1091
1092 CONFIG_FSL_DIU_FB
1093 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1094 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1095 support, and should also define these other macros:
1096
1097 CONFIG_SYS_DIU_ADDR
1098 CONFIG_VIDEO
1099 CONFIG_CMD_BMP
1100 CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE
1101 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1102 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1103 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
1104 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1105
1106 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1107 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1108 boot. See the documentation file README.video for a
1109 description of this variable.
1110
1111- Keyboard Support:
1112 CONFIG_KEYBOARD
1113
1114 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1115 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1116 defined in your board-specific files.
1117 The only board using this so far is RBC823.
1118
1119- LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1120
1121 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1122 display); also select one of the supported displays
1123 by defining one of these:
1124
1125 CONFIG_ATMEL_LCD:
1126
1127 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1128
1129 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
1130
1131 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
1132
1133 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1134
1135 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1136 Active, color, single scan.
1137
1138 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1139
1140 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
1141 Active, color, single scan.
1142
1143 CONFIG_SHARP_16x9
1144
1145 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1146 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1147
1148 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1149
1150 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1151 Active, color, single scan.
1152
1153 CONFIG_HLD1045
1154
1155 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1156 Active, color, single scan.
1157
1158 CONFIG_OPTREX_BW
1159
1160 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1161 or
1162 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1163 or
1164 Hitachi SP14Q002
1165
1166 320x240. Black & white.
1167
1168 Normally display is black on white background; define
1169 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
1170
1171- Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
1172
1173 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1174 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1175 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
1176 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
1177 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1178 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1179 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1180 loaded very quickly after power-on.
1181
1182 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1183
1184 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1185 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1186 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1187 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1188 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1189 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1190
1191 Example:
1192 setenv splashpos m,m
1193 => image at center of screen
1194
1195 setenv splashpos 30,20
1196 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1197
1198 setenv splashpos -10,m
1199 => vertically centered image
1200 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1201
1202- Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1203
1204 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1205 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1206 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1207
1208- Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1209
1210 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1211 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1212 bmp command.
1213
1214- Compression support:
1215 CONFIG_BZIP2
1216
1217 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1218 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1219 compressed images are supported.
1220
1221 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
1222 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
1223 be at least 4MB.
1224
1225 CONFIG_LZMA
1226
1227 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1228 images is included.
1229
1230 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1231 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1232 formula:
1233
1234 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1235
1236 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1237 and Literal pos bits.
1238
1239 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1240 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1241 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1242 a very small buffer.
1243
1244 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1245 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
1246 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
1247
1248- MII/PHY support:
1249 CONFIG_PHY_ADDR
1250
1251 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1252
1253 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1254
1255 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1256
1257 CONFIG_PHY_GIGE
1258
1259 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
1260 detection of gigabit PHY is included.
1261
1262 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1263
1264 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1265 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1266 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1267 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1268
1269 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1270
1271 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1272 command issued before MII status register can be read
1273
1274- Ethernet address:
1275 CONFIG_ETHADDR
1276 CONFIG_ETH1ADDR
1277 CONFIG_ETH2ADDR
1278 CONFIG_ETH3ADDR
1279 CONFIG_ETH4ADDR
1280 CONFIG_ETH5ADDR
1281
1282 Define a default value for Ethernet address to use
1283 for the respective Ethernet interface, in case this
1284 is not determined automatically.
1285
1286- IP address:
1287 CONFIG_IPADDR
1288
1289 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
1290 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
1291 determined through e.g. bootp.
1292
1293- Server IP address:
1294 CONFIG_SERVERIP
1295
1296 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
1297 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1298
1299 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1300
1301 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1302 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1303
1304- Multicast TFTP Mode:
1305 CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP
1306
1307 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1308 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
1309 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
1310 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1311 multicast group.
1312
1313 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1314- BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1315 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1316
1317 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1318 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1319 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1320 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1321 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1322 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1323 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1324 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
1325 following delays are inserted then:
1326
1327 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1328 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1329 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1330 4th and following
1331 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1332
1333- DHCP Advanced Options:
1334 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1335 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1336
1337 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1338 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1339 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1340 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1341 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1342 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1343 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1344 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2
1345 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1346 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1347 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1348 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
1349
1350 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1351 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
1352
1353 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1354 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1355 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1356 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1357 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1358 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1359 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1360 is defined.
1361
1362 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1363 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1364 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
1365 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
1366 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1367 option 12 to the DHCP server.
1368
1369 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1370
1371 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1372 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1373 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1374 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1375 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1376 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1377 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1378 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1379 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1380 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1381 this delay.
1382
1383 - CDP Options:
1384 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
1385
1386 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1387
1388 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1389
1390 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1391 of the device.
1392
1393 CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID
1394
1395 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1396 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
1397 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
1398
1399 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1400
1401 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1402 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1403
1404 CONFIG_CDP_VERSION
1405
1406 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1407
1408 CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM
1409
1410 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1411
1412 CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER
1413
1414 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1415
1416 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1417
1418 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1419 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1420
1421 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1422
1423 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1424
1425- Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED
1426
1427 Several configurations allow to display the current
1428 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1429 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1430 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1431 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1432 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1433 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this
1434 feature in U-Boot.
1435
1436- CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
1437
1438 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
1439 on those systems that support this (optional)
1440 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
1441
1442- I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C | CONFIG_SOFT_I2C
1443
1444 These enable I2C serial bus commands. Defining either of
1445 (but not both of) CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C will
1446 include the appropriate I2C driver for the selected CPU.
1447
1448 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
1449 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
1450 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
1451 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
1452 command line interface.
1453
1454 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
1455
1456 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C configures u-boot to use a software (aka
1457 bit-banging) driver instead of CPM or similar hardware
1458 support for I2C.
1459
1460 There are several other quantities that must also be
1461 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C.
1462
1463 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
1464 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
1465 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
1466 the CPU's i2c node address).
1467
1468 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
1469 (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
1470 and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
1471 eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
1472 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
1473
1474 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
1475
1476 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1477 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1478 in progress. Reset the slave devices by sending start
1479 commands until the slave device responds.
1480
1481 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
1482
1483 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SOFT_I2C)
1484 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1485 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
1486
1487 I2C_INIT
1488
1489 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
1490 controller or configure ports.
1491
1492 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
1493
1494 I2C_PORT
1495
1496 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
1497 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
1498 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
1499
1500 I2C_ACTIVE
1501
1502 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1503 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1504 define can be null.
1505
1506 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1507
1508 I2C_TRISTATE
1509
1510 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1511 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1512 define can be null.
