2 # (C) Copyright 2000 - 2013
3 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
5 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
11 This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
12 Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
13 processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
14 initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
17 The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
18 the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
19 header files in common, and special provision has been made to
20 support booting of Linux images.
22 Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
23 configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
24 implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
25 add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
26 code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
27 load and run it dynamically.
33 In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
34 Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
35 "working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
37 In case of problems see the CHANGELOG and CREDITS files to find out
38 who contributed the specific port. The boards.cfg file lists board
41 Note: There is no CHANGELOG file in the actual U-Boot source tree;
42 it can be created dynamically from the Git log using:
50 In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
51 U-Boot you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
52 <u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
53 on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
54 Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
55 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
58 Where to get source code:
59 =========================
61 The U-Boot source code is maintained in the git repository at
62 git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
63 http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
65 The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
66 any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
67 available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
70 Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
71 ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
77 - start from 8xxrom sources
78 - create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
80 - make it easier to add custom boards
81 - make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
82 - extend functions, especially:
83 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
86 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
87 - create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
88 - add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
89 - create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
90 - current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
96 The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
97 "U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
98 in source files etc.). Example:
100 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
102 File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
104 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
106 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
108 Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
109 the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
111 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
112 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
118 Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
119 were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
120 into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
121 names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
122 Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
123 releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
126 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
127 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
128 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candiate 1 for September 2010 release
134 /arch Architecture specific files
135 /arc Files generic to ARC architecture
136 /cpu CPU specific files
137 /arc700 Files specific to ARC 700 CPUs
138 /lib Architecture specific library files
139 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
140 /cpu CPU specific files
141 /arm720t Files specific to ARM 720 CPUs
142 /arm920t Files specific to ARM 920 CPUs
143 /at91 Files specific to Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU
144 /imx Files specific to Freescale MC9328 i.MX CPUs
145 /s3c24x0 Files specific to Samsung S3C24X0 CPUs
146 /arm926ejs Files specific to ARM 926 CPUs
147 /arm1136 Files specific to ARM 1136 CPUs
148 /pxa Files specific to Intel XScale PXA CPUs
149 /sa1100 Files specific to Intel StrongARM SA1100 CPUs
150 /lib Architecture specific library files
151 /avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture
152 /cpu CPU specific files
153 /lib Architecture specific library files
154 /blackfin Files generic to Analog Devices Blackfin architecture
155 /cpu CPU specific files
156 /lib Architecture specific library files
157 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
158 /cpu CPU specific files
159 /mcf52x2 Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF52x2 CPUs
160 /mcf5227x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5227x CPUs
161 /mcf532x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5329 CPUs
162 /mcf5445x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5445x CPUs
163 /mcf547x_8x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF547x_8x CPUs
164 /lib Architecture specific library files
165 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
166 /cpu CPU specific files
167 /lib Architecture specific library files
168 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
169 /cpu CPU specific files
170 /mips32 Files specific to MIPS32 CPUs
171 /mips64 Files specific to MIPS64 CPUs
172 /lib Architecture specific library files
173 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
174 /cpu CPU specific files
175 /n1213 Files specific to Andes Technology N1213 CPUs
176 /lib Architecture specific library files
177 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
178 /cpu CPU specific files
179 /lib Architecture specific library files
180 /openrisc Files generic to OpenRISC architecture
181 /cpu CPU specific files
182 /lib Architecture specific library files
183 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
184 /cpu CPU specific files
185 /74xx_7xx Files specific to Freescale MPC74xx and 7xx CPUs
186 /mpc5xx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xx CPUs
187 /mpc5xxx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xxx CPUs
188 /mpc8xx Files specific to Freescale MPC8xx CPUs
189 /mpc824x Files specific to Freescale MPC824x CPUs
190 /mpc8260 Files specific to Freescale MPC8260 CPUs
191 /mpc85xx Files specific to Freescale MPC85xx CPUs
192 /ppc4xx Files specific to AMCC PowerPC 4xx CPUs
193 /lib Architecture specific library files
194 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
195 /cpu CPU specific files
196 /sh2 Files specific to sh2 CPUs
197 /sh3 Files specific to sh3 CPUs
198 /sh4 Files specific to sh4 CPUs
199 /lib Architecture specific library files
200 /sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture
201 /cpu CPU specific files
202 /leon2 Files specific to Gaisler LEON2 SPARC CPU
203 /leon3 Files specific to Gaisler LEON3 SPARC CPU
204 /lib Architecture specific library files
205 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
206 /cpu CPU specific files
207 /lib Architecture specific library files
208 /api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
209 /board Board dependent files
210 /common Misc architecture independent functions
211 /disk Code for disk drive partition handling
212 /doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
213 /drivers Commonly used device drivers
214 /dts Contains Makefile for building internal U-Boot fdt.
215 /examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
216 /fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
217 /include Header Files
218 /lib Files generic to all architectures
219 /libfdt Library files to support flattened device trees
220 /lzma Library files to support LZMA decompression
221 /lzo Library files to support LZO decompression
223 /post Power On Self Test
224 /spl Secondary Program Loader framework
225 /tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
227 Software Configuration:
228 =======================
230 Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
231 rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
233 There are two classes of configuration variables:
235 * Configuration _OPTIONS_:
236 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
239 * Configuration _SETTINGS_:
240 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
241 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
244 Later we will add a configuration tool - probably similar to or even
245 identical to what's used for the Linux kernel. Right now, we have to
246 do the configuration by hand, which means creating some symbolic
247 links and editing some configuration files. We use the TQM8xxL boards
251 Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
252 ---------------------------------------------------
254 For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
255 configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_config".
257 Example: For a TQM823L module type:
262 For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the CPU type as well;
263 e.g. "make cogent_mpc8xx_config". And also configure the cogent
264 directory according to the instructions in cogent/README.
267 Configuration Options:
268 ----------------------
270 Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
271 such information is kept in a configuration file
272 "include/configs/<board_name>.h".
274 Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
275 "include/configs/TQM823L.h".
278 Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
279 kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
280 build a config tool - later.
283 The following options need to be configured:
285 - CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
287 - Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
289 - CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
290 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
292 - CPU Module Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
293 Define exactly one of
295 --- FIXME --- not tested yet:
296 CONFIG_CMA286_60, CONFIG_CMA286_21, CONFIG_CMA286_60P,
297 CONFIG_CMA287_23, CONFIG_CMA287_50
299 - Motherboard Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
300 Define exactly one of
301 CONFIG_CMA101, CONFIG_CMA102
303 - Motherboard I/O Modules: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
304 Define one or more of
307 - Motherboard Options: (if CONFIG_CMA101 or CONFIG_CMA102 are defined)
308 Define one or more of
309 CONFIG_LCD_HEARTBEAT - update a character position on
310 the LCD display every second with
313 - Board flavour: (if CONFIG_MPC8260ADS is defined)
316 CONFIG_SYS_8260ADS - original MPC8260ADS
317 CONFIG_SYS_8266ADS - MPC8266ADS
318 CONFIG_SYS_PQ2FADS - PQ2FADS-ZU or PQ2FADS-VR
319 CONFIG_SYS_8272ADS - MPC8272ADS
321 - Marvell Family Member
322 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
323 multiple fs option at one time
324 for marvell soc family
326 - MPC824X Family Member (if CONFIG_MPC824X is defined)
327 Define exactly one of
328 CONFIG_MPC8240, CONFIG_MPC8245
330 - 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
331 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
332 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
333 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
334 reference PIT/RTC clock
335 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
338 - 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
339 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
340 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
341 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
342 See doc/README.MPC866
344 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
346 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
347 of relying on the correctness of the configured
348 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
349 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
350 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
351 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
353 CONFIG_SYS_DELAYED_ICACHE
355 Define this option if you want to enable the
356 ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
361 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
362 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
363 compliance, among other possible reasons.
365 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
367 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
368 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
369 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
371 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
373 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
374 tree nodes for the given platform.
376 CONFIG_SYS_PPC_E500_DEBUG_TLB
378 Enables a temporary TLB entry to be used during boot to work
379 around limitations in e500v1 and e500v2 external debugger
380 support. This reduces the portions of the boot code where
381 breakpoints and single stepping do not work. The value of this
382 symbol should be set to the TLB1 entry to be used for this
385 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
387 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
388 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
389 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
391 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
392 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
394 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
395 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
397 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
398 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
399 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
400 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
402 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
405 CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
406 Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
407 requred during NOR boot.
409 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
411 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
412 according to the A004510 workaround.
414 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
415 This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
416 connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
418 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
419 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
420 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
422 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
423 This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
424 connected to the DSP core.
426 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
427 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
429 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
430 Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
431 In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
432 clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
434 CONFIG_SYS_CPC_REINIT_F
435 This CONFIG is defined when the CPC is configured as SRAM at the
436 time of U-boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
439 Inidcates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
440 supported, core will start to execute uboot when wakes up.
442 - Generic CPU options:
443 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
445 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
446 values is arch specific.
449 Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
450 found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx, mpc86xx as well as some ARM core
453 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
454 Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
456 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_EMU
457 Specify emulator support for DDR. Some DDR features such as
458 deskew training are not available.
460 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
461 Freescale DDR1 controller.
463 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
464 Freescale DDR2 controller.
466 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
467 Freescale DDR3 controller.
469 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN4
470 Freescale DDR4 controller.
472 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
473 Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
476 Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
477 Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
481 Board config to use DDR2. It can be eanbeld for SoCs with
482 Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
486 Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
487 Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
490 Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
494 Board config to use DDR4. It can be enabled for SoCs with
497 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
498 Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
500 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
501 Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
503 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_PBI
504 It enables addition of RCW (Power on reset configuration) in built image.
505 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
507 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_RCW
508 It adds PBI(pre-boot instructions) commands in u-boot build image.
509 PBI commands can be used to configure SoC before it starts the execution.
510 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
513 It adds a target to create boot binary having SPL binary in PBI format
514 concatenated with u-boot binary.
516 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
517 Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
519 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
520 Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
522 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
523 Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
524 same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for all Power SoCs. But
525 it could be different for ARM SoCs.
527 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
528 DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
529 interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
532 - Intel Monahans options:
533 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO
535 Defines the Monahans run mode to oscillator
536 ratio. Valid values are 8, 16, 24, 31. The core
537 frequency is this value multiplied by 13 MHz.
539 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_TURBO_RUN_MODE_RATIO
541 Defines the Monahans turbo mode to oscillator
542 ratio. Valid values are 1 (default if undefined) and
543 2. The core frequency as calculated above is multiplied
547 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
549 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
550 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
553 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
555 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
556 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
558 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
561 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
565 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
567 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
569 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
570 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
572 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
574 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
575 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
576 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
579 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
581 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
582 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
584 CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD
586 Use this flag to build U-Boot using the Thumb instruction
587 set for ARM architectures. Thumb instruction set provides
588 better code density. For ARM architectures that support
589 Thumb2 this flag will result in Thumb2 code generated by
592 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_716044
593 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_742230
594 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_743622
595 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_751472
596 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_794072
597 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_761320
599 If set, the workarounds for these ARM errata are applied early
600 during U-Boot startup. Note that these options force the
601 workarounds to be applied; no CPU-type/version detection
602 exists, unlike the similar options in the Linux kernel. Do not
603 set these options unless they apply!
608 The frequency of the timer returned by get_timer().
609 get_timer() must operate in milliseconds and this CONFIG
610 option must be set to 1000.
612 - Linux Kernel Interface:
615 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
616 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
617 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
618 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
619 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
620 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
622 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
623 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
626 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
628 When transferring memsize parameter to linux, some versions
629 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
630 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
634 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
635 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
639 * New libfdt-based support
640 * Adds the "fdt" command
641 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
643 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node (only required for
644 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
645 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node (only required for
646 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
647 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
648 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
650 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
653 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
655 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
656 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
660 This define fills in the correct boot CPU in the boot
661 param header, the default value is zero if undefined.
