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 /avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture
140 /blackfin Files generic to Analog Devices Blackfin architecture
141 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
142 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
143 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
144 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
145 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
146 /openrisc Files generic to OpenRISC architecture
147 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
148 /sandbox Files generic to HW-independent "sandbox"
149 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
150 /sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture
151 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
152 /api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
153 /board Board dependent files
154 /cmd U-Boot commands functions
155 /common Misc architecture independent functions
156 /configs Board default configuration files
157 /disk Code for disk drive partition handling
158 /doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
159 /drivers Commonly used device drivers
160 /dts Contains Makefile for building internal U-Boot fdt.
161 /examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
162 /fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
163 /include Header Files
164 /lib Library routines generic to all architectures
165 /Licenses Various license files
167 /post Power On Self Test
168 /scripts Various build scripts and Makefiles
169 /test Various unit test files
170 /tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
172 Software Configuration:
173 =======================
175 Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
176 rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
178 There are two classes of configuration variables:
180 * Configuration _OPTIONS_:
181 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
184 * Configuration _SETTINGS_:
185 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
186 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
189 Previously, all configuration was done by hand, which involved creating
190 symbolic links and editing configuration files manually. More recently,
191 U-Boot has added the Kbuild infrastructure used by the Linux kernel,
192 allowing you to use the "make menuconfig" command to configure your
196 Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
197 ---------------------------------------------------
199 For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
200 configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_defconfig".
202 Example: For a TQM823L module type:
205 make TQM823L_defconfig
207 Note: If you're looking for the default configuration file for a board
208 you're sure used to be there but is now missing, check the file
209 doc/README.scrapyard for a list of no longer supported boards.
214 U-Boot can be built natively to run on a Linux host using the 'sandbox'
215 board. This allows feature development which is not board- or architecture-
216 specific to be undertaken on a native platform. The sandbox is also used to
217 run some of U-Boot's tests.
219 See board/sandbox/README.sandbox for more details.
222 Board Initialisation Flow:
223 --------------------------
225 This is the intended start-up flow for boards. This should apply for both
226 SPL and U-Boot proper (i.e. they both follow the same rules).
228 Note: "SPL" stands for "Secondary Program Loader," which is explained in
229 more detail later in this file.
231 At present, SPL mostly uses a separate code path, but the function names
232 and roles of each function are the same. Some boards or architectures
233 may not conform to this. At least most ARM boards which use
234 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK conform to this.
236 Execution typically starts with an architecture-specific (and possibly
237 CPU-specific) start.S file, such as:
239 - arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
240 - arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc83xx/start.S
241 - arch/mips/cpu/start.S
243 and so on. From there, three functions are called; the purpose and
244 limitations of each of these functions are described below.
247 - purpose: essential init to permit execution to reach board_init_f()
248 - no global_data or BSS
249 - there is no stack (ARMv7 may have one but it will soon be removed)
250 - must not set up SDRAM or use console
251 - must only do the bare minimum to allow execution to continue to
253 - this is almost never needed
254 - return normally from this function
257 - purpose: set up the machine ready for running board_init_r():
258 i.e. SDRAM and serial UART
259 - global_data is available
261 - BSS is not available, so you cannot use global/static variables,
262 only stack variables and global_data
264 Non-SPL-specific notes:
265 - dram_init() is called to set up DRAM. If already done in SPL this
269 - you can override the entire board_init_f() function with your own
271 - preloader_console_init() can be called here in extremis
272 - should set up SDRAM, and anything needed to make the UART work
273 - these is no need to clear BSS, it will be done by crt0.S
274 - must return normally from this function (don't call board_init_r()
277 Here the BSS is cleared. For SPL, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined, then at
278 this point the stack and global_data are relocated to below
279 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR. For non-SPL, U-Boot is relocated to run at the top of
283 - purpose: main execution, common code
284 - global_data is available
286 - BSS is available, all static/global variables can be used
287 - execution eventually continues to main_loop()
289 Non-SPL-specific notes:
290 - U-Boot is relocated to the top of memory and is now running from
294 - stack is optionally in SDRAM, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined and
295 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR points into SDRAM
296 - preloader_console_init() can be called here - typically this is
297 done by defining CONFIG_SPL_BOARD_INIT and then supplying a
298 spl_board_init() function containing this call
299 - loads U-Boot or (in falcon mode) Linux
303 Configuration Options:
304 ----------------------
306 Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
307 such information is kept in a configuration file
308 "include/configs/<board_name>.h".
310 Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
311 "include/configs/TQM823L.h".
314 Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
315 kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
316 build a config tool - later.
319 The following options need to be configured:
321 - CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
323 - Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
325 - CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
326 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
328 - Marvell Family Member
329 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
330 multiple fs option at one time
331 for marvell soc family
333 - 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
334 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
335 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
336 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
337 reference PIT/RTC clock
338 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
341 - 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
342 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
343 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
344 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
345 See doc/README.MPC866
347 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
349 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
350 of relying on the correctness of the configured
351 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
352 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
353 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
354 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
356 CONFIG_SYS_DELAYED_ICACHE
358 Define this option if you want to enable the
359 ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
364 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
365 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
366 compliance, among other possible reasons.
368 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
370 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
371 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
372 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
374 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
376 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
377 tree nodes for the given platform.
379 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
381 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
382 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
383 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
385 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
386 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
388 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
389 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
391 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
392 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
393 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
394 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
396 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
399 CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
400 Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
401 required during NOR boot.
403 CONFIG_A008044_WORKAROUND
404 Enables a workaround for T1040/T1042 erratum A008044. It is only
405 required during NAND boot and valid for Rev 1.0 SoC revision
407 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
409 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
410 according to the A004510 workaround.
412 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
413 This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
414 connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
416 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
417 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
418 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
420 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
421 This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
422 connected to the DSP core.
424 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
425 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
427 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
428 Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
429 In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
430 clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
432 CONFIG_SYS_CPC_REINIT_F
433 This CONFIG is defined when the CPC is configured as SRAM at the
434 time of U-Boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
437 Indicates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
438 supported, core will start to execute uboot when wakes up.
440 - Generic CPU options:
441 CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_GLOBAL_DATA
442 Defines global data is initialized in generic board board_init_f().
443 If this macro is defined, global data is created and cleared in
444 generic board board_init_f(). Without this macro, architecture/board
445 should initialize global data before calling board_init_f().
447 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
449 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
450 values is arch specific.
453 Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
454 found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx, mpc86xx as well as some ARM core
457 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
458 Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
460 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_EMU
461 Specify emulator support for DDR. Some DDR features such as
462 deskew training are not available.
464 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
465 Freescale DDR1 controller.
467 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
468 Freescale DDR2 controller.
470 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
471 Freescale DDR3 controller.
473 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN4
474 Freescale DDR4 controller.
476 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
477 Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
480 Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
481 Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
485 Board config to use DDR2. It can be enabled for SoCs with
486 Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
490 Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
491 Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
494 Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
498 Board config to use DDR4. It can be enabled for SoCs with
501 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
502 Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
504 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
505 Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
507 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_CLK_DIV
508 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to IFC controller).
510 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_LBC_CLK_DIV
511 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to eLBC controller).
513 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_PBI
514 It enables addition of RCW (Power on reset configuration) in built image.
515 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
517 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_RCW
518 It adds PBI(pre-boot instructions) commands in u-boot build image.
519 PBI commands can be used to configure SoC before it starts the execution.
520 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
523 It adds a target to create boot binary having SPL binary in PBI format
524 concatenated with u-boot binary.
526 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
527 Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
529 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
530 Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
532 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
533 Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
534 same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for all Power SoCs. But
535 it could be different for ARM SoCs.
537 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
538 DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
539 interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
542 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_MAIN_NUM_CTRLS
543 Number of controllers used as main memory.
545 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_OTHER_DDR_NUM_CTRLS
546 Number of controllers used for other than main memory.
548 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_DP_DDR
549 Defines the SoC has DP-DDR used for DPAA.
551 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
552 Defines the SEC controller register space as Big Endian
554 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_LE
555 Defines the SEC controller register space as Little Endian
558 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
560 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
561 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
564 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
566 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
567 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
569 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
572 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
576 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
578 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
580 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
581 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
583 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
585 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
586 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
587 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
590 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
592 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
593 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
595 CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD
597 Use this flag to build U-Boot using the Thumb instruction
598 set for ARM architectures. Thumb instruction set provides
599 better code density. For ARM architectures that support
600 Thumb2 this flag will result in Thumb2 code generated by
603 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_716044
604 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_742230
605 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_743622
606 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_751472
607 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_761320
608 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_773022
609 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_774769
610 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_794072
612 If set, the workarounds for these ARM errata are applied early
613 during U-Boot startup. Note that these options force the
614 workarounds to be applied; no CPU-type/version detection
615 exists, unlike the similar options in the Linux kernel. Do not
616 set these options unless they apply!
619 Generic timer clock source frequency.
621 COUNTER_FREQUENCY_REAL
622 Generic timer clock source frequency if the real clock is
623 different from COUNTER_FREQUENCY, and can only be determined
626 NOTE: The following can be machine specific errata. These
627 do have ability to provide rudimentary version and machine
628 specific checks, but expect no product checks.
629 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_430973
630 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_454179
631 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_621766
632 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_798870
633 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_801819
636 CONFIG_TEGRA_SUPPORT_NON_SECURE
638 Support executing U-Boot in non-secure (NS) mode. Certain
639 impossible actions will be skipped if the CPU is in NS mode,
640 such as ARM architectural timer initialization.
642 - Linux Kernel Interface:
645 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
646 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
647 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
648 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
649 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
650 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
652 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
653 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
656 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
658 When transferring memsize parameter to Linux, some versions
659 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
660 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
664 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
665 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
669 * New libfdt-based support
670 * Adds the "fdt" command
671 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
673 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node (only required for
674 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
675 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node (only required for
676 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
677 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
678 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
680 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
683 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
685 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
686 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
688 CONFIG_OF_SYSTEM_SETUP
690 Other code has addition modification that it wants to make
691 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel.
692 This causes ft_system_setup() to be called before booting
697 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
698 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
699 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
700 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
701 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
702 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
704 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
706 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
707 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
708 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
709 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
710 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
711 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
712 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
714 - vxWorks boot parameters:
716 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
717 environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask,
718 serverip, gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
719 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
721 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
722 the defaults discussed just above.
724 - Cache Configuration:
725 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
726 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
727 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
729 - Cache Configuration for ARM:
730 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
732 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
733 controller register space
738 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
742 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
746 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
747 the clock speed of the UARTs.
751 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
752 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
753 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
755 CONFIG_SERIAL_HW_FLOW_CONTROL
757 Define this variable to enable hw flow control in serial driver.
758 Current user of this option is drivers/serial/nsl16550.c driver
761 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port
762 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2,
763 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial
764 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE
766 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
767 port routines must be defined elsewhere
768 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
771 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
772 Select one of the baudrates listed in
773 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
774 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
776 - Console Rx buffer length
777 With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define
778 the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC.
779 This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible.
780 If using CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN also CONFIG_SYS_MAXIDLE
781 must be defined, to setup the maximum idle timeout for
786 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
787 define a command string that is automatically executed
788 when no character is read on the console interface
789 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
792 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
793 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
794 environment value "bootargs".
796 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
797 The value of these goes into the environment as
798 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
799 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
803 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
804 Implements a mechanism for detecting a repeating reboot
806 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
809 If no softreset save registers are found on the hardware
810 "bootcount" is stored in the environment. To prevent a
811 saveenv on all reboots, the environment variable
812 "upgrade_available" is used. If "upgrade_available" is
813 0, "bootcount" is always 0, if "upgrade_available" is
814 1 "bootcount" is incremented in the environment.
815 So the Userspace Applikation must set the "upgrade_available"
816 and "bootcount" variable to 0, if a boot was successfully.
821 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
822 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
823 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
824 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
825 entering interactive mode.
