2 # (C) Copyright 2000 - 2013
3 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
5 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
11 This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
12 Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
13 processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
14 initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
17 The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
18 the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
19 header files in common, and special provision has been made to
20 support booting of Linux images.
22 Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
23 configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
24 implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
25 add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
26 code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
27 load and run it dynamically.
33 In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
34 Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
35 "working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
37 In case of problems see the CHANGELOG file to find out who contributed
38 the specific port. In addition, there are various MAINTAINERS files
39 scattered throughout the U-Boot source identifying the people or
40 companies responsible for various boards and subsystems.
42 Note: As of August, 2010, there is no longer a CHANGELOG file in the
43 actual U-Boot source tree; however, it can be created dynamically
44 from the Git log using:
52 In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
53 U-Boot, you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
54 <u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
55 on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
56 Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
57 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
60 Where to get source code:
61 =========================
63 The U-Boot source code is maintained in the Git repository at
64 git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
65 http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
67 The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
68 any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
69 available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
72 Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
73 ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
79 - start from 8xxrom sources
80 - create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
82 - make it easier to add custom boards
83 - make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
84 - extend functions, especially:
85 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
88 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
89 - create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
90 - add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
91 - create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
92 - current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
98 The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
99 "U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
100 in source files etc.). Example:
102 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
104 File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
106 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
108 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
110 Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
111 the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
113 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
114 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
120 Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
121 were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
122 into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
123 names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
124 Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
125 releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
128 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
129 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
130 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candidate 1 for September 2010 release
136 /arch Architecture specific files
137 /arc Files generic to ARC architecture
138 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
139 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
140 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
141 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
142 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
143 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
144 /openrisc Files generic to OpenRISC architecture
145 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
146 /sandbox Files generic to HW-independent "sandbox"
147 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
148 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
149 /api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
150 /board Board dependent files
151 /cmd U-Boot commands functions
152 /common Misc architecture independent functions
153 /configs Board default configuration files
154 /disk Code for disk drive partition handling
155 /doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
156 /drivers Commonly used device drivers
157 /dts Contains Makefile for building internal U-Boot fdt.
158 /examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
159 /fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
160 /include Header Files
161 /lib Library routines generic to all architectures
162 /Licenses Various license files
164 /post Power On Self Test
165 /scripts Various build scripts and Makefiles
166 /test Various unit test files
167 /tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
169 Software Configuration:
170 =======================
172 Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
173 rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
175 There are two classes of configuration variables:
177 * Configuration _OPTIONS_:
178 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
181 * Configuration _SETTINGS_:
182 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
183 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
186 Previously, all configuration was done by hand, which involved creating
187 symbolic links and editing configuration files manually. More recently,
188 U-Boot has added the Kbuild infrastructure used by the Linux kernel,
189 allowing you to use the "make menuconfig" command to configure your
193 Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
194 ---------------------------------------------------
196 For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
197 configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_defconfig".
199 Example: For a TQM823L module type:
202 make TQM823L_defconfig
204 Note: If you're looking for the default configuration file for a board
205 you're sure used to be there but is now missing, check the file
206 doc/README.scrapyard for a list of no longer supported boards.
211 U-Boot can be built natively to run on a Linux host using the 'sandbox'
212 board. This allows feature development which is not board- or architecture-
213 specific to be undertaken on a native platform. The sandbox is also used to
214 run some of U-Boot's tests.
216 See board/sandbox/README.sandbox for more details.
219 Board Initialisation Flow:
220 --------------------------
222 This is the intended start-up flow for boards. This should apply for both
223 SPL and U-Boot proper (i.e. they both follow the same rules).
225 Note: "SPL" stands for "Secondary Program Loader," which is explained in
226 more detail later in this file.
228 At present, SPL mostly uses a separate code path, but the function names
229 and roles of each function are the same. Some boards or architectures
230 may not conform to this. At least most ARM boards which use
231 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK conform to this.
233 Execution typically starts with an architecture-specific (and possibly
234 CPU-specific) start.S file, such as:
236 - arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
237 - arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc83xx/start.S
238 - arch/mips/cpu/start.S
240 and so on. From there, three functions are called; the purpose and
241 limitations of each of these functions are described below.
244 - purpose: essential init to permit execution to reach board_init_f()
245 - no global_data or BSS
246 - there is no stack (ARMv7 may have one but it will soon be removed)
247 - must not set up SDRAM or use console
248 - must only do the bare minimum to allow execution to continue to
250 - this is almost never needed
251 - return normally from this function
254 - purpose: set up the machine ready for running board_init_r():
255 i.e. SDRAM and serial UART
256 - global_data is available
258 - BSS is not available, so you cannot use global/static variables,
259 only stack variables and global_data
261 Non-SPL-specific notes:
262 - dram_init() is called to set up DRAM. If already done in SPL this
266 - you can override the entire board_init_f() function with your own
268 - preloader_console_init() can be called here in extremis
269 - should set up SDRAM, and anything needed to make the UART work
270 - these is no need to clear BSS, it will be done by crt0.S
271 - must return normally from this function (don't call board_init_r()
274 Here the BSS is cleared. For SPL, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined, then at
275 this point the stack and global_data are relocated to below
276 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR. For non-SPL, U-Boot is relocated to run at the top of
280 - purpose: main execution, common code
281 - global_data is available
283 - BSS is available, all static/global variables can be used
284 - execution eventually continues to main_loop()
286 Non-SPL-specific notes:
287 - U-Boot is relocated to the top of memory and is now running from
291 - stack is optionally in SDRAM, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined and
292 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR points into SDRAM
293 - preloader_console_init() can be called here - typically this is
294 done by selecting CONFIG_SPL_BOARD_INIT and then supplying a
295 spl_board_init() function containing this call
296 - loads U-Boot or (in falcon mode) Linux
300 Configuration Options:
301 ----------------------
303 Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
304 such information is kept in a configuration file
305 "include/configs/<board_name>.h".
307 Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
308 "include/configs/TQM823L.h".
311 Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
312 kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
313 build a config tool - later.
316 The following options need to be configured:
318 - CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
320 - Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
322 - Marvell Family Member
323 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
324 multiple fs option at one time
325 for marvell soc family
330 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
331 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
332 compliance, among other possible reasons.
334 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
336 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
337 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
338 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
340 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
342 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
343 tree nodes for the given platform.
345 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
347 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
348 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
349 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
351 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
352 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
354 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
355 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
357 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
358 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
359 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
360 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
362 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
365 CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
366 Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
367 required during NOR boot.
369 CONFIG_A008044_WORKAROUND
370 Enables a workaround for T1040/T1042 erratum A008044. It is only
371 required during NAND boot and valid for Rev 1.0 SoC revision
373 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
375 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
376 according to the A004510 workaround.
378 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
379 This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
380 connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
382 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
383 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
384 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
386 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
387 This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
388 connected to the DSP core.
390 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
391 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
393 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
394 Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
395 In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
396 clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
398 CONFIG_SYS_CPC_REINIT_F
399 This CONFIG is defined when the CPC is configured as SRAM at the
400 time of U-Boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
403 Indicates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
404 supported, core will start to execute uboot when wakes up.
406 - Generic CPU options:
407 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
409 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
410 values is arch specific.
413 Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
414 found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx, mpc86xx as well as some ARM core
417 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
418 Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
420 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_EMU
421 Specify emulator support for DDR. Some DDR features such as
422 deskew training are not available.
424 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
425 Freescale DDR1 controller.
427 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
428 Freescale DDR2 controller.
430 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
431 Freescale DDR3 controller.
433 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN4
434 Freescale DDR4 controller.
436 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
437 Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
440 Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
441 Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
445 Board config to use DDR2. It can be enabled for SoCs with
446 Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
450 Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
451 Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
454 Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
458 Board config to use DDR4. It can be enabled for SoCs with
461 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
462 Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
464 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
465 Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
467 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_CLK_DIV
468 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to IFC controller).
470 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_LBC_CLK_DIV
471 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to eLBC controller).
473 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_PBI
474 It enables addition of RCW (Power on reset configuration) in built image.
475 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
477 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_RCW
478 It adds PBI(pre-boot instructions) commands in u-boot build image.
479 PBI commands can be used to configure SoC before it starts the execution.
480 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
483 It adds a target to create boot binary having SPL binary in PBI format
484 concatenated with u-boot binary.
486 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
487 Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
489 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
490 Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
492 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
493 Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
494 same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for all Power SoCs. But
495 it could be different for ARM SoCs.
497 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
498 DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
499 interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
502 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_MAIN_NUM_CTRLS
503 Number of controllers used as main memory.
505 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_OTHER_DDR_NUM_CTRLS
506 Number of controllers used for other than main memory.
508 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_DP_DDR
509 Defines the SoC has DP-DDR used for DPAA.
511 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
512 Defines the SEC controller register space as Big Endian
514 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_LE
515 Defines the SEC controller register space as Little Endian
518 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
520 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
521 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
524 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
526 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
527 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
529 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
532 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
536 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
538 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
540 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
541 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
543 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
545 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
546 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
547 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
550 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
552 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
553 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
556 Generic timer clock source frequency.
558 COUNTER_FREQUENCY_REAL
559 Generic timer clock source frequency if the real clock is
560 different from COUNTER_FREQUENCY, and can only be determined
564 CONFIG_TEGRA_SUPPORT_NON_SECURE
566 Support executing U-Boot in non-secure (NS) mode. Certain
567 impossible actions will be skipped if the CPU is in NS mode,
568 such as ARM architectural timer initialization.
