2 # (C) Copyright 2000 - 2013
3 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
5 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
11 This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
12 Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
13 processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
14 initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
17 The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
18 the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
19 header files in common, and special provision has been made to
20 support booting of Linux images.
22 Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
23 configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
24 implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
25 add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
26 code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
27 load and run it dynamically.
33 In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
34 Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
35 "working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
37 In case of problems see the CHANGELOG file to find out who contributed
38 the specific port. In addition, there are various MAINTAINERS files
39 scattered throughout the U-Boot source identifying the people or
40 companies responsible for various boards and subsystems.
42 Note: As of August, 2010, there is no longer a CHANGELOG file in the
43 actual U-Boot source tree; however, it can be created dynamically
44 from the Git log using:
52 In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
53 U-Boot, you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
54 <u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
55 on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
56 Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
57 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
60 Where to get source code:
61 =========================
63 The U-Boot source code is maintained in the Git repository at
64 git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
65 http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
67 The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
68 any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
69 available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
72 Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
73 ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
79 - start from 8xxrom sources
80 - create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
82 - make it easier to add custom boards
83 - make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
84 - extend functions, especially:
85 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
88 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
89 - create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
90 - add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
91 - create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
92 - current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
98 The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
99 "U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
100 in source files etc.). Example:
102 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
104 File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
106 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
108 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
110 Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
111 the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
113 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
114 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
120 Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
121 were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
122 into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
123 names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
124 Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
125 releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
128 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
129 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
130 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candidate 1 for September 2010 release
136 /arch Architecture specific files
137 /arc Files generic to ARC architecture
138 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
139 /avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture
140 /blackfin Files generic to Analog Devices Blackfin architecture
141 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
142 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
143 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
144 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
145 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
146 /openrisc Files generic to OpenRISC architecture
147 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
148 /sandbox Files generic to HW-independent "sandbox"
149 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
150 /sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture
151 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
152 /api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
153 /board Board dependent files
154 /cmd U-Boot commands functions
155 /common Misc architecture independent functions
156 /configs Board default configuration files
157 /disk Code for disk drive partition handling
158 /doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
159 /drivers Commonly used device drivers
160 /dts Contains Makefile for building internal U-Boot fdt.
161 /examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
162 /fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
163 /include Header Files
164 /lib Library routines generic to all architectures
165 /Licenses Various license files
167 /post Power On Self Test
168 /scripts Various build scripts and Makefiles
169 /test Various unit test files
170 /tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
172 Software Configuration:
173 =======================
175 Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
176 rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
178 There are two classes of configuration variables:
180 * Configuration _OPTIONS_:
181 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
184 * Configuration _SETTINGS_:
185 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
186 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
189 Previously, all configuration was done by hand, which involved creating
190 symbolic links and editing configuration files manually. More recently,
191 U-Boot has added the Kbuild infrastructure used by the Linux kernel,
192 allowing you to use the "make menuconfig" command to configure your
196 Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
197 ---------------------------------------------------
199 For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
200 configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_defconfig".
202 Example: For a TQM823L module type:
205 make TQM823L_defconfig
207 Note: If you're looking for the default configuration file for a board
208 you're sure used to be there but is now missing, check the file
209 doc/README.scrapyard for a list of no longer supported boards.
214 U-Boot can be built natively to run on a Linux host using the 'sandbox'
215 board. This allows feature development which is not board- or architecture-
216 specific to be undertaken on a native platform. The sandbox is also used to
217 run some of U-Boot's tests.
219 See board/sandbox/README.sandbox for more details.
222 Board Initialisation Flow:
223 --------------------------
225 This is the intended start-up flow for boards. This should apply for both
226 SPL and U-Boot proper (i.e. they both follow the same rules).
228 Note: "SPL" stands for "Secondary Program Loader," which is explained in
229 more detail later in this file.
231 At present, SPL mostly uses a separate code path, but the function names
232 and roles of each function are the same. Some boards or architectures
233 may not conform to this. At least most ARM boards which use
234 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK conform to this.
236 Execution typically starts with an architecture-specific (and possibly
237 CPU-specific) start.S file, such as:
239 - arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
240 - arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc83xx/start.S
241 - arch/mips/cpu/start.S
243 and so on. From there, three functions are called; the purpose and
244 limitations of each of these functions are described below.
247 - purpose: essential init to permit execution to reach board_init_f()
248 - no global_data or BSS
249 - there is no stack (ARMv7 may have one but it will soon be removed)
250 - must not set up SDRAM or use console
251 - must only do the bare minimum to allow execution to continue to
253 - this is almost never needed
254 - return normally from this function
257 - purpose: set up the machine ready for running board_init_r():
258 i.e. SDRAM and serial UART
259 - global_data is available
261 - BSS is not available, so you cannot use global/static variables,
262 only stack variables and global_data
264 Non-SPL-specific notes:
265 - dram_init() is called to set up DRAM. If already done in SPL this
269 - you can override the entire board_init_f() function with your own
271 - preloader_console_init() can be called here in extremis
272 - should set up SDRAM, and anything needed to make the UART work
273 - these is no need to clear BSS, it will be done by crt0.S
274 - must return normally from this function (don't call board_init_r()
277 Here the BSS is cleared. For SPL, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined, then at
278 this point the stack and global_data are relocated to below
279 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR. For non-SPL, U-Boot is relocated to run at the top of
283 - purpose: main execution, common code
284 - global_data is available
286 - BSS is available, all static/global variables can be used
287 - execution eventually continues to main_loop()
289 Non-SPL-specific notes:
290 - U-Boot is relocated to the top of memory and is now running from
294 - stack is optionally in SDRAM, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined and
295 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR points into SDRAM
296 - preloader_console_init() can be called here - typically this is
297 done by defining CONFIG_SPL_BOARD_INIT and then supplying a
298 spl_board_init() function containing this call
299 - loads U-Boot or (in falcon mode) Linux
303 Configuration Options:
304 ----------------------
306 Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
307 such information is kept in a configuration file
308 "include/configs/<board_name>.h".
310 Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
311 "include/configs/TQM823L.h".
314 Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
315 kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
316 build a config tool - later.
319 The following options need to be configured:
321 - CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
323 - Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
325 - CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
326 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
328 - Marvell Family Member
329 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
330 multiple fs option at one time
331 for marvell soc family
333 - 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
334 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
335 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
336 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
337 reference PIT/RTC clock
338 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
341 - 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
342 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
343 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
344 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
345 See doc/README.MPC866
347 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
349 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
350 of relying on the correctness of the configured
351 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
352 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
353 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
354 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
356 CONFIG_SYS_DELAYED_ICACHE
358 Define this option if you want to enable the
359 ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
364 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
365 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
366 compliance, among other possible reasons.
368 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
370 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
371 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
372 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
374 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
376 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
377 tree nodes for the given platform.
379 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
381 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
382 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
383 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
385 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
386 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
388 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
389 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
391 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
392 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
393 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
394 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
396 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
399 CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
400 Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
401 required during NOR boot.
403 CONFIG_A008044_WORKAROUND
404 Enables a workaround for T1040/T1042 erratum A008044. It is only
405 required during NAND boot and valid for Rev 1.0 SoC revision
407 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
409 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
410 according to the A004510 workaround.
412 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
413 This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
414 connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
416 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
417 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
418 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
420 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
421 This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
422 connected to the DSP core.
424 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
425 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
427 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
428 Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
429 In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
430 clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
432 CONFIG_SYS_CPC_REINIT_F
433 This CONFIG is defined when the CPC is configured as SRAM at the
434 time of U-Boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
437 Indicates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
438 supported, core will start to execute uboot when wakes up.
440 - Generic CPU options:
441 CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_GLOBAL_DATA
442 Defines global data is initialized in generic board board_init_f().
443 If this macro is defined, global data is created and cleared in
444 generic board board_init_f(). Without this macro, architecture/board
445 should initialize global data before calling board_init_f().
447 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
449 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
450 values is arch specific.
453 Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
454 found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx, mpc86xx as well as some ARM core
457 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
458 Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
460 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_EMU
461 Specify emulator support for DDR. Some DDR features such as
462 deskew training are not available.
464 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
465 Freescale DDR1 controller.
467 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
468 Freescale DDR2 controller.
470 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
471 Freescale DDR3 controller.
473 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN4
474 Freescale DDR4 controller.
476 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
477 Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
480 Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
481 Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
485 Board config to use DDR2. It can be enabled for SoCs with
486 Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
490 Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
491 Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
494 Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
498 Board config to use DDR4. It can be enabled for SoCs with
501 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
502 Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
504 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
505 Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
507 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_PBI
508 It enables addition of RCW (Power on reset configuration) in built image.
509 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
511 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_RCW
512 It adds PBI(pre-boot instructions) commands in u-boot build image.
513 PBI commands can be used to configure SoC before it starts the execution.
514 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
517 It adds a target to create boot binary having SPL binary in PBI format
518 concatenated with u-boot binary.
520 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
521 Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
523 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
524 Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
526 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
527 Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
528 same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for all Power SoCs. But
529 it could be different for ARM SoCs.
531 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
532 DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
533 interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
536 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_MAIN_NUM_CTRLS
537 Number of controllers used as main memory.
539 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_OTHER_DDR_NUM_CTRLS
540 Number of controllers used for other than main memory.
542 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_DP_DDR
543 Defines the SoC has DP-DDR used for DPAA.
545 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
546 Defines the SEC controller register space as Big Endian
548 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_LE
549 Defines the SEC controller register space as Little Endian
552 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
554 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
555 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
558 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
560 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
561 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
563 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
566 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
570 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
572 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
574 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
575 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
577 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
579 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
580 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
581 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
584 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
586 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
587 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
589 CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD
591 Use this flag to build U-Boot using the Thumb instruction
592 set for ARM architectures. Thumb instruction set provides
593 better code density. For ARM architectures that support
594 Thumb2 this flag will result in Thumb2 code generated by
597 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_716044
598 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_742230
599 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_743622
600 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_751472
601 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_761320
602 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_773022
603 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_774769
604 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_794072
606 If set, the workarounds for these ARM errata are applied early
607 during U-Boot startup. Note that these options force the
608 workarounds to be applied; no CPU-type/version detection
609 exists, unlike the similar options in the Linux kernel. Do not
610 set these options unless they apply!
613 Generic timer clock source frequency.
615 COUNTER_FREQUENCY_REAL
616 Generic timer clock source frequency if the real clock is
617 different from COUNTER_FREQUENCY, and can only be determined
620 NOTE: The following can be machine specific errata. These
621 do have ability to provide rudimentary version and machine
622 specific checks, but expect no product checks.
623 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_430973
624 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_454179
625 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_621766
626 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_798870
627 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_801819
630 CONFIG_TEGRA_SUPPORT_NON_SECURE
632 Support executing U-Boot in non-secure (NS) mode. Certain
633 impossible actions will be skipped if the CPU is in NS mode,
634 such as ARM architectural timer initialization.
636 - Linux Kernel Interface:
639 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
640 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
641 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
642 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
643 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
644 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
646 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
647 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
650 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
652 When transferring memsize parameter to Linux, some versions
653 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
654 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
658 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
659 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
663 * New libfdt-based support
664 * Adds the "fdt" command
665 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
667 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node (only required for
668 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
669 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node (only required for
670 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
671 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
672 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
674 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
677 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
679 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
680 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
682 CONFIG_OF_SYSTEM_SETUP
684 Other code has addition modification that it wants to make
685 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel.
686 This causes ft_system_setup() to be called before booting
691 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
692 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
693 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
694 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
695 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
696 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
698 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
700 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
701 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
702 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
703 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
704 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
705 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
706 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
708 - vxWorks boot parameters:
710 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
711 environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask,
712 serverip, gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
713 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
715 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
716 the defaults discussed just above.
718 - Cache Configuration:
719 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
720 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
721 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
723 - Cache Configuration for ARM:
724 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
726 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
727 controller register space
732 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
736 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
740 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
741 the clock speed of the UARTs.
745 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
746 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
747 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
749 CONFIG_SERIAL_HW_FLOW_CONTROL
751 Define this variable to enable hw flow control in serial driver.
752 Current user of this option is drivers/serial/nsl16550.c driver
755 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port
756 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2,
757 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial
758 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE
760 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
761 port routines must be defined elsewhere
762 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
765 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
766 Select one of the baudrates listed in
767 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
768 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
770 - Console Rx buffer length
771 With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define
772 the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC.
