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wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002#
Wolfgang Denk1234ce72013-06-21 10:22:36 +02003# (C) Copyright 2000 - 2013
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004# Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00005
6Summary:
7========
8
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00009This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
wdenkce4832c2004-10-17 21:12:06 +000010Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
11processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
12initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
13code.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000014
15The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000016the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
17header files in common, and special provision has been made to
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000018support booting of Linux images.
19
20Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
21configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
22implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
23add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
24code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
25load and run it dynamically.
26
27
28Status:
29=======
30
31In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000032Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000033"working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
34
Robert P. J. Day076ed9b2015-12-19 07:16:10 -050035In case of problems see the CHANGELOG file to find out who contributed
36the specific port. In addition, there are various MAINTAINERS files
37scattered throughout the U-Boot source identifying the people or
38companies responsible for various boards and subsystems.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000039
Robert P. J. Day076ed9b2015-12-19 07:16:10 -050040Note: As of August, 2010, there is no longer a CHANGELOG file in the
41actual U-Boot source tree; however, it can be created dynamically
42from the Git log using:
Robert P. J. Day974ed2f2012-11-14 02:03:20 +000043
44 make CHANGELOG
45
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000046
47Where to get help:
48==================
49
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000050In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
Robert P. J. Day076ed9b2015-12-19 07:16:10 -050051U-Boot, you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
Peter Tyser8804a612008-09-10 09:18:34 -050052<u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
53on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
Naoki Hayama2bc50c22020-10-08 13:16:18 +090054Please see https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
55https://marc.info/?l=u-boot
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000056
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +010057Where to get source code:
58=========================
59
Robert P. J. Day076ed9b2015-12-19 07:16:10 -050060The U-Boot source code is maintained in the Git repository at
Heinrich Schuchardt28b2b852021-02-24 13:19:04 +010061https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
62https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +010063
Naoki Hayama65ae68a2020-10-08 13:16:25 +090064The "Tags" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +020065any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
Naoki Hayama65ae68a2020-10-08 13:16:25 +090066available from the DENX file server through HTTPS or FTP.
67https://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
68ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +010069
70
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000071Where we come from:
72===================
73
74- start from 8xxrom sources
Naoki Hayamae0cc1852020-10-08 13:17:16 +090075- create PPCBoot project (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000076- clean up code
77- make it easier to add custom boards
78- make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
79- extend functions, especially:
80 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
81 * S-Record download
82 * network boot
Simon Glassaaef3bf2019-08-01 09:47:14 -060083 * ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
Naoki Hayamae0cc1852020-10-08 13:17:16 +090084- create ARMBoot project (https://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000085- add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
Naoki Hayamae0cc1852020-10-08 13:17:16 +090086- create U-Boot project (https://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
87- current project page: see https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000088
89
90Names and Spelling:
91===================
92
93The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
94"U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
95in source files etc.). Example:
96
97 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
98
99File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
100
101 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
102
103 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
104
105Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
106the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000107
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +0000108 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
109 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
110
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000111
wdenk7474aca2002-12-17 17:55:09 +0000112Versioning:
113===========
114
Thomas Webere89e6282010-09-28 08:06:25 +0200115Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
116were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
117into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
118names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
119Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
120releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
wdenk7474aca2002-12-17 17:55:09 +0000121
Thomas Webere89e6282010-09-28 08:06:25 +0200122Examples:
Wolfgang Denk092ae952011-10-26 10:21:21 +0000123 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
Thomas Webere89e6282010-09-28 08:06:25 +0200124 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
Jelle van der Waa30245ca2016-10-30 17:30:30 +0100125 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candidate 1 for September 2010 release
wdenk7474aca2002-12-17 17:55:09 +0000126
127
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000128Directory Hierarchy:
129====================
130
Simon Glass1a0a4ac2021-07-10 21:14:21 -0600131/arch Architecture-specific files
Masahiro Yamadaef6ebff2014-03-07 18:02:02 +0900132 /arc Files generic to ARC architecture
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500133 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500134 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500135 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500136 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500137 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
Stefan Roese88fbf932010-04-15 16:07:28 +0200138 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
Rick Chend7e6f922017-12-26 13:55:59 +0800139 /riscv Files generic to RISC-V architecture
Robert P. J. Day076ed9b2015-12-19 07:16:10 -0500140 /sandbox Files generic to HW-independent "sandbox"
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500141 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
Robert P. J. Daya269c932013-09-15 18:34:15 -0400142 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
Naoki Hayama411f5c62020-10-08 13:16:38 +0900143 /xtensa Files generic to Xtensa architecture
Simon Glass1a0a4ac2021-07-10 21:14:21 -0600144/api Machine/arch-independent API for external apps
145/board Board-dependent files
Simon Glass91944df2021-10-14 12:47:54 -0600146/boot Support for images and booting
Xu Ziyuanfb1f9392016-08-26 19:54:49 +0800147/cmd U-Boot commands functions
Simon Glass1a0a4ac2021-07-10 21:14:21 -0600148/common Misc architecture-independent functions
Robert P. J. Day076ed9b2015-12-19 07:16:10 -0500149/configs Board default configuration files
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500150/disk Code for disk drive partition handling
Simon Glass1a0a4ac2021-07-10 21:14:21 -0600151/doc Documentation (a mix of ReST and READMEs)
152/drivers Device drivers
153/dts Makefile for building internal U-Boot fdt.
154/env Environment support
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500155/examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
156/fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
157/include Header Files
Robert P. J. Day076ed9b2015-12-19 07:16:10 -0500158/lib Library routines generic to all architectures
159/Licenses Various license files
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500160/net Networking code
161/post Power On Self Test
Robert P. J. Day076ed9b2015-12-19 07:16:10 -0500162/scripts Various build scripts and Makefiles
163/test Various unit test files
Simon Glass1a0a4ac2021-07-10 21:14:21 -0600164/tools Tools to build and sign FIT images, etc.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000165
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000166Software Configuration:
167=======================
168
169Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
170rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
171
172There are two classes of configuration variables:
173
174* Configuration _OPTIONS_:
175 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
176 "CONFIG_".
177
178* Configuration _SETTINGS_:
179 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
180 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200181 "CONFIG_SYS_".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000182
Robert P. J. Day076ed9b2015-12-19 07:16:10 -0500183Previously, all configuration was done by hand, which involved creating
184symbolic links and editing configuration files manually. More recently,
185U-Boot has added the Kbuild infrastructure used by the Linux kernel,
186allowing you to use the "make menuconfig" command to configure your
187build.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000188
189
190Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
191---------------------------------------------------
192
193For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
Holger Freyther7ba4e572014-08-04 09:26:05 +0200194configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_defconfig".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000195
196Example: For a TQM823L module type:
197
198 cd u-boot
Holger Freyther7ba4e572014-08-04 09:26:05 +0200199 make TQM823L_defconfig
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000200
Robert P. J. Day076ed9b2015-12-19 07:16:10 -0500201Note: If you're looking for the default configuration file for a board
202you're sure used to be there but is now missing, check the file
203doc/README.scrapyard for a list of no longer supported boards.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000204
Simon Glass53552c92014-03-22 17:12:59 -0600205Sandbox Environment:
206--------------------
207
208U-Boot can be built natively to run on a Linux host using the 'sandbox'
209board. This allows feature development which is not board- or architecture-
210specific to be undertaken on a native platform. The sandbox is also used to
211run some of U-Boot's tests.
212
Naoki Hayamadd860ca2020-10-08 13:16:58 +0900213See doc/arch/sandbox.rst for more details.
Simon Glass53552c92014-03-22 17:12:59 -0600214
215
Simon Glassd8711af2015-03-03 08:03:00 -0700216Board Initialisation Flow:
217--------------------------
218
219This is the intended start-up flow for boards. This should apply for both
Robert P. J. Day076ed9b2015-12-19 07:16:10 -0500220SPL and U-Boot proper (i.e. they both follow the same rules).
221
222Note: "SPL" stands for "Secondary Program Loader," which is explained in
223more detail later in this file.
224
225At present, SPL mostly uses a separate code path, but the function names
226and roles of each function are the same. Some boards or architectures
227may not conform to this. At least most ARM boards which use
228CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK conform to this.
Simon Glassd8711af2015-03-03 08:03:00 -0700229
Robert P. J. Day076ed9b2015-12-19 07:16:10 -0500230Execution typically starts with an architecture-specific (and possibly
231CPU-specific) start.S file, such as:
232
233 - arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
234 - arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc83xx/start.S
235 - arch/mips/cpu/start.S
236
237and so on. From there, three functions are called; the purpose and
238limitations of each of these functions are described below.
Simon Glassd8711af2015-03-03 08:03:00 -0700239
240lowlevel_init():
241 - purpose: essential init to permit execution to reach board_init_f()
242 - no global_data or BSS
243 - there is no stack (ARMv7 may have one but it will soon be removed)
244 - must not set up SDRAM or use console
245 - must only do the bare minimum to allow execution to continue to
246 board_init_f()
247 - this is almost never needed
248 - return normally from this function
249
250board_init_f():
251 - purpose: set up the machine ready for running board_init_r():
252 i.e. SDRAM and serial UART
253 - global_data is available
254 - stack is in SRAM
255 - BSS is not available, so you cannot use global/static variables,
256 only stack variables and global_data
257
258 Non-SPL-specific notes:
259 - dram_init() is called to set up DRAM. If already done in SPL this
260 can do nothing
261
262 SPL-specific notes:
263 - you can override the entire board_init_f() function with your own
264 version as needed.
265 - preloader_console_init() can be called here in extremis
266 - should set up SDRAM, and anything needed to make the UART work
Naoki Hayamaebfd8192020-09-24 15:57:19 +0900267 - there is no need to clear BSS, it will be done by crt0.S
Andreas Dannenberg7673bed2019-08-08 12:54:49 -0500268 - for specific scenarios on certain architectures an early BSS *can*
269 be made available (via CONFIG_SPL_EARLY_BSS by moving the clearing
270 of BSS prior to entering board_init_f()) but doing so is discouraged.
271 Instead it is strongly recommended to architect any code changes
272 or additions such to not depend on the availability of BSS during
273 board_init_f() as indicated in other sections of this README to
274 maintain compatibility and consistency across the entire code base.
Simon Glassd8711af2015-03-03 08:03:00 -0700275 - must return normally from this function (don't call board_init_r()
276 directly)
277
278Here the BSS is cleared. For SPL, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined, then at
279this point the stack and global_data are relocated to below
280CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR. For non-SPL, U-Boot is relocated to run at the top of
281memory.
282
283board_init_r():
284 - purpose: main execution, common code
285 - global_data is available
286 - SDRAM is available
287 - BSS is available, all static/global variables can be used
288 - execution eventually continues to main_loop()
289
290 Non-SPL-specific notes:
291 - U-Boot is relocated to the top of memory and is now running from
292 there.
293
294 SPL-specific notes:
295 - stack is optionally in SDRAM, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined and
Ashish Kumar11234062017-08-11 11:09:14 +0530296 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_CCI400
297
298 Defined For SoC that has cache coherent interconnect
299 CCN-400
wdenk1272e232002-11-10 22:06:23 +0000300
Ashish Kumar97393d62017-08-18 10:54:36 +0530301 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_CCN504
302
303 Defined for SoC that has cache coherent interconnect CCN-504
304
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000305The following options need to be configured:
306
Kim Phillips203fee32007-08-10 13:28:25 -0500307- CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000308
Kim Phillips203fee32007-08-10 13:28:25 -0500309- Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
Wolfgang Denk994ad962006-10-24 14:42:37 +0200310
Kumar Galaf4fb90f2011-02-18 05:40:54 -0600311- 85xx CPU Options:
York Sun2394a0f2012-10-08 07:44:30 +0000312 CONFIG_SYS_PPC64
313
314 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
315 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
316 compliance, among other possible reasons.
317
Kumar Galaf4fb90f2011-02-18 05:40:54 -0600318 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
319
320 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
321 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
322 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
323
Kumar Gala179b1b22011-05-20 00:39:21 -0500324 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
325
326 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
327 tree nodes for the given platform.