570 - Linux Kernel Interface:
573 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
574 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
575 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
576 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
577 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
578 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
580 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
581 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
584 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
586 When transferring memsize parameter to Linux, some versions
587 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
588 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
592 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
593 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
597 * New libfdt-based support
598 * Adds the "fdt" command
599 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
601 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
602 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
604 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
607 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
609 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
610 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
612 CONFIG_OF_SYSTEM_SETUP
614 Other code has addition modification that it wants to make
615 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel.
616 This causes ft_system_setup() to be called before booting
621 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
622 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
623 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
624 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
625 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
626 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
628 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
630 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
631 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
632 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
633 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
634 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
635 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
636 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
638 - vxWorks boot parameters:
640 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
641 environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask,
642 serverip, gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
643 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
645 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
646 the defaults discussed just above.
648 - Cache Configuration:
649 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
650 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
651 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
653 - Cache Configuration for ARM:
654 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
656 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
657 controller register space
662 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
666 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
670 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
671 the clock speed of the UARTs.
675 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
676 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
677 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
679 CONFIG_SERIAL_HW_FLOW_CONTROL
681 Define this variable to enable hw flow control in serial driver.
682 Current user of this option is drivers/serial/nsl16550.c driver
685 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
686 Select one of the baudrates listed in
687 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
691 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
692 define a command string that is automatically executed
693 when no character is read on the console interface
694 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
696 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
697 The value of these goes into the environment as
698 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
699 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
703 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
704 Implements a mechanism for detecting a repeating reboot
706 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
709 If no softreset save registers are found on the hardware
710 "bootcount" is stored in the environment. To prevent a
711 saveenv on all reboots, the environment variable
712 "upgrade_available" is used. If "upgrade_available" is
713 0, "bootcount" is always 0, if "upgrade_available" is
714 1 "bootcount" is incremented in the environment.
715 So the Userspace Applikation must set the "upgrade_available"
716 and "bootcount" variable to 0, if a boot was successfully.
721 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
722 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
723 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
724 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
725 entering interactive mode.
727 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
728 automatically generated or modified. For an example
729 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
730 modified when the user holds down a certain
731 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
734 - Serial Download Echo Mode:
736 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
737 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
738 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
739 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
740 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
741 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
743 - Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
745 Select one of the baudrates listed in
746 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
748 - Removal of commands
749 If no commands are needed to boot, you can disable
750 CONFIG_CMDLINE to remove them. In this case, the command line
751 will not be available, and when U-Boot wants to execute the
752 boot command (on start-up) it will call board_run_command()
753 instead. This can reduce image size significantly for very
754 simple boot procedures.
756 - Regular expression support:
758 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
759 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
760 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
761 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
765 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
766 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
767 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
768 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
769 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
771 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
772 be done using one of the three options below:
775 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
776 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
777 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
778 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
779 the global data structure as gd->fdt_blob.
782 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
783 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
784 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
786 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
788 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
789 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
790 still use the individual files if you need something more
794 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use the device tree
795 provided by the board at runtime instead of embedding one with
796 the image. Only boards defining board_fdt_blob_setup() support
797 this option (see include/fdtdec.h file).
801 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
802 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
803 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx
804 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
805 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
806 available, then no further board specific code should
810 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
811 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
812 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
814 CONFIG_AT91_HW_WDT_TIMEOUT
815 specify the timeout in seconds. default 2 seconds.
818 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
819 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
820 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
821 version as printed by the "version" command.
822 Any change to this variable will be reverted at the
827 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
828 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
831 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
832 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
833 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
834 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
835 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
836 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
837 CONFIG_RTC_DS1339 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1339 RTC
838 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
839 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
840 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
841 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
842 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
845 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
846 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
849 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
851 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
852 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
853 pins supported by a particular chip.
855 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
856 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
859 When CONFIG_IO_TRACE is selected, U-Boot intercepts all I/O
860 accesses and can checksum them or write a list of them out
861 to memory. See the 'iotrace' command for details. This is
862 useful for testing device drivers since it can confirm that
863 the driver behaves the same way before and after a code
864 change. Currently this is supported on sandbox and arm. To
865 add support for your architecture, add '#include <iotrace.h>'
866 to the bottom of arch/<arch>/include/asm/io.h and test.
868 Example output from the 'iotrace stats' command is below.
869 Note that if the trace buffer is exhausted, the checksum will
870 still continue to operate.
873 Start: 10000000 (buffer start address)
874 Size: 00010000 (buffer size)
875 Offset: 00000120 (current buffer offset)
876 Output: 10000120 (start + offset)
877 Count: 00000018 (number of trace records)
878 CRC32: 9526fb66 (CRC32 of all trace records)
882 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
883 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
884 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
885 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
887 - Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
888 Zero or more of the following:
889 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
890 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
891 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
892 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
894 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS Memory Technology Device partition table.
896 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_IDE or
897 CONFIG_SCSI) you must configure support for at
898 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
901 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
902 board configurations files but used nowhere!
904 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
905 be performed by calling the function
906 ide_set_reset(int reset)
907 which has to be defined in a board specific file
912 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
917 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
918 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
919 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
920 support disks up to 2.1TB.
922 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
923 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
927 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
928 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
929 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
930 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
933 The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
934 SCSI devices found during the last scan.
936 - NETWORK Support (PCI):
938 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
941 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
942 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
943 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
945 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
946 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
947 example with the "sspi" command.
950 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
951 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
952 write routine for first time initialisation.
955 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
956 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
957 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
960 Support for National dp83815 chips.
963 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
965 - NETWORK Support (other):
967 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
968 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
971 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
973 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
974 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
975 The driver doen't show link status messages.
978 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
981 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
983 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
984 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
987 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
990 Define this to hold the physical address
991 of the device (I/O space)
993 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
994 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
996 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
997 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
998 (some hardware wont work with macros)
1000 CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
1001 Support for davinci emac
1003 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
1004 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
1007 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
1009 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
1010 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
1011 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
1012 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
1013 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
1014 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
1015 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
1016 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
1019 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
1022 Define this to hold the physical address
1023 of the device (I/O space)
1025 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
1026 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1028 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
1029 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
1030 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
1031 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
1034 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
1036 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
1037 Define the number of ports to be used
1039 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1040 Define the ETH PHY's address
1042 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1043 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1047 Support for PWM module on the imx6.
1051 Support TPM devices.
1053 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_INFINEON
1054 Support for Infineon i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
1055 per system is supported at this time.
1057 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
1058 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
1061 Support for STMicroelectronics TPM devices. Requires DM_TPM support.
1063 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_I2C
1064 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 I2C devices.
1065 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and I2C.
1067 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_SPI
1068 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 SPI devices.
1069 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and SPI.
1071 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
1072 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
1075 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1076 per system is supported at this time.
1078 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1079 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1080 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1084 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
1085 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
1086 Requires support for a TPM device.
1088 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
1089 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
1090 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
1093 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
1094 supported (PIP405, MIP405); define
1095 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1096 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
1097 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
1100 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1103 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1104 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1106 CONFIG_USB_DWC2_REG_ADDR the physical CPU address of the DWC2
1107 HW module registers.
1110 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1111 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1112 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
1113 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
1114 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1115 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
1116 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
1117 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1118 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1120 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1121 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1122 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1123 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
1126 Define this to build a UDC device
1129 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1130 talk to the UDC device
1133 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1134 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1135 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1136 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1137 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1140 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
1141 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1144 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
1145 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
1146 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
1147 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1148 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1149 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1151 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1152 Define this string as the name of your company for
1153 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
1155 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1156 Define this string as the name of your product
1157 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1159 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1160 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1161 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1162 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1163 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
1165 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1166 Define this as the unique Product ID
1168 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
1170 - ULPI Layer Support:
1171 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1172 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1173 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1174 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1175 viewport is supported.
1176 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1177 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
1178 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1179 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1180 the appropriate value in Hz.
1183 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1184 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1185 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
1186 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
1187 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1188 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
1191 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1193 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1194 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1197 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1199 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_BOOT
1200 Enable some additional features of the eMMC boot partitions.
1202 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_RPMB
1203 Enable the commands for reading, writing and programming the
1204 key for the Replay Protection Memory Block partition in eMMC.
1206 - USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
1207 CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_DFU
1208 This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class
1211 This enables support for exposing (e)MMC devices via DFU.
1214 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
1217 This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
1218 Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
1219 allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
1220 one that would help mostly the developer.
1222 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
1223 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
1224 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
1225 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
1226 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
1228 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
1229 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
1230 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
1231 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
1232 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
1233 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
1235 DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
1236 Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
1237 host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
1238 a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
1240 DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
1241 Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
1242 entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
1243 sending again an USB request to the device.
1245 - Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1247 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1249 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1250 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
1251 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1254 See Kconfig help for available keyboard drivers.
1258 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1259 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1260 defined in your board-specific files. This option is deprecated
1261 and is only used by novena. For new boards, use driver model
1266 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1267 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1268 support, and should also define these other macros:
1273 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1274 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1276 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1278 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1279 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1280 boot. See the documentation file doc/README.video for a
1281 description of this variable.
