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23
24Summary:
25========
26
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000027This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
wdenkce4832c2004-10-17 21:12:06 +000028Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
29processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
30initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
31code.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000032
33The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000034the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
35header files in common, and special provision has been made to
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000036support booting of Linux images.
37
38Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
39configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
40implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
41add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
42code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
43load and run it dynamically.
44
45
46Status:
47=======
48
49In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000050Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000051"working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
52
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000053In case of problems see the CHANGELOG and CREDITS files to find out
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +010054who contributed the specific port. The MAINTAINERS file lists board
55maintainers.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000056
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000057
58Where to get help:
59==================
60
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000061In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
62U-Boot you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
Peter Tyser8804a612008-09-10 09:18:34 -050063<u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
64on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
65Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
66http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000067
68
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +010069Where to get source code:
70=========================
71
72The U-Boot source code is maintained in the git repository at
73git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
74http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
75
76The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +020077any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +010078available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
79directory.
80
Anatolij Gustschin08337f32008-03-26 18:13:33 +010081Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +010082ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
83
84
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000085Where we come from:
86===================
87
88- start from 8xxrom sources
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000089- create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000090- clean up code
91- make it easier to add custom boards
92- make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
93- extend functions, especially:
94 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
95 * S-Record download
96 * network boot
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +020097 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000098- create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000099- add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +0000100- create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
Magnus Liljaf3b287b2008-08-06 19:32:33 +0200101- current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +0000102
103
104Names and Spelling:
105===================
106
107The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
108"U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
109in source files etc.). Example:
110
111 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
112
113File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
114
115 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
116
117 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
118
119Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
120the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000121
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +0000122 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
123 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
124
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000125
wdenk7474aca2002-12-17 17:55:09 +0000126Versioning:
127===========
128
Thomas Webere89e6282010-09-28 08:06:25 +0200129Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
130were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
131into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
132names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
133Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
134releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
wdenk7474aca2002-12-17 17:55:09 +0000135
Thomas Webere89e6282010-09-28 08:06:25 +0200136Examples:
137 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
138 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
139 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candiate 1 for September 2010 release
wdenk7474aca2002-12-17 17:55:09 +0000140
141
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000142Directory Hierarchy:
143====================
144
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500145/arch Architecture specific files
146 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
147 /cpu CPU specific files
148 /arm720t Files specific to ARM 720 CPUs
149 /arm920t Files specific to ARM 920 CPUs
Wolfgang Denk16fa98a2010-06-13 17:48:15 +0200150 /at91rm9200 Files specific to Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU
151 /imx Files specific to Freescale MC9328 i.MX CPUs
152 /s3c24x0 Files specific to Samsung S3C24X0 CPUs
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500153 /arm925t Files specific to ARM 925 CPUs
154 /arm926ejs Files specific to ARM 926 CPUs
155 /arm1136 Files specific to ARM 1136 CPUs
156 /ixp Files specific to Intel XScale IXP CPUs
157 /pxa Files specific to Intel XScale PXA CPUs
158 /s3c44b0 Files specific to Samsung S3C44B0 CPUs
159 /sa1100 Files specific to Intel StrongARM SA1100 CPUs
160 /lib Architecture specific library files
161 /avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture
162 /cpu CPU specific files
163 /lib Architecture specific library files
164 /blackfin Files generic to Analog Devices Blackfin architecture
165 /cpu CPU specific files
166 /lib Architecture specific library files
Graeme Russcbfce1d2011-04-13 19:43:28 +1000167 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500168 /cpu CPU specific files
169 /lib Architecture specific library files
170 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
171 /cpu CPU specific files
172 /mcf52x2 Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF52x2 CPUs
173 /mcf5227x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5227x CPUs
174 /mcf532x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5329 CPUs
175 /mcf5445x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5445x CPUs
176 /mcf547x_8x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF547x_8x CPUs
177 /lib Architecture specific library files
178 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
179 /cpu CPU specific files
180 /lib Architecture specific library files
181 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
182 /cpu CPU specific files
183 /lib Architecture specific library files
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500184 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
185 /cpu CPU specific files
186 /lib Architecture specific library files
Stefan Roese88fbf932010-04-15 16:07:28 +0200187 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500188 /cpu CPU specific files
189 /74xx_7xx Files specific to Freescale MPC74xx and 7xx CPUs
190 /mpc5xx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xx CPUs
191 /mpc5xxx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xxx CPUs
192 /mpc8xx Files specific to Freescale MPC8xx CPUs
193 /mpc8220 Files specific to Freescale MPC8220 CPUs
194 /mpc824x Files specific to Freescale MPC824x CPUs
195 /mpc8260 Files specific to Freescale MPC8260 CPUs
196 /mpc85xx Files specific to Freescale MPC85xx CPUs
197 /ppc4xx Files specific to AMCC PowerPC 4xx CPUs
198 /lib Architecture specific library files
199 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
200 /cpu CPU specific files
201 /sh2 Files specific to sh2 CPUs
202 /sh3 Files specific to sh3 CPUs
203 /sh4 Files specific to sh4 CPUs
204 /lib Architecture specific library files
205 /sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture
206 /cpu CPU specific files
207 /leon2 Files specific to Gaisler LEON2 SPARC CPU
208 /leon3 Files specific to Gaisler LEON3 SPARC CPU
209 /lib Architecture specific library files
210/api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
211/board Board dependent files
212/common Misc architecture independent functions
213/disk Code for disk drive partition handling
214/doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
215/drivers Commonly used device drivers
216/examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
217/fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
218/include Header Files
219/lib Files generic to all architectures
220 /libfdt Library files to support flattened device trees
221 /lzma Library files to support LZMA decompression
222 /lzo Library files to support LZO decompression
223/net Networking code
224/post Power On Self Test
225/rtc Real Time Clock drivers
226/tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000227
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000228Software Configuration:
229=======================
230
231Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
232rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
233
234There are two classes of configuration variables:
235
236* Configuration _OPTIONS_:
237 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
238 "CONFIG_".
239
240* Configuration _SETTINGS_:
241 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
242 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200243 "CONFIG_SYS_".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000244
245Later we will add a configuration tool - probably similar to or even
246identical to what's used for the Linux kernel. Right now, we have to
247do the configuration by hand, which means creating some symbolic
248links and editing some configuration files. We use the TQM8xxL boards
249as an example here.
250
251
252Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
253---------------------------------------------------
254
255For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
256configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_config".
257
258Example: For a TQM823L module type:
259
260 cd u-boot
261 make TQM823L_config
262
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200263For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the CPU type as well;
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000264e.g. "make cogent_mpc8xx_config". And also configure the cogent
265directory according to the instructions in cogent/README.
266
267
268Configuration Options:
269----------------------
270
271Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
272such information is kept in a configuration file
273"include/configs/<board_name>.h".
274
275Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
276"include/configs/TQM823L.h".
277
278
wdenk1272e232002-11-10 22:06:23 +0000279Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
280kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
281build a config tool - later.
282
283
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000284The following options need to be configured:
285
Kim Phillips203fee32007-08-10 13:28:25 -0500286- CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000287
Kim Phillips203fee32007-08-10 13:28:25 -0500288- Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
Wolfgang Denk994ad962006-10-24 14:42:37 +0200289
290- CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
Haavard Skinnemoen9d5a43f2007-11-01 12:44:20 +0100291 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000292
293- CPU Module Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
294 Define exactly one of
295 CONFIG_CMA286_60_OLD
296--- FIXME --- not tested yet:
297 CONFIG_CMA286_60, CONFIG_CMA286_21, CONFIG_CMA286_60P,
298 CONFIG_CMA287_23, CONFIG_CMA287_50
299
300- Motherboard Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
301 Define exactly one of
302 CONFIG_CMA101, CONFIG_CMA102
303
304- Motherboard I/O Modules: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
305 Define one or more of
306 CONFIG_CMA302
307
308- Motherboard Options: (if CONFIG_CMA101 or CONFIG_CMA102 are defined)
309 Define one or more of
310 CONFIG_LCD_HEARTBEAT - update a character position on
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200311 the LCD display every second with
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000312 a "rotator" |\-/|\-/
313
wdenk2bb11052003-07-17 23:16:40 +0000314- Board flavour: (if CONFIG_MPC8260ADS is defined)
315 CONFIG_ADSTYPE
316 Possible values are:
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200317 CONFIG_SYS_8260ADS - original MPC8260ADS
318 CONFIG_SYS_8266ADS - MPC8266ADS
319 CONFIG_SYS_PQ2FADS - PQ2FADS-ZU or PQ2FADS-VR
320 CONFIG_SYS_8272ADS - MPC8272ADS
wdenk2bb11052003-07-17 23:16:40 +0000321
Lei Wen20014762011-02-09 18:06:58 +0530322- Marvell Family Member
323 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
324 multiple fs option at one time
325 for marvell soc family
326
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000327- MPC824X Family Member (if CONFIG_MPC824X is defined)
wdenk9b7f3842003-10-09 20:09:04 +0000328 Define exactly one of
329 CONFIG_MPC8240, CONFIG_MPC8245
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000330
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200331- 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
wdenk20bddb32004-09-28 17:59:53 +0000332 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
333 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
wdenk9b7f3842003-10-09 20:09:04 +0000334 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
335 reference PIT/RTC clock
wdenk20bddb32004-09-28 17:59:53 +0000336 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
337 or XTAL/EXTAL)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000338
wdenk20bddb32004-09-28 17:59:53 +0000339- 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200340 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
341 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
wdenk20bddb32004-09-28 17:59:53 +0000342 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
wdenkfde37042004-01-31 20:06:54 +0000343 See doc/README.MPC866
344
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200345 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
wdenkfde37042004-01-31 20:06:54 +0000346
wdenk544e9732004-02-06 23:19:44 +0000347 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
348 of relying on the correctness of the configured
349 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
350 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
351 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200352 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
wdenkfde37042004-01-31 20:06:54 +0000353
Heiko Schocher734f0272009-03-12 07:37:15 +0100354 CONFIG_SYS_DELAYED_ICACHE
355
356 Define this option if you want to enable the
357 ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
358
Kumar Galaf4fb90f2011-02-18 05:40:54 -0600359- 85xx CPU Options:
360 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
361
362 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
363 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
364 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
365
Kumar Gala179b1b22011-05-20 00:39:21 -0500366 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
367
368 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
369 tree nodes for the given platform.
370
Markus Klotzbuecher6e5c19a2006-03-24 15:28:02 +0100371- Intel Monahans options:
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200372 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO
Markus Klotzbuecher6e5c19a2006-03-24 15:28:02 +0100373
374 Defines the Monahans run mode to oscillator
375 ratio. Valid values are 8, 16, 24, 31. The core
376 frequency is this value multiplied by 13 MHz.
377
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200378 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_TURBO_RUN_MODE_RATIO
Wolfgang Denkebd3deb2006-04-16 10:51:58 +0200379
Markus Klotzbuecher6e5c19a2006-03-24 15:28:02 +0100380 Defines the Monahans turbo mode to oscillator
381 ratio. Valid values are 1 (default if undefined) and
Wolfgang Denkebd3deb2006-04-16 10:51:58 +0200382 2. The core frequency as calculated above is multiplied
Markus Klotzbuecher6e5c19a2006-03-24 15:28:02 +0100383 by this value.
Wolfgang Denkebd3deb2006-04-16 10:51:58 +0200384
wdenk9b7f3842003-10-09 20:09:04 +0000385- Linux Kernel Interface:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000386 CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ
387
388 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
389 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
390 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
391 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
392 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
393 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
394 Linux kernel.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000395 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +0100396 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000397 default environment.
398
wdenk9b7f3842003-10-09 20:09:04 +0000399 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
400
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200401 When transferring memsize parameter to linux, some versions
wdenk9b7f3842003-10-09 20:09:04 +0000402 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
403 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
404
Gerald Van Barenfcd91bb2008-06-03 20:34:45 -0400405 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
Wolfgang Denk27a5b0b2005-10-13 01:45:54 +0200406
407 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
Gerald Van Barend6abef42007-03-31 12:23:51 -0400408 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
409 concepts).
410
411 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
412 * New libfdt-based support
413 * Adds the "fdt" command
Kim Phillips9b46eb62007-08-10 14:34:14 -0500414 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
Gerald Van Barend6abef42007-03-31 12:23:51 -0400415
Marcel Ziswilerb29bc712009-09-09 21:18:41 +0200416 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node (only required for
417 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
418 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node (only required for
419 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
Wolfgang Denk27a5b0b2005-10-13 01:45:54 +0200420 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
Kumar Galae40c2b52006-01-11 13:59:02 -0600421 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
Wolfgang Denk27a5b0b2005-10-13 01:45:54 +0200422
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200423 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
424 addresses
Kim Phillips9b46eb62007-08-10 14:34:14 -0500425
Kumar Gala1e26aa52006-01-11 13:54:17 -0600426 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
427
428 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
429 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000430
Matthew McClintockefae4ca2006-06-28 10:41:37 -0500431 CONFIG_OF_BOOT_CPU
432
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200433 This define fills in the correct boot CPU in the boot
Matthew McClintockefae4ca2006-06-28 10:41:37 -0500434 param header, the default value is zero if undefined.
435
Heiko Schocherffb293a2009-09-23 07:56:08 +0200436 CONFIG_OF_IDE_FIXUP
437
438 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
439 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
440 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
441 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
442 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
443 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
444
Igor Grinberg06890672011-07-14 05:45:07 +0000445 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
446
447 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
448 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
449 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
450 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
451 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
452 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
453 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
454
Niklaus Giger0ab978d2008-11-03 22:13:47 +0100455- vxWorks boot parameters:
456
457 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
458 environments variables: bootfile, ipaddr, serverip, hostname.
459 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
460
461 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_DEVICE - The vxworks device name
462 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_MAC_PTR - Ethernet 6 byte MA -address
463 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_SERVERNAME - Name of the server
464 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_ADDR - Address of boot parameters
465
466 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_ADD_PARAMS
467
468 Add it at the end of the bootline. E.g "u=username pw=secret"
469
470 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
471 the defaults discussed just above.
