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3# Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
4#
5# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
6# project.
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23
24Summary:
25========
26
24ee89b9 27This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
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28Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
29processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
30initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
31code.
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32
33The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
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34the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
35header files in common, and special provision has been made to
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36support booting of Linux images.
37
38Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
39configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
40implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
41add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
42code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
43load and run it dynamically.
44
45
46Status:
47=======
48
49In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
24ee89b9 50Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
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51"working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
52
24ee89b9 53In case of problems see the CHANGELOG and CREDITS files to find out
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54who contributed the specific port. The MAINTAINERS file lists board
55maintainers.
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57
58Where to get help:
59==================
60
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61In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
62U-Boot you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
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63<u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
64on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
65Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
66http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
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68
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69Where to get source code:
70=========================
71
72The U-Boot source code is maintained in the git repository at
73git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
74http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
75
76The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
11ccc33f 77any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
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78available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
79directory.
80
d4ee711d 81Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
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82ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
83
84
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85Where we come from:
86===================
87
88- start from 8xxrom sources
24ee89b9 89- create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
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90- clean up code
91- make it easier to add custom boards
92- make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
93- extend functions, especially:
94 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
95 * S-Record download
96 * network boot
11ccc33f 97 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
24ee89b9 98- create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
c609719b 99- add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
24ee89b9 100- create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
0d28f34b 101- current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
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102
103
104Names and Spelling:
105===================
106
107The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
108"U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
109in source files etc.). Example:
110
111 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
112
113File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
114
115 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
116
117 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
118
119Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
120the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
121
122 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
123 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
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125
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126Versioning:
127===========
128
129U-Boot uses a 3 level version number containing a version, a
130sub-version, and a patchlevel: "U-Boot-2.34.5" means version "2",
131sub-version "34", and patchlevel "4".
132
133The patchlevel is used to indicate certain stages of development
134between released versions, i. e. officially released versions of
135U-Boot will always have a patchlevel of "0".
136
137
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138Directory Hierarchy:
139====================
140
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141- board Board dependent files
142- common Misc architecture independent functions
c609719b 143- cpu CPU specific files
983fda83 144 - 74xx_7xx Files specific to Freescale MPC74xx and 7xx CPUs
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145 - arm720t Files specific to ARM 720 CPUs
146 - arm920t Files specific to ARM 920 CPUs
a85f9f21 147 - at91rm9200 Files specific to Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU
983fda83 148 - imx Files specific to Freescale MC9328 i.MX CPUs
1d9f4105 149 - s3c24x0 Files specific to Samsung S3C24X0 CPUs
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150 - arm925t Files specific to ARM 925 CPUs
151 - arm926ejs Files specific to ARM 926 CPUs
8ed96046 152 - arm1136 Files specific to ARM 1136 CPUs
72a087e0 153 - at32ap Files specific to Atmel AVR32 AP CPUs
adbfeeb7 154 - blackfin Files specific to Analog Devices Blackfin CPUs
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155 - i386 Files specific to i386 CPUs
156 - ixp Files specific to Intel XScale IXP CPUs
b330990c 157 - leon2 Files specific to Gaisler LEON2 SPARC CPU
1e9a164e 158 - leon3 Files specific to Gaisler LEON3 SPARC CPU
983fda83 159 - mcf52x2 Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF52x2 CPUs
1552af70 160 - mcf5227x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5227x CPUs
8e585f02 161 - mcf532x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5329 CPUs
8ae158cd 162 - mcf5445x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5445x CPUs
57a12720 163 - mcf547x_8x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF547x_8x CPUs
11dadd54 164 - mips Files specific to MIPS CPUs
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165 - mpc5xx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xx CPUs
166 - mpc5xxx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xxx CPUs
167 - mpc8xx Files specific to Freescale MPC8xx CPUs
168 - mpc8220 Files specific to Freescale MPC8220 CPUs
169 - mpc824x Files specific to Freescale MPC824x CPUs
170 - mpc8260 Files specific to Freescale MPC8260 CPUs
171 - mpc85xx Files specific to Freescale MPC85xx CPUs
11dadd54 172 - nios Files specific to Altera NIOS CPUs
5c952cf0 173 - nios2 Files specific to Altera Nios-II CPUs
0c8721a4 174 - ppc4xx Files specific to AMCC PowerPC 4xx CPUs
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175 - pxa Files specific to Intel XScale PXA CPUs
176 - s3c44b0 Files specific to Samsung S3C44B0 CPUs
177 - sa1100 Files specific to Intel StrongARM SA1100 CPUs
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178- disk Code for disk drive partition handling
179- doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
7152b1d0 180- drivers Commonly used device drivers
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181- dtt Digital Thermometer and Thermostat drivers
182- examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
183- include Header Files
11dadd54 184- lib_arm Files generic to ARM architecture
7b64fef3 185- lib_avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture
adbfeeb7 186- lib_blackfin Files generic to Blackfin architecture
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187- lib_generic Files generic to all architectures
188- lib_i386 Files generic to i386 architecture
189- lib_m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
190- lib_mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
191- lib_nios Files generic to NIOS architecture
192- lib_ppc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
c2f02da2 193- lib_sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture
218ca724 194- libfdt Library files to support flattened device trees
c609719b 195- net Networking code
c609719b 196- post Power On Self Test
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197- rtc Real Time Clock drivers
198- tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
199
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200Software Configuration:
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202
203Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
204rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
205
206There are two classes of configuration variables:
207
208* Configuration _OPTIONS_:
209 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
210 "CONFIG_".
211
212* Configuration _SETTINGS_:
213 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
214 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
6d0f6bcf 215 "CONFIG_SYS_".
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216
217Later we will add a configuration tool - probably similar to or even
218identical to what's used for the Linux kernel. Right now, we have to
219do the configuration by hand, which means creating some symbolic
220links and editing some configuration files. We use the TQM8xxL boards
221as an example here.
222
223
224Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
225---------------------------------------------------
226
227For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
228configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_config".
229
230Example: For a TQM823L module type:
231
232 cd u-boot
233 make TQM823L_config
234
11ccc33f 235For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the CPU type as well;
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236e.g. "make cogent_mpc8xx_config". And also configure the cogent
237directory according to the instructions in cogent/README.
238
239
240Configuration Options:
241----------------------
242
243Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
244such information is kept in a configuration file
245"include/configs/<board_name>.h".
246
247Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
248"include/configs/TQM823L.h".
249
250
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251Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
252kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
253build a config tool - later.
254
255
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256The following options need to be configured:
257
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258- CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
259
260- Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
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262- CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
09ea0de0 263 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
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265- CPU Module Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
266 Define exactly one of
267 CONFIG_CMA286_60_OLD
268--- FIXME --- not tested yet:
269 CONFIG_CMA286_60, CONFIG_CMA286_21, CONFIG_CMA286_60P,
270 CONFIG_CMA287_23, CONFIG_CMA287_50
271
272- Motherboard Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
273 Define exactly one of
274 CONFIG_CMA101, CONFIG_CMA102
275
276- Motherboard I/O Modules: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
277 Define one or more of
278 CONFIG_CMA302
279
280- Motherboard Options: (if CONFIG_CMA101 or CONFIG_CMA102 are defined)
281 Define one or more of
282 CONFIG_LCD_HEARTBEAT - update a character position on
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284 a "rotator" |\-/|\-/
285
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286- Board flavour: (if CONFIG_MPC8260ADS is defined)
287 CONFIG_ADSTYPE
288 Possible values are:
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289 CONFIG_SYS_8260ADS - original MPC8260ADS
290 CONFIG_SYS_8266ADS - MPC8266ADS
291 CONFIG_SYS_PQ2FADS - PQ2FADS-ZU or PQ2FADS-VR
292 CONFIG_SYS_8272ADS - MPC8272ADS
2535d602 293
c609719b 294- MPC824X Family Member (if CONFIG_MPC824X is defined)
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295 Define exactly one of
296 CONFIG_MPC8240, CONFIG_MPC8245
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11ccc33f 298- 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
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299 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
300 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
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301 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
302 reference PIT/RTC clock
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303 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
304 or XTAL/EXTAL)
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66ca92a5 306- 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
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307 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
308 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
66ca92a5 309 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
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310 See doc/README.MPC866
311
6d0f6bcf 312 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
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314 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
315 of relying on the correctness of the configured
316 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
317 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
318 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
6d0f6bcf 319 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
75d1ea7f 320
0b953ffc 321- Intel Monahans options:
6d0f6bcf 322 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO
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324 Defines the Monahans run mode to oscillator
325 ratio. Valid values are 8, 16, 24, 31. The core
326 frequency is this value multiplied by 13 MHz.
327
6d0f6bcf 328 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_TURBO_RUN_MODE_RATIO
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330 Defines the Monahans turbo mode to oscillator
331 ratio. Valid values are 1 (default if undefined) and
cf48eb9a 332 2. The core frequency as calculated above is multiplied
0b953ffc 333 by this value.
cf48eb9a 334
5da627a4 335- Linux Kernel Interface:
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336 CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ
337
338 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
339 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
340 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
341 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
342 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
343 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
344 Linux kernel.
c609719b 345 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
218ca724 346 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
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347 default environment.
348
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349 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
350
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352 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
353 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
354
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357 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
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358 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
359 concepts).
360
361 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
362 * New libfdt-based support
363 * Adds the "fdt" command
3bb342fc 364 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
213bf8c8 365
f57f70aa 366 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node.
c2871f03 367 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node.
f57f70aa 368 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
c2871f03 369 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
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371 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
372 addresses
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374 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
375
376 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
377 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
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379 CONFIG_OF_BOOT_CPU
380
11ccc33f 381 This define fills in the correct boot CPU in the boot
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382 param header, the default value is zero if undefined.
383
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384- vxWorks boot parameters:
385
386 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
387 environments variables: bootfile, ipaddr, serverip, hostname.
388 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
389
390 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_DEVICE - The vxworks device name
391 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_MAC_PTR - Ethernet 6 byte MA -address
392 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_SERVERNAME - Name of the server
393 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_ADDR - Address of boot parameters
394
395 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_ADD_PARAMS
396
397 Add it at the end of the bootline. E.g "u=username pw=secret"
398
399 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
400 the defaults discussed just above.