1283 - LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1285 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1286 display); also select one of the supported displays
1287 by defining one of these:
1291 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1293 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
1295 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
1297 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1299 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1300 Active, color, single scan.
1302 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1304 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
1305 Active, color, single scan.
1309 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1310 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1312 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1314 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1315 Active, color, single scan.
1319 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1320 Active, color, single scan.
1324 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1326 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1330 320x240. Black & white.
1332 CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
1334 Normally the LCD is page-aligned (typically 4KB). If this is
1335 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
1336 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
1337 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
1338 a per-section basis.
1343 Sometimes, for example if the display is mounted in portrait
1344 mode or even if it's mounted landscape but rotated by 180degree,
1345 we need to rotate our content of the display relative to the
1346 framebuffer, so that user can read the messages which are
1348 Once CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is defined, the lcd_console will be
1349 initialized with a given rotation from "vl_rot" out of
1350 "vidinfo_t" which is provided by the board specific code.
1351 The value for vl_rot is coded as following (matching to
1352 fbcon=rotate:<n> linux-kernel commandline):
1353 0 = no rotation respectively 0 degree
1354 1 = 90 degree rotation
1355 2 = 180 degree rotation
1356 3 = 270 degree rotation
1358 If CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is not defined, the console will be
1359 initialized with 0degree rotation.
1363 Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
1367 Enables an 'i2c edid' command which can read EDID
1368 information over I2C from an attached LCD display.
1370 - Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
1372 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1373 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1374 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
1375 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
1376 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1377 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1378 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1379 loaded very quickly after power-on.
1381 CONFIG_SPLASHIMAGE_GUARD
1383 If this option is set, then U-Boot will prevent the environment
1384 variable "splashimage" from being set to a problematic address
1385 (see doc/README.displaying-bmps).
1386 This option is useful for targets where, due to alignment
1387 restrictions, an improperly aligned BMP image will cause a data
1388 abort. If you think you will not have problems with unaligned
1389 accesses (for example because your toolchain prevents them)
1390 there is no need to set this option.
1392 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1394 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1395 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1396 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1397 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1398 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1399 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1402 setenv splashpos m,m
1403 => image at center of screen
1405 setenv splashpos 30,20
1406 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1408 setenv splashpos -10,m
1409 => vertically centered image
1410 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1412 - Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1414 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1415 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1416 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1418 - Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1420 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1421 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1424 - Compression support:
1427 Enabled by default to support gzip compressed images.
1431 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1432 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1433 compressed images are supported.
1435 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
1436 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
1442 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1444 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1446 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1448 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1450 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1451 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1452 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1453 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1455 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1457 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1458 command issued before MII status register can be read
1463 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
1464 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
1465 determined through e.g. bootp.
1466 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
1468 - Server IP address:
1471 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
1472 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1473 (Environment variable "serverip")
1475 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1477 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1478 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1480 - Gateway IP address:
1483 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1484 default router where packets to other networks are
1486 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1491 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1492 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1493 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1494 forwarded through a router.
1495 (Environment variable "netmask")
1497 - Multicast TFTP Mode:
1500 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1501 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
1502 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
1503 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1506 - BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1507 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1509 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1510 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1511 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1512 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1513 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1514 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1515 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1516 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
1517 following delays are inserted then:
1519 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1520 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1521 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1523 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1525 CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE
1527 BOOTP packets are uniquely identified using a 32-bit ID. The
1528 server will copy the ID from client requests to responses and
1529 U-Boot will use this to determine if it is the destination of
1530 an incoming response. Some servers will check that addresses
1531 aren't in use before handing them out (usually using an ARP
1532 ping) and therefore take up to a few hundred milliseconds to
1533 respond. Network congestion may also influence the time it
1534 takes for a response to make it back to the client. If that
1535 time is too long, U-Boot will retransmit requests. In order
1536 to allow earlier responses to still be accepted after these
1537 retransmissions, U-Boot's BOOTP client keeps a small cache of
1538 IDs. The CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE controls the size of this
1539 cache. The default is to keep IDs for up to four outstanding
1540 requests. Increasing this will allow U-Boot to accept offers
1541 from a BOOTP client in networks with unusually high latency.
1543 - DHCP Advanced Options:
1544 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1545 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1547 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1548 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1549 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1550 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1551 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1552 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1555 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1556 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1557 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1558 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
1559 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
1561 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1562 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
1564 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1565 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1566 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1567 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1570 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1571 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1572 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1573 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1574 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1575 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1576 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1579 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1580 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1581 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
1582 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
1583 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1584 option 12 to the DHCP server.
1586 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1588 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1589 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1590 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1591 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1592 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1593 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1594 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1595 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1596 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1597 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1600 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1601 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1602 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1603 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1604 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1606 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1609 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
1611 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1613 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1615 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1620 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1621 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
1622 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
1624 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1626 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1627 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1631 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1635 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1639 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1641 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1643 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1644 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1646 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1648 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1650 - Status LED: CONFIG_LED_STATUS
1652 Several configurations allow to display the current
1653 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1654 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1655 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1656 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1657 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1658 kernel). Defining CONFIG_LED_STATUS enables this
1663 CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
1664 The status LED can be connected to a GPIO pin.
1665 In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
1666 status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
1667 to include the gpio_led driver in the U-Boot binary.
1669 CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE
1670 Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
1671 case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
1672 GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
1673 In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
1674 with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
1676 - I2C Support: CONFIG_SYS_I2C
1678 This enable the NEW i2c subsystem, and will allow you to use
1679 i2c commands at the u-boot command line (as long as you set
1680 CONFIG_CMD_I2C in CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c
1681 based realtime clock chips or other i2c devices. See
1682 common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the command line
1685 ported i2c driver to the new framework:
1686 - drivers/i2c/soft_i2c.c:
1687 - activate first bus with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT define
1688 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE
1689 for defining speed and slave address
1690 - activate second bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS2 define
1691 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_2 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_2
1692 for defining speed and slave address
1693 - activate third bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS3 define
1694 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_3 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_3
1695 for defining speed and slave address
1696 - activate fourth bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS4 define
1697 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_4 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_4
1698 for defining speed and slave address
1700 - drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c:
1701 - activate i2c driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_FSL
1702 define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_OFFSET for setting the register
1703 offset CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SPEED for the i2c speed and
1704 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SLAVE for the slave addr of the first
1706 - If your board supports a second fsl i2c bus, define
1707 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_OFFSET for the register offset
1708 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SPEED for the speed and
1709 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SLAVE for the slave address of the
1712 - drivers/i2c/tegra_i2c.c:
1713 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_TEGRA
1714 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses with a fix speed from
1715 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1717 - drivers/i2c/ppc4xx_i2c.c
1718 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX
1719 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1720 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1722 - drivers/i2c/i2c_mxc.c
1723 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC
1724 - enable bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C1
1725 - enable bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C2
1726 - enable bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C3
1727 - enable bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C4
1728 - define speed for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SPEED
1729 - define slave for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SLAVE
1730 - define speed for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SPEED
1731 - define slave for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SLAVE
1732 - define speed for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SPEED
1733 - define slave for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SLAVE
1734 - define speed for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SPEED
1735 - define slave for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SLAVE
1736 If those defines are not set, default value is 100000
1737 for speed, and 0 for slave.
1739 - drivers/i2c/rcar_i2c.c:
1740 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RCAR
1741 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses
1743 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_BASE for setting the register channel 0
1744 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_SPEED for for the speed channel 0
1745 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_BASE for setting the register channel 1
1746 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_SPEED for for the speed channel 1
1747 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_BASE for setting the register channel 2
1748 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_SPEED for for the speed channel 2
1749 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_BASE for setting the register channel 3
1750 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_SPEED for for the speed channel 3
1751 - CONFIF_SYS_RCAR_I2C_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
1753 - drivers/i2c/sh_i2c.c:
1754 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH
1755 - This driver adds from 2 to 5 i2c buses
1757 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE0 for setting the register channel 0
1758 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED0 for for the speed channel 0
1759 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE1 for setting the register channel 1
1760 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED1 for for the speed channel 1
1761 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE2 for setting the register channel 2
1762 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED2 for for the speed channel 2
1763 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE3 for setting the register channel 3
1764 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED3 for for the speed channel 3
1765 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE4 for setting the register channel 4
1766 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED4 for for the speed channel 4
1767 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
1769 - drivers/i2c/omap24xx_i2c.c
1770 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_OMAP24XX
1771 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED speed channel 0
1772 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE slave addr channel 0
1773 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED1 speed channel 1
1774 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE1 slave addr channel 1
1775 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED2 speed channel 2
1776 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE2 slave addr channel 2
1777 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED3 speed channel 3
1778 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE3 slave addr channel 3
1779 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED4 speed channel 4
1780 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE4 slave addr channel 4
1782 - drivers/i2c/zynq_i2c.c
1783 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ
1784 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SPEED for speed setting
1785 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SLAVE for slave addr
1787 - drivers/i2c/s3c24x0_i2c.c:
1788 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_S3C24X0
1789 - This driver adds i2c buses (11 for Exynos5250, Exynos5420
1790 9 i2c buses for Exynos4 and 1 for S3C24X0 SoCs from Samsung)
1791 with a fix speed from 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1793 - drivers/i2c/ihs_i2c.c
1794 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS
1795 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1796 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0 speed channel 0
1797 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0 slave addr channel 0
1798 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1799 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1 speed channel 1
1800 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1 slave addr channel 1
1801 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH2 activate hardware channel 2
1802 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2 speed channel 2
1803 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2 slave addr channel 2
1804 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH3 activate hardware channel 3
1805 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3 speed channel 3
1806 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3 slave addr channel 3
1807 - activate dual channel with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_DUAL
1808 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0_1 speed channel 0_1
1809 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0_1 slave addr channel 0_1
1810 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1_1 speed channel 1_1
1811 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1_1 slave addr channel 1_1
1812 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2_1 speed channel 2_1
1813 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2_1 slave addr channel 2_1
1814 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3_1 speed channel 3_1
1815 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3_1 slave addr channel 3_1
1819 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
1820 Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use.