665 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
666 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
667 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
668 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
669 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
670 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
672 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
674 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
675 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
676 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
677 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
678 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
679 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
680 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
682 - vxWorks boot parameters:
684 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
685 environments variables: bootfile, ipaddr, serverip, hostname.
686 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
688 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_DEVICE - The vxworks device name
689 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_MAC_PTR - Ethernet 6 byte MA -address
690 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_SERVERNAME - Name of the server
691 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_ADDR - Address of boot parameters
693 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_ADD_PARAMS
695 Add it at the end of the bootline. E.g "u=username pw=secret"
697 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
698 the defaults discussed just above.
700 - Cache Configuration:
701 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
702 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
703 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
705 - Cache Configuration for ARM:
706 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
708 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
709 controller register space
714 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
718 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
722 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
723 the clock speed of the UARTs.
727 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
728 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
729 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
731 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_RLCR
733 Some vendor versions of PL011 serial ports (e.g. ST-Ericsson U8500)
734 have separate receive and transmit line control registers. Set
735 this variable to initialize the extra register.
737 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_FLUSH_ON_INIT
739 On some platforms (e.g. U8500) U-Boot is loaded by a second stage
740 boot loader that has already initialized the UART. Define this
741 variable to flush the UART at init time.
745 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port
746 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2,
747 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial
748 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE
750 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
751 port routines must be defined elsewhere
752 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
755 Enables console device for a color framebuffer. Needs following
756 defines (cf. smiLynxEM, i8042)
757 VIDEO_FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN graphic memory organisation
759 VIDEO_HW_RECTFILL graphic chip supports
762 VIDEO_HW_BITBLT graphic chip supports
763 bit-blit (cf. smiLynxEM)
764 VIDEO_VISIBLE_COLS visible pixel columns
766 VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS visible pixel rows
767 VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE bytes per pixel
768 VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT graphic data format
769 (0-5, cf. cfb_console.c)
770 VIDEO_FB_ADRS framebuffer address
771 VIDEO_KBD_INIT_FCT keyboard int fct
772 (i.e. i8042_kbd_init())
773 VIDEO_TSTC_FCT test char fct
775 VIDEO_GETC_FCT get char fct
777 CONFIG_CONSOLE_CURSOR cursor drawing on/off
778 (requires blink timer
780 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c)
781 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME display time/date info in
783 (requires CONFIG_CMD_DATE)
784 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO display Linux logo in
786 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO use bmp_logo.h instead of
787 linux_logo.h for logo.
788 Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
789 CONFIG_CONSOLE_EXTRA_INFO
790 additional board info beside
793 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE_ANSI is defined, console will support
794 a limited number of ANSI escape sequences (cursor control,
795 erase functions and limited graphics rendition control).
797 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is
798 default i/o. Serial console can be forced with
799 environment 'console=serial'.
801 When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console
802 messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with
803 the "silent" environment variable. See
804 doc/README.silent for more information.
806 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BG_COL: define the backgroundcolor, default
808 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_FG_COL: define the foregroundcolor, default
812 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
813 Select one of the baudrates listed in
814 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
815 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
817 - Console Rx buffer length
818 With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define
819 the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC.
820 This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible.
821 If using CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN also CONFIG_SYS_MAXIDLE
822 must be defined, to setup the maximum idle timeout for
825 - Pre-Console Buffer:
826 Prior to the console being initialised (i.e. serial UART
827 initialised etc) all console output is silently discarded.
828 Defining CONFIG_PRE_CONSOLE_BUFFER will cause U-Boot to
829 buffer any console messages prior to the console being
830 initialised to a buffer of size CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ
831 bytes located at CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR. The buffer is
832 a circular buffer, so if more than CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ
833 bytes are output before the console is initialised, the
834 earlier bytes are discarded.
836 'Sane' compilers will generate smaller code if
837 CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ is a power of 2
839 - Safe printf() functions
840 Define CONFIG_SYS_VSNPRINTF to compile in safe versions of
841 the printf() functions. These are defined in
842 include/vsprintf.h and include snprintf(), vsnprintf() and
843 so on. Code size increase is approximately 300-500 bytes.
844 If this option is not given then these functions will
845 silently discard their buffer size argument - this means
846 you are not getting any overflow checking in this case.
848 - Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds
849 Delay before automatically booting the default image;
850 set to -1 to disable autoboot.
851 set to -2 to autoboot with no delay and not check for abort
852 (even when CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK is defined).
854 See doc/README.autoboot for these options that
855 work with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY. None are required.
856 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
857 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_MIN
858 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
859 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT
860 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
861 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
862 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2
863 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR2
864 CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK
865 CONFIG_RESET_TO_RETRY
869 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
870 define a command string that is automatically executed
871 when no character is read on the console interface
872 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
875 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
876 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
877 environment value "bootargs".
879 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
880 The value of these goes into the environment as
881 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
882 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
886 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
887 Implements a mechanism for detecting a repeating reboot
889 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
892 If no softreset save registers are found on the hardware
893 "bootcount" is stored in the environment. To prevent a
894 saveenv on all reboots, the environment variable
895 "upgrade_available" is used. If "upgrade_available" is
896 0, "bootcount" is always 0, if "upgrade_available" is
897 1 "bootcount" is incremented in the environment.
898 So the Userspace Applikation must set the "upgrade_available"
899 and "bootcount" variable to 0, if a boot was successfully.
904 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
905 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
906 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
907 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
908 entering interactive mode.
910 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
911 automatically generated or modified. For an example
912 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
913 modified when the user holds down a certain
914 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
917 - Serial Download Echo Mode:
919 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
920 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
921 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
922 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
923 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
924 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
926 - Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
928 Select one of the baudrates listed in
929 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
932 Monitor commands can be included or excluded
933 from the build by using the #include files
934 <config_cmd_all.h> and #undef'ing unwanted
935 commands, or using <config_cmd_default.h>
936 and augmenting with additional #define's
939 The default command configuration includes all commands
940 except those marked below with a "*".
942 CONFIG_CMD_AES AES 128 CBC encrypt/decrypt
943 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
944 CONFIG_CMD_BDI bdinfo
945 CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger
946 CONFIG_CMD_BMP * BMP support
947 CONFIG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands
948 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD bootd
949 CONFIG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache
950 CONFIG_CMD_CLK * clock command support
951 CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo
952 CONFIG_CMD_CRC32 * crc32
953 CONFIG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time...
954 CONFIG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support
955 CONFIG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics
956 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510 * ds4510 I2C gpio commands
957 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO * ds4510 I2C info command
958 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM * ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
959 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST * ds4510 I2C rst command
960 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
961 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
962 CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV edit env variable
963 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
964 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
965 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_CALLBACK * display details about env callbacks
966 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_FLAGS * display details about env flags
967 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_EXISTS * check existence of env variable
968 CONFIG_CMD_EXPORTENV * export the environment
969 CONFIG_CMD_EXT2 * ext2 command support
970 CONFIG_CMD_EXT4 * ext4 command support
971 CONFIG_CMD_FS_GENERIC * filesystem commands (e.g. load, ls)
972 that work for multiple fs types
973 CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV saveenv
974 CONFIG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support
975 CONFIG_CMD_FAT * FAT command support
976 CONFIG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect
977 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support
978 CONFIG_CMD_FUSE * Device fuse support
979 CONFIG_CMD_GETTIME * Get time since boot
980 CONFIG_CMD_GO * the 'go' command (exec code)
981 CONFIG_CMD_GREPENV * search environment
982 CONFIG_CMD_HASH * calculate hash / digest
983 CONFIG_CMD_HWFLOW * RTS/CTS hw flow control
984 CONFIG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support
985 CONFIG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support
986 CONFIG_CMD_IMI iminfo
987 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS List all images found in NOR flash
988 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS_NAND * List all images found in NAND flash
989 CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support
990 CONFIG_CMD_IMPORTENV * import an environment
991 CONFIG_CMD_INI * import data from an ini file into the env
992 CONFIG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo
993 CONFIG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values
994 CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support
995 CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb
996 CONFIG_CMD_LDRINFO * ldrinfo (display Blackfin loader)
997 CONFIG_CMD_LINK_LOCAL * link-local IP address auto-configuration
999 CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb
1000 CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads
1001 CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM * print md5 message digest
1002 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
1003 CONFIG_CMD_MEMINFO * Display detailed memory information
1004 CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
1006 CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST * mtest
1007 CONFIG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc
1008 CONFIG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support
1009 CONFIG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands
1010 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS * MTD partition support
1011 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
1012 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
1013 CONFIG_CMD_NFS NFS support
1014 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X * PCA953x I2C gpio commands
1015 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
1016 CONFIG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo
1017 CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support
1018 CONFIG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
1020 CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O
1021 CONFIG_CMD_READ * Read raw data from partition
1022 CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump
1023 CONFIG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable
1024 CONFIG_CMD_SANDBOX * sb command to access sandbox features
1025 CONFIG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump
1026 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI * SCSI Support
1027 CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information
1028 (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
1029 CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access
1031 CONFIG_CMD_SF * Read/write/erase SPI NOR flash
1032 CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM * print sha1 memory digest
1033 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
1034 CONFIG_CMD_SOFTSWITCH * Soft switch setting command for BF60x
1035 CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support
1036 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
1037 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPSRV * TFTP transfer in server mode
1038 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPPUT * TFTP put command (upload)
1039 CONFIG_CMD_TIME * run command and report execution time (ARM specific)
1040 CONFIG_CMD_TIMER * access to the system tick timer
1041 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
1042 CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support
1043 CONFIG_CMD_MFSL * Microblaze FSL support
1044 CONFIG_CMD_XIMG Load part of Multi Image
1045 CONFIG_CMD_UUID * Generate random UUID or GUID string
1047 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
1048 support you can write:
1050 #include "config_cmd_all.h"
1051 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
1054 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
1056 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
1057 (configuration option CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know
1058 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data
1059 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or
1060 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be
1061 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other
1062 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an
1063 initial stack and some data.
1066 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
1068 - Regular expression support:
1070 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
1071 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
1072 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
1073 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
1077 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
1078 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
1079 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
1080 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
1081 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
1083 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
1084 be done using one of the two options below:
1087 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
1088 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
1089 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
1090 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
1091 the global data structure as gd->blob.
1094 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
1095 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
1096 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
1098 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
1100 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
1101 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
1102 still use the individual files if you need something more
1107 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
1108 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
1109 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260
1110 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
1111 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
1112 available, then no further board specific code should
1113 be needed to use it.
1116 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
1117 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
1118 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
1121 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
1122 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
1123 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
1124 version as printed by the "version" command.
1125 Any change to this variable will be reverted at the
1130 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
1131 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
1134 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx
1135 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
1136 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
1137 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
1138 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
1139 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
1140 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
1141 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
1142 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
1143 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
1144 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
1145 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
1148 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
1149 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
1152 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
1154 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
1155 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
1156 pins supported by a particular chip.
1158 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
1159 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
1161 - Timestamp Support:
1163 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
1164 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
1165 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
1166 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
1168 - Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
1169 Zero or more of the following:
1170 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
1171 CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION MS Dos partition table, traditional on the
1172 Intel architecture, USB sticks, etc.
1173 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
1174 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
1175 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
1177 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS Memory Technology Device partition table.
1179 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
1180 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at
1181 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
1184 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
1185 board configurations files but used nowhere!
1187 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
1188 be performed by calling the function
1189 ide_set_reset(int reset)
1190 which has to be defined in a board specific file
1195 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
1200 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
1201 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
1202 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
1203 support disks up to 2.1TB.
1205 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
1206 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
1210 At the moment only there is only support for the
1211 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
1212 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
1214 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
1215 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
1216 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
1217 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
1219 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
1221 The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
1222 SCSI devices found during the last scan.
1224 - NETWORK Support (PCI):
1226 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
1229 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
1230 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
1231 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
1233 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
1234 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
1235 example with the "sspi" command.