1513
1514 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1515
1516 I2C_READ
1517
1518 Code that returns TRUE if the I2C data line is high,
1519 FALSE if it is low.
1520
1521 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1522
1523 I2C_SDA(bit)
1524
1525 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1526 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1527
1528 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
1529 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
1530 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
1531
1532 I2C_SCL(bit)
1533
1534 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1535 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1536
1537 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
1538 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
1539 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
1540
1541 I2C_DELAY
1542
1543 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1544 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
1545 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
1546 like:
1547
1548 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
1549
1550 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1551
1552 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1553 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1554 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1555 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1556
1557 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1558 the generic GPIO functions.
1559
1560 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
1561
1562 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1563 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1564 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1565 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1566 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1567 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1568 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1569 is run early in the boot sequence.
1570
1571 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
1572
1573 An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
1574 defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
1575 boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
1576 is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
1577 using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
1578 controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
1579 i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
1580 controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
1581
1582 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
1583
1584 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
1585 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
1586 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
1587
1588 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1589
1590 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
1591 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1592 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
1593 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1594
1595 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
1596
1597 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
1598 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1599 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1600 a 1D array of device addresses
1601
1602 e.g.
1603 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1604 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
1605
1606 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1607
1608 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1609 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MULTI_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
1610
1611 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1612
1613 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
1614
1615 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1616 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1617
1618 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
1619
1620 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1621 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1622
1623 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
1624
1625 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
1626 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
1627
1628 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
1629
1630 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
1631 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
1632 specified DTT device.
1633
1634 CONFIG_FSL_I2C
1635
1636 Define this option if you want to use Freescale's I2C driver in
1637 drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c.
1638
1639 CONFIG_I2C_MUX
1640
1641 Define this option if you have I2C devices reached over 1 .. n
1642 I2C Muxes like the pca9544a. This option addes a new I2C
1643 Command "i2c bus [muxtype:muxaddr:muxchannel]" which adds a
1644 new I2C Bus to the existing I2C Busses. If you select the
1645 new Bus with "i2c dev", u-bbot sends first the commandos for
1646 the muxes to activate this new "bus".
1647
1648 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS must be also defined, to use this
1649 feature!
1650
1651 Example:
1652 Adding a new I2C Bus reached over 2 pca9544a muxes
1653 The First mux with address 70 and channel 6
1654 The Second mux with address 71 and channel 4
1655
1656 => i2c bus pca9544a:70:6:pca9544a:71:4
1657
1658 Use the "i2c bus" command without parameter, to get a list
1659 of I2C Busses with muxes:
1660
1661 => i2c bus
1662 Busses reached over muxes:
1663 Bus ID: 2
1664 reached over Mux(es):
1665 pca9544a@70 ch: 4
1666 Bus ID: 3
1667 reached over Mux(es):
1668 pca9544a@70 ch: 6
1669 pca9544a@71 ch: 4
1670 =>
1671
1672 If you now switch to the new I2C Bus 3 with "i2c dev 3"
1673 u-boot sends First the Commando to the mux@70 to enable
1674 channel 6, and then the Commando to the mux@71 to enable
1675 the channel 4.
1676
1677 After that, you can use the "normal" i2c commands as
1678 usual, to communicate with your I2C devices behind
1679 the 2 muxes.
1680
1681 This option is actually implemented for the bitbanging
1682 algorithm in common/soft_i2c.c and for the Hardware I2C
1683 Bus on the MPC8260. But it should be not so difficult
1684 to add this option to other architectures.
1685
1686 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1687
1688 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1689 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1690 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1691 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1692 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1693 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1694 the other.
1695
1696- SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
1697
1698 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1699 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1700 D/As on the SACSng board)
1701
1702 CONFIG_SH_SPI
1703
1704 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
1705 only SH7757 is supported.
1706
1707 CONFIG_SPI_X
1708
1709 Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing.
1710 (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X)
1711
1712 CONFIG_SOFT_SPI
1713
1714 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
1715 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
1716 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
1717 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
1718 defined, the board configuration must define several
1719 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
1720 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
1721
1722 CONFIG_HARD_SPI
1723
1724 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
1725 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
1726 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
1727 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
1728 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
1729
1730 CONFIG_MXC_SPI
1731
1732 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
1733 SoCs. Currently only i.MX31 is supported.
1734
1735- FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
1736
1737 Enables FPGA subsystem.
1738
1739 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
1740
1741 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
1742 (ALTERA, XILINX)
1743
1744 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
1745
1746 Enables support for FPGA family.
1747 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
1748
1749 CONFIG_FPGA_COUNT
1750
1751 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
1752
1753 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
1754
1755 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
1756
1757 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
1758
1759 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
1760 status by the configuration function. This option
1761 will require a board or device specific function to
1762 be written.
1763
1764 CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY
1765
1766 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
1767 configuration driver.
1768
1769 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
1770 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
1771
1772 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
1773
1774 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
1775 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
1776 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
1777 indicated a CRC error).
1778
1779 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
1780
1781 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert
1782 after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II
1783 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
1784 ms.
1785
1786 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
1787
1788 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during
1789 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
1790
1791 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
1792
1793 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
1794 200 ms.
1795
1796- Configuration Management:
1797 CONFIG_IDENT_STRING
1798
1799 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
1800 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
1801
1802- Vendor Parameter Protection:
1803
1804 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
1805 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
1806 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
1807 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
1808 protects these variables from casual modification by
1809 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
1810 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
1811 change this behaviour:
1812
1813 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
1814 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
1815 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
1816 these parameters.
1817
1818 Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR
1819 _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
1820 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
1821 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
1822 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
1823 read-only.]
1824
1825- Protected RAM:
1826 CONFIG_PRAM
1827
1828 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
1829 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
1830 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
1831 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
1832 this default value by defining an environment
1833 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
1834 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
1835 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
1836 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
1837 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
1838 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
1839 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
1840
1841 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
1842 saveenv
1843
1844 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
1845 either, which results in a memory region that will
1846 not be affected by reboots.
1847
1848 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
1849 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
1850 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
1851 following board configurations are known to be
1852 "pRAM-clean":
1853
1854 ETX094, IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
1855 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON, LANTEC,
1856 FLAGADM, TQM8260
1857
1858- Error Recovery:
1859 CONFIG_PANIC_HANG
1860
1861 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
1862 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
1863 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
1864 system where you want the system to reboot
1865 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
1866 useful during development since you can try to debug
1867 the conditions that lead to the situation.
1868
1869 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
1870
1871 This variable defines the number of retries for
1872 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
1873 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
1874 default value of 5 is used.
1875
1876 CONFIG_ARP_TIMEOUT
1877
1878 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
1879
1880- Command Interpreter:
1881 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
1882
1883 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
1884
1885 Note that this feature has NOT been implemented yet
1886 for the "hush" shell.
