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27 This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
28 Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
29 processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
30 initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
33 The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
34 the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
35 header files in common, and special provision has been made to
36 support booting of Linux images.
38 Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
39 configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
40 implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
41 add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
42 code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
43 load and run it dynamically.
49 In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
50 Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
51 "working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
53 In case of problems see the CHANGELOG and CREDITS files to find out
54 who contributed the specific port. The MAINTAINERS file lists board
61 In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
62 U-Boot you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
63 <u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
64 on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
65 Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
66 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
69 Where to get source code:
70 =========================
72 The U-Boot source code is maintained in the git repository at
73 git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
74 http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
76 The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
77 any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
78 available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
81 Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
82 ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
88 - start from 8xxrom sources
89 - create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
91 - make it easier to add custom boards
92 - make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
93 - extend functions, especially:
94 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
97 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
98 - create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
99 - add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
100 - create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
101 - current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
107 The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
108 "U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
109 in source files etc.). Example:
111 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
113 File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
115 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
117 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
119 Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
120 the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
122 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
123 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
129 Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
130 were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
131 into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
132 names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
133 Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
134 releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
137 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
138 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
139 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candiate 1 for September 2010 release
145 /arch Architecture specific files
146 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
147 /cpu CPU specific files
148 /arm720t Files specific to ARM 720 CPUs
149 /arm920t Files specific to ARM 920 CPUs
150 /at91rm9200 Files specific to Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU
151 /imx Files specific to Freescale MC9328 i.MX CPUs
152 /s3c24x0 Files specific to Samsung S3C24X0 CPUs
153 /arm925t Files specific to ARM 925 CPUs
154 /arm926ejs Files specific to ARM 926 CPUs
155 /arm1136 Files specific to ARM 1136 CPUs
156 /ixp Files specific to Intel XScale IXP CPUs
157 /pxa Files specific to Intel XScale PXA CPUs
158 /s3c44b0 Files specific to Samsung S3C44B0 CPUs
159 /sa1100 Files specific to Intel StrongARM SA1100 CPUs
160 /lib Architecture specific library files
161 /avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture
162 /cpu CPU specific files
163 /lib Architecture specific library files
164 /blackfin Files generic to Analog Devices Blackfin architecture
165 /cpu CPU specific files
166 /lib Architecture specific library files
167 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
168 /cpu CPU specific files
169 /lib Architecture specific library files
170 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
171 /cpu CPU specific files
172 /mcf52x2 Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF52x2 CPUs
173 /mcf5227x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5227x CPUs
174 /mcf532x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5329 CPUs
175 /mcf5445x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5445x CPUs
176 /mcf547x_8x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF547x_8x CPUs
177 /lib Architecture specific library files
178 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
179 /cpu CPU specific files
180 /lib Architecture specific library files
181 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
182 /cpu CPU specific files
183 /lib Architecture specific library files
184 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
185 /cpu CPU specific files
186 /lib Architecture specific library files
187 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
188 /cpu CPU specific files
189 /74xx_7xx Files specific to Freescale MPC74xx and 7xx CPUs
190 /mpc5xx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xx CPUs
191 /mpc5xxx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xxx CPUs
192 /mpc8xx Files specific to Freescale MPC8xx CPUs
193 /mpc8220 Files specific to Freescale MPC8220 CPUs
194 /mpc824x Files specific to Freescale MPC824x CPUs
195 /mpc8260 Files specific to Freescale MPC8260 CPUs
196 /mpc85xx Files specific to Freescale MPC85xx CPUs
197 /ppc4xx Files specific to AMCC PowerPC 4xx CPUs
198 /lib Architecture specific library files
199 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
200 /cpu CPU specific files
201 /sh2 Files specific to sh2 CPUs
202 /sh3 Files specific to sh3 CPUs
203 /sh4 Files specific to sh4 CPUs
204 /lib Architecture specific library files
205 /sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture
206 /cpu CPU specific files
207 /leon2 Files specific to Gaisler LEON2 SPARC CPU
208 /leon3 Files specific to Gaisler LEON3 SPARC CPU
209 /lib Architecture specific library files
210 /api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
211 /board Board dependent files
212 /common Misc architecture independent functions
213 /disk Code for disk drive partition handling
214 /doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
215 /drivers Commonly used device drivers
216 /examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
217 /fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
218 /include Header Files
219 /lib Files generic to all architectures
220 /libfdt Library files to support flattened device trees
221 /lzma Library files to support LZMA decompression
222 /lzo Library files to support LZO decompression
224 /post Power On Self Test
225 /rtc Real Time Clock drivers
226 /tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
228 Software Configuration:
229 =======================
231 Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
232 rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
234 There are two classes of configuration variables:
236 * Configuration _OPTIONS_:
237 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
240 * Configuration _SETTINGS_:
241 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
242 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
245 Later we will add a configuration tool - probably similar to or even
246 identical to what's used for the Linux kernel. Right now, we have to
247 do the configuration by hand, which means creating some symbolic
248 links and editing some configuration files. We use the TQM8xxL boards
252 Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
253 ---------------------------------------------------
255 For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
256 configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_config".