1238 Management command for E1000 devices. When used on devices
1239 with SPI support you can reprogram the EEPROM from U-Boot.
1241 CONFIG_E1000_FALLBACK_MAC
1242 default MAC for empty EEPROM after production.
1245 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
1246 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
1247 write routine for first time initialisation.
1250 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
1251 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
1252 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
1255 Support for National dp83815 chips.
1258 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
1260 - NETWORK Support (other):
1262 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
1263 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
1266 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
1268 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
1269 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
1270 The driver doen't show link status messages.
1272 CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
1273 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
1276 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
1278 CONFIG_LAN91C96_BASE
1279 Define this to hold the physical address
1280 of the LAN91C96's I/O space
1282 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
1283 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
1286 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
1288 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
1289 Define this to hold the physical address
1290 of the device (I/O space)
1292 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
1293 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1295 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
1296 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
1297 (some hardware wont work with macros)
1299 CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
1300 Support for davinci emac
1302 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
1303 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
1306 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
1308 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
1309 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
1310 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
1311 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
1312 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
1313 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
1314 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
1315 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
1318 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
1321 Define this to hold the physical address
1322 of the device (I/O space)
1324 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
1325 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1327 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
1328 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
1329 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
1330 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
1333 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
1335 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
1336 Define the number of ports to be used
1338 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1339 Define the ETH PHY's address
1341 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1342 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1346 Support TPM devices.
1349 Support for i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
1350 per system is supported at this time.
1352 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BUS_NUMBER
1353 Define the the i2c bus number for the TPM device
1355 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_SLAVE_ADDRESS
1356 Define the TPM's address on the i2c bus
1358 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
1359 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
1361 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
1362 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
1365 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1366 per system is supported at this time.
1368 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1369 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1370 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1374 Add tpm monitor functions.
1375 Requires CONFIG_TPM. If CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS is set, also
1376 provides monitor access to authorized functions.
1379 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
1380 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
1381 Requires support for a TPM device.
1383 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
1384 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
1385 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
1388 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
1389 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define
1390 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1391 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
1392 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
1395 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1397 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
1399 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
1403 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
1404 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
1405 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100
1406 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100
1407 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
1408 May be defined to allow interrupt polling
1409 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
1411 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1412 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1414 CONFIG_USB_HUB_MIN_POWER_ON_DELAY defines the minimum
1415 interval for usb hub power-on delay.(minimum 100msec)
1418 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1419 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1420 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
1421 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
1422 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1423 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
1424 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
1425 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1426 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1428 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1429 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1430 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1431 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
1434 Define this to build a UDC device
1437 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1438 talk to the UDC device
1441 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1442 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1443 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1444 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1445 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1448 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
1449 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1453 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
1454 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
1455 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
1457 CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0xBLAH
1458 Derive USB clock from brgclk
1459 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0x04
1461 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
1462 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
1463 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
1464 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1465 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1466 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1468 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1469 Define this string as the name of your company for
1470 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
1472 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1473 Define this string as the name of your product
1474 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1476 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1477 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1478 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1479 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1480 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
1482 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1483 Define this as the unique Product ID
1485 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
1487 Some USB device drivers may need to check USB cable attachment.
1488 In this case you can enable following config in BoardName.h:
1489 CONFIG_USB_CABLE_CHECK
1490 This enables function definition:
1491 - usb_cable_connected() in include/usb.h
1492 Implementation of this function is board-specific.
1494 - ULPI Layer Support:
1495 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1496 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1497 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1498 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1499 viewport is supported.
1500 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1501 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
1502 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1503 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1504 the appropriate value in Hz.
1507 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1508 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1509 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
1510 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
1511 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1512 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
1515 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1517 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1518 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1521 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1523 - USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
1525 This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class
1528 This enables the command "dfu" which is used to have
1529 U-Boot create a DFU class device via USB. This command
1530 requires that the "dfu_alt_info" environment variable be
1531 set and define the alt settings to expose to the host.
1534 This enables support for exposing (e)MMC devices via DFU.
1537 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
1540 This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
1541 Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
1542 allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
1543 one that would help mostly the developer.
1545 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
1546 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
1547 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
1548 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
1549 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
1551 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
1552 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
1553 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
1554 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
1555 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
1556 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
1558 DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
1559 Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
1560 host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
1561 a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
1563 DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
1564 Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
1565 entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
1566 sending again an USB request to the device.
1568 - Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1569 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE,
1570 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV
1571 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1573 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1574 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
1575 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1577 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART
1578 Define this to create an own partition. You have to provide a
1579 function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num)
1581 If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to
1582 #define CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_SINGLE_PART 1
1583 to disable the command chpart. This is the default when you
1584 have not defined a custom partition
1586 - FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem write function support:
1589 Define this to enable support for saving memory data as a
1590 file in FAT formatted partition.
1592 This will also enable the command "fatwrite" enabling the
1593 user to write files to FAT.
1595 CBFS (Coreboot Filesystem) support
1598 Define this to enable support for reading from a Coreboot
1599 filesystem. Available commands are cbfsinit, cbfsinfo, cbfsls
1605 Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard
1609 Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and
1610 GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support.
1611 Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc
1612 for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking.
1615 Enables a Chrome OS keyboard using the CROS_EC interface.
1616 This uses CROS_EC to communicate with a second microcontroller
1617 which provides key scans on request.
1622 Define this to enable video support (for output to
1625 CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000
1627 Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip
1629 CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM
1630 Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The
1631 video output is selected via environment 'videoout'
1632 (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is
1635 For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is
1636 selected via environment 'videomode'. Two different ways
1638 - "videomode=num" 'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers.
1639 Following standard modes are supported (* is default):
1641 Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024
1642 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1643 8 bits | 0x301* 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307
1644 15 bits | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319
1645 16 bits | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A
1646 24 bits | 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B
1647 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1648 (i.e. setenv videomode 317; saveenv; reset;)
1650 - "videomode=bootargs" all the video parameters are parsed
1651 from the bootargs. (See drivers/video/videomodes.c)
1654 CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806
1655 Enable Epson SED13806 driver. This driver supports 8bpp
1656 and 16bpp modes defined by CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_8BPP
1657 or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP
1660 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1661 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1662 support, and should also define these other macros:
1668 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1669 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1671 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1673 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1674 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1675 boot. See the documentation file README.video for a
1676 description of this variable.
1680 Enable the VGA video / BIOS for x86. The alternative if you
1681 are using coreboot is to use the coreboot frame buffer
1688 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1689 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1690 defined in your board-specific files.
1691 The only board using this so far is RBC823.
1693 - LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1695 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1696 display); also select one of the supported displays
1697 by defining one of these:
1701 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1703 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
1705 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
1707 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1709 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1710 Active, color, single scan.
1712 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1714 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
1715 Active, color, single scan.
1719 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1720 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1722 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1724 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1725 Active, color, single scan.
1729 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1730 Active, color, single scan.
1734 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1736 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1740 320x240. Black & white.
1742 Normally display is black on white background; define
1743 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
1745 CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
1747 Normally the LCD is page-aligned (tyically 4KB). If this is
1748 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
1749 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
1750 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
1751 a per-section basis.
1753 CONFIG_CONSOLE_SCROLL_LINES
1755 When the console need to be scrolled, this is the number of
1756 lines to scroll by. It defaults to 1. Increasing this makes
1757 the console jump but can help speed up operation when scrolling
1762 Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
1766 Enables an 'i2c edid' command which can read EDID
1767 information over I2C from an attached LCD display.
1769 - Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
1771 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1772 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1773 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
1774 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
1775 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1776 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1777 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1778 loaded very quickly after power-on.
1780 CONFIG_SPLASHIMAGE_GUARD
1782 If this option is set, then U-Boot will prevent the environment
1783 variable "splashimage" from being set to a problematic address
1784 (see README.displaying-bmps).
1785 This option is useful for targets where, due to alignment
1786 restrictions, an improperly aligned BMP image will cause a data
1787 abort. If you think you will not have problems with unaligned
1788 accesses (for example because your toolchain prevents them)
1789 there is no need to set this option.
1791 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1793 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1794 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1795 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1796 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1797 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1798 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1801 setenv splashpos m,m
1802 => image at center of screen
1804 setenv splashpos 30,20
1805 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1807 setenv splashpos -10,m
1808 => vertically centered image
1809 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1811 - Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1813 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1814 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1815 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1817 - Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1819 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1820 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1823 - Do compresssing for memory range:
1826 If this option is set, it would use zlib deflate method
1827 to compress the specified memory at its best effort.
1829 - Compression support:
1832 Enabled by default to support gzip compressed images.
1836 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1837 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1838 compressed images are supported.
1840 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
1841 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
1846 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1849 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1850 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1853 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1855 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1856 and Literal pos bits.
1858 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1859 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1860 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1861 a very small buffer.
1863 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1864 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
1865 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
1869 If this option is set, support for LZO compressed images
1875 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1877 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1879 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1883 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
1884 detection of gigabit PHY is included.
1886 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1888 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1889 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1890 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1891 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1893 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1895 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1896 command issued before MII status register can be read
1906 Define a default value for Ethernet address to use
1907 for the respective Ethernet interface, in case this
1908 is not determined automatically.
1913 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
1914 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
1915 determined through e.g. bootp.
1916 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
1918 - Server IP address:
1921 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
1922 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1923 (Environment variable "serverip")
1925 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1927 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1928 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1930 - Gateway IP address:
1933 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1934 default router where packets to other networks are
1936 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1941 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1942 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1943 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1944 forwarded through a router.
1945 (Environment variable "netmask")
1947 - Multicast TFTP Mode:
1950 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1951 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
1952 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
1953 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1956 - BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1957 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1959 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1960 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1961 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1962 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1963 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1964 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1965 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1966 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
1967 following delays are inserted then:
1969 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1970 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1971 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1973 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1975 - DHCP Advanced Options:
1976 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1977 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1979 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1980 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1981 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1982 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1983 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1984 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1987 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1988 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1989 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1990 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
1991 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
1993 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1994 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
1996 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1997 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1998 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1999 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
2002 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
2003 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
2004 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
2005 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
2006 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
2007 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
2008 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
2011 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
2012 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
2013 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
2014 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
2015 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
2016 option 12 to the DHCP server.
2018 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
2020 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
2021 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
2022 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
2023 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
2024 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
2025 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
2026 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
2027 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
2028 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
2029 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
2032 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
2033 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
2034 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
2035 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
2036 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
2038 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
2041 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
2043 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
2045 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
2047 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
2052 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
2053 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
2054 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
2056 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
2058 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
2059 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
2063 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
2067 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
2071 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
2073 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
2075 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
2076 device in .1 of milliwatts.
2078 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
2080 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
2082 - Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED
2084 Several configurations allow to display the current
2085 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
2086 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
2087 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
2088 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
2089 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
2090 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this
2096 The status LED can be connected to a GPIO pin.
2097 In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
2098 status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_GPIO_LED
2099 to include the gpio_led driver in the U-Boot binary.
2101 CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE
2102 Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
2103 case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
2104 GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
2105 In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
2106 with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
2108 - CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
2110 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
2111 on those systems that support this (optional)
2112 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
2114 - I2C Support: CONFIG_SYS_I2C
2116 This enable the NEW i2c subsystem, and will allow you to use
2117 i2c commands at the u-boot command line (as long as you set
2118 CONFIG_CMD_I2C in CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c
2119 based realtime clock chips or other i2c devices. See
2120 common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the command line
2123 ported i2c driver to the new framework:
2124 - drivers/i2c/soft_i2c.c:
2125 - activate first bus with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT define
2126 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE
2127 for defining speed and slave address
2128 - activate second bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS2 define
2129 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_2 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_2
2130 for defining speed and slave address
2131 - activate third bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS3 define
2132 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_3 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_3
2133 for defining speed and slave address
2134 - activate fourth bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS4 define
2135 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_4 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_4
2136 for defining speed and slave address
2138 - drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c:
2139 - activate i2c driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_FSL
2140 define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_OFFSET for setting the register
2141 offset CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SPEED for the i2c speed and
2142 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SLAVE for the slave addr of the first
2144 - If your board supports a second fsl i2c bus, define
2145 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_OFFSET for the register offset
2146 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SPEED for the speed and
2147 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SLAVE for the slave address of the
2150 - drivers/i2c/tegra_i2c.c:
2151 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_TEGRA
2152 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses with a fix speed from
2153 100000 and the slave addr 0!