1887
1888
1889 CONFIG_SYS_HUSH_PARSER
1890
1891 Define this variable to enable the "hush" shell (from
1892 Busybox) as command line interpreter, thus enabling
1893 powerful command line syntax like
1894 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||'
1895 constructs ("shell scripts").
1896
1897 If undefined, you get the old, much simpler behaviour
1898 with a somewhat smaller memory footprint.
1899
1900
1901 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
1902
1903 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
1904 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
1905 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
1906
1907 Note:
1908
1909 In the current implementation, the local variables
1910 space and global environment variables space are
1911 separated. Local variables are those you define by
1912 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
1913 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
1914 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
1915 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
1916
1917 Global environment variables are those you use
1918 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
1919 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
1920 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
1921
1922 To store commands and special characters in a
1923 variable, please use double quotation marks
1924 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
1925 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
1926 symbols.
1927
1928- Commandline Editing and History:
1929 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
1930
1931 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
1932 commandline input operations
1933
1934- Default Environment:
1935 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
1936
1937 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
1938 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
1939 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
1940
1941 For example, place something like this in your
1942 board's config file:
1943
1944 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
1945 "myvar1=value1\0" \
1946 "myvar2=value2\0"
1947
1948 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
1949 internal format how the environment is stored by the
1950 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
1951 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
1952 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
1953 You better know what you are doing here.
1954
1955 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
1956 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
1957 the environment like the "source" command or the
1958 boot command first.
1959
1960- DataFlash Support:
1961 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
1962
1963 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
1964 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
1965 commands cp, md...
1966
1967- SystemACE Support:
1968 CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
1969
1970 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
1971 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
1972 of the chip must also be defined in the
1973 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
1974
1975 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
1976 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
1977
1978 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
1979 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
1980
1981- TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
1982 CONFIG_TFTP_PORT
1983
1984 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
1985 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
1986 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
1987 number generator is used.
1988
1989 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
1990 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
1991 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
1992
1993 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
1994 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
1995 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
1996 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
1997 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
1998 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
1999 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2000
2001- Show boot progress:
2002 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2003
2004 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2005 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2006 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2007 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2008 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2009 the following checkpoints are implemented:
2010
2011- Standalone program support:
2012 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2013
2014 This option allows to define board specific values
2015 for the address where standalone program gets loaded,
2016 thus overwriting the architecutre dependent default
2017 settings.
2018
2019- Frame Buffer Address:
2020 CONFIG_FB_ADDR
2021
2022 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific address for
2023 frame buffer.
2024 Then system will reserve the frame buffer address to defined address
2025 instead of lcd_setmem (this function grab the memory for frame buffer
2026 by panel's size).
2027
2028 Please see board_init_f function.
2029
2030 If you want this config option then,
2031 please define it at your board config file
2032
2033Legacy uImage format:
2034
2035 Arg Where When
2036 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
2037 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
2038 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
2039 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
2040 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
2041 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
2042 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2043 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2044 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2045 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
2046 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2047 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2048 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2049 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
2050 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
2051 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
2052
2053 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2054 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2055 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2056 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2057 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2058 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2059 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
2060 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
2061 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2062 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2063
2064 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
2065
2066 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
2067 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2068 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
2069
2070 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2071 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2072 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2073 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2074 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2075 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2076 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2077 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2078 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2079 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2080 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2081 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2082 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2083 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2084 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2085 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2086 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2087 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2088 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2089 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2090 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2091 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2092 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2093 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2094 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2095 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2096 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2097 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2098 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2099 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2100 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2101 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2102 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2103 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2104 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2105 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2106 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2107 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2108 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2109 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2110 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2111 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2112 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2113 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2114 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2115 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2116 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
2117
2118 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
2119
2120 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
2121 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2122 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
2123
2124 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
2125 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling NetLoop()
2126 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in NetLoop() occurred
2127 81 common/cmd_net.c NetLoop() back without error
2128 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2129 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
2130 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2131 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
2132 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
2133
2134FIT uImage format:
2135
2136 Arg Where When
2137 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2138 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2139 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2140 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2141 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2142 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
2143 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
2144 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2145 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2146 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2147 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2148 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2149 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2150 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
2151 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2152 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2153 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2154 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2155 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2156 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2157 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2158 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2159
2160 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2161 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2162 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
2163 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
2164 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2165 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2166 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2167 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2168 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2169 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2170 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2171 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2172 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2173 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2174 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2175 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2176
2177 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
2178 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2179
2180 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
2181 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2182
2183 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
2184 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2185
2186- Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2187 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP
2188 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2189 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2190
2191 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2192 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2193
2194- MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2195 CONFIG_MTD_DEVICE
2196
2197 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
2198 Needed for mtdparts command support.
2199
2200 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2201
2202 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
2203 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
2204
2205
2206Modem Support:
2207--------------
2208
2209[so far only for SMDK2400 and TRAB boards]
2210
2211- Modem support enable:
2212 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT
2213
2214- RTS/CTS Flow control enable:
2215 CONFIG_HWFLOW
2216
2217- Modem debug support:
2218 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG
2219
2220 Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg())
2221 for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000.
2222
2223- Interrupt support (PPC):
2224
2225 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2226 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
2227 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
2228 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
2229 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
2230 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
2231 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
2232 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2233 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2234 general timer_interrupt().
2235
2236- General:
2237
2238 In the target system modem support is enabled when a
2239 specific key (key combination) is pressed during
2240 power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally
2241 (autoboot). The key_pressed() function is called from
2242 board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy
2243 function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem
2244 initialization.
2245
2246 If there are no modem init strings in the
2247 environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the
2248 previous output (banner, info printfs) will be
2249 suppressed, though.
2250
2251 See also: doc/README.Modem
2252
2253
2254Configuration Settings:
2255-----------------------
2256
2257- CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
2258 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2259
2260- CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2261 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2262
2263- CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
2264 prompt for user input.
2265
2266- CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
2267
2268- CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
2269
2270- CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
2271
2272- CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
2273 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2274 booted
2275
2276- CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
2277 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2278
2279- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET
2280 Suppress display of console information at boot.
2281
2282- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
2283 If the board specific function
2284 extern int overwrite_console (void);
2285 returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the
2286 serial port, else the settings in the environment are used.
2287
2288- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE
2289 Enable the call to overwrite_console().
2290
2291- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE
2292 Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings.
2293
2294- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
2295 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2296 simple memory test.
2297
2298- CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
2299 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
2300
2301- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
2302 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2303 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2304
2305- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE (PPC only):
2306 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
2307 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
2308 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
2309 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2310 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2311 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
2312 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
2313 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
2314 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
2315
2316 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2317 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2318 be touched.
2319
2320 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2321 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2322 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2323 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2324 problems.
