2 # (C) Copyright 2000 - 2013
3 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
5 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
11 This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
12 Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
13 processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
14 initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
17 The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
18 the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
19 header files in common, and special provision has been made to
20 support booting of Linux images.
22 Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
23 configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
24 implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
25 add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
26 code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
27 load and run it dynamically.
33 In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
34 Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
35 "working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
37 In case of problems see the CHANGELOG file to find out who contributed
38 the specific port. In addition, there are various MAINTAINERS files
39 scattered throughout the U-Boot source identifying the people or
40 companies responsible for various boards and subsystems.
42 Note: As of August, 2010, there is no longer a CHANGELOG file in the
43 actual U-Boot source tree; however, it can be created dynamically
44 from the Git log using:
52 In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
53 U-Boot, you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
54 <u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
55 on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
56 Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
57 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
60 Where to get source code:
61 =========================
63 The U-Boot source code is maintained in the Git repository at
64 git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
65 http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
67 The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
68 any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
69 available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
72 Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
73 ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
79 - start from 8xxrom sources
80 - create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
82 - make it easier to add custom boards
83 - make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
84 - extend functions, especially:
85 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
88 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
89 - create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
90 - add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
91 - create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
92 - current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
98 The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
99 "U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
100 in source files etc.). Example:
102 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
104 File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
106 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
108 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
110 Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
111 the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
113 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
114 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
120 Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
121 were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
122 into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
123 names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
124 Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
125 releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
128 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
129 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
130 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candidate 1 for September 2010 release
136 /arch Architecture specific files
137 /arc Files generic to ARC architecture
138 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
139 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
140 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
141 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
142 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
143 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
144 /openrisc Files generic to OpenRISC architecture
145 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
146 /sandbox Files generic to HW-independent "sandbox"
147 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
148 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
149 /api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
150 /board Board dependent files
151 /cmd U-Boot commands functions
152 /common Misc architecture independent functions
153 /configs Board default configuration files
154 /disk Code for disk drive partition handling
155 /doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
156 /drivers Commonly used device drivers
157 /dts Contains Makefile for building internal U-Boot fdt.
158 /examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
159 /fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
160 /include Header Files
161 /lib Library routines generic to all architectures
162 /Licenses Various license files
164 /post Power On Self Test
165 /scripts Various build scripts and Makefiles
166 /test Various unit test files
167 /tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
169 Software Configuration:
170 =======================
172 Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
173 rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
175 There are two classes of configuration variables:
177 * Configuration _OPTIONS_:
178 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
181 * Configuration _SETTINGS_:
182 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
183 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
186 Previously, all configuration was done by hand, which involved creating
187 symbolic links and editing configuration files manually. More recently,
188 U-Boot has added the Kbuild infrastructure used by the Linux kernel,
189 allowing you to use the "make menuconfig" command to configure your
193 Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
194 ---------------------------------------------------
196 For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
197 configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_defconfig".
199 Example: For a TQM823L module type:
202 make TQM823L_defconfig
204 Note: If you're looking for the default configuration file for a board
205 you're sure used to be there but is now missing, check the file
206 doc/README.scrapyard for a list of no longer supported boards.
211 U-Boot can be built natively to run on a Linux host using the 'sandbox'
212 board. This allows feature development which is not board- or architecture-
213 specific to be undertaken on a native platform. The sandbox is also used to
214 run some of U-Boot's tests.
216 See board/sandbox/README.sandbox for more details.
219 Board Initialisation Flow:
220 --------------------------
222 This is the intended start-up flow for boards. This should apply for both
223 SPL and U-Boot proper (i.e. they both follow the same rules).
225 Note: "SPL" stands for "Secondary Program Loader," which is explained in
226 more detail later in this file.
228 At present, SPL mostly uses a separate code path, but the function names
229 and roles of each function are the same. Some boards or architectures
230 may not conform to this. At least most ARM boards which use
231 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK conform to this.
233 Execution typically starts with an architecture-specific (and possibly
234 CPU-specific) start.S file, such as:
236 - arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
237 - arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc83xx/start.S
238 - arch/mips/cpu/start.S
240 and so on. From there, three functions are called; the purpose and
241 limitations of each of these functions are described below.
244 - purpose: essential init to permit execution to reach board_init_f()
245 - no global_data or BSS
246 - there is no stack (ARMv7 may have one but it will soon be removed)
247 - must not set up SDRAM or use console
248 - must only do the bare minimum to allow execution to continue to
250 - this is almost never needed
251 - return normally from this function
254 - purpose: set up the machine ready for running board_init_r():
255 i.e. SDRAM and serial UART
256 - global_data is available
258 - BSS is not available, so you cannot use global/static variables,
259 only stack variables and global_data
261 Non-SPL-specific notes:
262 - dram_init() is called to set up DRAM. If already done in SPL this
266 - you can override the entire board_init_f() function with your own
268 - preloader_console_init() can be called here in extremis
269 - should set up SDRAM, and anything needed to make the UART work
270 - these is no need to clear BSS, it will be done by crt0.S
271 - must return normally from this function (don't call board_init_r()
274 Here the BSS is cleared. For SPL, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined, then at
275 this point the stack and global_data are relocated to below
276 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR. For non-SPL, U-Boot is relocated to run at the top of
280 - purpose: main execution, common code
281 - global_data is available
283 - BSS is available, all static/global variables can be used
284 - execution eventually continues to main_loop()
286 Non-SPL-specific notes:
287 - U-Boot is relocated to the top of memory and is now running from
291 - stack is optionally in SDRAM, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined and
292 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR points into SDRAM
293 - preloader_console_init() can be called here - typically this is
294 done by selecting CONFIG_SPL_BOARD_INIT and then supplying a
295 spl_board_init() function containing this call
296 - loads U-Boot or (in falcon mode) Linux
300 Configuration Options:
301 ----------------------
303 Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
304 such information is kept in a configuration file
305 "include/configs/<board_name>.h".
307 Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
308 "include/configs/TQM823L.h".
311 Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
312 kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
313 build a config tool - later.
315 - ARM Platform Bus Type(CCI):
316 CoreLink Cache Coherent Interconnect (CCI) is ARM BUS which
317 provides full cache coherency between two clusters of multi-core
318 CPUs and I/O coherency for devices and I/O masters
320 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_CCI400
322 Defined For SoC that has cache coherent interconnect
325 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_CCN504
327 Defined for SoC that has cache coherent interconnect CCN-504
329 The following options need to be configured:
331 - CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
333 - Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
335 - Marvell Family Member
336 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
337 multiple fs option at one time
338 for marvell soc family
343 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
344 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
345 compliance, among other possible reasons.
347 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
349 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
350 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
351 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
353 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
355 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
356 tree nodes for the given platform.
358 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
360 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
361 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
362 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
364 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
365 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
367 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
368 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
370 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
371 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
372 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
373 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
375 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
378 CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
379 Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
380 required during NOR boot.
382 CONFIG_A008044_WORKAROUND
383 Enables a workaround for T1040/T1042 erratum A008044. It is only
384 required during NAND boot and valid for Rev 1.0 SoC revision
386 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
388 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
389 according to the A004510 workaround.
391 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
392 This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
393 connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
395 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
396 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
397 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
399 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
400 This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
401 connected to the DSP core.
403 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
404 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
406 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
407 Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
408 In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
409 clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
411 CONFIG_SYS_CPC_REINIT_F
412 This CONFIG is defined when the CPC is configured as SRAM at the
413 time of U-Boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
416 Indicates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
417 supported, core will start to execute uboot when wakes up.
419 - Generic CPU options:
420 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
422 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
423 values is arch specific.
426 Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
427 found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx, mpc86xx as well as some ARM core
430 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
431 Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
433 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_EMU
434 Specify emulator support for DDR. Some DDR features such as
435 deskew training are not available.
437 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
438 Freescale DDR1 controller.
440 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
441 Freescale DDR2 controller.
443 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
444 Freescale DDR3 controller.
446 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN4
447 Freescale DDR4 controller.
449 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
450 Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
453 Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
454 Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
458 Board config to use DDR2. It can be enabled for SoCs with
459 Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
463 Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
464 Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
467 Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
471 Board config to use DDR4. It can be enabled for SoCs with
474 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
475 Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
477 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
478 Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
480 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_CLK_DIV
481 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to IFC controller).
483 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_LBC_CLK_DIV
484 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to eLBC controller).
486 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_PBI
487 It enables addition of RCW (Power on reset configuration) in built image.
488 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
490 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_RCW
491 It adds PBI(pre-boot instructions) commands in u-boot build image.
492 PBI commands can be used to configure SoC before it starts the execution.
493 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
496 It adds a target to create boot binary having SPL binary in PBI format
497 concatenated with u-boot binary.
499 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
500 Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
502 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
503 Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
505 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
506 Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
507 same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for all Power SoCs. But
508 it could be different for ARM SoCs.
510 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
511 DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
512 interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
515 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_MAIN_NUM_CTRLS
516 Number of controllers used as main memory.
518 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_OTHER_DDR_NUM_CTRLS
519 Number of controllers used for other than main memory.
521 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_DP_DDR
522 Defines the SoC has DP-DDR used for DPAA.
524 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
525 Defines the SEC controller register space as Big Endian
527 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_LE
528 Defines the SEC controller register space as Little Endian
531 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
533 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
534 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
537 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
539 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
540 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
542 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
545 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
549 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
551 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
553 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
554 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
556 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
558 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
559 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
560 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
563 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
565 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
566 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
569 Generic timer clock source frequency.
571 COUNTER_FREQUENCY_REAL
572 Generic timer clock source frequency if the real clock is
573 different from COUNTER_FREQUENCY, and can only be determined
577 CONFIG_TEGRA_SUPPORT_NON_SECURE
579 Support executing U-Boot in non-secure (NS) mode. Certain
580 impossible actions will be skipped if the CPU is in NS mode,
581 such as ARM architectural timer initialization.
