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eca3aeb3 2# (C) Copyright 2000 - 2013
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3# Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
4#
eca3aeb3 5# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
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6#
7
8Summary:
9========
10
24ee89b9 11This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
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12Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
13processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
14initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
15code.
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17The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
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18the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
19header files in common, and special provision has been made to
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20support booting of Linux images.
21
22Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
23configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
24implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
25add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
26code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
27load and run it dynamically.
28
29
30Status:
31=======
32
33In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
24ee89b9 34Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
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35"working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
36
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37In case of problems see the CHANGELOG file to find out who contributed
38the specific port. In addition, there are various MAINTAINERS files
39scattered throughout the U-Boot source identifying the people or
40companies responsible for various boards and subsystems.
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42Note: As of August, 2010, there is no longer a CHANGELOG file in the
43actual U-Boot source tree; however, it can be created dynamically
44from the Git log using:
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46 make CHANGELOG
47
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49Where to get help:
50==================
51
24ee89b9 52In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
7207b366 53U-Boot, you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
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54<u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
55on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
56Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
57http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
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59
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60Where to get source code:
61=========================
62
7207b366 63The U-Boot source code is maintained in the Git repository at
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64git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
65http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
66
67The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
11ccc33f 68any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
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69available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
70directory.
71
d4ee711d 72Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
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73ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
74
75
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76Where we come from:
77===================
78
79- start from 8xxrom sources
24ee89b9 80- create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
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81- clean up code
82- make it easier to add custom boards
83- make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
84- extend functions, especially:
85 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
86 * S-Record download
87 * network boot
11ccc33f 88 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
24ee89b9 89- create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
c609719b 90- add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
24ee89b9 91- create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
0d28f34b 92- current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
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94
95Names and Spelling:
96===================
97
98The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
99"U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
100in source files etc.). Example:
101
102 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
103
104File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
105
106 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
107
108 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
109
110Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
111the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
112
113 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
114 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
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116
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117Versioning:
118===========
119
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120Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
121were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
122into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
123names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
124Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
125releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
126
127Examples:
c0f40859 128 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
360d883a 129 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
0de21ecb 130 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candidate 1 for September 2010 release
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132
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133Directory Hierarchy:
134====================
135
8d321b81 136/arch Architecture specific files
6eae68e4 137 /arc Files generic to ARC architecture
8d321b81 138 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
8d321b81 139 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
8d321b81 140 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
8d321b81 141 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
afc1ce82 142 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
8d321b81 143 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
33c7731b 144 /openrisc Files generic to OpenRISC architecture
a47a12be 145 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
7207b366 146 /sandbox Files generic to HW-independent "sandbox"
8d321b81 147 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
33c7731b 148 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
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149/api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
150/board Board dependent files
740f7e5c 151/cmd U-Boot commands functions
8d321b81 152/common Misc architecture independent functions
7207b366 153/configs Board default configuration files
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154/disk Code for disk drive partition handling
155/doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
156/drivers Commonly used device drivers
33c7731b 157/dts Contains Makefile for building internal U-Boot fdt.
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158/examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
159/fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
160/include Header Files
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161/lib Library routines generic to all architectures
162/Licenses Various license files
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163/net Networking code
164/post Power On Self Test
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165/scripts Various build scripts and Makefiles
166/test Various unit test files
8d321b81 167/tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
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169Software Configuration:
170=======================
171
172Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
173rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
174
175There are two classes of configuration variables:
176
177* Configuration _OPTIONS_:
178 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
179 "CONFIG_".
180
181* Configuration _SETTINGS_:
182 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
183 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
6d0f6bcf 184 "CONFIG_SYS_".
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186Previously, all configuration was done by hand, which involved creating
187symbolic links and editing configuration files manually. More recently,
188U-Boot has added the Kbuild infrastructure used by the Linux kernel,
189allowing you to use the "make menuconfig" command to configure your
190build.
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192
193Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
194---------------------------------------------------
195
196For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
ab584d67 197configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_defconfig".
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199Example: For a TQM823L module type:
200
201 cd u-boot
ab584d67 202 make TQM823L_defconfig
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204Note: If you're looking for the default configuration file for a board
205you're sure used to be there but is now missing, check the file
206doc/README.scrapyard for a list of no longer supported boards.
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208Sandbox Environment:
209--------------------
210
211U-Boot can be built natively to run on a Linux host using the 'sandbox'
212board. This allows feature development which is not board- or architecture-
213specific to be undertaken on a native platform. The sandbox is also used to
214run some of U-Boot's tests.
215
6b1978f8 216See board/sandbox/README.sandbox for more details.
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219Board Initialisation Flow:
220--------------------------
221
222This is the intended start-up flow for boards. This should apply for both
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223SPL and U-Boot proper (i.e. they both follow the same rules).
224
225Note: "SPL" stands for "Secondary Program Loader," which is explained in
226more detail later in this file.
227
228At present, SPL mostly uses a separate code path, but the function names
229and roles of each function are the same. Some boards or architectures
230may not conform to this. At least most ARM boards which use
231CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK conform to this.
232
233Execution typically starts with an architecture-specific (and possibly
234CPU-specific) start.S file, such as:
235
236 - arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
237 - arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc83xx/start.S
238 - arch/mips/cpu/start.S
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240and so on. From there, three functions are called; the purpose and
241limitations of each of these functions are described below.
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243lowlevel_init():
244 - purpose: essential init to permit execution to reach board_init_f()
245 - no global_data or BSS
246 - there is no stack (ARMv7 may have one but it will soon be removed)
247 - must not set up SDRAM or use console
248 - must only do the bare minimum to allow execution to continue to
249 board_init_f()
250 - this is almost never needed
251 - return normally from this function
252
253board_init_f():
254 - purpose: set up the machine ready for running board_init_r():
255 i.e. SDRAM and serial UART
256 - global_data is available
257 - stack is in SRAM
258 - BSS is not available, so you cannot use global/static variables,
259 only stack variables and global_data
260
261 Non-SPL-specific notes:
262 - dram_init() is called to set up DRAM. If already done in SPL this
263 can do nothing
264
265 SPL-specific notes:
266 - you can override the entire board_init_f() function with your own
267 version as needed.
268 - preloader_console_init() can be called here in extremis
269 - should set up SDRAM, and anything needed to make the UART work
270 - these is no need to clear BSS, it will be done by crt0.S
271 - must return normally from this function (don't call board_init_r()
272 directly)
273
274Here the BSS is cleared. For SPL, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined, then at
275this point the stack and global_data are relocated to below
276CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR. For non-SPL, U-Boot is relocated to run at the top of
277memory.
278
279board_init_r():
280 - purpose: main execution, common code
281 - global_data is available
282 - SDRAM is available
283 - BSS is available, all static/global variables can be used
284 - execution eventually continues to main_loop()
285
286 Non-SPL-specific notes:
287 - U-Boot is relocated to the top of memory and is now running from
288 there.
289
290 SPL-specific notes:
291 - stack is optionally in SDRAM, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined and
292 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR points into SDRAM
293 - preloader_console_init() can be called here - typically this is
0680f1b1 294 done by selecting CONFIG_SPL_BOARD_INIT and then supplying a
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295 spl_board_init() function containing this call
296 - loads U-Boot or (in falcon mode) Linux
297
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300Configuration Options:
301----------------------
302
303Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
304such information is kept in a configuration file
305"include/configs/<board_name>.h".
306
307Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
308"include/configs/TQM823L.h".
309
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311Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
312kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
313build a config tool - later.
314
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315- ARM Platform Bus Type(CCI):
316 CoreLink Cache Coherent Interconnect (CCI) is ARM BUS which
317 provides full cache coherency between two clusters of multi-core
318 CPUs and I/O coherency for devices and I/O masters
319
320 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_CCI400
321
322 Defined For SoC that has cache coherent interconnect
323 CCN-400
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326
327 Defined for SoC that has cache coherent interconnect CCN-504
328
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329The following options need to be configured:
330
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332
333- Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
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336 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
337 multiple fs option at one time
338 for marvell soc family
339
66412c63 340- 85xx CPU Options:
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341 CONFIG_SYS_PPC64
342
343 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
344 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
345 compliance, among other possible reasons.
346
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347 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
348
349 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
350 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
351 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
352
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353 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
354
355 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
356 tree nodes for the given platform.
357
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359
360 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
361 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
362 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
363
364 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
365 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
366
367 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
368 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
369
370 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
371 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
372 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
373 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
374
375 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
376 this erratum.
377
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378 CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
379 Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
b445bbb4 380 required during NOR boot.
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382 CONFIG_A008044_WORKAROUND
383 Enables a workaround for T1040/T1042 erratum A008044. It is only
b445bbb4 384 required during NAND boot and valid for Rev 1.0 SoC revision
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386 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
387
388 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
389 according to the A004510 workaround.
390
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391 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
392 This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
393 connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
394
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395 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
396 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
397 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
398
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399 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
400 This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
401 connected to the DSP core.
402
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403 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
404 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
405
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406 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
407 Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
408 In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
409 clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
410
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411 CONFIG_SYS_CPC_REINIT_F
412 This CONFIG is defined when the CPC is configured as SRAM at the
a187559e 413 time of U-Boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
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aade2004 415 CONFIG_DEEP_SLEEP
b445bbb4 416 Indicates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
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417 supported, core will start to execute uboot when wakes up.
418
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420 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
421
422 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
423 values is arch specific.
424
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425 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR
426 Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
427 found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx, mpc86xx as well as some ARM core
428 SoCs.
429
430 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
431 Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
432
433 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_EMU
434 Specify emulator support for DDR. Some DDR features such as
435 deskew training are not available.
436
437 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
438 Freescale DDR1 controller.
439
440 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
441 Freescale DDR2 controller.
442
443 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
444 Freescale DDR3 controller.
445
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446 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN4
447 Freescale DDR4 controller.
448
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449 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
450 Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
451
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452 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR1
453 Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
454 Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
455 implemetation.
456
457 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR2
62a3b7dd 458 Board config to use DDR2. It can be enabled for SoCs with
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459 Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
460 implementation.
461
462 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR3
463 Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
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464 Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
465
466 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR3L
467 Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
468 DDR3L controllers.
469
470 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR4
471 Board config to use DDR4. It can be enabled for SoCs with
472 DDR4 controllers.
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474 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
475 Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
476
477 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
478 Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
479
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480 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_CLK_DIV
481 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to IFC controller).
482
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483 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_LBC_CLK_DIV
484 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to eLBC controller).
485
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486 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_PBI
487 It enables addition of RCW (Power on reset configuration) in built image.
488 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
489
490 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_RCW
491 It adds PBI(pre-boot instructions) commands in u-boot build image.
492 PBI commands can be used to configure SoC before it starts the execution.
493 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
494
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495 CONFIG_SPL_FSL_PBL
496 It adds a target to create boot binary having SPL binary in PBI format
497 concatenated with u-boot binary.
498
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499 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
500 Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
501
502 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
503 Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
504
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505 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
506 Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
507 same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for all Power SoCs. But
508 it could be different for ARM SoCs.
509
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510 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
511 DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
512 interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
513 SoCs with ARM core.
514
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515 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_MAIN_NUM_CTRLS
516 Number of controllers used as main memory.
517
518 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_OTHER_DDR_NUM_CTRLS
519 Number of controllers used for other than main memory.
520
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521 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_DP_DDR
522 Defines the SoC has DP-DDR used for DPAA.
523
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524 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
525 Defines the SEC controller register space as Big Endian
526
527 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_LE
528 Defines the SEC controller register space as Little Endian
529
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531 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
532
533 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
534 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
535 relocation.
536
537 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
538
539 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
540 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
541 Possible values are:
542 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
543 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_WA
544 CONF_CM_UNCACHED
545 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
546 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_CE
547 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_COW
548 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_CUW
549 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
550
551 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
552
553 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
554 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
555
556 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
557
558 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
559 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
560 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
561
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562- ARM options:
563 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
564
565 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
566 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
567
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568 COUNTER_FREQUENCY
569 Generic timer clock source frequency.
570
571 COUNTER_FREQUENCY_REAL
572 Generic timer clock source frequency if the real clock is
573 different from COUNTER_FREQUENCY, and can only be determined
574 at run time.
575
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576- Tegra SoC options:
577 CONFIG_TEGRA_SUPPORT_NON_SECURE
578
579 Support executing U-Boot in non-secure (NS) mode. Certain
580 impossible actions will be skipped if the CPU is in NS mode,
581 such as ARM architectural timer initialization.
582
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584 CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ
585
586 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
587 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
588 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
589 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
590 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
591 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
592 Linux kernel.
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595 default environment.
596
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597 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
598
b445bbb4 599 When transferring memsize parameter to Linux, some versions
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600 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
601 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
602
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605 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
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606 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
607 concepts).
608
609 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
610 * New libfdt-based support
611 * Adds the "fdt" command
3bb342fc 612 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
213bf8c8 613
f57f70aa 614 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
c2871f03 615 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
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617 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
618 addresses
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620 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
621
622 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
623 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
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625 CONFIG_OF_SYSTEM_SETUP
626
627 Other code has addition modification that it wants to make
628 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel.
629 This causes ft_system_setup() to be called before booting
630 the kernel.
