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1 ======================================================================
2 Changes since U-Boot 0.3.1:
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4
5 * Fix data abort exception handling for arm920t CPU
6
7 * Fix alignment problems with flash driver for TRAB board
8
9 * Patch by Donald White, 21 May 2003:
10 fix calculation of base address in pci_hose_config_device()
11
12 * Fix bug in command line parsing: "cmd1;cmd2" is supposed to always
13 execute "cmd2", even if "cmd1" fails. Note that this is different
14 to "run var1 var2" where the contents of "var2" will NOT be
15 executed when a command in "var1" fails.
16
17 * Add zero-copy ramdisk support (requires corresponding kernel support!)
18
19 * Patch by Kyle Harris, 20 May 2003:
20 In preparation for an ixp port, rename cpu/xscale and arch-xscale
21 into cpu/pxa and arch-pxa.
22
23 * Patch by Stefan Roese, 23 May 2003:
24 - IBM PPC405EP port added.
25 - CONFIG_UART1_CONSOLE added. If defined internal UART1 (and not
26 UART0) is used as default U-Boot console. PPC4xx only!
27 - esd ASH405 board added (PPC405EP based).
28 - BUBINGA405EP board added (PPC405EP based - IBM Eval Board).
29 - esd CPCI405AB board added.
30 - esd PMC405 board added.
31 - Update of some esd boards.
32
33 * Patch by Denis Peter, 19 Mai 2003:
34 add support for the MIP405-3 board
35
36 * Patch by Dave Ellis, 22 May 2003:
37 Fix problem with only partially cleared .bss segment
38
39 * Patch by Rune Torgersen, 12 May 2003:
40 get PCI to work on a MPC8266ADS board; incorporate change to
41 cpu/mpc8260/pci.c to enable overrides of PCI memory parameters
42
43 * Patch by Nye Liu, 1 May 2003:
44 minor patches for the FADS8xx
45
46 * Patch by Thomas Schäfer, 28 Apr 2003:
47 Fix SPD handling for 256 ECC DIMM on Walnut
48
49 * Add support for arbitrary bitmaps for TRAB's VFD command;
50 allow to pass boot bitmap addresses in environment variables;
51 allow for zero boot delay
52
53 * Patch by Christian Geißinger, 19 May 2002:
54 On TRAB: wait until the dummy byte has been completely sent
55
56 * Patch by David Updegraff, 22 Apr 2003:
57 update for CrayL1 board
58
59 * Patch by Pantelis Antoniou, 21 Apr 2003:
60 add boot support for ARTOS (a proprietary OS)
61
62 * Patch by Steven Scholz, 11 Apr 2003:
63 Add support for RTC DS1338
64
65 * Patch by Rod Boyce, 24 Jan 2003:
66 Fix counting of extended partitions in diskboot command
67
68 * Patch by Christophe Lindheimer, 20 May 2003:
69 allow the use of CFG_LOADS when CFG_NO_FLASH is set
70
71 * Fix SDRAM timing on Purple board
72
73 * Add support for CompactFlash on ATC board
74 (includes support for Intel 82365 and compatible PC Card controllers,
75 and Yenta-compatible PCI-to-CardBus controllers)
76
77 * Patch by Mathijs Haarman, 08 May 2003:
78 Add lan91c96 driver (tested on Lubbock and custom PXA250 board only)
79
80 * Fix problem with usage of "true" (undefined in current versions of bfd.h)
81
82 * Add support for Promess ATC board
83
84 * Patch by Keith Outwater, 28 Apr 2003:
85 - Miscellaneous corrections and additions to GEN860T board specific code.
86 - Added GEN860_SC variant to GEN860T.
87 - Miscellaneous corrections to GEN860T documentation.
88 - Correct duplicate entry in U-Boot CREDITS file.
89 - Add GEN860T_SC entry in MAINTAINERS file.
90 - Update CREDITS file with GEN860T_SC info.