2155 - drivers/i2c/ppc4xx_i2c.c
2156 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX
2157 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
2158 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
2160 - drivers/i2c/i2c_mxc.c
2161 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC
2162 - define speed for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SPEED
2163 - define slave for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SLAVE
2164 - define speed for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SPEED
2165 - define slave for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SLAVE
2166 - define speed for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SPEED
2167 - define slave for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SLAVE
2168 If thoses defines are not set, default value is 100000
2169 for speed, and 0 for slave.
2171 - drivers/i2c/rcar_i2c.c:
2172 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RCAR
2173 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses
2175 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_BASE for setting the register channel 0
2176 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_SPEED for for the speed channel 0
2177 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_BASE for setting the register channel 1
2178 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_SPEED for for the speed channel 1
2179 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_BASE for setting the register channel 2
2180 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_SPEED for for the speed channel 2
2181 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_BASE for setting the register channel 3
2182 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_SPEED for for the speed channel 3
2183 - CONFIF_SYS_RCAR_I2C_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
2185 - drivers/i2c/sh_i2c.c:
2186 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH
2187 - This driver adds from 2 to 5 i2c buses
2189 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE0 for setting the register channel 0
2190 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED0 for for the speed channel 0
2191 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE1 for setting the register channel 1
2192 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED1 for for the speed channel 1
2193 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE2 for setting the register channel 2
2194 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED2 for for the speed channel 2
2195 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE3 for setting the register channel 3
2196 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED3 for for the speed channel 3
2197 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE4 for setting the register channel 4
2198 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED4 for for the speed channel 4
2199 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE5 for setting the register channel 5
2200 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED5 for for the speed channel 5
2201 - CONFIF_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for nummber of i2c buses
2203 - drivers/i2c/omap24xx_i2c.c
2204 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_OMAP24XX
2205 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED speed channel 0
2206 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE slave addr channel 0
2207 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED1 speed channel 1
2208 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE1 slave addr channel 1
2209 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED2 speed channel 2
2210 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE2 slave addr channel 2
2211 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED3 speed channel 3
2212 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE3 slave addr channel 3
2213 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED4 speed channel 4
2214 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE4 slave addr channel 4
2216 - drivers/i2c/zynq_i2c.c
2217 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ
2218 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SPEED for speed setting
2219 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SLAVE for slave addr
2221 - drivers/i2c/s3c24x0_i2c.c:
2222 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_S3C24X0
2223 - This driver adds i2c buses (11 for Exynos5250, Exynos5420
2224 9 i2c buses for Exynos4 and 1 for S3C24X0 SoCs from Samsung)
2225 with a fix speed from 100000 and the slave addr 0!
2229 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
2230 Hold the number of i2c busses you want to use. If you
2231 don't use/have i2c muxes on your i2c bus, this
2232 is equal to CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_ADAPTERS, and you can
2235 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
2236 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
2237 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
2240 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
2241 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
2242 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
2245 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
2246 hold a list of busses you want to use, only used if
2247 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
2248 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
2249 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
2251 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
2252 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
2253 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
2254 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
2255 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
2256 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
2257 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
2258 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
2259 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
2263 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
2264 bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
2265 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
2266 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
2267 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
2268 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
2269 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
2270 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
2271 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
2273 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
2275 - Legacy I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C
2277 NOTE: It is intended to move drivers to CONFIG_SYS_I2C which
2278 provides the following compelling advantages:
2280 - more than one i2c adapter is usable
2281 - approved multibus support
2282 - better i2c mux support
2284 ** Please consider updating your I2C driver now. **
2286 These enable legacy I2C serial bus commands. Defining
2287 CONFIG_HARD_I2C will include the appropriate I2C driver
2288 for the selected CPU.
2290 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
2291 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
2292 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
2293 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
2294 command line interface.
2296 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
2298 There are several other quantities that must also be
2299 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
2301 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
2302 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
2303 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
2304 the CPU's i2c node address).
2306 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
2307 (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
2308 and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
2309 eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
2310 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
2312 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
2314 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
2315 chips might think that the current transfer is still
2316 in progress. Reset the slave devices by sending start
2317 commands until the slave device responds.
2319 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
2321 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
2322 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
2323 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
2327 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
2328 controller or configure ports.
2330 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
2334 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
2335 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
2336 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
2340 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
2341 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
2344 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
2348 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
2349 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
2352 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
2356 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
2359 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
2363 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
2364 is false, it clears it (low).
2366 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
2367 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
2368 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
2372 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
2373 is false, it clears it (low).
2375 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
2376 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
2377 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
2381 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
2382 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
2383 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
2386 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
2388 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
2390 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
2391 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
2392 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
2393 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
2395 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
2396 the generic GPIO functions.
2398 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
2400 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
2401 chips might think that the current transfer is still
2402 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
2403 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
2404 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
2405 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
2406 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
2407 is run early in the boot sequence.
2409 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
2411 An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
2412 defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
2413 boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
2414 is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
2415 using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
2416 controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
2417 i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
2418 controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
2420 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
2422 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
2423 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
2424 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
2426 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2428 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
2429 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
2430 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
2431 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
2433 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
2435 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
2436 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2437 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
2438 a 1D array of device addresses
2441 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2442 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
2444 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
2446 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2447 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MULTI_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
2449 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
2451 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
2453 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
2454 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
2456 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
2458 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
2459 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
2461 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
2463 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
2464 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
2466 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
2468 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
2469 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
2470 specified DTT device.
2472 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
2474 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
2475 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
2476 between writing the address pointer and reading the
2477 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
2478 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
2479 devices can use either method, but some require one or
2482 - SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
2484 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
2485 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
2486 D/As on the SACSng board)
2490 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
2491 only SH7757 is supported.
2495 Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing.
2496 (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X)
2500 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
2501 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
2502 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
2503 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
2504 defined, the board configuration must define several
2505 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
2506 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
2510 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
2511 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
2512 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
2513 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
2514 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
2518 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
2519 SoCs. Currently i.MX31/35/51 are supported.
2521 - FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
2523 Enables FPGA subsystem.
2525 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
2527 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
2530 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
2532 Enables support for FPGA family.
2533 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
2537 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
2539 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
2541 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
2543 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
2545 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
2546 status by the configuration function. This option
2547 will require a board or device specific function to
2552 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
2553 configuration driver.
2555 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
2556 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2558 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
2560 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2561 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2562 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2563 indicated a CRC error).
2565 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
2567 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert
2568 after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II
2569 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
2572 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
2574 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during
2575 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
2577 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
2579 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
2582 - Configuration Management:
2585 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2586 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
2588 - Vendor Parameter Protection:
2590 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2591 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
2592 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
2593 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2594 protects these variables from casual modification by
2595 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2596 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
2597 change this behaviour:
2599 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2600 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
2601 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
2604 Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR
2605 _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
2606 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
2607 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2608 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2611 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
2612 for any variable by configuring the type of access
2613 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
2614 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
2619 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2620 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2621 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2622 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2623 this default value by defining an environment
2624 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2625 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2626 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2627 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2628 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2629 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2630 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2632 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
2635 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2636 either, which results in a memory region that will
2637 not be affected by reboots.
2639 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2640 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2641 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2642 following board configurations are known to be
2645 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
2646 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2649 - Access to physical memory region (> 4GB)
2650 Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not
2651 normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures
2652 support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit
2653 machines using physical address extension or similar.
2654 Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which
2655 currently only supports clearing the memory.
2660 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
2661 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
2662 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
2663 system where you want the system to reboot
2664 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
2665 useful during development since you can try to debug
2666 the conditions that lead to the situation.
2668 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2670 This variable defines the number of retries for
2671 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2672 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2673 default value of 5 is used.
2677 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2681 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2682 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2683 try longer timeout such as
2684 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2686 - Command Interpreter:
2687 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
2689 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
2691 Note that this feature has NOT been implemented yet
2692 for the "hush" shell.
2695 CONFIG_SYS_HUSH_PARSER
2697 Define this variable to enable the "hush" shell (from
2698 Busybox) as command line interpreter, thus enabling
2699 powerful command line syntax like
2700 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||'
2701 constructs ("shell scripts").
2703 If undefined, you get the old, much simpler behaviour
2704 with a somewhat smaller memory footprint.
2707 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
2709 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2710 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2711 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2715 In the current implementation, the local variables
2716 space and global environment variables space are
2717 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2718 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2719 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2720 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2721 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
2723 Global environment variables are those you use
2724 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2725 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2726 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
2728 To store commands and special characters in a
2729 variable, please use double quotation marks
2730 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2731 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2734 - Commandline Editing and History:
2735 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
2737 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
2738 commandline input operations
2740 - Default Environment:
2741 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2743 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2744 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
2745 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2747 For example, place something like this in your
2748 board's config file:
2750 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2754 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2755 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2756 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2757 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
2758 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
2759 You better know what you are doing here.
2761 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2762 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
2763 the environment like the "source" command or the
2766 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_CONFIG
2768 Define this in order to add variables describing the
2769 U-Boot build configuration to the default environment.
2770 These will be named arch, cpu, board, vendor, and soc.
2772 Enabling this option will cause the following to be defined:
2780 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG
2782 Define this in order to add variables describing certain
2783 run-time determined information about the hardware to the
2784 environment. These will be named board_name, board_rev.
2786 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
2788 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
2789 intialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
2790 that so that the environment is not available until
2791 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
2792 this is instead controlled by the value of
2793 /config/load-environment.
2795 - DataFlash Support:
2796 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
2798 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
2799 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
2802 - Serial Flash support
2805 Defining this option enables SPI flash commands
2806 'sf probe/read/write/erase/update'.
2808 Usage requires an initial 'probe' to define the serial
2809 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2812 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2813 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2814 flash is present on the system.
2816 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2817 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2818 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2819 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2823 Define this option to include a destructive SPI flash
2826 CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_BAR Ban/Extended Addr Reg
2828 Define this option to use the Bank addr/Extended addr
2829 support on SPI flashes which has size > 16Mbytes.
2831 CONFIG_SF_DUAL_FLASH Dual flash memories
2833 Define this option to use dual flash support where two flash
2834 memories can be connected with a given cs line.
2835 currently Xilinx Zynq qspi support these type of connections.
2837 - SystemACE Support:
2840 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
2841 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
2842 of the chip must also be defined in the
2843 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
2845 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
2846 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
2848 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
2849 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
2851 - TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2854 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
2855 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
2856 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
2857 number generator is used.
2859 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2860 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2861 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2863 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
2864 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2865 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2866 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2867 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2868 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2869 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2874 This enables a generic 'hash' command which can produce
2875 hashes / digests from a few algorithms (e.g. SHA1, SHA256).
2879 Enable the hash verify command (hash -v). This adds to code
2882 CONFIG_SHA1 - support SHA1 hashing
2883 CONFIG_SHA256 - support SHA256 hashing
2885 Note: There is also a sha1sum command, which should perhaps
2886 be deprecated in favour of 'hash sha1'.
2888 - Freescale i.MX specific commands:
2889 CONFIG_CMD_HDMIDETECT
2890 This enables 'hdmidet' command which returns true if an
2891 HDMI monitor is detected. This command is i.MX 6 specific.
2894 This enables the 'bmode' (bootmode) command for forcing
2895 a boot from specific media.