773 This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible.
774 If using CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN also CONFIG_SYS_MAXIDLE
775 must be defined, to setup the maximum idle timeout for
780 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
781 define a command string that is automatically executed
782 when no character is read on the console interface
783 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
786 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
787 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
788 environment value "bootargs".
790 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
791 The value of these goes into the environment as
792 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
793 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
797 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
798 Implements a mechanism for detecting a repeating reboot
800 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
803 If no softreset save registers are found on the hardware
804 "bootcount" is stored in the environment. To prevent a
805 saveenv on all reboots, the environment variable
806 "upgrade_available" is used. If "upgrade_available" is
807 0, "bootcount" is always 0, if "upgrade_available" is
808 1 "bootcount" is incremented in the environment.
809 So the Userspace Applikation must set the "upgrade_available"
810 and "bootcount" variable to 0, if a boot was successfully.
815 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
816 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
817 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
818 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
819 entering interactive mode.
821 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
822 automatically generated or modified. For an example
823 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
824 modified when the user holds down a certain
825 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
828 - Serial Download Echo Mode:
830 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
831 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
832 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
833 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
834 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
835 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
837 - Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
839 Select one of the baudrates listed in
840 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
843 Monitor commands can be included or excluded
844 from the build by using the #include files
845 <config_cmd_all.h> and #undef'ing unwanted
846 commands, or adding #define's for wanted commands.
848 The default command configuration includes all commands
849 except those marked below with a "*".
851 CONFIG_CMD_AES AES 128 CBC encrypt/decrypt
852 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
853 CONFIG_CMD_BDI bdinfo
854 CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger
855 CONFIG_CMD_BMP * BMP support
856 CONFIG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands
857 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD bootd
858 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTI * ARM64 Linux kernel Image support
859 CONFIG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache
860 CONFIG_CMD_CLK * clock command support
861 CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo
862 CONFIG_CMD_CRC32 * crc32
863 CONFIG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time...
864 CONFIG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support
865 CONFIG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics
866 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510 * ds4510 I2C gpio commands
867 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO * ds4510 I2C info command
868 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM * ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
869 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST * ds4510 I2C rst command
870 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
871 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
872 CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV edit env variable
873 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
874 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM_LAYOUT* EEPROM layout aware commands
875 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
876 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_CALLBACK * display details about env callbacks
877 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_FLAGS * display details about env flags
878 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_EXISTS * check existence of env variable
879 CONFIG_CMD_EXPORTENV * export the environment
880 CONFIG_CMD_EXT2 * ext2 command support
881 CONFIG_CMD_EXT4 * ext4 command support
882 CONFIG_CMD_FS_GENERIC * filesystem commands (e.g. load, ls)
883 that work for multiple fs types
884 CONFIG_CMD_FS_UUID * Look up a filesystem UUID
885 CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV saveenv
886 CONFIG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support
887 CONFIG_CMD_FAT * FAT command support
888 CONFIG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect
889 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support
890 CONFIG_CMD_FUSE * Device fuse support
891 CONFIG_CMD_GETTIME * Get time since boot
892 CONFIG_CMD_GO * the 'go' command (exec code)
893 CONFIG_CMD_GREPENV * search environment
894 CONFIG_CMD_HASH * calculate hash / digest
895 CONFIG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support
896 CONFIG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support
897 CONFIG_CMD_IMI iminfo
898 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS List all images found in NOR flash
899 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS_NAND * List all images found in NAND flash
900 CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support
901 CONFIG_CMD_IOTRACE * I/O tracing for debugging
902 CONFIG_CMD_IMPORTENV * import an environment
903 CONFIG_CMD_INI * import data from an ini file into the env
904 CONFIG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo
905 CONFIG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values
906 CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support
907 CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb
908 CONFIG_CMD_LDRINFO * ldrinfo (display Blackfin loader)
909 CONFIG_CMD_LINK_LOCAL * link-local IP address auto-configuration
911 CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb
912 CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads
913 CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM * print md5 message digest
914 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
915 CONFIG_CMD_MEMINFO * Display detailed memory information
916 CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
918 CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST * mtest
919 CONFIG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc
920 CONFIG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support
921 CONFIG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands
922 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS * MTD partition support
923 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
924 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
925 CONFIG_CMD_NFS NFS support
926 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X * PCA953x I2C gpio commands
927 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
928 CONFIG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo
929 CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support
930 CONFIG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
932 CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O
933 CONFIG_CMD_READ * Read raw data from partition
934 CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump
935 CONFIG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable
936 CONFIG_CMD_SANDBOX * sb command to access sandbox features
937 CONFIG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump
938 CONFIG_SCSI * SCSI Support
939 CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information
940 (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
941 CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access
943 CONFIG_CMD_SF * Read/write/erase SPI NOR flash
944 CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM * print sha1 memory digest
945 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
946 CONFIG_CMD_SOFTSWITCH * Soft switch setting command for BF60x
947 CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support
948 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
949 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPSRV * TFTP transfer in server mode
950 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPPUT * TFTP put command (upload)
951 CONFIG_CMD_TIME * run command and report execution time (ARM specific)
952 CONFIG_CMD_TIMER * access to the system tick timer
953 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
954 CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support
955 CONFIG_CMD_MFSL * Microblaze FSL support
956 CONFIG_CMD_XIMG Load part of Multi Image
957 CONFIG_CMD_UUID * Generate random UUID or GUID string
959 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
960 support you can write:
962 #include "config_cmd_all.h"
963 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
966 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
968 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
969 (configuration option CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know
970 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data
971 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or
972 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be
973 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other
974 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an
975 initial stack and some data.
978 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
980 - Removal of commands
981 If no commands are needed to boot, you can disable
982 CONFIG_CMDLINE to remove them. In this case, the command line
983 will not be available, and when U-Boot wants to execute the
984 boot command (on start-up) it will call board_run_command()
985 instead. This can reduce image size significantly for very
986 simple boot procedures.
988 - Regular expression support:
990 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
991 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
992 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
993 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
997 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
998 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
999 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
1000 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
1001 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
1003 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
1004 be done using one of the two options below:
1007 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
1008 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
1009 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
1010 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
1011 the global data structure as gd->blob.
1014 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
1015 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
1016 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
1018 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
1020 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
1021 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
1022 still use the individual files if you need something more
1027 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
1028 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
1029 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260
1030 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
1031 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
1032 available, then no further board specific code should
1033 be needed to use it.
1036 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
1037 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
1038 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
1040 CONFIG_AT91_HW_WDT_TIMEOUT
1041 specify the timeout in seconds. default 2 seconds.
1044 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
1045 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
1046 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
1047 version as printed by the "version" command.
1048 Any change to this variable will be reverted at the
1053 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
1054 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
1057 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx
1058 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
1059 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
1060 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
1061 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
1062 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
1063 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
1064 CONFIG_RTC_DS1339 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1339 RTC
1065 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
1066 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
1067 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
1068 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
1069 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
1072 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
1073 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
1076 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
1078 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
1079 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
1080 pins supported by a particular chip.
1082 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
1083 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
1086 When CONFIG_IO_TRACE is selected, U-Boot intercepts all I/O
1087 accesses and can checksum them or write a list of them out
1088 to memory. See the 'iotrace' command for details. This is
1089 useful for testing device drivers since it can confirm that
1090 the driver behaves the same way before and after a code
1091 change. Currently this is supported on sandbox and arm. To
1092 add support for your architecture, add '#include <iotrace.h>'
1093 to the bottom of arch/<arch>/include/asm/io.h and test.
1095 Example output from the 'iotrace stats' command is below.
1096 Note that if the trace buffer is exhausted, the checksum will
1097 still continue to operate.
1100 Start: 10000000 (buffer start address)
1101 Size: 00010000 (buffer size)
1102 Offset: 00000120 (current buffer offset)
1103 Output: 10000120 (start + offset)
1104 Count: 00000018 (number of trace records)
1105 CRC32: 9526fb66 (CRC32 of all trace records)
1107 - Timestamp Support:
1109 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
1110 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
1111 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
1112 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
1114 - Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
1115 Zero or more of the following:
1116 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
1117 CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION MS Dos partition table, traditional on the
1118 Intel architecture, USB sticks, etc.
1119 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
1120 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
1121 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
1123 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS Memory Technology Device partition table.
1125 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
1126 CONFIG_SCSI) you must configure support for at
1127 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
1130 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
1131 board configurations files but used nowhere!
1133 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
1134 be performed by calling the function
1135 ide_set_reset(int reset)
1136 which has to be defined in a board specific file
1141 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
1146 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
1147 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
1148 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
1149 support disks up to 2.1TB.
1151 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
1152 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
1156 At the moment only there is only support for the
1157 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
1158 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
1160 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
1161 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
1162 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
1163 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
1165 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
1167 The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
1168 SCSI devices found during the last scan.
1170 - NETWORK Support (PCI):
1172 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
1175 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
1176 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
1177 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
1179 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
1180 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
1181 example with the "sspi" command.
1184 Management command for E1000 devices. When used on devices
1185 with SPI support you can reprogram the EEPROM from U-Boot.
1188 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
1189 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
1190 write routine for first time initialisation.
1193 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
1194 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
1195 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
1198 Support for National dp83815 chips.
1201 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
1203 - NETWORK Support (other):
1205 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
1206 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
1209 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
1211 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
1212 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
1213 The driver doen't show link status messages.
1215 CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
1216 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
1219 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
1221 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
1222 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
1225 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
1227 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
1228 Define this to hold the physical address
1229 of the device (I/O space)
1231 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
1232 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1234 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
1235 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
1236 (some hardware wont work with macros)
1238 CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
1239 Support for davinci emac
1241 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
1242 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
1245 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
1247 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
1248 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
1249 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
1250 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
1251 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
1252 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
1253 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
1254 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
1257 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
1260 Define this to hold the physical address
1261 of the device (I/O space)
1263 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
1264 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1266 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
1267 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
1268 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
1269 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
1272 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
1274 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
1275 Define the number of ports to be used
1277 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1278 Define the ETH PHY's address
1280 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1281 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1285 Support for PWM module on the imx6.
1289 Support TPM devices.
1291 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_INFINEON
1292 Support for Infineon i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
1293 per system is supported at this time.
1295 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
1296 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
1299 Support for STMicroelectronics TPM devices. Requires DM_TPM support.
1301 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_I2C
1302 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 I2C devices.
1303 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and I2C.
1305 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_SPI
1306 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 SPI devices.
1307 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and SPI.
1309 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
1310 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
1313 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1314 per system is supported at this time.
1316 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1317 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1318 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1322 Add tpm monitor functions.
1323 Requires CONFIG_TPM. If CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS is set, also
1324 provides monitor access to authorized functions.
1327 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
1328 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
1329 Requires support for a TPM device.
1331 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
1332 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
1333 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
1336 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
1337 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define
1338 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1339 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
1340 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
1343 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1345 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
1347 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
1351 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
1352 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
1353 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100
1354 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100
1355 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
1356 May be defined to allow interrupt polling
1357 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
1359 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1360 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1362 CONFIG_USB_DWC2_REG_ADDR the physical CPU address of the DWC2
1363 HW module registers.
1366 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1367 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1368 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
1369 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
1370 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1371 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
1372 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
1373 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1374 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1376 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1377 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1378 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1379 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
1382 Define this to build a UDC device
1385 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1386 talk to the UDC device
1389 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1390 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1391 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1392 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1393 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1396 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
1397 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1401 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
1402 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
1403 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
1405 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
1406 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
1407 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
1408 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1409 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1410 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1412 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1413 Define this string as the name of your company for
1414 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
1416 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1417 Define this string as the name of your product
1418 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1420 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1421 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1422 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1423 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1424 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
1426 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1427 Define this as the unique Product ID
1429 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
1431 - ULPI Layer Support:
1432 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1433 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1434 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1435 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1436 viewport is supported.
1437 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1438 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
1439 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1440 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1441 the appropriate value in Hz.