631
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632 CONFIG_OF_IDE_FIXUP
633
634 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
635 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
636 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
637 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
638 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
639 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
640
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641 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
642
643 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
644 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
645 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
646 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
647 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
648 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
649 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
650
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651- vxWorks boot parameters:
652
653 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
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654 environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask,
655 serverip, gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
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656 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
657
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658 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
659 the defaults discussed just above.
660
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661- Cache Configuration:
662 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
663 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
664 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
665
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667 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
668 controller
669 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
670 controller register space
671
6705d81e 672- Serial Ports:
48d0192f 673 CONFIG_PL010_SERIAL
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675 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
676
48d0192f 677 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL
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679 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
680
681 CONFIG_PL011_CLOCK
682
683 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
684 the clock speed of the UARTs.
685
686 CONFIG_PL01x_PORTS
687
688 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
689 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
690 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
691
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693
694 Define this variable to enable hw flow control in serial driver.
695 Current user of this option is drivers/serial/nsl16550.c driver
6705d81e 696
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698 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
699 Select one of the baudrates listed in
6d0f6bcf 700 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
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702- Autoboot Command:
703 CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
704 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
705 define a command string that is automatically executed
706 when no character is read on the console interface
707 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
708
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710 The value of these goes into the environment as
711 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
712 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
11ccc33f 713 RAM and NFS.
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716 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
717 Implements a mechanism for detecting a repeating reboot
718 cycle, see:
719 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
720
721 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ENV
722 If no softreset save registers are found on the hardware
723 "bootcount" is stored in the environment. To prevent a
724 saveenv on all reboots, the environment variable
725 "upgrade_available" is used. If "upgrade_available" is
726 0, "bootcount" is always 0, if "upgrade_available" is
727 1 "bootcount" is incremented in the environment.
728 So the Userspace Applikation must set the "upgrade_available"
729 and "bootcount" variable to 0, if a boot was successfully.
730
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732 CONFIG_PREBOOT
733
734 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
735 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
736 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
737 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
738 entering interactive mode.
739
740 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
741 automatically generated or modified. For an example
742 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
743 modified when the user holds down a certain
744 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
745 booting the systems
746
747- Serial Download Echo Mode:
748 CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
749 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
750 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
751 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
752 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
753 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
754 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
755
602ad3b3 756- Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
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758 Select one of the baudrates listed in
6d0f6bcf 759 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
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761- Removal of commands
762 If no commands are needed to boot, you can disable
763 CONFIG_CMDLINE to remove them. In this case, the command line
764 will not be available, and when U-Boot wants to execute the
765 boot command (on start-up) it will call board_run_command()
766 instead. This can reduce image size significantly for very
767 simple boot procedures.
768
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770 CONFIG_REGEX
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771 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
772 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
773 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
774 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
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776- Device tree:
777 CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
778 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
779 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
780 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
781 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
782 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
783
2c0f79e4 784 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
82f766d1 785 be done using one of the three options below:
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786
787 CONFIG_OF_EMBED
788 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
789 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
790 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
791 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
eb3eb602 792 the global data structure as gd->fdt_blob.
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794 CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE
795 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
796 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
797 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
798
799 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
800
801 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
802 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
803 still use the individual files if you need something more
804 exotic.
805
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806 CONFIG_OF_BOARD
807 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use the device tree
808 provided by the board at runtime instead of embedding one with
809 the image. Only boards defining board_fdt_blob_setup() support
810 this option (see include/fdtdec.h file).
811
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812- Watchdog:
813 CONFIG_WATCHDOG
814 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
6abe6fb6 815 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
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816 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx
817 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
818 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
819 available, then no further board specific code should
820 be needed to use it.
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821
822 CONFIG_HW_WATCHDOG
823 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
824 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
825 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
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827 CONFIG_AT91_HW_WDT_TIMEOUT
828 specify the timeout in seconds. default 2 seconds.
829
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830- U-Boot Version:
831 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
832 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
833 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
834 version as printed by the "version" command.
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835 Any change to this variable will be reverted at the
836 next reset.
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839
602ad3b3 840 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
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841 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
842 following options:
843
c609719b 844 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
4e8b7544 845 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
c609719b 846 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
1cb8e980 847 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
c609719b 848 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
7f70e853 849 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
412921d2 850 CONFIG_RTC_DS1339 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1339 RTC
3bac3513 851 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
9536dfcc 852 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
4c0d4c3b 853 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
2bd3cab3 854 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
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855 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
856 RV3029 RTC.
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858 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
859 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
860
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862 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
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864 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
865 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
866 pins supported by a particular chip.
867
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868 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
869 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
870
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871- I/O tracing:
872 When CONFIG_IO_TRACE is selected, U-Boot intercepts all I/O
873 accesses and can checksum them or write a list of them out
874 to memory. See the 'iotrace' command for details. This is
875 useful for testing device drivers since it can confirm that
876 the driver behaves the same way before and after a code
877 change. Currently this is supported on sandbox and arm. To
878 add support for your architecture, add '#include <iotrace.h>'
879 to the bottom of arch/<arch>/include/asm/io.h and test.
880
881 Example output from the 'iotrace stats' command is below.
882 Note that if the trace buffer is exhausted, the checksum will
883 still continue to operate.
884
885 iotrace is enabled
886 Start: 10000000 (buffer start address)
887 Size: 00010000 (buffer size)
888 Offset: 00000120 (current buffer offset)
889 Output: 10000120 (start + offset)
890 Count: 00000018 (number of trace records)
891 CRC32: 9526fb66 (CRC32 of all trace records)
892
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893- Timestamp Support:
894
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895 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
896 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
897 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
602ad3b3 898 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
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900- Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
901 Zero or more of the following:
902 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
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903 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
904 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
905 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
906 disk/part_efi.c
907 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS Memory Technology Device partition table.
c609719b 908
fc843a02 909 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_IDE or
c649e3c9 910 CONFIG_SCSI) you must configure support for at
923c46f9 911 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
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912
913- IDE Reset method:
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914 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
915 board configurations files but used nowhere!
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917 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
918 be performed by calling the function
919 ide_set_reset(int reset)
920 which has to be defined in a board specific file
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921
922- ATAPI Support:
923 CONFIG_ATAPI
924
925 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
926
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928 CONFIG_LBA48
929
930 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
4b142feb 931 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
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932 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
933 support disks up to 2.1TB.
934
6d0f6bcf 935 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
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936 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
937 Default is 32bit.
938
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940 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
941 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
942 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
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943 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
944 devices.
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946 The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
947 SCSI devices found during the last scan.
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c609719b 949- NETWORK Support (PCI):
682011ff 950 CONFIG_E1000
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951 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
952
953 CONFIG_E1000_SPI
954 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
955 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
956 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
957
958 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
959 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
960 example with the "sspi" command.
961
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962 CONFIG_EEPRO100
963 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
11ccc33f 964 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
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965 write routine for first time initialisation.
966
967 CONFIG_TULIP
968 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
969 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
970 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
971
972 CONFIG_NATSEMI
973 Support for National dp83815 chips.
974
975 CONFIG_NS8382X
976 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
977
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979
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980 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
981 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
982
983 CONFIG_RMII
984 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
985
986 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
987 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
988 The driver doen't show link status messages.
989
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990 CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
991 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
992
3bb46d23 993 CONFIG_LAN91C96
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994 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
995
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996 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
997 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
998
3bb46d23 999 CONFIG_SMC91111
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1000 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
1001
1002 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
1003 Define this to hold the physical address
1004 of the device (I/O space)
1005
1006 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
1007 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1008
1009 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
1010 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
1011 (some hardware wont work with macros)
1012
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1013 CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
1014 Support for davinci emac
1015
1016 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
1017 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
1018
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1019 CONFIG_FTGMAC100
1020 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
1021
1022 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
1023 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
1024 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
1025 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
1026 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
1027 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
1028 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
1029 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
1030
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1031 CONFIG_SH_ETHER
1032 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
1033
1034 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
1035 Define the number of ports to be used
1036
1037 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1038 Define the ETH PHY's address
1039
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1040 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1041 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1042
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1044 CONFIG_PWM_IMX
5052e819 1045 Support for PWM module on the imx6.
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1048 CONFIG_TPM
1049 Support TPM devices.
1050
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1051 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_INFINEON
1052 Support for Infineon i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
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1053 per system is supported at this time.
1054
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1055 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
1056 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
1057
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1058 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24
1059 Support for STMicroelectronics TPM devices. Requires DM_TPM support.
1060
1061 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_I2C
1062 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 I2C devices.
1063 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and I2C.
1064
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1065 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_SPI
1066 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 SPI devices.
1067 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and SPI.
1068
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1069 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
1070 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
1071
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1073 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1074 per system is supported at this time.
1075
1076 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1077 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1078 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1079 0xfed40000.
1080
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1081 CONFIG_TPM
1082 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
1083 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
1084 Requires support for a TPM device.
1085
1086 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
1087 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
1088 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
1089
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1091 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
064b55cf 1092 supported (PIP405, MIP405); define
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1093 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1094 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
30d56fae 1095 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
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1097 Note:
1098 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1099 (TEAC FD-05PUB).
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1101 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1102 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1103
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1104 CONFIG_USB_DWC2_REG_ADDR the physical CPU address of the DWC2
1105 HW module registers.
1106
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1108 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1109 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1110 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
11ccc33f 1111 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
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1112 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1113 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
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1115 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1116 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1117 a Linux host by
1118 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1119 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1120 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1121 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
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1124 Define this to build a UDC device
1125
1126 CONFIG_USB_TTY
1127 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1128 talk to the UDC device
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1130 CONFIG_USBD_HS
1131 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1132 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1133 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1134 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1135 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1136 speed.
1137
6d0f6bcf 1138 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
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1139 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1140 be set to usbtty.
1141
386eda02 1142 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
16c8d5e7 1143 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
386eda02 1144 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
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1146 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1147 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1148
1149 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1150 Define this string as the name of your company for
1151 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
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1153 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1154 Define this string as the name of your product
1155 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1156
1157 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1158 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1159 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1160 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1161 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
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1163 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1164 Define this as the unique Product ID
1165 for your device
1166 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
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1169 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1170 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1171 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1172 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1173 viewport is supported.
1174 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1175 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
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1176 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1177 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1178 the appropriate value in Hz.
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71f95118 1180- MMC Support:
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1181 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1182 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1183 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
71f95118 1184 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
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1185 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1186 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
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1188 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF
1189 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1190
1191 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1192 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1193
1194 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_CLK
1195 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1196
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1197 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_BOOT
1198 Enable some additional features of the eMMC boot partitions.
1199
1200 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_RPMB
1201 Enable the commands for reading, writing and programming the
1202 key for the Replay Protection Memory Block partition in eMMC.
1203
b3ba6e94 1204- USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
01acd6ab 1205 CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_DFU
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1206 This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class
1207
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1208 CONFIG_DFU_MMC
1209 This enables support for exposing (e)MMC devices via DFU.
1210
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1211 CONFIG_DFU_NAND
1212 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
1213
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1214 CONFIG_DFU_RAM
1215 This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
1216 Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
1217 allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
1218 one that would help mostly the developer.
1219
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1220 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
1221 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
1222 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
1223 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
1224 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
1225
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1226 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
1227 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
1228 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
1229 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
1230 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
1231 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
1232
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1233 DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
1234 Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
1235 host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
1236 a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
1237
1238 DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
1239 Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
1240 entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
1241 sending again an USB request to the device.
1242
6705d81e 1243- Journaling Flash filesystem support:
b2482dff 1244 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND
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1245 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1246
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1247 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1248 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
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1249 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1250
c609719b 1251- Keyboard Support:
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1252 See Kconfig help for available keyboard drivers.
1253
1254 CONFIG_KEYBOARD
1255
1256 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1257 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1258 defined in your board-specific files. This option is deprecated
1259 and is only used by novena. For new boards, use driver model
1260 instead.
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1262- Video support:
7d3053fb 1263 CONFIG_FSL_DIU_FB
04e5ae79 1264 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
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1265 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1266 support, and should also define these other macros:
1267
1268 CONFIG_SYS_DIU_ADDR
1269 CONFIG_VIDEO
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1270 CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE
1271 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1272 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1273 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
1274 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1275
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1276 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1277 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
8eca9439 1278 boot. See the documentation file doc/README.video for a
ba8e76bd 1279 description of this variable.
7d3053fb 1280
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1281- LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1282
1283 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1284 display); also select one of the supported displays
1285 by defining one of these:
1286
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1287 CONFIG_ATMEL_LCD:
1288
1289 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1290
fd3103bb 1291 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
c609719b 1292
fd3103bb 1293 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
c609719b 1294
fd3103bb 1295 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
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1297 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1298 Active, color, single scan.
1299
1300 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1301
1302 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
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1303 Active, color, single scan.
1304
1305 CONFIG_SHARP_16x9
1306
1307 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1308 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1309
1310 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1311
1312 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1313 Active, color, single scan.
1314
1315 CONFIG_HLD1045
1316
1317 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1318 Active, color, single scan.
1319
1320 CONFIG_OPTREX_BW
1321
1322 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1323 or
1324 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1325 or
1326 Hitachi SP14Q002
1327
1328 320x240. Black & white.