401
6705d81e 402- Serial Ports:
48d0192f 403 CONFIG_PL010_SERIAL
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405 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
406
48d0192f 407 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL
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409 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
410
411 CONFIG_PL011_CLOCK
412
413 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
414 the clock speed of the UARTs.
415
416 CONFIG_PL01x_PORTS
417
418 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
419 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
420 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
421
422
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424 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port
425 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2,
426 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial
427 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE
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429 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
430 port routines must be defined elsewhere
431 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
432
433 CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE
434 Enables console device for a color framebuffer. Needs following
435 defines (cf. smiLynxEM, i8042, board/eltec/bab7xx)
436 VIDEO_FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN graphic memory organisation
437 (default big endian)
438 VIDEO_HW_RECTFILL graphic chip supports
439 rectangle fill
440 (cf. smiLynxEM)
441 VIDEO_HW_BITBLT graphic chip supports
442 bit-blit (cf. smiLynxEM)
443 VIDEO_VISIBLE_COLS visible pixel columns
444 (cols=pitch)
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445 VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS visible pixel rows
446 VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE bytes per pixel
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447 VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT graphic data format
448 (0-5, cf. cfb_console.c)
ba56f625 449 VIDEO_FB_ADRS framebuffer address
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450 VIDEO_KBD_INIT_FCT keyboard int fct
451 (i.e. i8042_kbd_init())
452 VIDEO_TSTC_FCT test char fct
453 (i.e. i8042_tstc)
454 VIDEO_GETC_FCT get char fct
455 (i.e. i8042_getc)
456 CONFIG_CONSOLE_CURSOR cursor drawing on/off
457 (requires blink timer
458 cf. i8042.c)
6d0f6bcf 459 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c)
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460 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME display time/date info in
461 upper right corner
602ad3b3 462 (requires CONFIG_CMD_DATE)
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463 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO display Linux logo in
464 upper left corner
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466 linux_logo.h for logo.
467 Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
c609719b 468 CONFIG_CONSOLE_EXTRA_INFO
11ccc33f 469 additional board info beside
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470 the logo
471
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472 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is
473 default i/o. Serial console can be forced with
474 environment 'console=serial'.
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476 When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console
477 messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with
478 the "silent" environment variable. See
479 doc/README.silent for more information.
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481- Console Baudrate:
482 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
483 Select one of the baudrates listed in
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484 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
485 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
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487- Interrupt driven serial port input:
488 CONFIG_SERIAL_SOFTWARE_FIFO
489
490 PPC405GP only.
491 Use an interrupt handler for receiving data on the
492 serial port. It also enables using hardware handshake
493 (RTS/CTS) and UART's built-in FIFO. Set the number of
494 bytes the interrupt driven input buffer should have.
495
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497 disable the buffer and hardware handshake.
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500 CONFIG_UART1_CONSOLE
501
0c8721a4 502 AMCC PPC4xx only.
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503 If defined internal UART1 (and not UART0) is used
504 as default U-Boot console.
505
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506- Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds
507 Delay before automatically booting the default image;
508 set to -1 to disable autoboot.
509
510 See doc/README.autoboot for these options that
511 work with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY. None are required.
512 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
513 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_MIN
514 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
515 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT
516 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
517 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
518 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2
519 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR2
520 CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK
521 CONFIG_RESET_TO_RETRY
522
523- Autoboot Command:
524 CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
525 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
526 define a command string that is automatically executed
527 when no character is read on the console interface
528 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
529
530 CONFIG_BOOTARGS
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531 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
532 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
533 environment value "bootargs".
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535 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
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536 The value of these goes into the environment as
537 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
538 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
11ccc33f 539 RAM and NFS.
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541- Pre-Boot Commands:
542 CONFIG_PREBOOT
543
544 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
545 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
546 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
547 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
548 entering interactive mode.
549
550 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
551 automatically generated or modified. For an example
552 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
553 modified when the user holds down a certain
554 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
555 booting the systems
556
557- Serial Download Echo Mode:
558 CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
559 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
560 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
561 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
562 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
563 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
564 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
565
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567 CONFIG_KGDB_BAUDRATE
568 Select one of the baudrates listed in
6d0f6bcf 569 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
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571- Monitor Functions:
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573 from the build by using the #include files
574 "config_cmd_all.h" and #undef'ing unwanted
575 commands, or using "config_cmd_default.h"
576 and augmenting with additional #define's
577 for wanted commands.
578
579 The default command configuration includes all commands
580 except those marked below with a "*".
581
582 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
583 CONFIG_CMD_AUTOSCRIPT Autoscript Support
584 CONFIG_CMD_BDI bdinfo
585 CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger
586 CONFIG_CMD_BMP * BMP support
587 CONFIG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands
588 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD bootd
589 CONFIG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache
590 CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo
591 CONFIG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time...
592 CONFIG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support
593 CONFIG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics
594 CONFIG_CMD_DOC * Disk-On-Chip Support
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595 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510 * ds4510 I2C gpio commands
596 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO * ds4510 I2C info command
597 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM * ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
598 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST * ds4510 I2C rst command
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599 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
600 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
601 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
602 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
603 CONFIG_CMD_ENV saveenv
604 CONFIG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support
605 CONFIG_CMD_FAT * FAT partition support
606 CONFIG_CMD_FDOS * Dos diskette Support
607 CONFIG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect
608 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support
609 CONFIG_CMD_HWFLOW * RTS/CTS hw flow control
610 CONFIG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support
611 CONFIG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support
612 CONFIG_CMD_IMI iminfo
613 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS List all found images
614 CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support
615 CONFIG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo
616 CONFIG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values
617 CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support
618 CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb
619 CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb
620 CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads
621 CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
622 loop, loopw, mtest
623 CONFIG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc
624 CONFIG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support
625 CONFIG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands
626 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
627 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
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629 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
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630 CONFIG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo
631 CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support
632 CONFIG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
633 host
634 CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O
635 CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump
636 CONFIG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable
637 CONFIG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump
638 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI * SCSI Support
639 CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information
640 (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
641 CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access
642 (4xx only)
643 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
644 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
645 CONFIG_CMD_VFD * VFD support (TRAB)
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647 CONFIG_CMD_FSL * Microblaze FSL support
648
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650 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
651 support you can write:
652
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654 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
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657 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
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659 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
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661 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data
662 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or
663 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be
664 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other
665 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an
666 initial stack and some data.
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668
669 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
670
671- Watchdog:
672 CONFIG_WATCHDOG
673 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
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675 code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260 CPUs, the
676 SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
677 register.
678
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680 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
681 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
682 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
683 version as printed by the "version" command.
684 This variable is readonly.
685
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687
602ad3b3 688 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
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689 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
690 following options:
691
692 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx
693 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
7ce63709 694 CONFIG_RTC_MC13783 - use MC13783 RTC
c609719b 695 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
1cb8e980 696 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
c609719b 697 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
7f70e853 698 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
3bac3513 699 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
9536dfcc 700 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
4c0d4c3b 701 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
6d0f6bcf 702 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
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705 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
706
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708 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
709 CONFIG_PCA953X_INFO - enable pca953x info command
710
711 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
712 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
713
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714- Timestamp Support:
715
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716 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
717 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
718 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
602ad3b3 719 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
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721- Partition Support:
722 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION
07f3d789 723 and/or CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION
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725 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
726 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at
727 least one partition type as well.
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729- IDE Reset method:
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731 board configurations files but used nowhere!
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734 be performed by calling the function
735 ide_set_reset(int reset)
736 which has to be defined in a board specific file
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738- ATAPI Support:
739 CONFIG_ATAPI
740
741 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
742
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744 CONFIG_LBA48
745
746 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
6d0f6bcf 747 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA ,CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_VSPRINTF and CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_STRTOUL
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749 support disks up to 2.1TB.
750
6d0f6bcf 751 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
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752 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
753 Default is 32bit.
754
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755- SCSI Support:
756 At the moment only there is only support for the
757 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
758 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
759
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760 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
761 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
762 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
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763 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
764 devices.
6d0f6bcf 765 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
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767- NETWORK Support (PCI):
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768 CONFIG_E1000
769 Support for Intel 8254x gigabit chips.
53cf9435 770
ac3315c2 771 CONFIG_E1000_FALLBACK_MAC
11ccc33f 772 default MAC for empty EEPROM after production.
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774 CONFIG_EEPRO100
775 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
11ccc33f 776 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
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777 write routine for first time initialisation.
778
779 CONFIG_TULIP
780 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
781 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
782 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
783
784 CONFIG_NATSEMI
785 Support for National dp83815 chips.
786
787 CONFIG_NS8382X
788 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
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791
792 CONFIG_DRIVER_LAN91C96
793 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
794
795 CONFIG_LAN91C96_BASE
796 Define this to hold the physical address
797 of the LAN91C96's I/O space
798
799 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
800 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
801
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803 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
804
805 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
806 Define this to hold the physical address
807 of the device (I/O space)
808
809 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
810 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
811
812 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
813 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
814 (some hardware wont work with macros)
815
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817 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
818
819 CONFIG_DRIVER_SMC911X_BASE
820 Define this to hold the physical address
821 of the device (I/O space)
822
823 CONFIG_DRIVER_SMC911X_32_BIT
824 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
825
826 CONFIG_DRIVER_SMC911X_16_BIT
827 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
828 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
829 words you may also try CONFIG_DRIVER_SMC911X_32_BIT.
830
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832 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
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834 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
835 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
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837 storage devices.
838 Note:
839 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
840 (TEAC FD-05PUB).
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841 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
842 CONFIG_USB_CLOCK
843 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
844 CONFIG_USB_CONFIG
845 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
846 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
6d0f6bcf 847 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
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849 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
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852 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
853 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
854 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
11ccc33f 855 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
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856 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
857 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
386eda02 858 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
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859 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
860 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
861 a Linux host by
862 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
863 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
864 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
865 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
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867 CONFIG_USB_DEVICE
868 Define this to build a UDC device
869
870 CONFIG_USB_TTY
871 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
872 talk to the UDC device
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6d0f6bcf 874 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
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876 be set to usbtty.
