1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
3 # (C) Copyright 2000 - 2013
4 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
9 This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
10 Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
11 processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
12 initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
15 The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
16 the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
17 header files in common, and special provision has been made to
18 support booting of Linux images.
20 Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
21 configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
22 implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
23 add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
24 code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
25 load and run it dynamically.
31 In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
32 Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
33 "working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
35 In case of problems see the CHANGELOG file to find out who contributed
36 the specific port. In addition, there are various MAINTAINERS files
37 scattered throughout the U-Boot source identifying the people or
38 companies responsible for various boards and subsystems.
40 Note: As of August, 2010, there is no longer a CHANGELOG file in the
41 actual U-Boot source tree; however, it can be created dynamically
42 from the Git log using:
50 In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
51 U-Boot, you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
52 <u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
53 on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
54 Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
55 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
58 Where to get source code:
59 =========================
61 The U-Boot source code is maintained in the Git repository at
62 git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
63 http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
65 The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
66 any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
67 available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
70 Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
71 ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
77 - start from 8xxrom sources
78 - create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
80 - make it easier to add custom boards
81 - make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
82 - extend functions, especially:
83 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
86 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
87 - create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
88 - add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
89 - create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
90 - current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
96 The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
97 "U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
98 in source files etc.). Example:
100 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
102 File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
104 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
106 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
108 Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
109 the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
111 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
112 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
118 Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
119 were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
120 into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
121 names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
122 Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
123 releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
126 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
127 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
128 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candidate 1 for September 2010 release
134 /arch Architecture specific files
135 /arc Files generic to ARC architecture
136 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
137 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
138 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
139 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
140 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
141 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
142 /openrisc Files generic to OpenRISC architecture
143 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
144 /riscv Files generic to RISC-V architecture
145 /sandbox Files generic to HW-independent "sandbox"
146 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
147 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
148 /api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
149 /board Board dependent files
150 /cmd U-Boot commands functions
151 /common Misc architecture independent functions
152 /configs Board default configuration files
153 /disk Code for disk drive partition handling
154 /doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
155 /drivers Commonly used device drivers
156 /dts Contains Makefile for building internal U-Boot fdt.
157 /examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
158 /fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
159 /include Header Files
160 /lib Library routines generic to all architectures
161 /Licenses Various license files
163 /post Power On Self Test
164 /scripts Various build scripts and Makefiles
165 /test Various unit test files
166 /tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
168 Software Configuration:
169 =======================
171 Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
172 rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
174 There are two classes of configuration variables:
176 * Configuration _OPTIONS_:
177 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
180 * Configuration _SETTINGS_:
181 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
182 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
185 Previously, all configuration was done by hand, which involved creating
186 symbolic links and editing configuration files manually. More recently,
187 U-Boot has added the Kbuild infrastructure used by the Linux kernel,
188 allowing you to use the "make menuconfig" command to configure your
192 Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
193 ---------------------------------------------------
195 For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
196 configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_defconfig".
198 Example: For a TQM823L module type:
201 make TQM823L_defconfig
203 Note: If you're looking for the default configuration file for a board
204 you're sure used to be there but is now missing, check the file
205 doc/README.scrapyard for a list of no longer supported boards.
210 U-Boot can be built natively to run on a Linux host using the 'sandbox'
211 board. This allows feature development which is not board- or architecture-
212 specific to be undertaken on a native platform. The sandbox is also used to
213 run some of U-Boot's tests.
215 See board/sandbox/README.sandbox for more details.
218 Board Initialisation Flow:
219 --------------------------
221 This is the intended start-up flow for boards. This should apply for both
222 SPL and U-Boot proper (i.e. they both follow the same rules).
224 Note: "SPL" stands for "Secondary Program Loader," which is explained in
225 more detail later in this file.
227 At present, SPL mostly uses a separate code path, but the function names
228 and roles of each function are the same. Some boards or architectures
229 may not conform to this. At least most ARM boards which use
230 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK conform to this.
232 Execution typically starts with an architecture-specific (and possibly
233 CPU-specific) start.S file, such as:
235 - arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
236 - arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc83xx/start.S
237 - arch/mips/cpu/start.S
239 and so on. From there, three functions are called; the purpose and
240 limitations of each of these functions are described below.
243 - purpose: essential init to permit execution to reach board_init_f()
244 - no global_data or BSS
245 - there is no stack (ARMv7 may have one but it will soon be removed)
246 - must not set up SDRAM or use console
247 - must only do the bare minimum to allow execution to continue to
249 - this is almost never needed
250 - return normally from this function
253 - purpose: set up the machine ready for running board_init_r():
254 i.e. SDRAM and serial UART
255 - global_data is available
257 - BSS is not available, so you cannot use global/static variables,
258 only stack variables and global_data
260 Non-SPL-specific notes:
261 - dram_init() is called to set up DRAM. If already done in SPL this
265 - you can override the entire board_init_f() function with your own
267 - preloader_console_init() can be called here in extremis
268 - should set up SDRAM, and anything needed to make the UART work
269 - these is no need to clear BSS, it will be done by crt0.S
270 - must return normally from this function (don't call board_init_r()
273 Here the BSS is cleared. For SPL, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined, then at
274 this point the stack and global_data are relocated to below
275 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR. For non-SPL, U-Boot is relocated to run at the top of
279 - purpose: main execution, common code
280 - global_data is available
282 - BSS is available, all static/global variables can be used
283 - execution eventually continues to main_loop()
285 Non-SPL-specific notes:
286 - U-Boot is relocated to the top of memory and is now running from
290 - stack is optionally in SDRAM, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined and
291 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR points into SDRAM
292 - preloader_console_init() can be called here - typically this is
293 done by selecting CONFIG_SPL_BOARD_INIT and then supplying a
294 spl_board_init() function containing this call
295 - loads U-Boot or (in falcon mode) Linux
299 Configuration Options:
300 ----------------------
302 Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
303 such information is kept in a configuration file
304 "include/configs/<board_name>.h".
306 Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
307 "include/configs/TQM823L.h".
310 Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
311 kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
312 build a config tool - later.
314 - ARM Platform Bus Type(CCI):
315 CoreLink Cache Coherent Interconnect (CCI) is ARM BUS which
316 provides full cache coherency between two clusters of multi-core
317 CPUs and I/O coherency for devices and I/O masters
319 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_CCI400
321 Defined For SoC that has cache coherent interconnect
324 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_CCN504
326 Defined for SoC that has cache coherent interconnect CCN-504
328 The following options need to be configured:
330 - CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
332 - Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
337 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
338 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
339 compliance, among other possible reasons.
341 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
343 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
344 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
345 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
347 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
349 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
350 tree nodes for the given platform.
352 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
354 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
355 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
356 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
358 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
359 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
361 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
362 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
364 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
365 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
366 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
367 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
369 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
372 CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
373 Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
374 required during NOR boot.
376 CONFIG_A008044_WORKAROUND
377 Enables a workaround for T1040/T1042 erratum A008044. It is only
378 required during NAND boot and valid for Rev 1.0 SoC revision
380 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
382 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
383 according to the A004510 workaround.
385 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
386 This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
387 connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
389 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
390 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
391 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
393 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
394 This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
395 connected to the DSP core.
397 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
398 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
400 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
401 Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
402 In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
403 clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
405 CONFIG_SYS_CPC_REINIT_F
406 This CONFIG is defined when the CPC is configured as SRAM at the
407 time of U-Boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
410 Indicates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
411 supported, core will start to execute uboot when wakes up.
413 - Generic CPU options:
414 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
416 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
417 values is arch specific.
420 Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
421 found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx, mpc86xx as well as some ARM core
424 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
425 Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
427 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_EMU
428 Specify emulator support for DDR. Some DDR features such as
429 deskew training are not available.
431 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
432 Freescale DDR1 controller.
434 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
435 Freescale DDR2 controller.
437 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
438 Freescale DDR3 controller.
440 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN4
441 Freescale DDR4 controller.
443 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
444 Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
447 Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
448 Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
452 Board config to use DDR2. It can be enabled for SoCs with
453 Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
457 Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
458 Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
461 Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
465 Board config to use DDR4. It can be enabled for SoCs with
468 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
469 Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
471 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
472 Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
474 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_CLK_DIV
475 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to IFC controller).
477 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_LBC_CLK_DIV
478 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to eLBC controller).
480 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_PBI
481 It enables addition of RCW (Power on reset configuration) in built image.
482 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
484 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_RCW
485 It adds PBI(pre-boot instructions) commands in u-boot build image.
486 PBI commands can be used to configure SoC before it starts the execution.
487 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
490 It adds a target to create boot binary having SPL binary in PBI format
491 concatenated with u-boot binary.
493 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
494 Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
496 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
497 Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
499 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
500 Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
501 same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for all Power SoCs. But
502 it could be different for ARM SoCs.