583 - Linux Kernel Interface:
586 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
587 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
588 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
589 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
590 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
591 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
593 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
594 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
597 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
599 When transferring memsize parameter to Linux, some versions
600 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
601 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
605 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
606 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
610 * New libfdt-based support
611 * Adds the "fdt" command
612 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
614 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
615 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
617 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
620 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
622 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
623 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
625 CONFIG_OF_SYSTEM_SETUP
627 Other code has addition modification that it wants to make
628 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel.
629 This causes ft_system_setup() to be called before booting
634 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
635 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
636 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
637 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
638 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
639 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
641 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
643 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
644 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
645 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
646 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
647 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
648 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
649 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
651 - vxWorks boot parameters:
653 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
654 environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask,
655 serverip, gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
656 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
658 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
659 the defaults discussed just above.
661 - Cache Configuration:
662 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
663 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
664 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
666 - Cache Configuration for ARM:
667 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
669 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
670 controller register space
675 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
679 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
683 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
684 the clock speed of the UARTs.
688 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
689 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
690 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
692 CONFIG_SERIAL_HW_FLOW_CONTROL
694 Define this variable to enable hw flow control in serial driver.
695 Current user of this option is drivers/serial/nsl16550.c driver
698 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
699 Select one of the baudrates listed in
700 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
704 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
705 define a command string that is automatically executed
706 when no character is read on the console interface
707 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
709 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
710 The value of these goes into the environment as
711 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
712 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
716 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
717 Implements a mechanism for detecting a repeating reboot
719 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
722 If no softreset save registers are found on the hardware
723 "bootcount" is stored in the environment. To prevent a
724 saveenv on all reboots, the environment variable
725 "upgrade_available" is used. If "upgrade_available" is
726 0, "bootcount" is always 0, if "upgrade_available" is
727 1 "bootcount" is incremented in the environment.
728 So the Userspace Applikation must set the "upgrade_available"
729 and "bootcount" variable to 0, if a boot was successfully.
734 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
735 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
736 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
737 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
738 entering interactive mode.
740 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
741 automatically generated or modified. For an example
742 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
743 modified when the user holds down a certain
744 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
747 - Serial Download Echo Mode:
749 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
750 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
751 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
752 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
753 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
754 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
756 - Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
758 Select one of the baudrates listed in
759 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
761 - Removal of commands
762 If no commands are needed to boot, you can disable
763 CONFIG_CMDLINE to remove them. In this case, the command line
764 will not be available, and when U-Boot wants to execute the
765 boot command (on start-up) it will call board_run_command()
766 instead. This can reduce image size significantly for very
767 simple boot procedures.
769 - Regular expression support:
771 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
772 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
773 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
774 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
778 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
779 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
780 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
781 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
782 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
784 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
785 be done using one of the three options below:
788 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
789 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
790 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
791 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
792 the global data structure as gd->fdt_blob.
795 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
796 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
797 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
799 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
801 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
802 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
803 still use the individual files if you need something more
807 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use the device tree
808 provided by the board at runtime instead of embedding one with
809 the image. Only boards defining board_fdt_blob_setup() support
810 this option (see include/fdtdec.h file).
814 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
815 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
816 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx
817 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
818 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
819 available, then no further board specific code should
823 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
824 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
825 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
827 CONFIG_AT91_HW_WDT_TIMEOUT
828 specify the timeout in seconds. default 2 seconds.
831 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
832 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
833 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
834 version as printed by the "version" command.
835 Any change to this variable will be reverted at the
840 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
841 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
844 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
845 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
846 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
847 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
848 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
849 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
850 CONFIG_RTC_DS1339 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1339 RTC
851 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
852 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
853 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
854 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
855 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
858 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
859 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
862 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
864 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
865 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
866 pins supported by a particular chip.
868 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
869 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
872 When CONFIG_IO_TRACE is selected, U-Boot intercepts all I/O
873 accesses and can checksum them or write a list of them out
874 to memory. See the 'iotrace' command for details. This is
875 useful for testing device drivers since it can confirm that
876 the driver behaves the same way before and after a code
877 change. Currently this is supported on sandbox and arm. To
878 add support for your architecture, add '#include <iotrace.h>'
879 to the bottom of arch/<arch>/include/asm/io.h and test.
881 Example output from the 'iotrace stats' command is below.
882 Note that if the trace buffer is exhausted, the checksum will
883 still continue to operate.
886 Start: 10000000 (buffer start address)
887 Size: 00010000 (buffer size)
888 Offset: 00000120 (current buffer offset)
889 Output: 10000120 (start + offset)
890 Count: 00000018 (number of trace records)
891 CRC32: 9526fb66 (CRC32 of all trace records)
895 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
896 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
897 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
898 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
900 - Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
901 Zero or more of the following:
902 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
903 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
904 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
905 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
907 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS Memory Technology Device partition table.
909 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_IDE or
910 CONFIG_SCSI) you must configure support for at
911 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
914 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
915 board configurations files but used nowhere!
917 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
918 be performed by calling the function
919 ide_set_reset(int reset)
920 which has to be defined in a board specific file
925 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
930 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
931 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
932 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
933 support disks up to 2.1TB.
935 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
936 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
940 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
941 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
942 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
943 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
946 The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
947 SCSI devices found during the last scan.
949 - NETWORK Support (PCI):
951 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
954 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
955 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
956 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
958 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
959 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
960 example with the "sspi" command.
963 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
964 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
965 write routine for first time initialisation.
968 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
969 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
970 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
973 Support for National dp83815 chips.
976 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
978 - NETWORK Support (other):
980 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
981 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
984 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
986 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
987 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
988 The driver doen't show link status messages.
991 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
994 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
996 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
997 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
1000 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
1002 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
1003 Define this to hold the physical address
1004 of the device (I/O space)
1006 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
1007 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1009 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
1010 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
1011 (some hardware wont work with macros)
1013 CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
1014 Support for davinci emac
1016 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
1017 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
1020 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
1022 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
1023 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
1024 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
1025 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
1026 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
1027 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
1028 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
1029 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
1032 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
1035 Define this to hold the physical address
1036 of the device (I/O space)
1038 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
1039 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1041 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
1042 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
1043 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
1044 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
1047 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
1049 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
1050 Define the number of ports to be used
1052 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1053 Define the ETH PHY's address
1055 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1056 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1060 Support for PWM module on the imx6.
1064 Support TPM devices.
1066 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_INFINEON
1067 Support for Infineon i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
1068 per system is supported at this time.
1070 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
1071 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
1074 Support for STMicroelectronics TPM devices. Requires DM_TPM support.
1076 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_I2C
1077 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 I2C devices.
1078 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and I2C.
1080 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_SPI
1081 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 SPI devices.
1082 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and SPI.
1084 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
1085 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
1088 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1089 per system is supported at this time.
1091 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1092 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1093 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1097 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
1098 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
1099 Requires support for a TPM device.
1101 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
1102 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
1103 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
1106 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
1107 supported (PIP405, MIP405); define
1108 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1109 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
1110 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
1113 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1116 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1117 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1119 CONFIG_USB_DWC2_REG_ADDR the physical CPU address of the DWC2
1120 HW module registers.
1123 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1124 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1125 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
1126 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
1127 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1128 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
1129 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
1130 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1131 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1133 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1134 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1135 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1136 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
1139 Define this to build a UDC device
1142 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1143 talk to the UDC device
1146 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1147 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1148 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1149 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1150 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1153 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
1154 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1157 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
1158 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
1159 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
1160 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1161 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1162 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1164 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1165 Define this string as the name of your company for
1166 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
1168 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1169 Define this string as the name of your product
1170 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1172 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1173 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1174 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1175 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1176 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
1178 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1179 Define this as the unique Product ID
1181 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
1183 - ULPI Layer Support:
1184 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1185 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1186 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1187 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1188 viewport is supported.
1189 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1190 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
1191 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1192 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1193 the appropriate value in Hz.
1196 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1197 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1198 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
1199 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
1200 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1201 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
1204 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1206 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1207 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1210 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1212 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_BOOT
1213 Enable some additional features of the eMMC boot partitions.
1215 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_RPMB
1216 Enable the commands for reading, writing and programming the
1217 key for the Replay Protection Memory Block partition in eMMC.
1219 - USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
1220 CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_DFU
1221 This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class
1224 This enables support for exposing (e)MMC devices via DFU.
1227 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
1230 This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
1231 Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
1232 allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
1233 one that would help mostly the developer.
1235 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
1236 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
1237 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
1238 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
1239 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
1241 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
1242 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
1243 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
1244 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
1245 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
1246 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
1248 DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
1249 Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
1250 host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
1251 a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
1253 DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
1254 Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
1255 entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
1256 sending again an USB request to the device.
1258 - Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1260 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1262 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1263 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
1264 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1267 See Kconfig help for available keyboard drivers.
