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.
334 - Marvell Family Member
335 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
336 multiple fs option at one time
337 for marvell soc family
342 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
343 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
344 compliance, among other possible reasons.
346 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
348 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
349 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
350 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
352 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
354 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
355 tree nodes for the given platform.
357 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
359 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
360 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
361 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
363 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
364 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
366 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
367 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
369 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
370 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
371 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
372 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
374 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
377 CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
378 Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
379 required during NOR boot.
381 CONFIG_A008044_WORKAROUND
382 Enables a workaround for T1040/T1042 erratum A008044. It is only
383 required during NAND boot and valid for Rev 1.0 SoC revision
385 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
387 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
388 according to the A004510 workaround.
390 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
391 This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
392 connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
394 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
395 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
396 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
398 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
399 This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
400 connected to the DSP core.
402 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
403 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
405 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
406 Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
407 In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
408 clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
410 CONFIG_SYS_CPC_REINIT_F
411 This CONFIG is defined when the CPC is configured as SRAM at the
412 time of U-Boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
415 Indicates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
416 supported, core will start to execute uboot when wakes up.
418 - Generic CPU options:
419 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
421 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
422 values is arch specific.
425 Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
426 found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx, mpc86xx as well as some ARM core
429 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
430 Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
432 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_EMU
433 Specify emulator support for DDR. Some DDR features such as
434 deskew training are not available.
436 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
437 Freescale DDR1 controller.
439 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
440 Freescale DDR2 controller.
442 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
443 Freescale DDR3 controller.
445 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN4
446 Freescale DDR4 controller.
448 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
449 Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
452 Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
453 Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
457 Board config to use DDR2. It can be enabled for SoCs with
458 Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
462 Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
463 Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
466 Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
470 Board config to use DDR4. It can be enabled for SoCs with
473 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
474 Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
476 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
477 Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
479 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_CLK_DIV
480 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to IFC controller).
482 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_LBC_CLK_DIV
483 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to eLBC controller).
485 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_PBI
486 It enables addition of RCW (Power on reset configuration) in built image.
487 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
489 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_RCW
490 It adds PBI(pre-boot instructions) commands in u-boot build image.
491 PBI commands can be used to configure SoC before it starts the execution.
492 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
495 It adds a target to create boot binary having SPL binary in PBI format
496 concatenated with u-boot binary.
498 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
499 Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
501 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
502 Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
504 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
505 Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
506 same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for all Power SoCs. But
507 it could be different for ARM SoCs.
509 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
510 DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
511 interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
514 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_MAIN_NUM_CTRLS
515 Number of controllers used as main memory.
517 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_OTHER_DDR_NUM_CTRLS
518 Number of controllers used for other than main memory.
520 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_DP_DDR
521 Defines the SoC has DP-DDR used for DPAA.
523 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
524 Defines the SEC controller register space as Big Endian
526 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_LE
527 Defines the SEC controller register space as Little Endian
530 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
532 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
533 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
536 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
538 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
539 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
541 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
544 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
548 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
550 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
552 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
553 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
555 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
557 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
558 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
559 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
562 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
564 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
565 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
568 Generic timer clock source frequency.
570 COUNTER_FREQUENCY_REAL
571 Generic timer clock source frequency if the real clock is
572 different from COUNTER_FREQUENCY, and can only be determined
576 CONFIG_TEGRA_SUPPORT_NON_SECURE
578 Support executing U-Boot in non-secure (NS) mode. Certain
579 impossible actions will be skipped if the CPU is in NS mode,
580 such as ARM architectural timer initialization.
582 - Linux Kernel Interface:
585 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
586 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
587 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
588 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
589 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
590 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
592 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
593 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
596 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
598 When transferring memsize parameter to Linux, some versions
599 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
600 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
604 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
605 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
609 * New libfdt-based support
610 * Adds the "fdt" command
611 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
613 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
614 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
616 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
619 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
621 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
622 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
624 CONFIG_OF_SYSTEM_SETUP
626 Other code has addition modification that it wants to make
627 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel.
628 This causes ft_system_setup() to be called before booting
633 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
634 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
635 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
636 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
637 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
638 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
640 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
642 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
643 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
644 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
645 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
646 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
647 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
648 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
650 - vxWorks boot parameters:
652 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
653 environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask,
654 serverip, gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
655 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
657 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
658 the defaults discussed just above.
660 - Cache Configuration:
661 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
662 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
663 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
665 - Cache Configuration for ARM:
666 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
668 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
669 controller register space
674 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
678 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
682 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
683 the clock speed of the UARTs.
687 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
688 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
689 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
691 CONFIG_SERIAL_HW_FLOW_CONTROL
693 Define this variable to enable hw flow control in serial driver.
694 Current user of this option is drivers/serial/nsl16550.c driver
697 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
698 Select one of the baudrates listed in
699 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
703 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
704 define a command string that is automatically executed
705 when no character is read on the console interface
706 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
708 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
709 The value of these goes into the environment as
710 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
711 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
717 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
718 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
719 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
720 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
721 entering interactive mode.
723 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
724 automatically generated or modified. For an example
725 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
726 modified when the user holds down a certain
727 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
730 - Serial Download Echo Mode:
732 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
733 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
734 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
735 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
736 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
737 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
739 - Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
741 Select one of the baudrates listed in
742 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
744 - Removal of commands
745 If no commands are needed to boot, you can disable
746 CONFIG_CMDLINE to remove them. In this case, the command line
747 will not be available, and when U-Boot wants to execute the
748 boot command (on start-up) it will call board_run_command()
749 instead. This can reduce image size significantly for very
750 simple boot procedures.
752 - Regular expression support:
754 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
755 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
756 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
757 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
761 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
762 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
763 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
764 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
765 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
767 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
768 be done using one of the three options below:
771 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
772 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
773 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
774 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
775 the global data structure as gd->fdt_blob.
778 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
779 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
780 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
782 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
784 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
785 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
786 still use the individual files if you need something more
790 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use the device tree
791 provided by the board at runtime instead of embedding one with
792 the image. Only boards defining board_fdt_blob_setup() support
793 this option (see include/fdtdec.h file).
797 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
798 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
799 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx
800 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
801 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
802 available, then no further board specific code should
806 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
807 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
808 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
810 CONFIG_AT91_HW_WDT_TIMEOUT
811 specify the timeout in seconds. default 2 seconds.
815 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
816 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
819 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
820 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
821 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
822 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
823 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
824 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
825 CONFIG_RTC_DS1339 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1339 RTC
826 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
827 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
828 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
829 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
830 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
833 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
834 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
837 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
839 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
840 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
841 pins supported by a particular chip.
843 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
844 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
847 When CONFIG_IO_TRACE is selected, U-Boot intercepts all I/O
848 accesses and can checksum them or write a list of them out
849 to memory. See the 'iotrace' command for details. This is
850 useful for testing device drivers since it can confirm that
851 the driver behaves the same way before and after a code
852 change. Currently this is supported on sandbox and arm. To
853 add support for your architecture, add '#include <iotrace.h>'
854 to the bottom of arch/<arch>/include/asm/io.h and test.
856 Example output from the 'iotrace stats' command is below.
857 Note that if the trace buffer is exhausted, the checksum will
858 still continue to operate.
861 Start: 10000000 (buffer start address)
862 Size: 00010000 (buffer size)
863 Offset: 00000120 (current buffer offset)
864 Output: 10000120 (start + offset)
865 Count: 00000018 (number of trace records)
866 CRC32: 9526fb66 (CRC32 of all trace records)
870 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
871 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
872 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
873 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
875 - Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
876 Zero or more of the following:
877 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
878 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
879 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
880 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
882 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS Memory Technology Device partition table.
884 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_IDE or
885 CONFIG_SCSI) you must configure support for at
886 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
889 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
890 board configurations files but used nowhere!
892 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
893 be performed by calling the function
894 ide_set_reset(int reset)
895 which has to be defined in a board specific file
900 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
905 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
906 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
907 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
908 support disks up to 2.1TB.
910 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
911 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
915 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
916 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
917 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
918 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
921 The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
922 SCSI devices found during the last scan.
924 - NETWORK Support (PCI):
926 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
929 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
930 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
931 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
933 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
934 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
935 example with the "sspi" command.
938 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
939 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
940 write routine for first time initialisation.