258 Example: For a TQM823L module type:
263 For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the CPU type as well;
264 e.g. "make cogent_mpc8xx_config". And also configure the cogent
265 directory according to the instructions in cogent/README.
268 Configuration Options:
269 ----------------------
271 Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
272 such information is kept in a configuration file
273 "include/configs/<board_name>.h".
275 Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
276 "include/configs/TQM823L.h".
279 Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
280 kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
281 build a config tool - later.
284 The following options need to be configured:
286 - CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
288 - Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
290 - CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
291 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
293 - CPU Module Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
294 Define exactly one of
296 --- FIXME --- not tested yet:
297 CONFIG_CMA286_60, CONFIG_CMA286_21, CONFIG_CMA286_60P,
298 CONFIG_CMA287_23, CONFIG_CMA287_50
300 - Motherboard Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
301 Define exactly one of
302 CONFIG_CMA101, CONFIG_CMA102
304 - Motherboard I/O Modules: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
305 Define one or more of
308 - Motherboard Options: (if CONFIG_CMA101 or CONFIG_CMA102 are defined)
309 Define one or more of
310 CONFIG_LCD_HEARTBEAT - update a character position on
311 the LCD display every second with
314 - Board flavour: (if CONFIG_MPC8260ADS is defined)
317 CONFIG_SYS_8260ADS - original MPC8260ADS
318 CONFIG_SYS_8266ADS - MPC8266ADS
319 CONFIG_SYS_PQ2FADS - PQ2FADS-ZU or PQ2FADS-VR
320 CONFIG_SYS_8272ADS - MPC8272ADS
322 - Marvell Family Member
323 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
324 multiple fs option at one time
325 for marvell soc family
327 - MPC824X Family Member (if CONFIG_MPC824X is defined)
328 Define exactly one of
329 CONFIG_MPC8240, CONFIG_MPC8245
331 - 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
332 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
333 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
334 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
335 reference PIT/RTC clock
336 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
339 - 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
340 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
341 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
342 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
343 See doc/README.MPC866
345 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
347 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
348 of relying on the correctness of the configured
349 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
350 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
351 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
352 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
354 CONFIG_SYS_DELAYED_ICACHE
356 Define this option if you want to enable the
357 ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
359 - Intel Monahans options:
360 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO
362 Defines the Monahans run mode to oscillator
363 ratio. Valid values are 8, 16, 24, 31. The core
364 frequency is this value multiplied by 13 MHz.
366 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_TURBO_RUN_MODE_RATIO
368 Defines the Monahans turbo mode to oscillator
369 ratio. Valid values are 1 (default if undefined) and
370 2. The core frequency as calculated above is multiplied
373 - Linux Kernel Interface:
376 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
377 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
378 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
379 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
380 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
381 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
383 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
384 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
387 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
389 When transferring memsize parameter to linux, some versions
390 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
391 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
395 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
396 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
400 * New libfdt-based support
401 * Adds the "fdt" command
402 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
404 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node (only required for
405 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
406 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node (only required for
407 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
408 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
409 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
411 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
414 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
416 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
417 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
421 This define fills in the correct boot CPU in the boot
422 param header, the default value is zero if undefined.
426 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
427 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
428 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
429 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
430 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
431 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
433 - vxWorks boot parameters:
435 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
436 environments variables: bootfile, ipaddr, serverip, hostname.