504 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
505 DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
506 interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
509 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_MAIN_NUM_CTRLS
510 Number of controllers used as main memory.
512 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_OTHER_DDR_NUM_CTRLS
513 Number of controllers used for other than main memory.
515 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_DP_DDR
516 Defines the SoC has DP-DDR used for DPAA.
518 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
519 Defines the SEC controller register space as Big Endian
521 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_LE
522 Defines the SEC controller register space as Little Endian
525 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
527 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
528 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
531 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
533 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
534 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
536 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
539 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
543 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
545 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
547 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
548 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
550 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
552 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
553 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
554 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
557 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
559 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
560 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
563 Generic timer clock source frequency.
565 COUNTER_FREQUENCY_REAL
566 Generic timer clock source frequency if the real clock is
567 different from COUNTER_FREQUENCY, and can only be determined
571 CONFIG_TEGRA_SUPPORT_NON_SECURE
573 Support executing U-Boot in non-secure (NS) mode. Certain
574 impossible actions will be skipped if the CPU is in NS mode,
575 such as ARM architectural timer initialization.
577 - Linux Kernel Interface:
580 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
581 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
582 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
583 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
584 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
585 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
587 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
588 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
591 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
593 When transferring memsize parameter to Linux, some versions
594 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
595 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
599 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
600 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
604 * New libfdt-based support
605 * Adds the "fdt" command
606 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
608 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
609 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
611 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
614 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
616 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
617 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
619 CONFIG_OF_SYSTEM_SETUP
621 Other code has addition modification that it wants to make
622 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel.
623 This causes ft_system_setup() to be called before booting
628 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
629 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
630 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
631 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
632 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
633 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
635 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
637 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
638 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
639 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
640 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
641 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
642 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
643 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
645 - vxWorks boot parameters:
647 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
648 environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask,
649 serverip, gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
650 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
652 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
653 the defaults discussed just above.
655 - Cache Configuration:
656 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
657 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
658 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
660 - Cache Configuration for ARM:
661 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
663 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
664 controller register space
669 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
673 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
677 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
678 the clock speed of the UARTs.
682 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
683 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
684 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
686 CONFIG_SERIAL_HW_FLOW_CONTROL
688 Define this variable to enable hw flow control in serial driver.
689 Current user of this option is drivers/serial/nsl16550.c driver
692 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
693 Select one of the baudrates listed in
694 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
698 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
699 define a command string that is automatically executed
700 when no character is read on the console interface
701 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
703 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
704 The value of these goes into the environment as
705 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
706 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
712 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
713 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
714 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
715 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
716 entering interactive mode.
718 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
719 automatically generated or modified. For an example
720 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
721 modified when the user holds down a certain
722 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
725 - Serial Download Echo Mode:
727 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
728 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
729 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
730 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
731 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
732 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
734 - Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
736 Select one of the baudrates listed in
737 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
739 - Removal of commands
740 If no commands are needed to boot, you can disable
741 CONFIG_CMDLINE to remove them. In this case, the command line
742 will not be available, and when U-Boot wants to execute the
743 boot command (on start-up) it will call board_run_command()
744 instead. This can reduce image size significantly for very
745 simple boot procedures.
747 - Regular expression support:
749 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
750 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
751 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
752 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
756 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
757 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
758 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
759 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
760 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
762 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
763 be done using one of the three options below:
766 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
767 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
768 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
769 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
770 the global data structure as gd->fdt_blob.
773 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
774 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
775 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
777 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
779 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
780 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
781 still use the individual files if you need something more
785 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use the device tree
786 provided by the board at runtime instead of embedding one with
787 the image. Only boards defining board_fdt_blob_setup() support
788 this option (see include/fdtdec.h file).
792 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
793 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
794 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx
795 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
796 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
797 available, then no further board specific code should
801 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
802 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
803 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
805 CONFIG_AT91_HW_WDT_TIMEOUT
806 specify the timeout in seconds. default 2 seconds.
810 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
811 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
814 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
815 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
816 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
817 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
818 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
819 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
820 CONFIG_RTC_DS1339 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1339 RTC
821 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
822 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
823 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
824 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
825 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
828 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
829 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
832 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
834 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
835 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
836 pins supported by a particular chip.
838 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
839 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
842 When CONFIG_IO_TRACE is selected, U-Boot intercepts all I/O
843 accesses and can checksum them or write a list of them out
844 to memory. See the 'iotrace' command for details. This is
845 useful for testing device drivers since it can confirm that
846 the driver behaves the same way before and after a code
847 change. Currently this is supported on sandbox and arm. To
848 add support for your architecture, add '#include <iotrace.h>'
849 to the bottom of arch/<arch>/include/asm/io.h and test.
851 Example output from the 'iotrace stats' command is below.
852 Note that if the trace buffer is exhausted, the checksum will
853 still continue to operate.
856 Start: 10000000 (buffer start address)
857 Size: 00010000 (buffer size)
858 Offset: 00000120 (current buffer offset)
859 Output: 10000120 (start + offset)
860 Count: 00000018 (number of trace records)
861 CRC32: 9526fb66 (CRC32 of all trace records)
865 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
866 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
867 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
868 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
870 - Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
871 Zero or more of the following:
872 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
873 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
874 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
875 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
877 CONFIG_SCSI) you must configure support for at
878 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
881 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
882 board configurations files but used nowhere!
884 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
885 be performed by calling the function
886 ide_set_reset(int reset)
887 which has to be defined in a board specific file
892 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
897 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
898 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
899 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
900 support disks up to 2.1TB.
902 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
903 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
907 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
908 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
909 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
910 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
913 The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
914 SCSI devices found during the last scan.
916 - NETWORK Support (PCI):
918 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
921 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
922 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
923 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
925 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
926 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
927 example with the "sspi" command.
930 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
931 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
932 write routine for first time initialisation.
935 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
936 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
937 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
940 Support for National dp83815 chips.
943 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
945 - NETWORK Support (other):
947 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
948 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
951 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
953 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
954 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
955 The driver doen't show link status messages.
958 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
961 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
963 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
964 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
967 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
970 Define this to hold the physical address
971 of the device (I/O space)
973 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
974 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
976 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
977 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
978 (some hardware wont work with macros)
980 CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
981 Support for davinci emac
983 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
984 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
987 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
989 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
990 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
991 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
992 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
993 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
994 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
995 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
996 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
999 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
1001 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
1002 Define the number of ports to be used
1004 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1005 Define the ETH PHY's address
1007 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1008 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1012 Support for PWM module on the imx6.
1016 Support TPM devices.
1018 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_INFINEON
1019 Support for Infineon i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
1020 per system is supported at this time.
1022 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
1023 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
1026 Support for STMicroelectronics TPM devices. Requires DM_TPM support.
1028 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_I2C
1029 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 I2C devices.
1030 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and I2C.
1032 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_SPI
1033 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 SPI devices.
1034 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and SPI.
1036 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
1037 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
1040 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1041 per system is supported at this time.
1043 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1044 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1045 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1049 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
1050 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
1051 Requires support for a TPM device.
1053 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
1054 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
1055 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
1058 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
1059 supported (PIP405, MIP405); define
1060 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1061 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
1062 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
1065 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1068 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1069 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1071 CONFIG_USB_DWC2_REG_ADDR the physical CPU address of the DWC2
1072 HW module registers.
1075 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1076 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1077 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
1078 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
1079 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1080 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
1081 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
1082 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1083 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1085 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1086 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1087 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1088 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
1091 Define this to build a UDC device
1094 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1095 talk to the UDC device
1098 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1099 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1100 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1101 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1102 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1105 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
1106 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1109 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
1110 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
1111 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
1112 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1113 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1114 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1116 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1117 Define this string as the name of your company for
1118 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
1120 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1121 Define this string as the name of your product
1122 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1124 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1125 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1126 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1127 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1128 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
1130 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1131 Define this as the unique Product ID
1133 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
1135 - ULPI Layer Support:
1136 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1137 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1138 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1139 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1140 viewport is supported.
1141 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1142 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
1143 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1144 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1145 the appropriate value in Hz.
1148 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1149 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1150 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
1151 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
1152 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1153 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
1156 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1158 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1159 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1162 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1164 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_BOOT
1165 Enable some additional features of the eMMC boot partitions.
1167 - USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
1169 This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class
1172 This enables support for exposing (e)MMC devices via DFU.
1175 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
1178 This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
1179 Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
1180 allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
1181 one that would help mostly the developer.
1183 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
1184 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
1185 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
1186 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
1187 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
1189 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
1190 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
1191 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
1192 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
1193 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
1194 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
1196 DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
1197 Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
1198 host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
1199 a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
1201 DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
1202 Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
1203 entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
1204 sending again an USB request to the device.
1206 - Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1208 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1210 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1211 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
1212 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1215 See Kconfig help for available keyboard drivers.
1219 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1220 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1221 defined in your board-specific files. This option is deprecated
1222 and is only used by novena. For new boards, use driver model
1227 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1228 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1229 support, and should also define these other macros:
1234 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1235 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1237 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1239 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1240 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1241 boot. See the documentation file doc/README.video for a
1242 description of this variable.
1244 - LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1246 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1247 display); also select one of the supported displays
1248 by defining one of these:
1252 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1254 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
1256 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
1258 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1260 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1261 Active, color, single scan.