91
92 * Update Smiths Aerospace addresses in MAINTAINERS file
93
94 * Fix error handling in hush's version of "run" command
95
96 * LWMON extensions:
97 - Splashscreen support
98 - modem support
99 - sysmon support
100 - temperature dependend enabling of LCD
101
102 * Allow booting from old "PPCBoot" disk partitions
103
104 * Add support for TQM8255 Board / MPC8255 CPU
105
106 ======================================================================
107 Changes for U-Boot 0.3.1:
108 ======================================================================
109
110 * Make sure Block Lock Bits get cleared in R360MPI flash driver
111
112 * MPC823 LCD driver: Fill color map backwards, to allow for steady
113 display when Linux takes over
114
115 * Patch by Erwin Rol, 27 Feb 2003:
116 Add support for RTEMS (this time for real).
117
118 * Add support for "bmp info" and "bmp display" commands to load
119 bitmap images; this can be used (for example in a "preboot"
120 command) to display a splash screen very quickly after poweron.
121
122 * Add support for 133 MHz clock on INCA-IP board
123
124 * Patch by Lutz Dennig, 10 Apr 2003:
125 Update for R360MPI board
126
127 * Add new meaning to "autostart" environment variable:
128 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
129 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
130 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
131 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
132 data.
133
134 * Patch by Stefan Roese, 10 Apr 2003:
135 Changed DHCP client to use IP address from server option field #54
136 from the OFFER packet in the server option field #54 in the REQUEST
137 packet. This fixes a problem using a Windows 2000 DHCP server,
138 where the DHCP-server is not the TFTP-server.
139
140 * Set max brightness for MN11236 displays on TRAB board
141
142 * Add support for TQM862L modules
143
144 ======================================================================
145 Changes for U-Boot 0.3.0:
146 ======================================================================
147
148 * Patch by Arun Dharankar, 4 Apr 2003:
149 Add IDMA example code (tested on 8260 only)
150
151 * Add support for Purple Board (MIPS64 5Kc)
152
153 * Add support for MIPS64 5Kc CPUs
154
155 * Fix missing setting of "loadaddr" and "bootfile" on ARM and MIPS
156
157 * Patch by Denis Peter, 04 Apr 2003:
158 - update MIP405-4 board
159
160 * Patch by Stefan Roese, 4 Apr 2003:
161 - U-Boot version environment variable "ver" added
162 (CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
163 - Changed PPC405GPr version from A to B.
164 - Changed CPCI405 to use CTS instead of DSR on PPC405 UART1.
165
166 * Patches by Denis Peter, 03 April 2003:
167 - fix PCI IRQs on MPL boards
168 - fix two more un-relocated pointer problems
169
170 * Fix behaviour of "run" command:
171 - print error message iv variable does not exist
172 - terminate processing of arguments in case of error
173
174 * Patches by Peter Figuli, 10 Mar 2003
175 - Add support for BTUART on PXA platform
176 - Add support for WEP EP250 (PXA) board
177
178 * Fix flash problems on INCA-IP; add tool to allow bruning images to
179 flash using a BDI2000
180
181 * Implement fix for I2C Edge Conditions problem for all boards that
182 use the bit-banging driver (common/soft_i2c.c)