437 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
439 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_DEVICE - The vxworks device name
440 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_MAC_PTR - Ethernet 6 byte MA -address
441 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_SERVERNAME - Name of the server
442 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_ADDR - Address of boot parameters
444 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_ADD_PARAMS
446 Add it at the end of the bootline. E.g "u=username pw=secret"
448 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
449 the defaults discussed just above.
454 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
458 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
462 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
463 the clock speed of the UARTs.
467 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
468 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
469 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
473 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port
474 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2,
475 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial
476 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE
478 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
479 port routines must be defined elsewhere
480 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
483 Enables console device for a color framebuffer. Needs following
484 defines (cf. smiLynxEM, i8042, board/eltec/bab7xx)
485 VIDEO_FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN graphic memory organisation
487 VIDEO_HW_RECTFILL graphic chip supports
490 VIDEO_HW_BITBLT graphic chip supports
491 bit-blit (cf. smiLynxEM)
492 VIDEO_VISIBLE_COLS visible pixel columns
494 VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS visible pixel rows
495 VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE bytes per pixel
496 VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT graphic data format
497 (0-5, cf. cfb_console.c)
498 VIDEO_FB_ADRS framebuffer address
499 VIDEO_KBD_INIT_FCT keyboard int fct
500 (i.e. i8042_kbd_init())
501 VIDEO_TSTC_FCT test char fct
503 VIDEO_GETC_FCT get char fct
505 CONFIG_CONSOLE_CURSOR cursor drawing on/off
506 (requires blink timer
508 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c)
509 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME display time/date info in
511 (requires CONFIG_CMD_DATE)
512 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO display Linux logo in
514 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO use bmp_logo.h instead of
515 linux_logo.h for logo.
516 Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
517 CONFIG_CONSOLE_EXTRA_INFO
518 additional board info beside
521 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is
522 default i/o. Serial console can be forced with
523 environment 'console=serial'.
525 When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console
526 messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with
527 the "silent" environment variable. See
528 doc/README.silent for more information.
531 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
532 Select one of the baudrates listed in
533 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
534 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
536 - Console Rx buffer length
537 With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define
538 the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC.
539 This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible.
540 If using CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN also CONFIG_SYS_MAXIDLE
541 must be defined, to setup the maximum idle timeout for
544 - Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds
545 Delay before automatically booting the default image;
546 set to -1 to disable autoboot.
548 See doc/README.autoboot for these options that
549 work with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY. None are required.
550 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
551 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_MIN
552 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
553 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT
554 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
555 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
556 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2
557 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR2
558 CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK
559 CONFIG_RESET_TO_RETRY
563 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
564 define a command string that is automatically executed
565 when no character is read on the console interface
566 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
569 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
570 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
571 environment value "bootargs".
573 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
574 The value of these goes into the environment as
575 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
576 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
582 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
583 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
584 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
585 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
586 entering interactive mode.
588 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
589 automatically generated or modified. For an example
590 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
591 modified when the user holds down a certain
592 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
595 - Serial Download Echo Mode:
597 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
598 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
599 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
600 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
601 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
602 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
604 - Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
606 Select one of the baudrates listed in
607 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
610 Monitor commands can be included or excluded
611 from the build by using the #include files
612 "config_cmd_all.h" and #undef'ing unwanted
613 commands, or using "config_cmd_default.h"
614 and augmenting with additional #define's
617 The default command configuration includes all commands
618 except those marked below with a "*".