1263 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1265 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
1266 Active, color, single scan.
1270 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1271 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1273 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1275 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1276 Active, color, single scan.
1280 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1281 Active, color, single scan.
1285 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1287 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1291 320x240. Black & white.
1293 CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
1295 Normally the LCD is page-aligned (typically 4KB). If this is
1296 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
1297 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
1298 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
1299 a per-section basis.
1304 Sometimes, for example if the display is mounted in portrait
1305 mode or even if it's mounted landscape but rotated by 180degree,
1306 we need to rotate our content of the display relative to the
1307 framebuffer, so that user can read the messages which are
1309 Once CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is defined, the lcd_console will be
1310 initialized with a given rotation from "vl_rot" out of
1311 "vidinfo_t" which is provided by the board specific code.
1312 The value for vl_rot is coded as following (matching to
1313 fbcon=rotate:<n> linux-kernel commandline):
1314 0 = no rotation respectively 0 degree
1315 1 = 90 degree rotation
1316 2 = 180 degree rotation
1317 3 = 270 degree rotation
1319 If CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is not defined, the console will be
1320 initialized with 0degree rotation.
1324 Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
1328 Enables an 'i2c edid' command which can read EDID
1329 information over I2C from an attached LCD display.
1331 - Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
1333 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1334 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1335 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
1336 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
1337 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1338 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1339 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1340 loaded very quickly after power-on.
1342 CONFIG_SPLASHIMAGE_GUARD
1344 If this option is set, then U-Boot will prevent the environment
1345 variable "splashimage" from being set to a problematic address
1346 (see doc/README.displaying-bmps).
1347 This option is useful for targets where, due to alignment
1348 restrictions, an improperly aligned BMP image will cause a data
1349 abort. If you think you will not have problems with unaligned
1350 accesses (for example because your toolchain prevents them)
1351 there is no need to set this option.
1353 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1355 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1356 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1357 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1358 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1359 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1360 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1363 setenv splashpos m,m
1364 => image at center of screen
1366 setenv splashpos 30,20
1367 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1369 setenv splashpos -10,m
1370 => vertically centered image
1371 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1373 - Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1375 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1376 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1377 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1379 - Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1381 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1382 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1385 - Compression support:
1388 Enabled by default to support gzip compressed images.
1392 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1393 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1394 compressed images are supported.
1396 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
1397 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
1401 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1403 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1405 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1407 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1408 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1409 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1410 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1412 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1414 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1415 command issued before MII status register can be read
1420 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
1421 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
1422 determined through e.g. bootp.
1423 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
1425 - Server IP address:
1428 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
1429 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1430 (Environment variable "serverip")
1432 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1434 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1435 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1437 - Gateway IP address:
1440 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1441 default router where packets to other networks are
1443 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1448 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1449 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1450 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1451 forwarded through a router.
1452 (Environment variable "netmask")
1454 - Multicast TFTP Mode:
1457 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1458 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
1459 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
1460 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1463 - BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1464 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1466 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1467 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1468 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1469 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1470 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1471 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1472 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1473 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
1474 following delays are inserted then:
1476 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1477 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1478 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1480 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1482 CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE
1484 BOOTP packets are uniquely identified using a 32-bit ID. The
1485 server will copy the ID from client requests to responses and
1486 U-Boot will use this to determine if it is the destination of
1487 an incoming response. Some servers will check that addresses
1488 aren't in use before handing them out (usually using an ARP
1489 ping) and therefore take up to a few hundred milliseconds to
1490 respond. Network congestion may also influence the time it
1491 takes for a response to make it back to the client. If that
1492 time is too long, U-Boot will retransmit requests. In order
1493 to allow earlier responses to still be accepted after these
1494 retransmissions, U-Boot's BOOTP client keeps a small cache of
1495 IDs. The CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE controls the size of this
1496 cache. The default is to keep IDs for up to four outstanding
1497 requests. Increasing this will allow U-Boot to accept offers
1498 from a BOOTP client in networks with unusually high latency.
1500 - DHCP Advanced Options:
1501 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1502 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1504 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1505 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1506 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1507 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1508 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1509 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
1510 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
1512 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1513 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
1515 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1516 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1517 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1518 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1521 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1522 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1523 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
1524 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
1525 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1526 option 12 to the DHCP server.
1528 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1530 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1531 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1532 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1533 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1534 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1535 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1536 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1537 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1538 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1539 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1542 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1543 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1544 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1545 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1546 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1548 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1550 - MAC address from environment variables
1552 FDT_SEQ_MACADDR_FROM_ENV
1554 Fix-up device tree with MAC addresses fetched sequentially from
1555 environment variables. This config work on assumption that
1556 non-usable ethernet node of device-tree are either not present
1557 or their status has been marked as "disabled".
1560 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
1562 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1564 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1566 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1571 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1572 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
1573 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
1575 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1577 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1578 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1582 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1586 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1590 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1592 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1594 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1595 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1597 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1599 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1601 - Status LED: CONFIG_LED_STATUS
1603 Several configurations allow to display the current
1604 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1605 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1606 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1607 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1608 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1609 kernel). Defining CONFIG_LED_STATUS enables this
1614 CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
1615 The status LED can be connected to a GPIO pin.
1616 In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
1617 status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
1618 to include the gpio_led driver in the U-Boot binary.
1620 CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE
1621 Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
1622 case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
1623 GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
1624 In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
1625 with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
1627 - I2C Support: CONFIG_SYS_I2C
1629 This enable the NEW i2c subsystem, and will allow you to use
1630 i2c commands at the u-boot command line (as long as you set
1631 CONFIG_CMD_I2C in CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c
1632 based realtime clock chips or other i2c devices. See
1633 common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the command line
1636 ported i2c driver to the new framework:
1637 - drivers/i2c/soft_i2c.c:
1638 - activate first bus with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT define
1639 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE
1640 for defining speed and slave address
1641 - activate second bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS2 define
1642 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_2 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_2
1643 for defining speed and slave address
1644 - activate third bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS3 define
1645 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_3 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_3
1646 for defining speed and slave address
1647 - activate fourth bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS4 define
1648 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_4 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_4
1649 for defining speed and slave address
1651 - drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c:
1652 - activate i2c driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_FSL
1653 define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_OFFSET for setting the register
1654 offset CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SPEED for the i2c speed and
1655 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SLAVE for the slave addr of the first
1657 - If your board supports a second fsl i2c bus, define
1658 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_OFFSET for the register offset
1659 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SPEED for the speed and
1660 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SLAVE for the slave address of the
1663 - drivers/i2c/tegra_i2c.c:
1664 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_TEGRA
1665 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses with a fix speed from
1666 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1668 - drivers/i2c/ppc4xx_i2c.c
1669 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX
1670 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1671 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1673 - drivers/i2c/i2c_mxc.c
1674 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC
1675 - enable bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C1
1676 - enable bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C2
1677 - enable bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C3
1678 - enable bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C4
1679 - define speed for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SPEED
1680 - define slave for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SLAVE
1681 - define speed for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SPEED
1682 - define slave for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SLAVE
1683 - define speed for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SPEED
1684 - define slave for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SLAVE
1685 - define speed for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SPEED
1686 - define slave for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SLAVE
1687 If those defines are not set, default value is 100000
1688 for speed, and 0 for slave.
1690 - drivers/i2c/rcar_i2c.c:
1691 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RCAR
1692 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses
1694 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_BASE for setting the register channel 0
1695 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_SPEED for for the speed channel 0
1696 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_BASE for setting the register channel 1
1697 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_SPEED for for the speed channel 1
1698 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_BASE for setting the register channel 2
1699 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_SPEED for for the speed channel 2
1700 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_BASE for setting the register channel 3
1701 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_SPEED for for the speed channel 3
1702 - CONFIF_SYS_RCAR_I2C_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
1704 - drivers/i2c/sh_i2c.c:
1705 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH
1706 - This driver adds from 2 to 5 i2c buses
1708 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE0 for setting the register channel 0
1709 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED0 for for the speed channel 0
1710 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE1 for setting the register channel 1
1711 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED1 for for the speed channel 1
1712 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE2 for setting the register channel 2
1713 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED2 for for the speed channel 2
1714 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE3 for setting the register channel 3
1715 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED3 for for the speed channel 3
1716 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE4 for setting the register channel 4
1717 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED4 for for the speed channel 4
1718 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
1720 - drivers/i2c/omap24xx_i2c.c
1721 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_OMAP24XX
1722 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED speed channel 0
1723 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE slave addr channel 0
1724 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED1 speed channel 1
1725 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE1 slave addr channel 1
1726 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED2 speed channel 2
1727 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE2 slave addr channel 2
1728 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED3 speed channel 3
1729 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE3 slave addr channel 3
1730 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED4 speed channel 4
1731 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE4 slave addr channel 4
1733 - drivers/i2c/zynq_i2c.c
1734 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ
1735 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SPEED for speed setting
1736 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SLAVE for slave addr
1738 - drivers/i2c/s3c24x0_i2c.c:
1739 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_S3C24X0
1740 - This driver adds i2c buses (11 for Exynos5250, Exynos5420
1741 9 i2c buses for Exynos4 and 1 for S3C24X0 SoCs from Samsung)
1742 with a fix speed from 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1744 - drivers/i2c/ihs_i2c.c
1745 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS
1746 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1747 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0 speed channel 0
1748 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0 slave addr channel 0
1749 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1750 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1 speed channel 1
1751 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1 slave addr channel 1
1752 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH2 activate hardware channel 2
1753 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2 speed channel 2
1754 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2 slave addr channel 2
1755 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH3 activate hardware channel 3
1756 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3 speed channel 3
1757 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3 slave addr channel 3
1758 - activate dual channel with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_DUAL
1759 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0_1 speed channel 0_1
1760 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0_1 slave addr channel 0_1
1761 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1_1 speed channel 1_1
1762 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1_1 slave addr channel 1_1
1763 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2_1 speed channel 2_1
1764 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2_1 slave addr channel 2_1
1765 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3_1 speed channel 3_1
1766 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3_1 slave addr channel 3_1
1770 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
1771 Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use.