827 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
828 automatically generated or modified. For an example
829 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
830 modified when the user holds down a certain
831 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
834 - Serial Download Echo Mode:
836 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
837 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
838 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
839 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
840 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
841 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
843 - Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
845 Select one of the baudrates listed in
846 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
849 Monitor commands can be included or excluded
850 from the build by using the #include files
851 <config_cmd_all.h> and #undef'ing unwanted
852 commands, or adding #define's for wanted commands.
854 The default command configuration includes all commands
855 except those marked below with a "*".
857 CONFIG_CMD_AES AES 128 CBC encrypt/decrypt
858 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
859 CONFIG_CMD_BDI bdinfo
860 CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger
861 CONFIG_CMD_BMP * BMP support
862 CONFIG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands
863 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD bootd
864 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTI * ARM64 Linux kernel Image support
865 CONFIG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache
866 CONFIG_CMD_CLK * clock command support
867 CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo
868 CONFIG_CMD_CRC32 * crc32
869 CONFIG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time...
870 CONFIG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support
871 CONFIG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics
872 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510 * ds4510 I2C gpio commands
873 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO * ds4510 I2C info command
874 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM * ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
875 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST * ds4510 I2C rst command
876 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
877 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
878 CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV edit env variable
879 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
880 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM_LAYOUT* EEPROM layout aware commands
881 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
882 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_CALLBACK * display details about env callbacks
883 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_FLAGS * display details about env flags
884 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_EXISTS * check existence of env variable
885 CONFIG_CMD_EXPORTENV * export the environment
886 CONFIG_CMD_EXT2 * ext2 command support
887 CONFIG_CMD_EXT4 * ext4 command support
888 CONFIG_CMD_FS_GENERIC * filesystem commands (e.g. load, ls)
889 that work for multiple fs types
890 CONFIG_CMD_FS_UUID * Look up a filesystem UUID
891 CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV saveenv
892 CONFIG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support
893 CONFIG_CMD_FAT * FAT command support
894 CONFIG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect
895 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support
896 CONFIG_CMD_FUSE * Device fuse support
897 CONFIG_CMD_GETTIME * Get time since boot
898 CONFIG_CMD_GO * the 'go' command (exec code)
899 CONFIG_CMD_GREPENV * search environment
900 CONFIG_CMD_HASH * calculate hash / digest
901 CONFIG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support
902 CONFIG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support
903 CONFIG_CMD_IMI iminfo
904 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS List all images found in NOR flash
905 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS_NAND * List all images found in NAND flash
906 CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support
907 CONFIG_CMD_IOTRACE * I/O tracing for debugging
908 CONFIG_CMD_IMPORTENV * import an environment
909 CONFIG_CMD_INI * import data from an ini file into the env
910 CONFIG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo
911 CONFIG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values
912 CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support
913 CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb
914 CONFIG_CMD_LDRINFO * ldrinfo (display Blackfin loader)
915 CONFIG_CMD_LINK_LOCAL * link-local IP address auto-configuration
917 CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb
918 CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads
919 CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM * print md5 message digest
920 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
921 CONFIG_CMD_MEMINFO * Display detailed memory information
922 CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
924 CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST * mtest
925 CONFIG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc
926 CONFIG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support
927 CONFIG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands
928 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS * MTD partition support
929 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
930 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
931 CONFIG_CMD_NFS NFS support
932 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X * PCA953x I2C gpio commands
933 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
934 CONFIG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo
935 CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support
936 CONFIG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
938 CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O
939 CONFIG_CMD_READ * Read raw data from partition
940 CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump
941 CONFIG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable
942 CONFIG_CMD_SANDBOX * sb command to access sandbox features
943 CONFIG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump
944 CONFIG_SCSI * SCSI Support
945 CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information
946 (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
947 CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access
949 CONFIG_CMD_SF * Read/write/erase SPI NOR flash
950 CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM * print sha1 memory digest
951 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
952 CONFIG_CMD_SOFTSWITCH * Soft switch setting command for BF60x
953 CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support
954 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
955 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPSRV * TFTP transfer in server mode
956 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPPUT * TFTP put command (upload)
957 CONFIG_CMD_TIME * run command and report execution time (ARM specific)
958 CONFIG_CMD_TIMER * access to the system tick timer
959 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
960 CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support
961 CONFIG_CMD_MFSL * Microblaze FSL support
962 CONFIG_CMD_XIMG Load part of Multi Image
963 CONFIG_CMD_UUID * Generate random UUID or GUID string
965 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
966 support you can write:
968 #include "config_cmd_all.h"
969 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
972 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
974 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
975 (configuration option CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know
976 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data
977 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or
978 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be
979 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other
980 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an
981 initial stack and some data.
984 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
986 - Removal of commands
987 If no commands are needed to boot, you can disable
988 CONFIG_CMDLINE to remove them. In this case, the command line
989 will not be available, and when U-Boot wants to execute the
990 boot command (on start-up) it will call board_run_command()
991 instead. This can reduce image size significantly for very
992 simple boot procedures.
994 - Regular expression support:
996 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
997 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
998 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
999 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
1003 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
1004 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
1005 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
1006 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
1007 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
1009 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
1010 be done using one of the two options below:
1013 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
1014 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
1015 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
1016 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
1017 the global data structure as gd->blob.
1020 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
1021 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
1022 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
1024 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
1026 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
1027 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
1028 still use the individual files if you need something more
1033 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
1034 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
1035 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260
1036 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
1037 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
1038 available, then no further board specific code should
1039 be needed to use it.
1042 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
1043 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
1044 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
1046 CONFIG_AT91_HW_WDT_TIMEOUT
1047 specify the timeout in seconds. default 2 seconds.
1050 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
1051 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
1052 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
1053 version as printed by the "version" command.
1054 Any change to this variable will be reverted at the
1059 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
1060 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
1063 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx
1064 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
1065 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
1066 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
1067 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
1068 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
1069 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
1070 CONFIG_RTC_DS1339 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1339 RTC
1071 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
1072 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
1073 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
1074 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
1075 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
1078 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
1079 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
1082 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
1084 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
1085 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
1086 pins supported by a particular chip.
1088 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
1089 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
1092 When CONFIG_IO_TRACE is selected, U-Boot intercepts all I/O
1093 accesses and can checksum them or write a list of them out
1094 to memory. See the 'iotrace' command for details. This is
1095 useful for testing device drivers since it can confirm that
1096 the driver behaves the same way before and after a code
1097 change. Currently this is supported on sandbox and arm. To
1098 add support for your architecture, add '#include <iotrace.h>'
1099 to the bottom of arch/<arch>/include/asm/io.h and test.
1101 Example output from the 'iotrace stats' command is below.
1102 Note that if the trace buffer is exhausted, the checksum will
1103 still continue to operate.
1106 Start: 10000000 (buffer start address)
1107 Size: 00010000 (buffer size)
1108 Offset: 00000120 (current buffer offset)
1109 Output: 10000120 (start + offset)
1110 Count: 00000018 (number of trace records)
1111 CRC32: 9526fb66 (CRC32 of all trace records)
1113 - Timestamp Support:
1115 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
1116 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
1117 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
1118 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
1120 - Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
1121 Zero or more of the following:
1122 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
1123 CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION MS Dos partition table, traditional on the
1124 Intel architecture, USB sticks, etc.
1125 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
1126 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
1127 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
1129 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS Memory Technology Device partition table.
1131 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
1132 CONFIG_SCSI) you must configure support for at
1133 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
1136 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
1137 board configurations files but used nowhere!
1139 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
1140 be performed by calling the function
1141 ide_set_reset(int reset)
1142 which has to be defined in a board specific file
1147 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
1152 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
1153 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
1154 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
1155 support disks up to 2.1TB.
1157 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
1158 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
1162 At the moment only there is only support for the
1163 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
1164 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
1166 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
1167 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
1168 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
1169 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
1171 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
1173 The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
1174 SCSI devices found during the last scan.
1176 - NETWORK Support (PCI):
1178 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
1181 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
1182 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
1183 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
1185 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
1186 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
1187 example with the "sspi" command.
1190 Management command for E1000 devices. When used on devices
1191 with SPI support you can reprogram the EEPROM from U-Boot.
1194 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
1195 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
1196 write routine for first time initialisation.
1199 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
1200 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
1201 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
1204 Support for National dp83815 chips.
1207 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
1209 - NETWORK Support (other):
1211 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
1212 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
1215 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
1217 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
1218 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
1219 The driver doen't show link status messages.
1221 CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
1222 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
1225 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
1227 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
1228 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
1231 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
1233 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
1234 Define this to hold the physical address
1235 of the device (I/O space)
1237 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
1238 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1240 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
1241 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
1242 (some hardware wont work with macros)
1244 CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
1245 Support for davinci emac
1247 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
1248 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
1251 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
1253 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
1254 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
1255 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
1256 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
1257 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
1258 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
1259 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
1260 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
1263 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
1266 Define this to hold the physical address
1267 of the device (I/O space)
1269 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
1270 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1272 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
1273 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
1274 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
1275 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
1278 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
1280 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
1281 Define the number of ports to be used
1283 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1284 Define the ETH PHY's address
1286 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1287 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1291 Support for PWM module on the imx6.
1295 Support TPM devices.
1297 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_INFINEON
1298 Support for Infineon i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
1299 per system is supported at this time.
1301 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
1302 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
1305 Support for STMicroelectronics TPM devices. Requires DM_TPM support.
1307 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_I2C
1308 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 I2C devices.
1309 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and I2C.
1311 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_SPI
1312 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 SPI devices.
1313 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and SPI.
1315 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
1316 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
1319 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1320 per system is supported at this time.
1322 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1323 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1324 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1328 Add tpm monitor functions.
1329 Requires CONFIG_TPM. If CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS is set, also
1330 provides monitor access to authorized functions.
1333 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
1334 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
1335 Requires support for a TPM device.
1337 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
1338 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
1339 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
1342 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
1343 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define
1344 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1345 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
1346 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
1349 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1351 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
1353 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
1357 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
1358 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
1359 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100
1360 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100
1361 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
1362 May be defined to allow interrupt polling
1363 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
1365 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1366 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1368 CONFIG_USB_DWC2_REG_ADDR the physical CPU address of the DWC2
1369 HW module registers.
1372 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1373 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1374 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
1375 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
1376 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1377 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
1378 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
1379 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1380 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1382 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1383 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1384 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1385 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
1388 Define this to build a UDC device
1391 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1392 talk to the UDC device
1395 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1396 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1397 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1398 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1399 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1402 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
1403 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1407 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
1408 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
1409 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
1411 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
1412 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
1413 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
1414 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1415 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1416 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1418 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1419 Define this string as the name of your company for
1420 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
1422 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1423 Define this string as the name of your product
1424 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1426 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1427 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1428 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1429 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1430 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
1432 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1433 Define this as the unique Product ID
1435 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
1437 - ULPI Layer Support:
1438 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1439 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1440 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1441 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1442 viewport is supported.
1443 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1444 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
1445 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1446 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1447 the appropriate value in Hz.
1450 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1451 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1452 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
1453 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
1454 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1455 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
1458 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1460 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1461 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1464 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1466 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_BOOT
1467 Enable some additional features of the eMMC boot partitions.
1469 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_RPMB
1470 Enable the commands for reading, writing and programming the
1471 key for the Replay Protection Memory Block partition in eMMC.
1473 - USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
1474 CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_DFU
1475 This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class
1478 This enables the command "dfu" which is used to have
1479 U-Boot create a DFU class device via USB. This command
1480 requires that the "dfu_alt_info" environment variable be
1481 set and define the alt settings to expose to the host.
1484 This enables support for exposing (e)MMC devices via DFU.
1487 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
1490 This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
1491 Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
1492 allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
1493 one that would help mostly the developer.
1495 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
1496 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
1497 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
1498 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
1499 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
1501 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
1502 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
1503 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
1504 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
1505 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
1506 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
1508 DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
1509 Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
1510 host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
1511 a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
1513 DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
1514 Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
1515 entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
1516 sending again an USB request to the device.
1518 - USB Device Android Fastboot support:
1519 CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_FASTBOOT
1520 This enables the USB part of the fastboot gadget
1523 This enables the command "fastboot" which enables the Android
1524 fastboot mode for the platform's USB device. Fastboot is a USB
1525 protocol for downloading images, flashing and device control
1526 used on Android devices.