620 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
621 CONFIG_CMD_BDI bdinfo
622 CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger
623 CONFIG_CMD_BMP * BMP support
624 CONFIG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands
625 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD bootd
626 CONFIG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache
627 CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo
628 CONFIG_CMD_CRC32 * crc32
629 CONFIG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time...
630 CONFIG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support
631 CONFIG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics
632 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510 * ds4510 I2C gpio commands
633 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO * ds4510 I2C info command
634 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM * ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
635 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST * ds4510 I2C rst command
636 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
637 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
638 CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV edit env variable
639 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
640 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
641 CONFIG_CMD_EXPORTENV * export the environment
642 CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV saveenv
643 CONFIG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support
644 CONFIG_CMD_FAT * FAT partition support
645 CONFIG_CMD_FDOS * Dos diskette Support
646 CONFIG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect
647 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support
648 CONFIG_CMD_GO * the 'go' command (exec code)
649 CONFIG_CMD_GREPENV * search environment
650 CONFIG_CMD_HWFLOW * RTS/CTS hw flow control
651 CONFIG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support
652 CONFIG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support
653 CONFIG_CMD_IMI iminfo
654 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS List all found images
655 CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support
656 CONFIG_CMD_IMPORTENV * import an environment
657 CONFIG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo
658 CONFIG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values
659 CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support
660 CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb
661 CONFIG_CMD_LDRINFO ldrinfo (display Blackfin loader)
662 CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb
663 CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads
664 CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM print md5 message digest
665 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
666 CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
668 CONFIG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc
669 CONFIG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support
670 CONFIG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands
671 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS * MTD partition support
672 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
673 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
674 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X * PCA953x I2C gpio commands
675 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
676 CONFIG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo
677 CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support
678 CONFIG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
680 CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O
681 CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump
682 CONFIG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable
683 CONFIG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump
684 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI * SCSI Support
685 CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information
686 (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
687 CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access
689 CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM print sha1 memory digest
690 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
691 CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support
692 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
693 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
694 CONFIG_CMD_VFD * VFD support (TRAB)
695 CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support
696 CONFIG_CMD_FSL * Microblaze FSL support
699 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
700 support you can write:
702 #include "config_cmd_all.h"
703 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
706 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
708 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
709 (configuration option CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know
710 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data
711 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or
712 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be
713 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other
714 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an
715 initial stack and some data.
718 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
722 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
723 support. There must be support in the platform specific
724 code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260 CPUs, the
725 SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
729 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
730 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
731 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
732 version as printed by the "version" command.
733 This variable is readonly.
737 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
738 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
741 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx
742 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
743 CONFIG_RTC_MC13783 - use MC13783 RTC
744 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
745 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
746 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
747 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
748 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
749 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
750 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
751 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
752 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
755 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
756 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
759 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
760 CONFIG_PCA953X_INFO - enable pca953x info command
762 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
763 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
764 pins supported by a particular chip.
766 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
767 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
771 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
772 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
773 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
774 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
777 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION
778 and/or CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION
780 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
781 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at
782 least one partition type as well.
785 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
786 board configurations files but used nowhere!
788 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
789 be performed by calling the function
790 ide_set_reset(int reset)
791 which has to be defined in a board specific file
796 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
801 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
802 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
803 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
804 support disks up to 2.1TB.
806 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
807 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
811 At the moment only there is only support for the
812 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
813 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
815 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
816 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
817 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
818 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
820 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
822 - NETWORK Support (PCI):
824 Support for Intel 8254x gigabit chips.
826 CONFIG_E1000_FALLBACK_MAC
827 default MAC for empty EEPROM after production.
830 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
831 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
832 write routine for first time initialisation.
835 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
836 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
837 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
840 Support for National dp83815 chips.
843 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
845 - NETWORK Support (other):
847 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
848 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
851 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
853 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
854 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
855 The driver doen't show link status messages.
857 CONFIG_DRIVER_LAN91C96
858 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
861 Define this to hold the physical address
862 of the LAN91C96's I/O space
864 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
865 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
867 CONFIG_DRIVER_SMC91111
868 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
871 Define this to hold the physical address
872 of the device (I/O space)
874 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
875 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
877 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
878 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
879 (some hardware wont work with macros)
882 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
884 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
885 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
886 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
887 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
888 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
889 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
890 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
891 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
894 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
897 Define this to hold the physical address
898 of the device (I/O space)
900 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
901 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
903 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
904 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
905 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
906 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
909 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
911 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
912 Define the number of ports to be used
914 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
915 Define the ETH PHY's address
917 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
918 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
921 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
922 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define
923 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
924 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
925 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
928 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
930 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
932 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
936 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
937 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
938 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100
939 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100
940 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
941 May be defined to allow interrupt polling
942 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
945 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
946 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
947 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
948 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
949 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
950 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
951 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
952 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
953 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
955 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
956 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
957 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
958 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
961 Define this to build a UDC device
964 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
965 talk to the UDC device
967 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
968 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
972 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
973 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
974 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
976 CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0xBLAH
977 Derive USB clock from brgclk
978 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0x04
980 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
981 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
982 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
983 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
984 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
985 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
987 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
988 Define this string as the name of your company for
989 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
991 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
992 Define this string as the name of your product
993 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
996 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
997 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
998 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
999 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
1001 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1002 Define this as the unique Product ID
1004 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
1008 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1009 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1010 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
1011 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
1012 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1013 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
1015 - Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1016 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE,
1017 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV
1018 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1020 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1021 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
1022 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1024 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART
1025 Define this to create an own partition. You have to provide a
1026 function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num)
1028 If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to
1029 #define CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_SINGLE_PART 1