2325
2326- CONFIG_SYS_TFTP_LOADADDR:
2327 Default load address for network file downloads
2328
2329- CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
2330 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2331
2332- CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
2333 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2334
2335- CONFIG_SYS_MBIO_BASE:
2336 Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a
2337 Cogent motherboard)
2338
2339- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
2340 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2341
2342- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
2343 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2344 make config files to be same as the text base address
2345 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
2346 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
2347
2348- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
2349 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2350 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2351 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2352 flash sector.
2353
2354- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
2355 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2356
2357- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
2358 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
2359 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
2360 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
2361 to adjust this setting to your needs.
2362
2363- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
2364 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
2365 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
2366 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
2367 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
2368 enviroment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
2369 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
2370 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
2371 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
2372 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
2373 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
2374
2375- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
2376 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
2377 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
2378 is enabled.
2379
2380- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
2381 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
2382 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2383
2384- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
2385 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
2386 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2387
2388- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
2389 Max number of Flash memory banks
2390
2391- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
2392 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
2393
2394- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
2395 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
2396
2397- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
2398 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
2399
2400- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
2401 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
2402
2403- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
2404 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
2405
2406- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
2407 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
2408 instead of U-Boot software protection.
2409
2410- CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
2411
2412 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
2413 without this option such a download has to be
2414 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
2415 copy from RAM to flash.
2416
2417 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
2418 you can check if the download worked before you erase
2419 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
2420 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
2421 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
2422
2423- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
2424 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
2425 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
2426
2427- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
2428 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
2429 in the drivers directory
2430
2431- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
2432 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
2433 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
2434 to the MTD layer.
2435
2436- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
2437 Use buffered writes to flash.
2438
2439- CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
2440 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
2441 write commands.
2442
2443- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
2444 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
2445 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
2446 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
2447 optionally available.
2448
2449- CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
2450 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
2451 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
2452 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
2453
2454- CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
2455 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
2456 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
2457 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
2458 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
2459 on high Ethernet traffic.
2460 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
2461
2462- CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
2463
2464 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
2465 internally to store the environment settings. The default
2466 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
2467 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
2468 lib/hashtable.c for details.
2469
2470The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
2471of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
2472following configurations:
2473
2474- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
2475
2476 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
2477
2478 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
2479 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
2480 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
2481 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
2482 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
2483 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
2484 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
2485 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
2486 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
2487 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
2488 between U-Boot and the environment.
2489
2490 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2491
2492 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
2493 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
2494 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
2495 for this sector is given here.
2496
2497 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
2498
2499 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
2500
2501 This is just another way to specify the start address of
2502 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
2503 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET).
2504
2505 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
2506
2507 Size of the sector containing the environment.
2508
2509
2510 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
2511 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
2512 the environment.
2513
2514 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
2515
2516 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
2517 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
2518 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
2519 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
2520
2521 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
2522 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
2523 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
2524 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
2525 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
2526 updating the environment in flash makes it always
2527 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
2528 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
2529 RAM, your target system will be dead.
2530
2531 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
2532 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
2533
2534 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
2535 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
2536 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
2537 a "saveenv" operation.
2538
2539BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
2540source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
2541accordingly!
2542
2543
2544- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
2545
2546 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
2547 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
2548 environment.
2549
2550 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
2551 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
2552
2553 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
2554 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
2555 can just be read and written to, without any special
2556 provision.
2557
2558BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
2559in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the
2560console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
2561U-Boot will hang.
2562
2563Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
2564environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
2565keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
2566to save the current settings.
2567
2568
2569- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
2570
2571 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
2572 device and a driver for it.
2573
2574 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2575 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
2576
2577 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
2578 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
2579
2580 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
2581 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
2582 The default address is zero.
2583
2584 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
2585 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
2586 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
2587 would require six bits.
2588
2589 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
2590 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
2591 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
2592
2593 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
2594 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
2595 that this is NOT the chip address length!
2596
2597 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
2598 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
2599 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
2600 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
2601 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
2602 byte chips.
2603
2604 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
2605 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
2606 in the chip address.
2607
2608 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
2609 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
2610
2611 - CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C
2612 define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your
2613 EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.
2614
2615 - CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS
2616 if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over
2617 I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this
2618 EEPROM. For example:
2619
2620 #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS "pca9547:70:d\0"
2621
2622 EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over
2623 a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.
2624
2625- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
2626
2627 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
2628 want to use for the environment.
2629
2630 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2631 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
2632 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
2633
2634 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
2635 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
2636 at the specified address.
2637
2638- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
2639
2640 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
2641 for the environment.
2642
2643 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2644 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
2645
2646 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
2647 area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
2648 aligned to an erase block boundary.
2649
2650 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
2651
2652 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
2653 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
2654 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
2655 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_RENDUND must be
2656 aligned to an erase block boundary.
2657
2658 - CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):
2659
2660 Specifies the length of the region in which the environment
2661 can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's
2662 block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than
2663 are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within
2664 the range to be avoided.
2665
2666 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):
2667
2668 Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the
2669 environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The
2670 "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset.
2671 Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when
2672 using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.
2673
2674- CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
2675
2676 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
2677 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
2678 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
2679
2680- CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
2681
2682 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
2683 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
2684 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
2685 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
2686 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
2687 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
2688 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
2689
2690Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
2691has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
2692created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f()
2693until then to read environment variables.
2694
2695The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
2696is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
2697with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
2698necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
2699"baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
2700have any device yet where we could complain.]
2701
2702Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
2703the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
2704use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
2705
2706- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
2707 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
2708
2709 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
2710 also needs to be defined.
2711
2712- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
2713 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
2714
2715- CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
2716 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
2717 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
2718 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
2719 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
2720 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
2721
2722Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
2723---------------------------------------------------
2724
2725- CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
2726 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
2727
2728- CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
2729 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
2730
2731 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
2732 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
2733 the IMMR register after a reset.
2734
2735- Floppy Disk Support:
2736 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
2737
2738 the default drive number (default value 0)
2739
2740 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
2741
2742 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
2743 (default value 1)
2744
2745 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
2746
2747 defines the offset of register from address. It
2748 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
2749 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
2750
2751 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
2752 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
2753 default value.
2754
2755 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
2756 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
2757 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
2758 source code. It is used to make hardware dependant
2759 initializations.
2760
2761- CONFIG_IDE_AHB:
2762 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
2763 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
2764 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
2765 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
2766 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
2767 is requierd.
2768
2769- CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
2770 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
2771 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
2772
2773- CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
2774
2775 Start address of memory area that can be used for
2776 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
2777 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
2778 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
2779 will become available only after programming the
2780 memory controller and running certain initialization
2781 sequences.