328
Scott Wood80806962012-08-14 10:14:53 +0000329 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
330
331 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
332 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
333 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
334
335 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
336 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
337
338 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
339 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
340
341 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
342 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
343 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
344 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
345
346 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
347 this erratum.
348
349 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
350
351 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
352 according to the A004510 workaround.
353
Priyanka Jainc73b9032013-07-02 09:21:04 +0530354 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
355 This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
356 connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
357
Priyanka Jainf81e8b22013-04-04 09:31:54 +0530358 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
359 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
360 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
361
Priyanka Jainc73b9032013-07-02 09:21:04 +0530362 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
363 This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
364 connected to the DSP core.
365
Priyanka Jainf81e8b22013-04-04 09:31:54 +0530366 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
367 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
368
Priyanka Jaine9dcaa82013-12-17 14:25:52 +0530369 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
370 Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
371 In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
372 clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
373
Aneesh Bansal8bcbc272014-03-18 23:40:26 +0530374 CONFIG_SYS_CPC_REINIT_F
375 This CONFIG is defined when the CPC is configured as SRAM at the
Bin Meng75574052016-02-05 19:30:11 -0800376 time of U-Boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
Aneesh Bansal8bcbc272014-03-18 23:40:26 +0530377
Daniel Schwierzeckd8a49ca2012-04-02 02:57:56 +0000378- Generic CPU options:
379 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
380
381 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
382 values is arch specific.
383
York Sunf0626592013-09-30 09:22:09 -0700384 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR
385 Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
Tom Rinie5404982021-05-14 21:34:26 -0400386 found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx as well as some ARM core SoCs.
York Sunf0626592013-09-30 09:22:09 -0700387
388 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
389 Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
390
York Sunf0626592013-09-30 09:22:09 -0700391 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
392 Freescale DDR1 controller.
393
394 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
395 Freescale DDR2 controller.
396
397 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
398 Freescale DDR3 controller.
399
York Sun2896cb72014-03-27 17:54:47 -0700400 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN4
401 Freescale DDR4 controller.
402
York Sun461c9392013-09-30 14:20:51 -0700403 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
404 Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
405
York Sunf0626592013-09-30 09:22:09 -0700406 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR1
407 Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
408 Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
409 implemetation.
410
411 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR2
Robert P. J. Day8d56db92016-07-15 13:44:45 -0400412 Board config to use DDR2. It can be enabled for SoCs with
York Sunf0626592013-09-30 09:22:09 -0700413 Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
414 implementation.
415
416 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR3
417 Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
York Sun2896cb72014-03-27 17:54:47 -0700418 Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
419
420 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR3L
421 Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
422 DDR3L controllers.
423
Prabhakar Kushwaha62908c22014-01-18 12:28:30 +0530424 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
425 Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
426
427 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
428 Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
429
Prabhakar Kushwaha3c48f582017-02-02 15:01:26 +0530430 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_CLK_DIV
431 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to IFC controller).
432
Prabhakar Kushwahabedc5622017-02-02 15:02:00 +0530433 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_LBC_CLK_DIV
434 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to eLBC controller).
435
York Sun29647ab2014-02-10 13:59:42 -0800436 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
437 Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
438
439 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
440 Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
441
York Sun3a0916d2014-02-10 13:59:43 -0800442 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
443 Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
444 same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for all Power SoCs. But
445 it could be different for ARM SoCs.
446
York Sunc459ae62014-02-10 13:59:44 -0800447 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
448 DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
449 interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
450 SoCs with ARM core.
451
York Sun79a779b2014-08-01 15:51:00 -0700452 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_MAIN_NUM_CTRLS
453 Number of controllers used as main memory.
454
455 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_OTHER_DDR_NUM_CTRLS
456 Number of controllers used for other than main memory.
457
Ruchika Guptabb7143b2014-09-09 11:50:31 +0530458 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
459 Defines the SEC controller register space as Big Endian
460
461 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_LE
462 Defines the SEC controller register space as Little Endian
463
Daniel Schwierzeckd52a6232011-07-27 13:22:39 +0200464- MIPS CPU options:
Daniel Schwierzeckd52a6232011-07-27 13:22:39 +0200465 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
466
467 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
468 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
469 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
470
Christian Riesch48c2d6d2012-02-02 00:44:39 +0000471- ARM options:
472 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
473
474 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
475 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
476
York Sun77a10972015-03-20 19:28:08 -0700477 COUNTER_FREQUENCY
478 Generic timer clock source frequency.
479
480 COUNTER_FREQUENCY_REAL
481 Generic timer clock source frequency if the real clock is
482 different from COUNTER_FREQUENCY, and can only be determined
483 at run time.
484
Stephen Warren8d1fb312015-01-19 16:25:52 -0700485- Tegra SoC options:
486 CONFIG_TEGRA_SUPPORT_NON_SECURE
487
488 Support executing U-Boot in non-secure (NS) mode. Certain
489 impossible actions will be skipped if the CPU is in NS mode,
490 such as ARM architectural timer initialization.
491
wdenk9b7f3842003-10-09 20:09:04 +0000492- Linux Kernel Interface:
wdenk9b7f3842003-10-09 20:09:04 +0000493 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
494
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -0800495 When transferring memsize parameter to Linux, some versions
wdenk9b7f3842003-10-09 20:09:04 +0000496 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
497 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
498
Gerald Van Barenfcd91bb2008-06-03 20:34:45 -0400499 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
Wolfgang Denk27a5b0b2005-10-13 01:45:54 +0200500
501 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
Gerald Van Barend6abef42007-03-31 12:23:51 -0400502 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
503 concepts).
504
505 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
506 * New libfdt-based support
507 * Adds the "fdt" command
Kim Phillips9b46eb62007-08-10 14:34:14 -0500508 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
Gerald Van Barend6abef42007-03-31 12:23:51 -0400509
Wolfgang Denk27a5b0b2005-10-13 01:45:54 +0200510 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
511
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200512 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
513 addresses
Kim Phillips9b46eb62007-08-10 14:34:14 -0500514
Heiko Schocherffb293a2009-09-23 07:56:08 +0200515 CONFIG_OF_IDE_FIXUP
516
517 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
518 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
519 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
520 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
521 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
522 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
523
Niklaus Giger0ab978d2008-11-03 22:13:47 +0100524- vxWorks boot parameters:
525
526 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
Bin Mengfb694b92015-10-07 20:19:17 -0700527 environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask,
528 serverip, gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
Niklaus Giger0ab978d2008-11-03 22:13:47 +0100529 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
530
Naoki Hayama158c2262020-10-08 13:17:08 +0900531 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will override
Niklaus Giger0ab978d2008-11-03 22:13:47 +0100532 the defaults discussed just above.
533
Aneesh V686a0752011-06-16 23:30:51 +0000534- Cache Configuration for ARM:
535 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
536 controller
537 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
538 controller register space
539
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000540- Serial Ports:
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000541 CONFIG_PL011_CLOCK
542
543 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
544 the clock speed of the UARTs.
545
546 CONFIG_PL01x_PORTS
547
548 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
549 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
550 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
551
Karicheri, Muralidharancbc08882014-04-09 15:38:46 -0400552 CONFIG_SERIAL_HW_FLOW_CONTROL
553
554 Define this variable to enable hw flow control in serial driver.
555 Current user of this option is drivers/serial/nsl16550.c driver
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000556
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000557- Serial Download Echo Mode:
558 CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
559 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
560 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
561 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
562 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
563 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
564 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
565
Simon Glassaa34ef22016-03-13 19:07:28 -0600566- Removal of commands
567 If no commands are needed to boot, you can disable
568 CONFIG_CMDLINE to remove them. In this case, the command line
569 will not be available, and when U-Boot wants to execute the
570 boot command (on start-up) it will call board_run_command()
571 instead. This can reduce image size significantly for very
572 simple boot procedures.
573
Wolfgang Denk2aceea12013-03-23 23:50:31 +0000574- Regular expression support:
575 CONFIG_REGEX
Wolfgang Denkec7fbf52013-10-04 17:43:24 +0200576 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
577 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
578 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
579 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
Wolfgang Denk2aceea12013-03-23 23:50:31 +0000580
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000581- Watchdog:
Rasmus Villemoes134cc2b2021-04-14 09:18:22 +0200582 CONFIG_SYS_WATCHDOG_FREQ
583 Some platforms automatically call WATCHDOG_RESET()
584 from the timer interrupt handler every
585 CONFIG_SYS_WATCHDOG_FREQ interrupts. If not set by the
586 board configuration file, a default of CONFIG_SYS_HZ/2
587 (i.e. 500) is used. Setting CONFIG_SYS_WATCHDOG_FREQ
588 to 0 disables calling WATCHDOG_RESET() from the timer
589 interrupt.
590
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000591- Real-Time Clock:
592
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500593 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000594 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
595 following options:
596
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000597 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
Fabio Estevam3f8d1782011-10-24 06:44:15 +0000598 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000599 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
wdenk1fe2c702003-03-06 21:55:29 +0000600 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000601 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
wdenk0893c472003-05-20 14:25:27 +0000602 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
Markus Niebel90491f22014-07-21 11:06:16 +0200603 CONFIG_RTC_DS1339 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1339 RTC
wdenkef5fe752003-03-12 10:41:04 +0000604 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
Tor Krillb27939b2008-03-15 15:40:26 +0100605 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
wdenkaeba06f2004-06-09 17:34:58 +0000606 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
Chris Packham2d3ac512017-05-30 12:03:33 +1200607 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
Heiko Schocher1f1b7012011-03-28 09:24:22 +0200608 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
609 RV3029 RTC.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000610
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +0000611 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
612 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
613
Peter Tyser9902e422008-12-17 16:36:21 -0600614- GPIO Support:
615 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
Peter Tyser9902e422008-12-17 16:36:21 -0600616
Chris Packham9b383202010-12-19 10:12:13 +0000617 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
618 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
619 pins supported by a particular chip.
620
Peter Tyser9902e422008-12-17 16:36:21 -0600621 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
622 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
623
Simon Glass4dc47ca2014-06-11 23:29:41 -0600624- I/O tracing:
625 When CONFIG_IO_TRACE is selected, U-Boot intercepts all I/O
626 accesses and can checksum them or write a list of them out
627 to memory. See the 'iotrace' command for details. This is
628 useful for testing device drivers since it can confirm that
629 the driver behaves the same way before and after a code
630 change. Currently this is supported on sandbox and arm. To
631 add support for your architecture, add '#include <iotrace.h>'
632 to the bottom of arch/<arch>/include/asm/io.h and test.
633
634 Example output from the 'iotrace stats' command is below.
635 Note that if the trace buffer is exhausted, the checksum will
636 still continue to operate.
637
638 iotrace is enabled
639 Start: 10000000 (buffer start address)
640 Size: 00010000 (buffer size)
641 Offset: 00000120 (current buffer offset)
642 Output: 10000120 (start + offset)
643 Count: 00000018 (number of trace records)
644 CRC32: 9526fb66 (CRC32 of all trace records)
645
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000646- Timestamp Support:
647
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +0000648 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
649 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
650 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500651 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000652
Karl O. Pinc8b1f90a2012-08-16 06:20:15 +0000653- Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
654 Zero or more of the following:
655 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
Karl O. Pinc8b1f90a2012-08-16 06:20:15 +0000656 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
657 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
658 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
659 disk/part_efi.c
Simon Glass8706b812016-05-01 11:36:02 -0600660 CONFIG_SCSI) you must configure support for at
Karl O. Pinc8b1f90a2012-08-16 06:20:15 +0000661 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000662
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000663- NETWORK Support (PCI):
Kyle Moffett64b94dd2011-10-18 11:05:29 +0000664 CONFIG_E1000_SPI
665 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
666 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
667 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
668
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000669 CONFIG_NATSEMI
670 Support for National dp83815 chips.
671
672 CONFIG_NS8382X
673 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
674
wdenkaa603362003-05-12 21:50:16 +0000675- NETWORK Support (other):
Rob Herringc9830dc2011-12-15 11:15:49 +0000676 CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
677 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
678
Ashok93fb8722012-10-15 06:20:47 +0000679 CONFIG_LAN91C96
wdenkaa603362003-05-12 21:50:16 +0000680 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
681
wdenkaa603362003-05-12 21:50:16 +0000682 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
683 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
684
Ashok93fb8722012-10-15 06:20:47 +0000685 CONFIG_SMC91111
wdenk3c711762004-06-09 13:37:52 +0000686 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
687
688 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
689 Define this to hold the physical address
690 of the device (I/O space)
691
692 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
693 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
694
695 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
696 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
697 (some hardware wont work with macros)
698
Heiko Schocher7d037f72011-11-15 10:00:04 -0500699 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
700 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
701
Macpaul Lin199c6252010-12-21 16:59:46 +0800702 CONFIG_FTGMAC100
703 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
704
705 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
706 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
707 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
708 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
709 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
710 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
711 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
712 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
713
Yoshihiro Shimodaed4cea02011-01-27 10:06:03 +0900714 CONFIG_SH_ETHER
715 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
716
717 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
718 Define the number of ports to be used
719
720 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
721 Define the ETH PHY's address
722
Yoshihiro Shimoda281aa052011-01-27 10:06:08 +0900723 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
724 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
725
Vadim Bendeburydac69642011-10-17 08:36:14 +0000726- TPM Support:
Che-liang Chiouacea5702013-04-12 11:04:34 +0000727 CONFIG_TPM
728 Support TPM devices.
729
Christophe Ricard8759ff82015-10-06 22:54:41 +0200730 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_INFINEON
731 Support for Infineon i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
Tom Wai-Hong Tame49fed52013-04-12 11:04:37 +0000732 per system is supported at this time.