472
Aneesh V960f5c02011-06-16 23:30:47 +0000473- Cache Configuration:
474 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
475 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
476 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
477
Aneesh V686a0752011-06-16 23:30:51 +0000478- Cache Configuration for ARM:
479 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
480 controller
481 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
482 controller register space
483
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000484- Serial Ports:
Andreas Engel0813b122008-09-08 14:30:53 +0200485 CONFIG_PL010_SERIAL
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000486
487 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
488
Andreas Engel0813b122008-09-08 14:30:53 +0200489 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000490
491 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
492
493 CONFIG_PL011_CLOCK
494
495 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
496 the clock speed of the UARTs.
497
498 CONFIG_PL01x_PORTS
499
500 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
501 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
502 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
503
John Rigby34e21ee2011-04-19 10:42:39 +0000504 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_RLCR
505
506 Some vendor versions of PL011 serial ports (e.g. ST-Ericsson U8500)
507 have separate receive and transmit line control registers. Set
508 this variable to initialize the extra register.
509
510 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_FLUSH_ON_INIT
511
512 On some platforms (e.g. U8500) U-Boot is loaded by a second stage
513 boot loader that has already initialized the UART. Define this
514 variable to flush the UART at init time.
515
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000516
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000517- Console Interface:
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +0000518 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port
519 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2,
520 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial
521 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000522
523 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
524 port routines must be defined elsewhere
525 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
526
527 CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE
528 Enables console device for a color framebuffer. Needs following
529 defines (cf. smiLynxEM, i8042, board/eltec/bab7xx)
530 VIDEO_FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN graphic memory organisation
531 (default big endian)
532 VIDEO_HW_RECTFILL graphic chip supports
533 rectangle fill
534 (cf. smiLynxEM)
535 VIDEO_HW_BITBLT graphic chip supports
536 bit-blit (cf. smiLynxEM)
537 VIDEO_VISIBLE_COLS visible pixel columns
538 (cols=pitch)
wdenk544e9732004-02-06 23:19:44 +0000539 VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS visible pixel rows
540 VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE bytes per pixel
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000541 VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT graphic data format
542 (0-5, cf. cfb_console.c)
wdenk544e9732004-02-06 23:19:44 +0000543 VIDEO_FB_ADRS framebuffer address
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000544 VIDEO_KBD_INIT_FCT keyboard int fct
545 (i.e. i8042_kbd_init())
546 VIDEO_TSTC_FCT test char fct
547 (i.e. i8042_tstc)
548 VIDEO_GETC_FCT get char fct
549 (i.e. i8042_getc)
550 CONFIG_CONSOLE_CURSOR cursor drawing on/off
551 (requires blink timer
552 cf. i8042.c)
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200553 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000554 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME display time/date info in
555 upper right corner
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500556 (requires CONFIG_CMD_DATE)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000557 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO display Linux logo in
558 upper left corner
wdenk9dd2b882002-12-03 21:28:10 +0000559 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO use bmp_logo.h instead of
560 linux_logo.h for logo.
561 Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000562 CONFIG_CONSOLE_EXTRA_INFO
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200563 additional board info beside
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000564 the logo
565
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +0000566 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is
567 default i/o. Serial console can be forced with
568 environment 'console=serial'.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000569
wdenk1ebf41e2004-01-02 14:00:00 +0000570 When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console
571 messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with
572 the "silent" environment variable. See
573 doc/README.silent for more information.
wdenk3da587e2003-10-19 23:22:11 +0000574
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000575- Console Baudrate:
576 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
577 Select one of the baudrates listed in
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200578 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
579 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000580
Heiko Schocher327480a2009-01-30 12:55:38 +0100581- Console Rx buffer length
582 With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define
583 the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC.
Heiko Schocher362447f2009-02-10 09:31:47 +0100584 This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible.
Heiko Schocher327480a2009-01-30 12:55:38 +0100585 If using CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN also CONFIG_SYS_MAXIDLE
586 must be defined, to setup the maximum idle timeout for
587 the SMC.
588
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000589- Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds
590 Delay before automatically booting the default image;
591 set to -1 to disable autoboot.
592
593 See doc/README.autoboot for these options that
594 work with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY. None are required.
595 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
596 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_MIN
597 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
598 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT
599 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
600 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
601 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2
602 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR2
603 CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK
604 CONFIG_RESET_TO_RETRY
605
606- Autoboot Command:
607 CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
608 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
609 define a command string that is automatically executed
610 when no character is read on the console interface
611 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
612
613 CONFIG_BOOTARGS
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +0000614 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
615 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
616 environment value "bootargs".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000617
618 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +0000619 The value of these goes into the environment as
620 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
621 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200622 RAM and NFS.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000623
624- Pre-Boot Commands:
625 CONFIG_PREBOOT
626
627 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
628 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
629 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
630 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
631 entering interactive mode.
632
633 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
634 automatically generated or modified. For an example
635 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
636 modified when the user holds down a certain
637 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
638 booting the systems
639
640- Serial Download Echo Mode:
641 CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
642 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
643 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
644 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
645 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
646 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
647 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
648
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500649- Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000650 CONFIG_KGDB_BAUDRATE
651 Select one of the baudrates listed in
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200652 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000653
654- Monitor Functions:
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500655 Monitor commands can be included or excluded
656 from the build by using the #include files
657 "config_cmd_all.h" and #undef'ing unwanted
658 commands, or using "config_cmd_default.h"
659 and augmenting with additional #define's
660 for wanted commands.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000661
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500662 The default command configuration includes all commands
663 except those marked below with a "*".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000664
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500665 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500666 CONFIG_CMD_BDI bdinfo
667 CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger
668 CONFIG_CMD_BMP * BMP support
669 CONFIG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands
670 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD bootd
671 CONFIG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache
672 CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo
Mike Frysinger321ab9e2010-12-21 14:19:51 -0500673 CONFIG_CMD_CRC32 * crc32
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500674 CONFIG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time...
675 CONFIG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support
676 CONFIG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics
Peter Tyser15258042008-12-17 16:36:22 -0600677 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510 * ds4510 I2C gpio commands
678 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO * ds4510 I2C info command
679 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM * ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
680 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST * ds4510 I2C rst command
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500681 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
682 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
Peter Tyser0deafa22009-10-25 15:12:56 -0500683 CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV edit env variable
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500684 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
685 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
Mike Frysingerf3ddf202010-12-26 23:09:45 -0500686 CONFIG_CMD_EXPORTENV * export the environment
Mike Frysinger78dcaf42009-01-28 19:08:14 -0500687 CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV saveenv
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500688 CONFIG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support
689 CONFIG_CMD_FAT * FAT partition support
690 CONFIG_CMD_FDOS * Dos diskette Support
691 CONFIG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect
692 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support
Mike Frysinger2ed02412010-12-26 23:32:22 -0500693 CONFIG_CMD_GO * the 'go' command (exec code)
Kim Phillipsf0c9d532011-04-05 07:15:14 +0000694 CONFIG_CMD_GREPENV * search environment
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500695 CONFIG_CMD_HWFLOW * RTS/CTS hw flow control
696 CONFIG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support
697 CONFIG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support
698 CONFIG_CMD_IMI iminfo
699 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS List all found images
700 CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support
Mike Frysingerf3ddf202010-12-26 23:09:45 -0500701 CONFIG_CMD_IMPORTENV * import an environment
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500702 CONFIG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo
703 CONFIG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values
704 CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support
705 CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb
Mike Frysingerfc6508a2010-12-26 12:34:49 -0500706 CONFIG_CMD_LDRINFO ldrinfo (display Blackfin loader)
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500707 CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb
708 CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads
Robin Getz93d6cb02009-07-27 00:07:59 -0400709 CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM print md5 message digest
710 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500711 CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
712 loop, loopw, mtest
713 CONFIG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc
714 CONFIG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support
715 CONFIG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands
Stefan Roeseb1423dd2009-03-19 13:30:36 +0100716 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS * MTD partition support
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500717 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
718 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
Peter Tyser9902e422008-12-17 16:36:21 -0600719 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X * PCA953x I2C gpio commands
720 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500721 CONFIG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo
722 CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support
723 CONFIG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
724 host
725 CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O
726 CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump
727 CONFIG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable
728 CONFIG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump
729 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI * SCSI Support
730 CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information
731 (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
732 CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access
733 (4xx only)
Alexander Holler37ef5392011-01-18 09:48:08 +0100734 CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM print sha1 memory digest
Robin Getz93d6cb02009-07-27 00:07:59 -0400735 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
Wolfgang Denk85c25df2009-04-01 23:34:12 +0200736 CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500737 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
Luca Ceresoli7aa81a42011-05-17 00:03:40 +0000738 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPSRV * TFTP transfer in server mode
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500739 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500740 CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support
741 CONFIG_CMD_FSL * Microblaze FSL support
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000742
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000743
744 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
745 support you can write:
746
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500747 #include "config_cmd_all.h"
748 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000749
Gerald Van Barend6abef42007-03-31 12:23:51 -0400750 Other Commands:
751 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000752
753 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500754 (configuration option CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +0000755 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data
756 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or
757 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be
758 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other
759 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an
760 initial stack and some data.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000761
762
763 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
764
765- Watchdog:
766 CONFIG_WATCHDOG
767 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
Detlev Zundel6aa4d7b2011-04-27 05:25:59 +0000768 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
769 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260
770 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
771 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
772 available, then no further board specific code should
773 be needed to use it.
774
775 CONFIG_HW_WATCHDOG
776 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
777 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
778 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000779
stroeseb9c17c52003-04-04 15:53:41 +0000780- U-Boot Version:
781 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
782 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
783 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
784 version as printed by the "version" command.
785 This variable is readonly.
786
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000787- Real-Time Clock:
788
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500789 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000790 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
791 following options:
792
793 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx
794 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
Guennadi Liakhovetskid4387492008-04-15 14:15:30 +0200795 CONFIG_RTC_MC13783 - use MC13783 RTC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000796 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
wdenk1fe2c702003-03-06 21:55:29 +0000797 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000798 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
wdenk0893c472003-05-20 14:25:27 +0000799 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
wdenkef5fe752003-03-12 10:41:04 +0000800 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
Tor Krillb27939b2008-03-15 15:40:26 +0100801 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
wdenkaeba06f2004-06-09 17:34:58 +0000802 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200803 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
Heiko Schocher1f1b7012011-03-28 09:24:22 +0200804 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
805 RV3029 RTC.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000806
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +0000807 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
808 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
809
Peter Tyser9902e422008-12-17 16:36:21 -0600810- GPIO Support:
811 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
812 CONFIG_PCA953X_INFO - enable pca953x info command
813
Chris Packham9b383202010-12-19 10:12:13 +0000814 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
815 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
816 pins supported by a particular chip.
817
Peter Tyser9902e422008-12-17 16:36:21 -0600818 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
819 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
820
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000821- Timestamp Support:
822
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +0000823 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
824 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
825 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500826 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000827
828- Partition Support:
829 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION
richardretanubune6745592008-09-26 11:13:22 -0400830 and/or CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000831
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +0100832 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
833 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at
834 least one partition type as well.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000835
836- IDE Reset method:
wdenk369d43d2004-03-14 14:09:05 +0000837 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
838 board configurations files but used nowhere!
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000839
wdenk369d43d2004-03-14 14:09:05 +0000840 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
841 be performed by calling the function
842 ide_set_reset(int reset)
843 which has to be defined in a board specific file
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000844
845- ATAPI Support:
846 CONFIG_ATAPI
847
848 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
849
wdenkf602aa02004-03-13 23:29:43 +0000850- LBA48 Support
851 CONFIG_LBA48
852
853 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
Heiko Schocher0f602e12009-12-03 11:21:21 +0100854 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
wdenkf602aa02004-03-13 23:29:43 +0000855 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
856 support disks up to 2.1TB.
857
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200858 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
wdenkf602aa02004-03-13 23:29:43 +0000859 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
860 Default is 32bit.
861
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000862- SCSI Support:
863 At the moment only there is only support for the
864 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
865 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
866
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200867 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
868 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
869 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000870 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
871 devices.
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200872 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000873
874- NETWORK Support (PCI):
wdenk4e112c12003-06-03 23:54:09 +0000875 CONFIG_E1000
876 Support for Intel 8254x gigabit chips.
stroese94ef1cf2003-06-05 15:39:44 +0000877
Andre Schwarz68c2a302008-03-06 16:45:44 +0100878 CONFIG_E1000_FALLBACK_MAC
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200879 default MAC for empty EEPROM after production.
Andre Schwarz68c2a302008-03-06 16:45:44 +0100880
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000881 CONFIG_EEPRO100
882 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200883 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000884 write routine for first time initialisation.