2897 This is useful for forcing the ROM's usb downloader to
2898 activate upon a watchdog reset which is nice when iterating
2899 on U-Boot. Using the reset button or running bmode normal
2900 will set it back to normal. This command currently
2901 supports i.MX53 and i.MX6.
2906 This enables the RSA algorithm used for FIT image verification
2907 in U-Boot. See doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt for more information.
2909 The signing part is build into mkimage regardless of this
2912 - bootcount support:
2913 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
2915 This enables the bootcounter support, see:
2916 http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
2919 enable special bootcounter support on at91sam9xe based boards.
2921 enable special bootcounter support on blackfin based boards.
2923 enable special bootcounter support on da850 based boards.
2924 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_RAM
2925 enable support for the bootcounter in RAM
2926 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_I2C
2927 enable support for the bootcounter on an i2c (like RTC) device.
2928 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RTC_ADDR = i2c chip address
2929 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR = i2c addr which is used for
2931 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ALEN = address len
2933 - Show boot progress:
2934 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2936 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2937 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2938 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2939 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2940 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2941 the following checkpoints are implemented:
2943 - Detailed boot stage timing
2945 Define this option to get detailed timing of each stage
2946 of the boot process.
2948 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_USER_COUNT
2949 This is the number of available user bootstage records.
2950 Each time you call bootstage_mark(BOOTSTAGE_ID_ALLOC, ...)
2951 a new ID will be allocated from this stash. If you exceed
2952 the limit, recording will stop.
2954 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_REPORT
2955 Define this to print a report before boot, similar to this:
2957 Timer summary in microseconds:
2960 3,575,678 3,575,678 board_init_f start
2961 3,575,695 17 arch_cpu_init A9
2962 3,575,777 82 arch_cpu_init done
2963 3,659,598 83,821 board_init_r start
2964 3,910,375 250,777 main_loop
2965 29,916,167 26,005,792 bootm_start
2966 30,361,327 445,160 start_kernel
2968 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTSTAGE
2969 Add a 'bootstage' command which supports printing a report
2970 and un/stashing of bootstage data.
2972 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_FDT
2973 Stash the bootstage information in the FDT. A root 'bootstage'
2974 node is created with each bootstage id as a child. Each child
2975 has a 'name' property and either 'mark' containing the
2976 mark time in microsecond, or 'accum' containing the
2977 accumulated time for that bootstage id in microseconds.
2982 name = "board_init_f";
2991 Code in the Linux kernel can find this in /proc/devicetree.
2993 Legacy uImage format:
2996 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
2997 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
2998 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
2999 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
3000 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
3001 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
3002 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
3003 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
3004 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
3005 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
3006 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
3007 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
3008 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
3009 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
3010 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
3011 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
3013 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
3014 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
3015 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
3016 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
3017 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
3018 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
3019 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
3020 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
3021 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
3022 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
3024 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
3026 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
3027 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
3028 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
3030 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
3031 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
3032 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
3033 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
3034 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
3035 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
3036 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
3037 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
3038 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
3039 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
3040 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
3041 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
3042 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
3043 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
3044 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
3045 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
3046 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
3047 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
3048 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
3049 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
3050 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
3051 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
3052 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
3053 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
3054 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
3055 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
3056 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
3057 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
3058 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
3059 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
3060 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
3061 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
3062 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
3063 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
3064 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
3065 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
3066 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
3067 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
3068 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
3069 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
3070 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
3071 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
3072 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
3073 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
3074 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
3075 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
3076 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
3078 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
3080 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
3081 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
3082 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
3084 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
3085 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling NetLoop()
3086 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in NetLoop() occurred
3087 81 common/cmd_net.c NetLoop() back without error
3088 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
3089 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
3090 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
3091 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
3092 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
3097 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
3098 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
3099 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
3100 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
3101 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
3102 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
3103 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
3104 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
3105 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
3106 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
3107 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
3108 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
3109 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
3110 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
3111 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
3112 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
3113 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
3114 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
3115 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
3116 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
3117 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
3118 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
3120 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
3121 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
3122 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
3123 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
3124 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
3125 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
3126 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
3127 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
3128 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
3129 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
3130 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
3131 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
3132 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
3133 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
3134 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
3135 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
3137 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
3138 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
3140 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
3141 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
3143 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
3144 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
3146 - FIT image support:
3148 Enable support for the FIT uImage format.
3150 CONFIG_FIT_BEST_MATCH
3151 When no configuration is explicitly selected, default to the
3152 one whose fdt's compatibility field best matches that of
3153 U-Boot itself. A match is considered "best" if it matches the
3154 most specific compatibility entry of U-Boot's fdt's root node.
3155 The order of entries in the configuration's fdt is ignored.
3157 CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE
3158 This option enables signature verification of FIT uImages,
3159 using a hash signed and verified using RSA. See
3160 doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt for more details.
3162 - Standalone program support:
3163 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
3165 This option defines a board specific value for the
3166 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
3167 overwriting the architecture dependent default
3170 - Frame Buffer Address:
3173 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
3174 address for frame buffer. This is typically the case
3175 when using a graphics controller has separate video
3176 memory. U-Boot will then place the frame buffer at
3177 the given address instead of dynamically reserving it
3178 in system RAM by calling lcd_setmem(), which grabs
3179 the memory for the frame buffer depending on the
3180 configured panel size.
3182 Please see board_init_f function.
3184 - Automatic software updates via TFTP server
3186 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
3187 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
3189 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
3190 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
3192 - MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
3195 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
3196 Needed for mtdparts command support.
3198 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
3200 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
3201 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
3206 Adds commands for interacting with MTD partitions formatted
3207 with the UBI flash translation layer
3209 Requires also defining CONFIG_RBTREE
3211 CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
3213 Make the verbose messages from UBI stop printing. This leaves
3214 warnings and errors enabled.
3219 Adds commands for interacting with UBI volumes formatted as
3220 UBIFS. UBIFS is read-only in u-boot.
3222 Requires UBI support as well as CONFIG_LZO
3224 CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
3226 Make the verbose messages from UBIFS stop printing. This leaves
3227 warnings and errors enabled.
3231 Enable building of SPL globally.
3234 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
3236 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT
3237 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL, BSS included.
3238 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory
3239 used by SPL from _start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
3240 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
3241 must not be both defined at the same time.
3244 Maximum size of the SPL image (text, data, rodata, and
3245 linker lists sections), BSS excluded.
3246 When defined, the linker checks that the actual size does
3249 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
3250 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
3252 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
3253 Address to relocate to. If unspecified, this is equal to
3254 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
3256 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
3257 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
3259 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
3260 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL BSS.
3261 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory used
3262 by SPL from __bss_start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
3263 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
3264 must not be both defined at the same time.
3267 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
3269 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
3270 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
3271 relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
3274 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
3275 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
3277 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
3278 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
3280 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK
3281 Enable the SPL framework under common/. This framework
3282 supports MMC, NAND and YMODEM loading of U-Boot and NAND
3283 NAND loading of the Linux Kernel.
3285 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
3286 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
3287 about the running system.
3289 CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
3290 Arch init code should be built for a very small image
3292 CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
3293 Support for common/libcommon.o in SPL binary
3295 CONFIG_SPL_LIBDISK_SUPPORT
3296 Support for disk/libdisk.o in SPL binary
3298 CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT
3299 Support for drivers/i2c/libi2c.o in SPL binary
3301 CONFIG_SPL_GPIO_SUPPORT
3302 Support for drivers/gpio/libgpio.o in SPL binary
3304 CONFIG_SPL_MMC_SUPPORT
3305 Support for drivers/mmc/libmmc.o in SPL binary
3307 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR,
3308 CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_MAX_SIZE_SECTORS,
3309 CONFIG_SYS_MMC_SD_FAT_BOOT_PARTITION
3310 Address, size and partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from
3311 when the MMC is being used in raw mode.
3313 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_KERNEL_SECTOR
3314 Sector to load kernel uImage from when MMC is being
3315 used in raw mode (for Falcon mode)
3317 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTOR,
3318 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTORS
3319 Sector and number of sectors to load kernel argument
3320 parameters from when MMC is being used in raw mode
3323 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT
3324 Support for fs/fat/libfat.o in SPL binary
3326 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
3327 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from FAT
3329 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_LOAD_KERNEL_NAME
3330 Filename to read to load kernel uImage when reading
3331 from FAT (for Falcon mode)
3333 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_LOAD_ARGS_NAME
3334 Filename to read to load kernel argument parameters
3335 when reading from FAT (for Falcon mode)
3337 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
3338 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
3339 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
3340 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
3341 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
3343 CONFIG_SPL_SKIP_RELOCATE
3344 Avoid SPL relocation
3346 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE
3347 Include nand_base.c in the SPL. Requires
3348 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS.
3350 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS
3351 SPL uses normal NAND drivers, not minimal drivers.
3354 Include standard software ECC in the SPL
3356 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
3357 Support for NAND boot using simple NAND drivers that
3358 expose the cmd_ctrl() interface.
3360 CONFIG_SPL_MPC8XXX_INIT_DDR_SUPPORT
3361 Set for the SPL on PPC mpc8xxx targets, support for
3362 drivers/ddr/fsl/libddr.o in SPL binary.
3364 CONFIG_SPL_COMMON_INIT_DDR
3365 Set for common ddr init with serial presence detect in
3368 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
3369 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
3370 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
3371 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
3372 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
3373 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
3376 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BOOT
3377 Add support NAND boot
3379 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
3380 Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
3382 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
3383 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
3385 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
3386 Size of image to load
3388 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
3389 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
3391 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
3392 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
3393 data. This is used for example on davinci plattforms.
3395 CONFIG_SPL_OMAP3_ID_NAND
3396 Support for an OMAP3-specific set of functions to return the
3397 ID and MFR of the first attached NAND chip, if present.
3399 CONFIG_SPL_SERIAL_SUPPORT
3400 Support for drivers/serial/libserial.o in SPL binary
3402 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_FLASH_SUPPORT
3403 Support for drivers/mtd/spi/libspi_flash.o in SPL binary
3405 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUPPORT
3406 Support for drivers/spi/libspi.o in SPL binary
3408 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
3409 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
3411 CONFIG_SPL_LIBGENERIC_SUPPORT
3412 Support for lib/libgeneric.o in SPL binary
3414 CONFIG_SPL_ENV_SUPPORT
3415 Support for the environment operating in SPL binary
3417 CONFIG_SPL_NET_SUPPORT
3418 Support for the net/libnet.o in SPL binary.
3419 It conflicts with SPL env from storage medium specified by
3420 CONFIG_ENV_IS_xxx but CONFIG_ENV_IS_NOWHERE
3423 Image offset to which the SPL should be padded before appending
3424 the SPL payload. By default, this is defined as
3425 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
3426 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
3427 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
3430 Final target image containing SPL and payload. Some SPLs
3431 use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
3432 example if more than one image needs to be produced.
3434 CONFIG_FIT_SPL_PRINT
3435 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
3436 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
3437 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
3438 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
3442 Enable building of TPL globally.
3445 Image offset to which the TPL should be padded before appending
3446 the TPL payload. By default, this is defined as
3447 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
3448 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
3449 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
3454 [so far only for SMDK2400 boards]
3456 - Modem support enable:
3457 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT
3459 - RTS/CTS Flow control enable:
3462 - Modem debug support:
3463 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG
3465 Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg())
3466 for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000.
3468 - Interrupt support (PPC):
3470 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
3471 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
3472 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
3473 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
3474 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
3475 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
3476 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
3477 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
3478 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
3479 general timer_interrupt().
3483 In the target system modem support is enabled when a
3484 specific key (key combination) is pressed during
3485 power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally
3486 (autoboot). The key_pressed() function is called from
3487 board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy
3488 function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem
3491 If there are no modem init strings in the
3492 environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the
3493 previous output (banner, info printfs) will be
3496 See also: doc/README.Modem
3498 Board initialization settings:
3499 ------------------------------
3501 During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
3502 to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
3503 before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
3504 following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
3505 architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
3506 typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
3508 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
3509 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
3510 - CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
3511 - CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
3513 Configuration Settings:
3514 -----------------------
3516 - CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit.