183
184 * Patch by Martin Winistoerfer, 23 Mar 2003
185 - Add port to MPC555/556 microcontrollers
186 - Add support for cmi customer board with
187 Intel 28F128J3A, 28F320J3A or 28F640J3A flash.
188
189 * Patch by Rick Bronson, 28 Mar 2003:
190 - fix common/cmd_nand.c
191
192 * Patch by Arun Dharankar, 24 Mar 2003:
193 - add threads / scheduler example code
194
195 * Add patches by Robert Schwebel, 31 Mar 2003:
196 - add ctrl-c support for kermit download
197 - align bdinfo output on ARM
198 - csb226 board: bring in sync with innokom/memsetup.S
199 - csb226 board: fix MDREFR handling
200 - misc doc fixes / extensions
201 - innokom board: cleanup, MDREFR fix in memsetup.S, config update
202 - add BOOT_PROGRESS to armlinux.c
203
204 * Add CPU ID, version, and clock speed for INCA-IP
205
206 * Patches by Dave Ellis, 18 Mar 2003 for SXNI855T board:
207 - fix SRAM and SDRAM memory sizing
208 - add status LED support
209 - add MAC address for second (SCC1) ethernet port
210
211 * Update default environment for TQM8260 board
212
213 * Patch by Rick Bronson, 16 Mar 2003:
214 - Add NAND flash support for reading, writing, and erasing NAND
215 flash (certain forms of which are called SmartMedia).
216 - Add support for Atmel AT91RM9200DK ARM920T based development kit.
217
218 * Patches by Robert Schwebel, 19 Mar 2003:
219 - use arm-linux-gcc as default compiler for ARM
220 - fix i2c fixup code
221 - fix missing baudrate setting
222 - added $loadaddr / CFG_LOAD_ADDR support to loadb
223 - moved "ignoring trailing characters" _before_ u-boot wants to
224 print out diagnostics messages; removes bogus characters at the
225 end of transmission
226
227 * Patch by John Zhan, 18 Mar 2003:
228 Add support for SinoVee Microsystems SC8xx boards
229
230 * Patch by Rolf Offermanns, 21 Mar 2003:
231 ported the dnp1110 related changes from the current armboot cvs to
232 current u-boot cvs. smc91111 does not work. problem marked in
233 smc91111.c, grep for "FIXME".
234
235 * Patch by Brian Auld, 25 Mar 2003:
236 Add support for STM flash chips on ebony board
237
238 * Add PCI support for MPC8250 Boards (PM825 module)
239
240 * Patch by Stefan Roese, 25 Mar 2003:
241 - PCI405 update.
242
243 * Patch by Stefan Roese, 20 Mar 2003:
244 - CPCI4052 update (support for revision 3).
245 - Set edge conditioning circuitry on PPC405GPr for compatibility
246 to existing PPC405GP designs.
247 - Clip udiv to 5 bits on PPC405 (serial.c).
248
249 * Extend INCAIP board support:
250 - add automatic RAM size detection
251 - add "bdinfo" command
252 - pass flash address and size to Linux kernel
253 - switch to 150 MHz clock
254
255 * Avoid flicker on the TRAB's VFD by synchronizing the enable with
256 the HSYNC/VSYNC. Requires new CPLD code (Version 101 for Rev. 100
257 boards, version 153 for Rev. 200 boards).
258
259 * Patch by Vladimir Gurevich, 12 Mar 2003:
260 Fix relocation problem of statically initialized string pointers
261 in common/cmd_pci.c
262
263 * Patch by Kai-Uwe Blöm, 12 Mar 2003:
264 Cleanup & bug fixes for JFFS2 code:
265 - the memory mangement was broken. It caused havoc on malloc by
266 writing beyond the block boundaries.
267 - the length calculation for files was wrong, sometimes resulting
268 in short file reads.
269 - data copying now optionally takes fragment version numbers into
270 account, to avoid copying from older data.