733
Tom Wai-Hong Tame49fed52013-04-12 11:04:37 +0000734 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
735 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
736
Christophe Ricard88249232016-01-21 23:27:13 +0100737 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24
738 Support for STMicroelectronics TPM devices. Requires DM_TPM support.
739
740 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_I2C
741 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 I2C devices.
742 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and I2C.
743
Christophe Ricard5ffadc32016-01-21 23:27:14 +0100744 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_SPI
745 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 SPI devices.
746 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and SPI.
747
Dirk Eibach20489092013-06-26 15:55:15 +0200748 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
749 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
750
Che-liang Chiouacea5702013-04-12 11:04:34 +0000751 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_LPC
Vadim Bendeburydac69642011-10-17 08:36:14 +0000752 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
753 per system is supported at this time.
754
755 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
756 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
757 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
758 0xfed40000.
759
Reinhard Pfau4fece432013-06-26 15:55:13 +0200760 CONFIG_TPM
761 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
762 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
763 Requires support for a TPM device.
764
765 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
766 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
767 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
768
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000769- USB Support:
770 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
Heiko Schocher6f90e582017-06-14 05:49:40 +0200771 supported (PIP405, MIP405); define
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000772 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
773 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
wdenkfb30b4c2004-10-09 22:44:59 +0000774 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000775 storage devices.
776 Note:
777 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
778 (TEAC FD-05PUB).
wdenk369d43d2004-03-14 14:09:05 +0000779
Oleksandr Tymoshenko7a881752014-02-01 21:51:25 -0700780 CONFIG_USB_DWC2_REG_ADDR the physical CPU address of the DWC2
781 HW module registers.
782
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200783- USB Device:
784 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
785 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
786 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200787 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200788 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
789 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200790 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200791 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
792 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
793 a Linux host by
794 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
795 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
796 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
797 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200798
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200799 CONFIG_USB_DEVICE
800 Define this to build a UDC device
801
802 CONFIG_USB_TTY
803 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
804 talk to the UDC device
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200805
Vipin KUMARbdb17702012-03-26 15:38:06 +0530806 CONFIG_USBD_HS
807 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
808 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
809 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
810 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
811 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
812 speed.
813
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200814 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200815 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200816 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200817 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
818 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
819 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
820
821 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
822 Define this string as the name of your company for
823 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200824
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200825 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
826 Define this string as the name of your product
827 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000828
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200829 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
830 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
831 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
832 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
833 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200834
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200835 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
836 Define this as the unique Product ID
837 for your device
838 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200839
Igor Grinbergac5f6ee2011-12-12 12:08:35 +0200840- ULPI Layer Support:
841 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
842 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
843 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
844 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
845 viewport is supported.
846 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
847 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
Lucas Stachf31e4112012-10-01 00:44:35 +0200848 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
849 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
850 the appropriate value in Hz.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000851
wdenk7a428cc2003-06-15 22:40:42 +0000852- MMC Support:
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +0000853 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
854 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
855 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
wdenk7a428cc2003-06-15 22:40:42 +0000856 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500857 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
858 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
wdenk7a428cc2003-06-15 22:40:42 +0000859
Yoshihiro Shimodadb7717b2011-07-04 22:21:22 +0000860 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF
861 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
862
863 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
864 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
865
866 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_CLK
867 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
868
Tom Rini58a8d322013-03-14 05:32:47 +0000869- USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
Marek Vasut7f8d4362018-02-16 16:41:18 +0100870 CONFIG_DFU_OVER_USB
Tom Rini58a8d322013-03-14 05:32:47 +0000871 This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class
872
Pantelis Antonioucf14d0d2013-03-14 05:32:52 +0000873 CONFIG_DFU_NAND
874 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
875
Afzal Mohammede3c687a2013-09-18 01:15:24 +0530876 CONFIG_DFU_RAM
877 This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
878 Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
879 allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
880 one that would help mostly the developer.
881
Heiko Schochera2f831e2013-06-12 06:05:51 +0200882 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
883 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
884 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
885 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
886 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
887
Pantelis Antonioua6e788d2013-03-14 05:32:48 +0000888 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
889 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
890 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
891 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
892 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
893 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
894
Heiko Schochere1ba1512014-03-18 08:09:56 +0100895 DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
896 Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
897 host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
898 a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
899
900 DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
901 Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
902 entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
903 sending again an USB request to the device.
904
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000905- Journaling Flash filesystem support:
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200906 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
907 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000908 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
909
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000910- Keyboard Support:
Simon Glasseaba37e2015-11-11 10:05:47 -0700911 See Kconfig help for available keyboard drivers.
912
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000913- LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
914
915 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
916 display); also select one of the supported displays
917 by defining one of these:
918
wdenkc0d54ae2003-11-25 16:55:19 +0000919 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000920
wdenkc0d54ae2003-11-25 16:55:19 +0000921 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000922
wdenkc0d54ae2003-11-25 16:55:19 +0000923 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
924
925 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
926 Active, color, single scan.
927
928 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000929
wdenkc0d54ae2003-11-25 16:55:19 +0000930 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000931 Active, color, single scan.
932
933 CONFIG_SHARP_16x9
934
935 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
936 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
937
938 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
939
940 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
941 Active, color, single scan.
942
943 CONFIG_HLD1045
944
945 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
946 Active, color, single scan.
947
948 CONFIG_OPTREX_BW
949
950 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
951 or
952 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
953 or
954 Hitachi SP14Q002
955
956 320x240. Black & white.
957
Simon Glass599a4df2012-10-17 13:24:54 +0000958 CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
959
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -0800960 Normally the LCD is page-aligned (typically 4KB). If this is
Simon Glass599a4df2012-10-17 13:24:54 +0000961 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
962 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
963 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
964 a per-section basis.
965
966
Hannes Petermaiera3c8e862015-03-27 08:01:38 +0100967 CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION
968
969 Sometimes, for example if the display is mounted in portrait
970 mode or even if it's mounted landscape but rotated by 180degree,
971 we need to rotate our content of the display relative to the
972 framebuffer, so that user can read the messages which are
973 printed out.
974 Once CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is defined, the lcd_console will be
975 initialized with a given rotation from "vl_rot" out of
976 "vidinfo_t" which is provided by the board specific code.
977 The value for vl_rot is coded as following (matching to
978 fbcon=rotate:<n> linux-kernel commandline):
979 0 = no rotation respectively 0 degree
980 1 = 90 degree rotation
981 2 = 180 degree rotation
982 3 = 270 degree rotation
983
984 If CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is not defined, the console will be
985 initialized with 0degree rotation.
986
wdenk0e2bd9c2004-06-06 21:51:03 +0000987- MII/PHY support:
wdenk0e2bd9c2004-06-06 21:51:03 +0000988 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
989
990 The clock frequency of the MII bus
991
wdenk0e2bd9c2004-06-06 21:51:03 +0000992 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
993
994 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
995 command issued before MII status register can be read
996
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000997- IP address:
998 CONFIG_IPADDR
999
1000 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001001 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001002 determined through e.g. bootp.
Wolfgang Denk26da2992011-10-26 10:21:22 +00001003 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001004
1005- Server IP address:
1006 CONFIG_SERVERIP
1007
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001008 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001009 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
Wolfgang Denk26da2992011-10-26 10:21:22 +00001010 (Environment variable "serverip")
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001011
Wolfgang Denk26da2992011-10-26 10:21:22 +00001012- Gateway IP address:
1013 CONFIG_GATEWAYIP
1014
1015 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1016 default router where packets to other networks are
1017 sent to.
1018 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1019
1020- Subnet mask:
1021 CONFIG_NETMASK
1022
1023 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1024 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1025 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1026 forwarded through a router.
1027 (Environment variable "netmask")
1028
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001029- BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1030 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1031
1032 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1033 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1034 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1035 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1036 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1037 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1038 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1039 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
Wolfgang Denkb65aaf92007-08-06 23:21:05 +02001040 following delays are inserted then:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001041
1042 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1043 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1044 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1045 4th and following
1046 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1047
Thierry Reding8977cda2014-08-19 10:21:24 +02001048 CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE
1049
1050 BOOTP packets are uniquely identified using a 32-bit ID. The
1051 server will copy the ID from client requests to responses and
1052 U-Boot will use this to determine if it is the destination of
1053 an incoming response. Some servers will check that addresses
1054 aren't in use before handing them out (usually using an ARP
1055 ping) and therefore take up to a few hundred milliseconds to
1056 respond. Network congestion may also influence the time it
1057 takes for a response to make it back to the client. If that
1058 time is too long, U-Boot will retransmit requests. In order
1059 to allow earlier responses to still be accepted after these
1060 retransmissions, U-Boot's BOOTP client keeps a small cache of
1061 IDs. The CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE controls the size of this
1062 cache. The default is to keep IDs for up to four outstanding
1063 requests. Increasing this will allow U-Boot to accept offers
1064 from a BOOTP client in networks with unusually high latency.
1065
stroesee0aadfb2003-08-28 14:17:32 +00001066- DHCP Advanced Options:
Joe Hershberger8ca7fa02012-05-23 07:59:19 +00001067
Joe Hershbergerb35a3a62012-05-23 08:00:12 +00001068 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1069 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1070 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1071 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1072 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1073
1074 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1075
Prabhakar Kushwaha2dec06f2017-11-23 16:51:32 +05301076 - MAC address from environment variables
1077
1078 FDT_SEQ_MACADDR_FROM_ENV
1079
1080 Fix-up device tree with MAC addresses fetched sequentially from
1081 environment variables. This config work on assumption that
1082 non-usable ethernet node of device-tree are either not present
1083 or their status has been marked as "disabled".
1084
wdenk145d2c12004-04-15 21:48:45 +00001085 - CDP Options:
wdenk05939202004-04-18 17:39:38 +00001086 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
wdenk145d2c12004-04-15 21:48:45 +00001087
1088 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1089
1090 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1091
1092 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1093 of the device.
1094
1095 CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID
1096
1097 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1098 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001099 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
wdenk145d2c12004-04-15 21:48:45 +00001100
1101 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1102
1103 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1104 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1105
1106 CONFIG_CDP_VERSION
1107
1108 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1109
1110 CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM
1111
1112 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1113
1114 CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER
1115
1116 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1117
1118 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1119
1120 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1121 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1122
1123 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1124
1125 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1126
Uri Mashiach3dc6f652017-01-19 10:51:05 +02001127- Status LED: CONFIG_LED_STATUS
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001128
1129 Several configurations allow to display the current
1130 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1131 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1132 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1133 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1134 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
Uri Mashiach3dc6f652017-01-19 10:51:05 +02001135 kernel). Defining CONFIG_LED_STATUS enables this
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001136 feature in U-Boot.