877
878 mpc8xx:
6d0f6bcf 879 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
16c8d5e7 880 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
6d0f6bcf 881 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
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6d0f6bcf 883 CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0xBLAH
16c8d5e7 884 Derive USB clock from brgclk
6d0f6bcf 885 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0x04
16c8d5e7 886
386eda02 887 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
16c8d5e7 888 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
386eda02 889 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
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890 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
891 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
892 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
893
894 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
895 Define this string as the name of your company for
896 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
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898 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
899 Define this string as the name of your product
900 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
901
902 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
903 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
904 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
905 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
906 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
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908 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
909 Define this as the unique Product ID
910 for your device
911 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
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915 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
916 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
917 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
71f95118 918 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
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920 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
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923 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE,
924 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV
925 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
926
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928 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
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930
6d0f6bcf 931 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART
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933 function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num)
934
935 If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to
6d0f6bcf 936 #define CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_SINGLE_PART 1
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938 have not defined a custom partition
939
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940- Keyboard Support:
941 CONFIG_ISA_KEYBOARD
942
943 Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard
944 support
945
946 CONFIG_I8042_KBD
947 Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and
948 GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support.
949 Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc
950 for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking.
951
952- Video support:
953 CONFIG_VIDEO
954
955 Define this to enable video support (for output to
956 video).
957
958 CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000
959
960 Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip
961
962 CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM
b79a11cc 963 Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The
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964 video output is selected via environment 'videoout'
965 (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is
966 assumed.
967
b79a11cc 968 For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is
11ccc33f 969 selected via environment 'videomode'. Two different ways
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971 - "videomode=num" 'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers.
6e592385 972 Following standard modes are supported (* is default):
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974 Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024
975 -------------+---------------------------------------------
976 8 bits | 0x301* 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307
977 15 bits | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319
978 16 bits | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A
979 24 bits | 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B
980 -------------+---------------------------------------------
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982
b79a11cc 983 - "videomode=bootargs" all the video parameters are parsed
7817cb20 984 from the bootargs. (See drivers/video/videomodes.c)
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986
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989 and 16bpp modes defined by CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_8BPP
990 or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP
991
682011ff 992- Keyboard Support:
8bde7f77 993 CONFIG_KEYBOARD
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995 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
996 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
997 defined in your board-specific files.
998 The only board using this so far is RBC823.
a6c7ad2f 999
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1001
1002 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1003 display); also select one of the supported displays
1004 by defining one of these:
1005
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1007
1008 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1009
fd3103bb 1010 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
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fd3103bb 1012 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
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fd3103bb 1014 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
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1017 Active, color, single scan.
1018
1019 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1020
1021 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
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1022 Active, color, single scan.
1023
1024 CONFIG_SHARP_16x9
1025
1026 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1027 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1028
1029 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1030
1031 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1032 Active, color, single scan.
1033
1034 CONFIG_HLD1045
1035
1036 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1037 Active, color, single scan.
1038
1039 CONFIG_OPTREX_BW
1040
1041 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1042 or
1043 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1044 or
1045 Hitachi SP14Q002
1046
1047 320x240. Black & white.
1048
1049 Normally display is black on white background; define
6d0f6bcf 1050 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
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7152b1d0 1052- Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
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1054 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1055 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1056 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
e94d2cd9 1057 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
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1058 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1059 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1060 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1061 loaded very quickly after power-on.
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1064
1065 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1066 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1067 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1068
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1070 CONFIG_BZIP2
1071
1072 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1073 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1074 compressed images are supported.
1075
42d1f039 1076 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
6d0f6bcf 1077 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
42d1f039 1078 be at least 4MB.
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1081
1082 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1083 images is included.
1084
1085 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1086 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1087 formula:
1088
1089 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1090
1091 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1092 and Literal pos bits.
1093
1094 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1095 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1096 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1097 a very small buffer.
1098
1099 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1100 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
6d0f6bcf 1101 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
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1104 CONFIG_PHY_ADDR
1105
1106 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1107
1108 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1109
1110 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1111
1112 CONFIG_PHY_GIGE
1113
1114 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
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1117 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1118
1119 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1120 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1121 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1122 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1123
1124 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1125
1126 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1127 command issued before MII status register can be read
1128
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1130 CONFIG_ETHADDR
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1133 CONFIG_ETH3ADDR
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1135 CONFIG_ETH5ADDR
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1138 for the respective Ethernet interface, in case this
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1139 is not determined automatically.
1140
1141- IP address:
1142 CONFIG_IPADDR
1143
1144 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
11ccc33f 1145 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
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1147
1148- Server IP address:
1149 CONFIG_SERVERIP
1150
11ccc33f 1151 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
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1152 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1153
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1155 CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP
1156
1157 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1158 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
11ccc33f 1159 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
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1160 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1161 multicast group.
1162
1163 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
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1164- BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1165 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1166
1167 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1168 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1169 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1170 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1171 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1172 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1173 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1174 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
6c33c785 1175 following delays are inserted then:
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1177 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1178 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1179 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1180 4th and following
1181 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1182
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1184 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1185 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1186
1187 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1188 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1189 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1190 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1191 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1192 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1193 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1194 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2
1195 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1196 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1197 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1198 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
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1200 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1201 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
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1202
1203 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1204 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1205 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1206 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1207 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1208 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1209 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1fe80d79 1210 is defined.
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1212 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1213 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1214 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
5d110f0a 1215 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
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1216 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1217 option 12 to the DHCP server.
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1219 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1220
1221 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1222 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1223 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1224 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1225 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1226 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1227 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1228 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1229 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1230 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1231 this delay.
1232
a3d991bd 1233 - CDP Options:
6e592385 1234 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
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1235
1236 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1237
1238 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1239
1240 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1241 of the device.
1242
1243 CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID
1244
1245 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1246 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
11ccc33f 1247 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
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1248
1249 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1250
1251 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1252 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1253
1254 CONFIG_CDP_VERSION
1255
1256 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1257
1258 CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM
1259
1260 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1261
1262 CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER
1263
1264 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1265
1266 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1267
1268 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1269 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1270
1271 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1272
1273 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1274
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1275- Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED
1276
1277 Several configurations allow to display the current
1278 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1279 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1280 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1281 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1282 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1283 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this
1284 feature in U-Boot.
1285
1286- CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
1287
1288 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
1289 on those systems that support this (optional)
1290 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
1291
1292- I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C | CONFIG_SOFT_I2C
1293
b37c7e5e 1294 These enable I2C serial bus commands. Defining either of
945af8d7 1295 (but not both of) CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C will
11ccc33f 1296 include the appropriate I2C driver for the selected CPU.
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945af8d7 1298 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
602ad3b3 1299 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
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1300 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
1301 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
43d9616c 1302 command line interface.
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1304 CONFIG_I2C_CMD_TREE is a recommended option that places
1305 all I2C commands under a single 'i2c' root command. The
1306 older 'imm', 'imd', 'iprobe' etc. commands are considered
1307 deprecated and may disappear in the future.
1308
1309 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
b37c7e5e 1310
945af8d7 1311 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C configures u-boot to use a software (aka
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1312 bit-banging) driver instead of CPM or similar hardware
1313 support for I2C.
c609719b 1314
945af8d7 1315 There are several other quantities that must also be
b37c7e5e 1316 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C.
c609719b 1317
6d0f6bcf 1318 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
945af8d7 1319 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
6d0f6bcf 1320 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
11ccc33f 1321 the CPU's i2c node address).
945af8d7 1322
b37c7e5e 1323 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx (cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c)
11ccc33f 1324 sets the CPU up as a master node and so its address should
b37c7e5e 1325 therefore be cleared to 0 (See, eg, MPC823e User's Manual
6d0f6bcf 1326 p.16-473). So, set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
c609719b 1327
945af8d7 1328 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
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1330 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SOFT_I2C)
1331 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1332 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
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1333
1334 I2C_INIT
1335
b37c7e5e 1336 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
43d9616c 1337 controller or configure ports.
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ba56f625 1339 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
b37c7e5e 1340
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1341 I2C_PORT
1342
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1343 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
1344 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
1345 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
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1347 I2C_ACTIVE
1348
1349 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1350 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1351 define can be null.
1352
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1353 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1354
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1355 I2C_TRISTATE
1356
1357 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1358 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1359 define can be null.
1360
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1361 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1362
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1363 I2C_READ
1364
1365 Code that returns TRUE if the I2C data line is high,
1366 FALSE if it is low.
1367
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1368 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1369
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1370 I2C_SDA(bit)
1371
1372 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1373 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1374
b37c7e5e 1375 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
2535d602 1376 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
ba56f625 1377 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
b37c7e5e 1378
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1379 I2C_SCL(bit)
1380
1381 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1382 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1383
b37c7e5e 1384 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
2535d602 1385 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
ba56f625 1386 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
b37c7e5e 1387
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1388 I2C_DELAY
1389
1390 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1391 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
b37c7e5e 1392 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
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1393 like:
1394
b37c7e5e 1395 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
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6d0f6bcf 1397 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
47cd00fa 1398
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1399 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1400 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1401 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1402 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1403 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1404 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1405 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1406 is run early in the boot sequence.
47cd00fa 1407
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1408 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
1409
1410 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
1411 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
1412 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
1413
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1414 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1415
1416 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
1417 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1418 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
1419 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1420
6d0f6bcf 1421 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
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1422
1423 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
1424 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued (or 'iprobe' using the legacy
1425 command). If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS is set, specify a list of bus-device
218ca724 1426 pairs. Otherwise, specify a 1D array of device addresses
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1427
1428 e.g.
1429 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
6d0f6bcf 1430 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
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1431
1432 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1433
1434 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
6d0f6bcf 1435 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MULTI_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
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1436
1437 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1438
6d0f6bcf 1439 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
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1440
1441 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1442 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1443
6d0f6bcf 1444 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
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1446 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1447 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1448
6d0f6bcf 1449 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
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1450
1451 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
1452 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
1453
6d0f6bcf 1454 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
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1456 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
1457 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
1458 specified DTT device.