1030 to disable the command chpart. This is the default when you
1031 have not defined a custom partition
1036 Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard
1040 Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and
1041 GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support.
1042 Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc
1043 for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking.
1048 Define this to enable video support (for output to
1051 CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000
1053 Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip
1055 CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM
1056 Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The
1057 video output is selected via environment 'videoout'
1058 (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is
1061 For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is
1062 selected via environment 'videomode'. Two different ways
1064 - "videomode=num" 'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers.
1065 Following standard modes are supported (* is default):
1067 Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024
1068 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1069 8 bits | 0x301* 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307
1070 15 bits | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319
1071 16 bits | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A
1072 24 bits | 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B
1073 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1074 (i.e. setenv videomode 317; saveenv; reset;)
1076 - "videomode=bootargs" all the video parameters are parsed
1077 from the bootargs. (See drivers/video/videomodes.c)
1080 CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806
1081 Enable Epson SED13806 driver. This driver supports 8bpp
1082 and 16bpp modes defined by CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_8BPP
1083 or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP
1086 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1087 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1088 support, and should also define these other macros:
1094 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1095 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1097 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1099 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1100 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1101 boot. See the documentation file README.video for a
1102 description of this variable.
1107 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1108 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1109 defined in your board-specific files.
1110 The only board using this so far is RBC823.
1112 - LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1114 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1115 display); also select one of the supported displays
1116 by defining one of these:
1120 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1122 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
1124 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
1126 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1128 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1129 Active, color, single scan.
1131 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1133 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
1134 Active, color, single scan.
1138 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1139 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1141 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1143 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1144 Active, color, single scan.
1148 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1149 Active, color, single scan.
1153 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1155 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1159 320x240. Black & white.
1161 Normally display is black on white background; define
1162 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
1164 - Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
1166 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1167 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1168 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
1169 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
1170 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1171 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1172 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1173 loaded very quickly after power-on.
1175 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1177 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1178 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1179 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1180 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1181 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1182 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1185 setenv splashpos m,m
1186 => image at center of screen
1188 setenv splashpos 30,20
1189 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1191 setenv splashpos -10,m
1192 => vertically centered image
1193 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1195 - Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1197 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1198 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1199 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1201 - Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1203 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1204 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1207 - Compression support:
1210 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1211 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1212 compressed images are supported.
1214 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
1215 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
1220 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1223 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1224 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1227 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1229 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1230 and Literal pos bits.
1232 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1233 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1234 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1235 a very small buffer.
1237 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1238 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
1239 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
1244 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1246 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1248 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1252 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
1253 detection of gigabit PHY is included.
1255 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1257 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1258 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1259 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1260 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1262 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1264 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1265 command issued before MII status register can be read
1275 Define a default value for Ethernet address to use
1276 for the respective Ethernet interface, in case this
1277 is not determined automatically.
1282 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
1283 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
1284 determined through e.g. bootp.
1286 - Server IP address:
1289 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
1290 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1292 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1294 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1295 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1297 - Multicast TFTP Mode:
1300 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1301 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
1302 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
1303 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1306 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1307 - BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1308 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1310 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1311 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1312 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1313 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1314 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1315 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1316 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1317 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
1318 following delays are inserted then:
1320 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1321 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1322 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1324 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1326 - DHCP Advanced Options:
1327 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1328 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1330 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1331 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1332 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1333 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1334 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1335 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1338 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1339 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1340 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1341 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
1343 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1344 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
1346 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1347 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1348 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1349 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1350 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1351 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1352 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1355 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1356 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1357 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
1358 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
1359 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1360 option 12 to the DHCP server.