943 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
944 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
945 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
948 Support for National dp83815 chips.
951 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
953 - NETWORK Support (other):
955 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
956 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
959 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
961 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
962 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
963 The driver doen't show link status messages.
966 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
969 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
971 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
972 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
975 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
978 Define this to hold the physical address
979 of the device (I/O space)
981 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
982 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
984 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
985 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
986 (some hardware wont work with macros)
988 CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
989 Support for davinci emac
991 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
992 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
995 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
997 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
998 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
999 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
1000 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
1001 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
1002 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
1003 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
1004 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
1007 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
1009 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
1010 Define the number of ports to be used
1012 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1013 Define the ETH PHY's address
1015 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1016 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1020 Support for PWM module on the imx6.
1024 Support TPM devices.
1026 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_INFINEON
1027 Support for Infineon i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
1028 per system is supported at this time.
1030 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
1031 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
1034 Support for STMicroelectronics TPM devices. Requires DM_TPM support.
1036 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_I2C
1037 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 I2C devices.
1038 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and I2C.
1040 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_SPI
1041 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 SPI devices.
1042 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and SPI.
1044 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
1045 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
1048 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1049 per system is supported at this time.
1051 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1052 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1053 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1057 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
1058 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
1059 Requires support for a TPM device.
1061 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
1062 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
1063 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
1066 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
1067 supported (PIP405, MIP405); define
1068 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1069 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
1070 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
1073 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1076 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1077 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1079 CONFIG_USB_DWC2_REG_ADDR the physical CPU address of the DWC2
1080 HW module registers.
1083 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1084 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1085 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
1086 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
1087 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1088 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
1089 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
1090 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1091 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1093 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1094 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1095 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1096 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
1099 Define this to build a UDC device
1102 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1103 talk to the UDC device
1106 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1107 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1108 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1109 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1110 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1113 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
1114 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1117 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
1118 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
1119 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
1120 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1121 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1122 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1124 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1125 Define this string as the name of your company for
1126 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
1128 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1129 Define this string as the name of your product
1130 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1132 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1133 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1134 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1135 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1136 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
1138 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1139 Define this as the unique Product ID
1141 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
1143 - ULPI Layer Support:
1144 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1145 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1146 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1147 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1148 viewport is supported.
1149 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1150 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
1151 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1152 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1153 the appropriate value in Hz.
1156 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1157 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1158 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
1159 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
1160 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1161 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
1164 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1166 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1167 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1170 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1172 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_BOOT
1173 Enable some additional features of the eMMC boot partitions.
1175 - USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
1177 This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class
1180 This enables support for exposing (e)MMC devices via DFU.
1183 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
1186 This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
1187 Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
1188 allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
1189 one that would help mostly the developer.
1191 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
1192 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
1193 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
1194 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
1195 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
1197 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
1198 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
1199 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
1200 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
1201 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
1202 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
1204 DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
1205 Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
1206 host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
1207 a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
1209 DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
1210 Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
1211 entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
1212 sending again an USB request to the device.
1214 - Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1216 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1218 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1219 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
1220 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1223 See Kconfig help for available keyboard drivers.
1227 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1228 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1229 defined in your board-specific files. This option is deprecated
1230 and is only used by novena. For new boards, use driver model
1235 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1236 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1237 support, and should also define these other macros:
1242 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1243 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1245 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1247 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1248 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1249 boot. See the documentation file doc/README.video for a
1250 description of this variable.
1252 - LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1254 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1255 display); also select one of the supported displays
1256 by defining one of these:
1260 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1262 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
1264 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
1266 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1268 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1269 Active, color, single scan.
1271 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1273 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
1274 Active, color, single scan.
1278 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1279 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1281 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1283 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1284 Active, color, single scan.
1288 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1289 Active, color, single scan.
1293 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1295 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1299 320x240. Black & white.
1301 CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
1303 Normally the LCD is page-aligned (typically 4KB). If this is
1304 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
1305 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
1306 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
1307 a per-section basis.
1312 Sometimes, for example if the display is mounted in portrait
1313 mode or even if it's mounted landscape but rotated by 180degree,
1314 we need to rotate our content of the display relative to the
1315 framebuffer, so that user can read the messages which are
1317 Once CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is defined, the lcd_console will be
1318 initialized with a given rotation from "vl_rot" out of
1319 "vidinfo_t" which is provided by the board specific code.
1320 The value for vl_rot is coded as following (matching to
1321 fbcon=rotate:<n> linux-kernel commandline):
1322 0 = no rotation respectively 0 degree
1323 1 = 90 degree rotation
1324 2 = 180 degree rotation
1325 3 = 270 degree rotation
1327 If CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is not defined, the console will be
1328 initialized with 0degree rotation.
1332 Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
1336 Enables an 'i2c edid' command which can read EDID
1337 information over I2C from an attached LCD display.
1339 - Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
1341 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1342 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1343 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
1344 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
1345 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1346 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1347 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1348 loaded very quickly after power-on.
1350 CONFIG_SPLASHIMAGE_GUARD
1352 If this option is set, then U-Boot will prevent the environment
1353 variable "splashimage" from being set to a problematic address
1354 (see doc/README.displaying-bmps).
1355 This option is useful for targets where, due to alignment
1356 restrictions, an improperly aligned BMP image will cause a data
1357 abort. If you think you will not have problems with unaligned
1358 accesses (for example because your toolchain prevents them)
1359 there is no need to set this option.
1361 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1363 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1364 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1365 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1366 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1367 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1368 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1371 setenv splashpos m,m
1372 => image at center of screen
1374 setenv splashpos 30,20
1375 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1377 setenv splashpos -10,m
1378 => vertically centered image
1379 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1381 - Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1383 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1384 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1385 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1387 - Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1389 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1390 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1393 - Compression support:
1396 Enabled by default to support gzip compressed images.
1400 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1401 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1402 compressed images are supported.
1404 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
1405 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
1409 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1411 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1413 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1415 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1416 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1417 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1418 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1420 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1422 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1423 command issued before MII status register can be read
1428 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
1429 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
1430 determined through e.g. bootp.
1431 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
1433 - Server IP address:
1436 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
1437 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1438 (Environment variable "serverip")
1440 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1442 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1443 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1445 - Gateway IP address:
1448 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1449 default router where packets to other networks are
1451 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1456 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1457 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1458 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1459 forwarded through a router.
1460 (Environment variable "netmask")
1462 - Multicast TFTP Mode:
1465 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1466 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
1467 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
1468 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1471 - BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1472 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1474 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1475 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1476 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1477 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1478 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1479 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1480 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1481 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
1482 following delays are inserted then:
1484 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1485 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1486 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1488 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1490 CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE
1492 BOOTP packets are uniquely identified using a 32-bit ID. The
1493 server will copy the ID from client requests to responses and
1494 U-Boot will use this to determine if it is the destination of
1495 an incoming response. Some servers will check that addresses
1496 aren't in use before handing them out (usually using an ARP
1497 ping) and therefore take up to a few hundred milliseconds to
1498 respond. Network congestion may also influence the time it
1499 takes for a response to make it back to the client. If that
1500 time is too long, U-Boot will retransmit requests. In order
1501 to allow earlier responses to still be accepted after these
1502 retransmissions, U-Boot's BOOTP client keeps a small cache of
1503 IDs. The CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE controls the size of this
1504 cache. The default is to keep IDs for up to four outstanding
1505 requests. Increasing this will allow U-Boot to accept offers
1506 from a BOOTP client in networks with unusually high latency.
1508 - DHCP Advanced Options:
1509 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1510 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1512 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1513 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1514 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1515 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1516 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1517 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
1518 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
1520 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1521 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
1523 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1524 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1525 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1526 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1529 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1530 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1531 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
1532 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
1533 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1534 option 12 to the DHCP server.
1536 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1538 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1539 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1540 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1541 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1542 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1543 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1544 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1545 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1546 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1547 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1550 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1551 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1552 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1553 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1554 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1556 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1558 - MAC address from environment variables
1560 FDT_SEQ_MACADDR_FROM_ENV
1562 Fix-up device tree with MAC addresses fetched sequentially from
1563 environment variables. This config work on assumption that
1564 non-usable ethernet node of device-tree are either not present
1565 or their status has been marked as "disabled".