2782
2783 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
2784 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
2785 - MPC824X: data cache
2786 - PPC4xx: data cache
2787
2788- CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
2789
2790 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
2791 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
2792 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
2793 data is located at the end of the available space
2794 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
2795 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
2796 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
2797 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
2798
2799 Note:
2800 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
2801 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
2802 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
2803 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
2804 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
2805
2806- CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
2807
2808- CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
2809
2810- CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
2811
2812- CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
2813
2814- CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
2815
2816- CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
2817
2818- CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
2819 SDRAM timing
2820
2821- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
2822 periodic timer for refresh
2823
2824- CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
2825
2826- FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
2827 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
2828 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
2829 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
2830 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
2831
2832- SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
2833 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
2834 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
2835 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
2836
2837- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
2838 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
2839 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
2840 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
2841
2842- CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
2843 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2844 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
2845
2846- CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
2847 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2848 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
2849
2850- CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
2851 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2852 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
2853
2854- CONFIG_SYS_USE_OSCCLK:
2855 Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful,
2856 wrong setting might damage your board. Read
2857 doc/README.MBX before setting this variable!
2858
2859- CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
2860 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
2861 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
2862 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
2863 cpm_8260.h.
2864
2865- CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
2866 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
2867 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
2868 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
2869 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
2870 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
2871 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
2872 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
2873 Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
2874
2875- CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE:
2876 Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
2877 required.
2878
2879- CONFIG_SYS_SRIO:
2880 Chip has SRIO or not
2881
2882- CONFIG_SRIO1:
2883 Board has SRIO 1 port available
2884
2885- CONFIG_SRIO2:
2886 Board has SRIO 2 port available
2887
2888- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
2889 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2890
2891- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
2892 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2893
2894- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
2895 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2896
2897- CONFIG_SPD_EEPROM
2898 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
2899 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
2900
2901 SPD_EEPROM_ADDRESS
2902 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
2903
2904- CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
2905 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
2906 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
2907 to something your driver can deal with.
2908
2909- CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
2910 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
2911 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
2912
2913- CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
2914 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
2915
2916- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
2917 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
2918 to the given FEC; i. e.
2919 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
2920 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
2921
2922 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
2923
2924- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
2925 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
2926 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
2927
2928- CONFIG_RMII
2929 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
2930 Note that this is a global option, we can't
2931 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
2932
2933- CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
2934 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
2935 The syntax is:
2936
2937 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
2938
2939 Where address/count indicate a memory area
2940 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
2941 area should have.
2942
2943- CONFIG_LOOPW
2944 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
2945 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
2946
2947- CONFIG_MX_CYCLIC
2948 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
2949 "md/mw" commands.
2950 Examples:
2951
2952 => mdc.b 10 4 500
2953 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
2954
2955 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
2956 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
2957
2958 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
2959 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
2960
2961- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
2962 [ARM only] If this variable is defined, then certain
2963 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
2964 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
2965 relocate itself into RAM.
2966
2967 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
2968 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
2969 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
2970 these initializations itself.
2971
2972- CONFIG_PRELOADER
2973 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
2974 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
2975 compiling a NAND SPL.
2976
2977- CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMCPY
2978 CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET
2979 If these options are used a optimized version of memcpy/memset will
2980 be used if available. These functions may be faster under some
2981 conditions but may increase the binary size.
2982
2983Building the Software:
2984======================
2985
2986Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
2987and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
2988all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
2989(potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
2990recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
2991which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
2992
2993If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
2994have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
2995you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
2996Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
2997necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
2998
2999 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
3000 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
3001
3002Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
3003 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
3004 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
3005 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
3006
3007 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
3008
3009 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
3010 be executed on computers running Windows.
3011
3012U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
3013sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
3014is done by typing:
3015
3016 make NAME_config
3017
3018where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing configu-
3019rations; see the main Makefile for supported names.
3020
3021Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
3022 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
3023 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
3024 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
3025 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
3026
3027 make TQM823L_config
3028 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
3029
3030 make TQM823L_LCD_config
3031 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
3032
3033 etc.
3034
3035
3036Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
3037images ready for download to / installation on your system:
3038
3039- "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
3040- "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
3041- "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
3042
3043By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
3044in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
3045this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
3046
30471. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
3048
3049 make O=/tmp/build distclean
3050 make O=/tmp/build NAME_config
3051 make O=/tmp/build all
3052
30532. Set environment variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location:
3054
3055 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3056 make distclean
3057 make NAME_config
3058 make all
3059
3060Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the BUILD_DIR environment
3061variable.
3062
3063
3064Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
3065for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
3066native "make".
3067
3068
3069If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
3070to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
3071steps:
3072
30731. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel
3074 "Makefile" and to the "MAKEALL" script, using the existing
3075 entries as examples. Note that here and at many other places
3076 boards and other names are listed in alphabetical sort order. Please
3077 keep this order.
30782. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
3079 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3080 the "Makefile", a "<board>.c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds".
30813. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3082 your board
30833. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3084 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
30854. Run "make <board>_config" with your new name.
30865. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3087 to be installed on your target system.
30886. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3089 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
3090
3091
3092Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3093==============================================================
3094
3095If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3096or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
3097provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
3098the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
3099official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
3100
3101But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3102cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
3103the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
3104just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot
3105for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can
3106select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE'
3107environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the ELDK cross tools
3108you can type
3109
3110 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3111
3112or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type
3113
3114 CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL
3115
3116When using the MAKEALL script, the default behaviour is to build
3117U-Boot in the source directory. This location can be changed by
3118setting the BUILD_DIR environment variable. Also, for each target
3119built, the MAKEALL script saves two log files (<target>.ERR and
3120<target>.MAKEALL) in the <source dir>/LOG directory. This default
3121location can be changed by setting the MAKEALL_LOGDIR environment
3122variable. For example:
3123
3124 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3125 export MAKEALL_LOGDIR=/tmp/log
3126 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3127
3128With the above settings build objects are saved in the /tmp/build,
3129log files are saved in the /tmp/log and the source tree remains clean
3130during the whole build process.
3131
3132
3133See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
3134
3135
3136Monitor Commands - Overview:
3137============================
3138
3139go - start application at address 'addr'
3140run - run commands in an environment variable
3141bootm - boot application image from memory
3142bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
3143tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3144 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3145 (and eventually "gatewayip")
3146rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3147diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3148loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3149loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3150md - memory display
3151mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3152nm - memory modify (constant address)
3153mw - memory write (fill)
3154cp - memory copy
3155cmp - memory compare
3156crc32 - checksum calculation
3157i2c - I2C sub-system
3158sspi - SPI utility commands
3159base - print or set address offset
3160printenv- print environment variables
3161setenv - set environment variables
3162saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3163protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3164erase - erase FLASH memory
3165flinfo - print FLASH memory information
3166bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3167iminfo - print header information for application image
3168coninfo - print console devices and informations
3169ide - IDE sub-system
3170loop - infinite loop on address range
3171loopw - infinite write loop on address range
3172mtest - simple RAM test
3173icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3174dcache - enable or disable data cache
3175reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3176echo - echo args to console
3177version - print monitor version
3178help - print online help
3179? - alias for 'help'
3180
3181
3182Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3183========================================
3184
3185TODO.