1329
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1330 CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
1331
b445bbb4 1332 Normally the LCD is page-aligned (typically 4KB). If this is
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1333 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
1334 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
1335 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
1336 a per-section basis.
1337
1338
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1339 CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION
1340
1341 Sometimes, for example if the display is mounted in portrait
1342 mode or even if it's mounted landscape but rotated by 180degree,
1343 we need to rotate our content of the display relative to the
1344 framebuffer, so that user can read the messages which are
1345 printed out.
1346 Once CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is defined, the lcd_console will be
1347 initialized with a given rotation from "vl_rot" out of
1348 "vidinfo_t" which is provided by the board specific code.
1349 The value for vl_rot is coded as following (matching to
1350 fbcon=rotate:<n> linux-kernel commandline):
1351 0 = no rotation respectively 0 degree
1352 1 = 90 degree rotation
1353 2 = 180 degree rotation
1354 3 = 270 degree rotation
1355
1356 If CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is not defined, the console will be
1357 initialized with 0degree rotation.
1358
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1359 CONFIG_LCD_BMP_RLE8
1360
1361 Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
1362
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1363 CONFIG_I2C_EDID
1364
1365 Enables an 'i2c edid' command which can read EDID
1366 information over I2C from an attached LCD display.
1367
7152b1d0 1368- Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
d791b1dc 1369
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1370 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1371 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1372 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
e94d2cd9 1373 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
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1374 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1375 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1376 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1377 loaded very quickly after power-on.
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1379 CONFIG_SPLASHIMAGE_GUARD
1380
1381 If this option is set, then U-Boot will prevent the environment
1382 variable "splashimage" from being set to a problematic address
ab5645f1 1383 (see doc/README.displaying-bmps).
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1384 This option is useful for targets where, due to alignment
1385 restrictions, an improperly aligned BMP image will cause a data
1386 abort. If you think you will not have problems with unaligned
1387 accesses (for example because your toolchain prevents them)
1388 there is no need to set this option.
1389
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1390 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1391
1392 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1393 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1394 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1395 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1396 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1397 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1398
1399 Example:
1400 setenv splashpos m,m
1401 => image at center of screen
1402
1403 setenv splashpos 30,20
1404 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1405
1406 setenv splashpos -10,m
1407 => vertically centered image
1408 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1409
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1410- Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1411
1412 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1413 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1414 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1415
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1416- Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1417
1418 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1419 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1420 bmp command.
1421
c29fdfc1 1422- Compression support:
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1423 CONFIG_GZIP
1424
1425 Enabled by default to support gzip compressed images.
1426
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1427 CONFIG_BZIP2
1428
1429 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1430 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1431 compressed images are supported.
1432
42d1f039 1433 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
6d0f6bcf 1434 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
42d1f039 1435 be at least 4MB.
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1437- MII/PHY support:
1438 CONFIG_PHY_ADDR
1439
1440 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1441
1442 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1443
1444 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1445
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1446 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1447
1448 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1449 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1450 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1451 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1452
1453 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1454
1455 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1456 command issued before MII status register can be read
1457
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1458- IP address:
1459 CONFIG_IPADDR
1460
1461 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
11ccc33f 1462 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
c609719b 1463 determined through e.g. bootp.
1ebcd654 1464 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
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1466- Server IP address:
1467 CONFIG_SERVERIP
1468
11ccc33f 1469 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
c609719b 1470 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1ebcd654 1471 (Environment variable "serverip")
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1473 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1474
1475 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1476 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1477
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1478- Gateway IP address:
1479 CONFIG_GATEWAYIP
1480
1481 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1482 default router where packets to other networks are
1483 sent to.
1484 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1485
1486- Subnet mask:
1487 CONFIG_NETMASK
1488
1489 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1490 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1491 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1492 forwarded through a router.
1493 (Environment variable "netmask")
1494
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1495- Multicast TFTP Mode:
1496 CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP
1497
1498 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1499 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
11ccc33f 1500 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
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1501 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1502 multicast group.
1503
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1504- BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1505 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1506
1507 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1508 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1509 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1510 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1511 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1512 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1513 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1514 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
6c33c785 1515 following delays are inserted then:
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1517 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1518 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1519 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1520 4th and following
1521 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1522
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1523 CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE
1524
1525 BOOTP packets are uniquely identified using a 32-bit ID. The
1526 server will copy the ID from client requests to responses and
1527 U-Boot will use this to determine if it is the destination of
1528 an incoming response. Some servers will check that addresses
1529 aren't in use before handing them out (usually using an ARP
1530 ping) and therefore take up to a few hundred milliseconds to
1531 respond. Network congestion may also influence the time it
1532 takes for a response to make it back to the client. If that
1533 time is too long, U-Boot will retransmit requests. In order
1534 to allow earlier responses to still be accepted after these
1535 retransmissions, U-Boot's BOOTP client keeps a small cache of
1536 IDs. The CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE controls the size of this
1537 cache. The default is to keep IDs for up to four outstanding
1538 requests. Increasing this will allow U-Boot to accept offers
1539 from a BOOTP client in networks with unusually high latency.
1540
fe389a82 1541- DHCP Advanced Options:
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1542 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1543 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1544
1545 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1546 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1547 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1548 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1549 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1550 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1551 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1552 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2
1553 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1554 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1555 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1556 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
2c00e099 1557 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
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1559 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1560 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
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1562 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1563 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1564 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1565 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1566 is not available.
1567
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1568 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1569 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1570 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1571 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1572 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1573 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1574 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1fe80d79 1575 is defined.
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1576
1577 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1578 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1579 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
5d110f0a 1580 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
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1581 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1582 option 12 to the DHCP server.
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1584 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1585
1586 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1587 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1588 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1589 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1590 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1591 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1592 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1593 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1594 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1595 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1596 this delay.
1597
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1598 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1599 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1600 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1601 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1602 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1603
1604 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1605
a3d991bd 1606 - CDP Options:
6e592385 1607 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
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1608
1609 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1610
1611 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1612
1613 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1614 of the device.
1615
1616 CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID
1617
1618 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1619 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
11ccc33f 1620 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
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1621
1622 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1623
1624 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1625 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1626
1627 CONFIG_CDP_VERSION
1628
1629 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1630
1631 CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM
1632
1633 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1634
1635 CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER
1636
1637 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1638
1639 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1640
1641 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1642 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1643
1644 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1645
1646 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1647
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1649
1650 Several configurations allow to display the current
1651 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1652 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1653 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1654 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1655 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
79267edd 1656 kernel). Defining CONFIG_LED_STATUS enables this
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1657 feature in U-Boot.
1658
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1659 Additional options:
1660
79267edd 1661 CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
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1662 The status LED can be connected to a GPIO pin.
1663 In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
79267edd 1664 status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
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1665 to include the gpio_led driver in the U-Boot binary.
1666
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1667 CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE
1668 Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
1669 case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
1670 GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
1671 In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
1672 with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
1673
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1675
1676 This enable the NEW i2c subsystem, and will allow you to use
1677 i2c commands at the u-boot command line (as long as you set
1678 CONFIG_CMD_I2C in CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c
1679 based realtime clock chips or other i2c devices. See
1680 common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the command line
1681 interface.
1682
1683 ported i2c driver to the new framework:
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1684 - drivers/i2c/soft_i2c.c:
1685 - activate first bus with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT define
1686 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE
1687 for defining speed and slave address
1688 - activate second bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS2 define
1689 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_2 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_2
1690 for defining speed and slave address
1691 - activate third bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS3 define
1692 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_3 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_3
1693 for defining speed and slave address
1694 - activate fourth bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS4 define
1695 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_4 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_4
1696 for defining speed and slave address
3f4978c7 1697
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1698 - drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c:
1699 - activate i2c driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_FSL
1700 define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_OFFSET for setting the register
1701 offset CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SPEED for the i2c speed and
1702 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SLAVE for the slave addr of the first
1703 bus.
93e14596 1704 - If your board supports a second fsl i2c bus, define
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1705 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_OFFSET for the register offset
1706 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SPEED for the speed and
1707 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SLAVE for the slave address of the
1708 second bus.
1709
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1711 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_TEGRA
1712 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses with a fix speed from
1713 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1f2ba722 1714
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1715 - drivers/i2c/ppc4xx_i2c.c
1716 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX
1717 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1718 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1719
fac96408 1720 - drivers/i2c/i2c_mxc.c
1721 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC
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1722 - enable bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C1
1723 - enable bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C2
1724 - enable bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C3
1725 - enable bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C4
fac96408 1726 - define speed for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SPEED
1727 - define slave for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SLAVE
1728 - define speed for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SPEED
1729 - define slave for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SLAVE
1730 - define speed for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SPEED
1731 - define slave for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SLAVE
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1732 - define speed for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SPEED
1733 - define slave for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SLAVE
b445bbb4 1734 If those defines are not set, default value is 100000
fac96408 1735 for speed, and 0 for slave.
1736
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1737 - drivers/i2c/rcar_i2c.c:
1738 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RCAR
1739 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses
1740
1741 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_BASE for setting the register channel 0
1742 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_SPEED for for the speed channel 0
1743 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_BASE for setting the register channel 1
1744 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_SPEED for for the speed channel 1
1745 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_BASE for setting the register channel 2
1746 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_SPEED for for the speed channel 2
1747 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_BASE for setting the register channel 3
1748 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_SPEED for for the speed channel 3
1749 - CONFIF_SYS_RCAR_I2C_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
1750
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1751 - drivers/i2c/sh_i2c.c:
1752 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH
1753 - This driver adds from 2 to 5 i2c buses
1754
1755 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE0 for setting the register channel 0
1756 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED0 for for the speed channel 0
1757 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE1 for setting the register channel 1
1758 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED1 for for the speed channel 1
1759 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE2 for setting the register channel 2
1760 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED2 for for the speed channel 2
1761 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE3 for setting the register channel 3
1762 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED3 for for the speed channel 3
1763 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE4 for setting the register channel 4
1764 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED4 for for the speed channel 4
b445bbb4 1765 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
2035d77d 1766
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1767 - drivers/i2c/omap24xx_i2c.c
1768 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_OMAP24XX
1769 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED speed channel 0
1770 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE slave addr channel 0
1771 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED1 speed channel 1
1772 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE1 slave addr channel 1
1773 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED2 speed channel 2
1774 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE2 slave addr channel 2
1775 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED3 speed channel 3
1776 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE3 slave addr channel 3
1777 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED4 speed channel 4
1778 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE4 slave addr channel 4
1779
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1780 - drivers/i2c/zynq_i2c.c
1781 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ
1782 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SPEED for speed setting
1783 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SLAVE for slave addr
1784
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1785 - drivers/i2c/s3c24x0_i2c.c:
1786 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_S3C24X0
1787 - This driver adds i2c buses (11 for Exynos5250, Exynos5420
1788 9 i2c buses for Exynos4 and 1 for S3C24X0 SoCs from Samsung)
1789 with a fix speed from 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1790
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1791 - drivers/i2c/ihs_i2c.c
1792 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS
1793 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1794 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0 speed channel 0
1795 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0 slave addr channel 0
1796 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1797 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1 speed channel 1
1798 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1 slave addr channel 1
1799 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH2 activate hardware channel 2
1800 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2 speed channel 2
1801 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2 slave addr channel 2
1802 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH3 activate hardware channel 3
1803 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3 speed channel 3
1804 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3 slave addr channel 3
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1805 - activate dual channel with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_DUAL
1806 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0_1 speed channel 0_1
1807 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0_1 slave addr channel 0_1
1808 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1_1 speed channel 1_1
1809 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1_1 slave addr channel 1_1
1810 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2_1 speed channel 2_1
1811 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2_1 slave addr channel 2_1
1812 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3_1 speed channel 3_1
1813 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3_1 slave addr channel 3_1
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1816
1817 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
945a18e6 1818 Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use.
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1819
1820 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
1821 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
1822 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
1823 omit this define.
1824
1825 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
1826 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
1827 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
1828 define.
1829
1830 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
b445bbb4 1831 hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
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1832 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
1833 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
1834 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
1835
1836 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1837 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
1838 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
1839 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
1840 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
1841 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
1842 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1843 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
1844 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
1845 }
1846
1847 which defines
1848 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
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1849 bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
1850 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
1851 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
1852 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
1853 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
3f4978c7 1854 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
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1855 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
1856 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
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1857
1858 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
1859
ce3b5d69 1860- Legacy I2C Support:
ea818dbb 1861 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
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1862 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1863 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
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1865 I2C_INIT
1866
b37c7e5e 1867 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
43d9616c 1868 controller or configure ports.
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ba56f625 1870 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
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1872 I2C_ACTIVE
1873
1874 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1875 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1876 define can be null.
1877
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1878 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1879
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1880 I2C_TRISTATE
1881
1882 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1883 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1884 define can be null.
1885
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1886 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1887
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1888 I2C_READ
1889
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1890 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
1891 false if it is low.