1271 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1272 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1273 defined in your board-specific files. This option is deprecated
1274 and is only used by novena. For new boards, use driver model
1279 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1280 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1281 support, and should also define these other macros:
1286 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1287 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1289 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1291 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1292 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1293 boot. See the documentation file doc/README.video for a
1294 description of this variable.
1296 - LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1298 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1299 display); also select one of the supported displays
1300 by defining one of these:
1304 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1306 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
1308 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
1310 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1312 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1313 Active, color, single scan.
1315 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1317 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
1318 Active, color, single scan.
1322 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1323 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1325 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1327 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1328 Active, color, single scan.
1332 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1333 Active, color, single scan.
1337 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1339 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1343 320x240. Black & white.
1345 CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
1347 Normally the LCD is page-aligned (typically 4KB). If this is
1348 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
1349 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
1350 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
1351 a per-section basis.
1356 Sometimes, for example if the display is mounted in portrait
1357 mode or even if it's mounted landscape but rotated by 180degree,
1358 we need to rotate our content of the display relative to the
1359 framebuffer, so that user can read the messages which are
1361 Once CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is defined, the lcd_console will be
1362 initialized with a given rotation from "vl_rot" out of
1363 "vidinfo_t" which is provided by the board specific code.
1364 The value for vl_rot is coded as following (matching to
1365 fbcon=rotate:<n> linux-kernel commandline):
1366 0 = no rotation respectively 0 degree
1367 1 = 90 degree rotation
1368 2 = 180 degree rotation
1369 3 = 270 degree rotation
1371 If CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is not defined, the console will be
1372 initialized with 0degree rotation.
1376 Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
1380 Enables an 'i2c edid' command which can read EDID
1381 information over I2C from an attached LCD display.
1383 - Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
1385 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1386 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1387 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
1388 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
1389 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1390 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1391 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1392 loaded very quickly after power-on.
1394 CONFIG_SPLASHIMAGE_GUARD
1396 If this option is set, then U-Boot will prevent the environment
1397 variable "splashimage" from being set to a problematic address
1398 (see doc/README.displaying-bmps).
1399 This option is useful for targets where, due to alignment
1400 restrictions, an improperly aligned BMP image will cause a data
1401 abort. If you think you will not have problems with unaligned
1402 accesses (for example because your toolchain prevents them)
1403 there is no need to set this option.
1405 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1407 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1408 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1409 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1410 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1411 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1412 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1415 setenv splashpos m,m
1416 => image at center of screen
1418 setenv splashpos 30,20
1419 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1421 setenv splashpos -10,m
1422 => vertically centered image
1423 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1425 - Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1427 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1428 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1429 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1431 - Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1433 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1434 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1437 - Compression support:
1440 Enabled by default to support gzip compressed images.
1444 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1445 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1446 compressed images are supported.
1448 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
1449 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
1455 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1457 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1459 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1461 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1463 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1464 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1465 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1466 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1468 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1470 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1471 command issued before MII status register can be read
1476 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
1477 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
1478 determined through e.g. bootp.
1479 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
1481 - Server IP address:
1484 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
1485 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1486 (Environment variable "serverip")
1488 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1490 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1491 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1493 - Gateway IP address:
1496 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1497 default router where packets to other networks are
1499 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1504 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1505 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1506 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1507 forwarded through a router.
1508 (Environment variable "netmask")
1510 - Multicast TFTP Mode:
1513 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1514 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
1515 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
1516 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1519 - BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1520 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1522 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1523 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1524 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1525 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1526 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1527 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1528 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1529 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
1530 following delays are inserted then:
1532 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1533 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1534 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1536 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1538 CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE
1540 BOOTP packets are uniquely identified using a 32-bit ID. The
1541 server will copy the ID from client requests to responses and
1542 U-Boot will use this to determine if it is the destination of
1543 an incoming response. Some servers will check that addresses
1544 aren't in use before handing them out (usually using an ARP
1545 ping) and therefore take up to a few hundred milliseconds to
1546 respond. Network congestion may also influence the time it
1547 takes for a response to make it back to the client. If that
1548 time is too long, U-Boot will retransmit requests. In order
1549 to allow earlier responses to still be accepted after these
1550 retransmissions, U-Boot's BOOTP client keeps a small cache of
1551 IDs. The CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE controls the size of this
1552 cache. The default is to keep IDs for up to four outstanding
1553 requests. Increasing this will allow U-Boot to accept offers
1554 from a BOOTP client in networks with unusually high latency.
1556 - DHCP Advanced Options:
1557 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1558 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1560 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1561 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1562 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1563 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1564 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1565 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1568 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1569 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1570 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1571 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
1572 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
1574 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1575 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
1577 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1578 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1579 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1580 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1583 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1584 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1585 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1586 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1587 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1588 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1589 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1592 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1593 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1594 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
1595 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
1596 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1597 option 12 to the DHCP server.
1599 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1601 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1602 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1603 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1604 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1605 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1606 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1607 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1608 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1609 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1610 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1613 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1614 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1615 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1616 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1617 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1619 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1622 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
1624 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1626 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1628 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1633 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1634 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
1635 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
1637 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1639 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1640 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1644 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1648 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1652 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1654 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1656 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1657 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1659 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1661 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1663 - Status LED: CONFIG_LED_STATUS
1665 Several configurations allow to display the current
1666 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1667 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1668 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1669 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1670 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1671 kernel). Defining CONFIG_LED_STATUS enables this
1676 CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
1677 The status LED can be connected to a GPIO pin.
1678 In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
1679 status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
1680 to include the gpio_led driver in the U-Boot binary.
1682 CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE
1683 Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
1684 case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
1685 GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
1686 In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
1687 with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
1689 - I2C Support: CONFIG_SYS_I2C
1691 This enable the NEW i2c subsystem, and will allow you to use
1692 i2c commands at the u-boot command line (as long as you set
1693 CONFIG_CMD_I2C in CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c
1694 based realtime clock chips or other i2c devices. See
1695 common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the command line
1698 ported i2c driver to the new framework:
1699 - drivers/i2c/soft_i2c.c:
1700 - activate first bus with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT define
1701 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE
1702 for defining speed and slave address
1703 - activate second bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS2 define
1704 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_2 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_2
1705 for defining speed and slave address
1706 - activate third bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS3 define
1707 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_3 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_3
1708 for defining speed and slave address
1709 - activate fourth bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS4 define
1710 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_4 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_4
1711 for defining speed and slave address
1713 - drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c:
1714 - activate i2c driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_FSL
1715 define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_OFFSET for setting the register
1716 offset CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SPEED for the i2c speed and
1717 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SLAVE for the slave addr of the first
1719 - If your board supports a second fsl i2c bus, define
1720 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_OFFSET for the register offset
1721 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SPEED for the speed and
1722 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SLAVE for the slave address of the
1725 - drivers/i2c/tegra_i2c.c:
1726 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_TEGRA
1727 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses with a fix speed from
1728 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1730 - drivers/i2c/ppc4xx_i2c.c
1731 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX
1732 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1733 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1735 - drivers/i2c/i2c_mxc.c
1736 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC
1737 - enable bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C1
1738 - enable bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C2
1739 - enable bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C3
1740 - enable bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C4
1741 - define speed for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SPEED
1742 - define slave for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SLAVE
1743 - define speed for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SPEED
1744 - define slave for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SLAVE
1745 - define speed for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SPEED
1746 - define slave for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SLAVE
1747 - define speed for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SPEED
1748 - define slave for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SLAVE
1749 If those defines are not set, default value is 100000
1750 for speed, and 0 for slave.
1752 - drivers/i2c/rcar_i2c.c:
1753 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RCAR
1754 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses
1756 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_BASE for setting the register channel 0
1757 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_SPEED for for the speed channel 0
1758 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_BASE for setting the register channel 1
1759 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_SPEED for for the speed channel 1
1760 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_BASE for setting the register channel 2
1761 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_SPEED for for the speed channel 2
1762 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_BASE for setting the register channel 3
1763 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_SPEED for for the speed channel 3
1764 - CONFIF_SYS_RCAR_I2C_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
1766 - drivers/i2c/sh_i2c.c:
1767 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH
1768 - This driver adds from 2 to 5 i2c buses
1770 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE0 for setting the register channel 0
1771 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED0 for for the speed channel 0
1772 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE1 for setting the register channel 1
1773 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED1 for for the speed channel 1
1774 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE2 for setting the register channel 2
1775 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED2 for for the speed channel 2
1776 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE3 for setting the register channel 3
1777 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED3 for for the speed channel 3
1778 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE4 for setting the register channel 4
1779 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED4 for for the speed channel 4
1780 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
1782 - drivers/i2c/omap24xx_i2c.c
1783 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_OMAP24XX
1784 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED speed channel 0
1785 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE slave addr channel 0
1786 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED1 speed channel 1
1787 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE1 slave addr channel 1
1788 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED2 speed channel 2
1789 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE2 slave addr channel 2
1790 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED3 speed channel 3
1791 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE3 slave addr channel 3
1792 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED4 speed channel 4
1793 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE4 slave addr channel 4
1795 - drivers/i2c/zynq_i2c.c
1796 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ
1797 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SPEED for speed setting
1798 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SLAVE for slave addr
1800 - drivers/i2c/s3c24x0_i2c.c:
1801 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_S3C24X0
1802 - This driver adds i2c buses (11 for Exynos5250, Exynos5420
1803 9 i2c buses for Exynos4 and 1 for S3C24X0 SoCs from Samsung)
1804 with a fix speed from 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1806 - drivers/i2c/ihs_i2c.c
1807 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS
1808 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1809 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0 speed channel 0
1810 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0 slave addr channel 0
1811 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1812 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1 speed channel 1
1813 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1 slave addr channel 1
1814 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH2 activate hardware channel 2
1815 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2 speed channel 2
1816 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2 slave addr channel 2
1817 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH3 activate hardware channel 3
1818 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3 speed channel 3
1819 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3 slave addr channel 3
1820 - activate dual channel with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_DUAL
1821 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0_1 speed channel 0_1
1822 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0_1 slave addr channel 0_1
1823 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1_1 speed channel 1_1
1824 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1_1 slave addr channel 1_1
1825 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2_1 speed channel 2_1
1826 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2_1 slave addr channel 2_1
1827 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3_1 speed channel 3_1
1828 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3_1 slave addr channel 3_1
1832 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
1833 Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use.