1444 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1445 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1446 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
1447 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
1448 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1449 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
1452 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1454 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1455 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1458 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1461 Enable the generic MMC driver
1463 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_BOOT
1464 Enable some additional features of the eMMC boot partitions.
1466 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_RPMB
1467 Enable the commands for reading, writing and programming the
1468 key for the Replay Protection Memory Block partition in eMMC.
1470 - USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
1471 CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_DFU
1472 This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class
1475 This enables the command "dfu" which is used to have
1476 U-Boot create a DFU class device via USB. This command
1477 requires that the "dfu_alt_info" environment variable be
1478 set and define the alt settings to expose to the host.
1481 This enables support for exposing (e)MMC devices via DFU.
1484 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
1487 This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
1488 Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
1489 allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
1490 one that would help mostly the developer.
1492 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
1493 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
1494 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
1495 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
1496 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
1498 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
1499 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
1500 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
1501 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
1502 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
1503 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
1505 DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
1506 Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
1507 host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
1508 a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
1510 DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
1511 Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
1512 entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
1513 sending again an USB request to the device.
1515 - USB Device Android Fastboot support:
1516 CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_FASTBOOT
1517 This enables the USB part of the fastboot gadget
1520 This enables the command "fastboot" which enables the Android
1521 fastboot mode for the platform's USB device. Fastboot is a USB
1522 protocol for downloading images, flashing and device control
1523 used on Android devices.
1524 See doc/README.android-fastboot for more information.
1526 CONFIG_ANDROID_BOOT_IMAGE
1527 This enables support for booting images which use the Android
1528 image format header.
1530 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_ADDR
1531 The fastboot protocol requires a large memory buffer for
1532 downloads. Define this to the starting RAM address to use for
1535 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_SIZE
1536 The fastboot protocol requires a large memory buffer for
1537 downloads. This buffer should be as large as possible for a
1538 platform. Define this to the size available RAM for fastboot.
1540 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_FLASH
1541 The fastboot protocol includes a "flash" command for writing
1542 the downloaded image to a non-volatile storage device. Define
1543 this to enable the "fastboot flash" command.
1545 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_FLASH_MMC_DEV
1546 The fastboot "flash" command requires additional information
1547 regarding the non-volatile storage device. Define this to
1548 the eMMC device that fastboot should use to store the image.
1550 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_GPT_NAME
1551 The fastboot "flash" command supports writing the downloaded
1552 image to the Protective MBR and the Primary GUID Partition
1553 Table. (Additionally, this downloaded image is post-processed
1554 to generate and write the Backup GUID Partition Table.)
1555 This occurs when the specified "partition name" on the
1556 "fastboot flash" command line matches this value.
1557 The default is "gpt" if undefined.
1559 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_MBR_NAME
1560 The fastboot "flash" command supports writing the downloaded
1562 This occurs when the "partition name" specified on the
1563 "fastboot flash" command line matches this value.
1564 If not defined the default value "mbr" is used.
1566 - Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1568 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1570 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1571 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
1572 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1574 - FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem write function support:
1577 Define this to enable support for saving memory data as a
1578 file in FAT formatted partition.
1580 This will also enable the command "fatwrite" enabling the
1581 user to write files to FAT.
1583 - CBFS (Coreboot Filesystem) support:
1586 Define this to enable support for reading from a Coreboot
1587 filesystem. Available commands are cbfsinit, cbfsinfo, cbfsls
1590 - FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem cluster size:
1591 CONFIG_FS_FAT_MAX_CLUSTSIZE
1593 Define the max cluster size for fat operations else
1594 a default value of 65536 will be defined.
1597 See Kconfig help for available keyboard drivers.
1601 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1602 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1603 defined in your board-specific files. This option is deprecated
1604 and is only used by novena. For new boards, use driver model
1609 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1610 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1611 support, and should also define these other macros:
1617 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1618 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1620 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1622 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1623 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1624 boot. See the documentation file doc/README.video for a
1625 description of this variable.
1627 - LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1629 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1630 display); also select one of the supported displays
1631 by defining one of these:
1635 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1637 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
1639 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
1641 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1643 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1644 Active, color, single scan.
1646 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1648 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
1649 Active, color, single scan.
1653 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1654 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1656 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1658 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1659 Active, color, single scan.
1663 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1664 Active, color, single scan.
1668 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1670 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1674 320x240. Black & white.
1676 Normally display is black on white background; define
1677 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
1679 CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
1681 Normally the LCD is page-aligned (typically 4KB). If this is
1682 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
1683 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
1684 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
1685 a per-section basis.
1690 Sometimes, for example if the display is mounted in portrait
1691 mode or even if it's mounted landscape but rotated by 180degree,
1692 we need to rotate our content of the display relative to the
1693 framebuffer, so that user can read the messages which are
1695 Once CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is defined, the lcd_console will be
1696 initialized with a given rotation from "vl_rot" out of
1697 "vidinfo_t" which is provided by the board specific code.
1698 The value for vl_rot is coded as following (matching to
1699 fbcon=rotate:<n> linux-kernel commandline):
1700 0 = no rotation respectively 0 degree
1701 1 = 90 degree rotation
1702 2 = 180 degree rotation
1703 3 = 270 degree rotation
1705 If CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is not defined, the console will be
1706 initialized with 0degree rotation.
1710 Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
1714 Enables an 'i2c edid' command which can read EDID
1715 information over I2C from an attached LCD display.
1717 - Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
1719 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1720 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1721 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
1722 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
1723 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1724 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1725 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1726 loaded very quickly after power-on.
1728 CONFIG_SPLASHIMAGE_GUARD
1730 If this option is set, then U-Boot will prevent the environment
1731 variable "splashimage" from being set to a problematic address
1732 (see doc/README.displaying-bmps).
1733 This option is useful for targets where, due to alignment
1734 restrictions, an improperly aligned BMP image will cause a data
1735 abort. If you think you will not have problems with unaligned
1736 accesses (for example because your toolchain prevents them)
1737 there is no need to set this option.
1739 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1741 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1742 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1743 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1744 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1745 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1746 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1749 setenv splashpos m,m
1750 => image at center of screen
1752 setenv splashpos 30,20
1753 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1755 setenv splashpos -10,m
1756 => vertically centered image
1757 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1759 - Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1761 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1762 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1763 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1765 - Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1767 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1768 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1771 - Do compressing for memory range:
1774 If this option is set, it would use zlib deflate method
1775 to compress the specified memory at its best effort.
1777 - Compression support:
1780 Enabled by default to support gzip compressed images.
1784 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1785 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1786 compressed images are supported.
1788 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
1789 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
1794 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1797 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1798 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1801 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1803 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1804 and Literal pos bits.
1806 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1807 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1808 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1809 a very small buffer.
1811 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1812 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
1813 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
1817 If this option is set, support for LZO compressed images
1823 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1825 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1827 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1831 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
1832 detection of gigabit PHY is included.
1834 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1836 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1837 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1838 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1839 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1841 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1843 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1844 command issued before MII status register can be read
1849 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
1850 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
1851 determined through e.g. bootp.
1852 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
1854 - Server IP address:
1857 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
1858 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1859 (Environment variable "serverip")
1861 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1863 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1864 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1866 - Gateway IP address:
1869 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1870 default router where packets to other networks are
1872 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1877 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1878 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1879 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1880 forwarded through a router.
1881 (Environment variable "netmask")
1883 - Multicast TFTP Mode:
1886 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1887 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
1888 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
1889 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1892 - BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1893 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1895 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1896 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1897 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1898 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1899 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1900 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1901 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1902 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
1903 following delays are inserted then:
1905 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1906 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1907 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1909 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1911 CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE
1913 BOOTP packets are uniquely identified using a 32-bit ID. The
1914 server will copy the ID from client requests to responses and
1915 U-Boot will use this to determine if it is the destination of
1916 an incoming response. Some servers will check that addresses
1917 aren't in use before handing them out (usually using an ARP
1918 ping) and therefore take up to a few hundred milliseconds to
1919 respond. Network congestion may also influence the time it
1920 takes for a response to make it back to the client. If that
1921 time is too long, U-Boot will retransmit requests. In order
1922 to allow earlier responses to still be accepted after these
1923 retransmissions, U-Boot's BOOTP client keeps a small cache of
1924 IDs. The CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE controls the size of this
1925 cache. The default is to keep IDs for up to four outstanding
1926 requests. Increasing this will allow U-Boot to accept offers
1927 from a BOOTP client in networks with unusually high latency.
1929 - DHCP Advanced Options:
1930 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1931 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1933 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1934 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1935 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1936 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1937 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1938 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1941 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1942 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1943 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1944 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
1945 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
1947 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1948 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
1950 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1951 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1952 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1953 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1956 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1957 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1958 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1959 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1960 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1961 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1962 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1965 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1966 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1967 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
1968 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
1969 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1970 option 12 to the DHCP server.
1972 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1974 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1975 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1976 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1977 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1978 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1979 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1980 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1981 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1982 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1983 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1986 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1987 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1988 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1989 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1990 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1992 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1995 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
1997 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1999 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
2001 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
2006 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
2007 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
2008 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
2010 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
2012 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
2013 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
2017 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
2021 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
2025 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
2027 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
2029 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
2030 device in .1 of milliwatts.
2032 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
2034 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
2036 - Status LED: CONFIG_LED_STATUS
2038 Several configurations allow to display the current
2039 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
2040 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
2041 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
2042 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
2043 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
2044 kernel). Defining CONFIG_LED_STATUS enables this
2049 CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
2050 The status LED can be connected to a GPIO pin.
2051 In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
2052 status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
2053 to include the gpio_led driver in the U-Boot binary.
2055 CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE
2056 Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
2057 case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
2058 GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
2059 In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
2060 with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
2062 - CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
2064 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
2065 on those systems that support this (optional)
2066 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
2068 - I2C Support: CONFIG_SYS_I2C
2070 This enable the NEW i2c subsystem, and will allow you to use
2071 i2c commands at the u-boot command line (as long as you set
2072 CONFIG_CMD_I2C in CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c
2073 based realtime clock chips or other i2c devices. See
2074 common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the command line
2077 ported i2c driver to the new framework:
2078 - drivers/i2c/soft_i2c.c:
2079 - activate first bus with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT define
2080 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE
2081 for defining speed and slave address
2082 - activate second bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS2 define
2083 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_2 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_2
2084 for defining speed and slave address
2085 - activate third bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS3 define
2086 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_3 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_3
2087 for defining speed and slave address
2088 - activate fourth bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS4 define
2089 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_4 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_4
2090 for defining speed and slave address
2092 - drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c:
2093 - activate i2c driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_FSL
2094 define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_OFFSET for setting the register
2095 offset CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SPEED for the i2c speed and
2096 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SLAVE for the slave addr of the first
2098 - If your board supports a second fsl i2c bus, define
2099 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_OFFSET for the register offset
2100 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SPEED for the speed and
2101 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SLAVE for the slave address of the
2104 - drivers/i2c/tegra_i2c.c:
2105 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_TEGRA
2106 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses with a fix speed from
2107 100000 and the slave addr 0!
2109 - drivers/i2c/ppc4xx_i2c.c
2110 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX
2111 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
2112 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
2114 - drivers/i2c/i2c_mxc.c
2115 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC
2116 - enable bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C1
2117 - enable bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C2
2118 - enable bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C3
2119 - enable bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C4
2120 - define speed for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SPEED
2121 - define slave for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SLAVE
2122 - define speed for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SPEED
2123 - define slave for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SLAVE
2124 - define speed for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SPEED
2125 - define slave for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SLAVE
2126 - define speed for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SPEED
2127 - define slave for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SLAVE
2128 If those defines are not set, default value is 100000
2129 for speed, and 0 for slave.