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1893 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1894
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1895 I2C_SDA(bit)
1896
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1897 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1898 is false, it clears it (low).
c609719b 1899
b37c7e5e 1900 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
2535d602 1901 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
ba56f625 1902 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
b37c7e5e 1903
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1905
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1906 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1907 is false, it clears it (low).
c609719b 1908
b37c7e5e 1909 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
2535d602 1910 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
ba56f625 1911 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
b37c7e5e 1912
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1914
1915 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1916 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
b37c7e5e 1917 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
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1918 like:
1919
b37c7e5e 1920 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
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1922 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1923
1924 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1925 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1926 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1927 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1928
1929 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1930 the generic GPIO functions.
1931
6d0f6bcf 1932 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
47cd00fa 1933
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1934 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1935 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1936 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1937 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1938 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1939 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1940 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1941 is run early in the boot sequence.
47cd00fa 1942
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1943 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1944
1945 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
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1946 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1947 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
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1948 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1949
6d0f6bcf 1950 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
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1951
1952 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
c0f40859 1953 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
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1954 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1955 a 1D array of device addresses
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1956
1957 e.g.
1958 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
c0f40859 1959 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
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1960
1961 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1962
c0f40859 1963 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
945a18e6 1964 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
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1965
1966 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1967
6d0f6bcf 1968 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
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1969
1970 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1971 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1972
6d0f6bcf 1973 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
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1974
1975 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1976 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1977
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1978 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1979
1980 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1981 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1982 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1983 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1984 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1985 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1986 the other.
be5e6181 1987
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1988- SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
1989
1990 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1991 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1992 D/As on the SACSng board)
1993
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1994 CONFIG_SH_SPI
1995
1996 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
1997 only SH7757 is supported.
1998
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1999 CONFIG_SOFT_SPI
2000
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2001 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
2002 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
2003 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
2004 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
2005 defined, the board configuration must define several
2006 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
2007 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
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2009 CONFIG_HARD_SPI
2010
2011 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
2012 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
2013 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
c0f40859 2014 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
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2015 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
2016
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2017 CONFIG_MXC_SPI
2018
2019 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
2e3cd1cd 2020 SoCs. Currently i.MX31/35/51 are supported.
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2022 CONFIG_SYS_SPI_MXC_WAIT
2023 Timeout for waiting until spi transfer completed.
2024 default: (CONFIG_SYS_HZ/100) /* 10 ms */
2025
0133502e 2026- FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
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2028 Enables FPGA subsystem.
2029
2030 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
2031
2032 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
2033 (ALTERA, XILINX)
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0133502e 2035 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
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2037 Enables support for FPGA family.
2038 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
2039
2040 CONFIG_FPGA_COUNT
2041
2042 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
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6d0f6bcf 2044 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
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8bde7f77 2046 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
c609719b 2047
6d0f6bcf 2048 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
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2050 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
2051 status by the configuration function. This option
2052 will require a board or device specific function to
2053 be written.
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2054
2055 CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY
2056
2057 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
2058 configuration driver.
2059
6d0f6bcf 2060 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
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2061 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2062
6d0f6bcf 2063 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
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2065 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2066 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2067 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2068 indicated a CRC error).
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6d0f6bcf 2070 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
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2072 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to de-assert
2073 after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
43d9616c 2074 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
11ccc33f 2075 ms.
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6d0f6bcf 2077 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
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b445bbb4 2079 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
11ccc33f 2080 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
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6d0f6bcf 2082 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
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43d9616c 2084 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
11ccc33f 2085 200 ms.
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2086
2087- Configuration Management:
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2088 CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET
2089
2090 Some SoCs need special image types (e.g. U-Boot binary
2091 with a special header) as build targets. By defining
2092 CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET in the SoC / board header, this
2093 special image will be automatically built upon calling
6de80f21 2094 make / buildman.
b2b8a696 2095
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2096 CONFIG_IDENT_STRING
2097
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2098 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2099 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
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2100
2101- Vendor Parameter Protection:
2102
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2103 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2104 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
7152b1d0 2105 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
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2106 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2107 protects these variables from casual modification by
2108 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2109 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
11ccc33f 2110 change this behaviour:
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2111
2112 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2113 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
47cd00fa 2114 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
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2115 these parameters.
2116
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2117 Alternatively, if you define _both_ an ethaddr in the
2118 default env _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
11ccc33f 2119 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
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2120 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2121 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2122 read-only.]
2123
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2124 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
2125 for any variable by configuring the type of access
2126 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
2127 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
2128
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2129- Protected RAM:
2130 CONFIG_PRAM
2131
2132 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2133 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2134 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2135 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2136 this default value by defining an environment
2137 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2138 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2139 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2140 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2141 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2142 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2143 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2144
fe126d8b 2145 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
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2146 saveenv
2147
2148 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2149 either, which results in a memory region that will
2150 not be affected by reboots.
2151
2152 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2153 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2154 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2155 following board configurations are known to be
2156 "pRAM-clean":
2157
5b8e76c3 2158 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx,
1b0757ec 2159 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2eb48ff7 2160 FLAGADM
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2162- Access to physical memory region (> 4GB)
2163 Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not
2164 normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures
2165 support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit
2166 machines using physical address extension or similar.
2167 Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which
2168 currently only supports clearing the memory.
2169
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2170- Error Recovery:
2171 CONFIG_PANIC_HANG
2172
2173 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
2174 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
2175 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
11ccc33f 2176 system where you want the system to reboot
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2177 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
2178 useful during development since you can try to debug
2179 the conditions that lead to the situation.
2180
2181 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2182
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2183 This variable defines the number of retries for
2184 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2185 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2186 default value of 5 is used.
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2188 CONFIG_ARP_TIMEOUT
2189
2190 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2191
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2192 CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT
2193
2194 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2195 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2196 try longer timeout such as
2197 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2198
c609719b 2199- Command Interpreter:
8078f1a5 2200 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
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2201
2202 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
2203
6d0f6bcf 2204 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
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2206 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2207 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2208 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2209
2210 Note:
2211
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2212 In the current implementation, the local variables
2213 space and global environment variables space are
2214 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2215 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2216 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2217 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2218 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
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2220 Global environment variables are those you use
2221 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2222 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2223 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
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2224
2225 To store commands and special characters in a
2226 variable, please use double quotation marks
2227 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2228 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2229 symbols.
2230
b445bbb4 2231- Command Line Editing and History:
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2232 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
2233
11ccc33f 2234 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
b445bbb4 2235 command line input operations
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2237- Command Line PS1/PS2 support:
2238 CONFIG_CMDLINE_PS_SUPPORT
2239
2240 Enable support for changing the command prompt string
2241 at run-time. Only static string is supported so far.
2242 The string is obtained from environment variables PS1
2243 and PS2.
2244
a8c7c708 2245- Default Environment:
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2246 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2247
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2248 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2249 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
7152b1d0 2250 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2262cfee 2251
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2252 For example, place something like this in your
2253 board's config file:
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2255 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2256 "myvar1=value1\0" \
2257 "myvar2=value2\0"
2258
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2259 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2260 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2261 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2262 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
7152b1d0 2263 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
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2264 You better know what you are doing here.
2265
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2266 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2267 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
74de7aef 2268 the environment like the "source" command or the
43d9616c 2269 boot command first.
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2271 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_CONFIG
2272
2273 Define this in order to add variables describing the
2274 U-Boot build configuration to the default environment.
2275 These will be named arch, cpu, board, vendor, and soc.
2276
2277 Enabling this option will cause the following to be defined:
2278
2279 - CONFIG_SYS_ARCH
2280 - CONFIG_SYS_CPU
2281 - CONFIG_SYS_BOARD
2282 - CONFIG_SYS_VENDOR
2283 - CONFIG_SYS_SOC
2284
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2285 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG
2286
2287 Define this in order to add variables describing certain
2288 run-time determined information about the hardware to the
2289 environment. These will be named board_name, board_rev.
2290
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2291 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
2292
2293 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
b445bbb4 2294 initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
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2295 that so that the environment is not available until
2296 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
2297 this is instead controlled by the value of
2298 /config/load-environment.
2299
f61ec45e 2300- Serial Flash support
00fd59dd 2301 Usage requires an initial 'sf probe' to define the serial
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2302 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2303 commands.
2304
2305 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2306 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2307 flash is present on the system.
2308
2309 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2310 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2311 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2312 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2313
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2314 CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
2315
2316 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
2317 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
11ccc33f 2318 of the chip must also be defined in the
6d0f6bcf 2319 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
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2320
2321 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
6d0f6bcf 2322 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
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2323
2324 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
2325 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
2326
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2327- TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2328 CONFIG_TFTP_PORT
2329
28cb9375 2330 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
ecb0ccd9 2331 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
28cb9375 2332 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
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2333 number generator is used.
2334
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2335 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2336 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2337 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2338
2339 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
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2340 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2341 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2342 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2343 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2344 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2345 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2346
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2347- bootcount support:
2348 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
2349
2350 This enables the bootcounter support, see:
2351 http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
2352
2353 CONFIG_AT91SAM9XE
2354 enable special bootcounter support on at91sam9xe based boards.
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2355 CONFIG_SOC_DA8XX
2356 enable special bootcounter support on da850 based boards.
2357 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_RAM
2358 enable support for the bootcounter in RAM
2359 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_I2C
2360 enable support for the bootcounter on an i2c (like RTC) device.
2361 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RTC_ADDR = i2c chip address
2362 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR = i2c addr which is used for
2363 the bootcounter.
2364 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ALEN = address len
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2365 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_EXT
2366 enable support for the bootcounter in EXT filesystem
2367 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR = RAM address used for read
2368 and write.
2369 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_EXT_INTERFACE = interface
2370 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_EXT_DEVPART = device and part
2371 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_EXT_NAME = filename
19c402af 2372
a8c7c708 2373- Show boot progress:
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2374 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2375
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2376 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2377 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2378 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2379 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2380 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2381 the following checkpoints are implemented:
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94fd1316 2383
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2384Legacy uImage format:
2385
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2386 Arg Where When
2387 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
ba56f625 2388 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
c609719b 2389 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
ba56f625 2390 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
c609719b 2391 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
ba56f625 2392 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
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2393 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2394 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2395 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
1372cce2 2396 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
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2397 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2398 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2399 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2400 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
1372cce2 2401 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
c609719b 2402 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
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2403
2404 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2405 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2406 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2407 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2408 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2409 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2410 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
11ccc33f 2411 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
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2412 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2413 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2414
c0f40859 2415 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
c609719b 2416
a47a12be 2417 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
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2418 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2419 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
63e73c9a 2420
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2421 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2422 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2423 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2424 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2425 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2426 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2427 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2428 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2429 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2430 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2431 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2432 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2433 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2434 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2435 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2436 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2437 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2438 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2439 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2440 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2441 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2442 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2443 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2444 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2445 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2446 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2447 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2448 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2449 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2450 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2451 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2452 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2453 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2454 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2455 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2456 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2457 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2458 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2459 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2460 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2461 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2462 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2463 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2464 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2465 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2466 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2467 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
2468
2469 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
2470
11ccc33f 2471 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
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2472 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2473 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
2474
2475 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
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2476 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling net_loop()
2477 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in net_loop() occurred
2478 81 common/cmd_net.c net_loop() back without error
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2479 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2480 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
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2481 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2482 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
566a494f 2483 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
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2485FIT uImage format:
2486
2487 Arg Where When
2488 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2489 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2490 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2491 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2492 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2493 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
f773bea8 2494 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
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2495 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2496 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2497 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2498 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2499 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
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2500 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2501 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
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2502 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2503 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2504 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2505 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2506 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2507 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2508 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2509 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2510
2511 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2512 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2513 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
11ccc33f 2514 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
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2515 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2516 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2517 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2518 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2519 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2520 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2521 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2522 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2523 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2524 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2525 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2526 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2527
11ccc33f 2528 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
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2529 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2530
11ccc33f 2531 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
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2532 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2533
11ccc33f 2534 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
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2535 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2536
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2537- legacy image format:
2538 CONFIG_IMAGE_FORMAT_LEGACY
2539 enables the legacy image format support in U-Boot.
2540
2541 Default:
2542 enabled if CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE is not defined.
2543
2544 CONFIG_DISABLE_IMAGE_LEGACY
2545 disable the legacy image format
2546
2547 This define is introduced, as the legacy image format is
2548 enabled per default for backward compatibility.
2549
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2550- Standalone program support:
2551 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2552
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2553 This option defines a board specific value for the
2554 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
2555 overwriting the architecture dependent default
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2556 settings.
2557
2558- Frame Buffer Address:
2559 CONFIG_FB_ADDR
2560
2561 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
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2562 address for frame buffer. This is typically the case
2563 when using a graphics controller has separate video
2564 memory. U-Boot will then place the frame buffer at
2565 the given address instead of dynamically reserving it
2566 in system RAM by calling lcd_setmem(), which grabs
2567 the memory for the frame buffer depending on the
2568 configured panel size.
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2569
2570 Please see board_init_f function.
2571
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2572- Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2573 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP
2574 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2575 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2576
2577 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2578 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2579
2580- MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2581 CONFIG_MTD_DEVICE
2582
2583 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
2584 Needed for mtdparts command support.
2585
2586 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2587
2588 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
2589 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
2590
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2592 CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
2593
2594 Make the verbose messages from UBI stop printing. This leaves
2595 warnings and errors enabled.