3517 Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.
3519 - CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
3520 undefine this when you're short of memory.
3522 - CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
3523 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
3525 - CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
3526 prompt for user input.
3528 - CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
3530 - CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
3532 - CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
3534 - CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
3535 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
3538 - CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
3539 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
3541 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET
3542 Suppress display of console information at boot.
3544 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
3545 If the board specific function
3546 extern int overwrite_console (void);
3547 returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the
3548 serial port, else the settings in the environment are used.
3550 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE
3551 Enable the call to overwrite_console().
3553 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE
3554 Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings.
3556 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
3557 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
3560 - CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
3561 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
3563 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
3564 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
3565 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
3567 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE (PPC only):
3568 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
3569 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
3570 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
3571 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
3572 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
3573 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
3574 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
3575 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
3576 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
3578 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
3579 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
3582 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
3583 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
3584 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
3585 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
3588 - CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
3589 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
3591 - CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
3592 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
3594 - CONFIG_SYS_MBIO_BASE:
3595 Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a
3598 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
3599 Physical start address of Flash memory.
3601 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
3602 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
3603 make config files to be same as the text base address
3604 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
3605 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
3607 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
3608 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
3609 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
3610 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
3613 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
3614 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
3616 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
3617 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
3618 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
3619 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
3620 to adjust this setting to your needs.
3622 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
3623 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
3624 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
3625 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
3626 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
3627 environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
3628 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
3629 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
3630 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
3631 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
3632 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
3634 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
3635 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
3636 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
3639 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
3640 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
3641 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3643 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
3644 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
3645 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3647 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
3648 Max number of Flash memory banks
3650 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
3651 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
3653 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
3654 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
3656 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
3657 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
3659 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
3660 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
3662 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
3663 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
3665 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
3666 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
3667 instead of U-Boot software protection.
3669 - CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
3671 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
3672 without this option such a download has to be
3673 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
3674 copy from RAM to flash.
3676 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
3677 you can check if the download worked before you erase
3678 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
3679 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
3680 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
3682 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
3683 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
3684 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
3686 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
3687 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
3688 in the drivers directory
3690 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
3691 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
3692 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
3695 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
3696 Use buffered writes to flash.
3698 - CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
3699 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
3702 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
3703 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
3704 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
3705 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
3706 optionally available.
3708 - CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
3709 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
3710 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
3711 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
3713 - CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY
3714 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
3715 against the source after the write operation. An error message
3716 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
3717 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
3718 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
3719 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
3720 this option if you really know what you are doing.
3722 - CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
3723 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
3724 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
3725 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
3726 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
3727 on high Ethernet traffic.
3728 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
3730 - CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
3732 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
3733 internally to store the environment settings. The default
3734 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
3735 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
3736 lib/hashtable.c for details.
3738 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3739 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3740 Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when
3741 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
3742 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
3743 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
3745 The format of the list is:
3746 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
3747 access_atribute = [a|r|o|c]
3748 attributes = type_attribute[access_atribute]
3749 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
3752 The type attributes are:
3753 s - String (default)
3756 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
3760 The access attributes are:
3766 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3767 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
3768 envirnoment variable in the default or embedded environment.
3770 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3771 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
3772 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
3773 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
3774 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
3777 - CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
3778 If defined, don't allow the -f switch to env set override variable
3781 - CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD
3782 This selects the architecture-generic board system instead of the
3783 architecture-specific board files. It is intended to move boards
3784 to this new framework over time. Defining this will disable the
3785 arch/foo/lib/board.c file and use common/board_f.c and
3786 common/board_r.c instead. To use this option your architecture
3787 must support it (i.e. must define __HAVE_ARCH_GENERIC_BOARD in
3788 its config.mk file). If you find problems enabling this option on
3789 your board please report the problem and send patches!
3791 - CONFIG_OMAP_PLATFORM_RESET_TIME_MAX_USEC (OMAP only)
3792 This is set by OMAP boards for the max time that reset should
3793 be asserted. See doc/README.omap-reset-time for details on how
3794 the value can be calulated on a given board.
3796 The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
3797 of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
3798 following configurations:
3800 - CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
3802 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
3803 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
3805 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
3807 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
3809 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
3810 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
3811 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
3812 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
3813 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
3814 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
3815 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
3816 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
3817 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
3818 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
3819 between U-Boot and the environment.
3821 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3823 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
3824 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
3825 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
3826 for this sector is given here.
3828 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
3832 This is just another way to specify the start address of
3833 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
3836 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
3838 Size of the sector containing the environment.
3841 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
3842 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
3847 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
3848 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
3849 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
3850 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
3852 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
3853 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
3854 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
3855 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
3856 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
3857 updating the environment in flash makes it always
3858 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
3859 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
3860 RAM, your target system will be dead.
3862 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
3863 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
3865 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
3866 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
3867 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
3868 a "saveenv" operation.
3870 BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
3871 source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
3875 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
3877 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
3878 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
3884 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
3885 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
3886 can just be read and written to, without any special
3889 BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
3890 in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the
3891 console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
3894 Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3895 environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3896 keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3897 to save the current settings.
3900 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
3902 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
3903 device and a driver for it.
3905 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3908 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
3909 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
3911 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
3912 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
3913 The default address is zero.
3915 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
3916 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
3917 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
3918 would require six bits.
3920 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
3921 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
3922 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
3924 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
3925 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
3926 that this is NOT the chip address length!
3928 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
3929 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
3930 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
3931 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
3932 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
3935 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
3936 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
3937 in the chip address.
3939 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
3940 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
3942 - CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C
3943 define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your
3944 EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.
3946 - CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS
3947 if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over
3948 I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this
3949 EEPROM. For example:
3951 #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS 1
3953 EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over
3954 a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.
3956 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
3958 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
3959 want to use for the environment.
3961 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3965 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
3966 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
3967 at the specified address.
3969 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_REMOTE:
3971 Define this if you have a remote memory space which you
3972 want to use for the local device's environment.
3977 These two #defines specify the address and size of the
3978 environment area within the remote memory space. The
3979 local device can get the environment from remote memory
3980 space by SRIO or PCIE links.
3982 BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
3983 "saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
3984 environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
3985 but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
3987 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
3989 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
3990 for the environment.
3992 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3995 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
3996 area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
3997 aligned to an erase block boundary.
3999 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
4001 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
4002 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
4003 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
4004 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_RENDUND must be
4005 aligned to an erase block boundary.
4007 - CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):
4009 Specifies the length of the region in which the environment
4010 can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's
4011 block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than
4012 are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within
4013 the range to be avoided.
4015 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):
4017 Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the
4018 environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The
4019 "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset.
4020 Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when
4021 using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.
4023 - CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
4025 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
4026 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
4027 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
4029 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_UBI:
4031 Define this if you have an UBI volume that you want to use for the
4032 environment. This has the benefit of wear-leveling the environment
4033 accesses, which is important on NAND.
4035 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_PART:
4037 Define this to a string that is the mtd partition containing the UBI.
4039 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_VOLUME:
4041 Define this to the name of the volume that you want to store the
4044 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_VOLUME_REDUND:
4046 Define this to the name of another volume to store a second copy of
4047 the environment in. This will enable redundant environments in UBI.
4048 It is assumed that both volumes are in the same MTD partition.
4050 - CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
4051 - CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
4053 You will probably want to define these to avoid a really noisy system
4054 when storing the env in UBI.
4056 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC:
4058 Define this if you have an MMC device which you want to use for the
4061 - CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV:
4063 Specifies which MMC device the environment is stored in.
4065 - CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_PART (optional):
4067 Specifies which MMC partition the environment is stored in. If not
4068 set, defaults to partition 0, the user area. Common values might be
4069 1 (first MMC boot partition), 2 (second MMC boot partition).
4071 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
4074 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
4075 area within the specified MMC device.
4077 If offset is positive (the usual case), it is treated as relative to
4078 the start of the MMC partition. If offset is negative, it is treated
4079 as relative to the end of the MMC partition. This can be useful if
4080 your board may be fitted with different MMC devices, which have
4081 different sizes for the MMC partitions, and you always want the
4082 environment placed at the very end of the partition, to leave the
4083 maximum possible space before it, to store other data.
4085 These two values are in units of bytes, but must be aligned to an
4086 MMC sector boundary.
4088 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
4090 Specifies a second storage area, of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE size, used to
4091 hold a redundant copy of the environment data. This provides a
4092 valid backup copy in case the other copy is corrupted, e.g. due
4093 to a power failure during a "saveenv" operation.
4095 This value may also be positive or negative; this is handled in the
4096 same way as CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET.
4098 This value is also in units of bytes, but must also be aligned to
4099 an MMC sector boundary.
4101 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND (optional):
4103 This value need not be set, even when CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is
4104 set. If this value is set, it must be set to the same value as
4107 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
4109 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
4110 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
4111 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
4112 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
4113 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
4114 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
4115 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
4117 Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
4118 has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
4119 created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f()
4120 until then to read environment variables.
4122 The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
4123 is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
4124 with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
4125 necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
4126 "baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
4127 have any device yet where we could complain.]
4129 Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
4130 the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
4131 use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
4133 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
4134 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
4136 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
4137 also needs to be defined.
4139 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
4140 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
4142 - CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
4143 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
4144 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
4145 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
4146 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
4147 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
4149 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
4150 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
4151 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
4154 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
4155 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
4156 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
4159 Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
4160 ---------------------------------------------------
4162 - CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
4163 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
4165 - CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
4166 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
4168 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
4169 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
4170 the IMMR register after a reset.
4172 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
4173 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
4176 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
4177 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
4178 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
4180 CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR must also be set to this value,
4181 for cross-platform code that uses that macro instead.
4183 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
4184 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
4185 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
4186 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
4187 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
4188 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
4189 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
4191 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
4192 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
4194 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
4195 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
4196 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
4197 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
4198 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
4200 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
4201 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
4202 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
4203 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
4205 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
4206 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
4207 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
4209 - Floppy Disk Support:
4210 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
4212 the default drive number (default value 0)
4214 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
4216 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
4219 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
4221 defines the offset of register from address. It
4222 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
4223 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
4225 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
4226 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
4229 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
4230 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
4231 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
4232 source code. It is used to make hardware dependant
4236 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
4237 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
4238 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
4239 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
4240 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
4243 - CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
4244 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
4245 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
4247 - CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
4249 Start address of memory area that can be used for
4250 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
4251 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
4252 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
4253 will become available only after programming the
4254 memory controller and running certain initialization
4257 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
4258 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
4259 - MPC824X: data cache
4260 - PPC4xx: data cache
4262 - CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
4264 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
4265 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
4266 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
4267 data is located at the end of the available space
4268 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
4269 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
4270 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
4271 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
4274 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
4275 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
4276 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
4277 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
4278 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
4280 - CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
4282 - CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
4284 - CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
4286 - CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
4288 - CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
4290 - CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
4292 - CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
4295 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
4296 periodic timer for refresh
4298 - CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
4300 - FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
4301 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
4302 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
4303 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
4304 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
4306 - SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
4307 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
4308 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
4309 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
4311 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
4312 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
4313 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
4314 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
4316 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4317 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4318 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
4320 - CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4321 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4322 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
4324 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4325 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4326 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
4328 - CONFIG_SYS_USE_OSCCLK:
4329 Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful,
4330 wrong setting might damage your board. Read
4331 doc/README.MBX before setting this variable!
4333 - CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
4334 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
4335 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
4336 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
4339 - CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
4340 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
4341 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
4342 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
4343 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
4344 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
4345 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
4346 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
4347 Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
4349 - CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE:
4350 Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
4353 - CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
4354 Only scan through and get the devices on the busses.
4355 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
4356 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
4357 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
4358 by coreboot or similar.