1773 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
1774 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
1775 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
1778 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
1779 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
1780 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
1783 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
1784 hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
1785 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
1786 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
1787 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
1789 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1790 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
1791 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
1792 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
1793 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
1794 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
1795 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1796 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
1797 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
1801 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
1802 bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
1803 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
1804 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
1805 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
1806 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
1807 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
1808 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
1809 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
1811 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
1813 - Legacy I2C Support:
1814 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
1815 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1816 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
1820 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
1821 controller or configure ports.
1823 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
1827 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1828 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1831 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1835 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1836 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1839 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1843 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
1846 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1850 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1851 is false, it clears it (low).
1853 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
1854 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
1855 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
1859 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1860 is false, it clears it (low).
1862 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
1863 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
1864 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
1868 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1869 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
1870 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
1873 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
1875 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1877 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1878 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1879 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1880 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1882 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1883 the generic GPIO functions.
1885 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
1887 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1888 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1889 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1890 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1891 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1892 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1893 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1894 is run early in the boot sequence.
1896 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1898 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
1899 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1900 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
1901 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1903 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
1905 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
1906 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1907 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1908 a 1D array of device addresses
1911 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1912 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
1914 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1916 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1917 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
1919 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1921 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
1923 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1924 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1926 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
1928 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1929 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1931 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1933 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1934 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1935 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1936 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1937 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1938 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1941 - SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
1943 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1944 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1945 D/As on the SACSng board)
1949 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
1950 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
1951 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
1952 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
1953 defined, the board configuration must define several
1954 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
1955 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
1959 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
1960 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
1961 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
1962 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
1963 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
1965 CONFIG_SYS_SPI_MXC_WAIT
1966 Timeout for waiting until spi transfer completed.
1967 default: (CONFIG_SYS_HZ/100) /* 10 ms */
1969 - FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
1971 Enables FPGA subsystem.
1973 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
1975 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
1978 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
1980 Enables support for FPGA family.
1981 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
1985 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
1987 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
1989 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
1991 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
1993 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
1994 status by the configuration function. This option
1995 will require a board or device specific function to
2000 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
2001 configuration driver.
2003 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
2004 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2006 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
2008 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2009 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2010 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2011 indicated a CRC error).
2013 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
2015 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to de-assert
2016 after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
2017 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
2020 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
2022 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
2023 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
2025 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
2027 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
2030 - Configuration Management:
2033 Some SoCs need special image types (e.g. U-Boot binary
2034 with a special header) as build targets. By defining
2035 CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET in the SoC / board header, this
2036 special image will be automatically built upon calling
2041 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2042 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
2044 - Vendor Parameter Protection:
2046 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2047 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
2048 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
2049 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2050 protects these variables from casual modification by
2051 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2052 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
2053 change this behaviour:
2055 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2056 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
2057 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
2060 Alternatively, if you define _both_ an ethaddr in the
2061 default env _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
2062 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
2063 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2064 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2067 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
2068 for any variable by configuring the type of access
2069 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
2070 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
2075 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2076 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2077 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2078 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2079 this default value by defining an environment
2080 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2081 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2082 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2083 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2084 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2085 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2086 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2088 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
2091 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2092 either, which results in a memory region that will
2093 not be affected by reboots.
2095 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2096 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2097 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2098 following board configurations are known to be
2101 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx,
2102 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2105 - Access to physical memory region (> 4GB)
2106 Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not
2107 normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures
2108 support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit
2109 machines using physical address extension or similar.
2110 Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which
2111 currently only supports clearing the memory.
2114 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2116 This variable defines the number of retries for
2117 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2118 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2119 default value of 5 is used.
2123 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2127 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2128 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2129 try longer timeout such as
2130 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2132 - Command Interpreter:
2133 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
2135 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2136 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2137 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2141 In the current implementation, the local variables
2142 space and global environment variables space are
2143 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2144 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2145 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2146 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2147 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
2149 Global environment variables are those you use
2150 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2151 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2152 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
2154 To store commands and special characters in a
2155 variable, please use double quotation marks
2156 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2157 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2160 - Command Line Editing and History:
2161 CONFIG_CMDLINE_PS_SUPPORT
2163 Enable support for changing the command prompt string
2164 at run-time. Only static string is supported so far.
2165 The string is obtained from environment variables PS1
2168 - Default Environment:
2169 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2171 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2172 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
2173 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2175 For example, place something like this in your
2176 board's config file:
2178 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2182 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2183 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2184 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2185 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
2186 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
2187 You better know what you are doing here.
2189 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2190 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
2191 the environment like the "source" command or the
2194 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
2196 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
2197 initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
2198 that so that the environment is not available until
2199 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
2200 this is instead controlled by the value of
2201 /config/load-environment.
2203 - Serial Flash support
2204 Usage requires an initial 'sf probe' to define the serial
2205 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2208 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2209 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2210 flash is present on the system.
2212 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2213 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2214 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2215 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2218 - TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2221 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
2222 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
2223 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
2224 number generator is used.
2226 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2227 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2228 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2230 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
2231 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2232 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2233 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2234 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2235 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2236 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2238 - Show boot progress:
2239 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2241 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2242 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2243 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2244 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2245 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2246 the following checkpoints are implemented:
2249 Legacy uImage format:
2252 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
2253 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
2254 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
2255 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
2256 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
2257 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
2258 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2259 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2260 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2261 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
2262 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2263 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2264 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2265 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
2266 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
2267 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
2269 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2270 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2271 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2272 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2273 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2274 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2275 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
2276 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
2277 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2278 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2280 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
2282 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
2283 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2284 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
2286 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2287 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2288 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2289 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2290 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2291 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2292 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2293 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2294 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2295 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2296 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2297 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2298 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2299 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2300 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2301 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2302 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2303 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2304 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2305 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2306 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2307 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2308 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2309 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2310 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2311 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2312 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2313 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2314 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2315 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2316 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2317 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2318 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2319 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2320 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2321 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2322 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2323 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2324 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2325 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2326 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2327 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2328 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2329 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2330 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2331 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2332 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
2334 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
2336 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
2337 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2338 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
2340 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
2341 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling net_loop()
2342 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in net_loop() occurred
2343 81 common/cmd_net.c net_loop() back without error
2344 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2345 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
2346 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2347 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
2348 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
2353 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2354 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2355 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2356 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2357 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2358 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
2359 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
2360 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2361 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2362 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2363 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2364 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2365 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2366 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
2367 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2368 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2369 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2370 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2371 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2372 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2373 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2374 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2376 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2377 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2378 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
2379 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
2380 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2381 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2382 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2383 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2384 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2385 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2386 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2387 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2388 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2389 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2390 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2391 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2393 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
2394 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2396 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
2397 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2399 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
2400 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2402 - Standalone program support:
2403 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2405 This option defines a board specific value for the
2406 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
2407 overwriting the architecture dependent default
2410 - Frame Buffer Address:
2413 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
2414 address for frame buffer. This is typically the case
2415 when using a graphics controller has separate video
2416 memory. U-Boot will then place the frame buffer at
2417 the given address instead of dynamically reserving it
2418 in system RAM by calling lcd_setmem(), which grabs
2419 the memory for the frame buffer depending on the
2420 configured panel size.
2422 Please see board_init_f function.
2424 - Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2426 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2427 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2429 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2430 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2432 - MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2433 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
2434 This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
2435 erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
2436 of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
2437 wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
2438 counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
2440 The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
2441 other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
2442 However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
2443 life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
2444 to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
2448 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
2449 This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
2450 expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the
2451 underlying flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR
2452 flash), this value is ignored.
2454 NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM
2455 (Number of Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime.
2456 The maximum expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks
2457 then can be calculated as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)",
2458 which gives 20 for most NANDs (MaxNVB is basically the total
2459 count of eraseblocks on the chip).