2131 - drivers/i2c/rcar_i2c.c:
2132 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RCAR
2133 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses
2135 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_BASE for setting the register channel 0
2136 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_SPEED for for the speed channel 0
2137 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_BASE for setting the register channel 1
2138 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_SPEED for for the speed channel 1
2139 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_BASE for setting the register channel 2
2140 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_SPEED for for the speed channel 2
2141 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_BASE for setting the register channel 3
2142 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_SPEED for for the speed channel 3
2143 - CONFIF_SYS_RCAR_I2C_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
2145 - drivers/i2c/sh_i2c.c:
2146 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH
2147 - This driver adds from 2 to 5 i2c buses
2149 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE0 for setting the register channel 0
2150 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED0 for for the speed channel 0
2151 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE1 for setting the register channel 1
2152 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED1 for for the speed channel 1
2153 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE2 for setting the register channel 2
2154 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED2 for for the speed channel 2
2155 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE3 for setting the register channel 3
2156 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED3 for for the speed channel 3
2157 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE4 for setting the register channel 4
2158 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED4 for for the speed channel 4
2159 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
2161 - drivers/i2c/omap24xx_i2c.c
2162 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_OMAP24XX
2163 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED speed channel 0
2164 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE slave addr channel 0
2165 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED1 speed channel 1
2166 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE1 slave addr channel 1
2167 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED2 speed channel 2
2168 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE2 slave addr channel 2
2169 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED3 speed channel 3
2170 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE3 slave addr channel 3
2171 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED4 speed channel 4
2172 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE4 slave addr channel 4
2174 - drivers/i2c/zynq_i2c.c
2175 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ
2176 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SPEED for speed setting
2177 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SLAVE for slave addr
2179 - drivers/i2c/s3c24x0_i2c.c:
2180 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_S3C24X0
2181 - This driver adds i2c buses (11 for Exynos5250, Exynos5420
2182 9 i2c buses for Exynos4 and 1 for S3C24X0 SoCs from Samsung)
2183 with a fix speed from 100000 and the slave addr 0!
2185 - drivers/i2c/ihs_i2c.c
2186 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS
2187 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
2188 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0 speed channel 0
2189 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0 slave addr channel 0
2190 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
2191 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1 speed channel 1
2192 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1 slave addr channel 1
2193 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH2 activate hardware channel 2
2194 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2 speed channel 2
2195 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2 slave addr channel 2
2196 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH3 activate hardware channel 3
2197 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3 speed channel 3
2198 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3 slave addr channel 3
2199 - activate dual channel with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_DUAL
2200 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0_1 speed channel 0_1
2201 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0_1 slave addr channel 0_1
2202 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1_1 speed channel 1_1
2203 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1_1 slave addr channel 1_1
2204 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2_1 speed channel 2_1
2205 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2_1 slave addr channel 2_1
2206 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3_1 speed channel 3_1
2207 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3_1 slave addr channel 3_1
2211 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
2212 Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use.
2214 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
2215 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
2216 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
2219 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
2220 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
2221 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
2224 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
2225 hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
2226 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
2227 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
2228 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
2230 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
2231 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
2232 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
2233 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
2234 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
2235 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
2236 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
2237 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
2238 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
2242 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
2243 bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
2244 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
2245 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
2246 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
2247 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
2248 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
2249 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
2250 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
2252 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
2254 - Legacy I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C
2256 NOTE: It is intended to move drivers to CONFIG_SYS_I2C which
2257 provides the following compelling advantages:
2259 - more than one i2c adapter is usable
2260 - approved multibus support
2261 - better i2c mux support
2263 ** Please consider updating your I2C driver now. **
2265 These enable legacy I2C serial bus commands. Defining
2266 CONFIG_HARD_I2C will include the appropriate I2C driver
2267 for the selected CPU.
2269 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
2270 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
2271 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
2272 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
2273 command line interface.
2275 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
2277 There are several other quantities that must also be
2278 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
2280 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
2281 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
2282 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
2283 the CPU's i2c node address).
2285 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
2286 (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
2287 and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
2288 eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
2289 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
2291 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
2293 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
2294 chips might think that the current transfer is still
2295 in progress. Reset the slave devices by sending start
2296 commands until the slave device responds.
2298 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
2300 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
2301 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
2302 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
2306 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
2307 controller or configure ports.
2309 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
2313 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
2314 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
2315 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
2319 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
2320 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
2323 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
2327 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
2328 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
2331 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
2335 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
2338 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
2342 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
2343 is false, it clears it (low).
2345 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
2346 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
2347 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
2351 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
2352 is false, it clears it (low).
2354 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
2355 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
2356 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
2360 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
2361 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
2362 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
2365 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
2367 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
2369 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
2370 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
2371 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
2372 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
2374 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
2375 the generic GPIO functions.
2377 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
2379 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
2380 chips might think that the current transfer is still
2381 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
2382 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
2383 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
2384 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
2385 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
2386 is run early in the boot sequence.
2388 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
2390 An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
2391 defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
2392 boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
2393 is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
2394 using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
2395 controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
2396 i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
2397 controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
2399 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
2401 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
2402 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
2403 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
2405 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2407 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
2408 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
2409 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
2410 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
2412 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
2414 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
2415 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2416 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
2417 a 1D array of device addresses
2420 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2421 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
2423 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
2425 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2426 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
2428 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
2430 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
2432 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
2433 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
2435 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
2437 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
2438 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
2440 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
2442 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
2443 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
2445 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
2447 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
2448 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
2449 specified DTT device.
2451 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
2453 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
2454 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
2455 between writing the address pointer and reading the
2456 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
2457 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
2458 devices can use either method, but some require one or
2461 - SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
2463 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
2464 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
2465 D/As on the SACSng board)
2469 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
2470 only SH7757 is supported.
2474 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
2475 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
2476 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
2477 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
2478 defined, the board configuration must define several
2479 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
2480 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
2484 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
2485 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
2486 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
2487 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
2488 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
2492 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
2493 SoCs. Currently i.MX31/35/51 are supported.
2495 CONFIG_SYS_SPI_MXC_WAIT
2496 Timeout for waiting until spi transfer completed.
2497 default: (CONFIG_SYS_HZ/100) /* 10 ms */
2499 - FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
2501 Enables FPGA subsystem.
2503 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
2505 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
2508 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
2510 Enables support for FPGA family.
2511 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
2515 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
2517 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA_LOADMK
2519 Enable support for fpga loadmk command
2521 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA_LOADP
2523 Enable support for fpga loadp command - load partial bitstream
2525 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA_LOADBP
2527 Enable support for fpga loadbp command - load partial bitstream
2530 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
2532 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
2534 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
2536 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
2537 status by the configuration function. This option
2538 will require a board or device specific function to
2543 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
2544 configuration driver.
2546 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
2547 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2549 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
2551 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2552 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2553 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2554 indicated a CRC error).
2556 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
2558 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to de-assert
2559 after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
2560 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
2563 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
2565 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
2566 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
2568 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
2570 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
2573 - Configuration Management:
2576 Some SoCs need special image types (e.g. U-Boot binary
2577 with a special header) as build targets. By defining
2578 CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET in the SoC / board header, this
2579 special image will be automatically built upon calling
2584 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2585 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
2587 - Vendor Parameter Protection:
2589 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2590 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
2591 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
2592 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2593 protects these variables from casual modification by
2594 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2595 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
2596 change this behaviour:
2598 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2599 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
2600 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
2603 Alternatively, if you define _both_ an ethaddr in the
2604 default env _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
2605 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
2606 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2607 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2610 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
2611 for any variable by configuring the type of access
2612 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
2613 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
2618 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2619 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2620 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2621 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2622 this default value by defining an environment
2623 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2624 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2625 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2626 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2627 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2628 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2629 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2631 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
2634 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2635 either, which results in a memory region that will
2636 not be affected by reboots.
2638 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2639 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2640 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2641 following board configurations are known to be
2644 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
2645 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2648 - Access to physical memory region (> 4GB)
2649 Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not
2650 normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures
2651 support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit
2652 machines using physical address extension or similar.
2653 Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which
2654 currently only supports clearing the memory.
2659 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
2660 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
2661 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
2662 system where you want the system to reboot
2663 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
2664 useful during development since you can try to debug
2665 the conditions that lead to the situation.
2667 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2669 This variable defines the number of retries for
2670 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2671 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2672 default value of 5 is used.
2676 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2680 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2681 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2682 try longer timeout such as
2683 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2685 - Command Interpreter:
2686 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
2688 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
2690 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
2692 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2693 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2694 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2698 In the current implementation, the local variables
2699 space and global environment variables space are
2700 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2701 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2702 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2703 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2704 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
2706 Global environment variables are those you use
2707 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2708 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2709 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
2711 To store commands and special characters in a
2712 variable, please use double quotation marks
2713 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2714 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2717 - Command Line Editing and History:
2718 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
2720 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
2721 command line input operations
2723 - Command Line PS1/PS2 support:
2724 CONFIG_CMDLINE_PS_SUPPORT
2726 Enable support for changing the command prompt string
2727 at run-time. Only static string is supported so far.
2728 The string is obtained from environment variables PS1
2731 - Default Environment:
2732 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2734 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2735 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
2736 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2738 For example, place something like this in your
2739 board's config file:
2741 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2745 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2746 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2747 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2748 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
2749 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
2750 You better know what you are doing here.
2752 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2753 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
2754 the environment like the "source" command or the
2757 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_CONFIG
2759 Define this in order to add variables describing the
2760 U-Boot build configuration to the default environment.
2761 These will be named arch, cpu, board, vendor, and soc.
2763 Enabling this option will cause the following to be defined:
2771 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG
2773 Define this in order to add variables describing certain
2774 run-time determined information about the hardware to the
2775 environment. These will be named board_name, board_rev.
2777 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
2779 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
2780 initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
2781 that so that the environment is not available until
2782 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
2783 this is instead controlled by the value of
2784 /config/load-environment.
2786 - Parallel Flash support:
2789 Traditionally U-Boot was run on systems with parallel NOR
2790 flash. This option is used to disable support for parallel NOR
2791 flash. This option should be defined if the board does not have
2794 If this option is not defined one of the generic flash drivers
2795 (e.g. CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER or CONFIG_ST_SMI) must be
2796 selected or the board must provide an implementation of the
2797 flash API (see include/flash.h).
2799 - DataFlash Support:
2800 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
2802 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
2803 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
2806 - Serial Flash support
2809 Defining this option enables SPI flash commands
2810 'sf probe/read/write/erase/update'.
2812 Usage requires an initial 'probe' to define the serial
2813 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2816 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2817 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2818 flash is present on the system.
2820 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2821 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2822 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2823 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2827 Define this option to include a destructive SPI flash
2830 CONFIG_SF_DUAL_FLASH Dual flash memories
2832 Define this option to use dual flash support where two flash
2833 memories can be connected with a given cs line.
2834 Currently Xilinx Zynq qspi supports these type of connections.
2836 - SystemACE Support:
2839 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
2840 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
2841 of the chip must also be defined in the
2842 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
2844 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
2845 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
2847 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
2848 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
2850 - TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2853 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
2854 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
2855 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
2856 number generator is used.
2858 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2859 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2860 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2862 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
2863 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2864 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2865 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2866 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2867 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2868 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2873 This enables a generic 'hash' command which can produce
2874 hashes / digests from a few algorithms (e.g. SHA1, SHA256).
2878 Enable the hash verify command (hash -v). This adds to code
2881 CONFIG_SHA1 - This option enables support of hashing using SHA1
2882 algorithm. The hash is calculated in software.
2883 CONFIG_SHA256 - This option enables support of hashing using
2884 SHA256 algorithm. The hash is calculated in software.
2885 CONFIG_SHA_HW_ACCEL - This option enables hardware acceleration
2886 for SHA1/SHA256 hashing.
2887 This affects the 'hash' command and also the
2888 hash_lookup_algo() function.
2889 CONFIG_SHA_PROG_HW_ACCEL - This option enables
2890 hardware-acceleration for SHA1/SHA256 progressive hashing.
2891 Data can be streamed in a block at a time and the hashing
2892 is performed in hardware.
2894 Note: There is also a sha1sum command, which should perhaps
2895 be deprecated in favour of 'hash sha1'.
2897 - Freescale i.MX specific commands:
2898 CONFIG_CMD_HDMIDETECT
2899 This enables 'hdmidet' command which returns true if an
2900 HDMI monitor is detected. This command is i.MX 6 specific.
2903 This enables the 'bmode' (bootmode) command for forcing
2904 a boot from specific media.
2906 This is useful for forcing the ROM's usb downloader to
2907 activate upon a watchdog reset which is nice when iterating
2908 on U-Boot. Using the reset button or running bmode normal
2909 will set it back to normal. This command currently
2910 supports i.MX53 and i.MX6.
2912 - bootcount support:
2913 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
2915 This enables the bootcounter support, see:
2916 http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
2919 enable special bootcounter support on at91sam9xe based boards.