885
886 CONFIG_TULIP
887 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
888 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
889 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
890
891 CONFIG_NATSEMI
892 Support for National dp83815 chips.
893
894 CONFIG_NS8382X
895 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
896
wdenkaa603362003-05-12 21:50:16 +0000897- NETWORK Support (other):
898
Jens Scharsigdab7cb82010-01-23 12:03:45 +0100899 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
900 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
901
902 CONFIG_RMII
903 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
904
905 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
906 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
907 The driver doen't show link status messages.
908
wdenkaa603362003-05-12 21:50:16 +0000909 CONFIG_DRIVER_LAN91C96
910 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
911
912 CONFIG_LAN91C96_BASE
913 Define this to hold the physical address
914 of the LAN91C96's I/O space
915
916 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
917 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
918
wdenk3c711762004-06-09 13:37:52 +0000919 CONFIG_DRIVER_SMC91111
920 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
921
922 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
923 Define this to hold the physical address
924 of the device (I/O space)
925
926 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
927 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
928
929 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
930 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
931 (some hardware wont work with macros)
932
Macpaul Lin199c6252010-12-21 16:59:46 +0800933 CONFIG_FTGMAC100
934 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
935
936 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
937 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
938 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
939 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
940 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
941 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
942 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
943 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
944
Mike Rapoportf4761af2009-11-11 10:03:03 +0200945 CONFIG_SMC911X
Jens Gehrlein1dd48252008-05-05 14:06:11 +0200946 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
947
Mike Rapoportf4761af2009-11-11 10:03:03 +0200948 CONFIG_SMC911X_BASE
Jens Gehrlein1dd48252008-05-05 14:06:11 +0200949 Define this to hold the physical address
950 of the device (I/O space)
951
Mike Rapoportf4761af2009-11-11 10:03:03 +0200952 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
Jens Gehrlein1dd48252008-05-05 14:06:11 +0200953 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
954
Mike Rapoportf4761af2009-11-11 10:03:03 +0200955 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
Jens Gehrlein1dd48252008-05-05 14:06:11 +0200956 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
957 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
Mike Rapoportf4761af2009-11-11 10:03:03 +0200958 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
Jens Gehrlein1dd48252008-05-05 14:06:11 +0200959
Yoshihiro Shimodaed4cea02011-01-27 10:06:03 +0900960 CONFIG_SH_ETHER
961 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
962
963 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
964 Define the number of ports to be used
965
966 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
967 Define the ETH PHY's address
968
Yoshihiro Shimoda281aa052011-01-27 10:06:08 +0900969 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
970 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
971
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000972- USB Support:
973 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
wdenk369d43d2004-03-14 14:09:05 +0000974 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000975 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
976 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
wdenkfb30b4c2004-10-09 22:44:59 +0000977 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000978 storage devices.
979 Note:
980 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
981 (TEAC FD-05PUB).
wdenk369d43d2004-03-14 14:09:05 +0000982 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
983 CONFIG_USB_CLOCK
984 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
Eric Millbrandt02848522009-08-13 08:32:37 -0500985 CONFIG_PSC3_USB
986 for USB on PSC3
wdenk369d43d2004-03-14 14:09:05 +0000987 CONFIG_USB_CONFIG
988 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
989 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
Eric Millbrandt02848522009-08-13 08:32:37 -0500990 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100
991 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200992 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
Zhang Wei063f9ff2007-06-06 10:08:13 +0200993 May be defined to allow interrupt polling
994 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
wdenk369d43d2004-03-14 14:09:05 +0000995
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200996- USB Device:
997 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
998 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
999 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001000 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +02001001 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1002 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +02001003 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +02001004 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1005 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1006 a Linux host by
1007 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1008 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1009 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1010 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +02001011
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +02001012 CONFIG_USB_DEVICE
1013 Define this to build a UDC device
1014
1015 CONFIG_USB_TTY
1016 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1017 talk to the UDC device
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +02001018
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001019 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +02001020 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1021 be set to usbtty.
1022
1023 mpc8xx:
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001024 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +02001025 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001026 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +02001027
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001028 CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0xBLAH
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +02001029 Derive USB clock from brgclk
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001030 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0x04
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +02001031
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +02001032 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +02001033 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +02001034 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +02001035 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1036 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1037 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1038
1039 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1040 Define this string as the name of your company for
1041 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +02001042
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +02001043 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1044 Define this string as the name of your product
1045 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001046
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +02001047 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1048 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1049 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1050 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1051 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +02001052
Wolfgang Denk3f0137b2006-06-14 17:45:53 +02001053 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1054 Define this as the unique Product ID
1055 for your device
1056 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
Wolfgang Denke2601822006-06-14 18:14:56 +02001057
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001058
wdenk7a428cc2003-06-15 22:40:42 +00001059- MMC Support:
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001060 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1061 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1062 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
wdenk7a428cc2003-06-15 22:40:42 +00001063 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -05001064 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1065 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
wdenk7a428cc2003-06-15 22:40:42 +00001066
Yoshihiro Shimodadb7717b2011-07-04 22:21:22 +00001067 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF
1068 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1069
1070 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1071 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1072
1073 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_CLK
1074 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1075
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +00001076- Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1077 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE,
1078 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV
1079 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1080
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001081 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1082 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +00001083 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1084
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001085 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +00001086 Define this to create an own partition. You have to provide a
1087 function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num)
1088
1089 If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001090 #define CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_SINGLE_PART 1
wdenkda04a8b2004-08-02 23:22:59 +00001091 to disable the command chpart. This is the default when you
1092 have not defined a custom partition
1093
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001094- Keyboard Support:
1095 CONFIG_ISA_KEYBOARD
1096
1097 Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard
1098 support
1099
1100 CONFIG_I8042_KBD
1101 Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and
1102 GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support.
1103 Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc
1104 for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking.
1105
1106- Video support:
1107 CONFIG_VIDEO
1108
1109 Define this to enable video support (for output to
1110 video).
1111
1112 CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000
1113
1114 Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip
1115
1116 CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM
wdenkd3602132004-03-25 15:14:43 +00001117 Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The
wdenkaea86e42004-03-23 22:53:55 +00001118 video output is selected via environment 'videoout'
1119 (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is
1120 assumed.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001121
wdenkd3602132004-03-25 15:14:43 +00001122 For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001123 selected via environment 'videomode'. Two different ways
wdenkaea86e42004-03-23 22:53:55 +00001124 are possible:
1125 - "videomode=num" 'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers.
wdenk05939202004-04-18 17:39:38 +00001126 Following standard modes are supported (* is default):
wdenkaea86e42004-03-23 22:53:55 +00001127
1128 Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024
1129 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1130 8 bits | 0x301* 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307
1131 15 bits | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319
1132 16 bits | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A
1133 24 bits | 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B
1134 -------------+---------------------------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001135 (i.e. setenv videomode 317; saveenv; reset;)
1136
wdenkd3602132004-03-25 15:14:43 +00001137 - "videomode=bootargs" all the video parameters are parsed
Marcel Ziswileraea68562007-12-30 03:30:46 +01001138 from the bootargs. (See drivers/video/videomodes.c)
wdenkaea86e42004-03-23 22:53:55 +00001139
1140
stroeseb9c17c52003-04-04 15:53:41 +00001141 CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001142 Enable Epson SED13806 driver. This driver supports 8bpp
wdenk9dd2b882002-12-03 21:28:10 +00001143 and 16bpp modes defined by CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_8BPP
1144 or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP
1145
Timur Tabi020edd22011-02-15 17:09:19 -06001146 CONFIG_FSL_DIU_FB
1147 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1148 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1149 support, and should also define these other macros:
1150
1151 CONFIG_SYS_DIU_ADDR
1152 CONFIG_VIDEO
1153 CONFIG_CMD_BMP
1154 CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE
1155 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1156 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1157 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
1158 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1159
Timur Tabi32f709e2011-04-11 14:18:22 -05001160 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1161 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1162 boot. See the documentation file README.video for a
1163 description of this variable.
Timur Tabi020edd22011-02-15 17:09:19 -06001164
wdenk4e112c12003-06-03 23:54:09 +00001165- Keyboard Support:
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001166 CONFIG_KEYBOARD
wdenk4e112c12003-06-03 23:54:09 +00001167
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001168 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1169 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1170 defined in your board-specific files.
1171 The only board using this so far is RBC823.
wdenk9dd2b882002-12-03 21:28:10 +00001172
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001173- LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1174
1175 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1176 display); also select one of the supported displays
1177 by defining one of these:
1178
Stelian Popf6f86652008-05-09 21:57:18 +02001179 CONFIG_ATMEL_LCD:
1180
1181 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1182
wdenkc0d54ae2003-11-25 16:55:19 +00001183 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001184
wdenkc0d54ae2003-11-25 16:55:19 +00001185 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001186
wdenkc0d54ae2003-11-25 16:55:19 +00001187 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1188
1189 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1190 Active, color, single scan.
1191
1192 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001193
wdenkc0d54ae2003-11-25 16:55:19 +00001194 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001195 Active, color, single scan.
1196
1197 CONFIG_SHARP_16x9
1198
1199 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1200 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1201
1202 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1203
1204 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1205 Active, color, single scan.
1206
1207 CONFIG_HLD1045
1208
1209 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1210 Active, color, single scan.
1211
1212 CONFIG_OPTREX_BW
1213
1214 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1215 or
1216 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1217 or
1218 Hitachi SP14Q002
1219
1220 320x240. Black & white.
1221
1222 Normally display is black on white background; define
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001223 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001224
wdenkeb20ad32003-09-05 23:19:14 +00001225- Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
wdenk92bbe3f2003-04-20 14:04:18 +00001226
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001227 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1228 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1229 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
wdenk01686632004-06-30 22:59:18 +00001230 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001231 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1232 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1233 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1234 loaded very quickly after power-on.
wdenk92bbe3f2003-04-20 14:04:18 +00001235
Matthias Weisser53884182009-07-09 16:07:30 +02001236 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1237
1238 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1239 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1240 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1241 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1242 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1243 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1244
1245 Example:
1246 setenv splashpos m,m
1247 => image at center of screen
1248
1249 setenv splashpos 30,20
1250 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1251
1252 setenv splashpos -10,m
1253 => vertically centered image
1254 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1255
Stefan Roesed9d97742005-09-22 09:04:17 +02001256- Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1257
1258 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1259 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1260 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1261
Anatolij Gustschin6b4e4fc2010-03-15 14:50:25 +01001262- Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1263
1264 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1265 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1266 bmp command.
1267
wdenk710e3502003-08-29 20:57:53 +00001268- Compression support:
1269 CONFIG_BZIP2
1270
1271 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1272 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1273 compressed images are supported.
1274
wdenk9c53f402003-10-15 23:53:47 +00001275 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001276 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
wdenk9c53f402003-10-15 23:53:47 +00001277 be at least 4MB.
wdenk92bbe3f2003-04-20 14:04:18 +00001278
Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini35afc062008-09-08 02:46:13 +02001279 CONFIG_LZMA
1280
1281 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1282 images is included.
1283
1284 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1285 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1286 formula:
1287
1288 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1289
1290 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1291 and Literal pos bits.
1292
1293 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1294 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1295 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1296 a very small buffer.
1297
1298 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1299 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001300 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini35afc062008-09-08 02:46:13 +02001301
wdenk0e2bd9c2004-06-06 21:51:03 +00001302- MII/PHY support:
1303 CONFIG_PHY_ADDR
1304
1305 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1306
1307 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1308
1309 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1310
1311 CONFIG_PHY_GIGE
1312
1313 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001314 detection of gigabit PHY is included.
wdenk0e2bd9c2004-06-06 21:51:03 +00001315
1316 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1317
1318 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1319 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1320 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1321 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1322
1323 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1324
1325 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1326 command issued before MII status register can be read
1327
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001328- Ethernet address:
1329 CONFIG_ETHADDR
richardretanubune5167f12008-09-29 18:28:23 -04001330 CONFIG_ETH1ADDR
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001331 CONFIG_ETH2ADDR
1332 CONFIG_ETH3ADDR
richardretanubune5167f12008-09-29 18:28:23 -04001333 CONFIG_ETH4ADDR
1334 CONFIG_ETH5ADDR
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001335
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001336 Define a default value for Ethernet address to use
1337 for the respective Ethernet interface, in case this
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001338 is not determined automatically.
1339
1340- IP address:
1341 CONFIG_IPADDR
1342
1343 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001344 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001345 determined through e.g. bootp.
1346
1347- Server IP address:
1348 CONFIG_SERVERIP
1349
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001350 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001351 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1352
Robin Getz470a6d42009-07-21 12:15:28 -04001353 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1354
1355 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1356 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1357
David Updegraff7280da72007-06-11 10:41:07 -05001358- Multicast TFTP Mode:
1359 CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP
1360
1361 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1362 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001363 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
David Updegraff7280da72007-06-11 10:41:07 -05001364 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1365 multicast group.
1366
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001367- BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1368 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1369
1370 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1371 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1372 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1373 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1374 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1375 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1376 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1377 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
Wolfgang Denkb65aaf92007-08-06 23:21:05 +02001378 following delays are inserted then:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001379
1380 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1381 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1382 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1383 4th and following
1384 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1385
stroesee0aadfb2003-08-28 14:17:32 +00001386- DHCP Advanced Options:
Jon Loeliger5336a762007-07-09 22:08:34 -05001387 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1388 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
stroesee0aadfb2003-08-28 14:17:32 +00001389
Jon Loeliger5336a762007-07-09 22:08:34 -05001390 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1391 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1392 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1393 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1394 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1395 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1396 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1397 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2
1398 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1399 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1400 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1401 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
stroesee0aadfb2003-08-28 14:17:32 +00001402
Wilson Callan22bcd6e2007-07-28 10:56:13 -04001403 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1404 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
stroesee0aadfb2003-08-28 14:17:32 +00001405
1406 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1407 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1408 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1409 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1410 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1411 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1412 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
Jon Loeliger5336a762007-07-09 22:08:34 -05001413 is defined.
stroesee0aadfb2003-08-28 14:17:32 +00001414
1415 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1416 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1417 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
Wilson Callan22bcd6e2007-07-28 10:56:13 -04001418 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
Jon Loeliger5336a762007-07-09 22:08:34 -05001419 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1420 option 12 to the DHCP server.
stroesee0aadfb2003-08-28 14:17:32 +00001421
Aras Vaichas72aa3f32008-03-26 09:43:57 +11001422 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1423
1424 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1425 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1426 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1427 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1428 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1429 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1430 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1431 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1432 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1433 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1434 this delay.
1435
wdenk145d2c12004-04-15 21:48:45 +00001436 - CDP Options:
wdenk05939202004-04-18 17:39:38 +00001437 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
wdenk145d2c12004-04-15 21:48:45 +00001438
1439 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1440
1441 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1442
1443 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1444 of the device.
1445
1446 CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID
1447
1448 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1449 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001450 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
wdenk145d2c12004-04-15 21:48:45 +00001451
1452 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1453
1454 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1455 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1456
1457 CONFIG_CDP_VERSION
1458
1459 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1460
1461 CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM
1462
1463 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1464
1465 CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER
1466
1467 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1468
1469 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1470
1471 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1472 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1473
1474 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1475
1476 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1477
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001478- Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED
1479
1480 Several configurations allow to display the current
1481 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1482 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1483 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1484 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1485 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1486 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this
1487 feature in U-Boot.