1835 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
1836 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
1837 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
1840 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
1841 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
1842 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
1845 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
1846 hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
1847 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
1848 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
1849 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
1851 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1852 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
1853 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
1854 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
1855 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
1856 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
1857 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1858 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
1859 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
1863 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
1864 bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
1865 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
1866 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
1867 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
1868 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
1869 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
1870 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
1871 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
1873 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
1875 - Legacy I2C Support:
1876 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
1877 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1878 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
1882 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
1883 controller or configure ports.
1885 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
1889 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1890 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1893 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1897 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1898 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1901 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1905 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
1908 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1912 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1913 is false, it clears it (low).
1915 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
1916 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
1917 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
1921 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1922 is false, it clears it (low).
1924 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
1925 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
1926 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
1930 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1931 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
1932 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
1935 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
1937 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1939 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1940 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1941 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1942 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1944 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1945 the generic GPIO functions.
1947 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
1949 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1950 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1951 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1952 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1953 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1954 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1955 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1956 is run early in the boot sequence.
1958 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1960 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
1961 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1962 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
1963 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1965 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
1967 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
1968 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1969 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1970 a 1D array of device addresses
1973 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1974 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
1976 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1978 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1979 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
1981 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1983 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
1985 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1986 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1988 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
1990 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1991 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1993 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1995 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1996 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1997 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1998 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1999 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
2000 devices can use either method, but some require one or
2003 - SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
2005 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
2006 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
2007 D/As on the SACSng board)
2011 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
2012 only SH7757 is supported.
2016 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
2017 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
2018 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
2019 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
2020 defined, the board configuration must define several
2021 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
2022 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
2026 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
2027 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
2028 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
2029 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
2030 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
2034 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
2035 SoCs. Currently i.MX31/35/51 are supported.
2037 CONFIG_SYS_SPI_MXC_WAIT
2038 Timeout for waiting until spi transfer completed.
2039 default: (CONFIG_SYS_HZ/100) /* 10 ms */
2041 - FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
2043 Enables FPGA subsystem.
2045 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
2047 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
2050 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
2052 Enables support for FPGA family.
2053 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
2057 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
2059 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
2061 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
2063 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
2065 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
2066 status by the configuration function. This option
2067 will require a board or device specific function to
2072 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
2073 configuration driver.
2075 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
2076 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2078 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
2080 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2081 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2082 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2083 indicated a CRC error).
2085 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
2087 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to de-assert
2088 after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
2089 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
2092 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
2094 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
2095 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
2097 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
2099 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
2102 - Configuration Management:
2105 Some SoCs need special image types (e.g. U-Boot binary
2106 with a special header) as build targets. By defining
2107 CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET in the SoC / board header, this
2108 special image will be automatically built upon calling
2113 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2114 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
2116 - Vendor Parameter Protection:
2118 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2119 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
2120 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
2121 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2122 protects these variables from casual modification by
2123 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2124 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
2125 change this behaviour:
2127 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2128 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
2129 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
2132 Alternatively, if you define _both_ an ethaddr in the
2133 default env _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
2134 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
2135 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2136 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2139 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
2140 for any variable by configuring the type of access
2141 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
2142 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
2147 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2148 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2149 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2150 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2151 this default value by defining an environment
2152 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2153 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2154 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2155 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2156 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2157 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2158 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2160 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
2163 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2164 either, which results in a memory region that will
2165 not be affected by reboots.
2167 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2168 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2169 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2170 following board configurations are known to be
2173 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx,
2174 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2177 - Access to physical memory region (> 4GB)
2178 Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not
2179 normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures
2180 support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit
2181 machines using physical address extension or similar.
2182 Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which
2183 currently only supports clearing the memory.
2188 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
2189 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
2190 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
2191 system where you want the system to reboot
2192 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
2193 useful during development since you can try to debug
2194 the conditions that lead to the situation.
2196 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2198 This variable defines the number of retries for
2199 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2200 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2201 default value of 5 is used.
2205 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2209 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2210 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2211 try longer timeout such as
2212 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2214 - Command Interpreter:
2215 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
2217 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
2219 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
2221 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2222 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2223 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2227 In the current implementation, the local variables
2228 space and global environment variables space are
2229 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2230 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2231 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2232 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2233 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
2235 Global environment variables are those you use
2236 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2237 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2238 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
2240 To store commands and special characters in a
2241 variable, please use double quotation marks
2242 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2243 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2246 - Command Line Editing and History:
2247 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
2249 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
2250 command line input operations
2252 - Command Line PS1/PS2 support:
2253 CONFIG_CMDLINE_PS_SUPPORT
2255 Enable support for changing the command prompt string
2256 at run-time. Only static string is supported so far.
2257 The string is obtained from environment variables PS1
2260 - Default Environment:
2261 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2263 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2264 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
2265 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2267 For example, place something like this in your
2268 board's config file:
2270 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2274 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2275 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2276 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2277 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
2278 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
2279 You better know what you are doing here.
2281 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2282 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
2283 the environment like the "source" command or the
2286 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_CONFIG
2288 Define this in order to add variables describing the
2289 U-Boot build configuration to the default environment.
2290 These will be named arch, cpu, board, vendor, and soc.
2292 Enabling this option will cause the following to be defined:
2300 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG
2302 Define this in order to add variables describing certain
2303 run-time determined information about the hardware to the
2304 environment. These will be named board_name, board_rev.
2306 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
2308 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
2309 initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
2310 that so that the environment is not available until
2311 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
2312 this is instead controlled by the value of
2313 /config/load-environment.
2315 - Serial Flash support
2316 Usage requires an initial 'sf probe' to define the serial
2317 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2320 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2321 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2322 flash is present on the system.
2324 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2325 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2326 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2327 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2331 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
2332 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
2333 of the chip must also be defined in the
2334 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
2336 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
2337 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
2339 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
2340 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
2342 - TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2345 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
2346 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
2347 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
2348 number generator is used.
2350 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2351 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2352 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2354 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
2355 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2356 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2357 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2358 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2359 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2360 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2362 - bootcount support:
2363 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
2365 This enables the bootcounter support, see:
2366 http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
2369 enable special bootcounter support on at91sam9xe based boards.
2371 enable special bootcounter support on da850 based boards.
2372 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_RAM
2373 enable support for the bootcounter in RAM
2374 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_I2C
2375 enable support for the bootcounter on an i2c (like RTC) device.
2376 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RTC_ADDR = i2c chip address
2377 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR = i2c addr which is used for
2379 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ALEN = address len
2381 - Show boot progress:
2382 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2384 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2385 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2386 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2387 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2388 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2389 the following checkpoints are implemented:
2392 Legacy uImage format:
2395 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
2396 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
2397 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
2398 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
2399 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
2400 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
2401 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2402 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2403 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2404 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
2405 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2406 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2407 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2408 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
2409 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
2410 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
2412 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2413 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2414 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2415 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2416 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2417 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2418 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
2419 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
2420 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2421 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2423 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
2425 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
2426 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2427 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
2429 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2430 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2431 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2432 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2433 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2434 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2435 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2436 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2437 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2438 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2439 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2440 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2441 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2442 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2443 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2444 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2445 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2446 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2447 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2448 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2449 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2450 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2451 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2452 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2453 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2454 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2455 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2456 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2457 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2458 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2459 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2460 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2461 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2462 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2463 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2464 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2465 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2466 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2467 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2468 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2469 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2470 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2471 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2472 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2473 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2474 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2475 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
2477 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
2479 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
2480 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2481 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
2483 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
2484 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling net_loop()
2485 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in net_loop() occurred
2486 81 common/cmd_net.c net_loop() back without error
2487 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2488 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
2489 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2490 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
2491 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
2496 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2497 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2498 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2499 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2500 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2501 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
2502 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
2503 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2504 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2505 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2506 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2507 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2508 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2509 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
2510 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2511 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2512 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2513 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2514 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2515 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2516 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2517 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2519 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2520 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2521 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
2522 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
2523 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2524 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2525 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2526 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2527 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2528 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2529 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2530 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2531 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2532 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2533 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2534 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2536 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
2537 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2539 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
2540 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2542 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
2543 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2545 - legacy image format:
2546 CONFIG_IMAGE_FORMAT_LEGACY
2547 enables the legacy image format support in U-Boot.
2550 enabled if CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE is not defined.