2461 To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to
2462 reserve about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
2463 handling. And that will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire
2464 NAND chip, not just the MTD partition UBI attaches. This means
2465 that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip admits maximum 40 bad
2466 eraseblocks, and it is split on two MTD partitions of the same
2467 size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when attaching a
2472 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
2473 Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
2474 in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
2475 only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
2476 The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
2477 the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
2478 attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
2479 a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI parameter
2480 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT to 1 if you want so. Please note
2481 that fastmap-enabled images are still usable with UBI implementations
2482 without fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap
2483 fits into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
2485 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT
2486 Set this parameter to enable fastmap automatically on images
2490 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FM_DEBUG
2491 Enable UBI fastmap debug
2496 Enable building of SPL globally.
2499 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
2501 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT
2502 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL, BSS included.
2503 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory
2504 used by SPL from _start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
2505 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2506 must not be both defined at the same time.
2509 Maximum size of the SPL image (text, data, rodata, and
2510 linker lists sections), BSS excluded.
2511 When defined, the linker checks that the actual size does
2514 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
2515 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
2517 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
2518 Address to relocate to. If unspecified, this is equal to
2519 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
2521 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
2522 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
2524 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2525 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL BSS.
2526 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory used
2527 by SPL from __bss_start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
2528 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2529 must not be both defined at the same time.
2532 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
2534 CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
2535 When defined, SPL will panic() if the image it has
2536 loaded does not have a signature.
2537 Defining this is useful when code which loads images
2538 in SPL cannot guarantee that absolutely all read errors
2540 An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which will
2541 consider that a completely unreadable NAND block is bad,
2542 and thus should be skipped silently.
2544 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
2545 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
2546 relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
2549 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
2550 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2551 When this option is set the full malloc is used in SPL and
2552 it is set up by spl_init() and before that, the simple malloc()
2553 can be used if CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F is defined.
2555 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
2556 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2559 Enable booting directly to an OS from SPL.
2560 See also: doc/README.falcon
2562 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
2563 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
2564 about the running system.
2566 CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
2567 Arch init code should be built for a very small image
2569 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION
2570 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
2573 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_KERNEL_SECTOR
2574 Sector to load kernel uImage from when MMC is being
2575 used in raw mode (for Falcon mode)
2577 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTOR,
2578 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTORS
2579 Sector and number of sectors to load kernel argument
2580 parameters from when MMC is being used in raw mode
2583 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_FS_BOOT_PARTITION
2584 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
2587 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
2588 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from filesystem
2590 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_KERNEL_NAME
2591 Filename to read to load kernel uImage when reading
2592 from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
2594 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_ARGS_NAME
2595 Filename to read to load kernel argument parameters
2596 when reading from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
2598 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
2599 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
2600 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
2601 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
2602 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
2604 CONFIG_SPL_SKIP_RELOCATE
2605 Avoid SPL relocation
2607 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE
2608 Include nand_base.c in the SPL. Requires
2609 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS.
2611 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS
2612 SPL uses normal NAND drivers, not minimal drivers.
2614 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_IDENT
2615 SPL uses the chip ID list to identify the NAND flash.
2616 Requires CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE.
2619 Include standard software ECC in the SPL
2621 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
2622 Support for NAND boot using simple NAND drivers that
2623 expose the cmd_ctrl() interface.
2626 Support for a lightweight UBI (fastmap) scanner and
2629 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_RAW_ONLY
2630 Support to boot only raw u-boot.bin images. Use this only
2631 if you need to save space.
2633 CONFIG_SPL_COMMON_INIT_DDR
2634 Set for common ddr init with serial presence detect in
2637 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
2638 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
2639 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
2640 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
2641 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
2642 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
2645 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BOOT
2646 Add support NAND boot
2648 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
2649 Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
2651 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
2652 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
2654 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
2655 Size of image to load
2657 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
2658 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
2660 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
2661 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
2662 data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
2664 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
2665 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
2668 Image offset to which the SPL should be padded before appending
2669 the SPL payload. By default, this is defined as
2670 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2671 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2672 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
2675 Final target image containing SPL and payload. Some SPLs
2676 use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
2677 example if more than one image needs to be produced.
2679 CONFIG_SPL_FIT_PRINT
2680 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
2681 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
2682 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
2683 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
2687 Enable building of TPL globally.
2690 Image offset to which the TPL should be padded before appending
2691 the TPL payload. By default, this is defined as
2692 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2693 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2694 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
2696 - Interrupt support (PPC):
2698 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2699 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
2700 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
2701 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
2702 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
2703 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
2704 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
2705 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2706 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2707 general timer_interrupt().
2710 Board initialization settings:
2711 ------------------------------
2713 During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
2714 to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
2715 before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
2716 following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
2717 architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
2718 typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
2720 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
2721 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
2722 - CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
2723 - CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
2725 Configuration Settings:
2726 -----------------------
2728 - CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit.
2729 Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.
2731 - CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
2732 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2734 - CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2735 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2737 - CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
2738 prompt for user input.
2740 - CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
2742 - CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
2744 - CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
2746 - CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
2747 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2750 - CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
2751 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2753 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
2754 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2757 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
2758 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2759 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2761 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE
2762 Only implemented for ARMv8 for now.
2763 If defined, the size of CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE memory
2764 is substracted from total RAM and won't be reported to OS.
2765 This memory can be used as secure memory. A variable
2766 gd->arch.secure_ram is used to track the location. In systems
2767 the RAM base is not zero, or RAM is divided into banks,
2768 this variable needs to be recalcuated to get the address.
2770 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE:
2771 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
2772 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
2773 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
2774 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2775 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2776 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
2777 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
2778 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
2779 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
2781 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2782 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2785 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2786 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2787 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2788 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2791 - CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
2792 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2794 - CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
2795 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2797 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
2798 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2800 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
2801 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2802 make config files to be same as the text base address
2803 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
2804 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
2806 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
2807 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2808 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2809 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2812 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
2813 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2815 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
2816 Size of the malloc() pool for use before relocation. If
2817 this is defined, then a very simple malloc() implementation
2818 will become available before relocation. The address is just
2819 below the global data, and the stack is moved down to make
2822 This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
2823 within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
2824 is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
2825 The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
2826 U-Boot relocates itself.
2828 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
2829 Provides a simple and small malloc() and calloc() for those
2830 boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is
2831 enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START).
2833 - CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY:
2834 Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be
2835 typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped
2836 uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would
2837 otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For
2838 some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the
2839 cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed
2840 are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding
2841 cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e.
2842 if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the
2843 size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of
2844 one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has
2845 written to another region in the same cache-line. This can
2846 happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for
2847 buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g.
2848 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).
2850 Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
2852 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
2853 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
2854 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
2855 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
2856 to adjust this setting to your needs.
2858 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
2859 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
2860 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
2861 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
2862 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
2863 environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
2864 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
2865 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
2866 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
2867 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
2868 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
2870 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
2871 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
2872 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
2875 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
2876 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
2877 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2879 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
2880 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
2881 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2883 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
2884 Max number of Flash memory banks
2886 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
2887 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
2889 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
2890 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
2892 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
2893 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
2895 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
2896 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
2898 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
2899 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
2901 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
2902 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
2903 instead of U-Boot software protection.
2905 - CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
2907 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
2908 without this option such a download has to be
2909 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
2910 copy from RAM to flash.
2912 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
2913 you can check if the download worked before you erase
2914 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
2915 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
2916 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
2918 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
2919 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
2920 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
2922 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
2923 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
2924 in the drivers directory
2926 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
2927 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
2928 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
2931 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
2932 Use buffered writes to flash.
2934 - CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
2935 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
2938 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
2939 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
2940 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
2941 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
2942 optionally available.
2944 - CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
2945 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
2946 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
2947 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
2949 - CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY
2950 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
2951 against the source after the write operation. An error message
2952 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
2953 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
2954 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
2955 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
2956 this option if you really know what you are doing.
2958 - CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
2959 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
2960 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
2961 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
2962 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
2963 on high Ethernet traffic.
2964 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
2966 - CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
2968 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
2969 internally to store the environment settings. The default
2970 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
2971 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
2972 lib/hashtable.c for details.
2974 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
2975 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
2976 Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when
2977 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
2978 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
2979 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
2981 The format of the list is:
2982 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
2983 access_attribute = [a|r|o|c]
2984 attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute]
2985 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
2988 The type attributes are:
2989 s - String (default)
2992 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
2996 The access attributes are:
3002 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3003 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
3004 environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
3006 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3007 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
3008 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
3009 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
3010 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
3013 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
3014 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to define the same
3015 flags without explicitly listing them for each variable.
3017 - CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
3018 If defined, don't allow the -f switch to env set override variable
3022 If stdint.h is available with your toolchain you can define this
3023 option to enable it. You can provide option 'USE_STDINT=1' when
3024 building U-Boot to enable this.
3026 The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
3027 of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
3028 following configurations:
3030 - CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
3032 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
3033 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
3035 BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
3036 in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the
3037 console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
3040 Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3041 environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3042 keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3043 to save the current settings.
3045 BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
3046 "saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
3047 environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
3048 but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
3050 - CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
3052 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
3053 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
3054 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
3056 Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
3057 has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
3058 created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use env_get_f()
3059 until then to read environment variables.