4360 - CONFIG_PCI_INDIRECT_BRIDGE:
4361 Enable support for indirect PCI bridges.
4364 Chip has SRIO or not
4367 Board has SRIO 1 port available
4370 Board has SRIO 2 port available
4372 - CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
4373 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
4375 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
4376 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4378 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
4379 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4381 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
4382 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4384 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
4385 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
4387 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
4388 Example of drivers that use it:
4389 - drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c
4390 - drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
4392 - CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
4393 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
4394 a default value will be used.
4397 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
4398 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
4401 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
4403 - CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
4404 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
4405 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
4406 to something your driver can deal with.
4408 - CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
4409 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
4410 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
4411 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
4412 header files or board specific files.
4414 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
4415 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
4417 - CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
4418 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
4419 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
4421 - CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
4422 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
4424 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
4425 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
4426 to the given FEC; i. e.
4427 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
4428 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
4430 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
4432 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
4433 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
4434 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
4437 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
4438 Note that this is a global option, we can't
4439 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
4441 - CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
4442 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
4445 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
4447 Where address/count indicate a memory area
4448 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
4452 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
4453 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
4456 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
4461 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
4463 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
4464 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
4466 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
4467 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
4469 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
4470 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain
4471 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
4472 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
4473 relocate itself into RAM.
4475 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
4476 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
4477 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
4478 these initializations itself.
4481 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
4482 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
4483 compiling a NAND SPL.
4486 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
4487 that is executed after the SPL and before the actual U-Boot.
4488 It is loaded by the SPL.
4490 - CONFIG_SYS_MPC85XX_NO_RESETVEC
4491 Only for 85xx systems. If this variable is specified, the section
4492 .resetvec is not kept and the section .bootpg is placed in the
4493 previous 4k of the .text section.
4495 - CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
4496 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
4497 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
4498 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
4499 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
4500 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
4501 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
4502 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
4504 - CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMCPY
4505 CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET
4506 If these options are used a optimized version of memcpy/memset will
4507 be used if available. These functions may be faster under some
4508 conditions but may increase the binary size.
4510 - CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
4511 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
4512 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
4515 Defines the MPU clock speed (in MHz).
4517 NOTE : currently only supported on AM335x platforms.
4519 - CONFIG_SPL_AM33XX_ENABLE_RTC32K_OSC:
4520 Enables the RTC32K OSC on AM33xx based plattforms
4522 Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
4523 -----------------------------------
4525 The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
4526 loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
4527 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
4528 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
4531 - CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR
4532 The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The
4533 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
4536 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR
4537 The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The
4538 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
4541 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
4542 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
4543 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
4544 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
4545 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
4547 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
4548 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
4549 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
4550 virtual address in NOR flash.
4552 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
4553 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
4554 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
4556 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
4557 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
4558 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
4560 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_SPIFLASH
4561 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SPI
4562 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
4564 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
4565 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
4566 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
4567 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
4568 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
4569 master's memory space.
4571 Building the Software:
4572 ======================
4574 Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
4575 and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
4576 all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
4577 (potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
4578 recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
4579 which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
4581 If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
4582 have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
4583 you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
4584 Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
4585 necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
4587 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
4588 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
4590 Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
4591 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
4592 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
4593 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
4595 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
4597 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
4598 be executed on computers running Windows.
4600 U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
4601 sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
4606 where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing configu-
4607 rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
4609 Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
4610 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
4611 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
4612 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
4613 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
4616 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
4618 make TQM823L_LCD_config
4619 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
4624 Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
4625 images ready for download to / installation on your system:
4627 - "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
4628 - "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
4629 - "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
4631 By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
4632 in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
4633 this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
4635 1. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
4637 make O=/tmp/build distclean
4638 make O=/tmp/build NAME_config
4639 make O=/tmp/build all
4641 2. Set environment variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location:
4643 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
4648 Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the BUILD_DIR environment
4652 Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
4653 for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
4657 If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
4658 to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
4661 1. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel
4662 "boards.cfg" file, using the existing entries as examples.
4663 Follow the instructions there to keep the boards in order.
4664 2. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
4665 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
4666 the "Makefile", a "<board>.c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds".
4667 3. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
4669 3. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
4670 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
4671 4. Run "make <board>_config" with your new name.
4672 5. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
4673 to be installed on your target system.
4674 6. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
4675 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
4678 Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
4679 ==============================================================
4681 If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
4682 or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
4683 provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
4684 the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
4685 official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
4687 But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
4688 cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
4689 the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
4690 just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot
4691 for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can
4692 select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE'
4693 environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the ELDK cross tools
4696 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
4698 or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type
4700 CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL
4702 When using the MAKEALL script, the default behaviour is to build
4703 U-Boot in the source directory. This location can be changed by
4704 setting the BUILD_DIR environment variable. Also, for each target
4705 built, the MAKEALL script saves two log files (<target>.ERR and
4706 <target>.MAKEALL) in the <source dir>/LOG directory. This default
4707 location can be changed by setting the MAKEALL_LOGDIR environment
4708 variable. For example:
4710 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
4711 export MAKEALL_LOGDIR=/tmp/log
4712 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
4714 With the above settings build objects are saved in the /tmp/build,
4715 log files are saved in the /tmp/log and the source tree remains clean
4716 during the whole build process.
4719 See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
4722 Monitor Commands - Overview:
4723 ============================
4725 go - start application at address 'addr'
4726 run - run commands in an environment variable
4727 bootm - boot application image from memory
4728 bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
4729 bootz - boot zImage from memory
4730 tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
4731 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
4732 (and eventually "gatewayip")
4733 tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
4734 rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
4735 diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
4736 loads - load S-Record file over serial line
4737 loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
4739 mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
4740 nm - memory modify (constant address)
4741 mw - memory write (fill)
4743 cmp - memory compare
4744 crc32 - checksum calculation
4745 i2c - I2C sub-system
4746 sspi - SPI utility commands
4747 base - print or set address offset
4748 printenv- print environment variables
4749 setenv - set environment variables
4750 saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
4751 protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
4752 erase - erase FLASH memory
4753 flinfo - print FLASH memory information
4754 nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
4755 bdinfo - print Board Info structure
4756 iminfo - print header information for application image
4757 coninfo - print console devices and informations
4758 ide - IDE sub-system
4759 loop - infinite loop on address range
4760 loopw - infinite write loop on address range
4761 mtest - simple RAM test
4762 icache - enable or disable instruction cache
4763 dcache - enable or disable data cache
4764 reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
4765 echo - echo args to console
4766 version - print monitor version
4767 help - print online help
4768 ? - alias for 'help'
4771 Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
4772 ========================================
4776 For now: just type "help <command>".
4779 Environment Variables:
4780 ======================
4782 U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
4783 can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
4785 Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
4786 "printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
4787 without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
4788 environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
4789 working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
4790 environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
4792 Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
4794 List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
4796 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
4798 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
4800 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
4802 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
4804 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
4806 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
4807 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
4808 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
4809 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
4810 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
4811 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
4812 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
4815 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
4816 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
4817 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
4818 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
4819 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
4820 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
4823 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
4824 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
4825 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
4826 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
4827 environment variable.
4829 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
4830 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
4831 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
4833 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
4834 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
4835 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
4836 load any image using TFTP
4838 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
4839 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
4840 be automatically started (by internally calling
4843 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
4844 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
4845 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
4846 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
4849 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
4850 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
4851 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
4852 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
4853 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
4854 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
4855 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
4856 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
4857 access it during the boot procedure.
4859 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
4860 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
4861 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
4862 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
4863 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
4864 must be accessible by the kernel.
4866 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
4867 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
4870 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
4871 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
4872 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
4873 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
4874 it must be saved and board must be reset.
4876 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
4877 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
4878 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
4879 is usually what you want since it allows for
4880 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
4881 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
4882 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
4883 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
4884 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
4885 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
4886 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
4888 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
4889 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
4890 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
4891 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
4892 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
4893 12 MB as well - this can be done with
4895 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
4897 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
4898 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
4899 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
4900 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
4901 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
4902 boot time on your system, but requires that this
4903 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
4905 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
4907 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
4908 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
4910 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
4912 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
4914 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
4916 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
4918 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
4920 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
4922 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
4923 For example you can do the following
4925 => setenv ethact FEC
4926 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
4927 => setenv ethact SCC
4928 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
4930 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
4931 available network interfaces.
4932 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
4934 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
4935 either succeed or fail without retrying.
4936 When set to "once" the network operation will
4937 fail when all the available network interfaces
4938 are tried once without success.
4939 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
4942 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
4944 silent_linux - If set then linux will be told to boot silently, by
4945 changing the console to be empty. If "yes" it will be
4946 made silent. If "no" it will not be made silent. If
4947 unset, then it will be made silent if the U-Boot console
4950 tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
4953 tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
4954 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
4956 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
4957 we use the TFTP server's default block size
4959 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
4960 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
4961 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
4962 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
4963 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
4964 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
4965 with unreliable TFTP servers.
4967 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
4968 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
4971 The following image location variables contain the location of images
4972 used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
4973 not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
4974 variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
4975 server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
4976 loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
4977 flash or offset in NAND flash.
4979 *Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
4980 boards currenlty use other variables for these purposes, and some
4981 boards use these variables for other purposes.
4983 Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
4984 ----- --------- ----------- --------------
4985 u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
4986 Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
4987 device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
4988 ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
4990 The following environment variables may be used and automatically
4991 updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
4992 depending the information provided by your boot server:
4994 bootfile - see above
4995 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
4996 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
4997 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
4998 hostname - Target hostname
5000 netmask - Subnet Mask
5001 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
5002 serverip - see above
5005 There are two special Environment Variables:
5007 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
5008 as type string and/or serial number
5009 ethaddr - Ethernet address
5011 These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
5012 the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
5013 once they have been set once.
5016 Further special Environment Variables:
5018 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
5019 with the "version" command. This variable is
5020 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
5023 Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
5024 only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
5027 Callback functions for environment variables:
5028 ---------------------------------------------
5030 For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change
5031 when their values are changed. This functionailty allows functions to
5032 be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or
5033 deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side
5034 effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.
5036 The callbacks are named and associated with a function using the
5037 U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK macro in your board or driver code.
5039 These callbacks are associated with variables in one of two ways. The
5040 static list can be added to by defining CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC
5041 in the board configuration to a string that defines a list of
5042 associations. The list must be in the following format:
5044 entry = variable_name[:callback_name]
5047 If the callback name is not specified, then the callback is deleted.
5048 Spaces are also allowed anywhere in the list.
5050 Callbacks can also be associated by defining the ".callbacks" variable
5051 with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will
5052 override any association in the static list. You can define
5053 CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
5054 ".callbacks" envirnoment variable in the default or embedded environment.
5057 Command Line Parsing:
5058 =====================
5060 There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
5061 the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
5063 Old, simple command line parser:
5064 --------------------------------
5066 - supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
5067 - several commands on one line, separated by ';'
5068 - variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
5069 - special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
5071 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
5072 - You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
5073 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
5078 - similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
5079 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
5080 until...do...done, ...
5081 - supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
5082 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
5083 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
5089 (1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
5090 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
5091 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
5094 (2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
5095 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
5096 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
5097 variables are not executed.
5099 Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
5100 =======================================
5102 Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
5103 such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
5104 "working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
5106 Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
5107 MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
5108 "eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
5110 If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
5111 in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
5112 ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
5113 variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
5115 o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
5116 environment, the SROM's address is used.