1568 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
1570 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1572 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1574 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1579 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1580 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
1581 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
1583 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1585 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1586 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1590 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1594 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1598 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1600 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1602 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1603 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1605 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1607 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1609 - Status LED: CONFIG_LED_STATUS
1611 Several configurations allow to display the current
1612 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1613 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1614 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1615 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1616 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1617 kernel). Defining CONFIG_LED_STATUS enables this
1622 CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
1623 The status LED can be connected to a GPIO pin.
1624 In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
1625 status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
1626 to include the gpio_led driver in the U-Boot binary.
1628 CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE
1629 Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
1630 case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
1631 GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
1632 In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
1633 with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
1635 - I2C Support: CONFIG_SYS_I2C
1637 This enable the NEW i2c subsystem, and will allow you to use
1638 i2c commands at the u-boot command line (as long as you set
1639 CONFIG_CMD_I2C in CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c
1640 based realtime clock chips or other i2c devices. See
1641 common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the command line
1644 ported i2c driver to the new framework:
1645 - drivers/i2c/soft_i2c.c:
1646 - activate first bus with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT define
1647 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE
1648 for defining speed and slave address
1649 - activate second bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS2 define
1650 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_2 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_2
1651 for defining speed and slave address
1652 - activate third bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS3 define
1653 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_3 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_3
1654 for defining speed and slave address
1655 - activate fourth bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS4 define
1656 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_4 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_4
1657 for defining speed and slave address
1659 - drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c:
1660 - activate i2c driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_FSL
1661 define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_OFFSET for setting the register
1662 offset CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SPEED for the i2c speed and
1663 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SLAVE for the slave addr of the first
1665 - If your board supports a second fsl i2c bus, define
1666 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_OFFSET for the register offset
1667 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SPEED for the speed and
1668 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SLAVE for the slave address of the
1671 - drivers/i2c/tegra_i2c.c:
1672 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_TEGRA
1673 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses with a fix speed from
1674 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1676 - drivers/i2c/ppc4xx_i2c.c
1677 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX
1678 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1679 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1681 - drivers/i2c/i2c_mxc.c
1682 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC
1683 - enable bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C1
1684 - enable bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C2
1685 - enable bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C3
1686 - enable bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C4
1687 - define speed for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SPEED
1688 - define slave for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SLAVE
1689 - define speed for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SPEED
1690 - define slave for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SLAVE
1691 - define speed for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SPEED
1692 - define slave for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SLAVE
1693 - define speed for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SPEED
1694 - define slave for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SLAVE
1695 If those defines are not set, default value is 100000
1696 for speed, and 0 for slave.
1698 - drivers/i2c/rcar_i2c.c:
1699 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RCAR
1700 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses
1702 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_BASE for setting the register channel 0
1703 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_SPEED for for the speed channel 0
1704 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_BASE for setting the register channel 1
1705 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_SPEED for for the speed channel 1
1706 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_BASE for setting the register channel 2
1707 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_SPEED for for the speed channel 2
1708 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_BASE for setting the register channel 3
1709 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_SPEED for for the speed channel 3
1710 - CONFIF_SYS_RCAR_I2C_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
1712 - drivers/i2c/sh_i2c.c:
1713 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH
1714 - This driver adds from 2 to 5 i2c buses
1716 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE0 for setting the register channel 0
1717 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED0 for for the speed channel 0
1718 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE1 for setting the register channel 1
1719 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED1 for for the speed channel 1
1720 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE2 for setting the register channel 2
1721 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED2 for for the speed channel 2
1722 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE3 for setting the register channel 3
1723 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED3 for for the speed channel 3
1724 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE4 for setting the register channel 4
1725 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED4 for for the speed channel 4
1726 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
1728 - drivers/i2c/omap24xx_i2c.c
1729 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_OMAP24XX
1730 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED speed channel 0
1731 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE slave addr channel 0
1732 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED1 speed channel 1
1733 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE1 slave addr channel 1
1734 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED2 speed channel 2
1735 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE2 slave addr channel 2
1736 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED3 speed channel 3
1737 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE3 slave addr channel 3
1738 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED4 speed channel 4
1739 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE4 slave addr channel 4
1741 - drivers/i2c/zynq_i2c.c
1742 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ
1743 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SPEED for speed setting
1744 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SLAVE for slave addr
1746 - drivers/i2c/s3c24x0_i2c.c:
1747 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_S3C24X0
1748 - This driver adds i2c buses (11 for Exynos5250, Exynos5420
1749 9 i2c buses for Exynos4 and 1 for S3C24X0 SoCs from Samsung)
1750 with a fix speed from 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1752 - drivers/i2c/ihs_i2c.c
1753 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS
1754 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1755 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0 speed channel 0
1756 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0 slave addr channel 0
1757 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1758 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1 speed channel 1
1759 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1 slave addr channel 1
1760 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH2 activate hardware channel 2
1761 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2 speed channel 2
1762 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2 slave addr channel 2
1763 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH3 activate hardware channel 3
1764 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3 speed channel 3
1765 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3 slave addr channel 3
1766 - activate dual channel with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_DUAL
1767 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0_1 speed channel 0_1
1768 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0_1 slave addr channel 0_1
1769 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1_1 speed channel 1_1
1770 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1_1 slave addr channel 1_1
1771 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2_1 speed channel 2_1
1772 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2_1 slave addr channel 2_1
1773 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3_1 speed channel 3_1
1774 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3_1 slave addr channel 3_1
1778 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
1779 Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use.
1781 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
1782 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
1783 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
1786 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
1787 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
1788 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
1791 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
1792 hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
1793 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
1794 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
1795 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
1797 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1798 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
1799 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
1800 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
1801 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
1802 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
1803 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1804 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
1805 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
1809 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
1810 bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
1811 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
1812 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
1813 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
1814 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
1815 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
1816 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
1817 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
1819 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
1821 - Legacy I2C Support:
1822 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
1823 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1824 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
1828 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
1829 controller or configure ports.
1831 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
1835 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1836 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1839 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1843 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1844 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1847 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1851 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
1854 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1858 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1859 is false, it clears it (low).
1861 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
1862 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
1863 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
1867 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1868 is false, it clears it (low).
1870 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
1871 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
1872 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
1876 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1877 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
1878 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
1881 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
1883 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1885 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1886 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1887 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1888 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1890 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1891 the generic GPIO functions.
1893 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
1895 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1896 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1897 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1898 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1899 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1900 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1901 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1902 is run early in the boot sequence.
1904 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1906 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
1907 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1908 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
1909 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1911 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
1913 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
1914 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1915 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1916 a 1D array of device addresses
1919 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1920 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
1922 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1924 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1925 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
1927 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1929 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
1931 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1932 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1934 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
1936 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1937 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1939 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1941 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1942 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1943 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1944 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1945 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1946 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1949 - SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
1951 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1952 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1953 D/As on the SACSng board)
1957 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
1958 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
1959 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
1960 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
1961 defined, the board configuration must define several
1962 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
1963 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
1967 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
1968 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
1969 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
1970 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
1971 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
1973 CONFIG_SYS_SPI_MXC_WAIT
1974 Timeout for waiting until spi transfer completed.
1975 default: (CONFIG_SYS_HZ/100) /* 10 ms */
1977 - FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
1979 Enables FPGA subsystem.
1981 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
1983 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
1986 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
1988 Enables support for FPGA family.
1989 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
1993 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
1995 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
1997 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
1999 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
2001 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
2002 status by the configuration function. This option
2003 will require a board or device specific function to
2008 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
2009 configuration driver.
2011 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
2012 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2014 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
2016 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2017 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2018 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2019 indicated a CRC error).
2021 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
2023 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to de-assert
2024 after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
2025 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
2028 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
2030 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
2031 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
2033 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
2035 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
2038 - Configuration Management:
2041 Some SoCs need special image types (e.g. U-Boot binary
2042 with a special header) as build targets. By defining
2043 CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET in the SoC / board header, this
2044 special image will be automatically built upon calling
2049 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2050 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
2052 - Vendor Parameter Protection:
2054 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2055 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
2056 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
2057 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2058 protects these variables from casual modification by
2059 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2060 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
2061 change this behaviour:
2063 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2064 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
2065 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
2068 Alternatively, if you define _both_ an ethaddr in the
2069 default env _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
2070 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
2071 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2072 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2075 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
2076 for any variable by configuring the type of access
2077 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
2078 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
2083 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2084 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2085 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2086 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2087 this default value by defining an environment
2088 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2089 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2090 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2091 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2092 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2093 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2094 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2096 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
2099 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2100 either, which results in a memory region that will
2101 not be affected by reboots.