1137
Igor Grinberg4997a9e2013-11-08 01:03:50 +02001138 Additional options:
1139
Uri Mashiach3dc6f652017-01-19 10:51:05 +02001140 CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
Igor Grinberg4997a9e2013-11-08 01:03:50 +02001141 The status LED can be connected to a GPIO pin.
1142 In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
Uri Mashiach3dc6f652017-01-19 10:51:05 +02001143 status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
Igor Grinberg4997a9e2013-11-08 01:03:50 +02001144 to include the gpio_led driver in the U-Boot binary.
1145
Igor Grinberg203bd9f2013-11-08 01:03:52 +02001146 CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE
1147 Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
1148 case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
1149 GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
1150 In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
1151 with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
1152
Tom Rini52b2e262021-08-18 23:12:24 -04001153- I2C Support:
Heiko Schochere0e55bc2012-01-16 21:12:24 +00001154 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
Simon Glassb05e2b32016-10-02 18:01:05 -06001155 Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use.
Heiko Schochere0e55bc2012-01-16 21:12:24 +00001156
1157 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
1158 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
1159 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
1160 omit this define.
1161
1162 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
1163 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
1164 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
1165 define.
1166
1167 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -08001168 hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
Heiko Schochere0e55bc2012-01-16 21:12:24 +00001169 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
1170 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
1171 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
1172
1173 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1174 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
1175 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
1176 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
1177 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
1178 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
1179 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1180 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
1181 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
1182 }
1183
1184 which defines
1185 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
Heiko Schocher479a4cf2013-01-29 08:53:15 +01001186 bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
1187 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
1188 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
1189 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
1190 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
Heiko Schochere0e55bc2012-01-16 21:12:24 +00001191 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
Heiko Schocher479a4cf2013-01-29 08:53:15 +01001192 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
1193 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
Heiko Schochere0e55bc2012-01-16 21:12:24 +00001194
1195 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
1196
Simon Glass3efce392017-05-12 21:10:00 -06001197- Legacy I2C Support:
Heiko Schocher479a4cf2013-01-29 08:53:15 +01001198 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001199 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1200 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001201
1202 I2C_INIT
1203
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001204 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001205 controller or configure ports.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001206
wdenk544e9732004-02-06 23:19:44 +00001207 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001208
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001209 I2C_ACTIVE
1210
1211 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1212 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1213 define can be null.
1214
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001215 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1216
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001217 I2C_TRISTATE
1218
1219 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1220 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1221 define can be null.
1222
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001223 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1224
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001225 I2C_READ
1226
York Sun4a598092013-04-01 11:29:11 -07001227 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
1228 false if it is low.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001229
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001230 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1231
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001232 I2C_SDA(bit)
1233
York Sun4a598092013-04-01 11:29:11 -07001234 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1235 is false, it clears it (low).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001236
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001237 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
wdenk2bb11052003-07-17 23:16:40 +00001238 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
wdenk544e9732004-02-06 23:19:44 +00001239 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001240
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001241 I2C_SCL(bit)
1242
York Sun4a598092013-04-01 11:29:11 -07001243 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1244 is false, it clears it (low).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001245
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001246 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
wdenk2bb11052003-07-17 23:16:40 +00001247 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
wdenk544e9732004-02-06 23:19:44 +00001248 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001249
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001250 I2C_DELAY
1251
1252 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1253 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001254 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
wdenk21136db2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001255 like:
1256
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001257 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001258
Mike Frysingeree12d542010-07-21 13:38:02 -04001259 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1260
1261 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1262 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1263 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1264 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1265
1266 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1267 the generic GPIO functions.
1268
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001269 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
wdenkcc1e2562003-03-06 13:39:27 +00001270
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001271 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1272 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1273 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1274 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1275 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1276 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1277 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1278 is run early in the boot sequence.
wdenkcc1e2562003-03-06 13:39:27 +00001279
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001280 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1281
1282 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
Wolfgang Denk092ae952011-10-26 10:21:21 +00001283 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1284 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001285 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1286
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001287 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001288
1289 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
Wolfgang Denk092ae952011-10-26 10:21:21 +00001290 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
Peter Tyser469cde42009-04-18 22:34:03 -05001291 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1292 a 1D array of device addresses
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001293
1294 e.g.
1295 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
Wolfgang Denk092ae952011-10-26 10:21:21 +00001296 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001297
1298 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1299
Wolfgang Denk092ae952011-10-26 10:21:21 +00001300 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
Simon Glassb05e2b32016-10-02 18:01:05 -06001301 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001302
1303 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1304
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001305 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
Stefan Roese096cc9b2007-02-20 10:51:26 +01001306
1307 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1308 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1309
Andrew Dyer58c41f92008-12-29 17:36:01 -06001310 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1311
1312 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1313 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1314 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1315 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1316 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1317 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1318 the other.
Timur Tabiab347542006-11-03 19:15:00 -06001319
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001320- SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
1321
1322 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1323 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1324 D/As on the SACSng board)
1325
Heiko Schocherb77c8882014-07-14 10:22:11 +02001326 CONFIG_SYS_SPI_MXC_WAIT
1327 Timeout for waiting until spi transfer completed.
1328 default: (CONFIG_SYS_HZ/100) /* 10 ms */
1329
Matthias Fuchsa4400872007-12-27 17:12:34 +01001330- FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001331
Matthias Fuchsa4400872007-12-27 17:12:34 +01001332 Enables FPGA subsystem.
1333
1334 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
1335
1336 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
1337 (ALTERA, XILINX)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001338
Matthias Fuchsa4400872007-12-27 17:12:34 +01001339 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001340
Matthias Fuchsa4400872007-12-27 17:12:34 +01001341 Enables support for FPGA family.
1342 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
1343
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001344 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001345
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001346 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001347
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001348 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001349
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001350 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
1351 status by the configuration function. This option
1352 will require a board or device specific function to
1353 be written.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001354
1355 CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY
1356
1357 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
1358 configuration driver.
1359
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001360 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001361 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
1362
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001363 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001364
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001365 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
1366 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
1367 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
1368 indicated a CRC error).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001369
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001370 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001371
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -08001372 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to de-assert
1373 after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001374 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001375 ms.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001376
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001377 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001378
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -08001379 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001380 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001381
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001382 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001383
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001384 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001385 200 ms.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001386
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001387- Vendor Parameter Protection:
1388
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001389 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
1390 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
wdenkeb20ad32003-09-05 23:19:14 +00001391 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001392 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
1393 protects these variables from casual modification by
1394 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
1395 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001396 change this behaviour:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001397
1398 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
1399 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
wdenkcc1e2562003-03-06 13:39:27 +00001400 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001401 these parameters.
1402
Joe Hershberger76f353e2015-05-04 14:55:14 -05001403 Alternatively, if you define _both_ an ethaddr in the
1404 default env _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001405 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001406 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
1407 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
1408 read-only.]
1409
Joe Hershberger71497d02012-12-11 22:16:31 -06001410 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
1411 for any variable by configuring the type of access
1412 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
1413 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
1414
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001415- Protected RAM:
1416 CONFIG_PRAM
1417
1418 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
1419 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
1420 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
1421 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
1422 this default value by defining an environment
1423 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
1424 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
1425 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
1426 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
1427 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
1428 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
1429 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
1430
Wolfgang Denk86eb3b72005-11-20 21:40:11 +01001431 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001432 saveenv
1433
1434 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
1435 either, which results in a memory region that will
1436 not be affected by reboots.
1437
1438 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
1439 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
1440 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
1441 following board configurations are known to be
1442 "pRAM-clean":
1443
Heiko Schocher65d94db2017-06-07 17:33:09 +02001444 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx,
Wolfgang Denk90326762012-10-24 02:36:15 +00001445 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
Heiko Schocher71cb3e92017-06-07 17:33:10 +02001446 FLAGADM
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001447
1448- Error Recovery:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001449 Note:
1450
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001451 In the current implementation, the local variables
1452 space and global environment variables space are
1453 separated. Local variables are those you define by
1454 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
1455 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
1456 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
1457 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001458
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001459 Global environment variables are those you use
1460 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
1461 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
1462 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001463
1464 To store commands and special characters in a
1465 variable, please use double quotation marks
1466 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
1467 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
1468 symbols.
1469
wdenkc0aa5c52003-12-06 19:49:23 +00001470- Default Environment:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001471 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
1472
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001473 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
1474 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
wdenkeb20ad32003-09-05 23:19:14 +00001475 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
wdenk591dda52002-11-18 00:14:45 +00001476
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001477 For example, place something like this in your
1478 board's config file:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001479
1480 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
1481 "myvar1=value1\0" \
1482 "myvar2=value2\0"
1483
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001484 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
1485 internal format how the environment is stored by the
1486 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
1487 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
wdenkeb20ad32003-09-05 23:19:14 +00001488 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001489 You better know what you are doing here.
1490
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001491 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
1492 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
Wolfgang Denk85c25df2009-04-01 23:34:12 +02001493 the environment like the "source" command or the
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001494 boot command first.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001495
Simon Glass6b8d5fd2012-11-30 13:01:17 +00001496 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
1497
1498 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -08001499 initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
Simon Glass6b8d5fd2012-11-30 13:01:17 +00001500 that so that the environment is not available until
1501 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
1502 this is instead controlled by the value of
1503 /config/load-environment.
1504
Wolfgang Denkd590fb12011-10-07 09:58:21 +02001505 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
1506
Wolfgang Denk23f78482011-10-09 21:06:34 +02001507 This option defines a board specific value for the
1508 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
1509 overwriting the architecture dependent default
Wolfgang Denkd590fb12011-10-07 09:58:21 +02001510 settings.
1511
Detlev Zundel0ecb6112009-12-01 17:16:19 +01001512- Automatic software updates via TFTP server
1513 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP
1514 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
1515 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
1516
1517 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
1518 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
1519
1520- MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
Heiko Schocherf5895d12014-06-24 10:10:04 +02001521 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
1522 This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
1523 erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
1524 of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
1525 wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
1526 counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
1527
1528 The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
1529 other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
1530 However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
1531 life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
1532 to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
1533
1534 default: 4096
Simon Glass6c0be912014-10-23 18:58:54 -06001535
Heiko Schocherf5895d12014-06-24 10:10:04 +02001536 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
1537 This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
1538 expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the
1539 underlying flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR
1540 flash), this value is ignored.
1541
1542 NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM
1543 (Number of Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime.
1544 The maximum expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks
1545 then can be calculated as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)",
1546 which gives 20 for most NANDs (MaxNVB is basically the total
1547 count of eraseblocks on the chip).
1548
1549 To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to
1550 reserve about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
1551 handling. And that will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire
1552 NAND chip, not just the MTD partition UBI attaches. This means
1553 that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip admits maximum 40 bad
1554 eraseblocks, and it is split on two MTD partitions of the same
1555 size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when attaching a
1556 partition.
1557
1558 default: 20
1559
1560 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
1561 Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
1562 in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
1563 only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
1564 The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
1565 the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
1566 attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
1567 a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI parameter
1568 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT to 1 if you want so. Please note
1569 that fastmap-enabled images are still usable with UBI implementations
1570 without fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap
1571 fits into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
1572
1573 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT
1574 Set this parameter to enable fastmap automatically on images
1575 without a fastmap.
1576 default: 0
1577
Heiko Schocher94b66de2015-10-22 06:19:21 +02001578 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FM_DEBUG
1579 Enable UBI fastmap debug
1580 default: 0
1581
Daniel Schwierzeck39ca08e2011-07-18 07:48:07 +00001582- SPL framework
Wolfgang Denk825223d2011-09-11 21:24:09 +02001583 CONFIG_SPL
1584 Enable building of SPL globally.
Daniel Schwierzeck39ca08e2011-07-18 07:48:07 +00001585
Albert ARIBAUD \(3ADEV\)287b0942015-03-31 11:40:50 +02001586 CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
1587 When defined, SPL will panic() if the image it has
1588 loaded does not have a signature.
1589 Defining this is useful when code which loads images
1590 in SPL cannot guarantee that absolutely all read errors
1591 will be caught.
1592 An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which will
1593 consider that a completely unreadable NAND block is bad,
1594 and thus should be skipped silently.