1362 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1364 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1365 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1366 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1367 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1368 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1369 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1370 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1371 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1372 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1373 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1377 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
1379 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1381 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1383 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1388 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1389 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
1390 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
1392 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1394 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1395 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1399 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1403 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1407 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1409 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1411 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1412 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1414 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1416 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1418 - Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED
1420 Several configurations allow to display the current
1421 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1422 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1423 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1424 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1425 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1426 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this
1429 - CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
1431 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
1432 on those systems that support this (optional)
1433 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
1435 - I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C | CONFIG_SOFT_I2C
1437 These enable I2C serial bus commands. Defining either of
1438 (but not both of) CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C will
1439 include the appropriate I2C driver for the selected CPU.
1441 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
1442 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
1443 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
1444 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
1445 command line interface.
1447 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
1449 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C configures u-boot to use a software (aka
1450 bit-banging) driver instead of CPM or similar hardware
1453 There are several other quantities that must also be
1454 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C.
1456 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
1457 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
1458 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
1459 the CPU's i2c node address).
1461 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
1462 (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
1463 and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
1464 eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
1465 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
1467 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
1469 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1470 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1471 in progress. Reset the slave devices by sending start
1472 commands until the slave device responds.
1474 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
1476 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SOFT_I2C)
1477 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1478 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
1482 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
1483 controller or configure ports.
1485 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
1489 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
1490 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
1491 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
1495 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1496 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1499 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1503 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1504 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1507 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1511 Code that returns TRUE if the I2C data line is high,
1514 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1518 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1519 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1521 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
1522 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
1523 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
1527 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1528 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1530 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
1531 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
1532 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
1536 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1537 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
1538 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
1541 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
1543 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1545 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1546 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1547 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1548 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1550 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1551 the generic GPIO functions.
1553 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
1555 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1556 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1557 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1558 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1559 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1560 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1561 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1562 is run early in the boot sequence.
1564 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
1566 An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
1567 defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
1568 boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
1569 is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
1570 using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
1571 controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
1572 i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
1573 controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
1575 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
1577 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
1578 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
1579 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
1581 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1583 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
1584 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1585 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
1586 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1588 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
1590 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
1591 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1592 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1593 a 1D array of device addresses
1596 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1597 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
1599 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1601 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1602 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MULTI_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
1604 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1606 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
1608 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1609 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1611 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
1613 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1614 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1616 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
1618 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
1619 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
1621 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
1623 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
1624 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
1625 specified DTT device.
1629 Define this option if you want to use Freescale's I2C driver in
1630 drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c.
1634 Define this option if you have I2C devices reached over 1 .. n
1635 I2C Muxes like the pca9544a. This option addes a new I2C
1636 Command "i2c bus [muxtype:muxaddr:muxchannel]" which adds a
1637 new I2C Bus to the existing I2C Busses. If you select the
1638 new Bus with "i2c dev", u-bbot sends first the commandos for
1639 the muxes to activate this new "bus".
1641 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS must be also defined, to use this
1645 Adding a new I2C Bus reached over 2 pca9544a muxes
1646 The First mux with address 70 and channel 6
1647 The Second mux with address 71 and channel 4
1649 => i2c bus pca9544a:70:6:pca9544a:71:4
1651 Use the "i2c bus" command without parameter, to get a list
1652 of I2C Busses with muxes:
1655 Busses reached over muxes:
1657 reached over Mux(es):
1660 reached over Mux(es):
1665 If you now switch to the new I2C Bus 3 with "i2c dev 3"
1666 u-boot sends First the Commando to the mux@70 to enable
1667 channel 6, and then the Commando to the mux@71 to enable
1670 After that, you can use the "normal" i2c commands as
1671 usual, to communicate with your I2C devices behind
1674 This option is actually implemented for the bitbanging
1675 algorithm in common/soft_i2c.c and for the Hardware I2C
1676 Bus on the MPC8260. But it should be not so difficult
1677 to add this option to other architectures.
1679 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1681 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1682 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1683 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1684 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1685 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1686 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1689 - SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
1691 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1692 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1693 D/As on the SACSng board)
1697 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
1698 only SH7757 is supported.
1702 Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing.