2103 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2104 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2105 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2106 following board configurations are known to be
2109 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx,
2110 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2113 - Access to physical memory region (> 4GB)
2114 Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not
2115 normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures
2116 support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit
2117 machines using physical address extension or similar.
2118 Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which
2119 currently only supports clearing the memory.
2122 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2124 This variable defines the number of retries for
2125 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2126 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2127 default value of 5 is used.
2131 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2135 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2136 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2137 try longer timeout such as
2138 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2140 - Command Interpreter:
2141 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
2143 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2144 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2145 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2149 In the current implementation, the local variables
2150 space and global environment variables space are
2151 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2152 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2153 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2154 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2155 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
2157 Global environment variables are those you use
2158 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2159 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2160 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
2162 To store commands and special characters in a
2163 variable, please use double quotation marks
2164 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2165 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2168 - Command Line Editing and History:
2169 CONFIG_CMDLINE_PS_SUPPORT
2171 Enable support for changing the command prompt string
2172 at run-time. Only static string is supported so far.
2173 The string is obtained from environment variables PS1
2176 - Default Environment:
2177 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2179 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2180 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
2181 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2183 For example, place something like this in your
2184 board's config file:
2186 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2190 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2191 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2192 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2193 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
2194 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
2195 You better know what you are doing here.
2197 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2198 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
2199 the environment like the "source" command or the
2202 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
2204 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
2205 initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
2206 that so that the environment is not available until
2207 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
2208 this is instead controlled by the value of
2209 /config/load-environment.
2211 - Serial Flash support
2212 Usage requires an initial 'sf probe' to define the serial
2213 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2216 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2217 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2218 flash is present on the system.
2220 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2221 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2222 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2223 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2226 - TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2229 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
2230 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
2231 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
2232 number generator is used.
2234 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2235 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2236 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2238 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
2239 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2240 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2241 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2242 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2243 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2244 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2246 - Show boot progress:
2247 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2249 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2250 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2251 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2252 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2253 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2254 the following checkpoints are implemented:
2257 Legacy uImage format:
2260 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
2261 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
2262 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
2263 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
2264 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
2265 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
2266 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2267 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2268 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2269 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
2270 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2271 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2272 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2273 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
2274 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
2275 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
2277 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2278 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2279 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2280 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2281 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2282 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2283 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
2284 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
2285 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2286 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2288 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
2290 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
2291 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2292 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
2294 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2295 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2296 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2297 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2298 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2299 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2300 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2301 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2302 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2303 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2304 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2305 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2306 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2307 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2308 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2309 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2310 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2311 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2312 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2313 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2314 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2315 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2316 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2317 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2318 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2319 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2320 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2321 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2322 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2323 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2324 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2325 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2326 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2327 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2328 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2329 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2330 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2331 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2332 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2333 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2334 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2335 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2336 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2337 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2338 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2339 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2340 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
2342 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
2344 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
2345 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2346 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
2348 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
2349 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling net_loop()
2350 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in net_loop() occurred
2351 81 common/cmd_net.c net_loop() back without error
2352 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2353 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
2354 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2355 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
2356 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
2361 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2362 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2363 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2364 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2365 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2366 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
2367 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
2368 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2369 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2370 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2371 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2372 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2373 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2374 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
2375 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2376 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2377 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2378 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2379 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2380 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2381 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2382 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2384 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2385 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2386 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
2387 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
2388 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2389 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2390 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2391 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2392 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2393 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2394 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2395 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2396 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2397 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2398 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2399 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2401 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
2402 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2404 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
2405 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2407 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
2408 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2410 - Standalone program support:
2411 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2413 This option defines a board specific value for the
2414 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
2415 overwriting the architecture dependent default
2418 - Frame Buffer Address:
2421 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
2422 address for frame buffer. This is typically the case
2423 when using a graphics controller has separate video
2424 memory. U-Boot will then place the frame buffer at
2425 the given address instead of dynamically reserving it
2426 in system RAM by calling lcd_setmem(), which grabs
2427 the memory for the frame buffer depending on the
2428 configured panel size.
2430 Please see board_init_f function.
2432 - Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2434 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2435 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2437 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2438 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2440 - MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2443 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
2444 Needed for mtdparts command support.
2446 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2448 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
2449 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
2452 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
2453 This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
2454 erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
2455 of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
2456 wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
2457 counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
2459 The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
2460 other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
2461 However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
2462 life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
2463 to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
2467 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
2468 This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
2469 expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the
2470 underlying flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR
2471 flash), this value is ignored.
2473 NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM
2474 (Number of Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime.
2475 The maximum expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks
2476 then can be calculated as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)",
2477 which gives 20 for most NANDs (MaxNVB is basically the total
2478 count of eraseblocks on the chip).
2480 To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to
2481 reserve about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
2482 handling. And that will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire
2483 NAND chip, not just the MTD partition UBI attaches. This means
2484 that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip admits maximum 40 bad
2485 eraseblocks, and it is split on two MTD partitions of the same
2486 size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when attaching a
2491 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
2492 Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
2493 in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
2494 only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
2495 The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
2496 the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
2497 attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
2498 a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI parameter
2499 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT to 1 if you want so. Please note
2500 that fastmap-enabled images are still usable with UBI implementations
2501 without fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap
2502 fits into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
2504 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT
2505 Set this parameter to enable fastmap automatically on images
2509 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FM_DEBUG
2510 Enable UBI fastmap debug
2515 Enable building of SPL globally.
2518 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
2520 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT
2521 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL, BSS included.
2522 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory
2523 used by SPL from _start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
2524 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2525 must not be both defined at the same time.
2528 Maximum size of the SPL image (text, data, rodata, and
2529 linker lists sections), BSS excluded.
2530 When defined, the linker checks that the actual size does
2533 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
2534 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
2536 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
2537 Address to relocate to. If unspecified, this is equal to
2538 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
2540 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
2541 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
2543 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2544 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL BSS.
2545 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory used
2546 by SPL from __bss_start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
2547 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2548 must not be both defined at the same time.
2551 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
2553 CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
2554 When defined, SPL will panic() if the image it has
2555 loaded does not have a signature.
2556 Defining this is useful when code which loads images
2557 in SPL cannot guarantee that absolutely all read errors
2559 An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which will
2560 consider that a completely unreadable NAND block is bad,
2561 and thus should be skipped silently.
2563 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
2564 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
2565 relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
2568 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
2569 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2570 When this option is set the full malloc is used in SPL and
2571 it is set up by spl_init() and before that, the simple malloc()
2572 can be used if CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F is defined.
2574 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
2575 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2578 Enable booting directly to an OS from SPL.
2579 See also: doc/README.falcon
2581 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
2582 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
2583 about the running system.
2585 CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
2586 Arch init code should be built for a very small image
2588 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION
2589 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
2592 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_KERNEL_SECTOR
2593 Sector to load kernel uImage from when MMC is being
2594 used in raw mode (for Falcon mode)
2596 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTOR,
2597 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTORS
2598 Sector and number of sectors to load kernel argument
2599 parameters from when MMC is being used in raw mode
2602 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_FS_BOOT_PARTITION
2603 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
2606 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
2607 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from filesystem
2609 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_KERNEL_NAME
2610 Filename to read to load kernel uImage when reading
2611 from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
2613 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_ARGS_NAME
2614 Filename to read to load kernel argument parameters
2615 when reading from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
2617 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
2618 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
2619 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
2620 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
2621 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
2623 CONFIG_SPL_SKIP_RELOCATE
2624 Avoid SPL relocation
2626 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE
2627 Include nand_base.c in the SPL. Requires
2628 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS.
2630 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS
2631 SPL uses normal NAND drivers, not minimal drivers.
2634 Include standard software ECC in the SPL
2636 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
2637 Support for NAND boot using simple NAND drivers that
2638 expose the cmd_ctrl() interface.
2641 Support for a lightweight UBI (fastmap) scanner and
2644 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_RAW_ONLY
2645 Support to boot only raw u-boot.bin images. Use this only
2646 if you need to save space.