1527 See doc/README.android-fastboot for more information.
1529 CONFIG_ANDROID_BOOT_IMAGE
1530 This enables support for booting images which use the Android
1531 image format header.
1533 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_ADDR
1534 The fastboot protocol requires a large memory buffer for
1535 downloads. Define this to the starting RAM address to use for
1538 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_SIZE
1539 The fastboot protocol requires a large memory buffer for
1540 downloads. This buffer should be as large as possible for a
1541 platform. Define this to the size available RAM for fastboot.
1543 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_FLASH
1544 The fastboot protocol includes a "flash" command for writing
1545 the downloaded image to a non-volatile storage device. Define
1546 this to enable the "fastboot flash" command.
1548 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_FLASH_MMC_DEV
1549 The fastboot "flash" command requires additional information
1550 regarding the non-volatile storage device. Define this to
1551 the eMMC device that fastboot should use to store the image.
1553 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_GPT_NAME
1554 The fastboot "flash" command supports writing the downloaded
1555 image to the Protective MBR and the Primary GUID Partition
1556 Table. (Additionally, this downloaded image is post-processed
1557 to generate and write the Backup GUID Partition Table.)
1558 This occurs when the specified "partition name" on the
1559 "fastboot flash" command line matches this value.
1560 The default is "gpt" if undefined.
1562 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_MBR_NAME
1563 The fastboot "flash" command supports writing the downloaded
1565 This occurs when the "partition name" specified on the
1566 "fastboot flash" command line matches this value.
1567 If not defined the default value "mbr" is used.
1569 - Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1571 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1573 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1574 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
1575 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1577 - FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem write function support:
1580 Define this to enable support for saving memory data as a
1581 file in FAT formatted partition.
1583 This will also enable the command "fatwrite" enabling the
1584 user to write files to FAT.
1586 - CBFS (Coreboot Filesystem) support:
1589 Define this to enable support for reading from a Coreboot
1590 filesystem. Available commands are cbfsinit, cbfsinfo, cbfsls
1593 - FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem cluster size:
1594 CONFIG_FS_FAT_MAX_CLUSTSIZE
1596 Define the max cluster size for fat operations else
1597 a default value of 65536 will be defined.
1600 See Kconfig help for available keyboard drivers.
1604 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1605 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1606 defined in your board-specific files. This option is deprecated
1607 and is only used by novena. For new boards, use driver model
1612 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1613 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1614 support, and should also define these other macros:
1620 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1621 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1623 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1625 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1626 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1627 boot. See the documentation file doc/README.video for a
1628 description of this variable.
1630 - LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1632 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1633 display); also select one of the supported displays
1634 by defining one of these:
1638 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1640 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
1642 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
1644 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1646 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1647 Active, color, single scan.
1649 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1651 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
1652 Active, color, single scan.
1656 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1657 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1659 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1661 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1662 Active, color, single scan.
1666 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1667 Active, color, single scan.
1671 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1673 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1677 320x240. Black & white.
1679 Normally display is black on white background; define
1680 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
1682 CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
1684 Normally the LCD is page-aligned (typically 4KB). If this is
1685 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
1686 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
1687 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
1688 a per-section basis.
1693 Sometimes, for example if the display is mounted in portrait
1694 mode or even if it's mounted landscape but rotated by 180degree,
1695 we need to rotate our content of the display relative to the
1696 framebuffer, so that user can read the messages which are
1698 Once CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is defined, the lcd_console will be
1699 initialized with a given rotation from "vl_rot" out of
1700 "vidinfo_t" which is provided by the board specific code.
1701 The value for vl_rot is coded as following (matching to
1702 fbcon=rotate:<n> linux-kernel commandline):
1703 0 = no rotation respectively 0 degree
1704 1 = 90 degree rotation
1705 2 = 180 degree rotation
1706 3 = 270 degree rotation
1708 If CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is not defined, the console will be
1709 initialized with 0degree rotation.
1713 Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
1717 Enables an 'i2c edid' command which can read EDID
1718 information over I2C from an attached LCD display.
1720 - Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
1722 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1723 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1724 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
1725 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
1726 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1727 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1728 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1729 loaded very quickly after power-on.
1731 CONFIG_SPLASHIMAGE_GUARD
1733 If this option is set, then U-Boot will prevent the environment
1734 variable "splashimage" from being set to a problematic address
1735 (see doc/README.displaying-bmps).
1736 This option is useful for targets where, due to alignment
1737 restrictions, an improperly aligned BMP image will cause a data
1738 abort. If you think you will not have problems with unaligned
1739 accesses (for example because your toolchain prevents them)
1740 there is no need to set this option.
1742 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1744 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1745 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1746 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1747 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1748 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1749 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1752 setenv splashpos m,m
1753 => image at center of screen
1755 setenv splashpos 30,20
1756 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1758 setenv splashpos -10,m
1759 => vertically centered image
1760 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1762 - Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1764 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1765 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1766 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1768 - Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1770 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1771 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1774 - Compression support:
1777 Enabled by default to support gzip compressed images.
1781 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1782 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1783 compressed images are supported.
1785 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
1786 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
1791 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1794 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1795 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1798 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1800 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1801 and Literal pos bits.
1803 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1804 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1805 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1806 a very small buffer.
1808 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1809 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
1810 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
1814 If this option is set, support for LZO compressed images
1820 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1822 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1824 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1828 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
1829 detection of gigabit PHY is included.
1831 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1833 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1834 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1835 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1836 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1838 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1840 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1841 command issued before MII status register can be read
1846 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
1847 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
1848 determined through e.g. bootp.
1849 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
1851 - Server IP address:
1854 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
1855 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1856 (Environment variable "serverip")
1858 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1860 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1861 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1863 - Gateway IP address:
1866 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1867 default router where packets to other networks are
1869 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1874 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1875 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1876 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1877 forwarded through a router.
1878 (Environment variable "netmask")
1880 - Multicast TFTP Mode:
1883 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1884 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
1885 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
1886 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1889 - BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1890 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1892 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1893 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1894 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1895 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1896 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1897 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1898 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1899 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
1900 following delays are inserted then:
1902 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1903 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1904 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1906 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1908 CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE
1910 BOOTP packets are uniquely identified using a 32-bit ID. The
1911 server will copy the ID from client requests to responses and
1912 U-Boot will use this to determine if it is the destination of
1913 an incoming response. Some servers will check that addresses
1914 aren't in use before handing them out (usually using an ARP
1915 ping) and therefore take up to a few hundred milliseconds to
1916 respond. Network congestion may also influence the time it
1917 takes for a response to make it back to the client. If that
1918 time is too long, U-Boot will retransmit requests. In order
1919 to allow earlier responses to still be accepted after these
1920 retransmissions, U-Boot's BOOTP client keeps a small cache of
1921 IDs. The CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE controls the size of this
1922 cache. The default is to keep IDs for up to four outstanding
1923 requests. Increasing this will allow U-Boot to accept offers
1924 from a BOOTP client in networks with unusually high latency.
1926 - DHCP Advanced Options:
1927 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1928 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1930 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1931 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1932 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1933 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1934 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1935 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1938 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1939 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1940 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1941 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
1942 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
1944 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1945 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
1947 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1948 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1949 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1950 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1953 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1954 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1955 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1956 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1957 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1958 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1959 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1962 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1963 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1964 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
1965 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
1966 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1967 option 12 to the DHCP server.
1969 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1971 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1972 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1973 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1974 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1975 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1976 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1977 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1978 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1979 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1980 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1983 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1984 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1985 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1986 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1987 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1989 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1992 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
1994 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1996 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1998 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
2003 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
2004 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
2005 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
2007 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
2009 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
2010 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
2014 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
2018 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
2022 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
2024 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
2026 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
2027 device in .1 of milliwatts.
2029 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
2031 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
2033 - Status LED: CONFIG_LED_STATUS
2035 Several configurations allow to display the current
2036 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
2037 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
2038 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
2039 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
2040 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
2041 kernel). Defining CONFIG_LED_STATUS enables this
2046 CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
2047 The status LED can be connected to a GPIO pin.
2048 In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
2049 status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
2050 to include the gpio_led driver in the U-Boot binary.
2052 CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE
2053 Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
2054 case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
2055 GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
2056 In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
2057 with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
2059 - CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
2061 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
2062 on those systems that support this (optional)
2063 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
2065 - I2C Support: CONFIG_SYS_I2C
2067 This enable the NEW i2c subsystem, and will allow you to use
2068 i2c commands at the u-boot command line (as long as you set
2069 CONFIG_CMD_I2C in CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c
2070 based realtime clock chips or other i2c devices. See
2071 common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the command line
2074 ported i2c driver to the new framework:
2075 - drivers/i2c/soft_i2c.c:
2076 - activate first bus with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT define
2077 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE
2078 for defining speed and slave address
2079 - activate second bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS2 define
2080 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_2 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_2
2081 for defining speed and slave address
2082 - activate third bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS3 define
2083 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_3 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_3
2084 for defining speed and slave address
2085 - activate fourth bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS4 define
2086 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_4 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_4
2087 for defining speed and slave address
2089 - drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c:
2090 - activate i2c driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_FSL
2091 define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_OFFSET for setting the register
2092 offset CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SPEED for the i2c speed and
2093 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SLAVE for the slave addr of the first
2095 - If your board supports a second fsl i2c bus, define
2096 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_OFFSET for the register offset
2097 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SPEED for the speed and
2098 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SLAVE for the slave address of the
2101 - drivers/i2c/tegra_i2c.c:
2102 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_TEGRA
2103 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses with a fix speed from
2104 100000 and the slave addr 0!
2106 - drivers/i2c/ppc4xx_i2c.c
2107 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX
2108 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
2109 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
2111 - drivers/i2c/i2c_mxc.c
2112 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC
2113 - enable bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C1
2114 - enable bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C2
2115 - enable bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C3
2116 - enable bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C4
2117 - define speed for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SPEED
2118 - define slave for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SLAVE
2119 - define speed for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SPEED
2120 - define slave for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SLAVE
2121 - define speed for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SPEED
2122 - define slave for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SLAVE
2123 - define speed for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SPEED
2124 - define slave for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SLAVE
2125 If those defines are not set, default value is 100000
2126 for speed, and 0 for slave.
2128 - drivers/i2c/rcar_i2c.c:
2129 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RCAR
2130 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses
2132 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_BASE for setting the register channel 0
2133 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_SPEED for for the speed channel 0
2134 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_BASE for setting the register channel 1
2135 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_SPEED for for the speed channel 1
2136 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_BASE for setting the register channel 2
2137 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_SPEED for for the speed channel 2
2138 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_BASE for setting the register channel 3
2139 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_SPEED for for the speed channel 3
2140 - CONFIF_SYS_RCAR_I2C_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
2142 - drivers/i2c/sh_i2c.c:
2143 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH
2144 - This driver adds from 2 to 5 i2c buses
2146 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE0 for setting the register channel 0
2147 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED0 for for the speed channel 0
2148 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE1 for setting the register channel 1
2149 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED1 for for the speed channel 1
2150 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE2 for setting the register channel 2
2151 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED2 for for the speed channel 2
2152 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE3 for setting the register channel 3
2153 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED3 for for the speed channel 3
2154 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE4 for setting the register channel 4
2155 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED4 for for the speed channel 4
2156 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
2158 - drivers/i2c/omap24xx_i2c.c
2159 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_OMAP24XX
2160 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED speed channel 0
2161 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE slave addr channel 0
2162 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED1 speed channel 1
2163 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE1 slave addr channel 1
2164 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED2 speed channel 2
2165 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE2 slave addr channel 2
2166 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED3 speed channel 3
2167 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE3 slave addr channel 3
2168 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED4 speed channel 4
2169 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE4 slave addr channel 4
2171 - drivers/i2c/zynq_i2c.c
2172 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ
2173 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SPEED for speed setting
2174 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SLAVE for slave addr
2176 - drivers/i2c/s3c24x0_i2c.c:
2177 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_S3C24X0
2178 - This driver adds i2c buses (11 for Exynos5250, Exynos5420
2179 9 i2c buses for Exynos4 and 1 for S3C24X0 SoCs from Samsung)
2180 with a fix speed from 100000 and the slave addr 0!