3186
3187For now: just type "help <command>".
3188
3189
3190Environment Variables:
3191======================
3192
3193U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3194can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
3195
3196Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3197"printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3198without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3199environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3200working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3201environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
3202
3203Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3204
3205List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
3206
3207 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
3208
3209 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
3210
3211 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
3212
3213 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
3214
3215 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
3216
3217 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3218 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3219 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3220 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3221 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3222 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
3223 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
3224 bootm_mapsize.
3225
3226 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
3227 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
3228 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
3229 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
3230 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
3231 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
3232 used otherwise.
3233
3234 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3235 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3236 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3237 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3238 environment variable.
3239
3240 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3241 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3242 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3243
3244 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3245 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3246 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3247 load any image using TFTP
3248
3249 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3250 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3251 be automatically started (by internally calling
3252 "bootm")
3253
3254 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3255 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3256 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3257 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3258 data.
3259
3260 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3261 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3262 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3263 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3264 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3265
3266 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3267 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3268 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3269 is usually what you want since it allows for
3270 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3271 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
3272 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
3273 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3274 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3275 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3276 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
3277
3278 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3279 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3280 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3281 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3282 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3283 12 MB as well - this can be done with
3284
3285 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
3286
3287 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3288 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3289 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3290 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3291 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3292 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3293 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
3294
3295 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3296
3297 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3298 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
3299
3300 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
3301
3302 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3303
3304 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
3305
3306 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
3307
3308 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
3309
3310 ethprime - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which
3311 interface is used first.
3312
3313 ethact - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which
3314 interface is currently active. For example you
3315 can do the following
3316
3317 => setenv ethact FEC
3318 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
3319 => setenv ethact SCC
3320 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
3321
3322 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3323 available network interfaces.
3324 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3325
3326 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
3327 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3328 When set to "once" the network operation will
3329 fail when all the available network interfaces
3330 are tried once without success.
3331 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3332 themselves.
3333
3334 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
3335
3336 tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
3337 UDP source port.
3338
3339 tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
3340 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
3341
3342 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
3343 we use the TFTP server's default block size
3344
3345 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
3346 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
3347 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
3348 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
3349 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
3350 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
3351 with unreliable TFTP servers.
3352
3353 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
3354 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
3355 VLAN tagged frames.
3356
3357The following environment variables may be used and automatically
3358updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
3359depending the information provided by your boot server:
3360
3361 bootfile - see above
3362 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
3363 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
3364 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
3365 hostname - Target hostname
3366 ipaddr - see above
3367 netmask - Subnet Mask
3368 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
3369 serverip - see above
3370
3371
3372There are two special Environment Variables:
3373
3374 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
3375 as type string and/or serial number
3376 ethaddr - Ethernet address
3377
3378These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
3379the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
3380once they have been set once.
3381
3382
3383Further special Environment Variables:
3384
3385 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
3386 with the "version" command. This variable is
3387 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
3388
3389
3390Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
3391only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
3392
3393
3394Command Line Parsing:
3395=====================
3396
3397There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
3398the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
3399
3400Old, simple command line parser:
3401--------------------------------
3402
3403- supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
3404- several commands on one line, separated by ';'
3405- variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
3406- special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
3407 for example:
3408 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
3409- You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
3410 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
3411
3412Hush shell:
3413-----------
3414
3415- similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
3416 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
3417 until...do...done, ...
3418- supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
3419 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
3420 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
3421 command
3422
3423General rules:
3424--------------
3425
3426(1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
3427 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
3428 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
3429 executed anyway.
3430
3431(2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
3432 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
3433 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
3434 variables are not executed.
3435
3436Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
3437=======================================
3438
3439Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
3440such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
3441"working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
3442
3443Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
3444MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
3445"eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
3446
3447If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
3448in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
3449ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
3450variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
3451
3452o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
3453 environment, the SROM's address is used.
3454
3455o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
3456 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
3457 used.
3458
3459o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
3460 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
3461
3462o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
3463 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
3464 warning is printed.
3465
3466o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
3467 is raised.
3468
3469If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
3470will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
3471may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
3472The naming convention is as follows:
3473"ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
3474
3475Image Formats:
3476==============
3477
3478U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
3479images in two formats:
3480
3481New uImage format (FIT)
3482-----------------------
3483
3484Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
3485to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
3486components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
3487SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
3488
3489
3490Old uImage format
3491-----------------
3492
3493Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
3494preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
3495details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
3496
3497* Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
3498 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
3499 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
3500 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
3501 INTEGRITY).
3502* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
3503 IA64, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
3504 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC).
3505* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
3506* Load Address
3507* Entry Point
3508* Image Name
3509* Image Timestamp
3510
3511The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
3512and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
3513CRC32 checksums.
3514
3515
3516Linux Support:
3517==============
3518
3519Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
3520easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
3521U-Boot.
3522
3523U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
3524special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
3525"initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
3526instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
3527serves several purposes:
3528
3529- the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
3530 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
3531 Flash memory footprint)
3532
3533- it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
3534 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
3535
3536- the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
3537 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
3538 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
3539 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
3540 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
3541 software is easier now.
3542
3543
3544Linux HOWTO:
3545============
3546
3547Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
3548---------------------------------------
3549
3550U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
3551configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
3552(no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
3553Linux :-).
3554
3555But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
3556
3557Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
3558include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
3559Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
3560and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
3561as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
3562
3563
3564Configuring the Linux kernel:
3565-----------------------------
3566
3567No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
3568device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
3569
3570
3571Building a Linux Image:
3572-----------------------
3573
3574With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
3575not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
3576"uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
3577U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
3578which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
3579100% compatible format.
3580
3581Example:
3582
3583 make TQM850L_config
3584 make oldconfig
3585 make dep
3586 make uImage
3587
3588The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
3589encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
3590CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
3591
3592* build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
3593
3594* convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
3595
3596 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
3597 -R .note -R .comment \
3598 -S vmlinux linux.bin
3599
3600* compress the binary image:
3601
3602 gzip -9 linux.bin
3603
3604* package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
3605
3606 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
3607 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
3608 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
3609
3610
3611The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
3612with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
3613combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
3614byte header containing information about target architecture,
3615operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
3616stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
3617
3618"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
3619print the header information, or to build new images.