2596
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2597
2598 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
2599 This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
2600 erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
2601 of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
2602 wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
2603 counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
2604
2605 The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
2606 other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
2607 However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
2608 life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
2609 to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
2610
2611 default: 4096
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2613 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
2614 This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
2615 expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the
2616 underlying flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR
2617 flash), this value is ignored.
2618
2619 NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM
2620 (Number of Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime.
2621 The maximum expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks
2622 then can be calculated as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)",
2623 which gives 20 for most NANDs (MaxNVB is basically the total
2624 count of eraseblocks on the chip).
2625
2626 To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to
2627 reserve about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
2628 handling. And that will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire
2629 NAND chip, not just the MTD partition UBI attaches. This means
2630 that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip admits maximum 40 bad
2631 eraseblocks, and it is split on two MTD partitions of the same
2632 size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when attaching a
2633 partition.
2634
2635 default: 20
2636
2637 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
2638 Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
2639 in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
2640 only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
2641 The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
2642 the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
2643 attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
2644 a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI parameter
2645 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT to 1 if you want so. Please note
2646 that fastmap-enabled images are still usable with UBI implementations
2647 without fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap
2648 fits into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
2649
2650 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT
2651 Set this parameter to enable fastmap automatically on images
2652 without a fastmap.
2653 default: 0
2654
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2655 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FM_DEBUG
2656 Enable UBI fastmap debug
2657 default: 0
2658
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2660 CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
2661
2662 Make the verbose messages from UBIFS stop printing. This leaves
2663 warnings and errors enabled.
2664
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2666 CONFIG_SPL
2667 Enable building of SPL globally.
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2669 CONFIG_SPL_LDSCRIPT
2670 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
2671
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2672 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT
2673 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL, BSS included.
2674 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory
2675 used by SPL from _start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
8960af8b 2676 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
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2677 must not be both defined at the same time.
2678
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2680 Maximum size of the SPL image (text, data, rodata, and
2681 linker lists sections), BSS excluded.
2682 When defined, the linker checks that the actual size does
2683 not exceed it.
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2685 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
2686 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
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2688 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
2689 Address to relocate to. If unspecified, this is equal to
2690 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
2691
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2692 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
2693 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
2694
2695 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
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2696 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL BSS.
2697 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory used
2698 by SPL from __bss_start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
8960af8b 2699 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
6ebc3461 2700 must not be both defined at the same time.
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2702 CONFIG_SPL_STACK
2703 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
2704
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2705 CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
2706 When defined, SPL will panic() if the image it has
2707 loaded does not have a signature.
2708 Defining this is useful when code which loads images
2709 in SPL cannot guarantee that absolutely all read errors
2710 will be caught.
2711 An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which will
2712 consider that a completely unreadable NAND block is bad,
2713 and thus should be skipped silently.
2714
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2715 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
2716 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
2717 relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
2718 CONFIG_SPL_STACK.
2719
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2720 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
2721 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
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2722 When this option is set the full malloc is used in SPL and
2723 it is set up by spl_init() and before that, the simple malloc()
2724 can be used if CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F is defined.
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2726 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
2727 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
6a11cf48 2728
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2729 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK
2730 Enable the SPL framework under common/. This framework
2731 supports MMC, NAND and YMODEM loading of U-Boot and NAND
2732 NAND loading of the Linux Kernel.
2733
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2734 CONFIG_SPL_OS_BOOT
2735 Enable booting directly to an OS from SPL.
2736 See also: doc/README.falcon
2737
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2738 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
2739 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
2740 about the running system.
2741
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2742 CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
2743 Arch init code should be built for a very small image
2744
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2745 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION
2746 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
2747 used in raw mode
2748
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2749 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_KERNEL_SECTOR
2750 Sector to load kernel uImage from when MMC is being
2751 used in raw mode (for Falcon mode)
2752
2753 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTOR,
2754 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTORS
2755 Sector and number of sectors to load kernel argument
2756 parameters from when MMC is being used in raw mode
2757 (for falcon mode)
2758
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2759 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_FS_BOOT_PARTITION
2760 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
2761 used in fs mode
2762
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2763 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
2764 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from filesystem
2765
2766 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_KERNEL_NAME
7ad2cc79 2767 Filename to read to load kernel uImage when reading
fae81c72 2768 from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
7ad2cc79 2769
fae81c72 2770 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_ARGS_NAME
7ad2cc79 2771 Filename to read to load kernel argument parameters
fae81c72 2772 when reading from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
7ad2cc79 2773
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2774 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
2775 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
2776 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
2777 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
2778 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
2779
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2780 CONFIG_SPL_SKIP_RELOCATE
2781 Avoid SPL relocation
2782
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2783 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE
2784 Include nand_base.c in the SPL. Requires
2785 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS.
2786
2787 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS
2788 SPL uses normal NAND drivers, not minimal drivers.
2789
2790 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_ECC
2791 Include standard software ECC in the SPL
2792
95579793 2793 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
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2794 Support for NAND boot using simple NAND drivers that
2795 expose the cmd_ctrl() interface.
95579793 2796
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2797 CONFIG_SPL_UBI
2798 Support for a lightweight UBI (fastmap) scanner and
2799 loader
2800
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2801 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_RAW_ONLY
2802 Support to boot only raw u-boot.bin images. Use this only
2803 if you need to save space.
2804
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2805 CONFIG_SPL_COMMON_INIT_DDR
2806 Set for common ddr init with serial presence detect in
2807 SPL binary.
2808
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2809 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
2810 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
2811 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
2812 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
2813 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
2814 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
7d4b7955 2815 to read U-Boot
95579793 2816
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2817 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BOOT
2818 Add support NAND boot
2819
95579793 2820 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
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2821 Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
2822
2823 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
2824 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
2825
2826 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
2827 Size of image to load
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2828
2829 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
7d4b7955 2830 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
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2831
2832 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
2833 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
b445bbb4 2834 data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
95579793 2835
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2836 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
2837 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
6a11cf48 2838
74752baa 2839 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO
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2840 Image offset to which the SPL should be padded before appending
2841 the SPL payload. By default, this is defined as
2842 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2843 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2844 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
74752baa 2845
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2846 CONFIG_SPL_TARGET
2847 Final target image containing SPL and payload. Some SPLs
2848 use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
2849 example if more than one image needs to be produced.
2850
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2851 CONFIG_FIT_SPL_PRINT
2852 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
2853 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
2854 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
2855 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
2856
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2857- TPL framework
2858 CONFIG_TPL
2859 Enable building of TPL globally.
2860
2861 CONFIG_TPL_PAD_TO
2862 Image offset to which the TPL should be padded before appending
2863 the TPL payload. By default, this is defined as
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2864 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2865 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2866 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
3aa29de0 2867
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2868- Interrupt support (PPC):
2869
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2870 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2871 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
11ccc33f 2872 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
d4ca31c4 2873 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
11ccc33f 2874 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
d4ca31c4 2875 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
11ccc33f 2876 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
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2877 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2878 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2879 general timer_interrupt().
a8c7c708 2880
c609719b 2881
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2882Board initialization settings:
2883------------------------------
2884
2885During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
2886to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
2887before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
2888following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
2889architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
2890typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
2891
2892- CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
2893- CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
2894- CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
2895- CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
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2897Configuration Settings:
2898-----------------------
2899
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2900- CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit.
2901 Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.
2902
6d0f6bcf 2903- CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
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2904 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2905
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2906- CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2907 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2908
6d0f6bcf 2909- CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
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2910 prompt for user input.
2911
6d0f6bcf 2912- CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
c609719b 2913
6d0f6bcf 2914- CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
c609719b 2915
6d0f6bcf 2916- CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
c609719b 2917
6d0f6bcf 2918- CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
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2919 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2920 booted
2921
6d0f6bcf 2922- CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
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2923 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2924
6d0f6bcf 2925- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
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2926 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2927 simple memory test.
2928
6d0f6bcf 2929- CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
8bde7f77 2930 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
c609719b 2931
6d0f6bcf 2932- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
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2933 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2934 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2935
e8149522 2936- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE
e61a7534 2937 Only implemented for ARMv8 for now.
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2938 If defined, the size of CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE memory
2939 is substracted from total RAM and won't be reported to OS.
2940 This memory can be used as secure memory. A variable
e61a7534 2941 gd->arch.secure_ram is used to track the location. In systems
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2942 the RAM base is not zero, or RAM is divided into banks,
2943 this variable needs to be recalcuated to get the address.
2944
aabd7ddb 2945- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE:
6d0f6bcf 2946 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
14f73ca6 2947 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
11ccc33f 2948 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
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2949 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2950 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2951 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
5e12e75d 2952 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
14f73ca6 2953 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
5e12e75d 2954 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
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2955
2956 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2957 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2958 be touched.
2959
2960 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2961 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2962 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2963 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2964 problems.
2965
6d0f6bcf 2966- CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
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2967 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2968
6d0f6bcf 2969- CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
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2970 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2971
6d0f6bcf 2972- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
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2973 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2974
6d0f6bcf 2975- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
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2976 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2977 make config files to be same as the text base address
14d0a02a 2978 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
6d0f6bcf 2979 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
c609719b 2980
6d0f6bcf 2981- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
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2982 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2983 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2984 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2985 flash sector.
c609719b 2986
6d0f6bcf 2987- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
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2988 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2989
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2990- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
2991 Size of the malloc() pool for use before relocation. If
2992 this is defined, then a very simple malloc() implementation
2993 will become available before relocation. The address is just
2994 below the global data, and the stack is moved down to make
2995 space.
2996
2997 This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
2998 within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
2999 is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
b445bbb4 3000 The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
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3001 U-Boot relocates itself.
3002
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3003- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
3004 Provides a simple and small malloc() and calloc() for those
3005 boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is
3006 enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START).
3007
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3008- CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY:
3009 Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be
3010 typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped
3011 uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would
3012 otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For
3013 some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the
3014 cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed
3015 are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding
3016 cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e.
3017 if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the
3018 size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of
3019 one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has
3020 written to another region in the same cache-line. This can
3021 happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for
3022 buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g.
3023 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).
3024
3025 Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
3026
6d0f6bcf 3027- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
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3028 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
3029 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
6d0f6bcf 3030 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
15940c9a
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3031 to adjust this setting to your needs.
3032
6d0f6bcf 3033- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
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3034 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
3035 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
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3036 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
3037 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
1bce2aeb 3038 environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
7d721e34 3039 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
c0f40859 3040 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
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3041 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
3042 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
3043 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
c609719b 3044
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3045- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
3046 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
3047 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
3048 is enabled.
3049
3050- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
3051 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
3052 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3053
3054- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
3055 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
3056 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3057
6d0f6bcf 3058- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
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3059 Max number of Flash memory banks
3060
6d0f6bcf 3061- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
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3062 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
3063
6d0f6bcf 3064- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
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3065 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
3066
6d0f6bcf 3067- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
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3068 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
3069
6d0f6bcf 3070- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
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3071 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
3072
6d0f6bcf 3073- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
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3074 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
3075
6d0f6bcf 3076- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
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3077 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
3078 instead of U-Boot software protection.
3079
6d0f6bcf 3080- CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
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3081
3082 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
3083 without this option such a download has to be
3084 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
3085 copy from RAM to flash.
3086
3087 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
3088 you can check if the download worked before you erase
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3089 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
3090 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
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3091 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
3092
6d0f6bcf 3093- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
43d9616c 3094 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
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3095 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
3096
00b1883a 3097- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
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3098 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
3099 in the drivers directory
c609719b 3100
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3101- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
3102 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
3103 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
3104 to the MTD layer.
3105
6d0f6bcf 3106- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
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3107 Use buffered writes to flash.
3108
3109- CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
3110 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
3111 write commands.
3112
6d0f6bcf 3113- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
5568e613
SR
3114 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
3115 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
3116 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
3117 optionally available.
3118
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3119- CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
3120 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
3121 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
3122 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
3123
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3124- CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY
3125 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
3126 against the source after the write operation. An error message
3127 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
3128 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
3129 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
3130 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
3131 this option if you really know what you are doing.
3132
6d0f6bcf 3133- CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
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3134 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
3135 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
53cf9435
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3136 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
3137 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
11ccc33f 3138 on high Ethernet traffic.
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3139 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
3140
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3141- CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
3142
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3143 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
3144 internally to store the environment settings. The default
3145 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
3146 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
3147 lib/hashtable.c for details.
ea882baf 3148
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3149- CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3150- CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
1bce2aeb 3151 Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when
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3152 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
3153 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
3154 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
3155
3156 The format of the list is:
3157 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
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3158 access_attribute = [a|r|o|c]
3159 attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute]
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3160 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
3161 list = entry[,list]
3162
3163 The type attributes are:
3164 s - String (default)
3165 d - Decimal
3166 x - Hexadecimal
3167 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
3168 i - IP address
3169 m - MAC address
3170
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3171 The access attributes are:
3172 a - Any (default)
3173 r - Read-only
3174 o - Write-once
3175 c - Change-default
3176
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3177 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3178 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
b445bbb4 3179 environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
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3180
3181 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3182 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
3183 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
3184 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
3185 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
3186 ".flags" variable.