2552 CONFIG_DISABLE_IMAGE_LEGACY
2553 disable the legacy image format
2555 This define is introduced, as the legacy image format is
2556 enabled per default for backward compatibility.
2558 - Standalone program support:
2559 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2561 This option defines a board specific value for the
2562 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
2563 overwriting the architecture dependent default
2566 - Frame Buffer Address:
2569 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
2570 address for frame buffer. This is typically the case
2571 when using a graphics controller has separate video
2572 memory. U-Boot will then place the frame buffer at
2573 the given address instead of dynamically reserving it
2574 in system RAM by calling lcd_setmem(), which grabs
2575 the memory for the frame buffer depending on the
2576 configured panel size.
2578 Please see board_init_f function.
2580 - Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2582 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2583 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2585 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2586 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2588 - MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2591 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
2592 Needed for mtdparts command support.
2594 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2596 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
2597 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
2600 CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
2602 Make the verbose messages from UBI stop printing. This leaves
2603 warnings and errors enabled.
2606 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
2607 This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
2608 erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
2609 of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
2610 wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
2611 counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
2613 The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
2614 other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
2615 However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
2616 life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
2617 to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
2621 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
2622 This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
2623 expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the
2624 underlying flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR
2625 flash), this value is ignored.
2627 NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM
2628 (Number of Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime.
2629 The maximum expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks
2630 then can be calculated as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)",
2631 which gives 20 for most NANDs (MaxNVB is basically the total
2632 count of eraseblocks on the chip).
2634 To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to
2635 reserve about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
2636 handling. And that will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire
2637 NAND chip, not just the MTD partition UBI attaches. This means
2638 that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip admits maximum 40 bad
2639 eraseblocks, and it is split on two MTD partitions of the same
2640 size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when attaching a
2645 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
2646 Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
2647 in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
2648 only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
2649 The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
2650 the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
2651 attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
2652 a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI parameter
2653 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT to 1 if you want so. Please note
2654 that fastmap-enabled images are still usable with UBI implementations
2655 without fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap
2656 fits into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
2658 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT
2659 Set this parameter to enable fastmap automatically on images
2663 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FM_DEBUG
2664 Enable UBI fastmap debug
2668 CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
2670 Make the verbose messages from UBIFS stop printing. This leaves
2671 warnings and errors enabled.
2675 Enable building of SPL globally.
2678 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
2680 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT
2681 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL, BSS included.
2682 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory
2683 used by SPL from _start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
2684 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2685 must not be both defined at the same time.
2688 Maximum size of the SPL image (text, data, rodata, and
2689 linker lists sections), BSS excluded.
2690 When defined, the linker checks that the actual size does
2693 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
2694 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
2696 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
2697 Address to relocate to. If unspecified, this is equal to
2698 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
2700 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
2701 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
2703 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2704 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL BSS.
2705 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory used
2706 by SPL from __bss_start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
2707 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2708 must not be both defined at the same time.
2711 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
2713 CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
2714 When defined, SPL will panic() if the image it has
2715 loaded does not have a signature.
2716 Defining this is useful when code which loads images
2717 in SPL cannot guarantee that absolutely all read errors
2719 An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which will
2720 consider that a completely unreadable NAND block is bad,
2721 and thus should be skipped silently.
2723 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
2724 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
2725 relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
2728 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
2729 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2730 When this option is set the full malloc is used in SPL and
2731 it is set up by spl_init() and before that, the simple malloc()
2732 can be used if CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F is defined.
2734 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
2735 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2737 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK
2738 Enable the SPL framework under common/. This framework
2739 supports MMC, NAND and YMODEM loading of U-Boot and NAND
2740 NAND loading of the Linux Kernel.
2743 Enable booting directly to an OS from SPL.
2744 See also: doc/README.falcon
2746 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
2747 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
2748 about the running system.
2750 CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
2751 Arch init code should be built for a very small image
2753 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION
2754 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
2757 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_KERNEL_SECTOR
2758 Sector to load kernel uImage from when MMC is being
2759 used in raw mode (for Falcon mode)
2761 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTOR,
2762 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTORS
2763 Sector and number of sectors to load kernel argument
2764 parameters from when MMC is being used in raw mode
2767 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_FS_BOOT_PARTITION
2768 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
2771 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
2772 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from filesystem
2774 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_KERNEL_NAME
2775 Filename to read to load kernel uImage when reading
2776 from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
2778 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_ARGS_NAME
2779 Filename to read to load kernel argument parameters
2780 when reading from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
2782 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
2783 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
2784 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
2785 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
2786 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
2788 CONFIG_SPL_SKIP_RELOCATE
2789 Avoid SPL relocation
2791 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE
2792 Include nand_base.c in the SPL. Requires
2793 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS.
2795 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS
2796 SPL uses normal NAND drivers, not minimal drivers.
2799 Include standard software ECC in the SPL
2801 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
2802 Support for NAND boot using simple NAND drivers that
2803 expose the cmd_ctrl() interface.
2806 Support for a lightweight UBI (fastmap) scanner and
2809 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_RAW_ONLY
2810 Support to boot only raw u-boot.bin images. Use this only
2811 if you need to save space.
2813 CONFIG_SPL_COMMON_INIT_DDR
2814 Set for common ddr init with serial presence detect in
2817 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
2818 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
2819 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
2820 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
2821 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
2822 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
2825 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BOOT
2826 Add support NAND boot
2828 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
2829 Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
2831 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
2832 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
2834 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
2835 Size of image to load
2837 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
2838 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
2840 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
2841 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
2842 data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
2844 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
2845 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
2848 Image offset to which the SPL should be padded before appending
2849 the SPL payload. By default, this is defined as
2850 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2851 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2852 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
2855 Final target image containing SPL and payload. Some SPLs
2856 use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
2857 example if more than one image needs to be produced.
2859 CONFIG_FIT_SPL_PRINT
2860 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
2861 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
2862 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
2863 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
2867 Enable building of TPL globally.
2870 Image offset to which the TPL should be padded before appending
2871 the TPL payload. By default, this is defined as
2872 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2873 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2874 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
2876 - Interrupt support (PPC):
2878 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2879 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
2880 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
2881 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
2882 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
2883 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
2884 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
2885 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2886 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2887 general timer_interrupt().
2890 Board initialization settings:
2891 ------------------------------
2893 During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
2894 to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
2895 before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
2896 following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
2897 architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
2898 typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
2900 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
2901 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
2902 - CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
2903 - CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
2905 Configuration Settings:
2906 -----------------------
2908 - CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit.
2909 Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.
2911 - CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
2912 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2914 - CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2915 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2917 - CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
2918 prompt for user input.
2920 - CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
2922 - CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
2924 - CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
2926 - CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
2927 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2930 - CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
2931 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2933 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
2934 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2937 - CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
2938 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
2940 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
2941 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2942 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2944 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE
2945 Only implemented for ARMv8 for now.
2946 If defined, the size of CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE memory
2947 is substracted from total RAM and won't be reported to OS.
2948 This memory can be used as secure memory. A variable
2949 gd->arch.secure_ram is used to track the location. In systems
2950 the RAM base is not zero, or RAM is divided into banks,
2951 this variable needs to be recalcuated to get the address.
2953 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE:
2954 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
2955 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
2956 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
2957 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2958 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2959 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
2960 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
2961 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
2962 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
2964 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2965 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2968 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2969 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2970 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2971 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2974 - CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
2975 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2977 - CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
2978 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2980 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
2981 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2983 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
2984 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2985 make config files to be same as the text base address
2986 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
2987 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
2989 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
2990 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2991 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2992 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2995 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
2996 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2998 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
2999 Size of the malloc() pool for use before relocation. If
3000 this is defined, then a very simple malloc() implementation
3001 will become available before relocation. The address is just
3002 below the global data, and the stack is moved down to make
3005 This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
3006 within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
3007 is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
3008 The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
3009 U-Boot relocates itself.
3011 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
3012 Provides a simple and small malloc() and calloc() for those
3013 boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is
3014 enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START).
3016 - CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY:
3017 Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be
3018 typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped
3019 uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would
3020 otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For
3021 some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the
3022 cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed
3023 are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding
3024 cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e.
3025 if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the
3026 size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of
3027 one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has
3028 written to another region in the same cache-line. This can
3029 happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for
3030 buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g.
3031 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).
3033 Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
3035 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
3036 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
3037 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
3038 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
3039 to adjust this setting to your needs.
3041 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
3042 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
3043 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
3044 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
3045 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
3046 environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
3047 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
3048 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
3049 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
3050 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
3051 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
3053 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
3054 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
3055 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
3058 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
3059 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
3060 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3062 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
3063 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
3064 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3066 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
3067 Max number of Flash memory banks
3069 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
3070 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
3072 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
3073 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
3075 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
3076 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
3078 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
3079 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
3081 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
3082 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
3084 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
3085 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
3086 instead of U-Boot software protection.
3088 - CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
3090 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
3091 without this option such a download has to be
3092 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
3093 copy from RAM to flash.
3095 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
3096 you can check if the download worked before you erase
3097 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
3098 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
3099 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
3101 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
3102 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
3103 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
3105 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
3106 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
3107 in the drivers directory
3109 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
3110 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
3111 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
3114 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
3115 Use buffered writes to flash.
3117 - CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
3118 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
3121 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
3122 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
3123 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
3124 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
3125 optionally available.