2182 - drivers/i2c/ihs_i2c.c
2183 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS
2184 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
2185 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0 speed channel 0
2186 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0 slave addr channel 0
2187 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
2188 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1 speed channel 1
2189 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1 slave addr channel 1
2190 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH2 activate hardware channel 2
2191 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2 speed channel 2
2192 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2 slave addr channel 2
2193 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH3 activate hardware channel 3
2194 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3 speed channel 3
2195 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3 slave addr channel 3
2196 - activate dual channel with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_DUAL
2197 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0_1 speed channel 0_1
2198 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0_1 slave addr channel 0_1
2199 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1_1 speed channel 1_1
2200 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1_1 slave addr channel 1_1
2201 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2_1 speed channel 2_1
2202 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2_1 slave addr channel 2_1
2203 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3_1 speed channel 3_1
2204 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3_1 slave addr channel 3_1
2208 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
2209 Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use.
2211 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
2212 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
2213 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
2216 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
2217 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
2218 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
2221 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
2222 hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
2223 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
2224 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
2225 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
2227 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
2228 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
2229 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
2230 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
2231 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
2232 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
2233 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
2234 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
2235 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
2239 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
2240 bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
2241 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
2242 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
2243 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
2244 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
2245 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
2246 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
2247 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
2249 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
2251 - Legacy I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C
2253 NOTE: It is intended to move drivers to CONFIG_SYS_I2C which
2254 provides the following compelling advantages:
2256 - more than one i2c adapter is usable
2257 - approved multibus support
2258 - better i2c mux support
2260 ** Please consider updating your I2C driver now. **
2262 These enable legacy I2C serial bus commands. Defining
2263 CONFIG_HARD_I2C will include the appropriate I2C driver
2264 for the selected CPU.
2266 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
2267 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
2268 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
2269 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
2270 command line interface.
2272 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
2274 There are several other quantities that must also be
2275 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
2277 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
2278 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
2279 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
2280 the CPU's i2c node address).
2282 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
2283 (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
2284 and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
2285 eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
2286 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
2288 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
2290 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
2291 chips might think that the current transfer is still
2292 in progress. Reset the slave devices by sending start
2293 commands until the slave device responds.
2295 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
2297 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
2298 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
2299 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
2303 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
2304 controller or configure ports.
2306 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
2310 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
2311 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
2312 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
2316 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
2317 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
2320 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
2324 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
2325 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
2328 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
2332 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
2335 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
2339 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
2340 is false, it clears it (low).
2342 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
2343 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
2344 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
2348 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
2349 is false, it clears it (low).
2351 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
2352 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
2353 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
2357 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
2358 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
2359 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
2362 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
2364 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
2366 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
2367 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
2368 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
2369 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
2371 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
2372 the generic GPIO functions.
2374 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
2376 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
2377 chips might think that the current transfer is still
2378 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
2379 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
2380 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
2381 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
2382 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
2383 is run early in the boot sequence.
2385 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
2387 An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
2388 defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
2389 boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
2390 is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
2391 using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
2392 controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
2393 i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
2394 controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
2396 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
2398 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
2399 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
2400 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
2402 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2404 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
2405 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
2406 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
2407 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
2409 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
2411 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
2412 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2413 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
2414 a 1D array of device addresses
2417 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2418 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
2420 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
2422 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2423 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
2425 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
2427 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
2429 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
2430 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
2432 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
2434 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
2435 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
2437 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
2439 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
2440 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
2442 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
2444 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
2445 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
2446 specified DTT device.
2448 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
2450 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
2451 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
2452 between writing the address pointer and reading the
2453 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
2454 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
2455 devices can use either method, but some require one or
2458 - SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
2460 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
2461 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
2462 D/As on the SACSng board)
2466 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
2467 only SH7757 is supported.
2471 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
2472 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
2473 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
2474 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
2475 defined, the board configuration must define several
2476 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
2477 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
2481 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
2482 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
2483 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
2484 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
2485 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
2489 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
2490 SoCs. Currently i.MX31/35/51 are supported.
2492 CONFIG_SYS_SPI_MXC_WAIT
2493 Timeout for waiting until spi transfer completed.
2494 default: (CONFIG_SYS_HZ/100) /* 10 ms */
2496 - FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
2498 Enables FPGA subsystem.
2500 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
2502 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
2505 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
2507 Enables support for FPGA family.
2508 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
2512 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
2514 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA_LOADMK
2516 Enable support for fpga loadmk command
2518 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA_LOADP
2520 Enable support for fpga loadp command - load partial bitstream
2522 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA_LOADBP
2524 Enable support for fpga loadbp command - load partial bitstream
2527 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
2529 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
2531 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
2533 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
2534 status by the configuration function. This option
2535 will require a board or device specific function to
2540 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
2541 configuration driver.
2543 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
2544 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2546 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
2548 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2549 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2550 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2551 indicated a CRC error).
2553 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
2555 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to de-assert
2556 after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
2557 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
2560 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
2562 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
2563 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
2565 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
2567 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
2570 - Configuration Management:
2573 Some SoCs need special image types (e.g. U-Boot binary
2574 with a special header) as build targets. By defining
2575 CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET in the SoC / board header, this
2576 special image will be automatically built upon calling
2581 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2582 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
2584 - Vendor Parameter Protection:
2586 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2587 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
2588 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
2589 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2590 protects these variables from casual modification by
2591 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2592 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
2593 change this behaviour:
2595 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2596 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
2597 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
2600 Alternatively, if you define _both_ an ethaddr in the
2601 default env _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
2602 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
2603 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2604 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2607 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
2608 for any variable by configuring the type of access
2609 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
2610 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
2615 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2616 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2617 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2618 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2619 this default value by defining an environment
2620 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2621 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2622 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2623 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2624 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2625 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2626 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2628 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
2631 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2632 either, which results in a memory region that will
2633 not be affected by reboots.
2635 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2636 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2637 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2638 following board configurations are known to be
2641 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
2642 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2645 - Access to physical memory region (> 4GB)
2646 Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not
2647 normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures
2648 support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit
2649 machines using physical address extension or similar.
2650 Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which
2651 currently only supports clearing the memory.
2656 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
2657 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
2658 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
2659 system where you want the system to reboot
2660 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
2661 useful during development since you can try to debug
2662 the conditions that lead to the situation.
2664 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2666 This variable defines the number of retries for
2667 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2668 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2669 default value of 5 is used.
2673 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2677 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2678 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2679 try longer timeout such as
2680 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2682 - Command Interpreter:
2683 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
2685 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
2687 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
2689 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2690 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2691 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2695 In the current implementation, the local variables
2696 space and global environment variables space are
2697 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2698 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2699 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2700 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2701 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
2703 Global environment variables are those you use
2704 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2705 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2706 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
2708 To store commands and special characters in a
2709 variable, please use double quotation marks
2710 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2711 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2714 - Command Line Editing and History:
2715 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
2717 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
2718 command line input operations
2720 - Command Line PS1/PS2 support:
2721 CONFIG_CMDLINE_PS_SUPPORT
2723 Enable support for changing the command prompt string
2724 at run-time. Only static string is supported so far.
2725 The string is obtained from environment variables PS1
2728 - Default Environment:
2729 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2731 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2732 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
2733 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2735 For example, place something like this in your
2736 board's config file:
2738 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2742 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2743 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2744 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2745 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
2746 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
2747 You better know what you are doing here.
2749 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2750 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
2751 the environment like the "source" command or the
2754 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_CONFIG
2756 Define this in order to add variables describing the
2757 U-Boot build configuration to the default environment.
2758 These will be named arch, cpu, board, vendor, and soc.
2760 Enabling this option will cause the following to be defined:
2768 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG
2770 Define this in order to add variables describing certain
2771 run-time determined information about the hardware to the
2772 environment. These will be named board_name, board_rev.
2774 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
2776 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
2777 initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
2778 that so that the environment is not available until
2779 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
2780 this is instead controlled by the value of
2781 /config/load-environment.
2783 - Parallel Flash support:
2786 Traditionally U-Boot was run on systems with parallel NOR
2787 flash. This option is used to disable support for parallel NOR
2788 flash. This option should be defined if the board does not have
2791 If this option is not defined one of the generic flash drivers
2792 (e.g. CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER or CONFIG_ST_SMI) must be
2793 selected or the board must provide an implementation of the
2794 flash API (see include/flash.h).
2796 - DataFlash Support:
2797 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
2799 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
2800 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
2803 - Serial Flash support
2806 Defining this option enables SPI flash commands
2807 'sf probe/read/write/erase/update'.
2809 Usage requires an initial 'probe' to define the serial
2810 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2813 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2814 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2815 flash is present on the system.
2817 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2818 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2819 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2820 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2824 Define this option to include a destructive SPI flash
2827 CONFIG_SF_DUAL_FLASH Dual flash memories
2829 Define this option to use dual flash support where two flash
2830 memories can be connected with a given cs line.
2831 Currently Xilinx Zynq qspi supports these type of connections.
2833 - SystemACE Support:
2836 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
2837 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
2838 of the chip must also be defined in the
2839 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
2841 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
2842 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
2844 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
2845 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
2847 - TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2850 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
2851 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
2852 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
2853 number generator is used.
2855 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2856 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2857 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2859 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
2860 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2861 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2862 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2863 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2864 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2865 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2870 This enables a generic 'hash' command which can produce
2871 hashes / digests from a few algorithms (e.g. SHA1, SHA256).
2875 Enable the hash verify command (hash -v). This adds to code
2878 CONFIG_SHA1 - This option enables support of hashing using SHA1
2879 algorithm. The hash is calculated in software.
2880 CONFIG_SHA256 - This option enables support of hashing using
2881 SHA256 algorithm. The hash is calculated in software.
2882 CONFIG_SHA_HW_ACCEL - This option enables hardware acceleration
2883 for SHA1/SHA256 hashing.
2884 This affects the 'hash' command and also the
2885 hash_lookup_algo() function.
2886 CONFIG_SHA_PROG_HW_ACCEL - This option enables
2887 hardware-acceleration for SHA1/SHA256 progressive hashing.
2888 Data can be streamed in a block at a time and the hashing
2889 is performed in hardware.
2891 Note: There is also a sha1sum command, which should perhaps
2892 be deprecated in favour of 'hash sha1'.
2894 - Freescale i.MX specific commands:
2895 CONFIG_CMD_HDMIDETECT
2896 This enables 'hdmidet' command which returns true if an
2897 HDMI monitor is detected. This command is i.MX 6 specific.
2900 This enables the 'bmode' (bootmode) command for forcing
2901 a boot from specific media.
2903 This is useful for forcing the ROM's usb downloader to
2904 activate upon a watchdog reset which is nice when iterating
2905 on U-Boot. Using the reset button or running bmode normal
2906 will set it back to normal. This command currently
2907 supports i.MX53 and i.MX6.
2909 - bootcount support:
2910 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
2912 This enables the bootcounter support, see:
2913 http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
2916 enable special bootcounter support on at91sam9xe based boards.
2918 enable special bootcounter support on blackfin based boards.
2920 enable special bootcounter support on da850 based boards.
2921 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_RAM
2922 enable support for the bootcounter in RAM
2923 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_I2C
2924 enable support for the bootcounter on an i2c (like RTC) device.