3187
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3188 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
3189 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to define the same
3190 flags without explicitly listing them for each variable.
3191
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3192- CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
3193 If defined, don't allow the -f switch to env set override variable
3194 access flags.
3195
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3196- CONFIG_USE_STDINT
3197 If stdint.h is available with your toolchain you can define this
3198 option to enable it. You can provide option 'USE_STDINT=1' when
3199 building U-Boot to enable this.
3200
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3201The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
3202of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
3203following configurations:
3204
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3205- CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
3206
3207 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
3208 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
3209
c609719b 3210BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
b445bbb4 3211in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the
11ccc33f 3212console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
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3213U-Boot will hang.
3214
3215Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3216environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3217keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3218to save the current settings.
3219
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3220BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
3221"saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
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LG
3222environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
3223but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
0a85a9e7 3224
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3225- CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
3226
3227 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
3228 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
3229 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
3230
e881cb56 3231Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
c609719b 3232has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
00caae6d 3233created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use env_get_f()
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3234until then to read environment variables.
3235
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3236The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
3237is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
3238with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
3239necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
3240"baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
3241have any device yet where we could complain.]
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3242
3243Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
3244the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
85ec0bcc 3245use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
c609719b 3246
6d0f6bcf 3247- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
42d1f039 3248 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
fc3e2165 3249
6d0f6bcf 3250 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
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3251 also needs to be defined.
3252
6d0f6bcf 3253- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
42d1f039 3254 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
c609719b 3255
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3256- CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
3257 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
3258 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
3259 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
3260 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
3261 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
3262
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3263- CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
3264 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
3265 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
3266 to do this.
3267
e2e3e2b1
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3268- CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
3269 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
3270 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
3271 present.
3272
feb85801
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3273- CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT:
3274 Maximum size of the U-Boot image. When defined, the
3275 build system checks that the actual size does not
3276 exceed it.
3277
c609719b 3278Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
dc7c9a1a 3279---------------------------------------------------
c609719b 3280
6d0f6bcf 3281- CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
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3282 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
3283
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3284- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
3285 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
3286 PowerPC SOCs.
3287
3288- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
3289 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
3290 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
3291
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3292- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
3293 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
3294 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
c0f40859 3295 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
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3296 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
3297 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
3298 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
3299
3300 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
3301 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
3302
3303- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
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3304 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
3305 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
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3306 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3307 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3308
3309- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
3310 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
3311 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3312 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3313
3314- CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
3315 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
3316 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
3317
7f6c2cbc 3318- Floppy Disk Support:
6d0f6bcf 3319 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
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3320
3321 the default drive number (default value 0)
3322
6d0f6bcf 3323 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
7f6c2cbc 3324
11ccc33f 3325 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
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3326 (default value 1)
3327
6d0f6bcf 3328 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
7f6c2cbc 3329
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3330 defines the offset of register from address. It
3331 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
11ccc33f 3332 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
7f6c2cbc 3333
6d0f6bcf
JCPV
3334 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
3335 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
43d9616c 3336 default value.
7f6c2cbc 3337
6d0f6bcf 3338 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
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3339 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
3340 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
b445bbb4 3341 source code. It is used to make hardware-dependent
43d9616c 3342 initializations.
7f6c2cbc 3343
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3344- CONFIG_IDE_AHB:
3345 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
3346 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
3347 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
3348 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
3349 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
b445bbb4 3350 is required.
0abddf82 3351
6d0f6bcf 3352- CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
efe2a4d5 3353 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
907208c4 3354 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx systems only]
c609719b 3355
6d0f6bcf 3356- CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
c609719b 3357
7152b1d0 3358 Start address of memory area that can be used for
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3359 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
3360 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
3361 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
3362 will become available only after programming the
3363 memory controller and running certain initialization
3364 sequences.
3365
3366 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
907208c4 3367 - MPC8xx: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
c609719b 3368
6d0f6bcf 3369- CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
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3370
3371 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
6d0f6bcf
JCPV
3372 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
3373 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
c609719b 3374 data is located at the end of the available space
553f0982 3375 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
acd51f9d 3376 GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
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JCPV
3377 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
3378 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
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3379
3380 Note:
3381 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
3382 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
6d0f6bcf 3383 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
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3384 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
3385 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
3386
6d0f6bcf 3387- CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
c609719b 3388
6d0f6bcf 3389- CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
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3390 SDRAM timing
3391
6d0f6bcf 3392- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
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3393 periodic timer for refresh
3394
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3395- FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
3396 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
3397 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
3398 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
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3399 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
3400
3401- SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
6d0f6bcf
JCPV
3402 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
3403 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
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3404 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
3405
69fd2d3b 3406- CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
b445bbb4 3407 Only scan through and get the devices on the buses.
69fd2d3b
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3408 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
3409 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
3410 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
3411 by coreboot or similar.
3412
842033e6
GJ
3413- CONFIG_PCI_INDIRECT_BRIDGE:
3414 Enable support for indirect PCI bridges.
3415
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3416- CONFIG_SYS_SRIO:
3417 Chip has SRIO or not
3418
3419- CONFIG_SRIO1:
3420 Board has SRIO 1 port available
3421
3422- CONFIG_SRIO2:
3423 Board has SRIO 2 port available
3424
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3425- CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
3426 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
3427
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3428- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
3429 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3430
3431- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
3432 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3433
3434- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
3435 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3436
66bd1846
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3437- CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
3438 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
3439 a 16 bit bus.
3440 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
a430e916 3441 Example of drivers that use it:
66bd1846 3442 - drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c
a430e916 3443 - drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
eced4626
AW
3444
3445- CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
3446 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
3447 a default value will be used.
3448
bb99ad6d 3449- CONFIG_SPD_EEPROM
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3450 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
3451 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
3452
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3453 SPD_EEPROM_ADDRESS
3454 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
3455
6d0f6bcf 3456- CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
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3457 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
3458 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
3459 to something your driver can deal with.
bb99ad6d 3460
1b3e3c4f
YS
3461- CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
3462 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
3463 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
3464 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
3465 header files or board specific files.
3466
6f5e1dc5
YS
3467- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
3468 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
3469
e32d59a2
YS
3470- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_SYNC_REFRESH
3471 Enable sync of refresh for multiple controllers.
3472
4516ff81
YS
3473- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_BIST
3474 Enable built-in memory test for Freescale DDR controllers.
3475
6d0f6bcf 3476- CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
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3477 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
3478 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
2ad6b513 3479
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3480- CONFIG_RMII
3481 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
3482 Note that this is a global option, we can't
3483 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
3484
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3485- CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
3486 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
3487 The syntax is:
3488
3489 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
3490
3491 Where address/count indicate a memory area
3492 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
3493 area should have.
3494
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3495- CONFIG_LOOPW
3496 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
493f420e 3497 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
56523f12 3498
7b466641
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3499- CONFIG_MX_CYCLIC
3500 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
3501 "md/mw" commands.
3502 Examples:
3503
efe2a4d5 3504 => mdc.b 10 4 500
7b466641
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3505 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
3506
efe2a4d5 3507 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
7b466641
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3508 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
3509
efe2a4d5 3510 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
493f420e 3511 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
7b466641 3512
8aa1a2d1 3513- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
afc1ce82 3514 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain
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3515 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
3516 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
3517 relocate itself into RAM.
3518
3519 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
3520 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
3521 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
3522 these initializations itself.
8aa1a2d1 3523
b5bd0982
SG
3524- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT_ONLY
3525 [ARM926EJ-S only] This allows just the call to lowlevel_init()
90211f77 3526 to be skipped. The normal CP15 init (such as enabling the
b5bd0982
SG
3527 instruction cache) is still performed.
3528
401bb30b 3529- CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
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3530 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3531 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
3532 compiling a NAND SPL.
400558b5 3533
3aa29de0
YZ
3534- CONFIG_TPL_BUILD
3535 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3536 that is executed after the SPL and before the actual U-Boot.
3537 It is loaded by the SPL.
3538
5df572f0
YZ
3539- CONFIG_SYS_MPC85XX_NO_RESETVEC
3540 Only for 85xx systems. If this variable is specified, the section
3541 .resetvec is not kept and the section .bootpg is placed in the
3542 previous 4k of the .text section.
3543
4213fc29
SG
3544- CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
3545 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
3546 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
3547 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
3548 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
3549 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
3550 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
3551 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
3552
588a13f7
SG
3553- CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
3554 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
3555 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
b16f521a 3556
16678eb4
HS
3557- CONFIG_SPL_AM33XX_ENABLE_RTC32K_OSC:
3558 Enables the RTC32K OSC on AM33xx based plattforms
3559
999d7d32
KM
3560- CONFIG_SYS_NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE
3561 Option to disable subpage write in NAND driver
3562 driver that uses this:
3563 drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
3564
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3565Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
3566-----------------------------------
3567
3568The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
3569loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
3570This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3571are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3572within that device.
3573
dcf1d774
ZQ
3574- CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR
3575 The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The
3576 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3577 is also specified.
3578
3579- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR
3580 The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The
f2717b47
TT
3581 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3582 is also specified.
3583
3584- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
3585 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
3586 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
3587 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
3588 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
3589
3590- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
3591 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
3592 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
3593 virtual address in NOR flash.
3594
3595- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
3596 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
3597 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
3598
3599- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
3600 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
3601 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
3602
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3603- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
3604 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
3605 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
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3606 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
3607 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
3608 master's memory space.
f2717b47 3609
b940ca64
GR
3610Freescale Layerscape Management Complex Firmware Support:
3611---------------------------------------------------------
3612The Freescale Layerscape Management Complex (MC) supports the loading of
3613"firmware".
3614This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3615are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3616within that device.
3617
3618- CONFIG_FSL_MC_ENET
3619 Enable the MC driver for Layerscape SoCs.
3620
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3621Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support:
3622-------------------------------------------
3623The Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support supports the loading of
3624"Debug Server firmware" and triggering SP boot-rom.
3625This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting.
3626
c0492141
YS
3627- CONFIG_SYS_MC_RSV_MEM_ALIGN
3628 Define alignment of reserved memory MC requires
5c055089 3629
f3f431a7
PK
3630Reproducible builds
3631-------------------
3632
3633In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
3634process have to be set to a fixed value.
3635
3636This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
3637SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is to be set on the build host's shell, not as a configuration
3638option for U-Boot or an environment variable in U-Boot.
3639
3640SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should be set to a number of seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
3641
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3642Building the Software:
3643======================
3644
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3645Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
3646and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
3647all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
3648(potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
3649recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
3650which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
c609719b 3651
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3652If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
3653have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
3654you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
3655Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
3656necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
c609719b 3657
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3658 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
3659 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
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2f8d396b
PT
3661Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
3662 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
3663 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
3664 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
3665
3666 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
3667
3668 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
3669 be executed on computers running Windows.
3670
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3671U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
3672sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
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3673is done by typing:
3674
ab584d67 3675 make NAME_defconfig
c609719b 3676
ab584d67 3677where "NAME_defconfig" is the name of one of the existing configu-
4d675ae6 3678rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
db01a2ea 3679
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3680Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
3681 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
3682 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
3683 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
11ccc33f 3684 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
2729af9d 3685
ab584d67 3686 make TQM823L_defconfig
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3687 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
3688
ab584d67 3689 make TQM823L_LCD_defconfig
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3690 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
3691
3692 etc.
3693
3694
3695Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
3696images ready for download to / installation on your system:
3697
3698- "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
3699- "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
3700- "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
3701
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3702By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
3703in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
3704this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
3705
37061. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
3707
3708 make O=/tmp/build distclean
ab584d67 3709 make O=/tmp/build NAME_defconfig
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3710 make O=/tmp/build all
3711
adbba996 37122. Set environment variable KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the desired location:
baf31249 3713
adbba996 3714 export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/build
baf31249 3715 make distclean
ab584d67 3716 make NAME_defconfig
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3717 make all
3718
adbba996 3719Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
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3720variable.
3721
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3722
3723Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
3724for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
3725native "make".
3726
3727
3728If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
3729to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
3730steps:
3731
3c1496cd 37321. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
2729af9d 3733 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3c1496cd
PS
3734 the "Makefile" and a "<board>.c".
37352. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3736 your board.
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37373. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3738 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
ab584d67 37394. Run "make <board>_defconfig" with your new name.
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37405. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3741 to be installed on your target system.
37426. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3743 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
3744
3745
3746Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3747==============================================================
3748
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3749If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3750or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
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3751provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
3752the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
218ca724 3753official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
2729af9d 3754
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3755But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3756cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
2729af9d 3757the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
6de80f21
SG
3758just run the buildman script (tools/buildman/buildman), which will
3759configure and build U-Boot for ALL supported system. Be warned, this
3760will take a while. Please see the buildman README, or run 'buildman -H'
3761for documentation.