3127 - CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
3128 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
3129 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
3130 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
3132 - CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY
3133 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
3134 against the source after the write operation. An error message
3135 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
3136 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
3137 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
3138 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
3139 this option if you really know what you are doing.
3141 - CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
3142 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
3143 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
3144 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
3145 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
3146 on high Ethernet traffic.
3147 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
3149 - CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
3151 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
3152 internally to store the environment settings. The default
3153 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
3154 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
3155 lib/hashtable.c for details.
3157 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3158 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3159 Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when
3160 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
3161 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
3162 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
3164 The format of the list is:
3165 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
3166 access_attribute = [a|r|o|c]
3167 attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute]
3168 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
3171 The type attributes are:
3172 s - String (default)
3175 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
3179 The access attributes are:
3185 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3186 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
3187 environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
3189 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3190 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
3191 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
3192 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
3193 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
3196 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
3197 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to define the same
3198 flags without explicitly listing them for each variable.
3200 - CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
3201 If defined, don't allow the -f switch to env set override variable
3205 If stdint.h is available with your toolchain you can define this
3206 option to enable it. You can provide option 'USE_STDINT=1' when
3207 building U-Boot to enable this.
3209 The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
3210 of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
3211 following configurations:
3213 - CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
3215 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
3216 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
3218 BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
3219 in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the
3220 console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
3223 Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3224 environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3225 keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3226 to save the current settings.
3228 BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
3229 "saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
3230 environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
3231 but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
3233 - CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
3235 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
3236 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
3237 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
3239 Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
3240 has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
3241 created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use env_get_f()
3242 until then to read environment variables.
3244 The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
3245 is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
3246 with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
3247 necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
3248 "baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
3249 have any device yet where we could complain.]
3251 Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
3252 the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
3253 use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
3255 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
3256 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
3258 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
3259 also needs to be defined.
3261 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
3262 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
3264 - CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
3265 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
3266 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
3267 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
3268 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
3269 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
3271 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
3272 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
3273 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
3276 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
3277 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
3278 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
3281 - CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT:
3282 Maximum size of the U-Boot image. When defined, the
3283 build system checks that the actual size does not
3286 Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
3287 ---------------------------------------------------
3289 - CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
3290 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
3292 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
3293 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
3296 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
3297 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
3298 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
3300 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
3301 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
3302 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
3303 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
3304 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
3305 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
3306 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
3308 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
3309 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
3311 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
3312 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
3313 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
3314 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3315 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3317 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
3318 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
3319 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3320 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3322 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
3323 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
3324 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
3326 - Floppy Disk Support:
3327 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
3329 the default drive number (default value 0)
3331 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
3333 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
3336 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
3338 defines the offset of register from address. It
3339 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
3340 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
3342 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
3343 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
3346 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
3347 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
3348 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
3349 source code. It is used to make hardware-dependent
3353 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
3354 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
3355 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
3356 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
3357 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
3360 - CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
3361 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
3362 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx systems only]
3364 - CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
3366 Start address of memory area that can be used for
3367 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
3368 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
3369 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
3370 will become available only after programming the
3371 memory controller and running certain initialization
3374 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
3375 - MPC8xx: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
3377 - CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
3379 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
3380 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
3381 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
3382 data is located at the end of the available space
3383 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
3384 GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
3385 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
3386 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
3389 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
3390 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
3391 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
3392 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
3393 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
3395 - CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
3397 - CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
3400 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
3401 periodic timer for refresh
3403 - FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
3404 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
3405 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
3406 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
3407 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
3409 - SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
3410 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
3411 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
3412 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
3414 - CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
3415 Only scan through and get the devices on the buses.
3416 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
3417 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
3418 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
3419 by coreboot or similar.
3421 - CONFIG_PCI_INDIRECT_BRIDGE:
3422 Enable support for indirect PCI bridges.
3425 Chip has SRIO or not
3428 Board has SRIO 1 port available
3431 Board has SRIO 2 port available
3433 - CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
3434 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
3436 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
3437 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3439 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
3440 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3442 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
3443 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3445 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
3446 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
3448 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
3449 Example of drivers that use it:
3450 - drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c
3451 - drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
3453 - CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
3454 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
3455 a default value will be used.
3458 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
3459 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
3462 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
3464 - CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
3465 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
3466 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
3467 to something your driver can deal with.
3469 - CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
3470 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
3471 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
3472 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
3473 header files or board specific files.
3475 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
3476 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
3478 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_SYNC_REFRESH
3479 Enable sync of refresh for multiple controllers.
3481 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_BIST
3482 Enable built-in memory test for Freescale DDR controllers.
3484 - CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
3485 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
3486 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
3489 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
3490 Note that this is a global option, we can't
3491 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
3493 - CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
3494 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
3497 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
3499 Where address/count indicate a memory area
3500 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
3504 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
3505 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
3508 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
3513 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
3515 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
3516 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
3518 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
3519 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
3521 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
3522 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain
3523 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
3524 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
3525 relocate itself into RAM.
3527 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
3528 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
3529 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
3530 these initializations itself.
3532 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT_ONLY
3533 [ARM926EJ-S only] This allows just the call to lowlevel_init()
3534 to be skipped. The normal CP15 init (such as enabling the
3535 instruction cache) is still performed.
3538 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3539 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
3540 compiling a NAND SPL.
3543 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3544 that is executed after the SPL and before the actual U-Boot.
3545 It is loaded by the SPL.
3547 - CONFIG_SYS_MPC85XX_NO_RESETVEC
3548 Only for 85xx systems. If this variable is specified, the section
3549 .resetvec is not kept and the section .bootpg is placed in the
3550 previous 4k of the .text section.
3552 - CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
3553 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
3554 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
3555 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
3556 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
3557 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
3558 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
3559 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
3561 - CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
3562 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
3563 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
3565 - CONFIG_SPL_AM33XX_ENABLE_RTC32K_OSC:
3566 Enables the RTC32K OSC on AM33xx based plattforms
3568 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE
3569 Option to disable subpage write in NAND driver
3570 driver that uses this:
3571 drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
3573 Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
3574 -----------------------------------
3576 The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
3577 loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
3578 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3579 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3582 - CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR
3583 The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The
3584 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3587 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR
3588 The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The
3589 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3592 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
3593 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
3594 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
3595 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
3596 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
3598 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
3599 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
3600 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
3601 virtual address in NOR flash.
3603 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
3604 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
3605 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
3607 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
3608 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
3609 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
3611 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
3612 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
3613 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
3614 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
3615 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
3616 master's memory space.
3618 Freescale Layerscape Management Complex Firmware Support:
3619 ---------------------------------------------------------
3620 The Freescale Layerscape Management Complex (MC) supports the loading of
3622 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3623 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3626 - CONFIG_FSL_MC_ENET
3627 Enable the MC driver for Layerscape SoCs.
3629 Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support:
3630 -------------------------------------------
3631 The Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support supports the loading of
3632 "Debug Server firmware" and triggering SP boot-rom.
3633 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting.
3635 - CONFIG_SYS_MC_RSV_MEM_ALIGN
3636 Define alignment of reserved memory MC requires
3641 In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
3642 process have to be set to a fixed value.
3644 This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
3645 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is to be set on the build host's shell, not as a configuration
3646 option for U-Boot or an environment variable in U-Boot.
3648 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should be set to a number of seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
3650 Building the Software:
3651 ======================
3653 Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
3654 and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
3655 all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
3656 (potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
3657 recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
3658 which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
3660 If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
3661 have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
3662 you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
3663 Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
3664 necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
3666 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
3667 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
3669 Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
3670 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
3671 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
3672 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
3674 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
3676 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
3677 be executed on computers running Windows.
3679 U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
3680 sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
3685 where "NAME_defconfig" is the name of one of the existing configu-
3686 rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
3688 Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
3689 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
3690 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
3691 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
3692 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
3694 make TQM823L_defconfig
3695 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
3697 make TQM823L_LCD_defconfig
3698 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
3703 Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
3704 images ready for download to / installation on your system:
3706 - "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
3707 - "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
3708 - "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
3710 By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
3711 in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
3712 this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
3714 1. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
3716 make O=/tmp/build distclean
3717 make O=/tmp/build NAME_defconfig
3718 make O=/tmp/build all
3720 2. Set environment variable KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the desired location:
3722 export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/build
3727 Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
3731 Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
3732 for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
3736 If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
3737 to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
3740 1. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
3741 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3742 the "Makefile" and a "<board>.c".
3743 2. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3745 3. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3746 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
3747 4. Run "make <board>_defconfig" with your new name.
3748 5. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3749 to be installed on your target system.