2925 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RTC_ADDR = i2c chip address
2926 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR = i2c addr which is used for
2928 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ALEN = address len
2930 - Show boot progress:
2931 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2933 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2934 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2935 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2936 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2937 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2938 the following checkpoints are implemented:
2941 Legacy uImage format:
2944 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
2945 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
2946 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
2947 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
2948 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
2949 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
2950 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2951 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2952 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2953 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
2954 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2955 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2956 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2957 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
2958 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
2959 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
2961 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2962 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2963 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2964 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2965 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2966 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2967 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
2968 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
2969 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2970 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2972 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
2974 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
2975 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2976 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
2978 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2979 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2980 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2981 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2982 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2983 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2984 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2985 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2986 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2987 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2988 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2989 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2990 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2991 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2992 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2993 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2994 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2995 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2996 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2997 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2998 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2999 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
3000 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
3001 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
3002 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
3003 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
3004 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
3005 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
3006 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
3007 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
3008 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
3009 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
3010 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
3011 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
3012 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
3013 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
3014 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
3015 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
3016 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
3017 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
3018 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
3019 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
3020 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
3021 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
3022 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
3023 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
3024 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
3026 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
3028 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
3029 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
3030 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
3032 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
3033 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling net_loop()
3034 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in net_loop() occurred
3035 81 common/cmd_net.c net_loop() back without error
3036 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
3037 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
3038 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
3039 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
3040 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
3045 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
3046 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
3047 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
3048 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
3049 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
3050 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
3051 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
3052 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
3053 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
3054 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
3055 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
3056 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
3057 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
3058 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
3059 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
3060 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
3061 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
3062 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
3063 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
3064 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
3065 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
3066 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
3068 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
3069 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
3070 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
3071 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
3072 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
3073 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
3074 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
3075 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
3076 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
3077 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
3078 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
3079 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
3080 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
3081 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
3082 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
3083 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
3085 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
3086 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
3088 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
3089 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
3091 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
3092 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
3094 - legacy image format:
3095 CONFIG_IMAGE_FORMAT_LEGACY
3096 enables the legacy image format support in U-Boot.
3099 enabled if CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE is not defined.
3101 CONFIG_DISABLE_IMAGE_LEGACY
3102 disable the legacy image format
3104 This define is introduced, as the legacy image format is
3105 enabled per default for backward compatibility.
3107 - FIT image support:
3108 CONFIG_FIT_DISABLE_SHA256
3109 Supporting SHA256 hashes has quite an impact on binary size.
3110 For constrained systems sha256 hash support can be disabled
3113 TODO(sjg@chromium.org): Adjust this option to be positive,
3114 and move it to Kconfig
3116 - Standalone program support:
3117 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
3119 This option defines a board specific value for the
3120 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
3121 overwriting the architecture dependent default
3124 - Frame Buffer Address:
3127 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
3128 address for frame buffer. This is typically the case
3129 when using a graphics controller has separate video
3130 memory. U-Boot will then place the frame buffer at
3131 the given address instead of dynamically reserving it
3132 in system RAM by calling lcd_setmem(), which grabs
3133 the memory for the frame buffer depending on the
3134 configured panel size.
3136 Please see board_init_f function.
3138 - Automatic software updates via TFTP server
3140 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
3141 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
3143 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
3144 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
3146 - MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
3149 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
3150 Needed for mtdparts command support.
3152 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
3154 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
3155 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
3160 Adds commands for interacting with MTD partitions formatted
3161 with the UBI flash translation layer
3163 Requires also defining CONFIG_RBTREE
3165 CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
3167 Make the verbose messages from UBI stop printing. This leaves
3168 warnings and errors enabled.
3171 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
3172 This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
3173 erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
3174 of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
3175 wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
3176 counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
3178 The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
3179 other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
3180 However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
3181 life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
3182 to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
3186 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
3187 This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
3188 expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the
3189 underlying flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR
3190 flash), this value is ignored.
3192 NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM
3193 (Number of Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime.
3194 The maximum expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks
3195 then can be calculated as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)",
3196 which gives 20 for most NANDs (MaxNVB is basically the total
3197 count of eraseblocks on the chip).
3199 To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to
3200 reserve about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
3201 handling. And that will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire
3202 NAND chip, not just the MTD partition UBI attaches. This means
3203 that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip admits maximum 40 bad
3204 eraseblocks, and it is split on two MTD partitions of the same
3205 size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when attaching a
3210 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
3211 Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
3212 in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
3213 only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
3214 The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
3215 the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
3216 attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
3217 a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI parameter
3218 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT to 1 if you want so. Please note
3219 that fastmap-enabled images are still usable with UBI implementations
3220 without fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap
3221 fits into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
3223 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT
3224 Set this parameter to enable fastmap automatically on images
3228 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FM_DEBUG
3229 Enable UBI fastmap debug
3235 Adds commands for interacting with UBI volumes formatted as
3236 UBIFS. UBIFS is read-only in u-boot.
3238 Requires UBI support as well as CONFIG_LZO
3240 CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
3242 Make the verbose messages from UBIFS stop printing. This leaves
3243 warnings and errors enabled.
3247 Enable building of SPL globally.
3250 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
3252 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT
3253 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL, BSS included.
3254 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory
3255 used by SPL from _start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
3256 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
3257 must not be both defined at the same time.
3260 Maximum size of the SPL image (text, data, rodata, and
3261 linker lists sections), BSS excluded.
3262 When defined, the linker checks that the actual size does
3265 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
3266 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
3268 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
3269 Address to relocate to. If unspecified, this is equal to
3270 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
3272 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
3273 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
3275 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
3276 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL BSS.
3277 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory used
3278 by SPL from __bss_start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
3279 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
3280 must not be both defined at the same time.
3283 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
3285 CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
3286 When defined, SPL will panic() if the image it has
3287 loaded does not have a signature.
3288 Defining this is useful when code which loads images
3289 in SPL cannot guarantee that absolutely all read errors
3291 An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which will
3292 consider that a completely unreadable NAND block is bad,
3293 and thus should be skipped silently.
3295 CONFIG_SPL_ABORT_ON_RAW_IMAGE
3296 When defined, SPL will proceed to another boot method
3297 if the image it has loaded does not have a signature.
3299 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
3300 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
3301 relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
3304 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
3305 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
3306 When this option is set the full malloc is used in SPL and
3307 it is set up by spl_init() and before that, the simple malloc()
3308 can be used if CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F is defined.
3310 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
3311 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
3313 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK
3314 Enable the SPL framework under common/. This framework
3315 supports MMC, NAND and YMODEM loading of U-Boot and NAND
3316 NAND loading of the Linux Kernel.
3319 Enable booting directly to an OS from SPL.
3320 See also: doc/README.falcon
3322 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
3323 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
3324 about the running system.
3326 CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
3327 Arch init code should be built for a very small image
3329 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION
3330 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
3333 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_KERNEL_SECTOR
3334 Sector to load kernel uImage from when MMC is being
3335 used in raw mode (for Falcon mode)
3337 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTOR,
3338 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTORS
3339 Sector and number of sectors to load kernel argument
3340 parameters from when MMC is being used in raw mode
3343 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_FS_BOOT_PARTITION
3344 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
3347 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
3348 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from filesystem
3350 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_KERNEL_NAME
3351 Filename to read to load kernel uImage when reading
3352 from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
3354 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_ARGS_NAME
3355 Filename to read to load kernel argument parameters
3356 when reading from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
3358 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
3359 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
3360 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
3361 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
3362 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
3364 CONFIG_SPL_SKIP_RELOCATE
3365 Avoid SPL relocation
3367 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE
3368 Include nand_base.c in the SPL. Requires
3369 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS.
3371 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS
3372 SPL uses normal NAND drivers, not minimal drivers.
3375 Include standard software ECC in the SPL
3377 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
3378 Support for NAND boot using simple NAND drivers that
3379 expose the cmd_ctrl() interface.
3382 Support for a lightweight UBI (fastmap) scanner and
3385 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_RAW_ONLY
3386 Support to boot only raw u-boot.bin images. Use this only
3387 if you need to save space.
3389 CONFIG_SPL_COMMON_INIT_DDR
3390 Set for common ddr init with serial presence detect in
3393 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
3394 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
3395 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
3396 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
3397 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
3398 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
3401 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BOOT
3402 Add support NAND boot
3404 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
3405 Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
3407 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
3408 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
3410 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
3411 Size of image to load
3413 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
3414 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
3416 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
3417 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
3418 data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
3420 CONFIG_SPL_OMAP3_ID_NAND
3421 Support for an OMAP3-specific set of functions to return the
3422 ID and MFR of the first attached NAND chip, if present.
3424 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
3425 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
3428 Image offset to which the SPL should be padded before appending
3429 the SPL payload. By default, this is defined as
3430 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
3431 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
3432 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
3435 Final target image containing SPL and payload. Some SPLs
3436 use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
3437 example if more than one image needs to be produced.
3439 CONFIG_FIT_SPL_PRINT
3440 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
3441 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
3442 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
3443 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
3447 Enable building of TPL globally.
3450 Image offset to which the TPL should be padded before appending
3451 the TPL payload. By default, this is defined as
3452 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
3453 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
3454 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
3456 - Interrupt support (PPC):
3458 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
3459 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
3460 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
3461 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
3462 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
3463 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
3464 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
3465 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
3466 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
3467 general timer_interrupt().
3470 Board initialization settings:
3471 ------------------------------
3473 During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
3474 to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
3475 before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
3476 following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
3477 architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
3478 typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
3480 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
3481 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
3482 - CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
3483 - CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
3485 Configuration Settings:
3486 -----------------------
3488 - CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit.
3489 Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.
3491 - CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
3492 undefine this when you're short of memory.
3494 - CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
3495 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
3497 - CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
3498 prompt for user input.
3500 - CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
3502 - CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
3504 - CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
3506 - CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
3507 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
3510 - CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
3511 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
3513 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
3514 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
3517 - CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
3518 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
3520 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
3521 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
3522 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
3524 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE
3525 Only implemented for ARMv8 for now.
3526 If defined, the size of CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE memory
3527 is substracted from total RAM and won't be reported to OS.
3528 This memory can be used as secure memory. A variable
3529 gd->arch.secure_ram is used to track the location. In systems
3530 the RAM base is not zero, or RAM is divided into banks,
3531 this variable needs to be recalcuated to get the address.
3533 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE:
3534 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
3535 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
3536 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
3537 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
3538 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
3539 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
3540 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
3541 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
3542 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
3544 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
3545 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
3548 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
3549 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
3550 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
3551 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
3554 - CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
3555 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
3557 - CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
3558 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
3560 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
3561 Physical start address of Flash memory.
3563 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
3564 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
3565 make config files to be same as the text base address
3566 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
3567 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
3569 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
3570 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
3571 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
3572 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
3575 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
3576 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
3578 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
3579 Size of the malloc() pool for use before relocation. If
3580 this is defined, then a very simple malloc() implementation
3581 will become available before relocation. The address is just
3582 below the global data, and the stack is moved down to make
3585 This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
3586 within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
3587 is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
3588 The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
3589 U-Boot relocates itself.
3591 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
3592 Provides a simple and small malloc() and calloc() for those
3593 boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is
3594 enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START).
3596 - CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY:
3597 Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be
3598 typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped
3599 uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would
3600 otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For
3601 some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the
3602 cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed
3603 are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding
3604 cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e.
3605 if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the
3606 size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of
3607 one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has
3608 written to another region in the same cache-line. This can
3609 happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for
3610 buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g.
3611 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).
3613 Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
3615 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
3616 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
3617 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
3618 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
3619 to adjust this setting to your needs.
3621 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
3622 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
3623 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
3624 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
3625 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
3626 environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
3627 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
3628 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
3629 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
3630 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
3631 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
3633 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
3634 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
3635 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
3638 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
3639 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
3640 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3642 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
3643 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
3644 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3646 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
3647 Max number of Flash memory banks
3649 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
3650 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
3652 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
3653 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
3655 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
3656 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
3658 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
3659 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
3661 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
3662 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
3664 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
3665 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
3666 instead of U-Boot software protection.
3668 - CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
3670 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
3671 without this option such a download has to be
3672 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
3673 copy from RAM to flash.
3675 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
3676 you can check if the download worked before you erase
3677 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
3678 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
3679 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
3681 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
3682 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
3683 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
3685 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
3686 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
3687 in the drivers directory
3689 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
3690 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
3691 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
3694 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
3695 Use buffered writes to flash.
3697 - CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
3698 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
3701 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
3702 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
3703 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
3704 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
3705 optionally available.