1488
1489- CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
1490
1491 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
1492 on those systems that support this (optional)
1493 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
1494
1495- I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C | CONFIG_SOFT_I2C
1496
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001497 These enable I2C serial bus commands. Defining either of
wdenk21136db2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001498 (but not both of) CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C will
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001499 include the appropriate I2C driver for the selected CPU.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001500
wdenk21136db2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001501 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -05001502 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001503 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
1504 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001505 command line interface.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001506
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001507 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001508
wdenk21136db2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001509 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C configures u-boot to use a software (aka
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001510 bit-banging) driver instead of CPM or similar hardware
1511 support for I2C.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001512
wdenk21136db2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001513 There are several other quantities that must also be
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001514 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001515
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001516 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
wdenk21136db2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001517 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001518 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001519 the CPU's i2c node address).
wdenk21136db2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001520
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -05001521 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
Stefan Roese88fbf932010-04-15 16:07:28 +02001522 (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
Peter Tysere4d1abc2010-04-12 22:28:21 -05001523 and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
1524 eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
1525 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001526
Eric Millbrandt12990a42009-09-03 08:09:44 -05001527 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
1528
1529 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1530 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1531 in progress. Reset the slave devices by sending start
1532 commands until the slave device responds.
1533
wdenk21136db2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001534 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001535
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001536 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SOFT_I2C)
1537 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1538 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001539
1540 I2C_INIT
1541
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001542 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001543 controller or configure ports.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001544
wdenk544e9732004-02-06 23:19:44 +00001545 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001546
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001547 I2C_PORT
1548
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001549 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
1550 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
1551 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001552
1553 I2C_ACTIVE
1554
1555 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1556 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1557 define can be null.
1558
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001559 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1560
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001561 I2C_TRISTATE
1562
1563 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1564 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1565 define can be null.
1566
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001567 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1568
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001569 I2C_READ
1570
1571 Code that returns TRUE if the I2C data line is high,
1572 FALSE if it is low.
1573
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001574 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1575
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001576 I2C_SDA(bit)
1577
1578 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1579 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1580
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001581 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
wdenk2bb11052003-07-17 23:16:40 +00001582 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
wdenk544e9732004-02-06 23:19:44 +00001583 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001584
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001585 I2C_SCL(bit)
1586
1587 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1588 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1589
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001590 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
wdenk2bb11052003-07-17 23:16:40 +00001591 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
wdenk544e9732004-02-06 23:19:44 +00001592 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001593
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001594 I2C_DELAY
1595
1596 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1597 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001598 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
wdenk21136db2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001599 like:
1600
wdenkb9bbd242003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001601 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001602
Mike Frysingeree12d542010-07-21 13:38:02 -04001603 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1604
1605 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1606 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1607 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1608 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1609
1610 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1611 the generic GPIO functions.
1612
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001613 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
wdenkcc1e2562003-03-06 13:39:27 +00001614
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001615 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1616 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1617 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1618 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1619 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1620 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1621 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1622 is run early in the boot sequence.
wdenkcc1e2562003-03-06 13:39:27 +00001623
Richard Retanubundf0149c2010-04-12 15:08:17 -04001624 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
1625
1626 An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
1627 defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
1628 boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
1629 is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
1630 using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
1631 controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
1632 i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
1633 controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
1634
wdenk0e2bd9c2004-06-06 21:51:03 +00001635 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
1636
1637 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
1638 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
1639 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
1640
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001641 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1642
1643 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
1644 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1645 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
1646 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1647
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001648 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001649
1650 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
Peter Tyser469cde42009-04-18 22:34:03 -05001651 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1652 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1653 a 1D array of device addresses
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001654
1655 e.g.
1656 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001657 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001658
1659 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1660
1661 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001662 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MULTI_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001663
1664 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1665
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001666 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
Timur Tabiab347542006-11-03 19:15:00 -06001667
1668 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1669 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1670
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001671 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
Stefan Roese096cc9b2007-02-20 10:51:26 +01001672
1673 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1674 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1675
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001676 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
Stefan Roese096cc9b2007-02-20 10:51:26 +01001677
1678 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
1679 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
1680
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001681 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
Victor Gallardo31856dd2008-09-09 15:13:29 -07001682
1683 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
1684 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
1685 specified DTT device.
1686
Timur Tabiab347542006-11-03 19:15:00 -06001687 CONFIG_FSL_I2C
1688
1689 Define this option if you want to use Freescale's I2C driver in
Marcel Ziswileraea68562007-12-30 03:30:46 +01001690 drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c.
Timur Tabiab347542006-11-03 19:15:00 -06001691
Heiko Schocher6ee861b2008-10-15 09:39:47 +02001692 CONFIG_I2C_MUX
1693
1694 Define this option if you have I2C devices reached over 1 .. n
1695 I2C Muxes like the pca9544a. This option addes a new I2C
1696 Command "i2c bus [muxtype:muxaddr:muxchannel]" which adds a
1697 new I2C Bus to the existing I2C Busses. If you select the
1698 new Bus with "i2c dev", u-bbot sends first the commandos for
1699 the muxes to activate this new "bus".
1700
1701 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS must be also defined, to use this
1702 feature!
1703
1704 Example:
1705 Adding a new I2C Bus reached over 2 pca9544a muxes
1706 The First mux with address 70 and channel 6
1707 The Second mux with address 71 and channel 4
1708
1709 => i2c bus pca9544a:70:6:pca9544a:71:4
1710
1711 Use the "i2c bus" command without parameter, to get a list
1712 of I2C Busses with muxes:
1713
1714 => i2c bus
1715 Busses reached over muxes:
1716 Bus ID: 2
1717 reached over Mux(es):
1718 pca9544a@70 ch: 4
1719 Bus ID: 3
1720 reached over Mux(es):
1721 pca9544a@70 ch: 6
1722 pca9544a@71 ch: 4
1723 =>
1724
1725 If you now switch to the new I2C Bus 3 with "i2c dev 3"
Michael Jones9c5ef8d2011-07-14 22:09:28 +00001726 u-boot first sends the command to the mux@70 to enable
1727 channel 6, and then the command to the mux@71 to enable
Heiko Schocher6ee861b2008-10-15 09:39:47 +02001728 the channel 4.
1729
1730 After that, you can use the "normal" i2c commands as
Michael Jones9c5ef8d2011-07-14 22:09:28 +00001731 usual to communicate with your I2C devices behind
Heiko Schocher6ee861b2008-10-15 09:39:47 +02001732 the 2 muxes.
1733
1734 This option is actually implemented for the bitbanging
1735 algorithm in common/soft_i2c.c and for the Hardware I2C
1736 Bus on the MPC8260. But it should be not so difficult
1737 to add this option to other architectures.
1738
Andrew Dyer58c41f92008-12-29 17:36:01 -06001739 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1740
1741 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1742 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1743 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1744 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1745 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1746 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1747 the other.
Timur Tabiab347542006-11-03 19:15:00 -06001748
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001749- SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
1750
1751 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1752 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1753 D/As on the SACSng board)
1754
Yoshihiro Shimoda65bd9b42011-01-31 16:50:43 +09001755 CONFIG_SH_SPI
1756
1757 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
1758 only SH7757 is supported.
1759
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001760 CONFIG_SPI_X
1761
1762 Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing.
1763 (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X)
1764
1765 CONFIG_SOFT_SPI
1766
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001767 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
1768 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
1769 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
1770 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
1771 defined, the board configuration must define several
1772 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
1773 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001774
Ben Warren7efe9272008-01-16 22:37:35 -05001775 CONFIG_HARD_SPI
1776
1777 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
1778 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
1779 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
1780 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
1781 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
1782
Guennadi Liakhovetski07327a52008-04-15 14:14:25 +02001783 CONFIG_MXC_SPI
1784
1785 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
1786 SoCs. Currently only i.MX31 is supported.
1787
Matthias Fuchsa4400872007-12-27 17:12:34 +01001788- FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001789
Matthias Fuchsa4400872007-12-27 17:12:34 +01001790 Enables FPGA subsystem.
1791
1792 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
1793
1794 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
1795 (ALTERA, XILINX)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001796
Matthias Fuchsa4400872007-12-27 17:12:34 +01001797 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001798
Matthias Fuchsa4400872007-12-27 17:12:34 +01001799 Enables support for FPGA family.
1800 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
1801
1802 CONFIG_FPGA_COUNT
1803
1804 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001805
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001806 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001807
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001808 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001809
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001810 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001811
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001812 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
1813 status by the configuration function. This option
1814 will require a board or device specific function to
1815 be written.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001816
1817 CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY
1818
1819 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
1820 configuration driver.
1821
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001822 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001823 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
1824
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001825 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001826
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001827 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
1828 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
1829 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
1830 indicated a CRC error).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001831
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001832 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001833
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001834 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert
1835 after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II
1836 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001837 ms.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001838
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001839 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001840
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001841 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001842 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001843
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001844 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001845
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001846 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001847 200 ms.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001848
1849- Configuration Management:
1850 CONFIG_IDENT_STRING
1851
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001852 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
1853 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001854
1855- Vendor Parameter Protection:
1856
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001857 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
1858 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
wdenkeb20ad32003-09-05 23:19:14 +00001859 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001860 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
1861 protects these variables from casual modification by
1862 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
1863 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001864 change this behaviour:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001865
1866 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
1867 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
wdenkcc1e2562003-03-06 13:39:27 +00001868 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001869 these parameters.
1870
1871 Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR
1872 _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001873 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001874 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
1875 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
1876 read-only.]
1877
1878- Protected RAM:
1879 CONFIG_PRAM
1880
1881 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
1882 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
1883 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
1884 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
1885 this default value by defining an environment
1886 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
1887 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
1888 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
1889 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
1890 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
1891 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
1892 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
1893
Wolfgang Denk86eb3b72005-11-20 21:40:11 +01001894 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001895 saveenv
1896
1897 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
1898 either, which results in a memory region that will
1899 not be affected by reboots.
1900
1901 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
1902 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
1903 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
1904 following board configurations are known to be
1905 "pRAM-clean":
1906
1907 ETX094, IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
1908 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON, LANTEC,
Wolfgang Denkcd4e42e2010-10-05 22:54:53 +02001909 FLAGADM, TQM8260
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001910
1911- Error Recovery:
1912 CONFIG_PANIC_HANG
1913
1914 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
1915 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
1916 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001917 system where you want the system to reboot
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001918 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
1919 useful during development since you can try to debug
1920 the conditions that lead to the situation.
1921
1922 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
1923
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001924 This variable defines the number of retries for
1925 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
1926 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
1927 default value of 5 is used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001928
Guennadi Liakhovetskib38c2b32008-04-03 17:04:19 +02001929 CONFIG_ARP_TIMEOUT
1930
1931 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
1932
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001933- Command Interpreter:
Wolfgang Denk81352ed2006-10-28 02:28:02 +02001934 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
wdenk3902d702004-04-15 18:22:41 +00001935
1936 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
1937
Wolfgang Denk018147d2006-11-27 15:32:42 +01001938 Note that this feature has NOT been implemented yet
1939 for the "hush" shell.
Wolfgang Denk81352ed2006-10-28 02:28:02 +02001940
1941
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001942 CONFIG_SYS_HUSH_PARSER
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001943
1944 Define this variable to enable the "hush" shell (from
1945 Busybox) as command line interpreter, thus enabling
1946 powerful command line syntax like
1947 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||'
1948 constructs ("shell scripts").
1949
1950 If undefined, you get the old, much simpler behaviour
1951 with a somewhat smaller memory footprint.
1952
1953
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001954 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001955
1956 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
1957 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
1958 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
1959
1960 Note:
1961
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001962 In the current implementation, the local variables
1963 space and global environment variables space are
1964 separated. Local variables are those you define by
1965 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
1966 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
1967 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
1968 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001969
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001970 Global environment variables are those you use
1971 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
1972 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
1973 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001974
1975 To store commands and special characters in a
1976 variable, please use double quotation marks
1977 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
1978 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
1979 symbols.
1980
Wolfgang Denk2039a072006-07-21 11:35:21 +02001981- Commandline Editing and History:
1982 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
1983
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001984 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
Wolfgang Denkc80857e2006-07-21 11:56:05 +02001985 commandline input operations
Wolfgang Denk2039a072006-07-21 11:35:21 +02001986
wdenkc0aa5c52003-12-06 19:49:23 +00001987- Default Environment:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001988 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
1989
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001990 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
1991 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
wdenkeb20ad32003-09-05 23:19:14 +00001992 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
wdenk591dda52002-11-18 00:14:45 +00001993
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001994 For example, place something like this in your
1995 board's config file:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001996
1997 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
1998 "myvar1=value1\0" \
1999 "myvar2=value2\0"
2000
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002001 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2002 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2003 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2004 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
wdenkeb20ad32003-09-05 23:19:14 +00002005 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002006 You better know what you are doing here.
2007
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002008 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2009 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
Wolfgang Denk85c25df2009-04-01 23:34:12 +02002010 the environment like the "source" command or the
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002011 boot command first.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002012
wdenkc0aa5c52003-12-06 19:49:23 +00002013- DataFlash Support:
wdenk381669a2003-06-16 23:50:08 +00002014 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
2015
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00002016 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
2017 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
2018 commands cp, md...
wdenk381669a2003-06-16 23:50:08 +00002019
wdenkef893942004-02-23 16:11:30 +00002020- SystemACE Support:
2021 CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
2022
2023 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
2024 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002025 of the chip must also be defined in the
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002026 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
wdenkef893942004-02-23 16:11:30 +00002027
2028 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002029 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
wdenkef893942004-02-23 16:11:30 +00002030
2031 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
2032 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
2033
Wolfgang Denke3cfce52005-09-24 22:37:32 +02002034- TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2035 CONFIG_TFTP_PORT
2036
Wolfgang Denk227b5192005-09-24 23:25:46 +02002037 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
Wolfgang Denke3cfce52005-09-24 22:37:32 +02002038 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
Wolfgang Denk227b5192005-09-24 23:25:46 +02002039 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
Wolfgang Denke3cfce52005-09-24 22:37:32 +02002040 number generator is used.