271 See doc/README.JFFS2 for details.
272
273 * Patch by Josef Wagner, 12 Mar 2003:
274 - 16/32 MB and 50/80 MHz support with auto-detection for IP860
275 - ETH05 and BEDBUG support for CU824
276 - added support for MicroSys CPC45
277 - new BOOTROM/FLASH0 and DOC base for PM826
278
279 * Patch by Robert Schwebel, 12 Mar 2003:
280 Fix the chpart command on innokom board
281
282 * Name cleanup:
283 mv include/asm-i386/ppcboot-i386.h include/asm-i386/u-boot-i386.h
284 s/PPCBoot/U-Boot/ in some files
285 s/pImage/uImage/ in some files
286
287 * Patch by Detlev Zundel, 15 Jan 2003:
288 Fix '' command line quoting
289
290 * Patch by The LEOX team, 19 Jan 2003:
291 - add support for the ELPT860 board
292 - add support for Dallas ds164x RTC
293
294 * Patches by David Müller, 31 Jan 2003:
295 - minimal setup for CardBus bridges
296 - add EEPROM read/write support in the CS8900 driver
297 - add support for the builtin I2C controller in the Samsung s3c24x0 chips
298 - add support for MPL's VCMA9 (Samsung s3c2410 based) board
299
300 * Patch by Steven Scholz, 04 Feb 2003:
301 add support for RTC DS1307
302
303 * Patch by Reinhard Meyer, 5 Feb 2003:
304 fix PLPRCR/SCCR init sequence on 8xx to allow for
305 changes of EBDF by software
306
307 * Patch by Vladimir Gurevich, 07 Feb 2003:
308 "API-compatibility patch" for 4xx I2C driver
309
310 * TRAB fixes / extensions:
311 - Restore VFD brightness as saved in environment
312 - add support for FGujitsu flashes
313 - make sure both buzzers are turned off (drive low level)
314
315 * Patches by Robert Schwebel, 06 Mar 2003:
316 - fix bug in BOOTP code (must use NetCopyIP)
317 - update of CSB226 port
318 - clear BSS segment on XScale
319 - added support for i2c_init_board() function
320 - update to the Innokom plattform
321
322 * Extend support for redundand environments for configurations where
323 environment size < sector size
324
325 * Patch by Rune Torgersen, 13 Feb 2003:
326 Add support for Motorola MPC8266ADS board
327
328 * Patch by Kyle Harris, 19 Feb 2003:
329 patches for the Intel lubbock board:
330 memsetup.S - general cleanup (based on Robert's csb226 code)
331 flash.c - overhaul, actually works now
332 lubbock.c - fix init funcs to return proper value
333
334 * Patch by Kenneth Johansson, 26 Feb 2003:
335 - Fixed off by one in RFTA calculation.
336 - No need to abort when LDF is lower than we can program it's only
337 minimum timing so clamp it to what we can do.
338 - Takes function pointer to function for reading the spd_nvram. Usefull
339 for faking data or hardcode a module without the nvram.
340 - fix other user for above change
341 - fix some comments.
342
343 * Patches by Brian Waite, 26 Feb 2003:
344 - fix port for evb64260 board
345 - fix PCI for evb64260 board
346 - fix PCI scan
347
348 * Patch by Reinhard Meyer, 1 Mar 2003:
349 Add support for EMK TOP860 Module
350
351 * Patch by Yuli Barcohen, 02 Mar 2003:
352 Add SPD EEPROM support for MPC8260ADS board
353
354 * Patch by Robert Schwebel, 21 Jan 2003:
355 - Add support for Innokom board
356 - Don't complain if "install" fails
357 - README cleanup (remove duplicated lines)
358 - Update PXA header files
359
360 * Add documentation for existing POST code (doc/README.POST)
361
362 * Patch by Laudney Ren, 15 Jan 2003:
363 Fix handling of redundand environment in "tools/envcrc.c"
364
365 * Patch by Detlev Zundel, 28 Feb 2003:
366 Add bedbug support for 824x systems
367
368 * Add support for 16 MB flash configuration of TRAB board
369
370 * Patch by Erwin Rol, 27 Feb 2003:
371 Add support for RTEMS
372
373 * Add image information to README
374
375 * Patch by Stefan Roese, 18 Feb 2003:
376 CPCIISER4 configuration updated.
377
378 * Patch by Stefan Roese, 17 Feb 2003:
379 Fixed bug in ext. serial clock setup on PPC405 (since PPC440 port).
380
381 * Patch by Stefan Roese, 13 Feb 2003:
382 Add "pcidelay" environment variable (in ms, enabled via
383 CONFIG_PCI_BOOTDELAY).
384 PCI spec 2.2 defines, that a pci target has 2^25 pci clocks after
385 RST# to respond to configuration cycles (33MHz -> 1s).
386
387 * Fix dual PCMCIA slot support (when running with just one
388 slot populated)
389
390 * Add VFD type detection to trab board
391
392 * extend drivers/cs8900.c driver to synchronize ethaddr environment
393 variable with value in the EEPROM
394
395 * Patch by Stefan Roese, 10 Feb 2003:
396 Add support for 4MB and 128MB onboard SDRAM (cpu/ppc4xx/sdram.c)
397
398 * Add support for MIPS32 4Kc CPUs
399
400 * Add support for INCA-IP Board
401
402 ======================================================================
403 Changes for U-Boot 0.2.2:
404 ======================================================================
405
406 * Add dual ethernet support on PM826
407
408 * Add support for LXT971 PHY on PM826
409
410 * Patch by Tord Andersson, 16 Jan 2003:
411 Fix flash sector count for TQM8xxL
412
413 * Fix I2C EEPROM problem on ICU862 board (would only write the first
414 16 bytes out of each 32 byte block)
415
416 ======================================================================
417 Changes for U-Boot 0.2.1:
418 ======================================================================
419
420 * Add support for V37 board
421 (patch by Jón Benediktsson, 11 Dec 2002)
422
423 * Update baudrate in bd_info when it gets changed
424
425 * Add watchdog trigger points while waiting for serial port
426 (so far only 8xx -- needed on LWMON with 100ms watchdog)
427
428 * Improve command line tool to access the U-Boot's environment
429 (figuration of the utility, using a config file)
430
431 * Add single quote support for (old) command line parser
432
433 * Switch LWMON board default config from FRAM to EEPROM;
434 in POST, EEPROM shows up on 8 addresses
435
436 ======================================================================
437 Changes for U-Boot 0.2.0:
438 ======================================================================
439
440 * Use 1-byte-read instead of -write for iprobe() function
441 Add i2c commands to PM826 config
442
443 * extend I2C POST code: check for list on known addresses
444
445 * Improve log buffer code; use "loglevel" to decide which messages
446 to log on the console, too (like in Linux); get rid of "logstart"
447
448 * Add command line tool to access the U-Boot's environment
449 (board-specific for TRAB now, to be fixed later)
450
451 * Patch by Hans-Joerg Frieden, 06 Dec 2002
452 Fix misc problems with AmigaOne support
453
454 * Patch by Chris Hallinan, 3 Dec 2002:
455 minor cleanup to the MPC8245 EPIC driver
456
457 * Patch by Pierre Aubert , 28 Nov 2002
458 Add support for external (SIU) interrupts on MPC8xx
459
460 * Patch by Pierre Aubert , 28 Nov 2002
461 Fix nested syscalls bug in standalone applications
462
463 * Patch by David Müller, 27 Nov 2002:
464 fix output of "pciinfo" command for CardBus bridge devices.
465
466 * Fix bug in TQM8260 board detection - boards got stuck when board ID
467 was not readable
468
469 * Add LED indication for IDE activity on KUP4K board
470
471 * Fix startup problems with VFD display on TRAB
472
473 * Patch by Pierre Aubert, 20 Nov 2002
474 Add driver for Epson SED13806 graphic controller.
475 Add support for BMP logos in cfb_console driver.
476
477 * Added support for both PCMCIA slots (at the same time!) on MPC8xx
478
479 * Patch by Rod Boyce, 21 Nov 2002:
480 fix PCMCIA on MBX8xx board
481
482 * Patch by Pierre Aubert , 21 Nov 2002
483 Add CFG_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR to make the offset of the
484 bootmode word in DPRAM configurable
485
486 * Patch by Daniel Engström, 18 Nov 2002:
487 Fixes for x86 port (mostly strings issues)
488
489 * Patch by Ken Chou, 18 Nov 2002:
490 Fix for natsemi NIC cards (DP83815)
491
492 * Patch by Pierre Aubert, 19 Nov 2002:
493 fix a bug for the MII configuration, and some warnings
494
495 * Patch by Thomas Frieden, 13 Nov 2002:
496 Add code for AmigaOne board
497 (preliminary merge to U-Boot, still WIP)
498
499 * Patch by Jon Diekema, 12 Nov 2002:
500 - Adding URL for IEEE OUI lookup
501 - Making the autoboot #defines dependent on CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
502 being defined.