3707 - CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
3708 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
3709 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
3710 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
3712 - CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY
3713 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
3714 against the source after the write operation. An error message
3715 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
3716 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
3717 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
3718 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
3719 this option if you really know what you are doing.
3721 - CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
3722 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
3723 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
3724 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
3725 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
3726 on high Ethernet traffic.
3727 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
3729 - CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
3731 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
3732 internally to store the environment settings. The default
3733 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
3734 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
3735 lib/hashtable.c for details.
3737 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3738 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3739 Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when
3740 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
3741 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
3742 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
3744 The format of the list is:
3745 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
3746 access_attribute = [a|r|o|c]
3747 attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute]
3748 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
3751 The type attributes are:
3752 s - String (default)
3755 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
3759 The access attributes are:
3765 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3766 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
3767 environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
3769 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3770 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
3771 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
3772 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
3773 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
3776 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
3777 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to define the same
3778 flags without explicitly listing them for each variable.
3780 - CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
3781 If defined, don't allow the -f switch to env set override variable
3784 - CONFIG_OMAP_PLATFORM_RESET_TIME_MAX_USEC (OMAP only)
3785 This is set by OMAP boards for the max time that reset should
3786 be asserted. See doc/README.omap-reset-time for details on how
3787 the value can be calculated on a given board.
3790 If stdint.h is available with your toolchain you can define this
3791 option to enable it. You can provide option 'USE_STDINT=1' when
3792 building U-Boot to enable this.
3794 The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
3795 of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
3796 following configurations:
3798 - CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
3800 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
3801 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
3803 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
3805 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
3807 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
3808 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
3809 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
3810 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
3811 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
3812 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
3813 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
3814 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
3815 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
3816 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
3817 between U-Boot and the environment.
3819 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3821 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
3822 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
3823 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
3824 for this sector is given here.
3826 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
3830 This is just another way to specify the start address of
3831 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
3834 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
3836 Size of the sector containing the environment.
3839 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
3840 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
3845 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
3846 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
3847 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
3848 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
3850 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
3851 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
3852 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
3853 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
3854 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
3855 updating the environment in flash makes it always
3856 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
3857 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
3858 RAM, your target system will be dead.
3860 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
3861 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
3863 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
3864 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
3865 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
3866 a "saveenv" operation.
3868 BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
3869 source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
3873 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
3875 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
3876 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
3882 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
3883 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
3884 can just be read and written to, without any special
3887 BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
3888 in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the
3889 console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
3892 Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3893 environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3894 keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3895 to save the current settings.
3898 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
3900 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
3901 device and a driver for it.
3903 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3906 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
3907 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
3909 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
3910 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
3911 The default address is zero.
3913 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_BUS:
3914 If defined, specified the i2c bus of the EEPROM device.
3916 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
3917 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
3918 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
3919 would require six bits.
3921 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
3922 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
3923 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
3925 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
3926 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
3927 that this is NOT the chip address length!
3929 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
3930 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
3931 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
3932 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
3933 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
3936 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
3937 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
3938 in the chip address.
3940 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
3941 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
3943 - CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C
3944 define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your
3945 EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.
3947 - CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS
3948 if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over
3949 I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this
3950 EEPROM. For example:
3952 #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS 1
3954 EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over
3955 a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.
3957 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
3959 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
3960 want to use for the environment.
3962 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3966 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
3967 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
3968 at the specified address.
3970 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_SPI_FLASH:
3972 Define this if you have a SPI Flash memory device which you
3973 want to use for the environment.
3975 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3978 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
3979 environment area within the SPI Flash. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
3980 aligned to an erase sector boundary.
3982 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
3984 Define the SPI flash's sector size.
3986 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
3988 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
3989 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
3990 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
3991 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND must be
3992 aligned to an erase sector boundary.
3994 - CONFIG_ENV_SPI_BUS (optional):
3995 - CONFIG_ENV_SPI_CS (optional):
3997 Define the SPI bus and chip select. If not defined they will be 0.
3999 - CONFIG_ENV_SPI_MAX_HZ (optional):
4001 Define the SPI max work clock. If not defined then use 1MHz.
4003 - CONFIG_ENV_SPI_MODE (optional):
4005 Define the SPI work mode. If not defined then use SPI_MODE_3.
4007 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_REMOTE:
4009 Define this if you have a remote memory space which you
4010 want to use for the local device's environment.
4015 These two #defines specify the address and size of the
4016 environment area within the remote memory space. The
4017 local device can get the environment from remote memory
4018 space by SRIO or PCIE links.
4020 BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
4021 "saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
4022 environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
4023 but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
4025 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
4027 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
4028 for the environment.
4030 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
4033 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
4034 area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
4035 aligned to an erase block boundary.
4037 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
4039 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
4040 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
4041 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
4042 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND must be
4043 aligned to an erase block boundary.
4045 - CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):
4047 Specifies the length of the region in which the environment
4048 can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's
4049 block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than
4050 are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within
4051 the range to be avoided.
4053 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):
4055 Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the
4056 environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The
4057 "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset.
4058 Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when
4059 using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.
4061 - CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
4063 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
4064 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
4065 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
4067 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_UBI:
4069 Define this if you have an UBI volume that you want to use for the
4070 environment. This has the benefit of wear-leveling the environment
4071 accesses, which is important on NAND.
4073 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_PART:
4075 Define this to a string that is the mtd partition containing the UBI.
4077 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_VOLUME:
4079 Define this to the name of the volume that you want to store the
4082 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_VOLUME_REDUND:
4084 Define this to the name of another volume to store a second copy of
4085 the environment in. This will enable redundant environments in UBI.
4086 It is assumed that both volumes are in the same MTD partition.
4088 - CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
4089 - CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
4091 You will probably want to define these to avoid a really noisy system
4092 when storing the env in UBI.
4094 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FAT:
4095 Define this if you want to use the FAT file system for the environment.
4097 - FAT_ENV_INTERFACE:
4099 Define this to a string that is the name of the block device.
4101 - FAT_ENV_DEVICE_AND_PART:
4103 Define this to a string to specify the partition of the device. It can
4106 "D:P", "D:0", "D", "D:" or "D:auto" (D, P are integers. And P >= 1)
4107 - "D:P": device D partition P. Error occurs if device D has no
4110 - "D" or "D:": device D partition 1 if device D has partition
4111 table, or the whole device D if has no partition
4113 - "D:auto": first partition in device D with bootable flag set.
4114 If none, first valid partition in device D. If no
4115 partition table then means device D.
4119 It's a string of the FAT file name. This file use to store the
4123 This should be defined. Otherwise it cannot save the environment file.
4125 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC:
4127 Define this if you have an MMC device which you want to use for the
4130 - CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV:
4132 Specifies which MMC device the environment is stored in.
4134 - CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_PART (optional):
4136 Specifies which MMC partition the environment is stored in. If not
4137 set, defaults to partition 0, the user area. Common values might be
4138 1 (first MMC boot partition), 2 (second MMC boot partition).
4140 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
4143 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
4144 area within the specified MMC device.
4146 If offset is positive (the usual case), it is treated as relative to
4147 the start of the MMC partition. If offset is negative, it is treated
4148 as relative to the end of the MMC partition. This can be useful if
4149 your board may be fitted with different MMC devices, which have
4150 different sizes for the MMC partitions, and you always want the
4151 environment placed at the very end of the partition, to leave the
4152 maximum possible space before it, to store other data.
4154 These two values are in units of bytes, but must be aligned to an
4155 MMC sector boundary.
4157 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
4159 Specifies a second storage area, of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE size, used to
4160 hold a redundant copy of the environment data. This provides a
4161 valid backup copy in case the other copy is corrupted, e.g. due
4162 to a power failure during a "saveenv" operation.
4164 This value may also be positive or negative; this is handled in the
4165 same way as CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET.
4167 This value is also in units of bytes, but must also be aligned to
4168 an MMC sector boundary.
4170 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND (optional):
4172 This value need not be set, even when CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is
4173 set. If this value is set, it must be set to the same value as
4176 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
4178 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
4179 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
4180 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
4181 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
4182 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
4183 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
4184 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
4186 Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
4187 has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
4188 created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f()
4189 until then to read environment variables.
4191 The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
4192 is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
4193 with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
4194 necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
4195 "baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
4196 have any device yet where we could complain.]
4198 Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
4199 the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
4200 use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
4202 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
4203 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
4205 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
4206 also needs to be defined.
4208 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
4209 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
4211 - CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
4212 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
4213 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
4214 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
4215 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
4216 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
4218 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
4219 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
4220 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
4223 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
4224 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
4225 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
4228 - CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT:
4229 Maximum size of the U-Boot image. When defined, the
4230 build system checks that the actual size does not
4233 Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
4234 ---------------------------------------------------
4236 - CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
4237 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
4239 - CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
4240 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
4242 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
4243 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
4244 the IMMR register after a reset.
4246 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
4247 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
4250 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
4251 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
4252 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
4254 CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR must also be set to this value,
4255 for cross-platform code that uses that macro instead.
4257 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
4258 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
4259 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
4260 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
4261 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
4262 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
4263 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
4265 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
4266 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
4268 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
4269 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
4270 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
4271 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
4272 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
4274 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
4275 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
4276 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
4277 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
4279 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
4280 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
4281 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
4283 - Floppy Disk Support:
4284 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
4286 the default drive number (default value 0)
4288 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
4290 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
4293 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
4295 defines the offset of register from address. It
4296 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
4297 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
4299 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
4300 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
4303 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
4304 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
4305 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
4306 source code. It is used to make hardware-dependent
4310 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
4311 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
4312 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
4313 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
4314 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
4317 - CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
4318 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
4319 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
4321 - CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
4323 Start address of memory area that can be used for
4324 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
4325 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
4326 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
4327 will become available only after programming the
4328 memory controller and running certain initialization
4331 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
4332 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
4333 - MPC824X: data cache
4334 - PPC4xx: data cache
4336 - CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
4338 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
4339 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
4340 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
4341 data is located at the end of the available space
4342 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
4343 GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
4344 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
4345 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
4348 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
4349 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
4350 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
4351 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
4352 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
4354 - CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
4356 - CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
4358 - CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
4360 - CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
4362 - CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
4364 - CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
4366 - CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
4369 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
4370 periodic timer for refresh
4372 - CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
4374 - FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
4375 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
4376 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
4377 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
4378 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
4380 - SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
4381 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
4382 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
4383 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
4385 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
4386 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
4387 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
4388 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
4390 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4391 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4392 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
4394 - CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4395 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4396 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
4398 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4399 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4400 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
4402 - CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
4403 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
4404 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
4405 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
4408 - CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
4409 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
4410 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
4411 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
4412 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
4413 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
4414 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
4415 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
4416 Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
4418 - CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE:
4419 Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
4422 - CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
4423 Only scan through and get the devices on the buses.
4424 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
4425 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
4426 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
4427 by coreboot or similar.
4429 - CONFIG_PCI_INDIRECT_BRIDGE:
4430 Enable support for indirect PCI bridges.
4433 Chip has SRIO or not
4436 Board has SRIO 1 port available
4439 Board has SRIO 2 port available
4441 - CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
4442 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
4444 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
4445 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4447 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
4448 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4450 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
4451 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4453 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
4454 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
4456 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
4457 Example of drivers that use it:
4458 - drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c
4459 - drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
4461 - CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
4462 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
4463 a default value will be used.
4466 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
4467 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
4470 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
4472 - CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
4473 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
4474 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
4475 to something your driver can deal with.
4477 - CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
4478 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
4479 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
4480 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
4481 header files or board specific files.
4483 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
4484 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
4486 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_SYNC_REFRESH
4487 Enable sync of refresh for multiple controllers.
4489 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_BIST
4490 Enable built-in memory test for Freescale DDR controllers.
4492 - CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
4493 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
4494 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
4496 - CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
4497 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
4499 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
4500 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
4501 to the given FEC; i. e.