1595
Tom Rinife3b0c72012-08-13 11:37:56 -07001596 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
1597 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
1598 about the running system.
1599
Scott Wood2b36fbb2012-12-06 13:33:17 +00001600 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
1601 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
1602 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
1603 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
1604 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
1605
Thomas Gleixner820d24d2016-07-12 20:28:12 +02001606 CONFIG_SPL_UBI
1607 Support for a lightweight UBI (fastmap) scanner and
1608 loader
1609
Tom Rini36853852012-02-14 07:29:40 +00001610 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
1611 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
1612 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
1613 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
1614 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
1615 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
Scott Wood36c440e2012-09-21 18:35:27 -05001616 to read U-Boot
Tom Rini36853852012-02-14 07:29:40 +00001617
Scott Wood36c440e2012-09-21 18:35:27 -05001618 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
1619 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
1620
1621 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
1622 Size of image to load
Tom Rini36853852012-02-14 07:29:40 +00001623
1624 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
Scott Wood36c440e2012-09-21 18:35:27 -05001625 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
Tom Rini36853852012-02-14 07:29:40 +00001626
1627 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
1628 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -08001629 data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
Tom Rini36853852012-02-14 07:29:40 +00001630
Pavel Machekde997252012-08-30 22:42:11 +02001631 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
1632 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
1633
Marek Vasut9f2e0eb2018-05-13 00:22:52 +02001634 CONFIG_SPL_FIT_PRINT
Simon Glass82d94532013-05-08 08:05:59 +00001635 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
1636 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
1637 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
1638 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
1639
wdenkc0aa5c52003-12-06 19:49:23 +00001640- Interrupt support (PPC):
1641
wdenk1ebf41e2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00001642 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
1643 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001644 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
wdenk1ebf41e2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00001645 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001646 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
wdenk1ebf41e2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00001647 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001648 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
wdenk1ebf41e2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00001649 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
1650 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
1651 general timer_interrupt().
wdenkc0aa5c52003-12-06 19:49:23 +00001652
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001653
Helmut Raigerd5a184b2011-10-20 04:19:47 +00001654Board initialization settings:
1655------------------------------
1656
1657During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
1658to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
1659before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
1660following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
1661architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
1662typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
1663
1664- CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
1665- CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
1666- CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001667
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001668Configuration Settings:
1669-----------------------
1670
Simon Glass8927bf22019-12-28 10:45:10 -07001671- MEM_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit.
York Sun6c480012014-02-26 17:03:19 -08001672 Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.
1673
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001674- CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001675 undefine this when you're short of memory.
1676
Peter Tyserdfb72b82009-01-27 18:03:12 -06001677- CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
1678 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
1679
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001680- CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001681 prompt for user input.
1682
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001683- CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001684 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
1685
York Sun5d286cd2015-12-04 11:57:07 -08001686- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE
York Sun1ef95cc2016-06-24 16:46:18 -07001687 Only implemented for ARMv8 for now.
York Sun5d286cd2015-12-04 11:57:07 -08001688 If defined, the size of CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE memory
1689 is substracted from total RAM and won't be reported to OS.
1690 This memory can be used as secure memory. A variable
York Sun1ef95cc2016-06-24 16:46:18 -07001691 gd->arch.secure_ram is used to track the location. In systems
York Sun5d286cd2015-12-04 11:57:07 -08001692 the RAM base is not zero, or RAM is divided into banks,
1693 this variable needs to be recalcuated to get the address.
1694
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001695- CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001696 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
1697
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001698- CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001699 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
1700
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001701- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001702 Physical start address of Flash memory.
1703
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001704- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001705 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
1706 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
1707 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
1708 flash sector.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001709
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001710- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001711 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
1712
Simon Glass863e4042014-07-10 22:23:28 -06001713- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
1714 Size of the malloc() pool for use before relocation. If
1715 this is defined, then a very simple malloc() implementation
1716 will become available before relocation. The address is just
1717 below the global data, and the stack is moved down to make
1718 space.
1719
1720 This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
1721 within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
1722 is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -08001723 The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
Simon Glass863e4042014-07-10 22:23:28 -06001724 U-Boot relocates itself.
1725
Simon Glass9fa901b2014-11-10 17:16:54 -07001726- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
1727 Provides a simple and small malloc() and calloc() for those
1728 boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is
Tom Rini166e3222022-05-27 12:48:32 -04001729 enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC).
Simon Glass9fa901b2014-11-10 17:16:54 -07001730
Thierry Redingc97d9742014-12-09 22:25:22 -07001731- CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY:
1732 Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be
1733 typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped
1734 uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would
1735 otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For
1736 some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the
1737 cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed
1738 are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding
1739 cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e.
1740 if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the
1741 size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of
1742 one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has
1743 written to another region in the same cache-line. This can
1744 happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for
1745 buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g.
1746 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).
1747
1748 Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
1749
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001750- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
Stefan Roese5d5ce292006-03-13 11:16:36 +01001751 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
1752 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001753 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
Stefan Roese5d5ce292006-03-13 11:16:36 +01001754 to adjust this setting to your needs.
1755
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001756- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001757 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
1758 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
Bartlomiej Siekac5648c82008-04-14 15:44:16 +02001759 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
1760 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
Robert P. J. Day832d36e2013-09-16 07:15:45 -04001761 environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
Bartlomiej Siekac5648c82008-04-14 15:44:16 +02001762 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
Wolfgang Denk092ae952011-10-26 10:21:21 +00001763 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
Grant Likely26396382011-03-28 09:58:43 +00001764 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
1765 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
1766 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001767
John Rigbyeea8e692010-10-13 13:57:35 -06001768- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
1769 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
1770 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
1771 is enabled.
1772
1773- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
1774 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
1775 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
1776
1777- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
1778 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
1779 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
1780
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001781- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001782 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
1783
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001784- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001785 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
1786
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001787- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001788 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
1789
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001790- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
wdenkdccbda02003-07-14 22:13:32 +00001791 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
1792
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001793- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
wdenkdccbda02003-07-14 22:13:32 +00001794 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
1795
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001796- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
wdenkdccbda02003-07-14 22:13:32 +00001797 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
1798 instead of U-Boot software protection.
1799
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001800- CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001801
1802 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
1803 without this option such a download has to be
1804 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
1805 copy from RAM to flash.
1806
1807 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
1808 you can check if the download worked before you erase
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001809 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
1810 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001811 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
1812
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001813- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001814 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
wdenk2cefd152004-02-08 22:55:38 +00001815 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
1816
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD8d94c232008-08-13 01:40:42 +02001817- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
wdenk2cefd152004-02-08 22:55:38 +00001818 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
1819 in the drivers directory
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001820
Piotr Ziecik3e939e92008-11-17 15:57:58 +01001821- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
1822 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
1823 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
1824 to the MTD layer.
1825
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001826- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
Guennadi Liakhovetski183284f2008-04-03 13:36:02 +02001827 Use buffered writes to flash.
1828
1829- CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
1830 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
1831 write commands.
1832
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001833- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
Stefan Roesec443fe92005-11-22 13:20:42 +01001834 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
1835 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
1836 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
1837 optionally available.
1838
Jerry Van Barenaae73572008-03-08 13:48:01 -05001839- CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
1840 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
1841 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
1842 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
1843
Stefan Roesed20cba52013-04-04 15:53:14 +02001844- CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY
1845 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
1846 against the source after the write operation. An error message
1847 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
1848 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
1849 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
1850 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
1851 this option if you really know what you are doing.
1852
Joe Hershberger71497d02012-12-11 22:16:31 -06001853- CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
1854- CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
Robert P. J. Day832d36e2013-09-16 07:15:45 -04001855 Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when
Joe Hershberger71497d02012-12-11 22:16:31 -06001856 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
1857 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
1858 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
1859
1860 The format of the list is:
1861 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -08001862 access_attribute = [a|r|o|c]
1863 attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute]
Joe Hershberger71497d02012-12-11 22:16:31 -06001864 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
1865 list = entry[,list]
1866
1867 The type attributes are:
1868 s - String (default)
1869 d - Decimal
1870 x - Hexadecimal
1871 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
1872 i - IP address
1873 m - MAC address
1874
Joe Hershberger6fe26c92012-12-11 22:16:34 -06001875 The access attributes are:
1876 a - Any (default)
1877 r - Read-only
1878 o - Write-once
1879 c - Change-default
1880
Joe Hershberger71497d02012-12-11 22:16:31 -06001881 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
1882 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -08001883 environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
Joe Hershberger71497d02012-12-11 22:16:31 -06001884
1885 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
1886 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
1887 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
1888 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
1889 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
1890 ".flags" variable.
1891
Joe Hershberger6db9fd42015-05-20 14:27:20 -05001892 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
1893 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to define the same
1894 flags without explicitly listing them for each variable.
1895
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001896The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
1897of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
1898following configurations:
1899
Mike Frysinger63b8f122011-07-08 10:44:25 +00001900- CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
1901
1902 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
1903 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
1904
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001905BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -08001906in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001907console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001908U-Boot will hang.
1909
1910Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
1911environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
1912keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
1913to save the current settings.
1914
Liu Gang85bcd732012-03-08 00:33:20 +00001915BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
1916"saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
Liu Gang357bf5a2012-08-09 05:10:01 +00001917environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
1918but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
Liu Gang85bcd732012-03-08 00:33:20 +00001919
Guennadi Liakhovetskifad24442009-05-18 16:07:22 +02001920- CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
1921
1922 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
1923 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
1924 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
1925
Bruce Adleredecc942007-11-02 13:15:42 -07001926Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001927has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
Simon Glass64b723f2017-08-03 12:22:12 -06001928created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use env_get_f()
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001929until then to read environment variables.
1930
wdenk8dba0502003-03-31 16:34:49 +00001931The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
1932is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
1933with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
1934necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
1935"baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
1936have any device yet where we could complain.]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001937
1938Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
1939the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
wdenk8dba0502003-03-31 16:34:49 +00001940use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001941
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001942- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
wdenk9c53f402003-10-15 23:53:47 +00001943 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001944
Ron Madriddfa028a2009-02-18 14:30:44 -08001945- CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
1946 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
1947 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
1948 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
1949 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
1950 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
1951
Simon Glass28a9e332012-11-30 13:01:18 +00001952- CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
1953 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
1954 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
1955 to do this.
1956
Simon Glasse8822012012-11-30 13:01:19 +00001957- CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
1958 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
1959 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
1960 present.
1961
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001962Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
wdenkc8434db2003-03-26 06:55:25 +00001963---------------------------------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001964
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001965- CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001966 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
1967
Timur Tabid8f341c2011-08-04 18:03:41 -05001968- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
1969 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
1970 PowerPC SOCs.
1971
1972- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
1973 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
1974 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
1975
Timur Tabid8f341c2011-08-04 18:03:41 -05001976- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
1977 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
1978 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
Wolfgang Denk092ae952011-10-26 10:21:21 +00001979 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
Timur Tabid8f341c2011-08-04 18:03:41 -05001980 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
1981 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
1982 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
1983
1984 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
1985 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
1986
1987- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
Wolfgang Denkd590fb12011-10-07 09:58:21 +02001988 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
1989 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
Timur Tabid8f341c2011-08-04 18:03:41 -05001990 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
1991 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
1992
1993- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
1994 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
1995 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
1996 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
1997
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001998- CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
wdenk07d7e6b2004-12-16 21:44:03 +00001999 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
Christophe Leroy069fa832017-07-06 10:23:22 +02002000 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx systems only]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002001
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002002- CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002003
wdenkeb20ad32003-09-05 23:19:14 +00002004 Start address of memory area that can be used for
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002005 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
2006 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
2007 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
2008 will become available only after programming the
2009 memory controller and running certain initialization
2010 sequences.