5118 o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
5119 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
5122 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
5123 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
5125 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
5126 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
5129 o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
5132 If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
5133 will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
5134 may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
5135 The naming convention is as follows:
5136 "ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
5141 U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
5142 images in two formats:
5144 New uImage format (FIT)
5145 -----------------------
5147 Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
5148 to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
5149 components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
5150 SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
5156 Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
5157 preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
5158 details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
5160 * Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
5161 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
5162 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
5163 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
5165 * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
5166 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
5167 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
5168 * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
5174 The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
5175 and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
5182 Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
5183 easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
5186 U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
5187 special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
5188 "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
5189 instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
5190 serves several purposes:
5192 - the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
5193 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
5194 Flash memory footprint)
5196 - it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
5197 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
5199 - the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
5200 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
5201 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
5202 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
5203 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
5204 software is easier now.
5210 Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
5211 ---------------------------------------
5213 U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
5214 configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
5215 (no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
5218 But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
5220 Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
5221 include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
5222 Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
5223 and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
5224 as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
5227 Configuring the Linux kernel:
5228 -----------------------------
5230 No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
5231 device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
5234 Building a Linux Image:
5235 -----------------------
5237 With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
5238 not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
5239 "uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
5240 U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
5241 which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
5242 100% compatible format.
5251 The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
5252 encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
5253 CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
5255 * build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
5257 * convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
5259 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
5260 -R .note -R .comment \
5261 -S vmlinux linux.bin
5263 * compress the binary image:
5267 * package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
5269 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
5270 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
5271 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
5274 The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
5275 with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
5276 combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
5277 byte header containing information about target architecture,
5278 operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
5279 stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
5281 "mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
5282 print the header information, or to build new images.
5284 In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
5285 contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
5286 checksum verification:
5288 tools/mkimage -l image
5289 -l ==> list image header information
5291 The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
5292 from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
5294 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
5295 -n name -d data_file image
5296 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
5297 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
5298 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
5299 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
5300 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
5301 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
5302 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
5303 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
5305 Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
5306 address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
5309 - 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
5310 - 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
5312 So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
5314 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
5315 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
5316 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
5317 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
5318 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5319 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5320 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5321 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
5322 Load Address: 0x00000000
5323 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5325 To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
5327 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
5328 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5329 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5330 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5331 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
5332 Load Address: 0x00000000
5333 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5335 NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
5336 speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
5337 needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
5338 need to be uncompressed:
5340 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
5341 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
5342 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
5343 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
5344 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
5345 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5346 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5347 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
5348 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
5349 Load Address: 0x00000000
5350 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5353 Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
5354 when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
5356 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
5357 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
5358 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
5359 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5360 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
5361 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5362 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
5363 Load Address: 0x00000000
5364 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5366 The "dumpimage" is a tool to disassemble images built by mkimage. Its "-i"
5367 option performs the converse operation of the mkimage's second form (the "-d"
5368 option). Given an image built by mkimage, the dumpimage extracts a "data file"
5371 tools/dumpimage -i image -p position data_file
5372 -i ==> extract from the 'image' a specific 'data_file', \
5373 indexed by 'position'
5376 Installing a Linux Image:
5377 -------------------------
5379 To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
5380 you must convert the image to S-Record format:
5382 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
5384 The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
5385 image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
5386 address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
5387 specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
5390 Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
5391 TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
5393 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
5399 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5400 ~>examples/image.srec
5401 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
5403 15989 15990 15991 15992
5404 [file transfer complete]
5406 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
5409 You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
5410 this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
5411 corruption happened:
5415 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
5416 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5417 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5418 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5419 Load Address: 00000000
5420 Entry Point: 0000000c
5421 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5427 The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
5428 memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
5429 of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
5430 parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
5431 "printenv" and "setenv" commands:
5434 => printenv bootargs
5435 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
5437 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5439 => printenv bootargs
5440 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5443 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
5444 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
5445 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5446 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
5447 Load Address: 00000000
5448 Entry Point: 0000000c
5449 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5450 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5451 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
5452 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5453 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
5454 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
5455 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
5458 If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
5459 the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
5460 format!) to the "bootm" command:
5462 => imi 40100000 40200000
5464 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
5465 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5466 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5467 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5468 Load Address: 00000000
5469 Entry Point: 0000000c
5470 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5472 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
5473 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5474 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5475 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
5476 Load Address: 00000000
5477 Entry Point: 00000000
5478 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5480 => bootm 40100000 40200000
5481 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
5482 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5483 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5484 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5485 Load Address: 00000000
5486 Entry Point: 0000000c
5487 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5488 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5489 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
5490 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5491 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5492 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
5493 Load Address: 00000000
5494 Entry Point: 00000000
5495 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5496 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
5497 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
5498 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
5499 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
5500 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
5502 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
5503 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
5507 Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
5510 First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
5511 titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
5512 following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
5518 oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
5519 => tftp $oftaddr $oft
5520 Speed: 1000, full duplex
5522 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
5523 Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
5524 Load address: 0x300000
5527 Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
5528 => tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
5529 Speed: 1000, full duplex
5531 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
5533 Load address: 0x200000
5534 Loading:############
5536 Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
5541 => bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
5542 ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
5543 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
5544 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5545 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
5546 Load Address: 00000000
5547 Entry Point: 00000000
5548 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5549 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5550 Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
5551 Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
5552 Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
5556 More About U-Boot Image Types:
5557 ------------------------------
5559 U-Boot supports the following image types:
5561 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
5562 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
5563 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
5564 the Standalone Program.
5565 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
5566 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
5567 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
5568 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
5569 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
5570 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
5571 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
5573 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
5574 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
5575 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
5576 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
5577 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
5578 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
5580 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
5581 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
5582 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
5583 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
5584 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
5585 a multiple of 4 bytes).
5587 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
5588 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
5591 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
5592 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
5593 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
5594 as command interpreter.
5596 Booting the Linux zImage:
5597 -------------------------
5599 On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
5600 using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
5601 as the syntax of "bootm" command.
5603 Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
5604 kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
5605 address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
5606 format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
5612 One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
5613 run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
5614 U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
5616 Two simple examples are included with the sources:
5621 'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
5622 application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
5623 It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
5627 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5628 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
5629 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
5630 [file transfer complete]
5632 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
5634 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
5635 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
5646 Hit any key to exit ...
5648 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
5650 Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
5651 handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
5652 Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
5653 The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
5654 character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
5655 controlled by the following keys:
5657 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
5658 b - enable interrupts and start timer
5659 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
5660 q - quit application
5663 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5664 ~>examples/timer.srec
5665 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
5666 [file transfer complete]
5668 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
5671 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
5674 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
5677 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
5680 [q, b, e, ?] ........
5681 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
5684 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
5687 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
5690 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
5692 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
5694 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
5700 Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
5701 "minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
5702 consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
5703 Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
5704 especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
5705 use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
5706 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
5707 for help with kermit.
5710 Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
5711 configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
5713 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
5714 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
5715 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
5721 Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
5722 (build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
5724 Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
5725 NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
5726 need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
5727 Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
5728 attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
5729 missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
5731 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
5733 # ln -s powerpc machine
5734 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
5735 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
5737 Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
5738 and U-Boot include files.
5740 Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
5741 stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
5742 proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
5743 tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
5744 meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
5747 Implementation Internals:
5748 =========================
5750 The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
5751 implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
5752 inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
5756 Initial Stack, Global Data:
5757 ---------------------------
5759 The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
5760 starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
5761 system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
5762 This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
5763 is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
5764 at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
5765 options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
5766 models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
5767 MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
5768 locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
5770 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
5771 U-Boot mailing list:
5773 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
5774 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
5775 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
5778 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
5779 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
5780 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
5781 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
5782 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
5783 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
5784 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
5785 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
5787 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
5788 is another option for the system designer to use as an
5789 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
5790 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
5791 board designers haven't used it for something that would
5792 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
5795 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
5796 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
5797 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
5798 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
5799 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
5800 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
5801 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
5802 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
5803 you get the config right.
5808 It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
5809 code for the initialization procedures:
5811 * Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
5814 * Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitely initialized
5815 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
5816 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
5818 * Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
5821 Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
5822 normal global data to share information beween the code. But it
5823 turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
5824 simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
5825 functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
5826 functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
5827 the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
5828 place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
5829 reserve for this purpose.
5831 When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
5832 relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
5833 GCC's implementation.
5835 For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
5837 R2: reserved for system use
5838 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
5839 R5-R10: parameter passing
5840 R13: small data area pointer
5844 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
5845 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
5846 going back and forth between asm and C)
5848 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
5850 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
5851 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
5852 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
5853 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
5854 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
5855 624 text + 127 data).
5857 On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here:
5858 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
5860 ==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data
5862 On ARM, the following registers are used:
5864 R0: function argument word/integer result
5865 R1-R3: function argument word
5866 R9: platform specific
5867 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
5868 R11: argument (frame) pointer
5869 R12: temporary workspace
5872 R15: program counter
5874 ==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data
5876 Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.
5878 On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
5879 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
5881 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
5883 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
5884 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
5886 On NDS32, the following registers are used:
5888 R0-R1: argument/return
5890 R15: temporary register for assembler
5891 R16: trampoline register
5892 R28: frame pointer (FP)
5893 R29: global pointer (GP)
5894 R30: link register (LP)
5895 R31: stack pointer (SP)
5896 PC: program counter (PC)
5898 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
5900 NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
5901 or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
5906 U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
5907 MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
5909 The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
5910 controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
5911 memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
5912 physical memory banks.
5914 U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
5915 TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
5916 booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
5917 to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
5918 memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
5919 configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
5920 Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
5922 Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
5923 of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
5925 So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
5928 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
5931 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
5937 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
5938 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
5939 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
5942 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
5943 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
5944 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
5945 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
5948 System Initialization:
5949 ----------------------
5951 In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
5952 (on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
5953 configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory.
5954 To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
5955 To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
5956 initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
5957 which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
5958 part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
5959 the caches and the SIU.
5961 Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
5962 preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
5963 (multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
5964 on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
5965 programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
5966 simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
5969 When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
5970 different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
5971 bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
5972 0x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
5973 contiguous memory starting from 0.
5975 Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
5976 and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
5977 Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
5978 pages, and the final stack is set up.
5980 Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
5981 until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
5982 running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
5986 U-Boot Porting Guide:
5987 ----------------------
5989 [Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
5993 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
5995 sighandler_t no_more_time;
5997 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
5998 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
6000 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
6001 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
6005 Download latest U-Boot source;
6007 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
6010 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
6013 Read the README file in the top level directory;
6014 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
6015 Read applicable doc/*.README;
6016 Read the source, Luke;
6017 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
6020 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
6023 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
6025 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
6026 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
6027 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
6029 Create your own board support subdirectory;
6030 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
6032 Edit new board/<myboard> files
6033 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
6038 Add / modify source code;
6042 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
6044 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
6045 if (reasonable critiques)
6046 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
6048 Defend code as written;
6054 void no_more_time (int sig)
6063 All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
6064 coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
6065 "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
6067 Source files originating from a different project (for example the
6068 MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
6069 reformated to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
6072 Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
6073 Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
6076 Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
6077 - remove any trailing white space
6078 - use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
6079 - make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
6080 - do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
6081 - do not add trailing empty lines to source files
6083 Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
6084 with a request to reformat the changes.
6090 Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
6091 establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
6092 may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
6094 Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
6096 Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
6097 see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
6099 When you send a patch, please include the following information with
6102 * For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
6103 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
6104 patch actually fixes something.
6106 * For new features: a description of the feature and your
6109 * A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
6111 * For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file
6113 * When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a
6114 maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.
6116 * If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
6117 document these in the README file.
6119 * The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
6120 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
6121 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
6122 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
6123 with some other mail clients.
6125 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
6126 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
6129 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
6130 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
6131 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
6134 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
6135 and compressed attachments must not be used.
6137 * If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
6138 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
6140 * Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
6141 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
6146 * Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched
6147 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
6148 for any of the boards.
6150 * Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
6151 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
6152 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
6154 * If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
6155 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
6156 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
6157 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
6158 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
6161 * Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
6162 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
6163 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
6164 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.
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