3061 The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
3062 is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
3063 with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
3064 necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
3065 "baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
3066 have any device yet where we could complain.]
3068 Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
3069 the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
3070 use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
3072 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
3073 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
3075 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
3076 also needs to be defined.
3078 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
3079 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
3081 - CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
3082 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
3083 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
3084 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
3085 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
3086 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
3088 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
3089 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
3090 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
3093 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
3094 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
3095 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
3098 - CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT:
3099 Maximum size of the U-Boot image. When defined, the
3100 build system checks that the actual size does not
3103 Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
3104 ---------------------------------------------------
3106 - CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
3107 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
3109 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
3110 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
3113 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
3114 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
3115 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
3117 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
3118 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
3119 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
3120 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
3121 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
3122 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
3123 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
3125 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
3126 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
3128 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
3129 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
3130 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
3131 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3132 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3134 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
3135 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
3136 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3137 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3139 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
3140 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
3141 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
3143 - Floppy Disk Support:
3144 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
3146 the default drive number (default value 0)
3148 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
3150 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
3153 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
3155 defines the offset of register from address. It
3156 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
3157 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
3159 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
3160 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
3163 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
3164 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
3165 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
3166 source code. It is used to make hardware-dependent
3170 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
3171 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
3172 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
3173 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
3174 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
3177 - CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
3178 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
3179 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx systems only]
3181 - CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
3183 Start address of memory area that can be used for
3184 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
3185 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
3186 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
3187 will become available only after programming the
3188 memory controller and running certain initialization
3191 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
3192 - MPC8xx: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
3194 - CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
3196 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
3197 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
3198 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
3199 data is located at the end of the available space
3200 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
3201 GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
3202 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
3203 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
3206 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
3207 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
3208 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
3209 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
3210 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
3212 - CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
3214 - CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
3217 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
3218 periodic timer for refresh
3220 - FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
3221 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
3222 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
3223 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
3224 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
3226 - SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
3227 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
3228 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
3229 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
3231 - CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
3232 Only scan through and get the devices on the buses.
3233 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
3234 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
3235 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
3236 by coreboot or similar.
3238 - CONFIG_PCI_INDIRECT_BRIDGE:
3239 Enable support for indirect PCI bridges.
3242 Chip has SRIO or not
3245 Board has SRIO 1 port available
3248 Board has SRIO 2 port available
3250 - CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
3251 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
3253 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
3254 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3256 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
3257 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3259 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
3260 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3262 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
3263 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
3265 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
3266 Example of drivers that use it:
3267 - drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c
3268 - drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
3270 - CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
3271 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
3272 a default value will be used.
3275 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
3276 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
3279 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
3281 - CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
3282 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
3283 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
3284 to something your driver can deal with.
3286 - CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
3287 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
3288 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
3289 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
3290 header files or board specific files.
3292 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
3293 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
3295 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_SYNC_REFRESH
3296 Enable sync of refresh for multiple controllers.
3298 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_BIST
3299 Enable built-in memory test for Freescale DDR controllers.
3301 - CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
3302 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
3303 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
3306 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
3307 Note that this is a global option, we can't
3308 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
3310 - CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
3311 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
3314 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
3316 Where address/count indicate a memory area
3317 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
3321 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
3322 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
3325 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
3330 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
3332 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
3333 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
3335 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
3336 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
3338 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
3339 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS, RISC-V only] If this variable is defined, then certain
3340 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
3341 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
3342 relocate itself into RAM.
3344 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
3345 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
3346 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
3347 these initializations itself.
3349 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT_ONLY
3350 [ARM926EJ-S only] This allows just the call to lowlevel_init()
3351 to be skipped. The normal CP15 init (such as enabling the
3352 instruction cache) is still performed.
3355 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3356 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
3357 compiling a NAND SPL.
3360 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3361 that is executed after the SPL and before the actual U-Boot.
3362 It is loaded by the SPL.
3364 - CONFIG_SYS_MPC85XX_NO_RESETVEC
3365 Only for 85xx systems. If this variable is specified, the section
3366 .resetvec is not kept and the section .bootpg is placed in the
3367 previous 4k of the .text section.
3369 - CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
3370 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
3371 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
3372 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
3373 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
3374 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
3375 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
3376 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
3378 - CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
3379 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
3380 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
3382 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE
3383 Option to disable subpage write in NAND driver
3384 driver that uses this:
3385 drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
3387 Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
3388 -----------------------------------
3390 The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
3391 loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
3392 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3393 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3396 - CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR
3397 The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The
3398 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3401 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR
3402 The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The
3403 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3406 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
3407 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
3408 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
3409 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
3410 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
3412 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
3413 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
3414 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
3415 virtual address in NOR flash.
3417 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
3418 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
3419 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
3421 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
3422 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
3423 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
3425 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
3426 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
3427 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
3428 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
3429 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
3430 master's memory space.
3432 Freescale Layerscape Management Complex Firmware Support:
3433 ---------------------------------------------------------
3434 The Freescale Layerscape Management Complex (MC) supports the loading of
3436 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3437 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3440 - CONFIG_FSL_MC_ENET
3441 Enable the MC driver for Layerscape SoCs.
3443 Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support:
3444 -------------------------------------------
3445 The Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support supports the loading of
3446 "Debug Server firmware" and triggering SP boot-rom.
3447 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting.
3449 - CONFIG_SYS_MC_RSV_MEM_ALIGN
3450 Define alignment of reserved memory MC requires
3455 In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
3456 process have to be set to a fixed value.
3458 This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
3459 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is to be set on the build host's shell, not as a configuration
3460 option for U-Boot or an environment variable in U-Boot.
3462 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should be set to a number of seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
3464 Building the Software:
3465 ======================
3467 Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
3468 and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
3469 all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
3470 (potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
3471 recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
3472 which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
3474 If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
3475 have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
3476 you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
3477 Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
3478 necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
3480 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
3481 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
3483 Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
3484 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
3485 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
3486 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
3488 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
3490 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
3491 be executed on computers running Windows.
3493 U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
3494 sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
3499 where "NAME_defconfig" is the name of one of the existing configu-
3500 rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
3502 Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
3503 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
3504 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
3505 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
3506 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
3508 make TQM823L_defconfig
3509 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
3511 make TQM823L_LCD_defconfig
3512 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
3517 Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
3518 images ready for download to / installation on your system:
3520 - "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
3521 - "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
3522 - "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
3524 By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
3525 in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
3526 this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
3528 1. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
3530 make O=/tmp/build distclean
3531 make O=/tmp/build NAME_defconfig
3532 make O=/tmp/build all
3534 2. Set environment variable KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the desired location:
3536 export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/build
3541 Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
3544 User specific CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS can be passed to the compiler by
3545 setting the according environment variables KCPPFLAGS, KAFLAGS and KCFLAGS.
3546 For example to treat all compiler warnings as errors:
3548 make KCFLAGS=-Werror
3550 Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
3551 for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
3555 If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
3556 to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
3559 1. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
3560 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3561 the "Makefile" and a "<board>.c".
3562 2. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3564 3. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3565 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
3566 4. Run "make <board>_defconfig" with your new name.
3567 5. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3568 to be installed on your target system.
3569 6. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3570 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
3573 Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3574 ==============================================================
3576 If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3577 or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
3578 provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
3579 the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
3580 official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
3582 But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3583 cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
3584 the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
3585 just run the buildman script (tools/buildman/buildman), which will
3586 configure and build U-Boot for ALL supported system. Be warned, this
3587 will take a while. Please see the buildman README, or run 'buildman -H'
3591 See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
3594 Monitor Commands - Overview:
3595 ============================
3597 go - start application at address 'addr'
3598 run - run commands in an environment variable
3599 bootm - boot application image from memory
3600 bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
3601 bootz - boot zImage from memory
3602 tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3603 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3604 (and eventually "gatewayip")
3605 tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
3606 rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3607 diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3608 loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3609 loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3611 mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3612 nm - memory modify (constant address)
3613 mw - memory write (fill)
3615 cmp - memory compare
3616 crc32 - checksum calculation
3617 i2c - I2C sub-system
3618 sspi - SPI utility commands
3619 base - print or set address offset
3620 printenv- print environment variables
3621 setenv - set environment variables
3622 saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3623 protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3624 erase - erase FLASH memory
3625 flinfo - print FLASH memory information
3626 nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
3627 bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3628 iminfo - print header information for application image
3629 coninfo - print console devices and informations
3630 ide - IDE sub-system
3631 loop - infinite loop on address range
3632 loopw - infinite write loop on address range
3633 mtest - simple RAM test
3634 icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3635 dcache - enable or disable data cache
3636 reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3637 echo - echo args to console
3638 version - print monitor version
3639 help - print online help
3640 ? - alias for 'help'
3643 Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3644 ========================================
3648 For now: just type "help <command>".
3651 Environment Variables:
3652 ======================
3654 U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3655 can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
3657 Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3658 "printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3659 without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3660 environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3661 working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3662 environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
3664 Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3666 List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
3668 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
3670 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
3672 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
3674 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
3676 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
3678 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3679 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3680 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3681 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3682 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3683 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
3684 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
3687 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
3688 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
3689 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
3690 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
3691 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
3692 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
3695 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3696 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3697 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3698 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3699 environment variable.