2041
Wolfgang Denk227b5192005-09-24 23:25:46 +02002042 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2043 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2044 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2045
2046 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
Wolfgang Denke3cfce52005-09-24 22:37:32 +02002047 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2048 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2049 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2050 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2051 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2052 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2053
wdenkc0aa5c52003-12-06 19:49:23 +00002054- Show boot progress:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002055 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2056
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002057 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2058 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2059 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2060 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2061 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2062 the following checkpoints are implemented:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002063
Wolfgang Denk33a57342011-02-04 14:25:17 +01002064- Standalone program support:
2065 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2066
2067 This option allows to define board specific values
2068 for the address where standalone program gets loaded,
2069 thus overwriting the architecutre dependent default
2070 settings.
2071
Minkyu Kang50777c42011-04-24 22:22:34 +00002072- Frame Buffer Address:
2073 CONFIG_FB_ADDR
2074
2075 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific address for
2076 frame buffer.
2077 Then system will reserve the frame buffer address to defined address
2078 instead of lcd_setmem (this function grab the memory for frame buffer
2079 by panel's size).
2080
2081 Please see board_init_f function.
2082
2083 If you want this config option then,
2084 please define it at your board config file
2085
Marian Balakowicz74eb4ae2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002086Legacy uImage format:
2087
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002088 Arg Where When
2089 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
wdenk544e9732004-02-06 23:19:44 +00002090 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002091 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
wdenk544e9732004-02-06 23:19:44 +00002092 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002093 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
wdenk544e9732004-02-06 23:19:44 +00002094 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002095 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2096 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2097 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
Marian Balakowicz74eb4ae2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002098 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002099 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2100 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2101 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2102 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
Marian Balakowicz74eb4ae2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002103 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002104 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
Marian Balakowicz74eb4ae2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002105
2106 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2107 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2108 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2109 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2110 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2111 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2112 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002113 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
Marian Balakowicz74eb4ae2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002114 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2115 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2116
Peter Tysercede5d82010-04-12 22:28:04 -05002117 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002118
Stefan Roese88fbf932010-04-15 16:07:28 +02002119 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
wdenkd729d302004-02-27 00:07:27 +00002120 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2121 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
wdenke97d3d92004-02-23 22:22:28 +00002122
Heiko Schocher633e03a2007-06-22 19:11:54 +02002123 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2124 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2125 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2126 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2127 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2128 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2129 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2130 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2131 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2132 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2133 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2134 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2135 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2136 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2137 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2138 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2139 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2140 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2141 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2142 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2143 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2144 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2145 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2146 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2147 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2148 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2149 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2150 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2151 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2152 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2153 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2154 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2155 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2156 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2157 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2158 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2159 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2160 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2161 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2162 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2163 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2164 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2165 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2166 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2167 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2168 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2169 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002170
Heiko Schocher633e03a2007-06-22 19:11:54 +02002171 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002172
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002173 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
Heiko Schocher633e03a2007-06-22 19:11:54 +02002174 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2175 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002176
Heiko Schocher633e03a2007-06-22 19:11:54 +02002177 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
2178 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling NetLoop()
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002179 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in NetLoop() occurred
Heiko Schocher633e03a2007-06-22 19:11:54 +02002180 81 common/cmd_net.c NetLoop() back without error
2181 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2182 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
Wolfgang Denk85c25df2009-04-01 23:34:12 +02002183 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2184 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
Heiko Schocher633e03a2007-06-22 19:11:54 +02002185 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002186
Marian Balakowicz74eb4ae2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002187FIT uImage format:
2188
2189 Arg Where When
2190 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2191 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2192 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2193 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2194 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2195 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
Marian Balakowicz0cd4f3d2008-03-12 10:35:46 +01002196 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
Marian Balakowicz74eb4ae2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002197 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2198 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2199 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2200 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2201 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002202 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2203 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
Marian Balakowicz74eb4ae2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002204 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2205 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2206 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2207 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2208 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2209 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2210 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2211 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2212
2213 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2214 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2215 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002216 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
Marian Balakowicz74eb4ae2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002217 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2218 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2219 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2220 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2221 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2222 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2223 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2224 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2225 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2226 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2227 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2228 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2229
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002230 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
Marian Balakowicz74eb4ae2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002231 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2232
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002233 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
Marian Balakowicz74eb4ae2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002234 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2235
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002236 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
Marian Balakowicz74eb4ae2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002237 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2238
Detlev Zundel0ecb6112009-12-01 17:16:19 +01002239- Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2240 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP
2241 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2242 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2243
2244 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2245 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2246
2247- MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2248 CONFIG_MTD_DEVICE
2249
2250 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
2251 Needed for mtdparts command support.
2252
2253 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2254
2255 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
2256 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
2257
Daniel Schwierzeck39ca08e2011-07-18 07:48:07 +00002258- SPL framework
2259 CONFIG_SPL
2260 Enable building of SPL globally.
2261
2262 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
2263 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
2264
2265 CONFIG_SPL_LDSCRIPT
2266 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
2267
2268 CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
2269 Support for common/libcommon.o in SPL binary
2270
2271 CONFIG_SPL_LIBDISK_SUPPORT
2272 Support for disk/libdisk.o in SPL binary
2273
2274 CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT
2275 Support for drivers/i2c/libi2c.o in SPL binary
2276
2277 CONFIG_SPL_GPIO_SUPPORT
2278 Support for drivers/gpio/libgpio.o in SPL binary
2279
2280 CONFIG_SPL_MMC_SUPPORT
2281 Support for drivers/mmc/libmmc.o in SPL binary
2282
2283 CONFIG_SPL_SERIAL_SUPPORT
2284 Support for drivers/serial/libserial.o in SPL binary
2285
2286 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_FLASH_SUPPORT
2287 Support for drivers/mtd/spi/libspi_flash.o in SPL binary
2288
2289 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUPPORT
2290 Support for drivers/spi/libspi.o in SPL binary
2291
2292 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT
2293 Support for fs/fat/libfat.o in SPL binary
2294
2295 CONFIG_SPL_LIBGENERIC_SUPPORT
2296 Support for lib/libgeneric.o in SPL binary
Marian Balakowicz74eb4ae2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002297
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002298Modem Support:
2299--------------
2300
Wolfgang Denk8f399b32011-05-01 20:44:23 +02002301[so far only for SMDK2400 boards]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002302
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002303- Modem support enable:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002304 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT
2305
2306- RTS/CTS Flow control enable:
2307 CONFIG_HWFLOW
2308
2309- Modem debug support:
2310 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG
2311
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002312 Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg())
2313 for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002314
wdenkc0aa5c52003-12-06 19:49:23 +00002315- Interrupt support (PPC):
2316
wdenk1ebf41e2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00002317 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2318 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002319 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
wdenk1ebf41e2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00002320 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002321 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
wdenk1ebf41e2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00002322 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002323 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
wdenk1ebf41e2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00002324 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2325 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2326 general timer_interrupt().
wdenkc0aa5c52003-12-06 19:49:23 +00002327
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002328- General:
2329
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002330 In the target system modem support is enabled when a
2331 specific key (key combination) is pressed during
2332 power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002333 (autoboot). The key_pressed() function is called from
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002334 board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy
2335 function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem
2336 initialization.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002337
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002338 If there are no modem init strings in the
2339 environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the
2340 previous output (banner, info printfs) will be
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002341 suppressed, though.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002342
2343 See also: doc/README.Modem
2344
2345
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002346Configuration Settings:
2347-----------------------
2348
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002349- CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002350 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2351
Peter Tyserdfb72b82009-01-27 18:03:12 -06002352- CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2353 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2354
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002355- CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002356 prompt for user input.
2357
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002358- CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002359
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002360- CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002361
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002362- CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002363
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002364- CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002365 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2366 booted
2367
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002368- CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002369 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2370
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002371- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00002372 Suppress display of console information at boot.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002373
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002374- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00002375 If the board specific function
2376 extern int overwrite_console (void);
2377 returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002378 serial port, else the settings in the environment are used.
2379
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002380- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00002381 Enable the call to overwrite_console().
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002382
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002383- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002384 Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings.
2385
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002386- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002387 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2388 simple memory test.
2389
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002390- CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00002391 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002392
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002393- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
wdenk5958f4a2003-09-18 09:21:33 +00002394 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2395 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2396
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002397- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE (PPC only):
2398 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
Stefan Roesea13709f2008-03-26 10:14:11 +01002399 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002400 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
Stefan Roesea13709f2008-03-26 10:14:11 +01002401 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2402 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2403 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
Stefan Roese37f31bf2008-03-28 11:02:53 +01002404 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
Stefan Roesea13709f2008-03-26 10:14:11 +01002405 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
Stefan Roese37f31bf2008-03-28 11:02:53 +01002406 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
Stefan Roesea13709f2008-03-26 10:14:11 +01002407
2408 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2409 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2410 be touched.
2411
2412 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2413 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2414 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2415 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2416 problems.
2417
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002418- CONFIG_SYS_TFTP_LOADADDR:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002419 Default load address for network file downloads
2420
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002421- CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002422 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2423
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002424- CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002425 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2426
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002427- CONFIG_SYS_MBIO_BASE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002428 Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a
2429 Cogent motherboard)
2430
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002431- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002432 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2433
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002434- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002435 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2436 make config files to be same as the text base address
Wolfgang Denk0708bc62010-10-07 21:51:12 +02002437 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002438 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002439
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002440- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00002441 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2442 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2443 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2444 flash sector.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002445
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002446- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002447 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2448
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002449- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
Stefan Roese5d5ce292006-03-13 11:16:36 +01002450 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
2451 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002452 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
Stefan Roese5d5ce292006-03-13 11:16:36 +01002453 to adjust this setting to your needs.
2454
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002455- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002456 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
2457 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
Bartlomiej Siekac5648c82008-04-14 15:44:16 +02002458 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
2459 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
2460 enviroment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
2461 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
Grant Likely26396382011-03-28 09:58:43 +00002462 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
2463 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
2464 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
2465 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002466
John Rigbyeea8e692010-10-13 13:57:35 -06002467- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
2468 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
2469 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
2470 is enabled.
2471
2472- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
2473 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
2474 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2475
2476- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
2477 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
2478 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2479
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002480- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002481 Max number of Flash memory banks
2482
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002483- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002484 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
2485
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002486- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002487 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
2488
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002489- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002490 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
2491
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002492- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
wdenkdccbda02003-07-14 22:13:32 +00002493 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
2494
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002495- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
wdenkdccbda02003-07-14 22:13:32 +00002496 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
2497
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002498- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
wdenkdccbda02003-07-14 22:13:32 +00002499 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
2500 instead of U-Boot software protection.
2501
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002502- CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002503
2504 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
2505 without this option such a download has to be
2506 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
2507 copy from RAM to flash.
2508
2509 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
2510 you can check if the download worked before you erase
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002511 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
2512 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002513 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
2514
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002515- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002516 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
wdenk2cefd152004-02-08 22:55:38 +00002517 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
2518
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD8d94c232008-08-13 01:40:42 +02002519- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
wdenk2cefd152004-02-08 22:55:38 +00002520 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
2521 in the drivers directory
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002522
Piotr Ziecik3e939e92008-11-17 15:57:58 +01002523- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
2524 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
2525 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
2526 to the MTD layer.
2527
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002528- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
Guennadi Liakhovetski183284f2008-04-03 13:36:02 +02002529 Use buffered writes to flash.
2530
2531- CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
2532 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
2533 write commands.
2534
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002535- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
Stefan Roesec443fe92005-11-22 13:20:42 +01002536 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
2537 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
2538 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
2539 optionally available.
2540
Jerry Van Barenaae73572008-03-08 13:48:01 -05002541- CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
2542 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
2543 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
2544 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
2545
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002546- CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002547 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
2548 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
stroese94ef1cf2003-06-05 15:39:44 +00002549 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
2550 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002551 on high Ethernet traffic.
stroese94ef1cf2003-06-05 15:39:44 +00002552 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
2553
Wolfgang Denk460a9ff2010-06-20 23:33:59 +02002554- CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
2555
Wolfgang Denk1136f692010-10-27 22:48:30 +02002556 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
2557 internally to store the environment settings. The default
2558 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
2559 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
2560 lib/hashtable.c for details.
Wolfgang Denk460a9ff2010-06-20 23:33:59 +02002561
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002562The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
2563of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
2564following configurations:
2565
Mike Frysinger63b8f122011-07-08 10:44:25 +00002566- CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
2567
2568 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
2569 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
2570
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD53db4cd2008-09-10 22:48:04 +02002571- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002572
2573 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
2574
2575 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
2576 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
2577 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
2578 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
2579 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
2580 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
2581 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
2582 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
2583 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
2584 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
2585 between U-Boot and the environment.
2586
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD7e1cda62008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002587 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002588
2589 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
2590 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
2591 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
2592 for this sector is given here.
2593
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002594 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002595
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD7e1cda62008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002596 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002597
2598 This is just another way to specify the start address of
2599 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD7e1cda62008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002600 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002601
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD7e1cda62008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002602 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002603
2604 Size of the sector containing the environment.
2605
2606
2607 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
2608 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
2609 the environment.
2610
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD7e1cda62008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002611 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002612
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD53db4cd2008-09-10 22:48:04 +02002613 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD7e1cda62008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002614 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002615 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
2616 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
2617
2618 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
2619 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
2620 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
2621 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
2622 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
2623 updating the environment in flash makes it always
2624 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
2625 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
2626 RAM, your target system will be dead.
2627
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD7e1cda62008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002628 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
2629 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002630
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002631 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002632 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
wdenkb02744a2003-04-05 00:53:31 +00002633 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002634 a "saveenv" operation.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002635
2636BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
2637source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
2638accordingly!