4502 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
4503 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
4505 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
4507 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
4508 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
4509 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
4512 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
4513 Note that this is a global option, we can't
4514 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
4516 - CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
4517 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
4520 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
4522 Where address/count indicate a memory area
4523 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
4527 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
4528 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
4531 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
4536 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
4538 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
4539 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
4541 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
4542 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
4544 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
4545 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain
4546 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
4547 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
4548 relocate itself into RAM.
4550 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
4551 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
4552 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
4553 these initializations itself.
4555 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT_ONLY
4556 [ARM926EJ-S only] This allows just the call to lowlevel_init()
4557 to be skipped. The normal CP15 init (such as enabling the
4558 instruction cache) is still performed.
4561 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
4562 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
4563 compiling a NAND SPL.
4566 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
4567 that is executed after the SPL and before the actual U-Boot.
4568 It is loaded by the SPL.
4570 - CONFIG_SYS_MPC85XX_NO_RESETVEC
4571 Only for 85xx systems. If this variable is specified, the section
4572 .resetvec is not kept and the section .bootpg is placed in the
4573 previous 4k of the .text section.
4575 - CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
4576 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
4577 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
4578 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
4579 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
4580 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
4581 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
4582 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
4584 - CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
4585 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
4586 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
4589 Defines the MPU clock speed (in MHz).
4591 NOTE : currently only supported on AM335x platforms.
4593 - CONFIG_SPL_AM33XX_ENABLE_RTC32K_OSC:
4594 Enables the RTC32K OSC on AM33xx based plattforms
4596 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE
4597 Option to disable subpage write in NAND driver
4598 driver that uses this:
4599 drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
4601 Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
4602 -----------------------------------
4604 The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
4605 loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
4606 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
4607 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
4610 - CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR
4611 The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The
4612 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
4615 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR
4616 The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The
4617 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
4620 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
4621 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
4622 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
4623 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
4624 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
4626 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
4627 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
4628 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
4629 virtual address in NOR flash.
4631 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
4632 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
4633 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
4635 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
4636 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
4637 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
4639 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
4640 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
4641 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
4642 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
4643 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
4644 master's memory space.
4646 Freescale Layerscape Management Complex Firmware Support:
4647 ---------------------------------------------------------
4648 The Freescale Layerscape Management Complex (MC) supports the loading of
4650 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
4651 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
4654 - CONFIG_FSL_MC_ENET
4655 Enable the MC driver for Layerscape SoCs.
4657 Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support:
4658 -------------------------------------------
4659 The Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support supports the loading of
4660 "Debug Server firmware" and triggering SP boot-rom.
4661 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting.
4663 - CONFIG_SYS_MC_RSV_MEM_ALIGN
4664 Define alignment of reserved memory MC requires
4669 In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
4670 process have to be set to a fixed value.
4672 This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
4673 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is to be set on the build host's shell, not as a configuration
4674 option for U-Boot or an environment variable in U-Boot.
4676 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should be set to a number of seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
4678 Building the Software:
4679 ======================
4681 Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
4682 and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
4683 all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
4684 (potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
4685 recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
4686 which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
4688 If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
4689 have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
4690 you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
4691 Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
4692 necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
4694 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
4695 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
4697 Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
4698 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
4699 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
4700 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
4702 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
4704 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
4705 be executed on computers running Windows.
4707 U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
4708 sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
4713 where "NAME_defconfig" is the name of one of the existing configu-
4714 rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
4716 Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
4717 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
4718 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
4719 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
4720 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
4722 make TQM823L_defconfig
4723 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
4725 make TQM823L_LCD_defconfig
4726 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
4731 Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
4732 images ready for download to / installation on your system:
4734 - "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
4735 - "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
4736 - "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
4738 By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
4739 in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
4740 this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
4742 1. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
4744 make O=/tmp/build distclean
4745 make O=/tmp/build NAME_defconfig
4746 make O=/tmp/build all
4748 2. Set environment variable KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the desired location:
4750 export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/build
4755 Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
4759 Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
4760 for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
4764 If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
4765 to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
4768 1. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
4769 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
4770 the "Makefile" and a "<board>.c".
4771 2. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
4773 3. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
4774 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
4775 4. Run "make <board>_defconfig" with your new name.
4776 5. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
4777 to be installed on your target system.
4778 6. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
4779 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
4782 Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
4783 ==============================================================
4785 If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
4786 or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
4787 provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
4788 the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
4789 official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
4791 But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
4792 cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
4793 the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
4794 just run the buildman script (tools/buildman/buildman), which will
4795 configure and build U-Boot for ALL supported system. Be warned, this
4796 will take a while. Please see the buildman README, or run 'buildman -H'
4800 See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
4803 Monitor Commands - Overview:
4804 ============================
4806 go - start application at address 'addr'
4807 run - run commands in an environment variable
4808 bootm - boot application image from memory
4809 bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
4810 bootz - boot zImage from memory
4811 tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
4812 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
4813 (and eventually "gatewayip")
4814 tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
4815 rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
4816 diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
4817 loads - load S-Record file over serial line
4818 loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
4820 mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
4821 nm - memory modify (constant address)
4822 mw - memory write (fill)
4824 cmp - memory compare
4825 crc32 - checksum calculation
4826 i2c - I2C sub-system
4827 sspi - SPI utility commands
4828 base - print or set address offset
4829 printenv- print environment variables
4830 setenv - set environment variables
4831 saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
4832 protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
4833 erase - erase FLASH memory
4834 flinfo - print FLASH memory information
4835 nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
4836 bdinfo - print Board Info structure
4837 iminfo - print header information for application image
4838 coninfo - print console devices and informations
4839 ide - IDE sub-system
4840 loop - infinite loop on address range
4841 loopw - infinite write loop on address range
4842 mtest - simple RAM test
4843 icache - enable or disable instruction cache
4844 dcache - enable or disable data cache
4845 reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
4846 echo - echo args to console
4847 version - print monitor version
4848 help - print online help
4849 ? - alias for 'help'
4852 Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
4853 ========================================
4857 For now: just type "help <command>".
4860 Environment Variables:
4861 ======================
4863 U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
4864 can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
4866 Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
4867 "printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
4868 without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
4869 environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
4870 working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
4871 environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
4873 Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
4875 List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
4877 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
4879 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
4881 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
4883 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
4885 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
4887 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
4888 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
4889 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
4890 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
4891 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
4892 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
4893 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
4896 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
4897 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
4898 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
4899 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
4900 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
4901 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
4904 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
4905 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
4906 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
4907 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
4908 environment variable.
4910 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
4911 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
4912 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
4914 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
4915 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
4916 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
4917 load any image using TFTP
4919 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
4920 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
4921 be automatically started (by internally calling
4924 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
4925 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
4926 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
4927 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
4930 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
4931 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
4932 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
4933 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
4934 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
4935 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
4936 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
4937 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
4938 access it during the boot procedure.
4940 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
4941 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
4942 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
4943 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
4944 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
4945 must be accessible by the kernel.
4947 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
4948 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
4951 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
4952 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
4953 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
4954 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
4955 it must be saved and board must be reset.
4957 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
4958 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
4959 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
4960 is usually what you want since it allows for
4961 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
4962 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
4963 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
4964 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
4965 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
4966 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
4967 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
4969 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
4970 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
4971 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
4972 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
4973 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
4974 12 MB as well - this can be done with
4976 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
4978 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
4979 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
4980 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
4981 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
4982 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
4983 boot time on your system, but requires that this
4984 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
4986 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
4988 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
4989 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
4991 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
4993 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
4995 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
4997 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
4999 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
5001 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
5003 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
5004 For example you can do the following
5006 => setenv ethact FEC
5007 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
5008 => setenv ethact SCC
5009 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
5011 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
5012 available network interfaces.
5013 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
5015 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
5016 either succeed or fail without retrying.
5017 When set to "once" the network operation will
5018 fail when all the available network interfaces
5019 are tried once without success.
5020 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
5023 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
5025 silent_linux - If set then Linux will be told to boot silently, by
5026 changing the console to be empty. If "yes" it will be
5027 made silent. If "no" it will not be made silent. If
5028 unset, then it will be made silent if the U-Boot console
5031 tftpsrcp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
5034 tftpdstp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
5035 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
5037 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
5038 we use the TFTP server's default block size
5040 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
5041 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
5042 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
5043 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
5044 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
5045 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
5046 with unreliable TFTP servers.
5048 tftptimeoutcountmax - maximum count of TFTP timeouts (no
5049 unit, minimum value = 0). Defines how many timeouts
5050 can happen during a single file transfer before that
5051 transfer is aborted. The default is 10, and 0 means
5052 'no timeouts allowed'. Increasing this value may help
5053 downloads succeed with high packet loss rates, or with
5054 unreliable TFTP servers or client hardware.
5056 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
5057 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
5060 bootpretryperiod - Period during which BOOTP/DHCP sends retries.
5061 Unsigned value, in milliseconds. If not set, the period will
5062 be either the default (28000), or a value based on
5063 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT, if defined. This value has
5064 precedence over the valu based on CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT.
5066 The following image location variables contain the location of images
5067 used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
5068 not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
5069 variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
5070 server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
5071 loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
5072 flash or offset in NAND flash.
5074 *Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
5075 boards currently use other variables for these purposes, and some
5076 boards use these variables for other purposes.
5078 Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
5079 ----- --------- ----------- --------------
5080 u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
5081 Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
5082 device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
5083 ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
5085 The following environment variables may be used and automatically
5086 updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
5087 depending the information provided by your boot server:
5089 bootfile - see above
5090 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
5091 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
5092 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
5093 hostname - Target hostname
5095 netmask - Subnet Mask
5096 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
5097 serverip - see above
5100 There are two special Environment Variables:
5102 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
5103 as type string and/or serial number
5104 ethaddr - Ethernet address
5106 These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
5107 the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
5108 once they have been set once.
5111 Further special Environment Variables:
5113 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
5114 with the "version" command. This variable is
5115 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
5118 Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
5119 only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
5122 Callback functions for environment variables:
5123 ---------------------------------------------
5125 For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change
5126 when their values are changed. This functionality allows functions to
5127 be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or
5128 deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side
5129 effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.
5131 The callbacks are named and associated with a function using the
5132 U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK macro in your board or driver code.
5134 These callbacks are associated with variables in one of two ways. The
5135 static list can be added to by defining CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC
5136 in the board configuration to a string that defines a list of
5137 associations. The list must be in the following format:
5139 entry = variable_name[:callback_name]
5142 If the callback name is not specified, then the callback is deleted.
5143 Spaces are also allowed anywhere in the list.
5145 Callbacks can also be associated by defining the ".callbacks" variable
5146 with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will
5147 override any association in the static list. You can define
5148 CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
5149 ".callbacks" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
5151 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
5152 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to be connected to
5153 the same callback without explicitly listing them all out.
5156 Command Line Parsing:
5157 =====================
5159 There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
5160 the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
5162 Old, simple command line parser:
5163 --------------------------------
5165 - supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
5166 - several commands on one line, separated by ';'
5167 - variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
5168 - special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
5170 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
5171 - You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
5172 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
5177 - similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
5178 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
5179 until...do...done, ...
5180 - supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
5181 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
5182 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
5188 (1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
5189 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
5190 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
5193 (2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
5194 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
5195 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
5196 variables are not executed.
5198 Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
5199 =======================================
5201 Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
5202 such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
5203 "working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
5205 Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
5206 MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
5207 "eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
5209 If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
5210 in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
5211 ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
5212 variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
5214 o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
5215 environment, the SROM's address is used.
5217 o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
5218 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
5221 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
5222 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
5224 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
5225 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
5228 o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
5229 is raised. If CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR is defined, then in this case
5230 a random, locally-assigned MAC is used.