2648 CONFIG_SPL_COMMON_INIT_DDR
2649 Set for common ddr init with serial presence detect in
2652 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
2653 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
2654 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
2655 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
2656 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
2657 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
2660 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BOOT
2661 Add support NAND boot
2663 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
2664 Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
2666 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
2667 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
2669 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
2670 Size of image to load
2672 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
2673 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
2675 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
2676 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
2677 data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
2679 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
2680 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
2683 Image offset to which the SPL should be padded before appending
2684 the SPL payload. By default, this is defined as
2685 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2686 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2687 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
2690 Final target image containing SPL and payload. Some SPLs
2691 use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
2692 example if more than one image needs to be produced.
2694 CONFIG_SPL_FIT_PRINT
2695 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
2696 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
2697 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
2698 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
2702 Enable building of TPL globally.
2705 Image offset to which the TPL should be padded before appending
2706 the TPL payload. By default, this is defined as
2707 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2708 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2709 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
2711 - Interrupt support (PPC):
2713 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2714 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
2715 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
2716 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
2717 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
2718 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
2719 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
2720 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2721 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2722 general timer_interrupt().
2725 Board initialization settings:
2726 ------------------------------
2728 During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
2729 to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
2730 before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
2731 following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
2732 architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
2733 typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
2735 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
2736 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
2737 - CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
2738 - CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
2740 Configuration Settings:
2741 -----------------------
2743 - CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit.
2744 Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.
2746 - CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
2747 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2749 - CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2750 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2752 - CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
2753 prompt for user input.
2755 - CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
2757 - CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
2759 - CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
2761 - CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
2762 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2765 - CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
2766 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2768 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
2769 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2772 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
2773 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2774 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2776 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE
2777 Only implemented for ARMv8 for now.
2778 If defined, the size of CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE memory
2779 is substracted from total RAM and won't be reported to OS.
2780 This memory can be used as secure memory. A variable
2781 gd->arch.secure_ram is used to track the location. In systems
2782 the RAM base is not zero, or RAM is divided into banks,
2783 this variable needs to be recalcuated to get the address.
2785 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE:
2786 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
2787 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
2788 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
2789 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2790 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2791 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
2792 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
2793 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
2794 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
2796 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2797 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2800 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2801 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2802 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2803 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2806 - CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
2807 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2809 - CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
2810 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2812 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
2813 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2815 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
2816 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2817 make config files to be same as the text base address
2818 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
2819 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
2821 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
2822 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2823 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2824 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2827 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
2828 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2830 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
2831 Size of the malloc() pool for use before relocation. If
2832 this is defined, then a very simple malloc() implementation
2833 will become available before relocation. The address is just
2834 below the global data, and the stack is moved down to make
2837 This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
2838 within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
2839 is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
2840 The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
2841 U-Boot relocates itself.
2843 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
2844 Provides a simple and small malloc() and calloc() for those
2845 boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is
2846 enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START).
2848 - CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY:
2849 Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be
2850 typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped
2851 uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would
2852 otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For
2853 some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the
2854 cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed
2855 are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding
2856 cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e.
2857 if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the
2858 size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of
2859 one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has
2860 written to another region in the same cache-line. This can
2861 happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for
2862 buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g.
2863 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).
2865 Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
2867 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
2868 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
2869 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
2870 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
2871 to adjust this setting to your needs.
2873 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
2874 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
2875 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
2876 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
2877 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
2878 environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
2879 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
2880 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
2881 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
2882 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
2883 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
2885 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
2886 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
2887 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
2890 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
2891 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
2892 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2894 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
2895 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
2896 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2898 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
2899 Max number of Flash memory banks
2901 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
2902 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
2904 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
2905 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
2907 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
2908 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
2910 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
2911 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
2913 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
2914 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
2916 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
2917 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
2918 instead of U-Boot software protection.
2920 - CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
2922 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
2923 without this option such a download has to be
2924 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
2925 copy from RAM to flash.
2927 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
2928 you can check if the download worked before you erase
2929 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
2930 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
2931 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
2933 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
2934 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
2935 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
2937 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
2938 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
2939 in the drivers directory
2941 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
2942 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
2943 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
2946 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
2947 Use buffered writes to flash.
2949 - CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
2950 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
2953 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
2954 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
2955 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
2956 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
2957 optionally available.
2959 - CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
2960 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
2961 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
2962 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
2964 - CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY
2965 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
2966 against the source after the write operation. An error message
2967 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
2968 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
2969 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
2970 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
2971 this option if you really know what you are doing.
2973 - CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
2974 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
2975 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
2976 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
2977 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
2978 on high Ethernet traffic.
2979 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
2981 - CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
2983 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
2984 internally to store the environment settings. The default
2985 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
2986 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
2987 lib/hashtable.c for details.
2989 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
2990 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
2991 Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when
2992 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
2993 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
2994 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
2996 The format of the list is:
2997 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
2998 access_attribute = [a|r|o|c]
2999 attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute]
3000 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
3003 The type attributes are:
3004 s - String (default)
3007 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
3011 The access attributes are:
3017 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3018 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
3019 environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
3021 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3022 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
3023 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
3024 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
3025 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
3028 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
3029 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to define the same
3030 flags without explicitly listing them for each variable.
3032 - CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
3033 If defined, don't allow the -f switch to env set override variable
3037 If stdint.h is available with your toolchain you can define this
3038 option to enable it. You can provide option 'USE_STDINT=1' when
3039 building U-Boot to enable this.
3041 The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
3042 of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
3043 following configurations:
3045 - CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
3047 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
3048 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
3050 BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
3051 in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the
3052 console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
3055 Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3056 environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3057 keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3058 to save the current settings.
3060 BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
3061 "saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
3062 environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
3063 but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
3065 - CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
3067 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
3068 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
3069 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
3071 Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
3072 has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
3073 created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use env_get_f()
3074 until then to read environment variables.
3076 The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
3077 is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
3078 with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
3079 necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
3080 "baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
3081 have any device yet where we could complain.]
3083 Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
3084 the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
3085 use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
3087 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
3088 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
3090 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
3091 also needs to be defined.
3093 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
3094 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
3096 - CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
3097 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
3098 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
3099 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
3100 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
3101 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
3103 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
3104 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
3105 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
3108 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
3109 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
3110 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
3113 - CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT:
3114 Maximum size of the U-Boot image. When defined, the
3115 build system checks that the actual size does not
3118 Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
3119 ---------------------------------------------------
3121 - CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
3122 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
3124 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
3125 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
3128 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
3129 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
3130 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
3132 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
3133 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
3134 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
3135 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
3136 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
3137 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
3138 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
3140 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
3141 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
3143 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
3144 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
3145 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
3146 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3147 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3149 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
3150 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
3151 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3152 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3154 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
3155 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
3156 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
3158 - Floppy Disk Support:
3159 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
3161 the default drive number (default value 0)
3163 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
3165 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
3168 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
3170 defines the offset of register from address. It
3171 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
3172 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
3174 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
3175 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
3178 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
3179 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
3180 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
3181 source code. It is used to make hardware-dependent
3185 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
3186 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
3187 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
3188 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
3189 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
3192 - CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
3193 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
3194 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx systems only]
3196 - CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
3198 Start address of memory area that can be used for
3199 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
3200 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
3201 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
3202 will become available only after programming the
3203 memory controller and running certain initialization
3206 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
3207 - MPC8xx: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
3209 - CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
3211 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
3212 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
3213 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
3214 data is located at the end of the available space
3215 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
3216 GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
3217 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
3218 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
3221 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
3222 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
3223 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
3224 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
3225 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
3227 - CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
3229 - CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
3232 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
3233 periodic timer for refresh
3235 - FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
3236 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
3237 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
3238 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
3239 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
3241 - SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
3242 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
3243 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
3244 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
3246 - CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
3247 Only scan through and get the devices on the buses.
3248 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
3249 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
3250 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
3251 by coreboot or similar.
3253 - CONFIG_PCI_INDIRECT_BRIDGE:
3254 Enable support for indirect PCI bridges.
3257 Chip has SRIO or not
3260 Board has SRIO 1 port available
3263 Board has SRIO 2 port available
3265 - CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
3266 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
3268 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
3269 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3271 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
3272 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3274 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
3275 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3277 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
3278 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
3280 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
3281 Example of drivers that use it:
3282 - drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c
3283 - drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
3285 - CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
3286 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
3287 a default value will be used.