2639
2640
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARDfdb79c32008-09-10 22:47:59 +02002641- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002642
2643 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
2644 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
2645 environment.
2646
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD7e1cda62008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002647 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
2648 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002649
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002650 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002651 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
2652 can just be read and written to, without any special
2653 provision.
2654
2655BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
2656in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002657console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002658U-Boot will hang.
2659
2660Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
2661environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
2662keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
2663to save the current settings.
2664
2665
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARDe46af642008-09-05 09:19:30 +02002666- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002667
2668 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
2669 device and a driver for it.
2670
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD7e1cda62008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002671 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2672 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002673
2674 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
2675 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
2676
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002677 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002678 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
2679 The default address is zero.
2680
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002681 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002682 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
2683 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
2684 would require six bits.
2685
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002686 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002687 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
wdenk544e9732004-02-06 23:19:44 +00002688 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002689
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002690 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002691 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
2692 that this is NOT the chip address length!
2693
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002694 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
wdenk20c98a62004-04-23 20:32:05 +00002695 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
2696 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
2697 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
2698 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
2699 byte chips.
2700
2701 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
2702 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
2703 in the chip address.
2704
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002705 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002706 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
2707
Heiko Schocher9bb0dd52010-01-07 08:55:40 +01002708 - CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C
2709 define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your
2710 EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.
2711
2712 - CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS
2713 if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over
2714 I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this
2715 EEPROM. For example:
2716
Wolfgang Denk16fa98a2010-06-13 17:48:15 +02002717 #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS "pca9547:70:d\0"
Heiko Schocher9bb0dd52010-01-07 08:55:40 +01002718
2719 EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over
2720 a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002721
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD2b14d2b2008-09-10 22:47:58 +02002722- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
wdenk86765902003-12-06 23:55:10 +00002723
wdenk1ebf41e2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00002724 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
wdenk86765902003-12-06 23:55:10 +00002725 want to use for the environment.
2726
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD7e1cda62008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002727 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2728 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
2729 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
wdenk86765902003-12-06 23:55:10 +00002730
2731 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
2732 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
2733 at the specified address.
2734
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARDdda84dd2008-09-10 22:47:58 +02002735- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
wdenk79b59372004-06-09 14:58:14 +00002736
2737 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
2738 for the environment.
2739
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD7e1cda62008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002740 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2741 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
wdenk79b59372004-06-09 14:58:14 +00002742
2743 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
Scott Wood08239322010-09-17 14:38:37 -05002744 area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
2745 aligned to an erase block boundary.
wdenk86765902003-12-06 23:55:10 +00002746
Scott Wood08239322010-09-17 14:38:37 -05002747 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
Markus Klotzbuecher5d113e02006-03-20 18:02:44 +01002748
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD7e1cda62008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002749 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
Scott Wood08239322010-09-17 14:38:37 -05002750 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
2751 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
2752 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_RENDUND must be
2753 aligned to an erase block boundary.
2754
2755 - CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):
2756
2757 Specifies the length of the region in which the environment
2758 can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's
2759 block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than
2760 are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within
2761 the range to be avoided.
2762
2763 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):
Markus Klotzbuecher5d113e02006-03-20 18:02:44 +01002764
Scott Wood08239322010-09-17 14:38:37 -05002765 Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the
2766 environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The
2767 "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset.
2768 Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when
2769 using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.
Markus Klotzbuecher5d113e02006-03-20 18:02:44 +01002770
Guennadi Liakhovetskifad24442009-05-18 16:07:22 +02002771- CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
2772
2773 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
2774 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
2775 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
2776
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002777- CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002778
2779 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
2780 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
2781 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
2782 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
2783 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
2784 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
2785 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
2786
Bruce Adleredecc942007-11-02 13:15:42 -07002787Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002788has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
Wolfgang Denk76af2782010-07-24 21:55:43 +02002789created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f()
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002790until then to read environment variables.
2791
wdenk8dba0502003-03-31 16:34:49 +00002792The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
2793is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
2794with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
2795necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
2796"baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
2797have any device yet where we could complain.]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002798
2799Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
2800the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
wdenk8dba0502003-03-31 16:34:49 +00002801use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002802
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002803- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
wdenk9c53f402003-10-15 23:53:47 +00002804 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
wdenk49c3f672003-10-08 22:33:00 +00002805
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002806 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
wdenk49c3f672003-10-08 22:33:00 +00002807 also needs to be defined.
2808
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002809- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
wdenk9c53f402003-10-15 23:53:47 +00002810 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002811
Ron Madriddfa028a2009-02-18 14:30:44 -08002812- CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
2813 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
2814 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
2815 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
2816 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
2817 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
2818
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002819Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
wdenkc8434db2003-03-26 06:55:25 +00002820---------------------------------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002821
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002822- CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002823 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
2824
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002825- CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002826 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
wdenk2bb11052003-07-17 23:16:40 +00002827
wdenk9c53f402003-10-15 23:53:47 +00002828 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
2829 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
2830 the IMMR register after a reset.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002831
wdenk1272e232002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002832- Floppy Disk Support:
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002833 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
wdenk1272e232002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002834
2835 the default drive number (default value 0)
2836
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002837 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
wdenk1272e232002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002838
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002839 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
wdenk1272e232002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002840 (default value 1)
2841
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002842 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
wdenk1272e232002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002843
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002844 defines the offset of register from address. It
2845 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002846 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
wdenk1272e232002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002847
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002848 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
2849 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002850 default value.
wdenk1272e232002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002851
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002852 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002853 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
2854 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
2855 source code. It is used to make hardware dependant
2856 initializations.
wdenk1272e232002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002857
Macpaul Lind1e49942011-04-11 20:45:32 +00002858- CONFIG_IDE_AHB:
2859 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
2860 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
2861 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
2862 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
2863 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
2864 is requierd.
2865
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002866- CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
wdenk07d7e6b2004-12-16 21:44:03 +00002867 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
wdenkb3a4a702004-12-10 11:40:40 +00002868 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002869
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002870- CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002871
wdenkeb20ad32003-09-05 23:19:14 +00002872 Start address of memory area that can be used for
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002873 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
2874 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
2875 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
2876 will become available only after programming the
2877 memory controller and running certain initialization
2878 sequences.
2879
2880 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
2881 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
2882 - MPC824X: data cache
2883 - PPC4xx: data cache
2884
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002885- CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002886
2887 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002888 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
2889 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002890 data is located at the end of the available space
Wolfgang Denk1c2e98e2010-10-26 13:32:32 +02002891 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002892 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
2893 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
2894 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002895
2896 Note:
2897 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
2898 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002899 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002900 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
2901 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
2902
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002903- CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002904
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002905- CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002906
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002907- CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002908
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002909- CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002910
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002911- CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002912
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002913- CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002914
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002915- CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002916 SDRAM timing
2917
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002918- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002919 periodic timer for refresh
2920
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002921- CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002922
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002923- FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
2924 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
2925 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
2926 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002927 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
2928
2929- SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002930 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
2931 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002932 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
2933
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002934- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
2935 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002936 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
2937 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
2938
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002939- CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002940 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2941 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
2942
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002943- CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
Heiko Schocherc8148ed2008-01-11 01:12:07 +01002944 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2945 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
2946
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002947- CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002948 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2949 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
2950
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002951- CONFIG_SYS_USE_OSCCLK:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002952 Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful,
2953 wrong setting might damage your board. Read
2954 doc/README.MBX before setting this variable!
2955
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002956- CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002957 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
2958 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
2959 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
2960 cpm_8260.h.
wdenk2029f4d2002-11-21 23:11:29 +00002961
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002962- CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
2963 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
2964 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
2965 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
2966 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
2967 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
2968 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
2969 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
Stefan Roese88fbf932010-04-15 16:07:28 +02002970 Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
wdenkbf2f8c92003-05-22 22:52:13 +00002971
Dirk Eibach378d1ca2009-02-09 08:18:34 +01002972- CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE:
2973 Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
2974 required.
2975
Kumar Gala8975d7a2010-12-30 12:09:53 -06002976- CONFIG_SYS_SRIO:
2977 Chip has SRIO or not
2978
2979- CONFIG_SRIO1:
2980 Board has SRIO 1 port available
2981
2982- CONFIG_SRIO2:
2983 Board has SRIO 2 port available
2984
2985- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
2986 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2987
2988- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
2989 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2990
2991- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
2992 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2993
Alex Watermancd6aae32011-05-19 15:08:36 -04002994- CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_16
2995 Defined to tell the NDFC that the NAND chip is using a
2996 16 bit bus.
2997
2998- CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
2999 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
3000 a default value will be used.
3001
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04003002- CONFIG_SPD_EEPROM
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003003 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
3004 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
3005
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04003006 SPD_EEPROM_ADDRESS
3007 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
3008
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02003009- CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003010 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
3011 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
3012 to something your driver can deal with.
Ben Warren45657152006-09-07 16:50:54 -04003013
York Sune73cc042011-06-07 09:42:16 +08003014- CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
3015 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
3016 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
3017 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
3018 header files or board specific files.
3019
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02003020- CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003021 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
3022 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
Timur Tabi054838e2006-10-31 18:44:42 -06003023
wdenk6203e402004-04-18 10:13:26 +00003024- CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
3025 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
3026
3027- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
3028 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
wdenk05939202004-04-18 17:39:38 +00003029 to the given FEC; i. e.
3030 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
wdenk6203e402004-04-18 10:13:26 +00003031 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
3032
3033 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
3034
3035- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
3036 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
3037 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
3038
3039- CONFIG_RMII
3040 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
3041 Note that this is a global option, we can't
3042 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
3043
wdenk20c98a62004-04-23 20:32:05 +00003044- CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
3045 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
3046 The syntax is:
3047
3048 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
3049
3050 Where address/count indicate a memory area
3051 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
3052 area should have.
3053
wdenk64519362004-07-11 17:40:54 +00003054- CONFIG_LOOPW
3055 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -05003056 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
wdenk64519362004-07-11 17:40:54 +00003057
stroesecc3af832004-12-16 18:46:55 +00003058- CONFIG_MX_CYCLIC
3059 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
3060 "md/mw" commands.
3061 Examples:
3062
wdenk07d7e6b2004-12-16 21:44:03 +00003063 => mdc.b 10 4 500
stroesecc3af832004-12-16 18:46:55 +00003064 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
3065
wdenk07d7e6b2004-12-16 21:44:03 +00003066 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
stroesecc3af832004-12-16 18:46:55 +00003067 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
3068
wdenk07d7e6b2004-12-16 21:44:03 +00003069 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
Jon Loeligerc1da5c92007-06-11 19:03:39 -05003070 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
stroesecc3af832004-12-16 18:46:55 +00003071
wdenk3d3d99f2005-04-04 12:44:11 +00003072- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
Wolfgang Denk302141d2010-11-27 23:30:56 +01003073 [ARM only] If this variable is defined, then certain
3074 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
3075 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
3076 relocate itself into RAM.
wdenk3d3d99f2005-04-04 12:44:11 +00003077
Wolfgang Denk302141d2010-11-27 23:30:56 +01003078 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
3079 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
3080 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
3081 these initializations itself.
wdenk3d3d99f2005-04-04 12:44:11 +00003082
Aneesh V552a3192011-07-13 05:11:07 +00003083- CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
Magnus Lilja1ec96d82009-06-13 20:50:00 +02003084 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3085 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
3086 compiling a NAND SPL.
wdenk336b2bc2005-04-02 23:52:25 +00003087
Matthias Weisser93416c12011-03-10 21:36:32 +00003088- CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMCPY
3089 CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET
3090 If these options are used a optimized version of memcpy/memset will
3091 be used if available. These functions may be faster under some
3092 conditions but may increase the binary size.
3093
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003094Building the Software:
3095======================
3096
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003097Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
3098and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
3099all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
3100(potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
3101recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
3102which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003103
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003104If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
3105have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
3106you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
3107Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
3108necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003109
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003110 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
3111 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003112
Peter Tyserb06976d2009-03-13 18:54:51 -05003113Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
3114 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
3115 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
3116 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
3117
3118 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
3119
3120 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
3121 be executed on computers running Windows.
3122
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003123U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
3124sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003125is done by typing:
3126
3127 make NAME_config
3128
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003129where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing configu-
3130rations; see the main Makefile for supported names.
wdenk2f0812d2003-10-08 22:45:44 +00003131
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003132Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
3133 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
3134 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
3135 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003136 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003137
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003138 make TQM823L_config
3139 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003140
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003141 make TQM823L_LCD_config
3142 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003143
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003144 etc.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003145
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003146
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003147Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
3148images ready for download to / installation on your system:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003149
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003150- "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
3151- "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
3152- "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003153
Marian Balakowiczefe063f2006-09-07 17:25:40 +02003154By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
3155in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
3156this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
3157
31581. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
3159
3160 make O=/tmp/build distclean
3161 make O=/tmp/build NAME_config
3162 make O=/tmp/build all
3163
31642. Set environment variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location:
3165
3166 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3167 make distclean
3168 make NAME_config
3169 make all
3170
3171Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the BUILD_DIR environment
3172variable.
3173
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003174
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003175Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
3176for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
3177native "make".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003178
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003179
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003180If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
3181to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
3182steps:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003183
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +000031841. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel
3185 "Makefile" and to the "MAKEALL" script, using the existing
3186 entries as examples. Note that here and at many other places
3187 boards and other names are listed in alphabetical sort order. Please
3188 keep this order.
31892. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
3190 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3191 the "Makefile", a "<board>.c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds".
31923. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3193 your board
31943. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3195 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
31964. Run "make <board>_config" with your new name.
31975. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3198 to be installed on your target system.