1822 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
1823 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
1824 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
1827 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
1828 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
1829 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
1832 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
1833 hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
1834 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
1835 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
1836 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
1838 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1839 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
1840 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
1841 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
1842 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
1843 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
1844 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1845 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
1846 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
1850 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
1851 bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
1852 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
1853 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
1854 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
1855 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
1856 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
1857 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
1858 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
1860 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
1862 - Legacy I2C Support:
1863 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
1864 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1865 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
1869 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
1870 controller or configure ports.
1872 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
1876 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1877 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1880 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1884 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1885 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1888 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1892 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
1895 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1899 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1900 is false, it clears it (low).
1902 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
1903 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
1904 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
1908 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1909 is false, it clears it (low).
1911 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
1912 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
1913 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
1917 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1918 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
1919 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
1922 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
1924 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1926 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1927 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1928 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1929 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1931 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1932 the generic GPIO functions.
1934 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
1936 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1937 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1938 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1939 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1940 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1941 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1942 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1943 is run early in the boot sequence.
1945 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1947 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
1948 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1949 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
1950 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1952 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
1954 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
1955 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1956 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1957 a 1D array of device addresses
1960 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1961 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
1963 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1965 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1966 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
1968 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1970 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
1972 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1973 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1975 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
1977 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1978 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1980 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1982 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1983 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1984 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1985 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1986 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1987 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1990 - SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
1992 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1993 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1994 D/As on the SACSng board)
1998 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
1999 only SH7757 is supported.
2003 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
2004 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
2005 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
2006 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
2007 defined, the board configuration must define several
2008 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
2009 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
2013 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
2014 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
2015 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
2016 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
2017 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
2021 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
2022 SoCs. Currently i.MX31/35/51 are supported.
2024 CONFIG_SYS_SPI_MXC_WAIT
2025 Timeout for waiting until spi transfer completed.
2026 default: (CONFIG_SYS_HZ/100) /* 10 ms */
2028 - FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
2030 Enables FPGA subsystem.
2032 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
2034 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
2037 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
2039 Enables support for FPGA family.
2040 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
2044 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
2046 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
2048 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
2050 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
2052 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
2053 status by the configuration function. This option
2054 will require a board or device specific function to
2059 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
2060 configuration driver.
2062 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
2063 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2065 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
2067 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2068 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2069 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2070 indicated a CRC error).
2072 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
2074 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to de-assert
2075 after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
2076 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
2079 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
2081 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
2082 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
2084 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
2086 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
2089 - Configuration Management:
2092 Some SoCs need special image types (e.g. U-Boot binary
2093 with a special header) as build targets. By defining
2094 CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET in the SoC / board header, this
2095 special image will be automatically built upon calling
2100 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2101 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
2103 - Vendor Parameter Protection:
2105 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2106 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
2107 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
2108 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2109 protects these variables from casual modification by
2110 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2111 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
2112 change this behaviour:
2114 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2115 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
2116 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
2119 Alternatively, if you define _both_ an ethaddr in the
2120 default env _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
2121 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
2122 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2123 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2126 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
2127 for any variable by configuring the type of access
2128 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
2129 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
2134 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2135 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2136 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2137 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2138 this default value by defining an environment
2139 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2140 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2141 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2142 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2143 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2144 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2145 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2147 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
2150 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2151 either, which results in a memory region that will
2152 not be affected by reboots.
2154 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2155 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2156 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2157 following board configurations are known to be
2160 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx,
2161 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2164 - Access to physical memory region (> 4GB)
2165 Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not
2166 normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures
2167 support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit
2168 machines using physical address extension or similar.
2169 Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which
2170 currently only supports clearing the memory.
2175 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
2176 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
2177 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
2178 system where you want the system to reboot
2179 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
2180 useful during development since you can try to debug
2181 the conditions that lead to the situation.
2183 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2185 This variable defines the number of retries for
2186 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2187 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2188 default value of 5 is used.
2192 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2196 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2197 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2198 try longer timeout such as
2199 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2201 - Command Interpreter:
2202 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
2204 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
2206 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
2208 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2209 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2210 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2214 In the current implementation, the local variables
2215 space and global environment variables space are
2216 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2217 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2218 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2219 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2220 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
2222 Global environment variables are those you use
2223 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2224 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2225 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
2227 To store commands and special characters in a
2228 variable, please use double quotation marks
2229 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2230 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2233 - Command Line Editing and History:
2234 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
2236 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
2237 command line input operations
2239 - Command Line PS1/PS2 support:
2240 CONFIG_CMDLINE_PS_SUPPORT
2242 Enable support for changing the command prompt string
2243 at run-time. Only static string is supported so far.
2244 The string is obtained from environment variables PS1
2247 - Default Environment:
2248 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2250 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2251 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
2252 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2254 For example, place something like this in your
2255 board's config file:
2257 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2261 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2262 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2263 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2264 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
2265 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
2266 You better know what you are doing here.
2268 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2269 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
2270 the environment like the "source" command or the
2273 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_CONFIG
2275 Define this in order to add variables describing the
2276 U-Boot build configuration to the default environment.
2277 These will be named arch, cpu, board, vendor, and soc.
2279 Enabling this option will cause the following to be defined:
2287 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG
2289 Define this in order to add variables describing certain
2290 run-time determined information about the hardware to the
2291 environment. These will be named board_name, board_rev.
2293 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
2295 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
2296 initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
2297 that so that the environment is not available until
2298 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
2299 this is instead controlled by the value of
2300 /config/load-environment.
2302 - DataFlash Support:
2303 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
2305 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
2306 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
2309 - Serial Flash support
2310 Usage requires an initial 'sf probe' to define the serial
2311 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2314 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2315 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2316 flash is present on the system.
2318 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2319 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2320 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2321 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2325 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
2326 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
2327 of the chip must also be defined in the
2328 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
2330 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
2331 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
2333 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
2334 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
2336 - TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2339 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
2340 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
2341 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
2342 number generator is used.
2344 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2345 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2346 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2348 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
2349 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2350 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2351 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2352 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2353 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2354 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2356 - bootcount support:
2357 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
2359 This enables the bootcounter support, see:
2360 http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
2363 enable special bootcounter support on at91sam9xe based boards.
2365 enable special bootcounter support on da850 based boards.
2366 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_RAM
2367 enable support for the bootcounter in RAM
2368 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_I2C
2369 enable support for the bootcounter on an i2c (like RTC) device.
2370 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RTC_ADDR = i2c chip address
2371 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR = i2c addr which is used for
2373 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ALEN = address len
2375 - Show boot progress:
2376 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2378 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2379 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2380 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2381 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2382 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2383 the following checkpoints are implemented:
2386 Legacy uImage format:
2389 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
2390 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
2391 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
2392 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
2393 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
2394 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
2395 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2396 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2397 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2398 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
2399 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2400 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2401 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2402 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
2403 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
2404 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
2406 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2407 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2408 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2409 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2410 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2411 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2412 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
2413 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
2414 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2415 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2417 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
2419 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
2420 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2421 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
2423 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2424 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2425 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2426 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2427 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2428 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2429 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2430 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2431 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2432 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2433 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2434 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2435 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2436 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2437 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2438 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2439 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2440 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2441 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2442 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2443 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2444 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2445 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2446 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2447 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2448 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2449 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2450 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2451 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2452 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2453 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2454 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2455 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2456 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2457 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2458 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2459 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2460 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2461 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2462 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2463 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2464 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2465 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2466 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2467 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2468 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2469 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
2471 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
2473 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
2474 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2475 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
2477 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
2478 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling net_loop()
2479 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in net_loop() occurred
2480 81 common/cmd_net.c net_loop() back without error
2481 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2482 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
2483 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2484 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
2485 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
2490 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2491 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2492 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2493 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2494 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2495 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
2496 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
2497 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2498 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2499 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2500 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2501 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2502 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2503 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
2504 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2505 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2506 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2507 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2508 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2509 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2510 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2511 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2513 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2514 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2515 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
2516 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
2517 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2518 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2519 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2520 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2521 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2522 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2523 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2524 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2525 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2526 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2527 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2528 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2530 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
2531 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2533 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
2534 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2536 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
2537 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2539 - legacy image format:
2540 CONFIG_IMAGE_FORMAT_LEGACY
2541 enables the legacy image format support in U-Boot.
2544 enabled if CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE is not defined.
2546 CONFIG_DISABLE_IMAGE_LEGACY
2547 disable the legacy image format
2549 This define is introduced, as the legacy image format is
2550 enabled per default for backward compatibility.