2921 enable special bootcounter support on blackfin based boards.
2923 enable special bootcounter support on da850 based boards.
2924 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_RAM
2925 enable support for the bootcounter in RAM
2926 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_I2C
2927 enable support for the bootcounter on an i2c (like RTC) device.
2928 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RTC_ADDR = i2c chip address
2929 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR = i2c addr which is used for
2931 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ALEN = address len
2933 - Show boot progress:
2934 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2936 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2937 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2938 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2939 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2940 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2941 the following checkpoints are implemented:
2944 Legacy uImage format:
2947 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
2948 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
2949 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
2950 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
2951 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
2952 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
2953 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2954 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2955 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2956 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
2957 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2958 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2959 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2960 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
2961 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
2962 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
2964 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2965 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2966 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2967 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2968 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2969 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2970 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
2971 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
2972 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2973 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2975 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
2977 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
2978 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2979 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
2981 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2982 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2983 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2984 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2985 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2986 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2987 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2988 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2989 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2990 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2991 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2992 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2993 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2994 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2995 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2996 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2997 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2998 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2999 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
3000 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
3001 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
3002 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
3003 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
3004 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
3005 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
3006 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
3007 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
3008 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
3009 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
3010 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
3011 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
3012 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
3013 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
3014 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
3015 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
3016 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
3017 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
3018 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
3019 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
3020 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
3021 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
3022 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
3023 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
3024 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
3025 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
3026 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
3027 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
3029 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
3031 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
3032 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
3033 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
3035 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
3036 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling net_loop()
3037 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in net_loop() occurred
3038 81 common/cmd_net.c net_loop() back without error
3039 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
3040 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
3041 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
3042 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
3043 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
3048 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
3049 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
3050 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
3051 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
3052 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
3053 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
3054 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
3055 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
3056 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
3057 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
3058 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
3059 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
3060 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
3061 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
3062 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
3063 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
3064 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
3065 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
3066 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
3067 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
3068 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
3069 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
3071 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
3072 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
3073 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
3074 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
3075 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
3076 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
3077 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
3078 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
3079 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
3080 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
3081 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
3082 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
3083 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
3084 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
3085 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
3086 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
3088 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
3089 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
3091 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
3092 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
3094 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
3095 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
3097 - legacy image format:
3098 CONFIG_IMAGE_FORMAT_LEGACY
3099 enables the legacy image format support in U-Boot.
3102 enabled if CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE is not defined.
3104 CONFIG_DISABLE_IMAGE_LEGACY
3105 disable the legacy image format
3107 This define is introduced, as the legacy image format is
3108 enabled per default for backward compatibility.
3110 - FIT image support:
3111 CONFIG_FIT_DISABLE_SHA256
3112 Supporting SHA256 hashes has quite an impact on binary size.
3113 For constrained systems sha256 hash support can be disabled
3116 TODO(sjg@chromium.org): Adjust this option to be positive,
3117 and move it to Kconfig
3119 - Standalone program support:
3120 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
3122 This option defines a board specific value for the
3123 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
3124 overwriting the architecture dependent default
3127 - Frame Buffer Address:
3130 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
3131 address for frame buffer. This is typically the case
3132 when using a graphics controller has separate video
3133 memory. U-Boot will then place the frame buffer at
3134 the given address instead of dynamically reserving it
3135 in system RAM by calling lcd_setmem(), which grabs
3136 the memory for the frame buffer depending on the
3137 configured panel size.
3139 Please see board_init_f function.
3141 - Automatic software updates via TFTP server
3143 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
3144 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
3146 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
3147 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
3149 - MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
3152 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
3153 Needed for mtdparts command support.
3155 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
3157 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
3158 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
3163 Adds commands for interacting with MTD partitions formatted
3164 with the UBI flash translation layer
3166 Requires also defining CONFIG_RBTREE
3168 CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
3170 Make the verbose messages from UBI stop printing. This leaves
3171 warnings and errors enabled.
3174 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
3175 This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
3176 erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
3177 of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
3178 wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
3179 counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
3181 The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
3182 other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
3183 However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
3184 life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
3185 to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
3189 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
3190 This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
3191 expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the
3192 underlying flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR
3193 flash), this value is ignored.
3195 NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM
3196 (Number of Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime.
3197 The maximum expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks
3198 then can be calculated as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)",
3199 which gives 20 for most NANDs (MaxNVB is basically the total
3200 count of eraseblocks on the chip).
3202 To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to
3203 reserve about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
3204 handling. And that will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire
3205 NAND chip, not just the MTD partition UBI attaches. This means
3206 that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip admits maximum 40 bad
3207 eraseblocks, and it is split on two MTD partitions of the same
3208 size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when attaching a
3213 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
3214 Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
3215 in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
3216 only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
3217 The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
3218 the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
3219 attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
3220 a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI parameter
3221 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT to 1 if you want so. Please note
3222 that fastmap-enabled images are still usable with UBI implementations
3223 without fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap
3224 fits into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
3226 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT
3227 Set this parameter to enable fastmap automatically on images
3231 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FM_DEBUG
3232 Enable UBI fastmap debug
3238 Adds commands for interacting with UBI volumes formatted as
3239 UBIFS. UBIFS is read-only in u-boot.
3241 Requires UBI support as well as CONFIG_LZO
3243 CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
3245 Make the verbose messages from UBIFS stop printing. This leaves
3246 warnings and errors enabled.
3250 Enable building of SPL globally.
3253 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
3255 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT
3256 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL, BSS included.
3257 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory
3258 used by SPL from _start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
3259 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
3260 must not be both defined at the same time.
3263 Maximum size of the SPL image (text, data, rodata, and
3264 linker lists sections), BSS excluded.
3265 When defined, the linker checks that the actual size does
3268 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
3269 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
3271 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
3272 Address to relocate to. If unspecified, this is equal to
3273 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
3275 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
3276 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
3278 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
3279 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL BSS.
3280 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory used
3281 by SPL from __bss_start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
3282 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
3283 must not be both defined at the same time.
3286 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
3288 CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
3289 When defined, SPL will panic() if the image it has
3290 loaded does not have a signature.
3291 Defining this is useful when code which loads images
3292 in SPL cannot guarantee that absolutely all read errors
3294 An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which will
3295 consider that a completely unreadable NAND block is bad,
3296 and thus should be skipped silently.
3298 CONFIG_SPL_ABORT_ON_RAW_IMAGE
3299 When defined, SPL will proceed to another boot method
3300 if the image it has loaded does not have a signature.
3302 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
3303 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
3304 relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
3307 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
3308 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
3309 When this option is set the full malloc is used in SPL and
3310 it is set up by spl_init() and before that, the simple malloc()
3311 can be used if CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F is defined.
3313 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
3314 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
3316 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK
3317 Enable the SPL framework under common/. This framework
3318 supports MMC, NAND and YMODEM loading of U-Boot and NAND
3319 NAND loading of the Linux Kernel.
3322 Enable booting directly to an OS from SPL.
3323 See also: doc/README.falcon
3325 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
3326 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
3327 about the running system.
3329 CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
3330 Arch init code should be built for a very small image
3332 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION
3333 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
3336 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_KERNEL_SECTOR
3337 Sector to load kernel uImage from when MMC is being
3338 used in raw mode (for Falcon mode)
3340 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTOR,
3341 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTORS
3342 Sector and number of sectors to load kernel argument
3343 parameters from when MMC is being used in raw mode
3346 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_FS_BOOT_PARTITION
3347 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
3350 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
3351 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from filesystem
3353 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_KERNEL_NAME
3354 Filename to read to load kernel uImage when reading
3355 from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
3357 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_ARGS_NAME
3358 Filename to read to load kernel argument parameters
3359 when reading from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
3361 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
3362 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
3363 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
3364 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
3365 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
3367 CONFIG_SPL_SKIP_RELOCATE
3368 Avoid SPL relocation
3370 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE
3371 Include nand_base.c in the SPL. Requires
3372 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS.
3374 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS
3375 SPL uses normal NAND drivers, not minimal drivers.
3378 Include standard software ECC in the SPL
3380 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
3381 Support for NAND boot using simple NAND drivers that
3382 expose the cmd_ctrl() interface.
3385 Support for a lightweight UBI (fastmap) scanner and
3388 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_RAW_ONLY
3389 Support to boot only raw u-boot.bin images. Use this only
3390 if you need to save space.
3392 CONFIG_SPL_COMMON_INIT_DDR
3393 Set for common ddr init with serial presence detect in
3396 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
3397 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
3398 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
3399 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
3400 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
3401 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
3404 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BOOT
3405 Add support NAND boot
3407 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
3408 Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
3410 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
3411 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
3413 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
3414 Size of image to load
3416 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
3417 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
3419 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
3420 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
3421 data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
3423 CONFIG_SPL_OMAP3_ID_NAND
3424 Support for an OMAP3-specific set of functions to return the
3425 ID and MFR of the first attached NAND chip, if present.
3427 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
3428 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
3431 Image offset to which the SPL should be padded before appending
3432 the SPL payload. By default, this is defined as
3433 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
3434 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
3435 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
3438 Final target image containing SPL and payload. Some SPLs
3439 use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
3440 example if more than one image needs to be produced.
3442 CONFIG_FIT_SPL_PRINT
3443 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
3444 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
3445 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
3446 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
3450 Enable building of TPL globally.
3453 Image offset to which the TPL should be padded before appending
3454 the TPL payload. By default, this is defined as
3455 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
3456 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
3457 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
3459 - Interrupt support (PPC):
3461 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
3462 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
3463 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
3464 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
3465 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
3466 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
3467 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
3468 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
3469 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
3470 general timer_interrupt().
3473 Board initialization settings:
3474 ------------------------------
3476 During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
3477 to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
3478 before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
3479 following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
3480 architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
3481 typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
3483 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
3484 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
3485 - CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
3486 - CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
3488 Configuration Settings:
3489 -----------------------
3491 - CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit.
3492 Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.
3494 - CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
3495 undefine this when you're short of memory.
3497 - CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
3498 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
3500 - CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
3501 prompt for user input.
3503 - CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
3505 - CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
3507 - CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
3509 - CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
3510 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
3513 - CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
3514 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
3516 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
3517 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
3520 - CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
3521 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
3523 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
3524 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
3525 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
3527 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE
3528 Only implemented for ARMv8 for now.
3529 If defined, the size of CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE memory
3530 is substracted from total RAM and won't be reported to OS.
3531 This memory can be used as secure memory. A variable
3532 gd->arch.secure_ram is used to track the location. In systems
3533 the RAM base is not zero, or RAM is divided into banks,
3534 this variable needs to be recalcuated to get the address.
3536 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE:
3537 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
3538 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
3539 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
3540 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
3541 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
3542 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
3543 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
3544 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
3545 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
3547 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
3548 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
3551 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
3552 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
3553 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
3554 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
3557 - CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
3558 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
3560 - CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
3561 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
3563 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
3564 Physical start address of Flash memory.
3566 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
3567 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
3568 make config files to be same as the text base address
3569 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
3570 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
3572 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
3573 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
3574 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
3575 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
3578 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
3579 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
3581 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
3582 Size of the malloc() pool for use before relocation. If
3583 this is defined, then a very simple malloc() implementation
3584 will become available before relocation. The address is just
3585 below the global data, and the stack is moved down to make
3588 This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
3589 within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
3590 is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
3591 The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
3592 U-Boot relocates itself.
3594 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
3595 Provides a simple and small malloc() and calloc() for those
3596 boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is
3597 enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START).
3599 - CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY:
3600 Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be
3601 typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped
3602 uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would
3603 otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For
3604 some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the
3605 cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed
3606 are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding
3607 cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e.
3608 if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the
3609 size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of
3610 one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has
3611 written to another region in the same cache-line. This can
3612 happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for
3613 buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g.
3614 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).
3616 Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
3618 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
3619 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
3620 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
3621 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
3622 to adjust this setting to your needs.
3624 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
3625 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
3626 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
3627 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
3628 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
3629 environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
3630 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
3631 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
3632 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
3633 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
3634 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
3636 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
3637 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
3638 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
3641 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
3642 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
3643 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3645 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
3646 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
3647 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3649 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
3650 Max number of Flash memory banks
3652 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
3653 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
3655 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
3656 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
3658 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
3659 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
3661 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
3662 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
3664 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
3665 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
3667 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
3668 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
3669 instead of U-Boot software protection.