3290 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
3291 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
3294 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
3296 - CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
3297 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
3298 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
3299 to something your driver can deal with.
3301 - CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
3302 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
3303 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
3304 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
3305 header files or board specific files.
3307 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
3308 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
3310 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_SYNC_REFRESH
3311 Enable sync of refresh for multiple controllers.
3313 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_BIST
3314 Enable built-in memory test for Freescale DDR controllers.
3316 - CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
3317 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
3318 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
3321 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
3322 Note that this is a global option, we can't
3323 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
3325 - CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
3326 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
3329 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
3331 Where address/count indicate a memory area
3332 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
3336 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
3337 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
3340 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
3345 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
3347 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
3348 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
3350 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
3351 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
3353 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
3354 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS, RISC-V only] If this variable is defined, then certain
3355 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
3356 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
3357 relocate itself into RAM.
3359 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
3360 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
3361 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
3362 these initializations itself.
3364 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT_ONLY
3365 [ARM926EJ-S only] This allows just the call to lowlevel_init()
3366 to be skipped. The normal CP15 init (such as enabling the
3367 instruction cache) is still performed.
3370 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3371 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
3372 compiling a NAND SPL.
3375 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3376 that is executed after the SPL and before the actual U-Boot.
3377 It is loaded by the SPL.
3379 - CONFIG_SYS_MPC85XX_NO_RESETVEC
3380 Only for 85xx systems. If this variable is specified, the section
3381 .resetvec is not kept and the section .bootpg is placed in the
3382 previous 4k of the .text section.
3384 - CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
3385 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
3386 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
3387 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
3388 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
3389 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
3390 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
3391 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
3393 - CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
3394 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
3395 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
3397 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE
3398 Option to disable subpage write in NAND driver
3399 driver that uses this:
3400 drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
3402 Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
3403 -----------------------------------
3405 The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
3406 loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
3407 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3408 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3411 - CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR
3412 The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The
3413 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3416 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR
3417 The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The
3418 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3421 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
3422 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
3423 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
3424 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
3425 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
3427 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
3428 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
3429 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
3430 virtual address in NOR flash.
3432 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
3433 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
3434 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
3436 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
3437 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
3438 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
3440 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
3441 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
3442 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
3443 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
3444 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
3445 master's memory space.
3447 Freescale Layerscape Management Complex Firmware Support:
3448 ---------------------------------------------------------
3449 The Freescale Layerscape Management Complex (MC) supports the loading of
3451 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3452 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3455 - CONFIG_FSL_MC_ENET
3456 Enable the MC driver for Layerscape SoCs.
3458 Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support:
3459 -------------------------------------------
3460 The Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support supports the loading of
3461 "Debug Server firmware" and triggering SP boot-rom.
3462 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting.
3464 - CONFIG_SYS_MC_RSV_MEM_ALIGN
3465 Define alignment of reserved memory MC requires
3470 In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
3471 process have to be set to a fixed value.
3473 This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
3474 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is to be set on the build host's shell, not as a configuration
3475 option for U-Boot or an environment variable in U-Boot.
3477 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should be set to a number of seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
3479 Building the Software:
3480 ======================
3482 Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
3483 and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
3484 all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
3485 (potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
3486 recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
3487 which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
3489 If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
3490 have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
3491 you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
3492 Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
3493 necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
3495 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
3496 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
3498 Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
3499 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
3500 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
3501 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
3503 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
3505 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
3506 be executed on computers running Windows.
3508 U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
3509 sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
3514 where "NAME_defconfig" is the name of one of the existing configu-
3515 rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
3517 Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
3518 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
3519 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
3520 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
3521 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
3523 make TQM823L_defconfig
3524 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
3526 make TQM823L_LCD_defconfig
3527 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
3532 Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
3533 images ready for download to / installation on your system:
3535 - "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
3536 - "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
3537 - "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
3539 By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
3540 in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
3541 this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
3543 1. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
3545 make O=/tmp/build distclean
3546 make O=/tmp/build NAME_defconfig
3547 make O=/tmp/build all
3549 2. Set environment variable KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the desired location:
3551 export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/build
3556 Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
3559 User specific CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS can be passed to the compiler by
3560 setting the according environment variables KCPPFLAGS, KAFLAGS and KCFLAGS.
3561 For example to treat all compiler warnings as errors:
3563 make KCFLAGS=-Werror
3565 Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
3566 for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
3570 If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
3571 to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
3574 1. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
3575 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3576 the "Makefile" and a "<board>.c".
3577 2. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3579 3. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3580 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
3581 4. Run "make <board>_defconfig" with your new name.
3582 5. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3583 to be installed on your target system.
3584 6. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3585 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
3588 Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3589 ==============================================================
3591 If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3592 or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
3593 provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
3594 the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
3595 official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
3597 But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3598 cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
3599 the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
3600 just run the buildman script (tools/buildman/buildman), which will
3601 configure and build U-Boot for ALL supported system. Be warned, this
3602 will take a while. Please see the buildman README, or run 'buildman -H'
3606 See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
3609 Monitor Commands - Overview:
3610 ============================
3612 go - start application at address 'addr'
3613 run - run commands in an environment variable
3614 bootm - boot application image from memory
3615 bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
3616 bootz - boot zImage from memory
3617 tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3618 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3619 (and eventually "gatewayip")
3620 tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
3621 rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3622 diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3623 loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3624 loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3626 mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3627 nm - memory modify (constant address)
3628 mw - memory write (fill)
3630 cmp - memory compare
3631 crc32 - checksum calculation
3632 i2c - I2C sub-system
3633 sspi - SPI utility commands
3634 base - print or set address offset
3635 printenv- print environment variables
3636 setenv - set environment variables
3637 saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3638 protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3639 erase - erase FLASH memory
3640 flinfo - print FLASH memory information
3641 nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
3642 bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3643 iminfo - print header information for application image
3644 coninfo - print console devices and informations
3645 ide - IDE sub-system
3646 loop - infinite loop on address range
3647 loopw - infinite write loop on address range
3648 mtest - simple RAM test
3649 icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3650 dcache - enable or disable data cache
3651 reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3652 echo - echo args to console
3653 version - print monitor version
3654 help - print online help
3655 ? - alias for 'help'
3658 Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3659 ========================================
3663 For now: just type "help <command>".
3666 Environment Variables:
3667 ======================
3669 U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3670 can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
3672 Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3673 "printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3674 without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3675 environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3676 working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3677 environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
3679 Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3681 List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
3683 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
3685 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
3687 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
3689 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
3691 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
3693 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3694 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3695 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3696 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3697 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3698 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
3699 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
3702 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
3703 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
3704 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
3705 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
3706 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
3707 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
3710 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3711 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3712 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3713 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3714 environment variable.
3716 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3717 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3718 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3720 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3721 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3722 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3723 load any image using TFTP
3725 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3726 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3727 be automatically started (by internally calling
3730 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3731 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3732 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3733 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3736 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
3737 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
3738 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
3739 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
3740 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
3741 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
3742 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
3743 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
3744 access it during the boot procedure.
3746 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
3747 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
3748 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
3749 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
3750 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
3751 must be accessible by the kernel.
3753 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
3754 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
3757 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3758 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3759 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3760 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3761 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3763 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3764 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3765 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3766 is usually what you want since it allows for
3767 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3768 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
3769 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
3770 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3771 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3772 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3773 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
3775 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3776 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3777 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3778 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3779 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3780 12 MB as well - this can be done with
3782 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
3784 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3785 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3786 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3787 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3788 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3789 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3790 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
3792 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3794 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3795 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
3797 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
3799 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3801 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
3803 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
3805 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
3807 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
3809 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
3810 For example you can do the following
3812 => setenv ethact FEC
3813 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
3814 => setenv ethact SCC
3815 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
3817 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3818 available network interfaces.
3819 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3821 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
3822 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3823 When set to "once" the network operation will
3824 fail when all the available network interfaces
3825 are tried once without success.