2552 - Standalone program support:
2553 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2555 This option defines a board specific value for the
2556 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
2557 overwriting the architecture dependent default
2560 - Frame Buffer Address:
2563 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
2564 address for frame buffer. This is typically the case
2565 when using a graphics controller has separate video
2566 memory. U-Boot will then place the frame buffer at
2567 the given address instead of dynamically reserving it
2568 in system RAM by calling lcd_setmem(), which grabs
2569 the memory for the frame buffer depending on the
2570 configured panel size.
2572 Please see board_init_f function.
2574 - Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2576 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2577 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2579 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2580 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2582 - MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2585 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
2586 Needed for mtdparts command support.
2588 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2590 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
2591 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
2594 CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
2596 Make the verbose messages from UBI stop printing. This leaves
2597 warnings and errors enabled.
2600 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
2601 This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
2602 erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
2603 of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
2604 wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
2605 counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
2607 The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
2608 other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
2609 However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
2610 life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
2611 to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
2615 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
2616 This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
2617 expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the
2618 underlying flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR
2619 flash), this value is ignored.
2621 NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM
2622 (Number of Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime.
2623 The maximum expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks
2624 then can be calculated as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)",
2625 which gives 20 for most NANDs (MaxNVB is basically the total
2626 count of eraseblocks on the chip).
2628 To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to
2629 reserve about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
2630 handling. And that will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire
2631 NAND chip, not just the MTD partition UBI attaches. This means
2632 that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip admits maximum 40 bad
2633 eraseblocks, and it is split on two MTD partitions of the same
2634 size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when attaching a
2639 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
2640 Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
2641 in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
2642 only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
2643 The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
2644 the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
2645 attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
2646 a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI parameter
2647 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT to 1 if you want so. Please note
2648 that fastmap-enabled images are still usable with UBI implementations
2649 without fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap
2650 fits into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
2652 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT
2653 Set this parameter to enable fastmap automatically on images
2657 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FM_DEBUG
2658 Enable UBI fastmap debug
2662 CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
2664 Make the verbose messages from UBIFS stop printing. This leaves
2665 warnings and errors enabled.
2669 Enable building of SPL globally.
2672 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
2674 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT
2675 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL, BSS included.
2676 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory
2677 used by SPL from _start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
2678 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2679 must not be both defined at the same time.
2682 Maximum size of the SPL image (text, data, rodata, and
2683 linker lists sections), BSS excluded.
2684 When defined, the linker checks that the actual size does
2687 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
2688 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
2690 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
2691 Address to relocate to. If unspecified, this is equal to
2692 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
2694 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
2695 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
2697 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2698 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL BSS.
2699 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory used
2700 by SPL from __bss_start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
2701 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2702 must not be both defined at the same time.
2705 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
2707 CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
2708 When defined, SPL will panic() if the image it has
2709 loaded does not have a signature.
2710 Defining this is useful when code which loads images
2711 in SPL cannot guarantee that absolutely all read errors
2713 An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which will
2714 consider that a completely unreadable NAND block is bad,
2715 and thus should be skipped silently.
2717 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
2718 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
2719 relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
2722 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
2723 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2724 When this option is set the full malloc is used in SPL and
2725 it is set up by spl_init() and before that, the simple malloc()
2726 can be used if CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F is defined.
2728 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
2729 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2731 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK
2732 Enable the SPL framework under common/. This framework
2733 supports MMC, NAND and YMODEM loading of U-Boot and NAND
2734 NAND loading of the Linux Kernel.
2737 Enable booting directly to an OS from SPL.
2738 See also: doc/README.falcon
2740 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
2741 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
2742 about the running system.
2744 CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
2745 Arch init code should be built for a very small image
2747 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION
2748 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
2751 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_KERNEL_SECTOR
2752 Sector to load kernel uImage from when MMC is being
2753 used in raw mode (for Falcon mode)
2755 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTOR,
2756 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTORS
2757 Sector and number of sectors to load kernel argument
2758 parameters from when MMC is being used in raw mode
2761 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_FS_BOOT_PARTITION
2762 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
2765 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
2766 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from filesystem
2768 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_KERNEL_NAME
2769 Filename to read to load kernel uImage when reading
2770 from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
2772 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_ARGS_NAME
2773 Filename to read to load kernel argument parameters
2774 when reading from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
2776 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
2777 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
2778 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
2779 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
2780 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
2782 CONFIG_SPL_SKIP_RELOCATE
2783 Avoid SPL relocation
2785 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE
2786 Include nand_base.c in the SPL. Requires
2787 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS.
2789 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS
2790 SPL uses normal NAND drivers, not minimal drivers.
2793 Include standard software ECC in the SPL
2795 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
2796 Support for NAND boot using simple NAND drivers that
2797 expose the cmd_ctrl() interface.
2800 Support for a lightweight UBI (fastmap) scanner and
2803 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_RAW_ONLY
2804 Support to boot only raw u-boot.bin images. Use this only
2805 if you need to save space.
2807 CONFIG_SPL_COMMON_INIT_DDR
2808 Set for common ddr init with serial presence detect in
2811 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
2812 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
2813 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
2814 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
2815 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
2816 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
2819 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BOOT
2820 Add support NAND boot
2822 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
2823 Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
2825 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
2826 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
2828 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
2829 Size of image to load
2831 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
2832 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
2834 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
2835 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
2836 data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
2838 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
2839 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
2842 Image offset to which the SPL should be padded before appending
2843 the SPL payload. By default, this is defined as
2844 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2845 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2846 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
2849 Final target image containing SPL and payload. Some SPLs
2850 use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
2851 example if more than one image needs to be produced.
2853 CONFIG_FIT_SPL_PRINT
2854 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
2855 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
2856 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
2857 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
2861 Enable building of TPL globally.
2864 Image offset to which the TPL should be padded before appending
2865 the TPL payload. By default, this is defined as
2866 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2867 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2868 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
2870 - Interrupt support (PPC):
2872 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2873 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
2874 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
2875 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
2876 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
2877 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
2878 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
2879 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2880 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2881 general timer_interrupt().
2884 Board initialization settings:
2885 ------------------------------
2887 During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
2888 to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
2889 before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
2890 following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
2891 architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
2892 typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
2894 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
2895 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
2896 - CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
2897 - CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
2899 Configuration Settings:
2900 -----------------------
2902 - CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit.
2903 Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.
2905 - CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
2906 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2908 - CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2909 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2911 - CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
2912 prompt for user input.
2914 - CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
2916 - CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
2918 - CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
2920 - CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
2921 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2924 - CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
2925 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2927 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
2928 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2931 - CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
2932 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
2934 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
2935 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2936 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2938 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE
2939 Only implemented for ARMv8 for now.
2940 If defined, the size of CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE memory
2941 is substracted from total RAM and won't be reported to OS.
2942 This memory can be used as secure memory. A variable
2943 gd->arch.secure_ram is used to track the location. In systems
2944 the RAM base is not zero, or RAM is divided into banks,
2945 this variable needs to be recalcuated to get the address.
2947 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE:
2948 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
2949 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
2950 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
2951 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2952 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2953 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
2954 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
2955 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
2956 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
2958 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2959 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2962 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2963 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2964 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2965 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2968 - CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
2969 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2971 - CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
2972 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2974 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
2975 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2977 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
2978 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2979 make config files to be same as the text base address
2980 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
2981 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
2983 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
2984 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2985 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2986 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2989 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
2990 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2992 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
2993 Size of the malloc() pool for use before relocation. If
2994 this is defined, then a very simple malloc() implementation
2995 will become available before relocation. The address is just
2996 below the global data, and the stack is moved down to make
2999 This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
3000 within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
3001 is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
3002 The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
3003 U-Boot relocates itself.
3005 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
3006 Provides a simple and small malloc() and calloc() for those
3007 boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is
3008 enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START).
3010 - CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY:
3011 Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be
3012 typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped
3013 uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would
3014 otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For
3015 some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the
3016 cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed
3017 are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding
3018 cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e.
3019 if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the
3020 size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of
3021 one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has
3022 written to another region in the same cache-line. This can
3023 happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for
3024 buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g.
3025 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).
3027 Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
3029 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
3030 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
3031 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
3032 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
3033 to adjust this setting to your needs.
3035 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
3036 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
3037 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
3038 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
3039 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
3040 environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
3041 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
3042 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
3043 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
3044 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
3045 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
3047 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
3048 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
3049 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
3052 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
3053 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
3054 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3056 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
3057 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
3058 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3060 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
3061 Max number of Flash memory banks
3063 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
3064 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
3066 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
3067 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
3069 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
3070 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
3072 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
3073 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
3075 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
3076 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
3078 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
3079 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
3080 instead of U-Boot software protection.
3082 - CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
3084 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
3085 without this option such a download has to be
3086 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
3087 copy from RAM to flash.
3089 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
3090 you can check if the download worked before you erase
3091 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
3092 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
3093 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
3095 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
3096 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
3097 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
3099 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
3100 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
3101 in the drivers directory
3103 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
3104 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
3105 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
3108 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
3109 Use buffered writes to flash.
3111 - CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
3112 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
3115 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
3116 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
3117 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
3118 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
3119 optionally available.
3121 - CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
3122 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
3123 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
3124 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
3126 - CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY
3127 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
3128 against the source after the write operation. An error message
3129 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
3130 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
3131 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
3132 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
3133 this option if you really know what you are doing.