2011
2012 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
Christophe Leroy069fa832017-07-06 10:23:22 +02002013 - MPC8xx: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002014
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002015- CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002016
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002017- CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002018 SDRAM timing
2019
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002020- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002021 periodic timer for refresh
2022
Kumar Gala8975d7a2010-12-30 12:09:53 -06002023- CONFIG_SYS_SRIO:
2024 Chip has SRIO or not
2025
2026- CONFIG_SRIO1:
2027 Board has SRIO 1 port available
2028
2029- CONFIG_SRIO2:
2030 Board has SRIO 2 port available
2031
Liu Gang27afb9c2013-05-07 16:30:46 +08002032- CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
2033 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
2034
Kumar Gala8975d7a2010-12-30 12:09:53 -06002035- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
2036 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2037
Simon Glass970b61e2019-11-14 12:57:09 -07002038- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYxS:
Kumar Gala8975d7a2010-12-30 12:09:53 -06002039 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2040
2041- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
2042 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2043
Fabio Estevamf17e8782013-04-11 09:35:34 +00002044- CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
2045 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
2046 a 16 bit bus.
2047 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
Fabio Estevam417052b2013-04-11 09:35:35 +00002048 Example of drivers that use it:
Miquel Raynal1f1ae152018-08-16 17:30:07 +02002049 - drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ndfc.c
2050 - drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c
Alex Watermancd6aae32011-05-19 15:08:36 -04002051
2052- CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
2053 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
2054 a default value will be used.
2055
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04002056- CONFIG_SPD_EEPROM
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002057 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
2058 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
2059
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04002060 SPD_EEPROM_ADDRESS
2061 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
2062
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002063- CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002064 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
2065 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
2066 to something your driver can deal with.
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04002067
York Sunbd495cf2011-09-16 13:21:35 -07002068- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
2069 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
2070
York Sun8ced0502015-01-06 13:18:55 -08002071- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_SYNC_REFRESH
2072 Enable sync of refresh for multiple controllers.
2073
York Sunb6a35f82015-03-19 09:30:28 -07002074- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_BIST
2075 Enable built-in memory test for Freescale DDR controllers.
2076
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002077- CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002078 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
2079 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
Timur Tabi054838e2006-10-31 18:44:42 -06002080
wdenk6203e402004-04-18 10:13:26 +00002081- CONFIG_RMII
2082 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
2083 Note that this is a global option, we can't
2084 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
2085
wdenk20c98a62004-04-23 20:32:05 +00002086- CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
2087 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
2088 The syntax is:
2089
2090 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
2091
2092 Where address/count indicate a memory area
2093 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
2094 area should have.
2095
wdenk64519362004-07-11 17:40:54 +00002096- CONFIG_LOOPW
2097 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
Simon Glass92ffdee2017-08-04 16:34:27 -06002098 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
wdenk64519362004-07-11 17:40:54 +00002099
Joel Johnsondb5a97e2020-01-29 09:17:18 -07002100- CONFIG_CMD_MX_CYCLIC
stroesecc3af832004-12-16 18:46:55 +00002101 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
2102 "md/mw" commands.
2103 Examples:
2104
wdenk07d7e6b2004-12-16 21:44:03 +00002105 => mdc.b 10 4 500
stroesecc3af832004-12-16 18:46:55 +00002106 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
2107
wdenk07d7e6b2004-12-16 21:44:03 +00002108 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
stroesecc3af832004-12-16 18:46:55 +00002109 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
2110
wdenk07d7e6b2004-12-16 21:44:03 +00002111 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
Simon Glass92ffdee2017-08-04 16:34:27 -06002112 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
stroesecc3af832004-12-16 18:46:55 +00002113
Aneesh V552a3192011-07-13 05:11:07 +00002114- CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
Thomas Hebbfd37f242019-11-13 18:18:03 -08002115 Set when the currently-running compilation is for an artifact
2116 that will end up in the SPL (as opposed to the TPL or U-Boot
2117 proper). Code that needs stage-specific behavior should check
2118 this.
wdenk336b2bc2005-04-02 23:52:25 +00002119
Ying Zhang2d2e3b62013-08-16 15:16:15 +08002120- CONFIG_TPL_BUILD
Thomas Hebbfd37f242019-11-13 18:18:03 -08002121 Set when the currently-running compilation is for an artifact
2122 that will end up in the TPL (as opposed to the SPL or U-Boot
2123 proper). Code that needs stage-specific behavior should check
2124 this.
Ying Zhang2d2e3b62013-08-16 15:16:15 +08002125
Simon Glass17dabf02013-02-24 17:33:14 +00002126- CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
2127 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
2128 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
2129 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
2130 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
2131 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
2132 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
2133 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
2134
Simon Glassbfb59802013-02-14 04:18:54 +00002135- CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
2136 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
2137 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
Gabe Black14f82462012-11-27 21:08:06 +00002138
Karicheri, Muralidharanc1dc61b2014-04-04 13:16:50 -04002139- CONFIG_SYS_NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE
2140 Option to disable subpage write in NAND driver
2141 driver that uses this:
Miquel Raynal1f1ae152018-08-16 17:30:07 +02002142 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c
Karicheri, Muralidharanc1dc61b2014-04-04 13:16:50 -04002143
Timur Tabi275f4bb2011-11-22 09:21:25 -06002144Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
2145-----------------------------------
2146
2147The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
2148loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
2149This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
2150are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
2151within that device.
2152
Zhao Qiang83a90842014-03-21 16:21:44 +08002153- CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR
2154 The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The
Tom Rinifa911f82019-05-12 07:59:12 -04002155 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_xxx macro
Zhao Qiang83a90842014-03-21 16:21:44 +08002156 is also specified.
2157
2158- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR
2159 The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The
Tom Rinifa911f82019-05-12 07:59:12 -04002160 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_xxx macro
Timur Tabi275f4bb2011-11-22 09:21:25 -06002161 is also specified.
2162
2163- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
2164 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
2165 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
2166 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
2167 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
2168
2169- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
2170 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
2171 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
2172 virtual address in NOR flash.
2173
2174- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
2175 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
2176 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
2177
2178- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
2179 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
2180 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
2181
Liu Gang1e084582012-03-08 00:33:18 +00002182- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
2183 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
2184 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
Liu Gang357bf5a2012-08-09 05:10:01 +00002185 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
2186 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
2187 master's memory space.
Timur Tabi275f4bb2011-11-22 09:21:25 -06002188
J. German Rivera8ff14b72014-06-23 15:15:55 -07002189Freescale Layerscape Management Complex Firmware Support:
2190---------------------------------------------------------
2191The Freescale Layerscape Management Complex (MC) supports the loading of
2192"firmware".
2193This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
2194are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
2195within that device.
2196
2197- CONFIG_FSL_MC_ENET
2198 Enable the MC driver for Layerscape SoCs.
2199
Prabhakar Kushwaha853a9012015-06-02 10:55:52 +05302200Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support:
2201-------------------------------------------
2202The Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support supports the loading of
2203"Debug Server firmware" and triggering SP boot-rom.
2204This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting.
2205
York Sun928b6812015-12-07 11:08:58 -08002206- CONFIG_SYS_MC_RSV_MEM_ALIGN
2207 Define alignment of reserved memory MC requires
Prabhakar Kushwaha853a9012015-06-02 10:55:52 +05302208
Paul Kocialkowski7b917022015-07-26 18:48:15 +02002209Reproducible builds
2210-------------------
2211
2212In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
2213process have to be set to a fixed value.
2214
2215This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
2216SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is to be set on the build host's shell, not as a configuration
2217option for U-Boot or an environment variable in U-Boot.
2218
2219SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should be set to a number of seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
2220
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002221Building the Software:
2222======================
2223
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002224Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
2225and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
2226all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
2227(potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
Naoki Hayamae0cc1852020-10-08 13:17:16 +09002228recommend to use the ELDK (see https://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002229which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002230
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002231If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
2232have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
2233you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
2234Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
2235necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002236
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002237 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
2238 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002239
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002240U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
2241sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002242is done by typing:
2243
Holger Freyther7ba4e572014-08-04 09:26:05 +02002244 make NAME_defconfig
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002245
Holger Freyther7ba4e572014-08-04 09:26:05 +02002246where "NAME_defconfig" is the name of one of the existing configu-
Heinrich Schuchardtd6e07af2020-02-24 18:36:30 +01002247rations; see configs/*_defconfig for supported names.
wdenk2f0812d2003-10-08 22:45:44 +00002248
Heinrich Schuchardtd6e07af2020-02-24 18:36:30 +01002249Note: for some boards special configuration names may exist; check if
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002250 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
2251 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
2252 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002253 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002254
Holger Freyther7ba4e572014-08-04 09:26:05 +02002255 make TQM823L_defconfig
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002256 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002257
Holger Freyther7ba4e572014-08-04 09:26:05 +02002258 make TQM823L_LCD_defconfig
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002259 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002260
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002261 etc.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002262
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002263
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002264Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
2265images ready for download to / installation on your system:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002266
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002267- "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
2268- "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
2269- "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002270
Marian Balakowiczefe063f2006-09-07 17:25:40 +02002271By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
2272in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
2273this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
2274
22751. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
2276
2277 make O=/tmp/build distclean
Holger Freyther7ba4e572014-08-04 09:26:05 +02002278 make O=/tmp/build NAME_defconfig
Marian Balakowiczefe063f2006-09-07 17:25:40 +02002279 make O=/tmp/build all
2280
Timo Ketolac8c67602014-11-06 14:39:05 +020022812. Set environment variable KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the desired location:
Marian Balakowiczefe063f2006-09-07 17:25:40 +02002282
Timo Ketolac8c67602014-11-06 14:39:05 +02002283 export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/build
Marian Balakowiczefe063f2006-09-07 17:25:40 +02002284 make distclean
Holger Freyther7ba4e572014-08-04 09:26:05 +02002285 make NAME_defconfig
Marian Balakowiczefe063f2006-09-07 17:25:40 +02002286 make all
2287
Timo Ketolac8c67602014-11-06 14:39:05 +02002288Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
Marian Balakowiczefe063f2006-09-07 17:25:40 +02002289variable.
2290
Daniel Schwierzeck88484422018-01-26 16:31:04 +01002291User specific CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS can be passed to the compiler by
2292setting the according environment variables KCPPFLAGS, KAFLAGS and KCFLAGS.
2293For example to treat all compiler warnings as errors:
2294
2295 make KCFLAGS=-Werror
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002296
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002297Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
2298for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
2299native "make".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002300
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002301
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002302If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
2303to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
2304steps:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002305
Phil Sutterc77b4882015-12-25 14:41:18 +010023061. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002307 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
Phil Sutterc77b4882015-12-25 14:41:18 +01002308 the "Makefile" and a "<board>.c".
23092. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
2310 your board.
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +000023113. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
2312 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
Holger Freyther7ba4e572014-08-04 09:26:05 +020023134. Run "make <board>_defconfig" with your new name.
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +000023145. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
2315 to be installed on your target system.