1459
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1460 CONFIG_FSL_I2C
1461
1462 Define this option if you want to use Freescale's I2C driver in
7817cb20 1463 drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c.
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1465 CONFIG_I2C_MUX
1466
1467 Define this option if you have I2C devices reached over 1 .. n
1468 I2C Muxes like the pca9544a. This option addes a new I2C
1469 Command "i2c bus [muxtype:muxaddr:muxchannel]" which adds a
1470 new I2C Bus to the existing I2C Busses. If you select the
1471 new Bus with "i2c dev", u-bbot sends first the commandos for
1472 the muxes to activate this new "bus".
1473
1474 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS must be also defined, to use this
1475 feature!
1476
1477 Example:
1478 Adding a new I2C Bus reached over 2 pca9544a muxes
1479 The First mux with address 70 and channel 6
1480 The Second mux with address 71 and channel 4
1481
1482 => i2c bus pca9544a:70:6:pca9544a:71:4
1483
1484 Use the "i2c bus" command without parameter, to get a list
1485 of I2C Busses with muxes:
1486
1487 => i2c bus
1488 Busses reached over muxes:
1489 Bus ID: 2
1490 reached over Mux(es):
1491 pca9544a@70 ch: 4
1492 Bus ID: 3
1493 reached over Mux(es):
1494 pca9544a@70 ch: 6
1495 pca9544a@71 ch: 4
1496 =>
1497
1498 If you now switch to the new I2C Bus 3 with "i2c dev 3"
1499 u-boot sends First the Commando to the mux@70 to enable
1500 channel 6, and then the Commando to the mux@71 to enable
1501 the channel 4.
1502
1503 After that, you can use the "normal" i2c commands as
1504 usual, to communicate with your I2C devices behind
1505 the 2 muxes.
1506
1507 This option is actually implemented for the bitbanging
1508 algorithm in common/soft_i2c.c and for the Hardware I2C
1509 Bus on the MPC8260. But it should be not so difficult
1510 to add this option to other architectures.
1511
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1512 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1513
1514 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1515 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1516 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1517 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1518 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1519 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1520 the other.
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1523
1524 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1525 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1526 D/As on the SACSng board)
1527
1528 CONFIG_SPI_X
1529
1530 Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing.
1531 (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X)
1532
1533 CONFIG_SOFT_SPI
1534
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1535 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
1536 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
1537 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
1538 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
1539 defined, the board configuration must define several
1540 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
1541 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
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1543 CONFIG_HARD_SPI
1544
1545 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
1546 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
1547 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
1548 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
1549 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
1550
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1551 CONFIG_MXC_SPI
1552
1553 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
1554 SoCs. Currently only i.MX31 is supported.
1555
0133502e 1556- FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
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1558 Enables FPGA subsystem.
1559
1560 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
1561
1562 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
1563 (ALTERA, XILINX)
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0133502e 1565 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
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1567 Enables support for FPGA family.
1568 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
1569
1570 CONFIG_FPGA_COUNT
1571
1572 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
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6d0f6bcf 1574 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
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8bde7f77 1576 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
c609719b 1577
6d0f6bcf 1578 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
c609719b 1579
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1580 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
1581 status by the configuration function. This option
1582 will require a board or device specific function to
1583 be written.
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1584
1585 CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY
1586
1587 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
1588 configuration driver.
1589
6d0f6bcf 1590 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
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1591 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
1592
6d0f6bcf 1593 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
c609719b 1594
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1595 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
1596 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
1597 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
1598 indicated a CRC error).
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6d0f6bcf 1600 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
c609719b 1601
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1602 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert
1603 after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II
1604 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
11ccc33f 1605 ms.
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6d0f6bcf 1607 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
c609719b 1608
43d9616c 1609 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during
11ccc33f 1610 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
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6d0f6bcf 1612 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
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43d9616c 1614 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
11ccc33f 1615 200 ms.
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1616
1617- Configuration Management:
1618 CONFIG_IDENT_STRING
1619
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1620 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
1621 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
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1623- Vendor Parameter Protection:
1624
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1625 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
1626 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
7152b1d0 1627 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
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1628 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
1629 protects these variables from casual modification by
1630 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
1631 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
11ccc33f 1632 change this behaviour:
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1634 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
1635 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
47cd00fa 1636 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
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1637 these parameters.
1638
1639 Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR
1640 _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
11ccc33f 1641 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
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1642 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
1643 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
1644 read-only.]
1645
1646- Protected RAM:
1647 CONFIG_PRAM
1648
1649 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
1650 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
1651 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
1652 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
1653 this default value by defining an environment
1654 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
1655 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
1656 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
1657 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
1658 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
1659 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
1660 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
1661
fe126d8b 1662 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
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1663 saveenv
1664
1665 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
1666 either, which results in a memory region that will
1667 not be affected by reboots.
1668
1669 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
1670 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
1671 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
1672 following board configurations are known to be
1673 "pRAM-clean":
1674
1675 ETX094, IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
1676 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON, LANTEC,
1677 PCU_E, FLAGADM, TQM8260
1678
1679- Error Recovery:
1680 CONFIG_PANIC_HANG
1681
1682 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
1683 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
1684 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
11ccc33f 1685 system where you want the system to reboot
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1686 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
1687 useful during development since you can try to debug
1688 the conditions that lead to the situation.
1689
1690 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
1691
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1692 This variable defines the number of retries for
1693 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
1694 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
1695 default value of 5 is used.
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1697 CONFIG_ARP_TIMEOUT
1698
1699 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
1700
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8078f1a5 1702 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
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1703
1704 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
1705
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1706 Note that this feature has NOT been implemented yet
1707 for the "hush" shell.
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1708
1709
6d0f6bcf 1710 CONFIG_SYS_HUSH_PARSER
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1711
1712 Define this variable to enable the "hush" shell (from
1713 Busybox) as command line interpreter, thus enabling
1714 powerful command line syntax like
1715 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||'
1716 constructs ("shell scripts").
1717
1718 If undefined, you get the old, much simpler behaviour
1719 with a somewhat smaller memory footprint.
1720
1721
6d0f6bcf 1722 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
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1723
1724 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
1725 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
1726 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
1727
1728 Note:
1729
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1730 In the current implementation, the local variables
1731 space and global environment variables space are
1732 separated. Local variables are those you define by
1733 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
1734 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
1735 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
1736 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
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1738 Global environment variables are those you use
1739 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
1740 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
1741 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
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1742
1743 To store commands and special characters in a
1744 variable, please use double quotation marks
1745 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
1746 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
1747 symbols.
1748
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1749- Commandline Editing and History:
1750 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
1751
11ccc33f 1752 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
b9365a26 1753 commandline input operations
aa0c71ac 1754
a8c7c708 1755- Default Environment:
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1756 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
1757
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1758 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
1759 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
7152b1d0 1760 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
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1762 For example, place something like this in your
1763 board's config file:
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1765 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
1766 "myvar1=value1\0" \
1767 "myvar2=value2\0"
1768
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1769 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
1770 internal format how the environment is stored by the
1771 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
1772 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
7152b1d0 1773 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
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1774 You better know what you are doing here.
1775
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1776 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
1777 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
1778 the environment like the autoscript function or the
1779 boot command first.
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1782 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
1783
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1784 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
1785 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
1786 commands cp, md...
2abbe075 1787
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1788- SystemACE Support:
1789 CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
1790
1791 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
1792 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
11ccc33f 1793 of the chip must also be defined in the
6d0f6bcf 1794 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
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1795
1796 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
6d0f6bcf 1797 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
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1798
1799 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
1800 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
1801
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1802- TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
1803 CONFIG_TFTP_PORT
1804
28cb9375 1805 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
ecb0ccd9 1806 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
28cb9375 1807 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
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1808 number generator is used.
1809
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1810 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
1811 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
1812 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
1813
1814 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
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1815 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
1816 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
1817 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
1818 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
1819 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
1820 but sometimes that is not allowed.
1821
a8c7c708 1822- Show boot progress:
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1823 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
1824
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1825 Defining this option allows to add some board-
1826 specific code (calling a user-provided function
1827 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
1828 the system's boot progress on some display (for
1829 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
1830 the following checkpoints are implemented:
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1833 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP
1834 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
1835 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
1836
1837 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
1838 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
1839
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1840Legacy uImage format:
1841
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1842 Arg Where When
1843 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
ba56f625 1844 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
c609719b 1845 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
ba56f625 1846 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
c609719b 1847 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
ba56f625 1848 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
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1849 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
1850 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
1851 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
1372cce2 1852 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
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1853 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
1854 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
1855 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
1856 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
1372cce2 1857 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
c609719b 1858 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
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1859
1860 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
1861 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
1862 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
1863 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
1864 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
1865 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
1866 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
11ccc33f 1867 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
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1868 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
1869 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
1870
1871 15 lib_<arch>/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
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1873 -30 lib_ppc/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
1874 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
1875 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
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1877 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
1878 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
1879 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
1880 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
1881 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
1882 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
1883 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
1884 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
1885 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
1886 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
1887 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
1888 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
1889 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
1890 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
1891 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
1892 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
1893 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
1894 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
1895 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
1896 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
1897 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
1898 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
1899 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
1900 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
1901 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
1902 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
1903 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
1904 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
1905 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
1906 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
1907 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
1908 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
1909 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
1910 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
1911 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
1912 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
1913 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
1914 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
1915 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
1916 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
1917 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
1918 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
1919 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
1920 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
1921 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
1922 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
1923 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
1924
1925 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
1926
11ccc33f 1927 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
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1928 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
1929 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
1930
1931 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
1932 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling NetLoop()
11ccc33f 1933 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in NetLoop() occurred
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1934 81 common/cmd_net.c NetLoop() back without error
1935 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
1936 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
1937 83 common/cmd_net.c running autoscript
1938 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or autoscript
1939 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
c609719b 1940
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1941FIT uImage format:
1942
1943 Arg Where When
1944 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
1945 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
1946 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
1947 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
1948 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
1949 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
f773bea8 1950 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
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1951 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
1952 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
1953 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
1954 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
1955 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
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1956 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
1957 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
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1958 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
1959 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
1960 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
1961 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
1962 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
1963 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
1964 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
1965 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
1966
1967 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
1968 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
1969 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
11ccc33f 1970 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
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1971 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
1972 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
1973 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
1974 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
1975 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
1976 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
1977 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
1978 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
1979 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
1980 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
1981 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
1982 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
1983
11ccc33f 1984 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
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1985 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
1986
11ccc33f 1987 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
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1988 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
1989
11ccc33f 1990 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
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1991 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
1992
1993
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1994Modem Support:
1995--------------
1996
85ec0bcc 1997[so far only for SMDK2400 and TRAB boards]
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11ccc33f 1999- Modem support enable:
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2000 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT
2001
2002- RTS/CTS Flow control enable:
2003 CONFIG_HWFLOW
2004
2005- Modem debug support:
2006 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG
2007
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2008 Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg())
2009 for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000.