3135 - CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
3136 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
3137 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
3138 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
3139 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
3140 on high Ethernet traffic.
3141 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
3143 - CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
3145 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
3146 internally to store the environment settings. The default
3147 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
3148 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
3149 lib/hashtable.c for details.
3151 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3152 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3153 Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when
3154 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
3155 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
3156 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
3158 The format of the list is:
3159 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
3160 access_attribute = [a|r|o|c]
3161 attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute]
3162 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
3165 The type attributes are:
3166 s - String (default)
3169 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
3173 The access attributes are:
3179 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3180 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
3181 environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
3183 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3184 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
3185 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
3186 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
3187 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
3190 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
3191 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to define the same
3192 flags without explicitly listing them for each variable.
3194 - CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
3195 If defined, don't allow the -f switch to env set override variable
3199 If stdint.h is available with your toolchain you can define this
3200 option to enable it. You can provide option 'USE_STDINT=1' when
3201 building U-Boot to enable this.
3203 The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
3204 of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
3205 following configurations:
3207 - CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
3209 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
3210 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
3212 BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
3213 in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the
3214 console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
3217 Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3218 environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3219 keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3220 to save the current settings.
3222 BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
3223 "saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
3224 environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
3225 but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
3227 - CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
3229 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
3230 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
3231 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
3233 Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
3234 has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
3235 created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use env_get_f()
3236 until then to read environment variables.
3238 The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
3239 is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
3240 with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
3241 necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
3242 "baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
3243 have any device yet where we could complain.]
3245 Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
3246 the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
3247 use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
3249 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
3250 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
3252 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
3253 also needs to be defined.
3255 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
3256 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
3258 - CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
3259 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
3260 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
3261 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
3262 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
3263 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
3265 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
3266 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
3267 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
3270 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
3271 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
3272 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
3275 - CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT:
3276 Maximum size of the U-Boot image. When defined, the
3277 build system checks that the actual size does not
3280 Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
3281 ---------------------------------------------------
3283 - CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
3284 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
3286 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
3287 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
3290 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
3291 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
3292 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
3294 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
3295 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
3296 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
3297 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
3298 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
3299 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
3300 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
3302 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
3303 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
3305 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
3306 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
3307 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
3308 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3309 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3311 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
3312 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
3313 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3314 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3316 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
3317 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
3318 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
3320 - Floppy Disk Support:
3321 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
3323 the default drive number (default value 0)
3325 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
3327 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
3330 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
3332 defines the offset of register from address. It
3333 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
3334 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
3336 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
3337 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
3340 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
3341 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
3342 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
3343 source code. It is used to make hardware-dependent
3347 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
3348 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
3349 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
3350 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
3351 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
3354 - CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
3355 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
3356 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx systems only]
3358 - CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
3360 Start address of memory area that can be used for
3361 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
3362 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
3363 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
3364 will become available only after programming the
3365 memory controller and running certain initialization
3368 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
3369 - MPC8xx: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
3371 - CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
3373 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
3374 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
3375 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
3376 data is located at the end of the available space
3377 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
3378 GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
3379 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
3380 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
3383 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
3384 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
3385 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
3386 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
3387 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
3389 - CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
3391 - CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
3394 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
3395 periodic timer for refresh
3397 - FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
3398 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
3399 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
3400 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
3401 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
3403 - SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
3404 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
3405 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
3406 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
3408 - CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
3409 Only scan through and get the devices on the buses.
3410 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
3411 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
3412 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
3413 by coreboot or similar.
3415 - CONFIG_PCI_INDIRECT_BRIDGE:
3416 Enable support for indirect PCI bridges.
3419 Chip has SRIO or not
3422 Board has SRIO 1 port available
3425 Board has SRIO 2 port available
3427 - CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
3428 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
3430 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
3431 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3433 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
3434 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3436 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
3437 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3439 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
3440 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
3442 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
3443 Example of drivers that use it:
3444 - drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c
3445 - drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
3447 - CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
3448 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
3449 a default value will be used.
3452 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
3453 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
3456 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
3458 - CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
3459 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
3460 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
3461 to something your driver can deal with.
3463 - CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
3464 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
3465 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
3466 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
3467 header files or board specific files.
3469 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
3470 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
3472 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_SYNC_REFRESH
3473 Enable sync of refresh for multiple controllers.
3475 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_BIST
3476 Enable built-in memory test for Freescale DDR controllers.
3478 - CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
3479 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
3480 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
3483 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
3484 Note that this is a global option, we can't
3485 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
3487 - CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
3488 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
3491 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
3493 Where address/count indicate a memory area
3494 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
3498 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
3499 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
3502 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
3507 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
3509 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
3510 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
3512 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
3513 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
3515 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
3516 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain
3517 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
3518 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
3519 relocate itself into RAM.
3521 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
3522 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
3523 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
3524 these initializations itself.
3526 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT_ONLY
3527 [ARM926EJ-S only] This allows just the call to lowlevel_init()
3528 to be skipped. The normal CP15 init (such as enabling the
3529 instruction cache) is still performed.
3532 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3533 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
3534 compiling a NAND SPL.
3537 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3538 that is executed after the SPL and before the actual U-Boot.
3539 It is loaded by the SPL.
3541 - CONFIG_SYS_MPC85XX_NO_RESETVEC
3542 Only for 85xx systems. If this variable is specified, the section
3543 .resetvec is not kept and the section .bootpg is placed in the
3544 previous 4k of the .text section.
3546 - CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
3547 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
3548 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
3549 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
3550 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
3551 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
3552 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
3553 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
3555 - CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
3556 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
3557 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
3559 - CONFIG_SPL_AM33XX_ENABLE_RTC32K_OSC:
3560 Enables the RTC32K OSC on AM33xx based plattforms
3562 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE
3563 Option to disable subpage write in NAND driver
3564 driver that uses this:
3565 drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
3567 Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
3568 -----------------------------------
3570 The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
3571 loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
3572 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3573 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3576 - CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR
3577 The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The
3578 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3581 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR
3582 The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The
3583 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3586 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
3587 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
3588 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
3589 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
3590 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
3592 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
3593 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
3594 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
3595 virtual address in NOR flash.
3597 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
3598 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
3599 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
3601 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
3602 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
3603 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
3605 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
3606 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
3607 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
3608 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
3609 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
3610 master's memory space.
3612 Freescale Layerscape Management Complex Firmware Support:
3613 ---------------------------------------------------------
3614 The Freescale Layerscape Management Complex (MC) supports the loading of
3616 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3617 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3620 - CONFIG_FSL_MC_ENET
3621 Enable the MC driver for Layerscape SoCs.
3623 Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support:
3624 -------------------------------------------
3625 The Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support supports the loading of
3626 "Debug Server firmware" and triggering SP boot-rom.
3627 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting.
3629 - CONFIG_SYS_MC_RSV_MEM_ALIGN
3630 Define alignment of reserved memory MC requires
3635 In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
3636 process have to be set to a fixed value.
3638 This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
3639 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is to be set on the build host's shell, not as a configuration
3640 option for U-Boot or an environment variable in U-Boot.
3642 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should be set to a number of seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
3644 Building the Software:
3645 ======================
3647 Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
3648 and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
3649 all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
3650 (potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
3651 recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
3652 which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
3654 If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
3655 have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
3656 you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
3657 Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
3658 necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
3660 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
3661 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
3663 Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
3664 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
3665 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
3666 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
3668 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
3670 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
3671 be executed on computers running Windows.
3673 U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
3674 sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
3679 where "NAME_defconfig" is the name of one of the existing configu-
3680 rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
3682 Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
3683 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
3684 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
3685 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
3686 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
3688 make TQM823L_defconfig
3689 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
3691 make TQM823L_LCD_defconfig
3692 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
3697 Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
3698 images ready for download to / installation on your system:
3700 - "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
3701 - "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
3702 - "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
3704 By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
3705 in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
3706 this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
3708 1. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
3710 make O=/tmp/build distclean
3711 make O=/tmp/build NAME_defconfig
3712 make O=/tmp/build all
3714 2. Set environment variable KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the desired location:
3716 export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/build
3721 Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
3725 Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
3726 for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
3730 If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
3731 to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
3734 1. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
3735 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3736 the "Makefile" and a "<board>.c".
3737 2. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3739 3. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3740 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
3741 4. Run "make <board>_defconfig" with your new name.
3742 5. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3743 to be installed on your target system.