3750 6. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3751 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
3754 Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3755 ==============================================================
3757 If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3758 or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
3759 provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
3760 the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
3761 official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
3763 But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3764 cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
3765 the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
3766 just run the buildman script (tools/buildman/buildman), which will
3767 configure and build U-Boot for ALL supported system. Be warned, this
3768 will take a while. Please see the buildman README, or run 'buildman -H'
3772 See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
3775 Monitor Commands - Overview:
3776 ============================
3778 go - start application at address 'addr'
3779 run - run commands in an environment variable
3780 bootm - boot application image from memory
3781 bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
3782 bootz - boot zImage from memory
3783 tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3784 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3785 (and eventually "gatewayip")
3786 tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
3787 rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3788 diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3789 loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3790 loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3792 mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3793 nm - memory modify (constant address)
3794 mw - memory write (fill)
3796 cmp - memory compare
3797 crc32 - checksum calculation
3798 i2c - I2C sub-system
3799 sspi - SPI utility commands
3800 base - print or set address offset
3801 printenv- print environment variables
3802 setenv - set environment variables
3803 saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3804 protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3805 erase - erase FLASH memory
3806 flinfo - print FLASH memory information
3807 nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
3808 bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3809 iminfo - print header information for application image
3810 coninfo - print console devices and informations
3811 ide - IDE sub-system
3812 loop - infinite loop on address range
3813 loopw - infinite write loop on address range
3814 mtest - simple RAM test
3815 icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3816 dcache - enable or disable data cache
3817 reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3818 echo - echo args to console
3819 version - print monitor version
3820 help - print online help
3821 ? - alias for 'help'
3824 Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3825 ========================================
3829 For now: just type "help <command>".
3832 Environment Variables:
3833 ======================
3835 U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3836 can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
3838 Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3839 "printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3840 without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3841 environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3842 working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3843 environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
3845 Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3847 List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
3849 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
3851 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
3853 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
3855 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
3857 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
3859 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3860 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3861 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3862 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3863 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3864 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
3865 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
3868 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
3869 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
3870 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
3871 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
3872 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
3873 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
3876 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3877 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3878 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3879 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3880 environment variable.
3882 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3883 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3884 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3886 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3887 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3888 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3889 load any image using TFTP
3891 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3892 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3893 be automatically started (by internally calling
3896 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3897 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3898 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3899 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3902 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
3903 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
3904 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
3905 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
3906 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
3907 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
3908 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
3909 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
3910 access it during the boot procedure.
3912 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
3913 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
3914 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
3915 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
3916 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
3917 must be accessible by the kernel.
3919 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
3920 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
3923 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3924 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3925 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3926 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3927 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3929 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3930 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3931 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3932 is usually what you want since it allows for
3933 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3934 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
3935 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
3936 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3937 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3938 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3939 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
3941 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3942 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3943 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3944 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3945 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3946 12 MB as well - this can be done with
3948 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
3950 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3951 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3952 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3953 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3954 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3955 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3956 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
3958 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3960 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3961 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
3963 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
3965 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3967 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
3969 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
3971 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
3973 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
3975 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
3976 For example you can do the following
3978 => setenv ethact FEC
3979 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
3980 => setenv ethact SCC
3981 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
3983 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3984 available network interfaces.
3985 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3987 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
3988 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3989 When set to "once" the network operation will
3990 fail when all the available network interfaces
3991 are tried once without success.
3992 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3995 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
3997 silent_linux - If set then Linux will be told to boot silently, by
3998 changing the console to be empty. If "yes" it will be
3999 made silent. If "no" it will not be made silent. If
4000 unset, then it will be made silent if the U-Boot console
4003 tftpsrcp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
4006 tftpdstp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
4007 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
4009 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
4010 we use the TFTP server's default block size
4012 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
4013 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
4014 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
4015 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
4016 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
4017 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
4018 with unreliable TFTP servers.
4020 tftptimeoutcountmax - maximum count of TFTP timeouts (no
4021 unit, minimum value = 0). Defines how many timeouts
4022 can happen during a single file transfer before that
4023 transfer is aborted. The default is 10, and 0 means
4024 'no timeouts allowed'. Increasing this value may help
4025 downloads succeed with high packet loss rates, or with
4026 unreliable TFTP servers or client hardware.
4028 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
4029 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
4032 bootpretryperiod - Period during which BOOTP/DHCP sends retries.
4033 Unsigned value, in milliseconds. If not set, the period will
4034 be either the default (28000), or a value based on
4035 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT, if defined. This value has
4036 precedence over the valu based on CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT.
4038 The following image location variables contain the location of images
4039 used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
4040 not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
4041 variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
4042 server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
4043 loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
4044 flash or offset in NAND flash.
4046 *Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
4047 boards currently use other variables for these purposes, and some
4048 boards use these variables for other purposes.
4050 Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
4051 ----- --------- ----------- --------------
4052 u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
4053 Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
4054 device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
4055 ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
4057 The following environment variables may be used and automatically
4058 updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
4059 depending the information provided by your boot server:
4061 bootfile - see above
4062 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
4063 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
4064 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
4065 hostname - Target hostname
4067 netmask - Subnet Mask
4068 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
4069 serverip - see above
4072 There are two special Environment Variables:
4074 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
4075 as type string and/or serial number
4076 ethaddr - Ethernet address
4078 These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
4079 the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
4080 once they have been set once.
4083 Further special Environment Variables:
4085 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
4086 with the "version" command. This variable is
4087 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
4090 Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
4091 only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
4094 Callback functions for environment variables:
4095 ---------------------------------------------
4097 For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change
4098 when their values are changed. This functionality allows functions to
4099 be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or
4100 deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side
4101 effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.
4103 The callbacks are named and associated with a function using the
4104 U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK macro in your board or driver code.
4106 These callbacks are associated with variables in one of two ways. The
4107 static list can be added to by defining CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC
4108 in the board configuration to a string that defines a list of
4109 associations. The list must be in the following format:
4111 entry = variable_name[:callback_name]
4114 If the callback name is not specified, then the callback is deleted.
4115 Spaces are also allowed anywhere in the list.
4117 Callbacks can also be associated by defining the ".callbacks" variable
4118 with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will
4119 override any association in the static list. You can define
4120 CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
4121 ".callbacks" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
4123 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
4124 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to be connected to
4125 the same callback without explicitly listing them all out.
4128 Command Line Parsing:
4129 =====================
4131 There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
4132 the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
4134 Old, simple command line parser:
4135 --------------------------------
4137 - supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
4138 - several commands on one line, separated by ';'
4139 - variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
4140 - special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
4142 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
4143 - You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
4144 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
4149 - similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
4150 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
4151 until...do...done, ...
4152 - supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
4153 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
4154 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
4160 (1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
4161 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
4162 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
4165 (2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
4166 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
4167 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
4168 variables are not executed.
4170 Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
4171 =======================================
4173 Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
4174 such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
4175 "working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
4177 Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
4178 MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
4179 "eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
4181 If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
4182 in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
4183 ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
4184 variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
4186 o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
4187 environment, the SROM's address is used.
4189 o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
4190 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
4193 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
4194 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
4196 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
4197 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
4200 o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
4201 is raised. If CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR is defined, then in this case
4202 a random, locally-assigned MAC is used.
4204 If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
4205 will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
4206 may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
4207 The naming convention is as follows:
4208 "ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
4213 U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
4214 images in two formats:
4216 New uImage format (FIT)
4217 -----------------------
4219 Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
4220 to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
4221 components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
4222 SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
4228 Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
4229 preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
4230 details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
4232 * Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
4233 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
4234 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
4235 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
4237 * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, Intel x86,
4238 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
4239 Currently supported: ARM, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
4240 * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
4246 The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
4247 and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
4254 Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
4255 easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
4258 U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
4259 special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
4260 "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
4261 instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
4262 serves several purposes:
4264 - the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
4265 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
4266 Flash memory footprint)
4268 - it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
4269 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
4271 - the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
4272 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
4273 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
4274 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
4275 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
4276 software is easier now.
4282 Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
4283 ---------------------------------------
4285 U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
4286 configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
4287 (no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
4290 But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
4292 Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
4293 include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
4294 Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
4295 and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
4296 as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
4298 Note that U-Boot now has a driver model, a unified model for drivers.
4299 If you are adding a new driver, plumb it into driver model. If there
4300 is no uclass available, you are encouraged to create one. See
4304 Configuring the Linux kernel:
4305 -----------------------------
4307 No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
4308 device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
4311 Building a Linux Image:
4312 -----------------------
4314 With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
4315 not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
4316 "uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
4317 U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
4318 which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
4319 100% compatible format.
4323 make TQM850L_defconfig
4328 The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
4329 encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
4330 CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
4332 * build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
4334 * convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
4336 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
4337 -R .note -R .comment \
4338 -S vmlinux linux.bin
4340 * compress the binary image:
4344 * package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
4346 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
4347 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
4348 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
4351 The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
4352 with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
4353 combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
4354 byte header containing information about target architecture,
4355 operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
4356 stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
4358 "mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
4359 print the header information, or to build new images.