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3762
3763
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3764See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
3765
3766
3767Monitor Commands - Overview:
3768============================
3769
3770go - start application at address 'addr'
3771run - run commands in an environment variable
3772bootm - boot application image from memory
3773bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
44f074c7 3774bootz - boot zImage from memory
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3775tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3776 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3777 (and eventually "gatewayip")
1fb7cd49 3778tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
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3779rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3780diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3781loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3782loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3783md - memory display
3784mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3785nm - memory modify (constant address)
3786mw - memory write (fill)
3787cp - memory copy
3788cmp - memory compare
3789crc32 - checksum calculation
0f89c54b 3790i2c - I2C sub-system
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3791sspi - SPI utility commands
3792base - print or set address offset
3793printenv- print environment variables
3794setenv - set environment variables
3795saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3796protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3797erase - erase FLASH memory
3798flinfo - print FLASH memory information
10635afa 3799nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
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3800bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3801iminfo - print header information for application image
3802coninfo - print console devices and informations
3803ide - IDE sub-system
3804loop - infinite loop on address range
56523f12 3805loopw - infinite write loop on address range
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3806mtest - simple RAM test
3807icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3808dcache - enable or disable data cache
3809reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3810echo - echo args to console
3811version - print monitor version
3812help - print online help
3813? - alias for 'help'
3814
3815
3816Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3817========================================
3818
3819TODO.
3820
3821For now: just type "help <command>".
3822
3823
3824Environment Variables:
3825======================
3826
3827U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3828can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
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3830Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3831"printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3832without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3833environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3834working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3835environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
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3837Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3838
3839List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
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2729af9d 3841 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
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2729af9d 3843 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
c609719b 3844
2729af9d 3845 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
4a6fd34b 3846
2729af9d 3847 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
c609719b 3848
2729af9d 3849 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
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3851 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3852 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3853 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3854 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3855 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3856 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
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3857 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
3858 bootm_mapsize.
3859
c0f40859 3860 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
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3861 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
3862 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
3863 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
3864 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
3865 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
3866 used otherwise.
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3867
3868 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3869 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3870 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3871 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3872 environment variable.
3873
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3874 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3875 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3876 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3877
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3878 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3879 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3880 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3881 load any image using TFTP
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3883 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3884 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3885 be automatically started (by internally calling
3886 "bootm")
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3888 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3889 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3890 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3891 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3892 data.
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3894 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
3895 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
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3896 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
3897 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
3898 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
3899 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
3900 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
3901 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
3902 access it during the boot procedure.
3903
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3904 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
3905 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
3906 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
3907 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
3908 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
3909 must be accessible by the kernel.
3910
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3911 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
3912 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
3913 defined.
3914
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3915 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3916 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3917 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3918 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3919 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3920
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3921 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3922 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3923 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3924 is usually what you want since it allows for
3925 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3926 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
6d0f6bcf 3927 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
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3928 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3929 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3930 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3931 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
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3933 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3934 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3935 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3936 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3937 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3938 12 MB as well - this can be done with
c609719b 3939
2729af9d 3940 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
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3942 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3943 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3944 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3945 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3946 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3947 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3948 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
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2729af9d 3950 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
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3952 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3953 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
c609719b 3954
2729af9d 3955 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
a3d991bd 3956
2729af9d 3957 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
a3d991bd 3958
2729af9d 3959 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
a3d991bd 3960
2729af9d 3961 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
a3d991bd 3962
2729af9d 3963 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
c609719b 3964
e2a53458 3965 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
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3967 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
3968 For example you can do the following
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3970 => setenv ethact FEC
3971 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
3972 => setenv ethact SCC
3973 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
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3975 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3976 available network interfaces.
3977 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3978
c96f86ee 3979 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
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3980 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3981 When set to "once" the network operation will
3982 fail when all the available network interfaces
3983 are tried once without success.
3984 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3985 themselves.
c609719b 3986
b4e2f89d 3987 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
a1cf027a 3988
b445bbb4 3989 silent_linux - If set then Linux will be told to boot silently, by
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3990 changing the console to be empty. If "yes" it will be
3991 made silent. If "no" it will not be made silent. If
3992 unset, then it will be made silent if the U-Boot console
3993 is silent.
3994
f5fb7346 3995 tftpsrcp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
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3996 UDP source port.
3997
f5fb7346 3998 tftpdstp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
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3999 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
4000
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4001 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
4002 we use the TFTP server's default block size
4003
4004 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
4005 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
4006 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
4007 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
4008 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
4009 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
4010 with unreliable TFTP servers.
4011
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4012 tftptimeoutcountmax - maximum count of TFTP timeouts (no
4013 unit, minimum value = 0). Defines how many timeouts
4014 can happen during a single file transfer before that
4015 transfer is aborted. The default is 10, and 0 means
4016 'no timeouts allowed'. Increasing this value may help
4017 downloads succeed with high packet loss rates, or with
4018 unreliable TFTP servers or client hardware.
4019
c96f86ee 4020 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
11ccc33f 4021 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
2729af9d 4022 VLAN tagged frames.
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4024 bootpretryperiod - Period during which BOOTP/DHCP sends retries.
4025 Unsigned value, in milliseconds. If not set, the period will
4026 be either the default (28000), or a value based on
4027 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT, if defined. This value has
4028 precedence over the valu based on CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT.
4029
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4030The following image location variables contain the location of images
4031used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
4032not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
4033variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
4034server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
4035loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
4036flash or offset in NAND flash.
4037
4038*Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
aed9fed9 4039boards currently use other variables for these purposes, and some
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4040boards use these variables for other purposes.
4041
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4042Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
4043----- --------- ----------- --------------
4044u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
4045Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
4046device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
4047ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
dc0b7b0e 4048
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4049The following environment variables may be used and automatically
4050updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
4051depending the information provided by your boot server:
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4053 bootfile - see above
4054 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
4055 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
4056 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
4057 hostname - Target hostname
4058 ipaddr - see above
4059 netmask - Subnet Mask
4060 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
4061 serverip - see above
c1551ea8 4062
c1551ea8 4063
2729af9d 4064There are two special Environment Variables:
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4066 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
4067 as type string and/or serial number
4068 ethaddr - Ethernet address
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4070These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
4071the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
4072once they have been set once.
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f07771cc 4074
2729af9d 4075Further special Environment Variables:
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4077 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
4078 with the "version" command. This variable is
4079 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
f07771cc 4080
f07771cc 4081
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4082Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
4083only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
f07771cc 4084
f07771cc 4085
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4086Callback functions for environment variables:
4087---------------------------------------------
4088
4089For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change
b445bbb4 4090when their values are changed. This functionality allows functions to
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4091be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or
4092deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side
4093effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.
4094
4095The callbacks are named and associated with a function using the
4096U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK macro in your board or driver code.
4097
4098These callbacks are associated with variables in one of two ways. The
4099static list can be added to by defining CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC
4100in the board configuration to a string that defines a list of
4101associations. The list must be in the following format:
4102
4103 entry = variable_name[:callback_name]
4104 list = entry[,list]
4105
4106If the callback name is not specified, then the callback is deleted.
4107Spaces are also allowed anywhere in the list.
4108
4109Callbacks can also be associated by defining the ".callbacks" variable
4110with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will
4111override any association in the static list. You can define
4112CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
b445bbb4 4113".callbacks" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
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4115If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
4116regular expression. This allows multiple variables to be connected to
4117the same callback without explicitly listing them all out.
4118
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4120Command Line Parsing:
4121=====================
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4123There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
4124the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
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4126Old, simple command line parser:
4127--------------------------------
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4129- supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
4130- several commands on one line, separated by ';'
fe126d8b 4131- variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
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4132- special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
4133 for example:
fe126d8b 4134 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
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4135- You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
4136 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
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4138Hush shell:
4139-----------
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4141- similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
4142 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
4143 until...do...done, ...
4144- supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
4145 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
4146 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
4147 command
4148
4149General rules:
4150--------------
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4152(1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
4153 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
4154 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
4155 executed anyway.
c609719b 4156
2729af9d 4157(2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
11ccc33f 4158 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
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4159 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
4160 variables are not executed.
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4162Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
4163=======================================
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11ccc33f 4165Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
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4166such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
4167"working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
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4169Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
4170MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
4171"eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
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4173If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
4174in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
4175ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
4176variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
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4178o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
4179 environment, the SROM's address is used.
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4181o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
4182 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
4183 used.
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4185o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
4186 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
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4188o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
4189 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
4190 warning is printed.
c609719b 4191
2729af9d 4192o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
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4193 is raised. If CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR is defined, then in this case
4194 a random, locally-assigned MAC is used.
c609719b 4195
ecee9324 4196If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
c0f40859 4197will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
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4198may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
4199The naming convention is as follows:
4200"ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
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4202Image Formats:
4203==============
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4205U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
4206images in two formats:
4207
4208New uImage format (FIT)
4209-----------------------
4210
4211Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
4212to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
4213components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
4214SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
4215
4216
4217Old uImage format
4218-----------------
4219
4220Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
4221preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
4222details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
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4224* Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
4225 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
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4226 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
4227 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
4228 INTEGRITY).
daab59ac 4229* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, Intel x86,
afc1ce82 4230 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
daab59ac 4231 Currently supported: ARM, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
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4232* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
4233* Load Address
4234* Entry Point
4235* Image Name
4236* Image Timestamp
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4238The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
4239and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
4240CRC32 checksums.
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4241
4242
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4243Linux Support:
4244==============
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4246Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
4247easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
4248U-Boot.
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4250U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
4251special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
4252"initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
4253instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
4254serves several purposes:
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4256- the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
4257 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
4258 Flash memory footprint)
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4260- it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
4261 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
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4263- the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
4264 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
4265 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
4266 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
4267 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
4268 software is easier now.
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4271Linux HOWTO:
4272============
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4274Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
4275---------------------------------------
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4277U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
4278configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
4279(no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
4280Linux :-).
c609719b 4281
a47a12be 4282But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
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4284Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
4285include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
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4286Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
4287and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
6d0f6bcf 4288as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
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4290Note that U-Boot now has a driver model, a unified model for drivers.
4291If you are adding a new driver, plumb it into driver model. If there
4292is no uclass available, you are encouraged to create one. See
4293doc/driver-model.
4294
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4296Configuring the Linux kernel:
4297-----------------------------
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4299No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
4300device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
4301
4302
4303Building a Linux Image:
4304-----------------------
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4306With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
4307not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
4308"uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
4309U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
4310which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
4311100% compatible format.
4312
4313Example:
4314
ab584d67 4315 make TQM850L_defconfig
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4316 make oldconfig
4317 make dep
4318 make uImage
4319
4320The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
4321encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
4322CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
4323
4324* build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
4325
4326* convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
4327
4328 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
4329 -R .note -R .comment \
4330 -S vmlinux linux.bin
4331
4332* compress the binary image:
4333
4334 gzip -9 linux.bin
4335
4336* package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
4337
4338 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
4339 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
4340 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
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4343The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
4344with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
4345combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
4346byte header containing information about target architecture,
4347operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
4348stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
4349
4350"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
4351print the header information, or to build new images.
4352
4353In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
4354contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
4355checksum verification:
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4357 tools/mkimage -l image
4358 -l ==> list image header information
4359
4360The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
4361from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
4362
4363 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
4364 -n name -d data_file image
4365 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
4366 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
4367 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4368 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
4369 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
4370 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
4371 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
4372 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
4373
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4374Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
4375address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
4376kernel version:
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4378- 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
4379- 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
4380
4381So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
4382
4383 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4384 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
a47a12be 4385 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
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4386 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
4387 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4388 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4389 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4390 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4391 Load Address: 0x00000000
4392 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4393
4394To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
4395
4396 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
4397 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4398 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4399 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4400 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4401 Load Address: 0x00000000
4402 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4403
4404NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
4405speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
4406needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
4407need to be uncompressed:
4408
a47a12be 4409 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
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4410 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4411 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
a47a12be 4412 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
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4413 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
4414 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4415 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4416 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
4417 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
4418 Load Address: 0x00000000
4419 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4420
4421
4422Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
4423when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
4424
4425 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
4426 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
4427 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
4428 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4429 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
4430 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4431 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
4432 Load Address: 0x00000000
4433 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4434
a804b5ce
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4435The "dumpimage" is a tool to disassemble images built by mkimage. Its "-i"
4436option performs the converse operation of the mkimage's second form (the "-d"
4437option). Given an image built by mkimage, the dumpimage extracts a "data file"
4438from the image:
4439
f41f5b7c
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4440 tools/dumpimage -i image -T type -p position data_file
4441 -i ==> extract from the 'image' a specific 'data_file'
4442 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4443 -p ==> 'position' (starting at 0) of the 'data_file' inside the 'image'
a804b5ce 4444
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4445
4446Installing a Linux Image:
4447-------------------------
4448
4449To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
4450you must convert the image to S-Record format:
4451
4452 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
4453
4454The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
4455image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
4456address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
4457specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
4458command.
4459
4460Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
4461TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
4462
4463 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
4464
4465 .......... done
4466 Erased 8 sectors
4467
4468 => loads 40100000
4469 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4470 ~>examples/image.srec
4471 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
4472 ...