3744 6. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3745 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
3748 Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3749 ==============================================================
3751 If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3752 or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
3753 provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
3754 the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
3755 official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
3757 But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3758 cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
3759 the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
3760 just run the buildman script (tools/buildman/buildman), which will
3761 configure and build U-Boot for ALL supported system. Be warned, this
3762 will take a while. Please see the buildman README, or run 'buildman -H'
3766 See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
3769 Monitor Commands - Overview:
3770 ============================
3772 go - start application at address 'addr'
3773 run - run commands in an environment variable
3774 bootm - boot application image from memory
3775 bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
3776 bootz - boot zImage from memory
3777 tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3778 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3779 (and eventually "gatewayip")
3780 tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
3781 rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3782 diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3783 loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3784 loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3786 mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3787 nm - memory modify (constant address)
3788 mw - memory write (fill)
3790 cmp - memory compare
3791 crc32 - checksum calculation
3792 i2c - I2C sub-system
3793 sspi - SPI utility commands
3794 base - print or set address offset
3795 printenv- print environment variables
3796 setenv - set environment variables
3797 saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3798 protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3799 erase - erase FLASH memory
3800 flinfo - print FLASH memory information
3801 nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
3802 bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3803 iminfo - print header information for application image
3804 coninfo - print console devices and informations
3805 ide - IDE sub-system
3806 loop - infinite loop on address range
3807 loopw - infinite write loop on address range
3808 mtest - simple RAM test
3809 icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3810 dcache - enable or disable data cache
3811 reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3812 echo - echo args to console
3813 version - print monitor version
3814 help - print online help
3815 ? - alias for 'help'
3818 Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3819 ========================================
3823 For now: just type "help <command>".
3826 Environment Variables:
3827 ======================
3829 U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3830 can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
3832 Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3833 "printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3834 without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3835 environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3836 working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3837 environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
3839 Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3841 List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
3843 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
3845 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
3847 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
3849 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
3851 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
3853 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3854 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3855 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3856 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3857 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3858 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
3859 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
3862 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
3863 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
3864 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
3865 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
3866 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
3867 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
3870 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3871 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3872 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3873 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3874 environment variable.
3876 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3877 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3878 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3880 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3881 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3882 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3883 load any image using TFTP
3885 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3886 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3887 be automatically started (by internally calling
3890 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3891 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3892 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3893 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3896 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
3897 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
3898 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
3899 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
3900 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
3901 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
3902 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
3903 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
3904 access it during the boot procedure.
3906 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
3907 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
3908 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
3909 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
3910 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
3911 must be accessible by the kernel.
3913 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
3914 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
3917 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3918 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3919 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3920 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3921 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3923 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3924 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3925 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3926 is usually what you want since it allows for
3927 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3928 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
3929 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
3930 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3931 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3932 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3933 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
3935 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3936 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3937 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3938 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3939 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3940 12 MB as well - this can be done with
3942 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
3944 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3945 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3946 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3947 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3948 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3949 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3950 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
3952 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3954 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3955 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
3957 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
3959 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3961 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
3963 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
3965 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
3967 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
3969 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
3970 For example you can do the following
3972 => setenv ethact FEC
3973 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
3974 => setenv ethact SCC
3975 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
3977 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3978 available network interfaces.
3979 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3981 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
3982 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3983 When set to "once" the network operation will
3984 fail when all the available network interfaces
3985 are tried once without success.
3986 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3989 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
3991 silent_linux - If set then Linux will be told to boot silently, by
3992 changing the console to be empty. If "yes" it will be
3993 made silent. If "no" it will not be made silent. If
3994 unset, then it will be made silent if the U-Boot console
3997 tftpsrcp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
4000 tftpdstp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
4001 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
4003 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
4004 we use the TFTP server's default block size
4006 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
4007 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
4008 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
4009 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
4010 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
4011 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
4012 with unreliable TFTP servers.
4014 tftptimeoutcountmax - maximum count of TFTP timeouts (no
4015 unit, minimum value = 0). Defines how many timeouts
4016 can happen during a single file transfer before that
4017 transfer is aborted. The default is 10, and 0 means
4018 'no timeouts allowed'. Increasing this value may help
4019 downloads succeed with high packet loss rates, or with
4020 unreliable TFTP servers or client hardware.
4022 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
4023 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
4026 bootpretryperiod - Period during which BOOTP/DHCP sends retries.
4027 Unsigned value, in milliseconds. If not set, the period will
4028 be either the default (28000), or a value based on
4029 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT, if defined. This value has
4030 precedence over the valu based on CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT.
4032 The following image location variables contain the location of images
4033 used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
4034 not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
4035 variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
4036 server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
4037 loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
4038 flash or offset in NAND flash.
4040 *Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
4041 boards currently use other variables for these purposes, and some
4042 boards use these variables for other purposes.
4044 Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
4045 ----- --------- ----------- --------------
4046 u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
4047 Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
4048 device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
4049 ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
4051 The following environment variables may be used and automatically
4052 updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
4053 depending the information provided by your boot server:
4055 bootfile - see above
4056 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
4057 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
4058 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
4059 hostname - Target hostname
4061 netmask - Subnet Mask
4062 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
4063 serverip - see above
4066 There are two special Environment Variables:
4068 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
4069 as type string and/or serial number
4070 ethaddr - Ethernet address
4072 These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
4073 the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
4074 once they have been set once.
4077 Further special Environment Variables:
4079 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
4080 with the "version" command. This variable is
4081 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
4084 Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
4085 only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
4088 Callback functions for environment variables:
4089 ---------------------------------------------
4091 For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change
4092 when their values are changed. This functionality allows functions to
4093 be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or
4094 deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side
4095 effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.
4097 The callbacks are named and associated with a function using the
4098 U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK macro in your board or driver code.
4100 These callbacks are associated with variables in one of two ways. The
4101 static list can be added to by defining CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC
4102 in the board configuration to a string that defines a list of
4103 associations. The list must be in the following format:
4105 entry = variable_name[:callback_name]
4108 If the callback name is not specified, then the callback is deleted.
4109 Spaces are also allowed anywhere in the list.
4111 Callbacks can also be associated by defining the ".callbacks" variable
4112 with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will
4113 override any association in the static list. You can define
4114 CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
4115 ".callbacks" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
4117 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
4118 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to be connected to
4119 the same callback without explicitly listing them all out.
4122 Command Line Parsing:
4123 =====================
4125 There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
4126 the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
4128 Old, simple command line parser:
4129 --------------------------------
4131 - supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
4132 - several commands on one line, separated by ';'
4133 - variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
4134 - special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
4136 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
4137 - You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
4138 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
4143 - similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
4144 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
4145 until...do...done, ...
4146 - supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
4147 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
4148 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
4154 (1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
4155 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
4156 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
4159 (2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
4160 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
4161 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
4162 variables are not executed.
4164 Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
4165 =======================================
4167 Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
4168 such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
4169 "working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
4171 Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
4172 MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
4173 "eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
4175 If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
4176 in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
4177 ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
4178 variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
4180 o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
4181 environment, the SROM's address is used.
4183 o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
4184 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
4187 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
4188 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
4190 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
4191 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
4194 o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
4195 is raised. If CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR is defined, then in this case
4196 a random, locally-assigned MAC is used.
4198 If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
4199 will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
4200 may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
4201 The naming convention is as follows:
4202 "ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
4207 U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
4208 images in two formats:
4210 New uImage format (FIT)
4211 -----------------------
4213 Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
4214 to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
4215 components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
4216 SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
4222 Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
4223 preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
4224 details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
4226 * Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
4227 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
4228 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
4229 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
4231 * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, Intel x86,
4232 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
4233 Currently supported: ARM, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
4234 * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
4240 The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
4241 and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
4248 Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
4249 easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
4252 U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
4253 special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
4254 "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
4255 instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
4256 serves several purposes:
4258 - the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
4259 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
4260 Flash memory footprint)
4262 - it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
4263 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
4265 - the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
4266 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
4267 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
4268 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
4269 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
4270 software is easier now.
4276 Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
4277 ---------------------------------------
4279 U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
4280 configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
4281 (no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
4284 But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
4286 Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
4287 include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
4288 Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
4289 and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
4290 as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
4292 Note that U-Boot now has a driver model, a unified model for drivers.
4293 If you are adding a new driver, plumb it into driver model. If there
4294 is no uclass available, you are encouraged to create one. See
4298 Configuring the Linux kernel:
4299 -----------------------------
4301 No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
4302 device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
4305 Building a Linux Image:
4306 -----------------------
4308 With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
4309 not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
4310 "uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
4311 U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
4312 which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
4313 100% compatible format.
4317 make TQM850L_defconfig
4322 The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
4323 encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
4324 CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
4326 * build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
4328 * convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
4330 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
4331 -R .note -R .comment \
4332 -S vmlinux linux.bin
4334 * compress the binary image:
4338 * package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
4340 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
4341 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
4342 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
4345 The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
4346 with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
4347 combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
4348 byte header containing information about target architecture,
4349 operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
4350 stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
4352 "mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
4353 print the header information, or to build new images.