3826 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3829 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
3831 silent_linux - If set then Linux will be told to boot silently, by
3832 changing the console to be empty. If "yes" it will be
3833 made silent. If "no" it will not be made silent. If
3834 unset, then it will be made silent if the U-Boot console
3837 tftpsrcp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
3840 tftpdstp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
3841 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
3843 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
3844 we use the TFTP server's default block size
3846 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
3847 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
3848 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
3849 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
3850 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
3851 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
3852 with unreliable TFTP servers.
3854 tftptimeoutcountmax - maximum count of TFTP timeouts (no
3855 unit, minimum value = 0). Defines how many timeouts
3856 can happen during a single file transfer before that
3857 transfer is aborted. The default is 10, and 0 means
3858 'no timeouts allowed'. Increasing this value may help
3859 downloads succeed with high packet loss rates, or with
3860 unreliable TFTP servers or client hardware.
3862 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
3863 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
3866 bootpretryperiod - Period during which BOOTP/DHCP sends retries.
3867 Unsigned value, in milliseconds. If not set, the period will
3868 be either the default (28000), or a value based on
3869 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT, if defined. This value has
3870 precedence over the valu based on CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT.
3872 The following image location variables contain the location of images
3873 used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
3874 not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
3875 variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
3876 server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
3877 loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
3878 flash or offset in NAND flash.
3880 *Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
3881 boards currently use other variables for these purposes, and some
3882 boards use these variables for other purposes.
3884 Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
3885 ----- --------- ----------- --------------
3886 u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
3887 Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
3888 device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
3889 ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
3891 The following environment variables may be used and automatically
3892 updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
3893 depending the information provided by your boot server:
3895 bootfile - see above
3896 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
3897 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
3898 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
3899 hostname - Target hostname
3901 netmask - Subnet Mask
3902 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
3903 serverip - see above
3906 There are two special Environment Variables:
3908 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
3909 as type string and/or serial number
3910 ethaddr - Ethernet address
3912 These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
3913 the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
3914 once they have been set once.
3917 Further special Environment Variables:
3919 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
3920 with the "version" command. This variable is
3921 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
3924 Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
3925 only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
3928 Callback functions for environment variables:
3929 ---------------------------------------------
3931 For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change
3932 when their values are changed. This functionality allows functions to
3933 be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or
3934 deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side
3935 effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.
3937 The callbacks are named and associated with a function using the
3938 U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK macro in your board or driver code.
3940 These callbacks are associated with variables in one of two ways. The
3941 static list can be added to by defining CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC
3942 in the board configuration to a string that defines a list of
3943 associations. The list must be in the following format:
3945 entry = variable_name[:callback_name]
3948 If the callback name is not specified, then the callback is deleted.
3949 Spaces are also allowed anywhere in the list.
3951 Callbacks can also be associated by defining the ".callbacks" variable
3952 with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will
3953 override any association in the static list. You can define
3954 CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
3955 ".callbacks" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
3957 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
3958 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to be connected to
3959 the same callback without explicitly listing them all out.
3962 Command Line Parsing:
3963 =====================
3965 There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
3966 the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
3968 Old, simple command line parser:
3969 --------------------------------
3971 - supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
3972 - several commands on one line, separated by ';'
3973 - variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
3974 - special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
3976 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
3977 - You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
3978 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
3983 - similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
3984 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
3985 until...do...done, ...
3986 - supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
3987 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
3988 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
3994 (1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
3995 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
3996 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
3999 (2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
4000 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
4001 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
4002 variables are not executed.
4004 Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
4005 =======================================
4007 Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
4008 such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
4009 "working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
4011 Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
4012 MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
4013 "eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
4015 If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
4016 in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
4017 ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
4018 variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
4020 o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
4021 environment, the SROM's address is used.
4023 o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
4024 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
4027 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
4028 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
4030 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
4031 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
4034 o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
4035 is raised. If CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR is defined, then in this case
4036 a random, locally-assigned MAC is used.
4038 If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
4039 will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
4040 may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
4041 The naming convention is as follows:
4042 "ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
4047 U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
4048 images in two formats:
4050 New uImage format (FIT)
4051 -----------------------
4053 Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
4054 to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
4055 components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
4056 SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
4062 Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
4063 preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
4064 details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
4066 * Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
4067 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
4068 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
4069 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
4071 * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, Intel x86,
4072 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
4073 Currently supported: ARM, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
4074 * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
4080 The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
4081 and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
4088 Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
4089 easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
4092 U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
4093 special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
4094 "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
4095 instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
4096 serves several purposes:
4098 - the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
4099 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
4100 Flash memory footprint)
4102 - it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
4103 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
4105 - the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
4106 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
4107 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
4108 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
4109 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
4110 software is easier now.
4116 Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
4117 ---------------------------------------
4119 U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
4120 configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
4121 (no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
4124 But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
4126 Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
4127 include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
4128 Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
4129 and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
4130 as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
4132 Note that U-Boot now has a driver model, a unified model for drivers.
4133 If you are adding a new driver, plumb it into driver model. If there
4134 is no uclass available, you are encouraged to create one. See
4138 Configuring the Linux kernel:
4139 -----------------------------
4141 No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
4142 device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
4145 Building a Linux Image:
4146 -----------------------
4148 With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
4149 not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
4150 "uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
4151 U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
4152 which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
4153 100% compatible format.
4157 make TQM850L_defconfig
4162 The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
4163 encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
4164 CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
4166 * build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
4168 * convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
4170 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
4171 -R .note -R .comment \
4172 -S vmlinux linux.bin
4174 * compress the binary image:
4178 * package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
4180 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
4181 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
4182 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
4185 The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
4186 with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
4187 combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
4188 byte header containing information about target architecture,
4189 operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
4190 stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
4192 "mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
4193 print the header information, or to build new images.
4195 In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
4196 contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
4197 checksum verification:
4199 tools/mkimage -l image
4200 -l ==> list image header information
4202 The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
4203 from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
4205 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
4206 -n name -d data_file image
4207 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
4208 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
4209 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4210 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
4211 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
4212 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
4213 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
4214 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
4216 Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
4217 address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
4220 - 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
4221 - 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
4223 So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
4225 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4226 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
4227 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
4228 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
4229 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4230 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4231 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4232 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4233 Load Address: 0x00000000
4234 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4236 To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
4238 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
4239 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4240 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4241 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4242 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4243 Load Address: 0x00000000
4244 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4246 NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
4247 speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
4248 needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
4249 need to be uncompressed:
4251 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
4252 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4253 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
4254 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
4255 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
4256 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4257 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4258 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
4259 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
4260 Load Address: 0x00000000
4261 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4264 Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
4265 when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
4267 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
4268 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
4269 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
4270 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4271 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
4272 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4273 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
4274 Load Address: 0x00000000
4275 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4277 The "dumpimage" is a tool to disassemble images built by mkimage. Its "-i"
4278 option performs the converse operation of the mkimage's second form (the "-d"
4279 option). Given an image built by mkimage, the dumpimage extracts a "data file"
4282 tools/dumpimage -i image -T type -p position data_file
4283 -i ==> extract from the 'image' a specific 'data_file'
4284 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4285 -p ==> 'position' (starting at 0) of the 'data_file' inside the 'image'
4288 Installing a Linux Image:
4289 -------------------------
4291 To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
4292 you must convert the image to S-Record format:
4294 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
4296 The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
4297 image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
4298 address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
4299 specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
4302 Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
4303 TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
4305 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
4311 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4312 ~>examples/image.srec
4313 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
4315 15989 15990 15991 15992
4316 [file transfer complete]
4318 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
4321 You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
4322 this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
4323 corruption happened:
4327 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4328 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4329 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4330 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4331 Load Address: 00000000
4332 Entry Point: 0000000c
4333 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4339 The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
4340 memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
4341 of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
4342 parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
4343 "printenv" and "setenv" commands:
4346 => printenv bootargs
4347 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
4349 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4351 => printenv bootargs
4352 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4355 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
4356 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
4357 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4358 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
4359 Load Address: 00000000
4360 Entry Point: 0000000c
4361 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4362 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4363 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
4364 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4365 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4366 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4367 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
4370 If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
4371 the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
4372 format!) to the "bootm" command:
4374 => imi 40100000 40200000
4376 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4377 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4378 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4379 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4380 Load Address: 00000000
4381 Entry Point: 0000000c
4382 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4384 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
4385 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4386 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4387 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4388 Load Address: 00000000
4389 Entry Point: 00000000
4390 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4392 => bootm 40100000 40200000
4393 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
4394 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4395 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4396 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4397 Load Address: 00000000
4398 Entry Point: 0000000c
4399 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4400 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4401 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
4402 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4403 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4404 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4405 Load Address: 00000000
4406 Entry Point: 00000000
4407 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4408 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
4409 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
4410 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
4411 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4412 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4414 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
4415 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
4419 Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
4422 First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
4423 titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
4424 following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
4430 oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
4431 => tftp $oftaddr $oft
4432 Speed: 1000, full duplex
4434 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
4435 Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
4436 Load address: 0x300000
4439 Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
4440 => tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
4441 Speed: 1000, full duplex
4443 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
4445 Load address: 0x200000
4446 Loading:############
4448 Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
4453 => bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
4454 ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
4455 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
4456 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4457 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
4458 Load Address: 00000000
4459 Entry Point: 00000000
4460 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4461 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4462 Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
4463 Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
4464 Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
4468 More About U-Boot Image Types:
4469 ------------------------------
4471 U-Boot supports the following image types:
4473 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
4474 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
4475 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
4476 the Standalone Program.