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2011- Interrupt support (PPC):
2012
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2013 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2014 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
11ccc33f 2015 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
d4ca31c4 2016 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
11ccc33f 2017 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
d4ca31c4 2018 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
11ccc33f 2019 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
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2020 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2021 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2022 general timer_interrupt().
a8c7c708 2023
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2024- General:
2025
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2026 In the target system modem support is enabled when a
2027 specific key (key combination) is pressed during
2028 power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally
11ccc33f 2029 (autoboot). The key_pressed() function is called from
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2030 board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy
2031 function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem
2032 initialization.
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2034 If there are no modem init strings in the
2035 environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the
2036 previous output (banner, info printfs) will be
11ccc33f 2037 suppressed, though.
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2038
2039 See also: doc/README.Modem
2040
2041
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2042Configuration Settings:
2043-----------------------
2044
6d0f6bcf 2045- CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
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2046 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2047
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2048- CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2049 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2050
6d0f6bcf 2051- CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
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2052 prompt for user input.
2053
6d0f6bcf 2054- CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
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6d0f6bcf 2056- CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
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6d0f6bcf 2058- CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
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6d0f6bcf 2060- CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
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2061 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2062 booted
2063
6d0f6bcf 2064- CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
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2065 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2066
6d0f6bcf 2067- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET
8bde7f77 2068 Suppress display of console information at boot.
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6d0f6bcf 2070- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
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2071 If the board specific function
2072 extern int overwrite_console (void);
2073 returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the
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2074 serial port, else the settings in the environment are used.
2075
6d0f6bcf 2076- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE
8bde7f77 2077 Enable the call to overwrite_console().
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6d0f6bcf 2079- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE
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2080 Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings.
2081
6d0f6bcf 2082- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
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2083 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2084 simple memory test.
2085
6d0f6bcf 2086- CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
8bde7f77 2087 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
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6d0f6bcf 2089- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
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2090 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2091 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2092
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2093- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE (PPC only):
2094 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
14f73ca6 2095 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
11ccc33f 2096 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
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2097 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2098 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2099 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
5e12e75d 2100 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
14f73ca6 2101 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
5e12e75d 2102 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
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2103
2104 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2105 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2106 be touched.
2107
2108 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2109 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2110 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2111 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2112 problems.
2113
6d0f6bcf 2114- CONFIG_SYS_TFTP_LOADADDR:
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2115 Default load address for network file downloads
2116
6d0f6bcf 2117- CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
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2118 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2119
6d0f6bcf 2120- CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
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2121 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2122
6d0f6bcf 2123- CONFIG_SYS_MBIO_BASE:
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2124 Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a
2125 Cogent motherboard)
2126
6d0f6bcf 2127- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
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2128 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2129
6d0f6bcf 2130- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
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2131 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2132 make config files to be same as the text base address
2133 (TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
6d0f6bcf 2134 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
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6d0f6bcf 2136- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
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2137 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2138 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2139 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2140 flash sector.
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6d0f6bcf 2142- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
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2143 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2144
6d0f6bcf 2145- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
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2147 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
6d0f6bcf 2148 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
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2149 to adjust this setting to your needs.
2150
6d0f6bcf 2151- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
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2152 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
2153 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
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2154 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
2155 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
2156 enviroment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
2157 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
6d0f6bcf 2158 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ.
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6d0f6bcf 2160- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
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2161 Max number of Flash memory banks
2162
6d0f6bcf 2163- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
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2164 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
2165
6d0f6bcf 2166- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
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2167 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
2168
6d0f6bcf 2169- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
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2170 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
2171
6d0f6bcf 2172- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
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2173 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
2174
6d0f6bcf 2175- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
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2176 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
2177
6d0f6bcf 2178- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
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2179 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
2180 instead of U-Boot software protection.
2181
6d0f6bcf 2182- CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
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2183
2184 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
2185 without this option such a download has to be
2186 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
2187 copy from RAM to flash.
2188
2189 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
2190 you can check if the download worked before you erase
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2191 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
2192 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
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2193 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
2194
6d0f6bcf 2195- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
43d9616c 2196 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
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2197 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
2198
00b1883a 2199- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
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2200 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
2201 in the drivers directory
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2203- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
2204 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
2205 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
2206 to the MTD layer.
2207
6d0f6bcf 2208- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
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2209 Use buffered writes to flash.
2210
2211- CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
2212 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
2213 write commands.
2214
6d0f6bcf 2215- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
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2216 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
2217 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
2218 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
2219 optionally available.
2220
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2221- CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
2222 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
2223 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
2224 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
2225
6d0f6bcf 2226- CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
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2227 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
2228 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
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2229 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
2230 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
11ccc33f 2231 on high Ethernet traffic.
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2232 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
2233
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2234The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
2235of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
2236following configurations:
2237
5a1aceb0 2238- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
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2239
2240 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
2241
2242 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
2243 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
2244 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
2245 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
2246 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
2247 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
2248 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
2249 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
2250 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
2251 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
2252 between U-Boot and the environment.
2253
0e8d1586 2254 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
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2255
2256 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
2257 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
2258 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
2259 for this sector is given here.
2260
6d0f6bcf 2261 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
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0e8d1586 2263 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
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2264
2265 This is just another way to specify the start address of
2266 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
0e8d1586 2267 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET).
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0e8d1586 2269 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
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2270
2271 Size of the sector containing the environment.
2272
2273
2274 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
2275 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
2276 the environment.
2277
0e8d1586 2278 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
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5a1aceb0 2280 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
0e8d1586 2281 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
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2282 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
2283 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
2284
2285 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
2286 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
2287 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
2288 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
2289 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
2290 updating the environment in flash makes it always
2291 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
2292 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
2293 RAM, your target system will be dead.
2294
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2295 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
2296 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
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43d9616c 2298 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
11ccc33f 2299 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
3e38691e 2300 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
43d9616c 2301 a "saveenv" operation.
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2302
2303BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
2304source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
2305accordingly!
2306
2307
9314cee6 2308- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
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2309
2310 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
2311 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
2312 environment.
2313
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2314 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
2315 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
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11ccc33f 2317 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
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2318 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
2319 can just be read and written to, without any special
2320 provision.
2321
2322BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
2323in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the
11ccc33f 2324console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
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2325U-Boot will hang.
2326
2327Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
2328environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
2329keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
2330to save the current settings.
2331
2332
bb1f8b4f 2333- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
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2334
2335 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
2336 device and a driver for it.
2337
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2338 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2339 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
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2340
2341 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
2342 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
2343
6d0f6bcf 2344 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
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2345 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
2346 The default address is zero.
2347
6d0f6bcf 2348 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
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2349 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
2350 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
2351 would require six bits.
2352
6d0f6bcf 2353 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
c609719b 2354 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
ba56f625 2355 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
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6d0f6bcf 2357 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
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2358 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
2359 that this is NOT the chip address length!
2360
6d0f6bcf 2361 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
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2362 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
2363 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
2364 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
2365 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
2366 byte chips.
2367
2368 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
2369 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
2370 in the chip address.
2371
6d0f6bcf 2372 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
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2373 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
2374
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057c849c 2376- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
5779d8d9 2377
d4ca31c4 2378 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
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2379 want to use for the environment.
2380
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2381 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2382 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
2383 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
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2384
2385 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
2386 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
2387 at the specified address.
2388
51bfee19 2389- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
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2390
2391 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
2392 for the environment.
2393
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2394 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2395 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
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2396
2397 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
2398 area within the first NAND device.
5779d8d9 2399
0e8d1586 2400 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND
e443c944 2401
0e8d1586 2402 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
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2403 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data,
2404 so that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a
2405 power failure during a "saveenv" operation.
2406
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2407 Note: CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET and CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND must be aligned
2408 to a block boundary, and CONFIG_ENV_SIZE must be a multiple of
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2409 the NAND devices block size.
2410
6d0f6bcf 2411- CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
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2412
2413 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
2414 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
2415 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
2416 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
2417 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
2418 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
2419 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
2420
e881cb56 2421Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
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2422has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
2423created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_r()
2424until then to read environment variables.
2425
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2426The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
2427is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
2428with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
2429necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
2430"baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
2431have any device yet where we could complain.]
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2432
2433Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
2434the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
85ec0bcc 2435use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
c609719b 2436
6d0f6bcf 2437- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
42d1f039 2438 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
fc3e2165 2439
6d0f6bcf 2440 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
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2441 also needs to be defined.
2442
6d0f6bcf 2443- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
42d1f039 2444 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
c609719b 2445
6d0f6bcf 2446- CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_VSPRINTF:
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2447 Makes vsprintf (and all *printf functions) support printing
2448 of 64bit values by using the L quantifier
2449
6d0f6bcf 2450- CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_STRTOUL:
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2451 Adds simple_strtoull that returns a 64bit value
2452
c609719b 2453Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
dc7c9a1a 2454---------------------------------------------------
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6d0f6bcf 2456- CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
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2457 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
2458
6d0f6bcf 2459- CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
c609719b 2460 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
2535d602 2461
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2462 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
2463 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
2464 the IMMR register after a reset.
c609719b 2465
7f6c2cbc 2466- Floppy Disk Support:
6d0f6bcf 2467 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
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2468
2469 the default drive number (default value 0)
2470
6d0f6bcf 2471 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
7f6c2cbc 2472
11ccc33f 2473 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
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2474 (default value 1)
2475
6d0f6bcf 2476 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
7f6c2cbc 2477
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2478 defines the offset of register from address. It
2479 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
11ccc33f 2480 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
7f6c2cbc 2481
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2482 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
2483 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
43d9616c 2484 default value.