31996. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3200 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003201
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003202
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003203Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3204==============================================================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003205
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003206If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3207or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003208provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
3209the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003210official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003211
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003212But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3213cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003214the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
3215just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003216for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can
3217select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE'
3218environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the ELDK cross tools
3219you can type
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003220
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003221 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003222
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003223or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003224
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003225 CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003226
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003227When using the MAKEALL script, the default behaviour is to build
3228U-Boot in the source directory. This location can be changed by
3229setting the BUILD_DIR environment variable. Also, for each target
3230built, the MAKEALL script saves two log files (<target>.ERR and
3231<target>.MAKEALL) in the <source dir>/LOG directory. This default
3232location can be changed by setting the MAKEALL_LOGDIR environment
3233variable. For example:
Marian Balakowiczefe063f2006-09-07 17:25:40 +02003234
3235 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3236 export MAKEALL_LOGDIR=/tmp/log
3237 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3238
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003239With the above settings build objects are saved in the /tmp/build,
3240log files are saved in the /tmp/log and the source tree remains clean
3241during the whole build process.
Marian Balakowiczefe063f2006-09-07 17:25:40 +02003242
3243
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003244See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003245
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003246
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003247Monitor Commands - Overview:
3248============================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003249
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003250go - start application at address 'addr'
3251run - run commands in an environment variable
3252bootm - boot application image from memory
3253bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
3254tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3255 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3256 (and eventually "gatewayip")
3257rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3258diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3259loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3260loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3261md - memory display
3262mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3263nm - memory modify (constant address)
3264mw - memory write (fill)
3265cp - memory copy
3266cmp - memory compare
3267crc32 - checksum calculation
Peter Tyser469cde42009-04-18 22:34:03 -05003268i2c - I2C sub-system
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003269sspi - SPI utility commands
3270base - print or set address offset
3271printenv- print environment variables
3272setenv - set environment variables
3273saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3274protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3275erase - erase FLASH memory
3276flinfo - print FLASH memory information
3277bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3278iminfo - print header information for application image
3279coninfo - print console devices and informations
3280ide - IDE sub-system
3281loop - infinite loop on address range
wdenk64519362004-07-11 17:40:54 +00003282loopw - infinite write loop on address range
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003283mtest - simple RAM test
3284icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3285dcache - enable or disable data cache
3286reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3287echo - echo args to console
3288version - print monitor version
3289help - print online help
3290? - alias for 'help'
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003291
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003292
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003293Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3294========================================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003295
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003296TODO.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003297
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003298For now: just type "help <command>".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003299
3300
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003301Environment Variables:
3302======================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003303
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003304U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3305can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003306
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003307Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3308"printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3309without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3310environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3311working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3312environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003313
Wolfgang Denkb233bd72010-01-17 23:55:53 +01003314Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3315
3316List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003317
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003318 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003319
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003320 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003321
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003322 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003323
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003324 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003325
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003326 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003327
Bartlomiej Siekac5648c82008-04-14 15:44:16 +02003328 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3329 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3330 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3331 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3332 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3333 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
Grant Likely26396382011-03-28 09:58:43 +00003334 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
3335 bootm_mapsize.
3336
3337 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
3338 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
3339 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
3340 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
3341 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
3342 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
3343 used otherwise.
Bartlomiej Siekac5648c82008-04-14 15:44:16 +02003344
3345 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3346 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3347 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3348 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3349 environment variable.
3350
Bartlomiej Siekae273e9f2008-10-01 15:26:31 +02003351 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3352 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3353 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3354
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003355 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3356 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3357 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3358 load any image using TFTP
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003359
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003360 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3361 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3362 be automatically started (by internally calling
3363 "bootm")
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003364
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003365 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3366 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3367 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3368 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3369 data.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003370
David A. Longd558a4e2011-07-09 16:40:19 -04003371 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
3372 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
3373 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
3374 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
3375 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
3376 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
3377 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
3378 must be accessible by the kernel.
3379
wdenk0e2bd9c2004-06-06 21:51:03 +00003380 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3381 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3382 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3383 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3384 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3385
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003386 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3387 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3388 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3389 is usually what you want since it allows for
3390 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3391 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02003392 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003393 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3394 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3395 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3396 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003397
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003398 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3399 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3400 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3401 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3402 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3403 12 MB as well - this can be done with
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003404
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003405 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003406
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003407 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3408 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3409 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3410 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3411 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3412 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3413 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
wdenk3f9ab982003-04-12 23:38:12 +00003414
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003415 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003416
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003417 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3418 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003419
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003420 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003421
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003422 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
wdenk6f770ed2003-05-23 23:18:21 +00003423
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003424 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003425
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003426 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003427
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003428 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003429
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003430 ethprime - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which
3431 interface is used first.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003432
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003433 ethact - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which
3434 interface is currently active. For example you
3435 can do the following
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003436
Heiko Schocherc5e84052010-07-20 17:45:02 +02003437 => setenv ethact FEC
3438 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
3439 => setenv ethact SCC
3440 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003441
Matthias Fuchs204f0ec2008-01-17 07:45:05 +01003442 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3443 available network interfaces.
3444 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3445
Wolfgang Denkb233bd72010-01-17 23:55:53 +01003446 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003447 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3448 When set to "once" the network operation will
3449 fail when all the available network interfaces
3450 are tried once without success.
3451 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3452 themselves.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003453
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD1948d6c2009-01-31 09:53:39 +01003454 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARDd2164ef2008-01-07 08:41:34 +01003455
Wolfgang Denk227b5192005-09-24 23:25:46 +02003456 tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
Wolfgang Denke3cfce52005-09-24 22:37:32 +02003457 UDP source port.
3458
Wolfgang Denk227b5192005-09-24 23:25:46 +02003459 tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
3460 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
3461
Wolfgang Denkb233bd72010-01-17 23:55:53 +01003462 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
3463 we use the TFTP server's default block size
3464
3465 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
3466 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
3467 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
3468 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
3469 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
3470 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
3471 with unreliable TFTP servers.
3472
3473 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003474 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003475 VLAN tagged frames.
wdenk145d2c12004-04-15 21:48:45 +00003476
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003477The following environment variables may be used and automatically
3478updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
3479depending the information provided by your boot server:
wdenk145d2c12004-04-15 21:48:45 +00003480
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003481 bootfile - see above
3482 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
3483 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
3484 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
3485 hostname - Target hostname
3486 ipaddr - see above
3487 netmask - Subnet Mask
3488 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
3489 serverip - see above
wdenk145d2c12004-04-15 21:48:45 +00003490
wdenk145d2c12004-04-15 21:48:45 +00003491
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003492There are two special Environment Variables:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003493
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003494 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
3495 as type string and/or serial number
3496 ethaddr - Ethernet address
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003497
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003498These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
3499the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
3500once they have been set once.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003501
3502
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003503Further special Environment Variables:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003504
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003505 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
3506 with the "version" command. This variable is
3507 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003508
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003509
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003510Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
3511only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
stroeseb9c17c52003-04-04 15:53:41 +00003512
stroeseb9c17c52003-04-04 15:53:41 +00003513
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003514Command Line Parsing:
3515=====================
stroeseb9c17c52003-04-04 15:53:41 +00003516
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003517There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
3518the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003519
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003520Old, simple command line parser:
3521--------------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003522
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003523- supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
3524- several commands on one line, separated by ';'
Wolfgang Denk86eb3b72005-11-20 21:40:11 +01003525- variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003526- special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
3527 for example:
Wolfgang Denk86eb3b72005-11-20 21:40:11 +01003528 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003529- You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
3530 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003531
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003532Hush shell:
3533-----------
wdenkf4688a22003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003534
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003535- similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
3536 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
3537 until...do...done, ...
3538- supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
3539 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
3540 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
3541 command
wdenkf4688a22003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003542
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003543General rules:
3544--------------
wdenkf4688a22003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003545
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003546(1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
3547 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
3548 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
3549 executed anyway.
wdenkf4688a22003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003550
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003551(2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003552 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003553 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
3554 variables are not executed.
wdenkf4688a22003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003555
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003556Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
3557=======================================
wdenkf4688a22003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003558
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003559Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003560such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
3561"working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
wdenkf4688a22003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003562
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003563Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
3564MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
3565"eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
wdenkf4688a22003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003566
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003567If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
3568in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
3569ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
3570variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
wdenkf4688a22003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003571
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003572o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
3573 environment, the SROM's address is used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003574
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003575o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
3576 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
3577 used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003578
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003579o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
3580 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003581
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003582o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
3583 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
3584 warning is printed.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003585
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003586o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
3587 is raised.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003588
Ben Warren6db991a2010-04-26 11:11:46 -07003589If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
3590will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
3591may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
3592The naming convention is as follows:
3593"ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003594
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003595Image Formats:
3596==============
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003597
Marian Balakowicz18710b82008-03-12 12:13:13 +01003598U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
3599images in two formats:
3600
3601New uImage format (FIT)
3602-----------------------
3603
3604Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
3605to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
3606components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
3607SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
3608
3609
3610Old uImage format
3611-----------------
3612
3613Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
3614preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
3615details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003616
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003617* Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
3618 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
Peter Tyser56b8dd12008-09-08 14:56:49 -05003619 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
3620 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
3621 INTEGRITY).
Wolfgang Denk83c15852006-10-24 14:21:16 +02003622* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
Thomas Chou56fff492010-05-28 10:56:50 +08003623 IA64, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
3624 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC).
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003625* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
3626* Load Address
3627* Entry Point
3628* Image Name
3629* Image Timestamp
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003630
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003631The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
3632and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
3633CRC32 checksums.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003634
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003635
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003636Linux Support:
3637==============
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003638
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003639Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
3640easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
3641U-Boot.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003642
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003643U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
3644special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
3645"initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
3646instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
3647serves several purposes:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003648
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003649- the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
3650 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
3651 Flash memory footprint)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003652
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003653- it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
3654 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003655
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003656- the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
3657 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
3658 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
3659 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
3660 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
3661 software is easier now.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003662
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003663
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003664Linux HOWTO:
3665============
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003666
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003667Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
3668---------------------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003669
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003670U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
3671configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
3672(no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
3673Linux :-).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003674
Stefan Roese88fbf932010-04-15 16:07:28 +02003675But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003676
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003677Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
3678include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
Markus Heidelberg47167572008-09-07 20:18:27 +02003679Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
3680and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02003681as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003682
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003683
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003684Configuring the Linux kernel:
3685-----------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003686
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003687No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
3688device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003689
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003690
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003691Building a Linux Image:
3692-----------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003693
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003694With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
3695not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
3696"uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
3697U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
3698which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
3699100% compatible format.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003700
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003701Example:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003702
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003703 make TQM850L_config
3704 make oldconfig
3705 make dep
3706 make uImage
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003707
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003708The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
3709encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
3710CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003711
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003712* build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003713
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003714* convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003715
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003716 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
3717 -R .note -R .comment \
3718 -S vmlinux linux.bin
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003719
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003720* compress the binary image:
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003721
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003722 gzip -9 linux.bin
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003723
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003724* package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003725
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003726 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
3727 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
3728 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003729
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003730
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003731The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
3732with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
3733combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
3734byte header containing information about target architecture,
3735operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
3736stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003737
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003738"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
3739print the header information, or to build new images.
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003740
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003741In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
3742contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
3743checksum verification:
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003744
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003745 tools/mkimage -l image
3746 -l ==> list image header information
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003747
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003748The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
3749from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003750
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003751 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
3752 -n name -d data_file image
3753 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
3754 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
3755 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
3756 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
3757 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
3758 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
3759 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
3760 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003761
wdenkcd914452004-05-29 16:53:29 +00003762Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
3763address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
3764kernel version:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003765
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003766- 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
3767- 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003768
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003769So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003770
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003771 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3772 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
Stefan Roese88fbf932010-04-15 16:07:28 +02003773 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003774 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
3775 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3776 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3777 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3778 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3779 Load Address: 0x00000000
3780 Entry Point: 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003781
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003782To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003783
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003784 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
3785 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3786 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3787 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3788 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3789 Load Address: 0x00000000
3790 Entry Point: 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003791
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003792NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
3793speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
3794needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
3795need to be uncompressed:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003796
Stefan Roese88fbf932010-04-15 16:07:28 +02003797 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003798 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3799 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
Stefan Roese88fbf932010-04-15 16:07:28 +02003800 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003801 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
3802 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3803 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3804 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
3805 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
3806 Load Address: 0x00000000
3807 Entry Point: 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003808
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003809
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003810Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
3811when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003812
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003813 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
3814 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
3815 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
3816 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3817 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
3818 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3819 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
3820 Load Address: 0x00000000
3821 Entry Point: 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003822
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003823
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003824Installing a Linux Image:
3825-------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003826
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003827To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
3828you must convert the image to S-Record format:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003829
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003830 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003831
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003832The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
3833image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
3834address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
3835specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
3836command.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003837
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003838Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
3839TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003840
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003841 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003842
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003843 .......... done
3844 Erased 8 sectors
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003845
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003846 => loads 40100000
3847 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3848 ~>examples/image.srec
3849 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
3850 ...
3851 15989 15990 15991 15992
3852 [file transfer complete]
3853 [connected]
3854 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003855
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003856
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003857You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003858this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003859corruption happened:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003860
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003861 => imi 40100000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003862
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003863 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3864 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3865 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3866 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3867 Load Address: 00000000
3868 Entry Point: 0000000c
3869 Verifying Checksum ... OK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003870
3871
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003872Boot Linux:
3873-----------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003874
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003875The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
3876memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
3877of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
3878parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
3879"printenv" and "setenv" commands:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003880
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003881
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003882 => printenv bootargs
3883 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003884
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003885 => 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 +00003886
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003887 => printenv bootargs
3888 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 +00003889
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003890 => bootm 40020000
3891 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
3892 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
3893 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3894 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
3895 Load Address: 00000000
3896 Entry Point: 0000000c
3897 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3898 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3899 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
3900 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3901 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3902 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3903 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
3904 ...