503 - In the CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS #define, the root-on-initrd and
504 root-on-nfs macros are designed to switch how the default boot
505 method gets defined.
506
507 * Patch by Daniel Engström, 13 Nov 2002:
508 Add support for i386 architecture and AMD SC520 board
509
510 * Patch by Pierre Aubert, 12 Nov 2002:
511 Add support for DOS filesystem and booting from DOS floppy disk
512
513 * Patch by Jim Sandoz, 07 Nov 2002:
514 Increase number of network RX buffers (PKTBUFSRX in
515 "include/net.h") for EEPRO100 based boards (especially SP8240)
516 which showed "Receiver is not ready" errors when U-Boot was
517 processing the receive buffers slower than the network controller
518 was filling them.
519
520 * Patch by Andreas Oberritter, 09 Nov 2002:
521 Change behaviour of NetLoop(): return -1 for errors, filesize
522 otherwise; return code 0 is valid an means no file loaded - in this
523 case the environment still gets updated!
524
525 * Patches by Jon Diekema, 9 Nov 2002:
526 - improve ADC/DAC clocking on the SACSng board to align
527 the failing edges of LRCLK and SCLK
528 - sbc8260 configuration tweaks
529 - add status LED support for 82xx systems
530 - wire sspi/sspo commands into command handler; improved error
531 handlering
532 - add timestamp support and alternate memory test to the
533 SACSng configuration
534
535 * Patch by Vince Husovsky, 7 Nov 2002:
536 Add "-n" to linker options to get rid of "Not enough room for
537 program headers" problem
538
539 * Patch by David Müller, 05 Nov 2002
540 Rename CONFIG_PLL_INPUT_FREQ to CONFIG_SYS_CLK_FREQ
541 so we can use an already existing name
542
543 * Patch by Pierre Aubert, 05 Nov 2002
544 Hardware relatied improvments in FDC boot code
545
546 * Patch by Holger Schurig, 5 Nov 2002:
547 Make the PXA really change it's frequency
548
549 * Patch by Pierre Aubert, 05 Nov 2002
550 Add support for slave serial Spartan 2 FPGAs
551
552 * Fix uninitialized memory (MAC address) in 8xx SCC/FEC ethernet
553 drivers
554
555 * Add support for log buffer which can be passed to Linux kernel's
556 syslog mechanism; used especially for POST results.
557
558 * Patch by Klaus Heydeck, 31 Oct 2002:
559 Add initial support for kup4k board
560
561 * Patch by Robert Schwebel, 04 Nov 2002:
562 - use watchdog to reset PXA250 systems
563 - added progress callbacks to (some of the) ARM code
564 - update for Cogent CSB226 board
565
566 * Add support for FPS860 board
567
568 * Patch by Guillaume Alexandre,, 04 Nov 2002:
569 Improve PCI access on 32-bits Compact PCI bus
570
571 * Fix mdelay() on TRAB - this was still the debugging version with
572 seconds instead of ms.
573
574 * Patch by Robert Schwebel, 1 Nov 2002:
575 XScale related cleanup (affects all ARM boards)
576
577 * Cleanup of names and README.
578
579 ======================================================================
580 Notes for U-Boot 0.1.0:
581 ======================================================================
582
583 This is the initial version of "Das U-Boot", the Universal Boot Loader.
584
585 It is based on version 2.0.0 (the "Halloween Release") of PPCBoot.
586 For information about the history of the project please see the
587 PPCBoot project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot
588
589 ======================================================================