4355 In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
4356 contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
4357 checksum verification:
4359 tools/mkimage -l image
4360 -l ==> list image header information
4362 The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
4363 from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
4365 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
4366 -n name -d data_file image
4367 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
4368 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
4369 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4370 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
4371 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
4372 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
4373 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
4374 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
4376 Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
4377 address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
4380 - 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
4381 - 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
4383 So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
4385 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4386 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
4387 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
4388 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
4389 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4390 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4391 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4392 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4393 Load Address: 0x00000000
4394 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4396 To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
4398 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
4399 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4400 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4401 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4402 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4403 Load Address: 0x00000000
4404 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4406 NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
4407 speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
4408 needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
4409 need to be uncompressed:
4411 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
4412 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4413 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
4414 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
4415 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
4416 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4417 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4418 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
4419 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
4420 Load Address: 0x00000000
4421 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4424 Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
4425 when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
4427 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
4428 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
4429 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
4430 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4431 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
4432 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4433 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
4434 Load Address: 0x00000000
4435 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4437 The "dumpimage" is a tool to disassemble images built by mkimage. Its "-i"
4438 option performs the converse operation of the mkimage's second form (the "-d"
4439 option). Given an image built by mkimage, the dumpimage extracts a "data file"
4442 tools/dumpimage -i image -T type -p position data_file
4443 -i ==> extract from the 'image' a specific 'data_file'
4444 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4445 -p ==> 'position' (starting at 0) of the 'data_file' inside the 'image'
4448 Installing a Linux Image:
4449 -------------------------
4451 To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
4452 you must convert the image to S-Record format:
4454 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
4456 The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
4457 image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
4458 address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
4459 specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
4462 Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
4463 TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
4465 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
4471 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4472 ~>examples/image.srec
4473 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
4475 15989 15990 15991 15992
4476 [file transfer complete]
4478 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
4481 You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
4482 this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
4483 corruption happened:
4487 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4488 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4489 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4490 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4491 Load Address: 00000000
4492 Entry Point: 0000000c
4493 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4499 The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
4500 memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
4501 of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
4502 parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
4503 "printenv" and "setenv" commands:
4506 => printenv bootargs
4507 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
4509 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4511 => printenv bootargs
4512 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4515 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
4516 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
4517 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4518 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
4519 Load Address: 00000000
4520 Entry Point: 0000000c
4521 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4522 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4523 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
4524 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4525 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4526 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4527 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
4530 If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
4531 the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
4532 format!) to the "bootm" command:
4534 => imi 40100000 40200000
4536 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4537 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4538 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4539 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4540 Load Address: 00000000
4541 Entry Point: 0000000c
4542 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4544 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
4545 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4546 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4547 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4548 Load Address: 00000000
4549 Entry Point: 00000000
4550 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4552 => bootm 40100000 40200000
4553 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
4554 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4555 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4556 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4557 Load Address: 00000000
4558 Entry Point: 0000000c
4559 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4560 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4561 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
4562 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4563 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4564 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4565 Load Address: 00000000
4566 Entry Point: 00000000
4567 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4568 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
4569 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
4570 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
4571 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4572 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4574 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
4575 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
4579 Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
4582 First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
4583 titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
4584 following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
4590 oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
4591 => tftp $oftaddr $oft
4592 Speed: 1000, full duplex
4594 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
4595 Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
4596 Load address: 0x300000
4599 Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
4600 => tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
4601 Speed: 1000, full duplex
4603 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
4605 Load address: 0x200000
4606 Loading:############
4608 Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
4613 => bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
4614 ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
4615 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
4616 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4617 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
4618 Load Address: 00000000
4619 Entry Point: 00000000
4620 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4621 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4622 Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
4623 Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
4624 Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
4628 More About U-Boot Image Types:
4629 ------------------------------
4631 U-Boot supports the following image types:
4633 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
4634 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
4635 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
4636 the Standalone Program.
4637 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
4638 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
4639 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
4640 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
4641 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
4642 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
4643 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
4645 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
4646 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
4647 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
4648 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
4649 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
4650 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
4652 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
4653 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
4654 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
4655 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
4656 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
4657 a multiple of 4 bytes).
4659 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
4660 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
4663 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
4664 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
4665 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
4666 as command interpreter.
4668 Booting the Linux zImage:
4669 -------------------------
4671 On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
4672 using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
4673 as the syntax of "bootm" command.
4675 Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
4676 kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
4677 address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
4678 format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
4684 One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
4685 run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
4686 U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
4688 Two simple examples are included with the sources:
4693 'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
4694 application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
4695 It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
4699 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4700 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
4701 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4702 [file transfer complete]
4704 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4706 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
4707 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4718 Hit any key to exit ...
4720 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4722 Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
4723 handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
4724 Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
4725 The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
4726 character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
4727 controlled by the following keys:
4729 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
4730 b - enable interrupts and start timer
4731 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
4732 q - quit application
4735 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4736 ~>examples/timer.srec
4737 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4738 [file transfer complete]
4740 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4743 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4746 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
4749 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
4752 [q, b, e, ?] ........
4753 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
4756 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
4759 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
4762 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
4764 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
4766 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4772 Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
4773 "minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
4774 consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
4775 Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
4776 especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
4777 use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
4778 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
4779 for help with kermit.
4782 Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
4783 configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
4785 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
4786 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
4787 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
4793 Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
4794 (build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
4796 Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
4797 NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
4798 need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
4799 Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
4800 attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
4801 missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
4803 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
4805 # ln -s powerpc machine
4806 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
4807 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
4809 Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
4810 and U-Boot include files.
4812 Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
4813 stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
4814 proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
4815 tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
4816 meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
4819 Implementation Internals:
4820 =========================
4822 The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
4823 implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
4824 inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
4828 Initial Stack, Global Data:
4829 ---------------------------
4831 The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
4832 starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
4833 system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
4834 This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
4835 is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
4836 at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
4837 options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
4838 models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
4839 MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
4840 locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
4842 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
4843 U-Boot mailing list:
4845 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4846 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
4847 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4850 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4851 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4852 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4853 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4854 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
4855 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
4856 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4857 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
4859 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4860 is another option for the system designer to use as an
4861 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
4862 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4863 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4864 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4867 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
4868 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4869 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
4870 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
4871 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4872 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4873 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4874 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4875 you get the config right.
4880 It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4881 code for the initialization procedures:
4883 * Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4886 * Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized
4887 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4888 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
4890 * Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4893 Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
4894 normal global data to share information between the code. But it
4895 turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4896 simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4897 functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4898 functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4899 the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4900 place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4901 reserve for this purpose.
4903 When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4904 relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4905 GCC's implementation.
4907 For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4909 R2: reserved for system use
4910 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4911 R5-R10: parameter passing
4912 R13: small data area pointer
4916 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4917 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4918 going back and forth between asm and C)
4920 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
4922 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4923 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4924 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4925 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4926 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4927 624 text + 127 data).
4929 On ARM, the following registers are used:
4931 R0: function argument word/integer result
4932 R1-R3: function argument word
4933 R9: platform specific
4934 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
4935 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4936 R12: temporary workspace
4939 R15: program counter
4941 ==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data
4943 Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.
4945 On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
4946 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
4948 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4950 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4951 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4953 On NDS32, the following registers are used:
4955 R0-R1: argument/return
4957 R15: temporary register for assembler
4958 R16: trampoline register
4959 R28: frame pointer (FP)
4960 R29: global pointer (GP)
4961 R30: link register (LP)
4962 R31: stack pointer (SP)
4963 PC: program counter (PC)
4965 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
4967 NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4968 or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
4973 U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4974 MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
4976 The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4977 controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4978 memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4979 physical memory banks.
4981 U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4982 TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4983 booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4984 to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
4985 memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
4986 configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4987 Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
4989 Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4990 of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
4992 So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
4995 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
4998 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
5004 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
5005 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
5006 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
5009 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
5010 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
5011 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
5012 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
5015 System Initialization:
5016 ----------------------
5018 In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
5019 (on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
5020 configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory.
5021 To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
5022 To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
5023 initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
5024 which provide such a feature like), or in a locked part of the data
5025 cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core, the caches and
5028 Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
5029 preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
5030 (multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
5031 on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
5032 programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
5033 simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
5036 When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
5037 different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
5038 bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
5039 0x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
5040 contiguous memory starting from 0.
5042 Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
5043 and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
5044 Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
5045 pages, and the final stack is set up.
5047 Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
5048 until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
5049 running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
5053 U-Boot Porting Guide:
5054 ----------------------
5056 [Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
5060 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
5062 sighandler_t no_more_time;
5064 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
5065 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
5067 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
5068 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
5072 Download latest U-Boot source;
5074 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
5077 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
5080 Read the README file in the top level directory;
5081 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
5082 Read applicable doc/*.README;
5083 Read the source, Luke;
5084 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
5087 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
5090 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
5092 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
5093 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
5094 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
5096 Create your own board support subdirectory;
5097 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
5099 Edit new board/<myboard> files
5100 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
5105 Add / modify source code;
5109 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
5111 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
5112 if (reasonable critiques)
5113 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
5115 Defend code as written;
5121 void no_more_time (int sig)
5130 All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
5131 coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
5132 "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
5134 Source files originating from a different project (for example the
5135 MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
5136 reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
5139 Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
5140 Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
5143 Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
5144 - remove any trailing white space
5145 - use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
5146 - make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
5147 - do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
5148 - do not add trailing empty lines to source files
5150 Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
5151 with a request to reformat the changes.
5157 Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
5158 establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
5159 may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
5161 Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
5163 Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
5164 see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
5166 When you send a patch, please include the following information with
5169 * For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
5170 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
5171 patch actually fixes something.
5173 * For new features: a description of the feature and your
5176 * A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
5178 * For major contributions, add a MAINTAINERS file with your
5179 information and associated file and directory references.
5181 * When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a
5182 maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.
5184 * If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
5185 document these in the README file.
5187 * The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
5188 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
5189 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
5190 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
5191 with some other mail clients.
5193 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
5194 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
5197 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
5198 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
5199 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
5202 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
5203 and compressed attachments must not be used.
5205 * If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
5206 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
5208 * Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
5209 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
5214 * Before sending the patch, run the buildman script on your patched
5215 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
5216 for any of the boards.
5218 * Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
5219 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
5220 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
5222 * If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
5223 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
5224 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
5225 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
5226 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
5229 * Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
5230 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
5231 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
5232 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.