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003905
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003906If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003907the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
3908format!) to the "bootm" command:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003909
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003910 => imi 40100000 40200000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003911
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003912 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3913 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3914 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3915 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3916 Load Address: 00000000
3917 Entry Point: 0000000c
3918 Verifying Checksum ... OK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003919
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003920 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
3921 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3922 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3923 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3924 Load Address: 00000000
3925 Entry Point: 00000000
3926 Verifying Checksum ... OK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003927
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003928 => bootm 40100000 40200000
3929 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
3930 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3931 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3932 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3933 Load Address: 00000000
3934 Entry Point: 0000000c
3935 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3936 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3937 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
3938 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3939 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3940 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3941 Load Address: 00000000
3942 Entry Point: 00000000
3943 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3944 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
3945 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
3946 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
3947 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3948 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3949 ...
3950 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
3951 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003952
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003953 bash#
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003954
Matthew McClintockefae4ca2006-06-28 10:41:37 -05003955Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
3956-----------
3957
3958First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
3959titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
3960following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
3961flat device tree:
3962
3963=> print oftaddr
3964oftaddr=0x300000
3965=> print oft
3966oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
3967=> tftp $oftaddr $oft
3968Speed: 1000, full duplex
3969Using TSEC0 device
3970TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
3971Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
3972Load address: 0x300000
3973Loading: #
3974done
3975Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
3976=> tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
3977Speed: 1000, full duplex
3978Using TSEC0 device
3979TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
3980Filename 'uImage'.
3981Load address: 0x200000
3982Loading:############
3983done
3984Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
3985=> print loadaddr
3986loadaddr=200000
3987=> print oftaddr
3988oftaddr=0x300000
3989=> bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
3990## Booting image at 00200000 ...
Wolfgang Denk018147d2006-11-27 15:32:42 +01003991 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
3992 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3993 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
Matthew McClintockefae4ca2006-06-28 10:41:37 -05003994 Load Address: 00000000
Wolfgang Denk018147d2006-11-27 15:32:42 +01003995 Entry Point: 00000000
Matthew McClintockefae4ca2006-06-28 10:41:37 -05003996 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3997 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3998Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
3999Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
4000Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
4001[snip]
4002
4003
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004004More About U-Boot Image Types:
4005------------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004006
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004007U-Boot supports the following image types:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004008
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004009 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
4010 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
4011 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
4012 the Standalone Program.
4013 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
4014 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
4015 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
4016 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
4017 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
4018 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
4019 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
4020 being started.
4021 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
4022 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
4023 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
4024 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
4025 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
4026 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004027
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004028 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
4029 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
4030 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
4031 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
4032 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
4033 a multiple of 4 bytes).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004034
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004035 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
4036 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
4037 flash memory.
wdenk4fc95692003-02-28 00:49:47 +00004038
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004039 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
4040 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
4041 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
4042 as command interpreter.
wdenk4fc95692003-02-28 00:49:47 +00004043
stroeseb9c17c52003-04-04 15:53:41 +00004044
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004045Standalone HOWTO:
4046=================
stroeseb9c17c52003-04-04 15:53:41 +00004047
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004048One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
4049run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
4050U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
stroeseb9c17c52003-04-04 15:53:41 +00004051
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004052Two simple examples are included with the sources:
wdenk4fc95692003-02-28 00:49:47 +00004053
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004054"Hello World" Demo:
4055-------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004056
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004057'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
4058application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
4059It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
4060like that:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004061
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004062 => loads
4063 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4064 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
4065 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4066 [file transfer complete]
4067 [connected]
4068 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004069
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004070 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
4071 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4072 Hello World
4073 argc = 7
4074 argv[0] = "40004"
4075 argv[1] = "Hello"
4076 argv[2] = "World!"
4077 argv[3] = "This"
4078 argv[4] = "is"
4079 argv[5] = "a"
4080 argv[6] = "test."
4081 argv[7] = "<NULL>"
4082 Hit any key to exit ...
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004083
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004084 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004085
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004086Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
4087handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
4088Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
4089The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
4090character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
4091controlled by the following keys:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004092
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004093 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
4094 b - enable interrupts and start timer
4095 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
4096 q - quit application
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004097
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004098 => loads
4099 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4100 ~>examples/timer.srec
4101 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4102 [file transfer complete]
4103 [connected]
4104 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004105
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004106 => go 40004
4107 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4108 TIMERS=0xfff00980
4109 Using timer 1
4110 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004111
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004112Hit 'b':
4113 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
4114 Enabling timer
4115Hit '?':
4116 [q, b, e, ?] ........
4117 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
4118Hit '?':
4119 [q, b, e, ?] .
4120 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
4121Hit '?':
4122 [q, b, e, ?] .
4123 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
4124Hit '?':
4125 [q, b, e, ?] .
4126 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
4127Hit 'e':
4128 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
4129Hit 'q':
4130 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004131
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004132
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004133Minicom warning:
4134================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004135
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004136Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
4137"minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
4138consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
4139Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
4140especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
4141use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004142
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004143Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
4144configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004145
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004146 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
4147 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
4148 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
wdenk8dba0502003-03-31 16:34:49 +00004149
wdenk8dba0502003-03-31 16:34:49 +00004150
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004151NetBSD Notes:
4152=============
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004153
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004154Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
4155(build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
wdenk88e72a32003-06-19 23:04:19 +00004156
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004157Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
4158NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
4159need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
4160Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
4161attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
4162missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
wdenk88e72a32003-06-19 23:04:19 +00004163
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004164 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
4165 # mkdir powerpc
4166 # ln -s powerpc machine
4167 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
4168 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
wdenk88e72a32003-06-19 23:04:19 +00004169
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004170Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
4171and U-Boot include files.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004172
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004173Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
4174stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
4175proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
4176tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
wdenkd0245fc2005-04-13 10:02:42 +00004177meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004178
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004179
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004180Implementation Internals:
4181=========================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004182
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004183The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
4184implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
4185inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
4186hardware.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004187
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004188
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004189Initial Stack, Global Data:
4190---------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004191
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004192The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
4193starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
4194system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
4195This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
4196is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
4197at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
4198options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
4199models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
4200MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
4201locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004202
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01004203 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
Wolfgang Denk290ae6b2008-12-30 22:56:11 +01004204 U-Boot mailing list:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004205
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004206 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4207 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
4208 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4209 ...
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004210
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004211 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4212 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4213 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4214 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4215 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02004216 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004217 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4218 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004219
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004220 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4221 is another option for the system designer to use as an
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02004222 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004223 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4224 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4225 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4226 used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004227
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02004228 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004229 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4230 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
Stefan Roese3e1f1b32005-08-01 16:49:12 +02004231 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004232 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4233 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4234 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4235 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4236 you get the config right.
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00004237
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004238 -Chris Hallinan
4239 DS4.COM, Inc.
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00004240
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004241It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4242code for the initialization procedures:
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00004243
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004244* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4245 to write it.
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00004246
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02004247* Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitely initialized
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004248 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4249 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00004250
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004251* Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4252 that.
wdenk4a5c8a72003-03-06 00:02:04 +00004253
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004254Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
4255normal global data to share information beween the code. But it
4256turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4257simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4258functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4259functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4260the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4261place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4262reserve for this purpose.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004263
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004264When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4265relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4266GCC's implementation.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004267
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004268For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4269 R1: stack pointer
Wolfgang Denk69c09642008-02-14 22:43:22 +01004270 R2: reserved for system use
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004271 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4272 R5-R10: parameter passing
4273 R13: small data area pointer
4274 R30: GOT pointer
4275 R31: frame pointer
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004276
Joakim Tjernlund693c0c12010-01-19 14:41:58 +01004277 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4278 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4279 going back and forth between asm and C)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004280
Wolfgang Denk69c09642008-02-14 22:43:22 +01004281 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004282
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004283 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4284 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4285 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4286 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4287 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4288 624 text + 127 data).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004289
Robin Getz2773d5f2009-08-17 15:23:02 +00004290On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here:
Mike Frysinger60f09302008-02-04 19:26:54 -05004291 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
4292
Robin Getz2773d5f2009-08-17 15:23:02 +00004293 ==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data
Mike Frysinger60f09302008-02-04 19:26:54 -05004294
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004295On ARM, the following registers are used:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004296
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004297 R0: function argument word/integer result
4298 R1-R3: function argument word
4299 R9: GOT pointer
4300 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking if enabled)
4301 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4302 R12: temporary workspace
4303 R13: stack pointer
4304 R14: link register
4305 R15: program counter
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004306
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004307 ==> U-Boot will use R8 to hold a pointer to the global data
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004308
Thomas Chou8fa38582010-05-21 11:08:03 +08004309On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
4310 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
4311
4312 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4313
4314 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4315 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4316
Wolfgang Denk6405a152006-03-31 18:32:53 +02004317NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4318or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004319
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004320Memory Management:
4321------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004322
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004323U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4324MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004325
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004326The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4327controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4328memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4329physical memory banks.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004330
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004331U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4332TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4333booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4334to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD03836942008-10-16 15:01:15 +02004335memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004336configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4337Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004338
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004339Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4340of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004341
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004342So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
4343this:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004344
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004345 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
4346 :
4347 0x0000 1FFF
4348 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
4349 :
4350 :
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004351
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004352 :
4353 :
4354 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
4355 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
4356 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
4357 :
4358 0x00FD FFFF
4359 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
4360 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
4361 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
4362 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004363
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004364
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004365System Initialization:
4366----------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004367
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004368In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
Marcel Ziswilerabd8dcb2008-07-09 08:17:15 +02004369(on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004370configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory.
4371To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
4372To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
4373initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
4374which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
4375part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
4376the caches and the SIU.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004377
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004378Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
4379preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
4380(multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
4381on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
4382programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
4383simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
4384banks.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004385
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004386When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
4387different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
4388bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
43890x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
4390contiguous memory starting from 0.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004391
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004392Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
4393and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
4394Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
4395pages, and the final stack is set up.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004396
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004397Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
4398until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
4399running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
4400new address in RAM.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004401
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004402
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004403U-Boot Porting Guide:
4404----------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004405
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004406[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
4407list, October 2002]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004408
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004409
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004410int main(int argc, char *argv[])
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004411{
4412 sighandler_t no_more_time;
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004413
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004414 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
4415 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004416
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004417 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004418 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004419 return 0;
4420 }
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004421
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004422 Download latest U-Boot source;
wdenk34b613e2002-12-17 01:51:00 +00004423
Wolfgang Denk290ae6b2008-12-30 22:56:11 +01004424 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004425
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004426 if (clueless)
4427 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004428
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004429 while (learning) {
4430 Read the README file in the top level directory;
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004431 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
4432 Read applicable doc/*.README;
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004433 Read the source, Luke;
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004434 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004435 }
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004436
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004437 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
4438 Buy a BDI3000;
4439 else
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004440 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004441
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004442 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
4443 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
4444 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
4445 } else {
4446 Create your own board support subdirectory;
4447 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
4448 }
4449 Edit new board/<myboard> files
4450 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004451
Jerry Van Barenba0687c2009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004452 while (!accepted) {
4453 while (!running) {
4454 do {
4455 Add / modify source code;
4456 } until (compiles);
4457 Debug;
4458 if (clueless)
4459 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
4460 }
4461 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
4462 if (reasonable critiques)
4463 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
4464 else
4465 Defend code as written;
wdenk634d2f72004-04-15 23:14:49 +00004466 }
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004467
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004468 return 0;
4469}
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004470
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004471void no_more_time (int sig)
4472{
4473 hire_a_guru();
4474}
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004475
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004476
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004477Coding Standards:
4478-----------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004479
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004480All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
Detlev Zundelaa63d482006-09-01 15:39:02 +02004481coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
4482"scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory. In sources
4483originating from U-Boot a style corresponding to "Lindent -pcs" (adding
4484spaces before parameters to function calls) is actually used.
4485
4486Source files originating from a different project (for example the
4487MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
4488reformated to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
4489sources.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004490
Detlev Zundelaa63d482006-09-01 15:39:02 +02004491Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
4492Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
4493in your code.
wdenkad276f22004-01-04 16:28:35 +00004494
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004495Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
4496- remove any trailing white space
4497- use TAB characters for indentation, not spaces
4498- make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
4499- do not add more than 2 empty lines to source files
4500- do not add trailing empty lines to source files
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004501
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004502Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
4503with a request to reformat the changes.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004504
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004505
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004506Submitting Patches:
4507-------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004508
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004509Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
4510establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
4511may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004512
Magnus Liljaf3b287b2008-08-06 19:32:33 +02004513Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01004514
Wolfgang Denk290ae6b2008-12-30 22:56:11 +01004515Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
4516see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
4517
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004518When you send a patch, please include the following information with
4519it:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004520
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004521* For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
4522 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
4523 patch actually fixes something.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004524
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004525* For new features: a description of the feature and your
4526 implementation.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004527
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004528* A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004529
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004530* For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004531
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004532* When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add this
4533 board to the MAKEALL script, too.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004534
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004535* If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
4536 document these in the README file.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004537
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01004538* The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
4539 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
4540 "git-format-patch". If you then use "git-send-email" to send it to
4541 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
4542 with some other mail clients.
wdenkca9bc762003-07-15 07:45:49 +00004543
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01004544 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
4545 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
4546 GNU diff.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004547
Wolfgang Denkb240aef2008-03-26 10:40:12 +01004548 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
4549 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
4550 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
4551 affected files).
4552
4553 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
4554 and compressed attachments must not be used.
wdenk88e72a32003-06-19 23:04:19 +00004555
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004556* If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
4557 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
wdenk57b2d802003-06-27 21:31:46 +00004558
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004559* Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
4560 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
wdenk88e72a32003-06-19 23:04:19 +00004561
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004562
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004563Notes:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004564
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004565* Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched
4566 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
4567 for any of the boards.
4568
4569* Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
4570 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
4571 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004572
wdenk6c59edc2004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004573* If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
4574 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
4575 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
4576 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
4577 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
4578 modification.
wdenkcbc49a52005-05-03 14:12:25 +00004579
Wolfgang Denk290ae6b2008-12-30 22:56:11 +01004580* Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
4581 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
4582 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
4583 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.