3671 - CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
3673 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
3674 without this option such a download has to be
3675 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
3676 copy from RAM to flash.
3678 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
3679 you can check if the download worked before you erase
3680 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
3681 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
3682 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
3684 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
3685 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
3686 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
3688 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
3689 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
3690 in the drivers directory
3692 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
3693 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
3694 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
3697 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
3698 Use buffered writes to flash.
3700 - CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
3701 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
3704 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
3705 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
3706 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
3707 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
3708 optionally available.
3710 - CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
3711 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
3712 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
3713 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
3715 - CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY
3716 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
3717 against the source after the write operation. An error message
3718 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
3719 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
3720 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
3721 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
3722 this option if you really know what you are doing.
3724 - CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
3725 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
3726 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
3727 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
3728 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
3729 on high Ethernet traffic.
3730 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
3732 - CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
3734 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
3735 internally to store the environment settings. The default
3736 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
3737 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
3738 lib/hashtable.c for details.
3740 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3741 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3742 Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when
3743 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
3744 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
3745 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
3747 The format of the list is:
3748 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
3749 access_attribute = [a|r|o|c]
3750 attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute]
3751 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
3754 The type attributes are:
3755 s - String (default)
3758 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
3762 The access attributes are:
3768 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3769 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
3770 environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
3772 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3773 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
3774 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
3775 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
3776 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
3779 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
3780 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to define the same
3781 flags without explicitly listing them for each variable.
3783 - CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
3784 If defined, don't allow the -f switch to env set override variable
3787 - CONFIG_OMAP_PLATFORM_RESET_TIME_MAX_USEC (OMAP only)
3788 This is set by OMAP boards for the max time that reset should
3789 be asserted. See doc/README.omap-reset-time for details on how
3790 the value can be calculated on a given board.
3793 If stdint.h is available with your toolchain you can define this
3794 option to enable it. You can provide option 'USE_STDINT=1' when
3795 building U-Boot to enable this.
3797 The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
3798 of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
3799 following configurations:
3801 - CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
3803 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
3804 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
3806 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
3808 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
3810 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
3811 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
3812 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
3813 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
3814 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
3815 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
3816 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
3817 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
3818 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
3819 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
3820 between U-Boot and the environment.
3822 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3824 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
3825 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
3826 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
3827 for this sector is given here.
3829 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
3833 This is just another way to specify the start address of
3834 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
3837 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
3839 Size of the sector containing the environment.
3842 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
3843 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
3848 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
3849 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
3850 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
3851 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
3853 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
3854 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
3855 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
3856 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
3857 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
3858 updating the environment in flash makes it always
3859 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
3860 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
3861 RAM, your target system will be dead.
3863 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
3864 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
3866 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
3867 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
3868 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
3869 a "saveenv" operation.
3871 BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
3872 source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
3876 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
3878 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
3879 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
3885 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
3886 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
3887 can just be read and written to, without any special
3890 BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
3891 in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the
3892 console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
3895 Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3896 environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3897 keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3898 to save the current settings.
3901 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
3903 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
3904 device and a driver for it.
3906 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3909 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
3910 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
3912 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
3913 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
3914 The default address is zero.
3916 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_BUS:
3917 If defined, specified the i2c bus of the EEPROM device.
3919 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
3920 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
3921 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
3922 would require six bits.
3924 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
3925 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
3926 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
3928 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
3929 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
3930 that this is NOT the chip address length!
3932 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
3933 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
3934 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
3935 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
3936 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
3939 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
3940 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
3941 in the chip address.
3943 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
3944 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
3946 - CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C
3947 define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your
3948 EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.
3950 - CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS
3951 if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over
3952 I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this
3953 EEPROM. For example:
3955 #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS 1
3957 EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over
3958 a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.
3960 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
3962 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
3963 want to use for the environment.
3965 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3969 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
3970 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
3971 at the specified address.
3973 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_SPI_FLASH:
3975 Define this if you have a SPI Flash memory device which you
3976 want to use for the environment.
3978 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3981 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
3982 environment area within the SPI Flash. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
3983 aligned to an erase sector boundary.
3985 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
3987 Define the SPI flash's sector size.
3989 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
3991 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
3992 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
3993 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
3994 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND must be
3995 aligned to an erase sector boundary.
3997 - CONFIG_ENV_SPI_BUS (optional):
3998 - CONFIG_ENV_SPI_CS (optional):
4000 Define the SPI bus and chip select. If not defined they will be 0.
4002 - CONFIG_ENV_SPI_MAX_HZ (optional):
4004 Define the SPI max work clock. If not defined then use 1MHz.
4006 - CONFIG_ENV_SPI_MODE (optional):
4008 Define the SPI work mode. If not defined then use SPI_MODE_3.
4010 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_REMOTE:
4012 Define this if you have a remote memory space which you
4013 want to use for the local device's environment.
4018 These two #defines specify the address and size of the
4019 environment area within the remote memory space. The
4020 local device can get the environment from remote memory
4021 space by SRIO or PCIE links.
4023 BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
4024 "saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
4025 environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
4026 but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
4028 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
4030 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
4031 for the environment.
4033 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
4036 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
4037 area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
4038 aligned to an erase block boundary.
4040 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
4042 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
4043 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
4044 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
4045 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND must be
4046 aligned to an erase block boundary.
4048 - CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):
4050 Specifies the length of the region in which the environment
4051 can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's
4052 block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than
4053 are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within
4054 the range to be avoided.
4056 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):
4058 Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the
4059 environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The
4060 "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset.
4061 Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when
4062 using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.
4064 - CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
4066 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
4067 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
4068 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
4070 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_UBI:
4072 Define this if you have an UBI volume that you want to use for the
4073 environment. This has the benefit of wear-leveling the environment
4074 accesses, which is important on NAND.
4076 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_PART:
4078 Define this to a string that is the mtd partition containing the UBI.
4080 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_VOLUME:
4082 Define this to the name of the volume that you want to store the
4085 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_VOLUME_REDUND:
4087 Define this to the name of another volume to store a second copy of
4088 the environment in. This will enable redundant environments in UBI.
4089 It is assumed that both volumes are in the same MTD partition.
4091 - CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
4092 - CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
4094 You will probably want to define these to avoid a really noisy system
4095 when storing the env in UBI.
4097 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FAT:
4098 Define this if you want to use the FAT file system for the environment.
4100 - FAT_ENV_INTERFACE:
4102 Define this to a string that is the name of the block device.
4104 - FAT_ENV_DEVICE_AND_PART:
4106 Define this to a string to specify the partition of the device. It can
4109 "D:P", "D:0", "D", "D:" or "D:auto" (D, P are integers. And P >= 1)
4110 - "D:P": device D partition P. Error occurs if device D has no
4113 - "D" or "D:": device D partition 1 if device D has partition
4114 table, or the whole device D if has no partition
4116 - "D:auto": first partition in device D with bootable flag set.
4117 If none, first valid partition in device D. If no
4118 partition table then means device D.
4122 It's a string of the FAT file name. This file use to store the
4126 This should be defined. Otherwise it cannot save the environment file.
4128 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC:
4130 Define this if you have an MMC device which you want to use for the
4133 - CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV:
4135 Specifies which MMC device the environment is stored in.
4137 - CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_PART (optional):
4139 Specifies which MMC partition the environment is stored in. If not
4140 set, defaults to partition 0, the user area. Common values might be
4141 1 (first MMC boot partition), 2 (second MMC boot partition).
4143 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
4146 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
4147 area within the specified MMC device.
4149 If offset is positive (the usual case), it is treated as relative to
4150 the start of the MMC partition. If offset is negative, it is treated
4151 as relative to the end of the MMC partition. This can be useful if
4152 your board may be fitted with different MMC devices, which have
4153 different sizes for the MMC partitions, and you always want the
4154 environment placed at the very end of the partition, to leave the
4155 maximum possible space before it, to store other data.
4157 These two values are in units of bytes, but must be aligned to an
4158 MMC sector boundary.
4160 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
4162 Specifies a second storage area, of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE size, used to
4163 hold a redundant copy of the environment data. This provides a
4164 valid backup copy in case the other copy is corrupted, e.g. due
4165 to a power failure during a "saveenv" operation.
4167 This value may also be positive or negative; this is handled in the
4168 same way as CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET.
4170 This value is also in units of bytes, but must also be aligned to
4171 an MMC sector boundary.
4173 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND (optional):
4175 This value need not be set, even when CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is
4176 set. If this value is set, it must be set to the same value as
4179 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
4181 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
4182 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
4183 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
4184 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
4185 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
4186 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
4187 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
4189 Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
4190 has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
4191 created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f()
4192 until then to read environment variables.
4194 The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
4195 is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
4196 with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
4197 necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
4198 "baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
4199 have any device yet where we could complain.]
4201 Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
4202 the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
4203 use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
4205 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
4206 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
4208 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
4209 also needs to be defined.
4211 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
4212 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
4214 - CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
4215 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
4216 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
4217 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
4218 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
4219 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
4221 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
4222 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
4223 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
4226 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
4227 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
4228 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
4231 - CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT:
4232 Maximum size of the U-Boot image. When defined, the
4233 build system checks that the actual size does not
4236 Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
4237 ---------------------------------------------------
4239 - CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
4240 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
4242 - CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
4243 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
4245 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
4246 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
4247 the IMMR register after a reset.
4249 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
4250 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
4253 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
4254 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
4255 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
4257 CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR must also be set to this value,
4258 for cross-platform code that uses that macro instead.
4260 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
4261 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
4262 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
4263 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
4264 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
4265 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
4266 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
4268 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
4269 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
4271 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
4272 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
4273 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
4274 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
4275 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
4277 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
4278 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
4279 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
4280 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
4282 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
4283 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
4284 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
4286 - Floppy Disk Support:
4287 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
4289 the default drive number (default value 0)
4291 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
4293 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
4296 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
4298 defines the offset of register from address. It
4299 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
4300 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
4302 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
4303 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
4306 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
4307 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
4308 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
4309 source code. It is used to make hardware-dependent
4313 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
4314 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
4315 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
4316 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
4317 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
4320 - CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
4321 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
4322 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
4324 - CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
4326 Start address of memory area that can be used for
4327 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
4328 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
4329 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
4330 will become available only after programming the
4331 memory controller and running certain initialization
4334 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
4335 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
4336 - MPC824X: data cache
4337 - PPC4xx: data cache
4339 - CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
4341 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
4342 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
4343 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
4344 data is located at the end of the available space
4345 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
4346 GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
4347 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
4348 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
4351 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
4352 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
4353 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
4354 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
4355 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
4357 - CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
4359 - CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
4361 - CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
4363 - CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
4365 - CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
4367 - CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
4369 - CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
4372 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
4373 periodic timer for refresh
4375 - CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
4377 - FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
4378 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
4379 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
4380 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
4381 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
4383 - SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
4384 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
4385 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
4386 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
4388 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
4389 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
4390 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
4391 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
4393 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4394 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4395 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
4397 - CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4398 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4399 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
4401 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4402 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4403 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
4405 - CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
4406 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
4407 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
4408 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
4411 - CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
4412 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
4413 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
4414 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
4415 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
4416 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
4417 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
4418 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
4419 Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
4421 - CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE:
4422 Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
4425 - CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
4426 Only scan through and get the devices on the buses.
4427 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
4428 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
4429 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
4430 by coreboot or similar.
4432 - CONFIG_PCI_INDIRECT_BRIDGE:
4433 Enable support for indirect PCI bridges.
4436 Chip has SRIO or not
4439 Board has SRIO 1 port available
4442 Board has SRIO 2 port available
4444 - CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
4445 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
4447 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
4448 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4450 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
4451 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4453 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
4454 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4456 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
4457 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
4459 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
4460 Example of drivers that use it:
4461 - drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c
4462 - drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
4464 - CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
4465 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
4466 a default value will be used.
4469 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
4470 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
4473 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
4475 - CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
4476 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
4477 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
4478 to something your driver can deal with.
4480 - CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
4481 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
4482 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
4483 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
4484 header files or board specific files.