5232 If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
5233 will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
5234 may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
5235 The naming convention is as follows:
5236 "ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
5241 U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
5242 images in two formats:
5244 New uImage format (FIT)
5245 -----------------------
5247 Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
5248 to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
5249 components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
5250 SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
5256 Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
5257 preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
5258 details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
5260 * Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
5261 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
5262 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
5263 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
5265 * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
5266 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
5267 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
5268 * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
5274 The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
5275 and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
5282 Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
5283 easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
5286 U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
5287 special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
5288 "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
5289 instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
5290 serves several purposes:
5292 - the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
5293 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
5294 Flash memory footprint)
5296 - it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
5297 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
5299 - the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
5300 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
5301 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
5302 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
5303 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
5304 software is easier now.
5310 Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
5311 ---------------------------------------
5313 U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
5314 configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
5315 (no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
5318 But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
5320 Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
5321 include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
5322 Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
5323 and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
5324 as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
5326 Note that U-Boot now has a driver model, a unified model for drivers.
5327 If you are adding a new driver, plumb it into driver model. If there
5328 is no uclass available, you are encouraged to create one. See
5332 Configuring the Linux kernel:
5333 -----------------------------
5335 No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
5336 device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
5339 Building a Linux Image:
5340 -----------------------
5342 With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
5343 not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
5344 "uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
5345 U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
5346 which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
5347 100% compatible format.
5351 make TQM850L_defconfig
5356 The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
5357 encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
5358 CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
5360 * build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
5362 * convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
5364 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
5365 -R .note -R .comment \
5366 -S vmlinux linux.bin
5368 * compress the binary image:
5372 * package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
5374 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
5375 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
5376 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
5379 The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
5380 with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
5381 combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
5382 byte header containing information about target architecture,
5383 operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
5384 stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
5386 "mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
5387 print the header information, or to build new images.
5389 In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
5390 contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
5391 checksum verification:
5393 tools/mkimage -l image
5394 -l ==> list image header information
5396 The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
5397 from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
5399 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
5400 -n name -d data_file image
5401 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
5402 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
5403 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
5404 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
5405 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
5406 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
5407 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
5408 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
5410 Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
5411 address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
5414 - 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
5415 - 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
5417 So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
5419 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
5420 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
5421 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
5422 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
5423 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5424 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5425 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5426 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
5427 Load Address: 0x00000000
5428 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5430 To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
5432 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
5433 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5434 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5435 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5436 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
5437 Load Address: 0x00000000
5438 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5440 NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
5441 speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
5442 needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
5443 need to be uncompressed:
5445 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
5446 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
5447 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
5448 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
5449 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
5450 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5451 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5452 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
5453 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
5454 Load Address: 0x00000000
5455 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5458 Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
5459 when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
5461 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
5462 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
5463 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
5464 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5465 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
5466 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5467 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
5468 Load Address: 0x00000000
5469 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5471 The "dumpimage" is a tool to disassemble images built by mkimage. Its "-i"
5472 option performs the converse operation of the mkimage's second form (the "-d"
5473 option). Given an image built by mkimage, the dumpimage extracts a "data file"
5476 tools/dumpimage -i image -T type -p position data_file
5477 -i ==> extract from the 'image' a specific 'data_file'
5478 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
5479 -p ==> 'position' (starting at 0) of the 'data_file' inside the 'image'
5482 Installing a Linux Image:
5483 -------------------------
5485 To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
5486 you must convert the image to S-Record format:
5488 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
5490 The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
5491 image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
5492 address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
5493 specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
5496 Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
5497 TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
5499 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
5505 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5506 ~>examples/image.srec
5507 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
5509 15989 15990 15991 15992
5510 [file transfer complete]
5512 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
5515 You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
5516 this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
5517 corruption happened:
5521 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
5522 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5523 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5524 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5525 Load Address: 00000000
5526 Entry Point: 0000000c
5527 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5533 The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
5534 memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
5535 of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
5536 parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
5537 "printenv" and "setenv" commands:
5540 => printenv bootargs
5541 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
5543 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5545 => printenv bootargs
5546 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5549 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
5550 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
5551 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5552 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
5553 Load Address: 00000000
5554 Entry Point: 0000000c
5555 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5556 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5557 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
5558 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5559 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
5560 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
5561 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
5564 If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
5565 the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
5566 format!) to the "bootm" command:
5568 => imi 40100000 40200000
5570 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
5571 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5572 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5573 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5574 Load Address: 00000000
5575 Entry Point: 0000000c
5576 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5578 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
5579 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5580 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5581 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
5582 Load Address: 00000000
5583 Entry Point: 00000000
5584 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5586 => bootm 40100000 40200000
5587 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
5588 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5589 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5590 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5591 Load Address: 00000000
5592 Entry Point: 0000000c
5593 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5594 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5595 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
5596 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5597 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5598 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
5599 Load Address: 00000000
5600 Entry Point: 00000000
5601 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5602 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
5603 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
5604 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
5605 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
5606 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
5608 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
5609 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
5613 Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
5616 First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
5617 titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
5618 following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
5624 oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
5625 => tftp $oftaddr $oft
5626 Speed: 1000, full duplex
5628 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
5629 Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
5630 Load address: 0x300000
5633 Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
5634 => tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
5635 Speed: 1000, full duplex
5637 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
5639 Load address: 0x200000
5640 Loading:############
5642 Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
5647 => bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
5648 ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
5649 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
5650 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5651 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
5652 Load Address: 00000000
5653 Entry Point: 00000000
5654 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5655 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5656 Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
5657 Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
5658 Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
5662 More About U-Boot Image Types:
5663 ------------------------------
5665 U-Boot supports the following image types:
5667 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
5668 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
5669 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
5670 the Standalone Program.
5671 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
5672 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
5673 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
5674 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
5675 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
5676 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
5677 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
5679 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
5680 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
5681 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
5682 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
5683 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
5684 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
5686 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
5687 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
5688 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
5689 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
5690 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
5691 a multiple of 4 bytes).
5693 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
5694 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
5697 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
5698 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
5699 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
5700 as command interpreter.
5702 Booting the Linux zImage:
5703 -------------------------
5705 On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
5706 using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
5707 as the syntax of "bootm" command.
5709 Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
5710 kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
5711 address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
5712 format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
5718 One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
5719 run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
5720 U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
5722 Two simple examples are included with the sources:
5727 'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
5728 application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
5729 It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
5733 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5734 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
5735 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
5736 [file transfer complete]
5738 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
5740 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
5741 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
5752 Hit any key to exit ...
5754 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
5756 Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
5757 handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
5758 Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
5759 The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
5760 character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
5761 controlled by the following keys:
5763 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
5764 b - enable interrupts and start timer
5765 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
5766 q - quit application
5769 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5770 ~>examples/timer.srec
5771 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
5772 [file transfer complete]
5774 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
5777 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
5780 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
5783 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
5786 [q, b, e, ?] ........
5787 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
5790 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
5793 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
5796 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
5798 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
5800 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
5806 Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
5807 "minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
5808 consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
5809 Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
5810 especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
5811 use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
5812 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
5813 for help with kermit.
5816 Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
5817 configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
5819 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
5820 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
5821 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
5827 Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
5828 (build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
5830 Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
5831 NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
5832 need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
5833 Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
5834 attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
5835 missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
5837 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
5839 # ln -s powerpc machine
5840 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
5841 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
5843 Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
5844 and U-Boot include files.
5846 Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
5847 stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
5848 proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
5849 tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
5850 meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
5853 Implementation Internals:
5854 =========================
5856 The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
5857 implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
5858 inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
5862 Initial Stack, Global Data:
5863 ---------------------------
5865 The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
5866 starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
5867 system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
5868 This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
5869 is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
5870 at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
5871 options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
5872 models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
5873 MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
5874 locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
5876 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
5877 U-Boot mailing list:
5879 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
5880 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
5881 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
5884 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
5885 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
5886 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
5887 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
5888 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
5889 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
5890 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
5891 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
5893 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
5894 is another option for the system designer to use as an
5895 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
5896 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
5897 board designers haven't used it for something that would
5898 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
5901 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
5902 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
5903 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
5904 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
5905 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
5906 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
5907 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
5908 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
5909 you get the config right.
5914 It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
5915 code for the initialization procedures:
5917 * Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
5920 * Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized
5921 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
5922 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
5924 * Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
5927 Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
5928 normal global data to share information between the code. But it
5929 turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
5930 simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
5931 functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
5932 functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
5933 the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
5934 place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
5935 reserve for this purpose.
5937 When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
5938 relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
5939 GCC's implementation.
5941 For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
5943 R2: reserved for system use
5944 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
5945 R5-R10: parameter passing
5946 R13: small data area pointer
5950 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
5951 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
5952 going back and forth between asm and C)
5954 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
5956 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
5957 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
5958 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
5959 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
5960 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
5961 624 text + 127 data).
5963 On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here:
5964 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
5966 ==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data
5968 On ARM, the following registers are used:
5970 R0: function argument word/integer result
5971 R1-R3: function argument word
5972 R9: platform specific
5973 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
5974 R11: argument (frame) pointer
5975 R12: temporary workspace
5978 R15: program counter
5980 ==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data
5982 Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.
5984 On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
5985 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
5987 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
5989 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
5990 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
5992 On NDS32, the following registers are used:
5994 R0-R1: argument/return
5996 R15: temporary register for assembler
5997 R16: trampoline register
5998 R28: frame pointer (FP)
5999 R29: global pointer (GP)
6000 R30: link register (LP)
6001 R31: stack pointer (SP)
6002 PC: program counter (PC)
6004 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
6006 NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
6007 or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
6012 U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
6013 MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
6015 The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
6016 controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
6017 memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
6018 physical memory banks.
6020 U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
6021 TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
6022 booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
6023 to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
6024 memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
6025 configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
6026 Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
6028 Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
6029 of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
6031 So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
6034 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
6037 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
6043 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
6044 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
6045 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
6048 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
6049 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
6050 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
6051 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
6054 System Initialization:
6055 ----------------------
6057 In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
6058 (on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
6059 configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory.
6060 To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
6061 To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
6062 initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
6063 which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
6064 part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
6065 the caches and the SIU.
6067 Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
6068 preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
6069 (multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
6070 on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
6071 programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
6072 simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
6075 When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
6076 different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
6077 bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
6078 0x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
6079 contiguous memory starting from 0.
6081 Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
6082 and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
6083 Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
6084 pages, and the final stack is set up.
6086 Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
6087 until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
6088 running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
6092 U-Boot Porting Guide:
6093 ----------------------
6095 [Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
6099 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
6101 sighandler_t no_more_time;
6103 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
6104 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
6106 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
6107 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
6111 Download latest U-Boot source;
6113 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
6116 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
6119 Read the README file in the top level directory;
6120 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
6121 Read applicable doc/*.README;
6122 Read the source, Luke;
6123 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
6126 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
6129 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
6131 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
6132 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
6133 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
6135 Create your own board support subdirectory;
6136 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
6138 Edit new board/<myboard> files
6139 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
6144 Add / modify source code;
6148 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
6150 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
6151 if (reasonable critiques)
6152 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
6154 Defend code as written;
6160 void no_more_time (int sig)
6169 All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
6170 coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
6171 "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
6173 Source files originating from a different project (for example the
6174 MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
6175 reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
6178 Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
6179 Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
6182 Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
6183 - remove any trailing white space
6184 - use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
6185 - make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
6186 - do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
6187 - do not add trailing empty lines to source files
6189 Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
6190 with a request to reformat the changes.
6196 Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
6197 establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
6198 may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
6200 Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
6202 Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
6203 see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
6205 When you send a patch, please include the following information with
6208 * For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
6209 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
6210 patch actually fixes something.
6212 * For new features: a description of the feature and your
6215 * A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
6217 * For major contributions, add a MAINTAINERS file with your
6218 information and associated file and directory references.
6220 * When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a
6221 maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.
6223 * If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
6224 document these in the README file.
6226 * The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
6227 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
6228 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
6229 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
6230 with some other mail clients.
6232 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
6233 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
6236 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
6237 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
6238 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
6241 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
6242 and compressed attachments must not be used.
6244 * If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
6245 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
6247 * Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
6248 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
6253 * Before sending the patch, run the buildman script on your patched
6254 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
6255 for any of the boards.
6257 * Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
6258 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
6259 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
6261 * If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
6262 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
6263 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
6264 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
6265 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
6268 * Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
6269 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
6270 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
6271 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.