3620
3621In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
3622contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
3623checksum verification:
3624
3625 tools/mkimage -l image
3626 -l ==> list image header information
3627
3628The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
3629from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
3630
3631 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
3632 -n name -d data_file image
3633 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
3634 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
3635 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
3636 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
3637 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
3638 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
3639 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
3640 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
3641
3642Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
3643address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
3644kernel version:
3645
3646- 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
3647- 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
3648
3649So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
3650
3651 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3652 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
3653 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
3654 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
3655 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3656 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3657 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3658 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3659 Load Address: 0x00000000
3660 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3661
3662To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
3663
3664 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
3665 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3666 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3667 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3668 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3669 Load Address: 0x00000000
3670 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3671
3672NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
3673speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
3674needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
3675need to be uncompressed:
3676
3677 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
3678 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3679 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
3680 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
3681 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
3682 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3683 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3684 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
3685 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
3686 Load Address: 0x00000000
3687 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3688
3689
3690Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
3691when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
3692
3693 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
3694 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
3695 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
3696 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3697 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
3698 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3699 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
3700 Load Address: 0x00000000
3701 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3702
3703
3704Installing a Linux Image:
3705-------------------------
3706
3707To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
3708you must convert the image to S-Record format:
3709
3710 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
3711
3712The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
3713image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
3714address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
3715specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
3716command.
3717
3718Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
3719TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
3720
3721 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
3722
3723 .......... done
3724 Erased 8 sectors
3725
3726 => loads 40100000
3727 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3728 ~>examples/image.srec
3729 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
3730 ...
3731 15989 15990 15991 15992
3732 [file transfer complete]
3733 [connected]
3734 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
3735
3736
3737You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
3738this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
3739corruption happened:
3740
3741 => imi 40100000
3742
3743 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3744 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3745 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3746 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3747 Load Address: 00000000
3748 Entry Point: 0000000c
3749 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3750
3751
3752Boot Linux:
3753-----------
3754
3755The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
3756memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
3757of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
3758parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
3759"printenv" and "setenv" commands:
3760
3761
3762 => printenv bootargs
3763 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
3764
3765 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3766
3767 => printenv bootargs
3768 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3769
3770 => bootm 40020000
3771 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
3772 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
3773 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3774 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
3775 Load Address: 00000000
3776 Entry Point: 0000000c
3777 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3778 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3779 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
3780 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3781 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3782 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3783 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
3784 ...
3785
3786If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
3787the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
3788format!) to the "bootm" command:
3789
3790 => imi 40100000 40200000
3791
3792 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3793 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3794 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3795 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3796 Load Address: 00000000
3797 Entry Point: 0000000c
3798 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3799
3800 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
3801 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3802 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3803 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3804 Load Address: 00000000
3805 Entry Point: 00000000
3806 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3807
3808 => bootm 40100000 40200000
3809 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
3810 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3811 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3812 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3813 Load Address: 00000000
3814 Entry Point: 0000000c
3815 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3816 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3817 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
3818 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3819 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3820 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3821 Load Address: 00000000
3822 Entry Point: 00000000
3823 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3824 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
3825 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
3826 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
3827 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3828 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3829 ...
3830 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
3831 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
3832
3833 bash#
3834
3835Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
3836-----------
3837
3838First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
3839titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
3840following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
3841flat device tree:
3842
3843=> print oftaddr
3844oftaddr=0x300000
3845=> print oft
3846oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
3847=> tftp $oftaddr $oft
3848Speed: 1000, full duplex
3849Using TSEC0 device
3850TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
3851Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
3852Load address: 0x300000
3853Loading: #
3854done
3855Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
3856=> tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
3857Speed: 1000, full duplex
3858Using TSEC0 device
3859TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
3860Filename 'uImage'.
3861Load address: 0x200000
3862Loading:############
3863done
3864Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
3865=> print loadaddr
3866loadaddr=200000
3867=> print oftaddr
3868oftaddr=0x300000
3869=> bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
3870## Booting image at 00200000 ...
3871 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
3872 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3873 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
3874 Load Address: 00000000
3875 Entry Point: 00000000
3876 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3877 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3878Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
3879Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
3880Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
3881[snip]
3882
3883
3884More About U-Boot Image Types:
3885------------------------------
3886
3887U-Boot supports the following image types:
3888
3889 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
3890 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
3891 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
3892 the Standalone Program.
3893 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
3894 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
3895 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
3896 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
3897 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
3898 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
3899 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
3900 being started.
3901 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
3902 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
3903 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
3904 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
3905 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
3906 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
3907
3908 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
3909 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
3910 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
3911 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
3912 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
3913 a multiple of 4 bytes).
3914
3915 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
3916 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
3917 flash memory.
3918
3919 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
3920 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
3921 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
3922 as command interpreter.
3923
3924
3925Standalone HOWTO:
3926=================
3927
3928One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
3929run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
3930U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
3931
3932Two simple examples are included with the sources:
3933
3934"Hello World" Demo:
3935-------------------
3936
3937'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
3938application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
3939It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
3940like that:
3941
3942 => loads
3943 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3944 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
3945 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
3946 [file transfer complete]
3947 [connected]
3948 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
3949
3950 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
3951 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
3952 Hello World
3953 argc = 7
3954 argv[0] = "40004"
3955 argv[1] = "Hello"
3956 argv[2] = "World!"
3957 argv[3] = "This"
3958 argv[4] = "is"
3959 argv[5] = "a"
3960 argv[6] = "test."
3961 argv[7] = "<NULL>"
3962 Hit any key to exit ...
3963
3964 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
3965
3966Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
3967handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
3968Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
3969The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
3970character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
3971controlled by the following keys:
3972
3973 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
3974 b - enable interrupts and start timer
3975 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
3976 q - quit application
3977
3978 => loads
3979 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3980 ~>examples/timer.srec
3981 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
3982 [file transfer complete]
3983 [connected]
3984 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
3985
3986 => go 40004
3987 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
3988 TIMERS=0xfff00980
3989 Using timer 1
3990 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
3991
3992Hit 'b':
3993 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
3994 Enabling timer
3995Hit '?':
3996 [q, b, e, ?] ........
3997 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
3998Hit '?':
3999 [q, b, e, ?] .
4000 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
4001Hit '?':
4002 [q, b, e, ?] .
4003 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
4004Hit '?':
4005 [q, b, e, ?] .
4006 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
4007Hit 'e':
4008 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
4009Hit 'q':
4010 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4011
4012
4013Minicom warning:
4014================
4015
4016Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
4017"minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
4018consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
4019Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
4020especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
4021use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command).