7f6c2cbc 2485
6d0f6bcf 2486 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
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2487 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
2488 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
2489 source code. It is used to make hardware dependant
2490 initializations.
7f6c2cbc 2491
6d0f6bcf 2492- CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
efe2a4d5 2493 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
25d6712a 2494 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
c609719b 2495
6d0f6bcf 2496- CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
c609719b 2497
7152b1d0 2498 Start address of memory area that can be used for
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2499 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
2500 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
2501 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
2502 will become available only after programming the
2503 memory controller and running certain initialization
2504 sequences.
2505
2506 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
2507 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
2508 - MPC824X: data cache
2509 - PPC4xx: data cache
2510
6d0f6bcf 2511- CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
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2512
2513 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
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2514 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
2515 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
c609719b 2516 data is located at the end of the available space
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2517 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_END -
2518 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
2519 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
2520 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
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2521
2522 Note:
2523 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
2524 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
6d0f6bcf 2525 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
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2526 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
2527 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
2528
6d0f6bcf 2529- CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
c609719b 2530
6d0f6bcf 2531- CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
c609719b 2532
6d0f6bcf 2533- CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
c609719b 2534
6d0f6bcf 2535- CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
c609719b 2536
6d0f6bcf 2537- CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
c609719b 2538
6d0f6bcf 2539- CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
c609719b 2540
6d0f6bcf 2541- CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
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2542 SDRAM timing
2543
6d0f6bcf 2544- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
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2545 periodic timer for refresh
2546
6d0f6bcf 2547- CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
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2549- FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
2550 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
2551 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
2552 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
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2553 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
2554
2555- SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
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2556 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
2557 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
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2558 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
2559
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2560- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
2561 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
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2562 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
2563 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
2564
6d0f6bcf 2565- CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
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2566 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2567 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
2568
6d0f6bcf 2569- CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
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2570 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2571 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
2572
6d0f6bcf 2573- CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
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2574 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2575 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
2576
6d0f6bcf 2577- CONFIG_SYS_USE_OSCCLK:
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2578 Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful,
2579 wrong setting might damage your board. Read
2580 doc/README.MBX before setting this variable!
2581
6d0f6bcf 2582- CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
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2583 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
2584 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
2585 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
2586 cpm_8260.h.
ea909b76 2587
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2588- CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
2589 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
2590 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
2591 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
2592 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
2593 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
2594 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
2595 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
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2596 Overrides the default PCI memory map in cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
2597
bb99ad6d 2598- CONFIG_SPD_EEPROM
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2599 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
2600 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
2601
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2602 SPD_EEPROM_ADDRESS
2603 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
2604
6d0f6bcf 2605- CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
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2606 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
2607 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
2608 to something your driver can deal with.
bb99ad6d 2609
6d0f6bcf 2610- CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
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2611 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
2612 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
2ad6b513 2613
6d0f6bcf 2614- CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
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2615 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
2616 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
2ad6b513 2617
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2618- CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
2619 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
2620
2621- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
2622 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
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2623 to the given FEC; i. e.
2624 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
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2625 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
2626
2627 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
2628
2629- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
2630 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
2631 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
2632
2633- CONFIG_RMII
2634 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
2635 Note that this is a global option, we can't
2636 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
2637
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2638- CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
2639 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
2640 The syntax is:
2641
2642 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
2643
2644 Where address/count indicate a memory area
2645 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
2646 area should have.
2647
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2648- CONFIG_LOOPW
2649 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
602ad3b3 2650 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
56523f12 2651
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2652- CONFIG_MX_CYCLIC
2653 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
2654 "md/mw" commands.
2655 Examples:
2656
efe2a4d5 2657 => mdc.b 10 4 500
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2658 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
2659
efe2a4d5 2660 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
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2661 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
2662
efe2a4d5 2663 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
602ad3b3 2664 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
7b466641 2665
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2666- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
2667- CONFIG_SKIP_RELOCATE_UBOOT
2668
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2669 [ARM only] If these variables are defined, then
2670 certain low level initializations (like setting up
2671 the memory controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does
2672 not relocate itself into RAM.
2673 Normally these variables MUST NOT be defined. The
2674 only exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by
2675 some other boot loader or by a debugger which
11ccc33f 2676 performs these initializations itself.
8aa1a2d1 2677
400558b5 2678
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2679Building the Software:
2680======================
2681
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2682Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
2683and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
2684all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
2685(potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
2686recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
2687which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
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2689If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
2690have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
2691you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
2692Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
2693necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
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2695 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
2696 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
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2698U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
2699sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
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2700is done by typing:
2701
2702 make NAME_config
2703
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2704where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing configu-
2705rations; see the main Makefile for supported names.
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2707Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
2708 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
2709 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
2710 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
11ccc33f 2711 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
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2712
2713 make TQM823L_config
2714 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
2715
2716 make TQM823L_LCD_config
2717 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
2718
2719 etc.
2720
2721
2722Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
2723images ready for download to / installation on your system:
2724
2725- "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
2726- "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
2727- "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
2728
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2729By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
2730in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
2731this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
2732
27331. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
2734
2735 make O=/tmp/build distclean
2736 make O=/tmp/build NAME_config
2737 make O=/tmp/build all
2738
27392. Set environment variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location:
2740
2741 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
2742 make distclean
2743 make NAME_config
2744 make all
2745
2746Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the BUILD_DIR environment
2747variable.
2748
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2749
2750Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
2751for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
2752native "make".
2753
2754
2755If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
2756to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
2757steps:
2758
27591. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel
2760 "Makefile" and to the "MAKEALL" script, using the existing
2761 entries as examples. Note that here and at many other places
2762 boards and other names are listed in alphabetical sort order. Please
2763 keep this order.
27642. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
2765 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
2766 the "Makefile", a "<board>.c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds".
27673. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
2768 your board
27693. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
2770 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
27714. Run "make <board>_config" with your new name.
27725. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
2773 to be installed on your target system.
27746. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
2775 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
2776
2777
2778Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
2779==============================================================
2780
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2781If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
2782or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
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2783provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
2784the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
218ca724 2785official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
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2787But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
2788cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
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2789the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
2790just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot
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2791for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can
2792select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE'
2793environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the ELDK cross tools
2794you can type
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2795
2796 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
2797
2798or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type
2799
2800 CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL
2801
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2802When using the MAKEALL script, the default behaviour is to build
2803U-Boot in the source directory. This location can be changed by
2804setting the BUILD_DIR environment variable. Also, for each target
2805built, the MAKEALL script saves two log files (<target>.ERR and
2806<target>.MAKEALL) in the <source dir>/LOG directory. This default
2807location can be changed by setting the MAKEALL_LOGDIR environment
2808variable. For example:
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2810 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
2811 export MAKEALL_LOGDIR=/tmp/log
2812 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
2813
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2814With the above settings build objects are saved in the /tmp/build,
2815log files are saved in the /tmp/log and the source tree remains clean
2816during the whole build process.
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2817
2818
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2819See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
2820
2821
2822Monitor Commands - Overview:
2823============================
2824
2825go - start application at address 'addr'
2826run - run commands in an environment variable
2827bootm - boot application image from memory
2828bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
2829tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
2830 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
2831 (and eventually "gatewayip")
2832rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
2833diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
2834loads - load S-Record file over serial line
2835loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
2836md - memory display
2837mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
2838nm - memory modify (constant address)
2839mw - memory write (fill)
2840cp - memory copy
2841cmp - memory compare
2842crc32 - checksum calculation
2843imd - i2c memory display
2844imm - i2c memory modify (auto-incrementing)
2845inm - i2c memory modify (constant address)
2846imw - i2c memory write (fill)
2847icrc32 - i2c checksum calculation
2848iprobe - probe to discover valid I2C chip addresses
2849iloop - infinite loop on address range
2850isdram - print SDRAM configuration information
2851sspi - SPI utility commands
2852base - print or set address offset
2853printenv- print environment variables
2854setenv - set environment variables
2855saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
2856protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
2857erase - erase FLASH memory
2858flinfo - print FLASH memory information
2859bdinfo - print Board Info structure
2860iminfo - print header information for application image
2861coninfo - print console devices and informations
2862ide - IDE sub-system
2863loop - infinite loop on address range
56523f12 2864loopw - infinite write loop on address range
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2865mtest - simple RAM test
2866icache - enable or disable instruction cache
2867dcache - enable or disable data cache
2868reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
2869echo - echo args to console
2870version - print monitor version
2871help - print online help
2872? - alias for 'help'
2873
2874
2875Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
2876========================================
2877
2878TODO.
2879
2880For now: just type "help <command>".
2881
2882
2883Environment Variables:
2884======================
2885
2886U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
2887can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
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2889Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
2890"printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
2891without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
2892environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
2893working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
2894environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
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2729af9d 2896Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables:
c609719b 2897
2729af9d 2898 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
c609719b 2899
2729af9d 2900 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
c609719b 2901
2729af9d 2902 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
4a6fd34b 2903
2729af9d 2904 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
c609719b 2905
2729af9d 2906 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
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2908 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
2909 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
2910 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
2911 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
2912 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
2913 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
6d0f6bcf 2914 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ.
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2915
2916 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
2917 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
2918 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
2919 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
2920 environment variable.
2921
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2922 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
2923 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
2924 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
2925
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2926 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
2927 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
2928 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
2929 load any image using TFTP
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2931 autoscript - if set to "yes" commands like "loadb", "loady",
2932 "bootp", "tftpb", "rarpboot" and "nfs" will attempt
2933 to automatically run script images (by internally
2934 calling "autoscript").