3701 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3702 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3703 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3705 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3706 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3707 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3708 load any image using TFTP
3710 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3711 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3712 be automatically started (by internally calling
3715 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3716 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3717 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3718 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3721 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
3722 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
3723 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
3724 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
3725 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
3726 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
3727 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
3728 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
3729 access it during the boot procedure.
3731 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
3732 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
3733 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
3734 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
3735 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
3736 must be accessible by the kernel.
3738 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
3739 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
3742 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3743 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3744 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3745 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3746 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3748 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3749 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3750 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3751 is usually what you want since it allows for
3752 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3753 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
3754 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
3755 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3756 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3757 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3758 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
3760 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3761 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3762 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3763 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3764 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3765 12 MB as well - this can be done with
3767 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
3769 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3770 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3771 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3772 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3773 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3774 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3775 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
3777 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3779 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3780 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
3782 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
3784 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3786 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
3788 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
3790 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
3792 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
3794 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
3795 For example you can do the following
3797 => setenv ethact FEC
3798 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
3799 => setenv ethact SCC
3800 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
3802 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3803 available network interfaces.
3804 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3806 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
3807 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3808 When set to "once" the network operation will
3809 fail when all the available network interfaces
3810 are tried once without success.
3811 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3814 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
3816 silent_linux - If set then Linux will be told to boot silently, by
3817 changing the console to be empty. If "yes" it will be
3818 made silent. If "no" it will not be made silent. If
3819 unset, then it will be made silent if the U-Boot console
3822 tftpsrcp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
3825 tftpdstp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
3826 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
3828 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
3829 we use the TFTP server's default block size
3831 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
3832 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
3833 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
3834 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
3835 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
3836 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
3837 with unreliable TFTP servers.
3839 tftptimeoutcountmax - maximum count of TFTP timeouts (no
3840 unit, minimum value = 0). Defines how many timeouts
3841 can happen during a single file transfer before that
3842 transfer is aborted. The default is 10, and 0 means
3843 'no timeouts allowed'. Increasing this value may help
3844 downloads succeed with high packet loss rates, or with
3845 unreliable TFTP servers or client hardware.
3847 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
3848 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
3851 bootpretryperiod - Period during which BOOTP/DHCP sends retries.
3852 Unsigned value, in milliseconds. If not set, the period will
3853 be either the default (28000), or a value based on
3854 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT, if defined. This value has
3855 precedence over the valu based on CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT.
3857 The following image location variables contain the location of images
3858 used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
3859 not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
3860 variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
3861 server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
3862 loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
3863 flash or offset in NAND flash.
3865 *Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
3866 boards currently use other variables for these purposes, and some
3867 boards use these variables for other purposes.
3869 Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
3870 ----- --------- ----------- --------------
3871 u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
3872 Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
3873 device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
3874 ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
3876 The following environment variables may be used and automatically
3877 updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
3878 depending the information provided by your boot server:
3880 bootfile - see above
3881 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
3882 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
3883 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
3884 hostname - Target hostname
3886 netmask - Subnet Mask
3887 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
3888 serverip - see above
3891 There are two special Environment Variables:
3893 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
3894 as type string and/or serial number
3895 ethaddr - Ethernet address
3897 These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
3898 the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
3899 once they have been set once.
3902 Further special Environment Variables:
3904 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
3905 with the "version" command. This variable is
3906 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
3909 Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
3910 only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
3913 Callback functions for environment variables:
3914 ---------------------------------------------
3916 For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change
3917 when their values are changed. This functionality allows functions to
3918 be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or
3919 deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side
3920 effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.
3922 The callbacks are named and associated with a function using the
3923 U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK macro in your board or driver code.
3925 These callbacks are associated with variables in one of two ways. The
3926 static list can be added to by defining CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC
3927 in the board configuration to a string that defines a list of
3928 associations. The list must be in the following format:
3930 entry = variable_name[:callback_name]
3933 If the callback name is not specified, then the callback is deleted.
3934 Spaces are also allowed anywhere in the list.
3936 Callbacks can also be associated by defining the ".callbacks" variable
3937 with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will
3938 override any association in the static list. You can define
3939 CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
3940 ".callbacks" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
3942 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
3943 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to be connected to
3944 the same callback without explicitly listing them all out.
3947 Command Line Parsing:
3948 =====================
3950 There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
3951 the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
3953 Old, simple command line parser:
3954 --------------------------------
3956 - supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
3957 - several commands on one line, separated by ';'
3958 - variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
3959 - special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
3961 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
3962 - You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
3963 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
3968 - similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
3969 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
3970 until...do...done, ...
3971 - supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
3972 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
3973 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
3979 (1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
3980 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
3981 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
3984 (2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
3985 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
3986 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
3987 variables are not executed.
3989 Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
3990 =======================================
3992 Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
3993 such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
3994 "working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
3996 Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
3997 MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
3998 "eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
4000 If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
4001 in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
4002 ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
4003 variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
4005 o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
4006 environment, the SROM's address is used.
4008 o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
4009 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
4012 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
4013 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
4015 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
4016 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
4019 o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
4020 is raised. If CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR is defined, then in this case
4021 a random, locally-assigned MAC is used.
4023 If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
4024 will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
4025 may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
4026 The naming convention is as follows:
4027 "ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
4032 U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
4033 images in two formats:
4035 New uImage format (FIT)
4036 -----------------------
4038 Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
4039 to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
4040 components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
4041 SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
4047 Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
4048 preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
4049 details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
4051 * Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
4052 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
4053 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
4054 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
4056 * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, Intel x86,
4057 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
4058 Currently supported: ARM, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
4059 * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
4065 The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
4066 and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
4073 Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
4074 easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
4077 U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
4078 special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
4079 "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
4080 instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
4081 serves several purposes:
4083 - the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
4084 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
4085 Flash memory footprint)
4087 - it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
4088 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
4090 - the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
4091 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
4092 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
4093 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
4094 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
4095 software is easier now.
4101 Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
4102 ---------------------------------------
4104 U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
4105 configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
4106 (no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
4109 But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
4111 Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
4112 include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
4113 Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
4114 and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
4115 as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
4117 Note that U-Boot now has a driver model, a unified model for drivers.
4118 If you are adding a new driver, plumb it into driver model. If there
4119 is no uclass available, you are encouraged to create one. See
4123 Configuring the Linux kernel:
4124 -----------------------------
4126 No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
4127 device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
4130 Building a Linux Image:
4131 -----------------------
4133 With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
4134 not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
4135 "uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
4136 U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
4137 which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
4138 100% compatible format.
4142 make TQM850L_defconfig
4147 The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
4148 encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
4149 CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
4151 * build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
4153 * convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
4155 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
4156 -R .note -R .comment \
4157 -S vmlinux linux.bin
4159 * compress the binary image:
4163 * package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
4165 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
4166 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
4167 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
4170 The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
4171 with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
4172 combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
4173 byte header containing information about target architecture,
4174 operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
4175 stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
4177 "mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
4178 print the header information, or to build new images.
4180 In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
4181 contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
4182 checksum verification:
4184 tools/mkimage -l image
4185 -l ==> list image header information
4187 The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
4188 from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
4190 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
4191 -n name -d data_file image
4192 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
4193 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
4194 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4195 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
4196 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
4197 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
4198 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
4199 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
4201 Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
4202 address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
4205 - 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
4206 - 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
4208 So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
4210 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4211 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
4212 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
4213 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
4214 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4215 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4216 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4217 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4218 Load Address: 0x00000000
4219 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4221 To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
4223 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
4224 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4225 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4226 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4227 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4228 Load Address: 0x00000000
4229 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4231 NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
4232 speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
4233 needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
4234 need to be uncompressed:
4236 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
4237 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4238 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
4239 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
4240 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
4241 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4242 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4243 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
4244 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
4245 Load Address: 0x00000000
4246 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4249 Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
4250 when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
4252 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
4253 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
4254 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
4255 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4256 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
4257 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4258 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
4259 Load Address: 0x00000000
4260 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4262 The "dumpimage" is a tool to disassemble images built by mkimage. Its "-i"
4263 option performs the converse operation of the mkimage's second form (the "-d"
4264 option). Given an image built by mkimage, the dumpimage extracts a "data file"
4267 tools/dumpimage -i image -T type -p position data_file
4268 -i ==> extract from the 'image' a specific 'data_file'
4269 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4270 -p ==> 'position' (starting at 0) of the 'data_file' inside the 'image'
4273 Installing a Linux Image:
4274 -------------------------
4276 To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
4277 you must convert the image to S-Record format:
4279 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
4281 The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
4282 image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
4283 address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
4284 specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
4287 Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
4288 TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
4290 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
4296 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4297 ~>examples/image.srec
4298 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
4300 15989 15990 15991 15992
4301 [file transfer complete]
4303 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
4306 You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
4307 this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
4308 corruption happened:
4312 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4313 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4314 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4315 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4316 Load Address: 00000000
4317 Entry Point: 0000000c
4318 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4324 The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
4325 memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
4326 of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
4327 parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
4328 "printenv" and "setenv" commands:
4331 => printenv bootargs
4332 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
4334 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4336 => printenv bootargs
4337 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4340 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
4341 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
4342 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4343 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
4344 Load Address: 00000000
4345 Entry Point: 0000000c
4346 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4347 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4348 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
4349 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4350 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4351 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4352 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
4355 If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
4356 the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
4357 format!) to the "bootm" command:
4359 => imi 40100000 40200000
4361 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4362 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4363 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4364 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4365 Load Address: 00000000
4366 Entry Point: 0000000c
4367 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4369 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
4370 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4371 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4372 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4373 Load Address: 00000000
4374 Entry Point: 00000000
4375 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4377 => bootm 40100000 40200000
4378 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
4379 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4380 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4381 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4382 Load Address: 00000000
4383 Entry Point: 0000000c
4384 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4385 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4386 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
4387 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4388 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4389 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4390 Load Address: 00000000
4391 Entry Point: 00000000
4392 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4393 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
4394 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
4395 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
4396 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4397 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4399 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
4400 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
4404 Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
4407 First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
4408 titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
4409 following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
4415 oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
4416 => tftp $oftaddr $oft
4417 Speed: 1000, full duplex
4419 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
4420 Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
4421 Load address: 0x300000
4424 Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
4425 => tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
4426 Speed: 1000, full duplex
4428 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
4430 Load address: 0x200000
4431 Loading:############
4433 Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
4438 => bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
4439 ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
4440 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
4441 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4442 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
4443 Load Address: 00000000
4444 Entry Point: 00000000
4445 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4446 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4447 Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
4448 Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
4449 Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
4453 More About U-Boot Image Types:
4454 ------------------------------
4456 U-Boot supports the following image types:
4458 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
4459 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
4460 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
4461 the Standalone Program.