4473 15989 15990 15991 15992
4474 [file transfer complete]
4475 [connected]
4476 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
4477
4478
4479You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
218ca724 4480this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
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4481corruption happened:
4482
4483 => imi 40100000
4484
4485 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4486 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4487 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4488 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4489 Load Address: 00000000
4490 Entry Point: 0000000c
4491 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4492
4493
4494Boot Linux:
4495-----------
4496
4497The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
4498memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
4499of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
4500parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
4501"printenv" and "setenv" commands:
4502
4503
4504 => printenv bootargs
4505 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
4506
4507 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4508
4509 => printenv bootargs
4510 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4511
4512 => bootm 40020000
4513 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
4514 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
4515 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4516 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
4517 Load Address: 00000000
4518 Entry Point: 0000000c
4519 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4520 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4521 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
4522 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4523 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4524 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4525 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
4526 ...
4527
11ccc33f 4528If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
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4529the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
4530format!) to the "bootm" command:
4531
4532 => imi 40100000 40200000
4533
4534 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4535 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4536 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4537 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4538 Load Address: 00000000
4539 Entry Point: 0000000c
4540 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4541
4542 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
4543 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4544 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4545 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4546 Load Address: 00000000
4547 Entry Point: 00000000
4548 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4549
4550 => bootm 40100000 40200000
4551 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
4552 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4553 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4554 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4555 Load Address: 00000000
4556 Entry Point: 0000000c
4557 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4558 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4559 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
4560 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4561 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4562 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4563 Load Address: 00000000
4564 Entry Point: 00000000
4565 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4566 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
4567 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
4568 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
4569 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4570 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4571 ...
4572 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
4573 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
4574
4575 bash#
4576
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4577Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
4578-----------
4579
4580First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
4581titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
4582following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
4583flat device tree:
4584
4585=> print oftaddr
4586oftaddr=0x300000
4587=> print oft
4588oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
4589=> tftp $oftaddr $oft
4590Speed: 1000, full duplex
4591Using TSEC0 device
4592TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
4593Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
4594Load address: 0x300000
4595Loading: #
4596done
4597Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
4598=> tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
4599Speed: 1000, full duplex
4600Using TSEC0 device
4601TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
4602Filename 'uImage'.
4603Load address: 0x200000
4604Loading:############
4605done
4606Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
4607=> print loadaddr
4608loadaddr=200000
4609=> print oftaddr
4610oftaddr=0x300000
4611=> bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
4612## Booting image at 00200000 ...
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4613 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
4614 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4615 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
0267768e 4616 Load Address: 00000000
a9398e01 4617 Entry Point: 00000000
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4618 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4619 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4620Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
4621Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
4622Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
4623[snip]
4624
4625
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4626More About U-Boot Image Types:
4627------------------------------
4628
4629U-Boot supports the following image types:
4630
4631 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
4632 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
4633 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
4634 the Standalone Program.
4635 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
4636 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
4637 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
4638 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
4639 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
4640 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
4641 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
4642 being started.
4643 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
4644 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
4645 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
4646 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
4647 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
4648 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
4649
4650 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
4651 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
4652 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
4653 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
4654 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
4655 a multiple of 4 bytes).
4656
4657 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
4658 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
4659 flash memory.
4660
4661 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
4662 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
4663 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
4664 as command interpreter.
4665
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4666Booting the Linux zImage:
4667-------------------------
4668
4669On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
4670using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
4671as the syntax of "bootm" command.
4672
8ac28563 4673Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
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4674kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
4675address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
4676format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
4677
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4679Standalone HOWTO:
4680=================
4681
4682One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
4683run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
4684U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
4685
4686Two simple examples are included with the sources:
4687
4688"Hello World" Demo:
4689-------------------
4690
4691'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
4692application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
4693It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
4694like that:
4695
4696 => loads
4697 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4698 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
4699 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4700 [file transfer complete]
4701 [connected]
4702 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4703
4704 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
4705 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4706 Hello World
4707 argc = 7
4708 argv[0] = "40004"
4709 argv[1] = "Hello"
4710 argv[2] = "World!"
4711 argv[3] = "This"
4712 argv[4] = "is"
4713 argv[5] = "a"
4714 argv[6] = "test."
4715 argv[7] = "<NULL>"
4716 Hit any key to exit ...
4717
4718 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4719
4720Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
4721handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
4722Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
4723The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
4724character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
4725controlled by the following keys:
4726
4727 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
4728 b - enable interrupts and start timer
4729 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
4730 q - quit application
4731
4732 => loads
4733 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4734 ~>examples/timer.srec
4735 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4736 [file transfer complete]
4737 [connected]
4738 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4739
4740 => go 40004
4741 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4742 TIMERS=0xfff00980
4743 Using timer 1
4744 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
4745
4746Hit 'b':
4747 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
4748 Enabling timer
4749Hit '?':
4750 [q, b, e, ?] ........
4751 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
4752Hit '?':
4753 [q, b, e, ?] .
4754 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
4755Hit '?':
4756 [q, b, e, ?] .
4757 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
4758Hit '?':
4759 [q, b, e, ?] .
4760 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
4761Hit 'e':
4762 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
4763Hit 'q':
4764 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4765
4766
4767Minicom warning:
4768================
4769
4770Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
4771"minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
4772consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
4773Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
4774especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
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4775use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
4776http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
4777for help with kermit.
4778
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4780Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
4781configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
4782
4783 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
4784 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
4785 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
4786
4787
4788NetBSD Notes:
4789=============
4790
4791Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
4792(build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
4793
4794Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
4795NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
4796need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
4797Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
4798attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
4799missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
4800
4801 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
4802 # mkdir powerpc
4803 # ln -s powerpc machine
4804 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
4805 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
4806
4807Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
4808and U-Boot include files.
4809
4810Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
4811stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
4812proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
4813tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
2a8af187 4814meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
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4815
4816
4817Implementation Internals:
4818=========================
4819
4820The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
4821implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
4822inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
4823hardware.
4824
4825
4826Initial Stack, Global Data:
4827---------------------------
4828
4829The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
4830starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
4831system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
4832This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
4833is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
4834at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
4835options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
4836models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
4837MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
4838locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
4839
218ca724 4840 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
0668236b 4841 U-Boot mailing list:
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4842
4843 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4844 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
4845 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4846 ...
4847
4848 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4849 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4850 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4851 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4852 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
11ccc33f 4853 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
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4854 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4855 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
4856
4857 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4858 is another option for the system designer to use as an
11ccc33f 4859 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
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4860 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4861 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4862 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4863 used.
4864
6d0f6bcf 4865 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
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4866 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4867 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
8a316c9b 4868 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
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4869 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4870 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4871 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4872 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4873 you get the config right.
4874
4875 -Chris Hallinan
4876 DS4.COM, Inc.
4877
4878It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4879code for the initialization procedures:
4880
4881* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4882 to write it.
4883
b445bbb4 4884* Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized
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4885 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4886 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
4887
4888* Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4889 that.
4890
4891Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
b445bbb4 4892normal global data to share information between the code. But it
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4893turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4894simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4895functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4896functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4897the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4898place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4899reserve for this purpose.
4900
4901When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4902relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4903GCC's implementation.
4904
4905For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4906 R1: stack pointer
e7670f6c 4907 R2: reserved for system use
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4908 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4909 R5-R10: parameter passing
4910 R13: small data area pointer
4911 R30: GOT pointer
4912 R31: frame pointer
4913
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4914 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4915 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4916 going back and forth between asm and C)
2729af9d 4917
e7670f6c 4918 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
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4919
4920 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4921 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4922 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4923 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4924 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4925 624 text + 127 data).
4926
4927On ARM, the following registers are used:
4928
4929 R0: function argument word/integer result
4930 R1-R3: function argument word
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4931 R9: platform specific
4932 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
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4933 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4934 R12: temporary workspace
4935 R13: stack pointer
4936 R14: link register
4937 R15: program counter
4938
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4939 ==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data
4940
4941 Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.
2729af9d 4942
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4943On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
4944 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
4945
4946 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4947
4948 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4949 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4950
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4951On NDS32, the following registers are used:
4952
4953 R0-R1: argument/return
4954 R2-R5: argument
4955 R15: temporary register for assembler
4956 R16: trampoline register
4957 R28: frame pointer (FP)
4958 R29: global pointer (GP)
4959 R30: link register (LP)
4960 R31: stack pointer (SP)
4961 PC: program counter (PC)
4962
4963 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
4964
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4965NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4966or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
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4967
4968Memory Management:
4969------------------
4970
4971U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4972MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
4973
4974The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4975controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4976memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4977physical memory banks.
4978
4979U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4980TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4981booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4982to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
6d0f6bcf 4983memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
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4984configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4985Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
4986
4987Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4988of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
4989
4990So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
4991this:
4992
4993 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
4994 :
4995 0x0000 1FFF
4996 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
4997 :
4998 :
4999
5000 :
5001 :
5002 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
5003 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
5004 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
5005 :
5006 0x00FD FFFF
5007 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
5008 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
5009 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
5010 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
5011
5012
5013System Initialization:
5014----------------------
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2729af9d 5016In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
11ccc33f 5017(on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
b445bbb4 5018configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory.
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5019To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
5020To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
5021initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
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5022which provide such a feature like), or in a locked part of the data
5023cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core, the caches and
5024the SIU.
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5025
5026Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
5027preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
5028(multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
5029on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
5030programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
5031simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
5032banks.
5033
5034When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
5035different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
5036bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
50370x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
5038contiguous memory starting from 0.
5039
5040Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
5041and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
5042Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
5043pages, and the final stack is set up.
5044
5045Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
5046until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
5047running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
5048new address in RAM.
5049
5050
5051U-Boot Porting Guide:
5052----------------------
c609719b 5053
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5054[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
5055list, October 2002]
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5056
5057
6c3fef28 5058int main(int argc, char *argv[])
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5059{
5060 sighandler_t no_more_time;
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5062 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
5063 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
c609719b 5064
2729af9d 5065 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
6c3fef28 5066 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
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5067 return 0;
5068 }
5069
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5070 Download latest U-Boot source;
5071
0668236b 5072 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
2729af9d 5073
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5074 if (clueless)
5075 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
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5076
5077 while (learning) {
5078 Read the README file in the top level directory;
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5079 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
5080 Read applicable doc/*.README;
2729af9d 5081 Read the source, Luke;
6c3fef28 5082 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
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5083 }
5084
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5085 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
5086 Buy a BDI3000;
5087 else
2729af9d 5088 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
2729af9d 5089
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5090 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
5091 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
5092 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
5093 } else {
5094 Create your own board support subdirectory;
5095 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
5096 }
5097 Edit new board/<myboard> files
5098 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
5099
5100 while (!accepted) {
5101 while (!running) {
5102 do {
5103 Add / modify source code;
5104 } until (compiles);
5105 Debug;
5106 if (clueless)
5107 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
5108 }
5109 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
5110 if (reasonable critiques)
5111 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
5112 else
5113 Defend code as written;
2729af9d 5114 }
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5115
5116 return 0;
5117}
5118
5119void no_more_time (int sig)
5120{
5121 hire_a_guru();
5122}
5123
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5125Coding Standards:
5126-----------------
c609719b 5127
2729af9d 5128All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
2c051651 5129coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
7ca9296e 5130"scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
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5131
5132Source files originating from a different project (for example the
5133MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
b445bbb4 5134reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
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5135sources.
5136
5137Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
5138Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
5139in your code.
c609719b 5140
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5141Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
5142- remove any trailing white space
7ca9296e 5143- use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
2729af9d 5144- make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
7ca9296e 5145- do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
2729af9d 5146- do not add trailing empty lines to source files
180d3f74 5147
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5148Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
5149with a request to reformat the changes.
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5150
5151
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5152Submitting Patches:
5153-------------------
c609719b 5154
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5155Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
5156establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
5157may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
c609719b 5158
0d28f34b 5159Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
218ca724 5160
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5161Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
5162see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
5163
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5164When you send a patch, please include the following information with
5165it:
c609719b 5166
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5167* For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
5168 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
5169 patch actually fixes something.
c609719b 5170
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5171* For new features: a description of the feature and your
5172 implementation.
c609719b 5173
2729af9d 5174* A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
c609719b 5175
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5176* For major contributions, add a MAINTAINERS file with your
5177 information and associated file and directory references.
c609719b 5178
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5179* When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a
5180 maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.
c609719b 5181
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5182* If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
5183 document these in the README file.
c609719b 5184
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5185* The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
5186 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
7ca9296e 5187 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
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5188 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
5189 with some other mail clients.
5190
5191 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
5192 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
5193 GNU diff.
c609719b 5194
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5195 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
5196 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
5197 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
5198 affected files).
6dff5529 5199
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5200 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
5201 and compressed attachments must not be used.
c609719b 5202
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5203* If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
5204 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
52f52c14 5205
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5206* Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
5207 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
8bde7f77 5208
52f52c14 5209
2729af9d 5210Notes:
c609719b 5211
6de80f21 5212* Before sending the patch, run the buildman script on your patched
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5213 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
5214 for any of the boards.
c609719b 5215
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5216* Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
5217 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
5218 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
c609719b 5219
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5220* If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
5221 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
5222 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
5223 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
5224 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
5225 modification.
90dc6704 5226
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5227* Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
5228 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
5229 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
5230 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.