4486 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
4487 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
4489 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_SYNC_REFRESH
4490 Enable sync of refresh for multiple controllers.
4492 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_BIST
4493 Enable built-in memory test for Freescale DDR controllers.
4495 - CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
4496 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
4497 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
4499 - CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
4500 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
4502 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
4503 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
4504 to the given FEC; i. e.
4505 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
4506 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
4508 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
4510 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
4511 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
4512 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
4515 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
4516 Note that this is a global option, we can't
4517 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
4519 - CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
4520 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
4523 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
4525 Where address/count indicate a memory area
4526 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
4530 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
4531 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
4534 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
4539 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
4541 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
4542 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
4544 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
4545 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
4547 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
4548 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain
4549 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
4550 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
4551 relocate itself into RAM.
4553 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
4554 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
4555 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
4556 these initializations itself.
4558 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT_ONLY
4559 [ARM926EJ-S only] This allows just the call to lowlevel_init()
4560 to be skipped. The normal CP15 init (such as enabling the
4561 instruction cache) is still performed.
4564 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
4565 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
4566 compiling a NAND SPL.
4569 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
4570 that is executed after the SPL and before the actual U-Boot.
4571 It is loaded by the SPL.
4573 - CONFIG_SYS_MPC85XX_NO_RESETVEC
4574 Only for 85xx systems. If this variable is specified, the section
4575 .resetvec is not kept and the section .bootpg is placed in the
4576 previous 4k of the .text section.
4578 - CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
4579 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
4580 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
4581 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
4582 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
4583 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
4584 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
4585 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
4587 - CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
4588 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
4589 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
4592 Defines the MPU clock speed (in MHz).
4594 NOTE : currently only supported on AM335x platforms.
4596 - CONFIG_SPL_AM33XX_ENABLE_RTC32K_OSC:
4597 Enables the RTC32K OSC on AM33xx based plattforms
4599 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE
4600 Option to disable subpage write in NAND driver
4601 driver that uses this:
4602 drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
4604 Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
4605 -----------------------------------
4607 The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
4608 loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
4609 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
4610 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
4613 - CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR
4614 The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The
4615 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
4618 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR
4619 The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The
4620 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
4623 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
4624 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
4625 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
4626 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
4627 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
4629 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
4630 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
4631 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
4632 virtual address in NOR flash.
4634 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
4635 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
4636 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
4638 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
4639 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
4640 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
4642 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
4643 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
4644 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
4645 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
4646 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
4647 master's memory space.
4649 Freescale Layerscape Management Complex Firmware Support:
4650 ---------------------------------------------------------
4651 The Freescale Layerscape Management Complex (MC) supports the loading of
4653 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
4654 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
4657 - CONFIG_FSL_MC_ENET
4658 Enable the MC driver for Layerscape SoCs.
4660 Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support:
4661 -------------------------------------------
4662 The Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support supports the loading of
4663 "Debug Server firmware" and triggering SP boot-rom.
4664 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting.
4666 - CONFIG_SYS_MC_RSV_MEM_ALIGN
4667 Define alignment of reserved memory MC requires
4672 In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
4673 process have to be set to a fixed value.
4675 This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
4676 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is to be set on the build host's shell, not as a configuration
4677 option for U-Boot or an environment variable in U-Boot.
4679 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should be set to a number of seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
4681 Building the Software:
4682 ======================
4684 Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
4685 and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
4686 all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
4687 (potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
4688 recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
4689 which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
4691 If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
4692 have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
4693 you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
4694 Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
4695 necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
4697 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
4698 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
4700 Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
4701 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
4702 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
4703 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
4705 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
4707 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
4708 be executed on computers running Windows.
4710 U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
4711 sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
4716 where "NAME_defconfig" is the name of one of the existing configu-
4717 rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
4719 Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
4720 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
4721 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
4722 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
4723 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
4725 make TQM823L_defconfig
4726 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
4728 make TQM823L_LCD_defconfig
4729 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
4734 Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
4735 images ready for download to / installation on your system:
4737 - "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
4738 - "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
4739 - "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
4741 By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
4742 in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
4743 this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
4745 1. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
4747 make O=/tmp/build distclean
4748 make O=/tmp/build NAME_defconfig
4749 make O=/tmp/build all
4751 2. Set environment variable KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the desired location:
4753 export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/build
4758 Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
4762 Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
4763 for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
4767 If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
4768 to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
4771 1. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
4772 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
4773 the "Makefile" and a "<board>.c".
4774 2. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
4776 3. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
4777 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
4778 4. Run "make <board>_defconfig" with your new name.
4779 5. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
4780 to be installed on your target system.
4781 6. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
4782 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
4785 Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
4786 ==============================================================
4788 If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
4789 or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
4790 provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
4791 the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
4792 official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
4794 But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
4795 cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
4796 the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
4797 just run the buildman script (tools/buildman/buildman), which will
4798 configure and build U-Boot for ALL supported system. Be warned, this
4799 will take a while. Please see the buildman README, or run 'buildman -H'
4803 See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
4806 Monitor Commands - Overview:
4807 ============================
4809 go - start application at address 'addr'
4810 run - run commands in an environment variable
4811 bootm - boot application image from memory
4812 bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
4813 bootz - boot zImage from memory
4814 tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
4815 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
4816 (and eventually "gatewayip")
4817 tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
4818 rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
4819 diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
4820 loads - load S-Record file over serial line
4821 loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
4823 mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
4824 nm - memory modify (constant address)
4825 mw - memory write (fill)
4827 cmp - memory compare
4828 crc32 - checksum calculation
4829 i2c - I2C sub-system
4830 sspi - SPI utility commands
4831 base - print or set address offset
4832 printenv- print environment variables
4833 setenv - set environment variables
4834 saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
4835 protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
4836 erase - erase FLASH memory
4837 flinfo - print FLASH memory information
4838 nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
4839 bdinfo - print Board Info structure
4840 iminfo - print header information for application image
4841 coninfo - print console devices and informations
4842 ide - IDE sub-system
4843 loop - infinite loop on address range
4844 loopw - infinite write loop on address range
4845 mtest - simple RAM test
4846 icache - enable or disable instruction cache
4847 dcache - enable or disable data cache
4848 reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
4849 echo - echo args to console
4850 version - print monitor version
4851 help - print online help
4852 ? - alias for 'help'
4855 Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
4856 ========================================
4860 For now: just type "help <command>".
4863 Environment Variables:
4864 ======================
4866 U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
4867 can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
4869 Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
4870 "printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
4871 without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
4872 environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
4873 working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
4874 environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
4876 Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
4878 List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
4880 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
4882 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
4884 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
4886 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
4888 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
4890 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
4891 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
4892 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
4893 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
4894 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
4895 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
4896 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
4899 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
4900 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
4901 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
4902 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
4903 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
4904 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
4907 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
4908 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
4909 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
4910 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
4911 environment variable.
4913 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
4914 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
4915 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
4917 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
4918 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
4919 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
4920 load any image using TFTP
4922 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
4923 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
4924 be automatically started (by internally calling
4927 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
4928 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
4929 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
4930 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
4933 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
4934 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
4935 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
4936 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
4937 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
4938 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
4939 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
4940 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
4941 access it during the boot procedure.
4943 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
4944 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
4945 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
4946 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
4947 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
4948 must be accessible by the kernel.
4950 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
4951 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
4954 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
4955 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
4956 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
4957 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
4958 it must be saved and board must be reset.
4960 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
4961 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
4962 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
4963 is usually what you want since it allows for
4964 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
4965 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
4966 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
4967 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
4968 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
4969 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
4970 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
4972 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
4973 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
4974 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
4975 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
4976 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
4977 12 MB as well - this can be done with
4979 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
4981 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
4982 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
4983 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
4984 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
4985 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
4986 boot time on your system, but requires that this
4987 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
4989 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
4991 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
4992 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
4994 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
4996 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
4998 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
5000 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
5002 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
5004 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
5006 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
5007 For example you can do the following
5009 => setenv ethact FEC
5010 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
5011 => setenv ethact SCC
5012 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
5014 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
5015 available network interfaces.
5016 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
5018 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
5019 either succeed or fail without retrying.
5020 When set to "once" the network operation will
5021 fail when all the available network interfaces
5022 are tried once without success.
5023 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
5026 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
5028 silent_linux - If set then Linux will be told to boot silently, by
5029 changing the console to be empty. If "yes" it will be
5030 made silent. If "no" it will not be made silent. If
5031 unset, then it will be made silent if the U-Boot console
5034 tftpsrcp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
5037 tftpdstp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
5038 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
5040 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
5041 we use the TFTP server's default block size
5043 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
5044 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
5045 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
5046 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
5047 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
5048 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
5049 with unreliable TFTP servers.
5051 tftptimeoutcountmax - maximum count of TFTP timeouts (no
5052 unit, minimum value = 0). Defines how many timeouts
5053 can happen during a single file transfer before that
5054 transfer is aborted. The default is 10, and 0 means
5055 'no timeouts allowed'. Increasing this value may help
5056 downloads succeed with high packet loss rates, or with
5057 unreliable TFTP servers or client hardware.
5059 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
5060 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
5063 bootpretryperiod - Period during which BOOTP/DHCP sends retries.
5064 Unsigned value, in milliseconds. If not set, the period will
5065 be either the default (28000), or a value based on
5066 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT, if defined. This value has
5067 precedence over the valu based on CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT.
5069 The following image location variables contain the location of images
5070 used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
5071 not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
5072 variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
5073 server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
5074 loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
5075 flash or offset in NAND flash.
5077 *Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
5078 boards currently use other variables for these purposes, and some
5079 boards use these variables for other purposes.
5081 Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
5082 ----- --------- ----------- --------------
5083 u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
5084 Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
5085 device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
5086 ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
5088 The following environment variables may be used and automatically
5089 updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
5090 depending the information provided by your boot server:
5092 bootfile - see above
5093 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
5094 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
5095 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
5096 hostname - Target hostname
5098 netmask - Subnet Mask
5099 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
5100 serverip - see above
5103 There are two special Environment Variables:
5105 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
5106 as type string and/or serial number
5107 ethaddr - Ethernet address
5109 These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
5110 the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
5111 once they have been set once.
5114 Further special Environment Variables:
5116 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
5117 with the "version" command. This variable is
5118 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
5121 Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
5122 only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
5125 Callback functions for environment variables:
5126 ---------------------------------------------
5128 For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change
5129 when their values are changed. This functionality allows functions to
5130 be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or
5131 deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side
5132 effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.
5134 The callbacks are named and associated with a function using the
5135 U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK macro in your board or driver code.
5137 These callbacks are associated with variables in one of two ways. The
5138 static list can be added to by defining CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC
5139 in the board configuration to a string that defines a list of
5140 associations. The list must be in the following format:
5142 entry = variable_name[:callback_name]
5145 If the callback name is not specified, then the callback is deleted.
5146 Spaces are also allowed anywhere in the list.
5148 Callbacks can also be associated by defining the ".callbacks" variable
5149 with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will
5150 override any association in the static list. You can define
5151 CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
5152 ".callbacks" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
5154 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
5155 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to be connected to
5156 the same callback without explicitly listing them all out.
5159 Command Line Parsing:
5160 =====================
5162 There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
5163 the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
5165 Old, simple command line parser:
5166 --------------------------------
5168 - supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
5169 - several commands on one line, separated by ';'
5170 - variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
5171 - special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
5173 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
5174 - You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
5175 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
5180 - similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
5181 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
5182 until...do...done, ...
5183 - supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
5184 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
5185 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
5191 (1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
5192 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
5193 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
5196 (2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
5197 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
5198 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
5199 variables are not executed.
5201 Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
5202 =======================================
5204 Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
5205 such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
5206 "working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
5208 Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
5209 MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
5210 "eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
5212 If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
5213 in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
5214 ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
5215 variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
5217 o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
5218 environment, the SROM's address is used.
5220 o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
5221 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
5224 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
5225 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
5227 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
5228 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
5231 o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
5232 is raised. If CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR is defined, then in this case
5233 a random, locally-assigned MAC is used.