4462 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
4463 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
4464 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
4465 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
4466 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
4467 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
4468 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
4470 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
4471 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
4472 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
4473 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
4474 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
4475 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
4477 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
4478 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
4479 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
4480 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
4481 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
4482 a multiple of 4 bytes).
4484 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
4485 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
4488 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
4489 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
4490 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
4491 as command interpreter.
4493 Booting the Linux zImage:
4494 -------------------------
4496 On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
4497 using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
4498 as the syntax of "bootm" command.
4500 Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
4501 kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
4502 address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
4503 format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
4509 One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
4510 run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
4511 U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
4513 Two simple examples are included with the sources:
4518 'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
4519 application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
4520 It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
4524 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4525 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
4526 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4527 [file transfer complete]
4529 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4531 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
4532 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4543 Hit any key to exit ...
4545 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4547 Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
4548 handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
4549 Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
4550 The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
4551 character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
4552 controlled by the following keys:
4554 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
4555 b - enable interrupts and start timer
4556 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
4557 q - quit application
4560 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4561 ~>examples/timer.srec
4562 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4563 [file transfer complete]
4565 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4568 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4571 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
4574 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
4577 [q, b, e, ?] ........
4578 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
4581 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
4584 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
4587 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
4589 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
4591 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4597 Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
4598 "minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
4599 consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
4600 Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
4601 especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
4602 use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
4603 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
4604 for help with kermit.
4607 Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
4608 configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
4610 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
4611 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
4612 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
4618 Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
4619 (build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
4621 Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
4622 NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
4623 need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
4624 Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
4625 attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
4626 missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
4628 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
4630 # ln -s powerpc machine
4631 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
4632 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
4634 Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
4635 and U-Boot include files.
4637 Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
4638 stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
4639 proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
4640 tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
4641 meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
4644 Implementation Internals:
4645 =========================
4647 The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
4648 implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
4649 inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
4653 Initial Stack, Global Data:
4654 ---------------------------
4656 The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
4657 starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
4658 system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
4659 This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
4660 is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
4661 at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
4662 options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
4663 models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
4664 MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
4665 locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
4667 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
4668 U-Boot mailing list:
4670 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4671 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
4672 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4675 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4676 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4677 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4678 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4679 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
4680 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
4681 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4682 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
4684 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4685 is another option for the system designer to use as an
4686 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
4687 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4688 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4689 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4692 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
4693 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4694 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
4695 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
4696 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4697 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4698 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4699 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4700 you get the config right.
4705 It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4706 code for the initialization procedures:
4708 * Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4711 * Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized
4712 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4713 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
4715 * Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4718 Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
4719 normal global data to share information between the code. But it
4720 turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4721 simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4722 functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4723 functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4724 the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4725 place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4726 reserve for this purpose.
4728 When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4729 relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4730 GCC's implementation.
4732 For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4734 R2: reserved for system use
4735 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4736 R5-R10: parameter passing
4737 R13: small data area pointer
4741 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4742 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4743 going back and forth between asm and C)
4745 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
4747 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4748 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4749 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4750 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4751 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4752 624 text + 127 data).
4754 On ARM, the following registers are used:
4756 R0: function argument word/integer result
4757 R1-R3: function argument word
4758 R9: platform specific
4759 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
4760 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4761 R12: temporary workspace
4764 R15: program counter
4766 ==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data
4768 Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.
4770 On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
4771 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
4773 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4775 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4776 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4778 On NDS32, the following registers are used:
4780 R0-R1: argument/return
4782 R15: temporary register for assembler
4783 R16: trampoline register
4784 R28: frame pointer (FP)
4785 R29: global pointer (GP)
4786 R30: link register (LP)
4787 R31: stack pointer (SP)
4788 PC: program counter (PC)
4790 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
4792 NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4793 or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
4795 On RISC-V, the following registers are used:
4797 x0: hard-wired zero (zero)
4798 x1: return address (ra)
4799 x2: stack pointer (sp)
4800 x3: global pointer (gp)
4801 x4: thread pointer (tp)
4802 x5: link register (t0)
4803 x8: frame pointer (fp)
4804 x10-x11: arguments/return values (a0-1)
4805 x12-x17: arguments (a2-7)
4806 x28-31: temporaries (t3-6)
4807 pc: program counter (pc)
4809 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4814 U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4815 MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
4817 The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4818 controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4819 memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4820 physical memory banks.
4822 U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4823 TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4824 booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4825 to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
4826 memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
4827 configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4828 Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
4830 Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4831 of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
4833 So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
4836 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
4839 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
4845 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
4846 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
4847 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
4850 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
4851 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
4852 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
4853 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
4856 System Initialization:
4857 ----------------------
4859 In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
4860 (on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
4861 configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory.
4862 To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
4863 To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
4864 initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
4865 which provide such a feature like), or in a locked part of the data
4866 cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core, the caches and
4869 Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
4870 preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
4871 (multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
4872 on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
4873 programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
4874 simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
4877 When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
4878 different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
4879 bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
4880 0x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
4881 contiguous memory starting from 0.
4883 Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
4884 and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
4885 Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
4886 pages, and the final stack is set up.
4888 Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
4889 until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
4890 running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
4894 U-Boot Porting Guide:
4895 ----------------------
4897 [Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
4901 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
4903 sighandler_t no_more_time;
4905 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
4906 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
4908 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
4909 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
4913 Download latest U-Boot source;
4915 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
4918 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
4921 Read the README file in the top level directory;
4922 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
4923 Read applicable doc/*.README;
4924 Read the source, Luke;
4925 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
4928 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
4931 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
4933 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
4934 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
4935 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
4937 Create your own board support subdirectory;
4938 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
4940 Edit new board/<myboard> files
4941 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
4946 Add / modify source code;
4950 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
4952 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
4953 if (reasonable critiques)
4954 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
4956 Defend code as written;
4962 void no_more_time (int sig)
4971 All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
4972 coding style; see the kernel coding style guide at
4973 https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html, and the
4974 script "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
4976 Source files originating from a different project (for example the
4977 MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
4978 reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
4981 Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
4982 Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
4985 Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
4986 - remove any trailing white space
4987 - use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
4988 - make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
4989 - do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
4990 - do not add trailing empty lines to source files
4992 Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
4993 with a request to reformat the changes.
4999 Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
5000 establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
5001 may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
5003 Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
5005 Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
5006 see https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
5008 When you send a patch, please include the following information with
5011 * For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
5012 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
5013 patch actually fixes something.
5015 * For new features: a description of the feature and your
5018 * A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
5020 * For major contributions, add a MAINTAINERS file with your
5021 information and associated file and directory references.
5023 * When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a
5024 maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.
5026 * If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
5027 document these in the README file.
5029 * The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
5030 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
5031 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
5032 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
5033 with some other mail clients.
5035 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
5036 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
5039 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
5040 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
5041 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
5044 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
5045 and compressed attachments must not be used.
5047 * If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
5048 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
5050 * Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
5051 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
5056 * Before sending the patch, run the buildman script on your patched
5057 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
5058 for any of the boards.
5060 * Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
5061 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
5062 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
5064 * If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
5065 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
5066 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
5067 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
5068 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
5071 * Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
5072 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
5073 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
5074 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.