2935
2936 autoscript_uname - if script image is in a format (FIT) this
2937 variable is used to get script subimage unit name.
2938
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2939 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
2940 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
2941 be automatically started (by internally calling
2942 "bootm")
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2944 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
2945 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
2946 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
2947 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
2948 data.
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2950 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
2951 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
2952 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
2953 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
2954 it must be saved and board must be reset.
2955
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2956 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
2957 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
2958 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
2959 is usually what you want since it allows for
2960 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
2961 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
6d0f6bcf 2962 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
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2963 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
2964 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
2965 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
2966 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
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2968 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
2969 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
2970 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
2971 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
2972 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
2973 12 MB as well - this can be done with
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2729af9d 2975 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
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2977 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
2978 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
2979 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
2980 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
2981 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
2982 boot time on your system, but requires that this
2983 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
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2729af9d 2985 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
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2987 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
2988 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
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2729af9d 2990 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
a3d991bd 2991
2729af9d 2992 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
a3d991bd 2993
2729af9d 2994 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
a3d991bd 2995
2729af9d 2996 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
a3d991bd 2997
2729af9d 2998 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
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3000 ethprime - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which
3001 interface is used first.
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3003 ethact - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which
3004 interface is currently active. For example you
3005 can do the following
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3007 => setenv ethact FEC ETHERNET
3008 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC ETHERNET
3009 => setenv ethact SCC ETHERNET
3010 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC ETHERNET
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3012 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3013 available network interfaces.
3014 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3015
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3016 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
3017 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3018 When set to "once" the network operation will
3019 fail when all the available network interfaces
3020 are tried once without success.
3021 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3022 themselves.
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a1cf027a 3024 npe_ucode - see CONFIG_IXP4XX_NPE_EXT_UCOD
11ccc33f 3025 if set load address for the NPE microcode
a1cf027a 3026
28cb9375 3027 tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
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3028 UDP source port.
3029
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3030 tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
3031 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
3032
2729af9d 3033 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
11ccc33f 3034 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
2729af9d 3035 VLAN tagged frames.
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3037The following environment variables may be used and automatically
3038updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
3039depending the information provided by your boot server:
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3041 bootfile - see above
3042 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
3043 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
3044 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
3045 hostname - Target hostname
3046 ipaddr - see above
3047 netmask - Subnet Mask
3048 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
3049 serverip - see above
c1551ea8 3050
c1551ea8 3051
2729af9d 3052There are two special Environment Variables:
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3054 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
3055 as type string and/or serial number
3056 ethaddr - Ethernet address
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3058These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
3059the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
3060once they have been set once.
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f07771cc 3062
2729af9d 3063Further special Environment Variables:
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3065 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
3066 with the "version" command. This variable is
3067 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
f07771cc 3068
f07771cc 3069
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3070Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
3071only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
f07771cc 3072
f07771cc 3073
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3074Command Line Parsing:
3075=====================
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3077There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
3078the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
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3080Old, simple command line parser:
3081--------------------------------
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3083- supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
3084- several commands on one line, separated by ';'
fe126d8b 3085- variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
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3086- special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
3087 for example:
fe126d8b 3088 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
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3089- You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
3090 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
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3092Hush shell:
3093-----------
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3095- similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
3096 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
3097 until...do...done, ...
3098- supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
3099 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
3100 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
3101 command
3102
3103General rules:
3104--------------
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3106(1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
3107 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
3108 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
3109 executed anyway.
c609719b 3110
2729af9d 3111(2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
11ccc33f 3112 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
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3113 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
3114 variables are not executed.
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3116Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
3117=======================================
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11ccc33f 3119Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
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3120such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
3121"working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
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3123Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
3124MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
3125"eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
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3127If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
3128in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
3129ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
3130variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
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3132o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
3133 environment, the SROM's address is used.
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3135o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
3136 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
3137 used.
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3139o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
3140 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
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3142o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
3143 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
3144 warning is printed.
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3146o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
3147 is raised.
c609719b 3148
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3150Image Formats:
3151==============
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3153U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
3154images in two formats:
3155
3156New uImage format (FIT)
3157-----------------------
3158
3159Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
3160to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
3161components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
3162SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
3163
3164
3165Old uImage format
3166-----------------
3167
3168Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
3169preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
3170details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
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3172* Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
3173 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
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3174 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
3175 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
3176 INTEGRITY).
7b64fef3 3177* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
2729af9d 3178 IA64, MIPS, NIOS, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
7b64fef3 3179 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, NIOS, PowerPC).
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3180* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
3181* Load Address
3182* Entry Point
3183* Image Name
3184* Image Timestamp
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3186The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
3187and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
3188CRC32 checksums.
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3189
3190
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3191Linux Support:
3192==============
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3194Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
3195easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
3196U-Boot.
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3198U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
3199special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
3200"initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
3201instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
3202serves several purposes:
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3204- the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
3205 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
3206 Flash memory footprint)
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3208- it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
3209 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
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3211- the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
3212 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
3213 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
3214 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
3215 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
3216 software is easier now.
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3219Linux HOWTO:
3220============
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3222Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
3223---------------------------------------
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3225U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
3226configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
3227(no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
3228Linux :-).
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2729af9d 3230But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/ppc/mbxboot).
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3232Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
3233include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
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3234Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
3235and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
6d0f6bcf 3236as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
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3239Configuring the Linux kernel:
3240-----------------------------
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3242No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
3243device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
3244
3245
3246Building a Linux Image:
3247-----------------------
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3249With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
3250not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
3251"uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
3252U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
3253which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
3254100% compatible format.
3255
3256Example:
3257
3258 make TQM850L_config
3259 make oldconfig
3260 make dep
3261 make uImage
3262
3263The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
3264encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
3265CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
3266
3267* build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
3268
3269* convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
3270
3271 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
3272 -R .note -R .comment \
3273 -S vmlinux linux.bin
3274
3275* compress the binary image:
3276
3277 gzip -9 linux.bin
3278
3279* package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
3280
3281 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
3282 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
3283 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
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3286The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
3287with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
3288combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
3289byte header containing information about target architecture,
3290operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
3291stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
3292
3293"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
3294print the header information, or to build new images.
3295
3296In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
3297contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
3298checksum verification:
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3300 tools/mkimage -l image
3301 -l ==> list image header information
3302
3303The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
3304from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
3305
3306 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
3307 -n name -d data_file image
3308 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
3309 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
3310 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
3311 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
3312 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
3313 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
3314 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
3315 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
3316
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3317Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
3318address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
3319kernel version:
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3320
3321- 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
3322- 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
3323
3324So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
3325
3326 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3327 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
3328 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/ppc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
3329 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
3330 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3331 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3332 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3333 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3334 Load Address: 0x00000000
3335 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3336
3337To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
3338
3339 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
3340 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3341 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3342 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3343 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3344 Load Address: 0x00000000
3345 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3346
3347NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
3348speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
3349needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
3350need to be uncompressed:
3351
3352 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/ppc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
3353 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3354 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
3355 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/ppc/coffboot/vmlinux \
3356 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
3357 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3358 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3359 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
3360 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
3361 Load Address: 0x00000000
3362 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3363
3364
3365Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
3366when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
3367
3368 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
3369 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
3370 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
3371 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3372 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
3373 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3374 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
3375 Load Address: 0x00000000
3376 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3377
3378
3379Installing a Linux Image:
3380-------------------------
3381
3382To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
3383you must convert the image to S-Record format:
3384
3385 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
3386
3387The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
3388image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
3389address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
3390specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
3391command.
3392
3393Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
3394TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
3395
3396 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
3397
3398 .......... done
3399 Erased 8 sectors
3400
3401 => loads 40100000
3402 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3403 ~>examples/image.srec
3404 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
3405 ...
3406 15989 15990 15991 15992
3407 [file transfer complete]
3408 [connected]
3409 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
3410
3411
3412You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
218ca724 3413this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
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3414corruption happened:
3415
3416 => imi 40100000
3417
3418 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3419 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3420 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3421 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3422 Load Address: 00000000
3423 Entry Point: 0000000c
3424 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3425
3426
3427Boot Linux:
3428-----------
3429
3430The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
3431memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
3432of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
3433parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
3434"printenv" and "setenv" commands:
3435
3436
3437 => printenv bootargs
3438 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
3439
3440 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3441
3442 => printenv bootargs
3443 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3444
3445 => bootm 40020000
3446 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
3447 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
3448 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3449 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
3450 Load Address: 00000000
3451 Entry Point: 0000000c
3452 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3453 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3454 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
3455 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3456 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3457 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3458 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
3459 ...
3460
11ccc33f 3461If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
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3462the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
3463format!) to the "bootm" command:
3464
3465 => imi 40100000 40200000
3466
3467 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3468 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3469 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3470 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3471 Load Address: 00000000
3472 Entry Point: 0000000c
3473 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3474
3475 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
3476 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3477 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3478 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3479 Load Address: 00000000
3480 Entry Point: 00000000
3481 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3482
3483 => bootm 40100000 40200000
3484 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
3485 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3486 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3487 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3488 Load Address: 00000000
3489 Entry Point: 0000000c
3490 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3491 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3492 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
3493 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3494 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3495 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3496 Load Address: 00000000
3497 Entry Point: 00000000
3498 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3499 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
3500 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
3501 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
3502 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3503 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3504 ...
3505 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
3506 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
3507
3508 bash#
3509
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3510Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
3511-----------
3512
3513First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
3514titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
3515following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
3516flat device tree:
3517
3518=> print oftaddr
3519oftaddr=0x300000
3520=> print oft
3521oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
3522=> tftp $oftaddr $oft
3523Speed: 1000, full duplex
3524Using TSEC0 device
3525TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
3526Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
3527Load address: 0x300000
3528Loading: #
3529done
3530Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
3531=> tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
3532Speed: 1000, full duplex
3533Using TSEC0 device
3534TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
3535Filename 'uImage'.
3536Load address: 0x200000
3537Loading:############
3538done
3539Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
3540=> print loadaddr
3541loadaddr=200000
3542=> print oftaddr
3543oftaddr=0x300000
3544=> bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
3545## Booting image at 00200000 ...