23166. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
2317 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002318
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002319
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002320Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
2321==============================================================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002322
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002323If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
2324or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002325provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
Thomas Hebbfd37f242019-11-13 18:18:03 -08002326the form of a "patch", i.e. a context diff against a certain (latest
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002327official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002328
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002329But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
2330cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002331the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
Simon Glassdc27def2016-07-27 20:33:08 -06002332just run the buildman script (tools/buildman/buildman), which will
2333configure and build U-Boot for ALL supported system. Be warned, this
2334will take a while. Please see the buildman README, or run 'buildman -H'
2335for documentation.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002336
Marian Balakowiczefe063f2006-09-07 17:25:40 +02002337
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002338See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002339
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002340
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002341Monitor Commands - Overview:
2342============================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002343
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002344go - start application at address 'addr'
2345run - run commands in an environment variable
2346bootm - boot application image from memory
2347bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
Marek Vasutcf41a9b2012-03-14 21:52:45 +00002348bootz - boot zImage from memory
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002349tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
2350 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
2351 (and eventually "gatewayip")
Simon Glass6a398d22011-10-24 18:00:07 +00002352tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002353rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
2354diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
2355loads - load S-Record file over serial line
2356loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
Rui Miguel Silva433f15a2022-05-11 10:55:40 +01002357loadm - load binary blob from source address to destination address
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002358md - memory display
2359mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
2360nm - memory modify (constant address)
2361mw - memory write (fill)
Simon Glass19038de2020-06-02 19:26:49 -06002362ms - memory search
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002363cp - memory copy
2364cmp - memory compare
2365crc32 - checksum calculation
Peter Tyser469cde42009-04-18 22:34:03 -05002366i2c - I2C sub-system
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002367sspi - SPI utility commands
2368base - print or set address offset
2369printenv- print environment variables
Pragnesh Patel1d5955f2020-12-22 11:30:05 +05302370pwm - control pwm channels
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002371setenv - set environment variables
2372saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
2373protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
2374erase - erase FLASH memory
2375flinfo - print FLASH memory information
Karl O. Pinc4baf03d2012-08-03 05:57:21 +00002376nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002377bdinfo - print Board Info structure
2378iminfo - print header information for application image
2379coninfo - print console devices and informations
2380ide - IDE sub-system
2381loop - infinite loop on address range
wdenk64519362004-07-11 17:40:54 +00002382loopw - infinite write loop on address range
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002383mtest - simple RAM test
2384icache - enable or disable instruction cache
2385dcache - enable or disable data cache
2386reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
2387echo - echo args to console
2388version - print monitor version
2389help - print online help
2390? - alias for 'help'
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002391
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002392
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002393Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
2394========================================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002395
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002396TODO.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002397
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002398For now: just type "help <command>".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002399
2400
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002401Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
2402=======================================
wdenkf4688a22003-05-28 08:06:31 +00002403
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002404Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002405such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
2406"working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
wdenkf4688a22003-05-28 08:06:31 +00002407
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002408Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
2409MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
2410"eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
wdenkf4688a22003-05-28 08:06:31 +00002411
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002412If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
2413in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
2414ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
2415variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
wdenkf4688a22003-05-28 08:06:31 +00002416
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002417o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
2418 environment, the SROM's address is used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002419
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002420o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
2421 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
2422 used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002423
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002424o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
2425 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002426
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002427o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
2428 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
2429 warning is printed.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002430
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002431o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
Joe Hershberger2dc2b5d2015-05-04 14:55:13 -05002432 is raised. If CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR is defined, then in this case
2433 a random, locally-assigned MAC is used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002434
Ben Warren6db991a2010-04-26 11:11:46 -07002435If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
Wolfgang Denk092ae952011-10-26 10:21:21 +00002436will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
Ben Warren6db991a2010-04-26 11:11:46 -07002437may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
2438The naming convention is as follows:
2439"ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002440
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002441Image Formats:
2442==============
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002443
Marian Balakowicz18710b82008-03-12 12:13:13 +01002444U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
2445images in two formats:
2446
2447New uImage format (FIT)
2448-----------------------
2449
2450Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
2451to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
2452components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
2453SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
2454
2455
2456Old uImage format
2457-----------------
2458
2459Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
2460preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
2461details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002462
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002463* Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
2464 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
Peter Tyser56b8dd12008-09-08 14:56:49 -05002465 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
Thomas Huthc90d56a2021-11-13 18:13:50 +01002466 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY).
Andy Shevchenko8cb5cdd2017-07-05 16:25:22 +03002467* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, Intel x86,
Tom Rini53320122022-04-06 09:21:25 -04002468 IA64, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
2469 Currently supported: ARM, Intel x86, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC).
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002470* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
2471* Load Address
2472* Entry Point
2473* Image Name
2474* Image Timestamp
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002475
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002476The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
2477and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
2478CRC32 checksums.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002479
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002480
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002481Linux Support:
2482==============
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002483
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002484Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
2485easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
2486U-Boot.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002487
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002488U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
2489special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
2490"initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
2491instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
2492serves several purposes:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002493
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002494- the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
2495 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
2496 Flash memory footprint)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002497
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002498- it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
2499 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002500
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002501- the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
2502 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
2503 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
2504 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
2505 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
2506 software is easier now.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002507
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002508
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002509Linux HOWTO:
2510============
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002511
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002512Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
2513---------------------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002514
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002515U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
2516configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
2517(no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
2518Linux :-).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002519
Stefan Roese88fbf932010-04-15 16:07:28 +02002520But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002521
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002522Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
2523include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
Markus Heidelberg47167572008-09-07 20:18:27 +02002524Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
2525and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002526as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002527
Simon Glassd097e592014-06-11 23:29:46 -06002528Note that U-Boot now has a driver model, a unified model for drivers.
2529If you are adding a new driver, plumb it into driver model. If there
2530is no uclass available, you are encouraged to create one. See
2531doc/driver-model.
2532
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002533
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002534Configuring the Linux kernel:
2535-----------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002536
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002537No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
2538device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002539
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002540
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002541Building a Linux Image:
2542-----------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002543
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002544With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
2545not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
2546"uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
2547U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
2548which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
2549100% compatible format.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002550
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002551Example:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002552
Holger Freyther7ba4e572014-08-04 09:26:05 +02002553 make TQM850L_defconfig
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002554 make oldconfig
2555 make dep
2556 make uImage
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002557
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002558The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
2559encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
2560CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002561
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002562* build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002563
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002564* convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002565
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002566 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
2567 -R .note -R .comment \
2568 -S vmlinux linux.bin
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00002569
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002570* compress the binary image:
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00002571
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002572 gzip -9 linux.bin
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00002573
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002574* package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00002575
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002576 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
2577 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
2578 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002579
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002580
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002581The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
2582with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
2583combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
2584byte header containing information about target architecture,
2585operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
2586stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002587
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002588"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
2589print the header information, or to build new images.
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00002590
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002591In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
2592contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
2593checksum verification:
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00002594
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002595 tools/mkimage -l image
2596 -l ==> list image header information
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00002597
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002598The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
2599from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00002600
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002601 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
2602 -n name -d data_file image
2603 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
2604 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
2605 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
2606 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
2607 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
2608 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
2609 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
2610 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00002611
wdenkcd914452004-05-29 16:53:29 +00002612Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
2613address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
2614kernel version:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002615
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002616- 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
2617- 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002618
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002619So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002620
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002621 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
2622 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
Stefan Roese88fbf932010-04-15 16:07:28 +02002623 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002624 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
2625 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
2626 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
2627 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2628 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
2629 Load Address: 0x00000000
2630 Entry Point: 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002631
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002632To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002633
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002634 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
2635 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
2636 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
2637 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2638 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
2639 Load Address: 0x00000000
2640 Entry Point: 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002641
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002642NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
2643speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
2644needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
2645need to be uncompressed:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002646
Stefan Roese88fbf932010-04-15 16:07:28 +02002647 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002648 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
2649 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
Stefan Roese88fbf932010-04-15 16:07:28 +02002650 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002651 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
2652 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
2653 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
2654 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
2655 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
2656 Load Address: 0x00000000
2657 Entry Point: 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002658
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002659
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002660Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
2661when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002662
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002663 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
2664 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
2665 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
2666 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
2667 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
2668 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
2669 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
2670 Load Address: 0x00000000
2671 Entry Point: 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002672
Tyler Hicks791c7472020-10-26 10:40:24 -05002673The "dumpimage" tool can be used to disassemble or list the contents of images
2674built by mkimage. See dumpimage's help output (-h) for details.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002675
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002676Installing a Linux Image:
2677-------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002678
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002679To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
2680you must convert the image to S-Record format:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002681
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002682 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002683
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002684The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
2685image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
2686address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
2687specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
2688command.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002689
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002690Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
2691TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002692
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002693 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002694
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002695 .......... done
2696 Erased 8 sectors
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002697
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002698 => loads 40100000
2699 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
2700 ~>examples/image.srec
2701 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
2702 ...
2703 15989 15990 15991 15992
2704 [file transfer complete]
2705 [connected]
2706 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002707
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002708
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002709You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002710this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002711corruption happened:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002712
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002713 => imi 40100000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002714
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002715 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
2716 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
2717 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2718 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
2719 Load Address: 00000000
2720 Entry Point: 0000000c
2721 Verifying Checksum ... OK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002722
2723
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002724Boot Linux:
2725-----------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002726
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002727The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
2728memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
2729of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
2730parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
2731"printenv" and "setenv" commands:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002732
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002733
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002734 => printenv bootargs
2735 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002736
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002737 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002738
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002739 => printenv bootargs
2740 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002741
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002742 => bootm 40020000
2743 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
2744 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
2745 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2746 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
2747 Load Address: 00000000
2748 Entry Point: 0000000c
2749 Verifying Checksum ... OK
2750 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
2751 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
2752 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
2753 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
2754 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
2755 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
2756 ...
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002757
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002758If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002759the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
2760format!) to the "bootm" command:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002761
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002762 => imi 40100000 40200000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002763
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002764 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
2765 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
2766 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2767 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
2768 Load Address: 00000000
2769 Entry Point: 0000000c
2770 Verifying Checksum ... OK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002771
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002772 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
2773 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
2774 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
2775 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
2776 Load Address: 00000000
2777 Entry Point: 00000000
2778 Verifying Checksum ... OK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002779
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002780 => bootm 40100000 40200000
2781 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
2782 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
2783 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2784 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
2785 Load Address: 00000000
2786 Entry Point: 0000000c
2787 Verifying Checksum ... OK
2788 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
2789 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
2790 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
2791 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
2792 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
2793 Load Address: 00000000
2794 Entry Point: 00000000
2795 Verifying Checksum ... OK
2796 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
2797 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
2798 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
2799 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
2800 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
2801 ...
2802 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
2803 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002804
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002805 bash#
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002806
Matthew McClintockefae4ca2006-06-28 10:41:37 -05002807Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
2808-----------
2809
2810First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
2811titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
2812following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
2813flat device tree:
2814
2815=> print oftaddr
2816oftaddr=0x300000
2817=> print oft
2818oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
2819=> tftp $oftaddr $oft
2820Speed: 1000, full duplex
2821Using TSEC0 device
2822TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
2823Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
2824Load address: 0x300000
2825Loading: #
2826done
2827Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
2828=> tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
2829Speed: 1000, full duplex
2830Using TSEC0 device
2831TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
2832Filename 'uImage'.
2833Load address: 0x200000
2834Loading:############
2835done
2836Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
2837=> print loadaddr
2838loadaddr=200000
2839=> print oftaddr
2840oftaddr=0x300000
2841=> bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
2842## Booting image at 00200000 ...
Wolfgang Denk018147d2006-11-27 15:32:42 +01002843 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
2844 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2845 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
Matthew McClintockefae4ca2006-06-28 10:41:37 -05002846 Load Address: 00000000
Wolfgang Denk018147d2006-11-27 15:32:42 +01002847 Entry Point: 00000000
Matthew McClintockefae4ca2006-06-28 10:41:37 -05002848 Verifying Checksum ... OK
2849 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
2850Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
2851Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
2852Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
2853[snip]
2854
2855
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002856More About U-Boot Image Types:
2857------------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002858
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002859U-Boot supports the following image types:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002860
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002861 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
2862 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
2863 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
2864 the Standalone Program.
2865 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
2866 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
2867 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
2868 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
2869 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
2870 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
2871 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
2872 being started.
2873 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
2874 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
2875 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
2876 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
2877 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
2878 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002879
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002880 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
2881 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
2882 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
2883 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
2884 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
2885 a multiple of 4 bytes).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002886
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002887 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
2888 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
2889 flash memory.
wdenk4fc95692003-02-28 00:49:47 +00002890
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002891 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
2892 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
2893 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
2894 as command interpreter.
wdenk4fc95692003-02-28 00:49:47 +00002895
Marek Vasutcf41a9b2012-03-14 21:52:45 +00002896Booting the Linux zImage:
2897-------------------------
2898
2899On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
2900using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
2901as the syntax of "bootm" command.
2902
Tom Rini45f46d12013-05-16 11:40:11 -04002903Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
Marek Vasut28850d02012-03-18 11:47:58 +00002904kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
2905address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
2906format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
2907
stroeseb9c17c52003-04-04 15:53:41 +00002908
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002909Standalone HOWTO:
2910=================
stroeseb9c17c52003-04-04 15:53:41 +00002911
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002912One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
2913run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
2914U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
stroeseb9c17c52003-04-04 15:53:41 +00002915
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002916Two simple examples are included with the sources:
wdenk4fc95692003-02-28 00:49:47 +00002917
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002918"Hello World" Demo:
2919-------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002920
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002921'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
2922application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
2923It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
2924like that:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002925
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002926 => loads
2927 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
2928 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
2929 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
2930 [file transfer complete]
2931 [connected]
2932 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002933
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002934 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
2935 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
2936 Hello World
2937 argc = 7
2938 argv[0] = "40004"
2939 argv[1] = "Hello"
2940 argv[2] = "World!"