4361 In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
4362 contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
4363 checksum verification:
4365 tools/mkimage -l image
4366 -l ==> list image header information
4368 The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
4369 from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
4371 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
4372 -n name -d data_file image
4373 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
4374 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
4375 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4376 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
4377 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
4378 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
4379 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
4380 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
4382 Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
4383 address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
4386 - 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
4387 - 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
4389 So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
4391 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4392 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
4393 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
4394 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
4395 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4396 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4397 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4398 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4399 Load Address: 0x00000000
4400 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4402 To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
4404 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
4405 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4406 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4407 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4408 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4409 Load Address: 0x00000000
4410 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4412 NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
4413 speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
4414 needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
4415 need to be uncompressed:
4417 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
4418 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4419 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
4420 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
4421 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
4422 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4423 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4424 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
4425 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
4426 Load Address: 0x00000000
4427 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4430 Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
4431 when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
4433 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
4434 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
4435 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
4436 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4437 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
4438 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4439 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
4440 Load Address: 0x00000000
4441 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4443 The "dumpimage" is a tool to disassemble images built by mkimage. Its "-i"
4444 option performs the converse operation of the mkimage's second form (the "-d"
4445 option). Given an image built by mkimage, the dumpimage extracts a "data file"
4448 tools/dumpimage -i image -T type -p position data_file
4449 -i ==> extract from the 'image' a specific 'data_file'
4450 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4451 -p ==> 'position' (starting at 0) of the 'data_file' inside the 'image'
4454 Installing a Linux Image:
4455 -------------------------
4457 To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
4458 you must convert the image to S-Record format:
4460 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
4462 The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
4463 image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
4464 address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
4465 specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
4468 Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
4469 TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
4471 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
4477 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4478 ~>examples/image.srec
4479 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
4481 15989 15990 15991 15992
4482 [file transfer complete]
4484 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
4487 You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
4488 this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
4489 corruption happened:
4493 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4494 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4495 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4496 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4497 Load Address: 00000000
4498 Entry Point: 0000000c
4499 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4505 The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
4506 memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
4507 of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
4508 parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
4509 "printenv" and "setenv" commands:
4512 => printenv bootargs
4513 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
4515 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4517 => printenv bootargs
4518 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4521 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
4522 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
4523 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4524 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
4525 Load Address: 00000000
4526 Entry Point: 0000000c
4527 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4528 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4529 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
4530 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4531 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4532 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4533 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
4536 If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
4537 the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
4538 format!) to the "bootm" command:
4540 => imi 40100000 40200000
4542 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4543 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4544 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4545 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4546 Load Address: 00000000
4547 Entry Point: 0000000c
4548 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4550 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
4551 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4552 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4553 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4554 Load Address: 00000000
4555 Entry Point: 00000000
4556 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4558 => bootm 40100000 40200000
4559 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
4560 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4561 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4562 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4563 Load Address: 00000000
4564 Entry Point: 0000000c
4565 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4566 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4567 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
4568 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4569 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4570 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4571 Load Address: 00000000
4572 Entry Point: 00000000
4573 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4574 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
4575 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
4576 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
4577 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4578 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4580 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
4581 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
4585 Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
4588 First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
4589 titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
4590 following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
4596 oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
4597 => tftp $oftaddr $oft
4598 Speed: 1000, full duplex
4600 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
4601 Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
4602 Load address: 0x300000
4605 Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
4606 => tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
4607 Speed: 1000, full duplex
4609 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
4611 Load address: 0x200000
4612 Loading:############
4614 Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
4619 => bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
4620 ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
4621 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
4622 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4623 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
4624 Load Address: 00000000
4625 Entry Point: 00000000
4626 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4627 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4628 Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
4629 Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
4630 Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
4634 More About U-Boot Image Types:
4635 ------------------------------
4637 U-Boot supports the following image types:
4639 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
4640 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
4641 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
4642 the Standalone Program.
4643 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
4644 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
4645 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
4646 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
4647 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
4648 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
4649 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
4651 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
4652 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
4653 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
4654 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
4655 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
4656 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
4658 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
4659 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
4660 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
4661 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
4662 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
4663 a multiple of 4 bytes).
4665 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
4666 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
4669 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
4670 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
4671 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
4672 as command interpreter.
4674 Booting the Linux zImage:
4675 -------------------------
4677 On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
4678 using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
4679 as the syntax of "bootm" command.
4681 Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
4682 kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
4683 address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
4684 format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
4690 One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
4691 run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
4692 U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
4694 Two simple examples are included with the sources:
4699 'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
4700 application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
4701 It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
4705 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4706 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
4707 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4708 [file transfer complete]
4710 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4712 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
4713 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4724 Hit any key to exit ...
4726 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4728 Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
4729 handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
4730 Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
4731 The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
4732 character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
4733 controlled by the following keys:
4735 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
4736 b - enable interrupts and start timer
4737 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
4738 q - quit application
4741 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4742 ~>examples/timer.srec
4743 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4744 [file transfer complete]
4746 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4749 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4752 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
4755 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
4758 [q, b, e, ?] ........
4759 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
4762 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
4765 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
4768 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
4770 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
4772 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4778 Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
4779 "minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
4780 consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
4781 Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
4782 especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
4783 use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
4784 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
4785 for help with kermit.
4788 Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
4789 configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
4791 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
4792 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
4793 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
4799 Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
4800 (build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
4802 Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
4803 NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
4804 need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
4805 Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
4806 attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
4807 missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
4809 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
4811 # ln -s powerpc machine
4812 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
4813 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
4815 Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
4816 and U-Boot include files.
4818 Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
4819 stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
4820 proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
4821 tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
4822 meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
4825 Implementation Internals:
4826 =========================
4828 The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
4829 implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
4830 inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
4834 Initial Stack, Global Data:
4835 ---------------------------
4837 The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
4838 starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
4839 system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
4840 This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
4841 is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
4842 at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
4843 options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
4844 models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
4845 MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
4846 locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
4848 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
4849 U-Boot mailing list:
4851 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4852 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
4853 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4856 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4857 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4858 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4859 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4860 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
4861 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
4862 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4863 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
4865 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4866 is another option for the system designer to use as an
4867 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
4868 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4869 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4870 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4873 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
4874 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4875 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
4876 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
4877 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4878 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4879 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4880 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4881 you get the config right.
4886 It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4887 code for the initialization procedures:
4889 * Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4892 * Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized
4893 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4894 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
4896 * Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4899 Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
4900 normal global data to share information between the code. But it
4901 turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4902 simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4903 functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4904 functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4905 the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4906 place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4907 reserve for this purpose.
4909 When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4910 relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4911 GCC's implementation.
4913 For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4915 R2: reserved for system use
4916 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4917 R5-R10: parameter passing
4918 R13: small data area pointer
4922 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4923 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4924 going back and forth between asm and C)
4926 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
4928 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4929 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4930 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4931 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4932 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4933 624 text + 127 data).
4935 On ARM, the following registers are used:
4937 R0: function argument word/integer result
4938 R1-R3: function argument word
4939 R9: platform specific
4940 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
4941 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4942 R12: temporary workspace
4945 R15: program counter
4947 ==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data
4949 Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.
4951 On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
4952 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
4954 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4956 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4957 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4959 On NDS32, the following registers are used:
4961 R0-R1: argument/return
4963 R15: temporary register for assembler
4964 R16: trampoline register
4965 R28: frame pointer (FP)
4966 R29: global pointer (GP)
4967 R30: link register (LP)
4968 R31: stack pointer (SP)
4969 PC: program counter (PC)
4971 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
4973 NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4974 or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
4979 U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4980 MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
4982 The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4983 controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4984 memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4985 physical memory banks.
4987 U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4988 TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4989 booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4990 to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
4991 memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
4992 configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4993 Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
4995 Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4996 of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
4998 So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
5001 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
5004 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
5010 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
5011 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
5012 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
5015 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
5016 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
5017 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
5018 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
5021 System Initialization:
5022 ----------------------
5024 In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
5025 (on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
5026 configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory.
5027 To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
5028 To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
5029 initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
5030 which provide such a feature like), or in a locked part of the data
5031 cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core, the caches and
5034 Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
5035 preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
5036 (multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
5037 on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
5038 programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
5039 simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
5042 When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
5043 different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
5044 bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
5045 0x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
5046 contiguous memory starting from 0.
5048 Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
5049 and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
5050 Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
5051 pages, and the final stack is set up.
5053 Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
5054 until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
5055 running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
5059 U-Boot Porting Guide:
5060 ----------------------
5062 [Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
5066 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
5068 sighandler_t no_more_time;
5070 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
5071 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
5073 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
5074 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
5078 Download latest U-Boot source;
5080 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
5083 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
5086 Read the README file in the top level directory;
5087 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
5088 Read applicable doc/*.README;
5089 Read the source, Luke;
5090 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
5093 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
5096 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
5098 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
5099 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
5100 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
5102 Create your own board support subdirectory;
5103 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
5105 Edit new board/<myboard> files
5106 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
5111 Add / modify source code;
5115 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
5117 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
5118 if (reasonable critiques)
5119 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
5121 Defend code as written;
5127 void no_more_time (int sig)
5136 All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
5137 coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
5138 "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
5140 Source files originating from a different project (for example the
5141 MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
5142 reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
5145 Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
5146 Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
5149 Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
5150 - remove any trailing white space
5151 - use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
5152 - make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
5153 - do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
5154 - do not add trailing empty lines to source files
5156 Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
5157 with a request to reformat the changes.
5163 Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
5164 establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
5165 may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
5167 Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
5169 Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
5170 see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
5172 When you send a patch, please include the following information with
5175 * For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
5176 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
5177 patch actually fixes something.
5179 * For new features: a description of the feature and your
5182 * A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
5184 * For major contributions, add a MAINTAINERS file with your
5185 information and associated file and directory references.
5187 * When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a
5188 maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.
5190 * If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
5191 document these in the README file.
5193 * The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
5194 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
5195 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
5196 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
5197 with some other mail clients.
5199 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
5200 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
5203 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
5204 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
5205 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
5208 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
5209 and compressed attachments must not be used.
5211 * If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
5212 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
5214 * Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
5215 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
5220 * Before sending the patch, run the buildman script on your patched
5221 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
5222 for any of the boards.
5224 * Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
5225 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
5226 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
5228 * If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
5229 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
5230 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
5231 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
5232 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
5235 * Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
5236 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
5237 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
5238 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.