5235 If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
5236 will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
5237 may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
5238 The naming convention is as follows:
5239 "ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
5244 U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
5245 images in two formats:
5247 New uImage format (FIT)
5248 -----------------------
5250 Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
5251 to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
5252 components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
5253 SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
5259 Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
5260 preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
5261 details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
5263 * Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
5264 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
5265 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
5266 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
5268 * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
5269 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
5270 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
5271 * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
5277 The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
5278 and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
5285 Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
5286 easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
5289 U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
5290 special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
5291 "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
5292 instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
5293 serves several purposes:
5295 - the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
5296 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
5297 Flash memory footprint)
5299 - it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
5300 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
5302 - the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
5303 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
5304 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
5305 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
5306 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
5307 software is easier now.
5313 Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
5314 ---------------------------------------
5316 U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
5317 configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
5318 (no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
5321 But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
5323 Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
5324 include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
5325 Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
5326 and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
5327 as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
5329 Note that U-Boot now has a driver model, a unified model for drivers.
5330 If you are adding a new driver, plumb it into driver model. If there
5331 is no uclass available, you are encouraged to create one. See
5335 Configuring the Linux kernel:
5336 -----------------------------
5338 No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
5339 device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
5342 Building a Linux Image:
5343 -----------------------
5345 With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
5346 not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
5347 "uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
5348 U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
5349 which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
5350 100% compatible format.
5354 make TQM850L_defconfig
5359 The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
5360 encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
5361 CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
5363 * build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
5365 * convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
5367 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
5368 -R .note -R .comment \
5369 -S vmlinux linux.bin
5371 * compress the binary image:
5375 * package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
5377 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
5378 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
5379 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
5382 The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
5383 with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
5384 combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
5385 byte header containing information about target architecture,
5386 operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
5387 stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
5389 "mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
5390 print the header information, or to build new images.
5392 In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
5393 contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
5394 checksum verification:
5396 tools/mkimage -l image
5397 -l ==> list image header information
5399 The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
5400 from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
5402 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
5403 -n name -d data_file image
5404 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
5405 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
5406 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
5407 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
5408 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
5409 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
5410 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
5411 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
5413 Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
5414 address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
5417 - 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
5418 - 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
5420 So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
5422 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
5423 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
5424 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
5425 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
5426 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5427 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5428 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5429 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
5430 Load Address: 0x00000000
5431 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5433 To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
5435 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
5436 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5437 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5438 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5439 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
5440 Load Address: 0x00000000
5441 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5443 NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
5444 speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
5445 needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
5446 need to be uncompressed:
5448 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
5449 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
5450 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
5451 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
5452 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
5453 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5454 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5455 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
5456 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
5457 Load Address: 0x00000000
5458 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5461 Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
5462 when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
5464 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
5465 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
5466 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
5467 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5468 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
5469 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5470 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
5471 Load Address: 0x00000000
5472 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5474 The "dumpimage" is a tool to disassemble images built by mkimage. Its "-i"
5475 option performs the converse operation of the mkimage's second form (the "-d"
5476 option). Given an image built by mkimage, the dumpimage extracts a "data file"
5479 tools/dumpimage -i image -T type -p position data_file
5480 -i ==> extract from the 'image' a specific 'data_file'
5481 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
5482 -p ==> 'position' (starting at 0) of the 'data_file' inside the 'image'
5485 Installing a Linux Image:
5486 -------------------------
5488 To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
5489 you must convert the image to S-Record format:
5491 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
5493 The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
5494 image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
5495 address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
5496 specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
5499 Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
5500 TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
5502 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
5508 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5509 ~>examples/image.srec
5510 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
5512 15989 15990 15991 15992
5513 [file transfer complete]
5515 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
5518 You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
5519 this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
5520 corruption happened:
5524 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
5525 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5526 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5527 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5528 Load Address: 00000000
5529 Entry Point: 0000000c
5530 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5536 The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
5537 memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
5538 of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
5539 parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
5540 "printenv" and "setenv" commands:
5543 => printenv bootargs
5544 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
5546 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5548 => printenv bootargs
5549 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5552 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
5553 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
5554 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5555 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
5556 Load Address: 00000000
5557 Entry Point: 0000000c
5558 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5559 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5560 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
5561 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5562 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
5563 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
5564 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
5567 If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
5568 the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
5569 format!) to the "bootm" command:
5571 => imi 40100000 40200000
5573 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
5574 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5575 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5576 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5577 Load Address: 00000000
5578 Entry Point: 0000000c
5579 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5581 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
5582 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5583 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5584 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
5585 Load Address: 00000000
5586 Entry Point: 00000000
5587 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5589 => bootm 40100000 40200000
5590 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
5591 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5592 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5593 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5594 Load Address: 00000000
5595 Entry Point: 0000000c
5596 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5597 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5598 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
5599 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5600 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5601 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
5602 Load Address: 00000000
5603 Entry Point: 00000000
5604 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5605 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
5606 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
5607 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
5608 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
5609 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
5611 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
5612 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
5616 Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
5619 First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
5620 titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
5621 following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
5627 oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
5628 => tftp $oftaddr $oft
5629 Speed: 1000, full duplex
5631 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
5632 Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
5633 Load address: 0x300000
5636 Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
5637 => tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
5638 Speed: 1000, full duplex
5640 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
5642 Load address: 0x200000
5643 Loading:############
5645 Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
5650 => bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
5651 ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
5652 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
5653 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5654 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
5655 Load Address: 00000000
5656 Entry Point: 00000000
5657 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5658 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5659 Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
5660 Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
5661 Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
5665 More About U-Boot Image Types:
5666 ------------------------------
5668 U-Boot supports the following image types:
5670 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
5671 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
5672 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
5673 the Standalone Program.
5674 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
5675 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
5676 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
5677 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
5678 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
5679 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
5680 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
5682 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
5683 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
5684 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
5685 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
5686 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
5687 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
5689 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
5690 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
5691 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
5692 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
5693 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
5694 a multiple of 4 bytes).
5696 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
5697 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
5700 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
5701 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
5702 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
5703 as command interpreter.
5705 Booting the Linux zImage:
5706 -------------------------
5708 On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
5709 using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
5710 as the syntax of "bootm" command.
5712 Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
5713 kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
5714 address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
5715 format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
5721 One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
5722 run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
5723 U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
5725 Two simple examples are included with the sources:
5730 'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
5731 application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
5732 It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
5736 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5737 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
5738 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
5739 [file transfer complete]
5741 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
5743 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
5744 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
5755 Hit any key to exit ...
5757 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
5759 Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
5760 handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
5761 Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
5762 The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
5763 character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
5764 controlled by the following keys:
5766 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
5767 b - enable interrupts and start timer
5768 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
5769 q - quit application
5772 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5773 ~>examples/timer.srec
5774 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
5775 [file transfer complete]
5777 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
5780 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
5783 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
5786 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
5789 [q, b, e, ?] ........
5790 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
5793 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
5796 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
5799 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
5801 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
5803 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
5809 Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
5810 "minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
5811 consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
5812 Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
5813 especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
5814 use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
5815 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
5816 for help with kermit.
5819 Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
5820 configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
5822 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
5823 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
5824 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
5830 Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
5831 (build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
5833 Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
5834 NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
5835 need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
5836 Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
5837 attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
5838 missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
5840 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
5842 # ln -s powerpc machine
5843 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
5844 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
5846 Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
5847 and U-Boot include files.
5849 Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
5850 stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
5851 proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
5852 tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
5853 meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
5856 Implementation Internals:
5857 =========================
5859 The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
5860 implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
5861 inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
5865 Initial Stack, Global Data:
5866 ---------------------------
5868 The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
5869 starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
5870 system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
5871 This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
5872 is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
5873 at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
5874 options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
5875 models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
5876 MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
5877 locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
5879 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
5880 U-Boot mailing list:
5882 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
5883 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
5884 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
5887 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
5888 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
5889 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
5890 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
5891 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
5892 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
5893 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
5894 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
5896 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
5897 is another option for the system designer to use as an
5898 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
5899 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
5900 board designers haven't used it for something that would
5901 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
5904 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
5905 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
5906 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
5907 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
5908 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
5909 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
5910 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
5911 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
5912 you get the config right.
5917 It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
5918 code for the initialization procedures:
5920 * Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
5923 * Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized
5924 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
5925 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
5927 * Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
5930 Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
5931 normal global data to share information between the code. But it
5932 turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
5933 simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
5934 functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
5935 functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
5936 the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
5937 place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
5938 reserve for this purpose.
5940 When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
5941 relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
5942 GCC's implementation.
5944 For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
5946 R2: reserved for system use
5947 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
5948 R5-R10: parameter passing
5949 R13: small data area pointer
5953 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
5954 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
5955 going back and forth between asm and C)
5957 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
5959 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
5960 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
5961 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
5962 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
5963 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
5964 624 text + 127 data).
5966 On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here:
5967 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
5969 ==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data
5971 On ARM, the following registers are used:
5973 R0: function argument word/integer result
5974 R1-R3: function argument word
5975 R9: platform specific
5976 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
5977 R11: argument (frame) pointer
5978 R12: temporary workspace
5981 R15: program counter
5983 ==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data
5985 Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.
5987 On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
5988 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
5990 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
5992 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
5993 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
5995 On NDS32, the following registers are used:
5997 R0-R1: argument/return
5999 R15: temporary register for assembler
6000 R16: trampoline register
6001 R28: frame pointer (FP)
6002 R29: global pointer (GP)
6003 R30: link register (LP)
6004 R31: stack pointer (SP)
6005 PC: program counter (PC)
6007 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
6009 NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
6010 or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
6015 U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
6016 MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
6018 The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
6019 controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
6020 memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
6021 physical memory banks.
6023 U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
6024 TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
6025 booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
6026 to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
6027 memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
6028 configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
6029 Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
6031 Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
6032 of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
6034 So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
6037 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
6040 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
6046 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
6047 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
6048 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
6051 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
6052 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
6053 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
6054 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
6057 System Initialization:
6058 ----------------------
6060 In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
6061 (on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
6062 configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory.
6063 To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
6064 To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
6065 initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
6066 which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
6067 part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
6068 the caches and the SIU.
6070 Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
6071 preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
6072 (multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
6073 on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
6074 programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
6075 simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
6078 When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
6079 different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
6080 bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
6081 0x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
6082 contiguous memory starting from 0.
6084 Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
6085 and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
6086 Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
6087 pages, and the final stack is set up.
6089 Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
6090 until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
6091 running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
6095 U-Boot Porting Guide:
6096 ----------------------
6098 [Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
6102 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
6104 sighandler_t no_more_time;
6106 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
6107 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
6109 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
6110 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
6114 Download latest U-Boot source;
6116 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
6119 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
6122 Read the README file in the top level directory;
6123 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
6124 Read applicable doc/*.README;
6125 Read the source, Luke;
6126 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
6129 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
6132 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
6134 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
6135 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
6136 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
6138 Create your own board support subdirectory;
6139 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
6141 Edit new board/<myboard> files
6142 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
6147 Add / modify source code;
6151 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
6153 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
6154 if (reasonable critiques)
6155 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
6157 Defend code as written;
6163 void no_more_time (int sig)
6172 All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
6173 coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
6174 "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
6176 Source files originating from a different project (for example the
6177 MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
6178 reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
6181 Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
6182 Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
6185 Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
6186 - remove any trailing white space
6187 - use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
6188 - make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
6189 - do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
6190 - do not add trailing empty lines to source files
6192 Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
6193 with a request to reformat the changes.
6199 Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
6200 establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
6201 may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
6203 Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
6205 Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
6206 see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
6208 When you send a patch, please include the following information with
6211 * For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
6212 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
6213 patch actually fixes something.
6215 * For new features: a description of the feature and your
6218 * A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
6220 * For major contributions, add a MAINTAINERS file with your
6221 information and associated file and directory references.
6223 * When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a
6224 maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.
6226 * If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
6227 document these in the README file.
6229 * The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
6230 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
6231 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
6232 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
6233 with some other mail clients.
6235 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
6236 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
6239 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
6240 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
6241 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
6244 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
6245 and compressed attachments must not be used.
6247 * If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
6248 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
6250 * Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
6251 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
6256 * Before sending the patch, run the buildman script on your patched
6257 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
6258 for any of the boards.
6260 * Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
6261 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
6262 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
6264 * If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
6265 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
6266 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
6267 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
6268 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
6271 * Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
6272 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
6273 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
6274 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.