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3546 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
3547 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3548 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
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a9398e01 3550 Entry Point: 00000000
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3551 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3552 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3553Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
3554Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
3555Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
3556[snip]
3557
3558
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3559More About U-Boot Image Types:
3560------------------------------
3561
3562U-Boot supports the following image types:
3563
3564 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
3565 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
3566 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
3567 the Standalone Program.
3568 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
3569 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
3570 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
3571 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
3572 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
3573 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
3574 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
3575 being started.
3576 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
3577 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
3578 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
3579 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
3580 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
3581 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
3582
3583 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
3584 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
3585 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
3586 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
3587 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
3588 a multiple of 4 bytes).
3589
3590 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
3591 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
3592 flash memory.
3593
3594 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
3595 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
3596 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
3597 as command interpreter.
3598
3599
3600Standalone HOWTO:
3601=================
3602
3603One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
3604run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
3605U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
3606
3607Two simple examples are included with the sources:
3608
3609"Hello World" Demo:
3610-------------------
3611
3612'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
3613application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
3614It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
3615like that:
3616
3617 => loads
3618 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3619 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
3620 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
3621 [file transfer complete]
3622 [connected]
3623 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
3624
3625 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
3626 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
3627 Hello World
3628 argc = 7
3629 argv[0] = "40004"
3630 argv[1] = "Hello"
3631 argv[2] = "World!"
3632 argv[3] = "This"
3633 argv[4] = "is"
3634 argv[5] = "a"
3635 argv[6] = "test."
3636 argv[7] = "<NULL>"
3637 Hit any key to exit ...
3638
3639 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
3640
3641Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
3642handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
3643Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
3644The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
3645character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
3646controlled by the following keys:
3647
3648 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
3649 b - enable interrupts and start timer
3650 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
3651 q - quit application
3652
3653 => loads
3654 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3655 ~>examples/timer.srec
3656 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
3657 [file transfer complete]
3658 [connected]
3659 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
3660
3661 => go 40004
3662 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
3663 TIMERS=0xfff00980
3664 Using timer 1
3665 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
3666
3667Hit 'b':
3668 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
3669 Enabling timer
3670Hit '?':
3671 [q, b, e, ?] ........
3672 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
3673Hit '?':
3674 [q, b, e, ?] .
3675 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
3676Hit '?':
3677 [q, b, e, ?] .
3678 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
3679Hit '?':
3680 [q, b, e, ?] .
3681 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
3682Hit 'e':
3683 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
3684Hit 'q':
3685 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
3686
3687
3688Minicom warning:
3689================
3690
3691Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
3692"minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
3693consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
3694Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
3695especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
3696use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command).
3697
3698Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
3699configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
3700
3701 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
3702 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
3703 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
3704
3705
3706NetBSD Notes:
3707=============
3708
3709Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
3710(build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
3711
3712Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
3713NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
3714need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
3715Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
3716attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
3717missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
3718
3719 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
3720 # mkdir powerpc
3721 # ln -s powerpc machine
3722 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
3723 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
3724
3725Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
3726and U-Boot include files.
3727
3728Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
3729stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
3730proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
3731tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
2a8af187 3732meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
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3733
3734
3735Implementation Internals:
3736=========================
3737
3738The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
3739implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
3740inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
3741hardware.
3742
3743
3744Initial Stack, Global Data:
3745---------------------------
3746
3747The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
3748starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
3749system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
3750This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
3751is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
3752at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
3753options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
3754models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
3755MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
3756locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
3757
218ca724 3758 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
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3760
3761 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
3762 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
3763 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
3764 ...
3765
3766 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
3767 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
3768 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
3769 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
3770 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
11ccc33f 3771 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
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3772 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
3773 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
3774
3775 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
3776 is another option for the system designer to use as an
11ccc33f 3777 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
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3778 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
3779 board designers haven't used it for something that would
3780 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
3781 used.
3782
6d0f6bcf 3783 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
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3784 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
3785 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
8a316c9b 3786 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
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3787 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
3788 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
3789 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
3790 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
3791 you get the config right.
3792
3793 -Chris Hallinan
3794 DS4.COM, Inc.
3795
3796It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
3797code for the initialization procedures:
3798
3799* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
3800 to write it.
3801
11ccc33f 3802* Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitely initialized
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3803 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
3804 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
3805
3806* Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
3807 that.
3808
3809Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
3810normal global data to share information beween the code. But it
3811turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
3812simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
3813functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
3814functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
3815the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
3816place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
3817reserve for this purpose.
3818
3819When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
3820relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
3821GCC's implementation.
3822
3823For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
3824 R1: stack pointer
e7670f6c 3825 R2: reserved for system use
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3826 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
3827 R5-R10: parameter passing
3828 R13: small data area pointer
3829 R30: GOT pointer
3830 R31: frame pointer
3831
3832 (U-Boot also uses R14 as internal GOT pointer.)
3833
e7670f6c 3834 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
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3835
3836 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
3837 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
3838 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
3839 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
3840 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
3841 624 text + 127 data).
3842
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3843On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P5) is followed as documented here:
3844 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
3845
3846 ==> U-Boot will use P5 to hold a pointer to the global data
3847
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3848On ARM, the following registers are used:
3849
3850 R0: function argument word/integer result
3851 R1-R3: function argument word
3852 R9: GOT pointer
3853 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking if enabled)
3854 R11: argument (frame) pointer
3855 R12: temporary workspace
3856 R13: stack pointer
3857 R14: link register
3858 R15: program counter
3859
3860 ==> U-Boot will use R8 to hold a pointer to the global data
3861
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3862NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
3863or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
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3864
3865Memory Management:
3866------------------
3867
3868U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
3869MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
3870
3871The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
3872controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
3873memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
3874physical memory banks.
3875
3876U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
3877TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
3878booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
3879to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
6d0f6bcf 3880memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
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3881configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
3882Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
3883
3884Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
3885of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
3886
3887So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
3888this:
3889
3890 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
3891 :
3892 0x0000 1FFF
3893 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
3894 :
3895 :
3896
3897 :
3898 :
3899 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
3900 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
3901 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
3902 :
3903 0x00FD FFFF
3904 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
3905 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
3906 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
3907 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
3908
3909
3910System Initialization:
3911----------------------
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2729af9d 3913In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
11ccc33f 3914(on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
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3915configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory.
3916To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
3917To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
3918initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
3919which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
3920part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
3921the caches and the SIU.
3922
3923Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
3924preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
3925(multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
3926on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
3927programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
3928simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
3929banks.
3930
3931When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
3932different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
3933bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
39340x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
3935contiguous memory starting from 0.
3936
3937Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
3938and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
3939Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
3940pages, and the final stack is set up.
3941
3942Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
3943until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
3944running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
3945new address in RAM.
3946
3947
3948U-Boot Porting Guide:
3949----------------------
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3951[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
3952list, October 2002]
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3953
3954
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3955int main (int argc, char *argv[])
3956{
3957 sighandler_t no_more_time;
c609719b 3958
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3959 signal (SIGALRM, no_more_time);
3960 alarm (PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
c609719b 3961
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3962 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
3963 pay consultant to port U-Boot;
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3964 return 0;
3965 }
3966
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3967 Download latest U-Boot source;
3968
0668236b 3969 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
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3970
3971 if (clueless) {
3972 email ("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
3973 }
3974
3975 while (learning) {
3976 Read the README file in the top level directory;
3977 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual ;
3978 Read the source, Luke;
3979 }
3980
3981 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500)) {
3982 Buy a BDI2000;
3983 } else {
3984 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
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3985 }
3986
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3987 Create your own board support subdirectory;
3988
3989 Create your own board config file;
3990
3991 while (!running) {
3992 do {
3993 Add / modify source code;
3994 } until (compiles);
3995 Debug;
3996 if (clueless)
3997 email ("Hi, I am having problems...");
3998 }
3999 Send patch file to Wolfgang;
4000
4001 return 0;
4002}
4003
4004void no_more_time (int sig)
4005{
4006 hire_a_guru();
4007}
4008
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4010Coding Standards:
4011-----------------
c609719b 4012
2729af9d 4013All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
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4014coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
4015"scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory. In sources
4016originating from U-Boot a style corresponding to "Lindent -pcs" (adding
4017spaces before parameters to function calls) is actually used.
4018
4019Source files originating from a different project (for example the
4020MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
4021reformated to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
4022sources.
4023
4024Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
4025Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
4026in your code.
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4028Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
4029- remove any trailing white space
4030- use TAB characters for indentation, not spaces
4031- make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
4032- do not add more than 2 empty lines to source files
4033- do not add trailing empty lines to source files
180d3f74 4034
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4035Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
4036with a request to reformat the changes.
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4037
4038
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4039Submitting Patches:
4040-------------------
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4042Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
4043establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
4044may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
c609719b 4045
0d28f34b 4046Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
218ca724 4047
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4048Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
4049see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
4050
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4051When you send a patch, please include the following information with
4052it:
c609719b 4053
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4054* For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
4055 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
4056 patch actually fixes something.
c609719b 4057
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4058* For new features: a description of the feature and your
4059 implementation.
c609719b 4060
2729af9d 4061* A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
c609719b 4062
2729af9d 4063* For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file
c609719b 4064
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4065* When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add this
4066 board to the MAKEALL script, too.
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4068* If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
4069 document these in the README file.
c609719b 4070
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4071* The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
4072 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
4073 "git-format-patch". If you then use "git-send-email" to send it to
4074 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
4075 with some other mail clients.
4076
4077 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
4078 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
4079 GNU diff.
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4081 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
4082 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
4083 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
4084 affected files).
6dff5529 4085
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4086 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
4087 and compressed attachments must not be used.
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4089* If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
4090 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
52f52c14 4091
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4092* Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
4093 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
8bde7f77 4094
52f52c14 4095
2729af9d 4096Notes:
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4098* Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched
4099 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
4100 for any of the boards.
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4102* Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
4103 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
4104 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
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4106* If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
4107 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
4108 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
4109 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
4110 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
4111 modification.
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4113* Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
4114 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
4115 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
4116 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.