4477 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
4478 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
4479 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
4480 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
4481 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
4482 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
4483 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
4485 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
4486 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
4487 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
4488 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
4489 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
4490 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
4492 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
4493 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
4494 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
4495 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
4496 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
4497 a multiple of 4 bytes).
4499 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
4500 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
4503 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
4504 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
4505 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
4506 as command interpreter.
4508 Booting the Linux zImage:
4509 -------------------------
4511 On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
4512 using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
4513 as the syntax of "bootm" command.
4515 Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
4516 kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
4517 address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
4518 format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
4524 One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
4525 run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
4526 U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
4528 Two simple examples are included with the sources:
4533 'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
4534 application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
4535 It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
4539 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4540 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
4541 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4542 [file transfer complete]
4544 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4546 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
4547 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4558 Hit any key to exit ...
4560 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4562 Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
4563 handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
4564 Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
4565 The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
4566 character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
4567 controlled by the following keys:
4569 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
4570 b - enable interrupts and start timer
4571 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
4572 q - quit application
4575 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4576 ~>examples/timer.srec
4577 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4578 [file transfer complete]
4580 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4583 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4586 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
4589 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
4592 [q, b, e, ?] ........
4593 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
4596 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
4599 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
4602 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
4604 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
4606 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4612 Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
4613 "minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
4614 consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
4615 Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
4616 especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
4617 use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
4618 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
4619 for help with kermit.
4622 Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
4623 configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
4625 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
4626 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
4627 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
4633 Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
4634 (build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
4636 Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
4637 NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
4638 need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
4639 Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
4640 attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
4641 missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
4643 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
4645 # ln -s powerpc machine
4646 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
4647 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
4649 Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
4650 and U-Boot include files.
4652 Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
4653 stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
4654 proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
4655 tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
4656 meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
4659 Implementation Internals:
4660 =========================
4662 The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
4663 implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
4664 inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
4668 Initial Stack, Global Data:
4669 ---------------------------
4671 The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
4672 starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
4673 system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
4674 This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
4675 is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
4676 at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
4677 options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
4678 models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
4679 MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
4680 locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
4682 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
4683 U-Boot mailing list:
4685 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4686 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
4687 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4690 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4691 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4692 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4693 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4694 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
4695 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
4696 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4697 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
4699 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4700 is another option for the system designer to use as an
4701 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
4702 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4703 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4704 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4707 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
4708 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4709 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
4710 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
4711 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4712 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4713 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4714 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4715 you get the config right.
4720 It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4721 code for the initialization procedures:
4723 * Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4726 * Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized
4727 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4728 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
4730 * Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4733 Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
4734 normal global data to share information between the code. But it
4735 turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4736 simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4737 functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4738 functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4739 the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4740 place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4741 reserve for this purpose.
4743 When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4744 relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4745 GCC's implementation.
4747 For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4749 R2: reserved for system use
4750 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4751 R5-R10: parameter passing
4752 R13: small data area pointer
4756 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4757 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4758 going back and forth between asm and C)
4760 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
4762 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4763 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4764 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4765 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4766 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4767 624 text + 127 data).
4769 On ARM, the following registers are used:
4771 R0: function argument word/integer result
4772 R1-R3: function argument word
4773 R9: platform specific
4774 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
4775 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4776 R12: temporary workspace
4779 R15: program counter
4781 ==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data
4783 Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.
4785 On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
4786 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
4788 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4790 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4791 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4793 On NDS32, the following registers are used:
4795 R0-R1: argument/return
4797 R15: temporary register for assembler
4798 R16: trampoline register
4799 R28: frame pointer (FP)
4800 R29: global pointer (GP)
4801 R30: link register (LP)
4802 R31: stack pointer (SP)
4803 PC: program counter (PC)
4805 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
4807 NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4808 or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
4810 On RISC-V, the following registers are used:
4812 x0: hard-wired zero (zero)
4813 x1: return address (ra)
4814 x2: stack pointer (sp)
4815 x3: global pointer (gp)
4816 x4: thread pointer (tp)
4817 x5: link register (t0)
4818 x8: frame pointer (fp)
4819 x10-x11: arguments/return values (a0-1)
4820 x12-x17: arguments (a2-7)
4821 x28-31: temporaries (t3-6)
4822 pc: program counter (pc)
4824 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4829 U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4830 MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
4832 The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4833 controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4834 memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4835 physical memory banks.
4837 U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4838 TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4839 booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4840 to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
4841 memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
4842 configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4843 Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
4845 Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4846 of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
4848 So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
4851 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
4854 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
4860 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
4861 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
4862 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
4865 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
4866 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
4867 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
4868 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
4871 System Initialization:
4872 ----------------------
4874 In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
4875 (on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
4876 configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory.
4877 To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
4878 To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
4879 initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
4880 which provide such a feature like), or in a locked part of the data
4881 cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core, the caches and
4884 Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
4885 preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
4886 (multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
4887 on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
4888 programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
4889 simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
4892 When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
4893 different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
4894 bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
4895 0x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
4896 contiguous memory starting from 0.
4898 Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
4899 and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
4900 Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
4901 pages, and the final stack is set up.
4903 Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
4904 until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
4905 running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
4909 U-Boot Porting Guide:
4910 ----------------------
4912 [Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
4916 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
4918 sighandler_t no_more_time;
4920 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
4921 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
4923 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
4924 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
4928 Download latest U-Boot source;
4930 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
4933 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
4936 Read the README file in the top level directory;
4937 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
4938 Read applicable doc/*.README;
4939 Read the source, Luke;
4940 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
4943 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
4946 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
4948 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
4949 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
4950 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
4952 Create your own board support subdirectory;
4953 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
4955 Edit new board/<myboard> files
4956 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
4961 Add / modify source code;
4965 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
4967 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
4968 if (reasonable critiques)
4969 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
4971 Defend code as written;
4977 void no_more_time (int sig)
4986 All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
4987 coding style; see the kernel coding style guide at
4988 https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html, and the
4989 script "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
4991 Source files originating from a different project (for example the
4992 MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
4993 reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
4996 Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
4997 Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
5000 Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
5001 - remove any trailing white space
5002 - use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
5003 - make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
5004 - do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
5005 - do not add trailing empty lines to source files
5007 Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
5008 with a request to reformat the changes.
5014 Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
5015 establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
5016 may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
5018 Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
5020 Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
5021 see https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
5023 When you send a patch, please include the following information with
5026 * For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
5027 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
5028 patch actually fixes something.
5030 * For new features: a description of the feature and your
5033 * A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
5035 * For major contributions, add a MAINTAINERS file with your
5036 information and associated file and directory references.
5038 * When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a
5039 maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.
5041 * If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
5042 document these in the README file.
5044 * The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
5045 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
5046 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
5047 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
5048 with some other mail clients.
5050 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
5051 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
5054 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
5055 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
5056 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
5059 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
5060 and compressed attachments must not be used.
5062 * If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
5063 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
5065 * Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
5066 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
5071 * Before sending the patch, run the buildman script on your patched
5072 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
5073 for any of the boards.
5075 * Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
5076 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
5077 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
5079 * If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
5080 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
5081 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
5082 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
5083 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
5086 * Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
5087 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
5088 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
5089 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.