2941 argv[3] = "This"
2942 argv[4] = "is"
2943 argv[5] = "a"
2944 argv[6] = "test."
2945 argv[7] = "<NULL>"
2946 Hit any key to exit ...
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002947
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002948 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002949
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002950Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
2951handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
2952Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
2953The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
2954character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
2955controlled by the following keys:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002956
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002957 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
2958 b - enable interrupts and start timer
2959 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
2960 q - quit application
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002961
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002962 => loads
2963 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
2964 ~>examples/timer.srec
2965 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
2966 [file transfer complete]
2967 [connected]
2968 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002969
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002970 => go 40004
2971 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
2972 TIMERS=0xfff00980
2973 Using timer 1
2974 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002975
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002976Hit 'b':
2977 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
2978 Enabling timer
2979Hit '?':
2980 [q, b, e, ?] ........
2981 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
2982Hit '?':
2983 [q, b, e, ?] .
2984 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
2985Hit '?':
2986 [q, b, e, ?] .
2987 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
2988Hit '?':
2989 [q, b, e, ?] .
2990 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
2991Hit 'e':
2992 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
2993Hit 'q':
2994 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002995
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002996
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002997Minicom warning:
2998================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002999
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003000Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
3001"minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
3002consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
3003Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
3004especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
Karl O. Pinca0189bb2012-10-01 05:11:56 +00003005use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
Naoki Hayamae0cc1852020-10-08 13:17:16 +09003006https://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
Karl O. Pinca0189bb2012-10-01 05:11:56 +00003007for help with kermit.
3008
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003009
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003010Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
3011configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003012
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003013 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
3014 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
3015 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
wdenk8dba0502003-03-31 16:34:49 +00003016
wdenk8dba0502003-03-31 16:34:49 +00003017
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003018NetBSD Notes:
3019=============
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003020
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003021Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
3022(build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
wdenk88e72a32003-06-19 23:04:19 +00003023
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003024Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
3025NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
3026need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
3027Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
3028attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
3029missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
wdenk88e72a32003-06-19 23:04:19 +00003030
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003031 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
3032 # mkdir powerpc
3033 # ln -s powerpc machine
3034 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
3035 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
wdenk88e72a32003-06-19 23:04:19 +00003036
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003037Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
3038and U-Boot include files.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003039
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003040Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
3041stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
3042proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
3043tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
wdenkd0245fc2005-04-13 10:02:42 +00003044meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003045
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003046
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003047Implementation Internals:
3048=========================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003049
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003050The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
3051implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
3052inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
3053hardware.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003054
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003055
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003056Initial Stack, Global Data:
3057---------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003058
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003059The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
3060starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
3061system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
3062This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
3063is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
3064at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
3065options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
3066models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
3067MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
3068locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003069
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003070 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
Wolfgang Denk290ae6b2008-12-30 22:56:11 +01003071 U-Boot mailing list:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003072
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003073 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
3074 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
3075 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
3076 ...
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003077
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003078 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
3079 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
3080 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
3081 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
3082 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003083 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003084 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
3085 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003086
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003087 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
3088 is another option for the system designer to use as an
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003089 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003090 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
3091 board designers haven't used it for something that would
3092 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
3093 used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003094
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02003095 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003096 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
3097 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
Stefan Roese3e1f1b32005-08-01 16:49:12 +02003098 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003099 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
3100 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
3101 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
3102 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
3103 you get the config right.
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00003104
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003105 -Chris Hallinan
3106 DS4.COM, Inc.
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00003107
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003108It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
3109code for the initialization procedures:
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00003110
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003111* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
3112 to write it.
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00003113
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -08003114* Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003115 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
3116 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00003117
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003118* Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
3119 that.
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00003120
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003121Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -08003122normal global data to share information between the code. But it
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003123turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
3124simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
3125functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
3126functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
3127the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
3128place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
3129reserve for this purpose.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003130
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003131When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
3132relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
3133GCC's implementation.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003134
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003135For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
3136 R1: stack pointer
Wolfgang Denk69c09642008-02-14 22:43:22 +01003137 R2: reserved for system use
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003138 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
3139 R5-R10: parameter passing
3140 R13: small data area pointer
3141 R30: GOT pointer
3142 R31: frame pointer
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003143
Joakim Tjernlund693c0c12010-01-19 14:41:58 +01003144 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
3145 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
3146 going back and forth between asm and C)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003147
Wolfgang Denk69c09642008-02-14 22:43:22 +01003148 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003149
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003150 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
3151 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
3152 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
3153 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
3154 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
3155 624 text + 127 data).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003156
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003157On ARM, the following registers are used:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003158
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003159 R0: function argument word/integer result
3160 R1-R3: function argument word
Jeroen Hofsteea556aca2013-09-21 14:04:42 +02003161 R9: platform specific
3162 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003163 R11: argument (frame) pointer
3164 R12: temporary workspace
3165 R13: stack pointer
3166 R14: link register
3167 R15: program counter
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003168
Jeroen Hofsteea556aca2013-09-21 14:04:42 +02003169 ==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data
3170
3171 Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003172
Thomas Chou8fa38582010-05-21 11:08:03 +08003173On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
Naoki Hayamae0cc1852020-10-08 13:17:16 +09003174 https://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
Thomas Chou8fa38582010-05-21 11:08:03 +08003175
3176 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
3177
3178 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
3179 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
3180
Rick Chend7e6f922017-12-26 13:55:59 +08003181On RISC-V, the following registers are used:
3182
3183 x0: hard-wired zero (zero)
3184 x1: return address (ra)
3185 x2: stack pointer (sp)
3186 x3: global pointer (gp)
3187 x4: thread pointer (tp)
3188 x5: link register (t0)
3189 x8: frame pointer (fp)
3190 x10-x11: arguments/return values (a0-1)
3191 x12-x17: arguments (a2-7)
3192 x28-31: temporaries (t3-6)
3193 pc: program counter (pc)
3194
3195 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
3196
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003197Memory Management:
3198------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003199
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003200U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
3201MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003202
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003203The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
3204controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
3205memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
3206physical memory banks.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003207
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003208U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
3209TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
3210booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
3211to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02003212memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003213configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
3214Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003215
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003216Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
3217of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003218
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003219So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
3220this:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003221
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003222 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
3223 :
3224 0x0000 1FFF
3225 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
3226 :
3227 :
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003228
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003229 :
3230 :
3231 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
3232 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
3233 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
3234 :
3235 0x00FD FFFF
3236 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
3237 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
3238 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
3239 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003240
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003241
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003242System Initialization:
3243----------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003244
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003245In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003246(on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -08003247configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory.
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003248To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
3249To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
3250initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
Heiko Schocher71cb3e92017-06-07 17:33:10 +02003251which provide such a feature like), or in a locked part of the data
3252cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core, the caches and
3253the SIU.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003254
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003255Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
3256preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
3257(multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
3258on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
3259programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
3260simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
3261banks.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003262
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003263When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
3264different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
3265bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
32660x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
3267contiguous memory starting from 0.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003268
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003269Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
3270and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
3271Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
3272pages, and the final stack is set up.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003273
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003274Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
3275until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
3276running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
3277new address in RAM.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003278
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003279
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003280U-Boot Porting Guide:
3281----------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003282
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003283[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
3284list, October 2002]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003285
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003286
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04003287int main(int argc, char *argv[])
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003288{
3289 sighandler_t no_more_time;
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003290
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04003291 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
3292 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003293
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003294 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04003295 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003296 return 0;
3297 }
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003298
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003299 Download latest U-Boot source;
wdenk34b613e2002-12-17 01:51:00 +00003300
Wolfgang Denk290ae6b2008-12-30 22:56:11 +01003301 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003302
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04003303 if (clueless)
3304 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003305
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003306 while (learning) {
3307 Read the README file in the top level directory;
Naoki Hayamae0cc1852020-10-08 13:17:16 +09003308 Read https://www.denx.de/wiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
Patrick Delaunay9b281fa2020-02-28 15:18:10 +01003309 Read applicable doc/README.*;
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003310 Read the source, Luke;
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04003311 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003312 }
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003313
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04003314 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
3315 Buy a BDI3000;
3316 else
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003317 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003318
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04003319 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
3320 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
3321 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
3322 } else {
3323 Create your own board support subdirectory;
3324 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
3325 }
3326 Edit new board/<myboard> files
3327 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003328
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04003329 while (!accepted) {
3330 while (!running) {
3331 do {
3332 Add / modify source code;
3333 } until (compiles);
3334 Debug;
3335 if (clueless)
3336 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
3337 }
3338 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
3339 if (reasonable critiques)
3340 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
3341 else
3342 Defend code as written;
wdenk634d2f72004-04-15 23:14:49 +00003343 }
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003344
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003345 return 0;
3346}
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003347
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003348void no_more_time (int sig)
3349{
3350 hire_a_guru();
3351}
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003352
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003353
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003354Coding Standards:
3355-----------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003356
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003357All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
Baruch Siachb1081252017-12-10 17:34:35 +02003358coding style; see the kernel coding style guide at
3359https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html, and the
3360script "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
Detlev Zundelaa63d482006-09-01 15:39:02 +02003361
3362Source files originating from a different project (for example the
3363MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
Jeremiah Mahler03f930c2015-01-04 18:56:50 -08003364reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
Detlev Zundelaa63d482006-09-01 15:39:02 +02003365sources.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003366
Detlev Zundelaa63d482006-09-01 15:39:02 +02003367Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
3368Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
3369in your code.
wdenkad276f22004-01-04 16:28:35 +00003370
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003371Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
3372- remove any trailing white space
Wolfgang Denk20bd2a62011-07-27 10:59:55 +00003373- use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003374- make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
Wolfgang Denk20bd2a62011-07-27 10:59:55 +00003375- do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003376- do not add trailing empty lines to source files
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003377
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003378Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
3379with a request to reformat the changes.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003380
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003381
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003382Submitting Patches:
3383-------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003384
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003385Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
3386establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
3387may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003388
Naoki Hayamae0cc1852020-10-08 13:17:16 +09003389Please see https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003390
Wolfgang Denk290ae6b2008-12-30 22:56:11 +01003391Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
S. Lockwood-Childsda6d34c2017-11-14 22:56:42 -08003392see https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
Wolfgang Denk290ae6b2008-12-30 22:56:11 +01003393
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003394When you send a patch, please include the following information with
3395it:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003396
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003397* For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
3398 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
3399 patch actually fixes something.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003400
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003401* For new features: a description of the feature and your
3402 implementation.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003403
Robert P. J. Day076ed9b2015-12-19 07:16:10 -05003404* For major contributions, add a MAINTAINERS file with your
3405 information and associated file and directory references.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003406
Albert ARIBAUD48e910f2013-09-11 15:52:51 +02003407* When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a
3408 maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003409
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003410* If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
3411 document these in the README file.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003412
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003413* The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
3414 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
Wolfgang Denk20bd2a62011-07-27 10:59:55 +00003415 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003416 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
3417 with some other mail clients.
wdenkca9bc762003-07-15 07:45:49 +00003418
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003419 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
3420 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
3421 GNU diff.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003422
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003423 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
3424 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
3425 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
3426 affected files).
3427
3428 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
3429 and compressed attachments must not be used.
wdenk88e72a32003-06-19 23:04:19 +00003430
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003431* If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
3432 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00003433
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003434* Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
3435 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
wdenk88e72a32003-06-19 23:04:19 +00003436
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003437
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003438Notes:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003439
Simon Glassdc27def2016-07-27 20:33:08 -06003440* Before sending the patch, run the buildman script on your patched
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003441 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
3442 for any of the boards.
3443
3444* Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
3445 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
3446 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003447
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003448* If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
3449 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
3450 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
3451 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
3452 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
3453 modification.
wdenkcbc49a52005-05-03 14:12:25 +00003454
Wolfgang Denk290ae6b2008-12-30 22:56:11 +01003455* Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
3456 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
3457 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
3458 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.