4022
4023Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
4024configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
4025
4026 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
4027 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
4028 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
4029
4030
4031NetBSD Notes:
4032=============
4033
4034Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
4035(build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
4036
4037Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
4038NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
4039need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
4040Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
4041attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
4042missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
4043
4044 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
4045 # mkdir powerpc
4046 # ln -s powerpc machine
4047 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
4048 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
4049
4050Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
4051and U-Boot include files.
4052
4053Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
4054stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
4055proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
4056tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
4057meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
4058
4059
4060Implementation Internals:
4061=========================
4062
4063The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
4064implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
4065inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
4066hardware.
4067
4068
4069Initial Stack, Global Data:
4070---------------------------
4071
4072The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
4073starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
4074system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
4075This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
4076is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
4077at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
4078options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
4079models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
4080MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
4081locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
4082
4083 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
4084 U-Boot mailing list:
4085
4086 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4087 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
4088 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4089 ...
4090
4091 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4092 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4093 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4094 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4095 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
4096 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
4097 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4098 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
4099
4100 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4101 is another option for the system designer to use as an
4102 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
4103 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4104 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4105 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4106 used.
4107
4108 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
4109 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4110 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
4111 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
4112 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4113 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4114 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4115 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4116 you get the config right.
4117
4118 -Chris Hallinan
4119 DS4.COM, Inc.
4120
4121It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4122code for the initialization procedures:
4123
4124* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4125 to write it.
4126
4127* Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitely initialized
4128 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4129 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
4130
4131* Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4132 that.
4133
4134Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
4135normal global data to share information beween the code. But it
4136turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4137simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4138functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4139functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4140the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4141place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4142reserve for this purpose.
4143
4144When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4145relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4146GCC's implementation.
4147
4148For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4149 R1: stack pointer
4150 R2: reserved for system use
4151 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4152 R5-R10: parameter passing
4153 R13: small data area pointer
4154 R30: GOT pointer
4155 R31: frame pointer
4156
4157 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4158 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4159 going back and forth between asm and C)
4160
4161 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
4162
4163 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4164 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4165 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4166 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4167 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4168 624 text + 127 data).
4169
4170On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here:
4171 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
4172
4173 ==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data
4174
4175On ARM, the following registers are used:
4176
4177 R0: function argument word/integer result
4178 R1-R3: function argument word
4179 R9: GOT pointer
4180 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking if enabled)
4181 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4182 R12: temporary workspace
4183 R13: stack pointer
4184 R14: link register
4185 R15: program counter
4186
4187 ==> U-Boot will use R8 to hold a pointer to the global data
4188
4189On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
4190 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
4191
4192 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4193
4194 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4195 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4196
4197NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4198or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
4199
4200Memory Management:
4201------------------
4202
4203U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4204MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
4205
4206The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4207controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4208memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4209physical memory banks.
4210
4211U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4212TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4213booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4214to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
4215memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
4216configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4217Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
4218
4219Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4220of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
4221
4222So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
4223this:
4224
4225 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
4226 :
4227 0x0000 1FFF
4228 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
4229 :
4230 :
4231
4232 :
4233 :
4234 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
4235 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
4236 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
4237 :
4238 0x00FD FFFF
4239 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
4240 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
4241 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
4242 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
4243
4244
4245System Initialization:
4246----------------------
4247
4248In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
4249(on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
4250configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory.
4251To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
4252To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
4253initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
4254which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
4255part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
4256the caches and the SIU.
4257
4258Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
4259preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
4260(multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
4261on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
4262programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
4263simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
4264banks.
4265
4266When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
4267different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
4268bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
42690x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
4270contiguous memory starting from 0.
4271
4272Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
4273and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
4274Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
4275pages, and the final stack is set up.
4276
4277Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
4278until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
4279running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
4280new address in RAM.
4281
4282
4283U-Boot Porting Guide:
4284----------------------
4285
4286[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
4287list, October 2002]
4288
4289
4290int main(int argc, char *argv[])
4291{
4292 sighandler_t no_more_time;
4293
4294 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
4295 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
4296
4297 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
4298 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
4299 return 0;
4300 }
4301
4302 Download latest U-Boot source;
4303
4304 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
4305
4306 if (clueless)
4307 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
4308
4309 while (learning) {
4310 Read the README file in the top level directory;
4311 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
4312 Read applicable doc/*.README;
4313 Read the source, Luke;
4314 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
4315 }
4316
4317 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
4318 Buy a BDI3000;
4319 else
4320 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
4321
4322 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
4323 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
4324 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
4325 } else {
4326 Create your own board support subdirectory;
4327 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
4328 }
4329 Edit new board/<myboard> files
4330 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
4331
4332 while (!accepted) {
4333 while (!running) {
4334 do {
4335 Add / modify source code;
4336 } until (compiles);
4337 Debug;
4338 if (clueless)
4339 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
4340 }
4341 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
4342 if (reasonable critiques)
4343 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
4344 else
4345 Defend code as written;
4346 }
4347
4348 return 0;
4349}
4350
4351void no_more_time (int sig)
4352{
4353 hire_a_guru();
4354}
4355
4356
4357Coding Standards:
4358-----------------
4359
4360All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
4361coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
4362"scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory. In sources
4363originating from U-Boot a style corresponding to "Lindent -pcs" (adding
4364spaces before parameters to function calls) is actually used.
4365
4366Source files originating from a different project (for example the
4367MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
4368reformated to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
4369sources.
4370
4371Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
4372Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
4373in your code.
4374
4375Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
4376- remove any trailing white space
4377- use TAB characters for indentation, not spaces
4378- make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
4379- do not add more than 2 empty lines to source files
4380- do not add trailing empty lines to source files
4381
4382Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
4383with a request to reformat the changes.
4384
4385
4386Submitting Patches:
4387-------------------
4388
4389Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
4390establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
4391may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
4392
4393Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
4394
4395Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
4396see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
4397
4398When you send a patch, please include the following information with
4399it:
4400
4401* For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
4402 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
4403 patch actually fixes something.
4404
4405* For new features: a description of the feature and your
4406 implementation.
4407
4408* A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
4409
4410* For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file
4411
4412* When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add this
4413 board to the MAKEALL script, too.
4414
4415* If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
4416 document these in the README file.
4417
4418* The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
4419 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
4420 "git-format-patch". If you then use "git-send-email" to send it to
4421 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
4422 with some other mail clients.
4423
4424 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
4425 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
4426 GNU diff.
4427
4428 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
4429 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
4430 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
4431 affected files).
4432
4433 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
4434 and compressed attachments must not be used.
4435
4436* If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
4437 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
4438
4439* Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
4440 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
4441
4442
4443Notes:
4444
4445* Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched
4446 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
4447 for any of the boards.
4448
4449* Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
4450 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
4451 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
4452
4453* If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
4454 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
4455 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
4456 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
4457 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
4458 modification.
4459
4460* Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
4461 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
4462 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
4463 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.