1703 (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X)
1707 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
1708 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
1709 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
1710 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
1711 defined, the board configuration must define several
1712 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
1713 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
1717 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
1718 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
1719 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
1720 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
1721 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
1725 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
1726 SoCs. Currently only i.MX31 is supported.
1728 - FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
1730 Enables FPGA subsystem.
1732 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
1734 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
1737 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
1739 Enables support for FPGA family.
1740 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
1744 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
1746 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
1748 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
1750 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
1752 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
1753 status by the configuration function. This option
1754 will require a board or device specific function to
1759 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
1760 configuration driver.
1762 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
1763 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
1765 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
1767 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
1768 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
1769 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
1770 indicated a CRC error).
1772 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
1774 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert
1775 after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II
1776 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
1779 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
1781 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during
1782 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
1784 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
1786 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
1789 - Configuration Management:
1792 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
1793 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
1795 - Vendor Parameter Protection:
1797 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
1798 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
1799 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
1800 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
1801 protects these variables from casual modification by
1802 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
1803 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
1804 change this behaviour:
1806 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
1807 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
1808 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
1811 Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR
1812 _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
1813 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
1814 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
1815 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
1821 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
1822 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
1823 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
1824 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
1825 this default value by defining an environment
1826 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
1827 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
1828 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
1829 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
1830 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
1831 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
1832 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
1834 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
1837 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
1838 either, which results in a memory region that will
1839 not be affected by reboots.
1841 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
1842 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
1843 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
1844 following board configurations are known to be
1847 ETX094, IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
1848 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON, LANTEC,
1854 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
1855 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
1856 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
1857 system where you want the system to reboot
1858 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
1859 useful during development since you can try to debug
1860 the conditions that lead to the situation.
1862 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
1864 This variable defines the number of retries for
1865 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
1866 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
1867 default value of 5 is used.
1871 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
1873 - Command Interpreter:
1874 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
1876 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
1878 Note that this feature has NOT been implemented yet
1879 for the "hush" shell.
1882 CONFIG_SYS_HUSH_PARSER
1884 Define this variable to enable the "hush" shell (from
1885 Busybox) as command line interpreter, thus enabling
1886 powerful command line syntax like
1887 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||'
1888 constructs ("shell scripts").
1890 If undefined, you get the old, much simpler behaviour
1891 with a somewhat smaller memory footprint.
1894 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
1896 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
1897 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
1898 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
1902 In the current implementation, the local variables
1903 space and global environment variables space are
1904 separated. Local variables are those you define by
1905 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
1906 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
1907 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
1908 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
1910 Global environment variables are those you use
1911 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
1912 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
1913 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
1915 To store commands and special characters in a
1916 variable, please use double quotation marks
1917 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
1918 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
1921 - Commandline Editing and History:
1922 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
1924 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
1925 commandline input operations
1927 - Default Environment:
1928 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
1930 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
1931 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
1932 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
1934 For example, place something like this in your
1935 board's config file:
1937 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
1941 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
1942 internal format how the environment is stored by the
1943 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
1944 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
1945 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
1946 You better know what you are doing here.
1948 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
1949 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
1950 the environment like the "source" command or the
1953 - DataFlash Support:
1954 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
1956 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
1957 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
1960 - SystemACE Support:
1963 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
1964 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
1965 of the chip must also be defined in the
1966 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
1968 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
1969 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
1971 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
1972 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
1974 - TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
1977 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
1978 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
1979 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
1980 number generator is used.
1982 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
1983 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
1984 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
1986 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
1987 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
1988 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
1989 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
1990 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
1991 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
1992 but sometimes that is not allowed.
1994 - Show boot progress:
1995 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
1997 Defining this option allows to add some board-
1998 specific code (calling a user-provided function
1999 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2000 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2001 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2002 the following checkpoints are implemented:
2004 - Standalone program support:
2005 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2007 This option allows to define board specific values
2008 for the address where standalone program gets loaded,
2009 thus overwriting the architecutre dependent default
2012 - Frame Buffer Address:
2015 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific address for
2017 Then system will reserve the frame buffer address to defined address
2018 instead of lcd_setmem (this function grab the memory for frame buffer
2021 Please see board_init_f function.
2023 If you want this config option then,
2024 please define it at your board config file
2026 Legacy uImage format:
2029 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
2030 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
2031 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
2032 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
2033 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
2034 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
2035 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2036 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2037 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2038 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
2039 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2040 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2041 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2042 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
2043 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
2044 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
2046 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2047 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2048 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2049 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2050 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2051 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2052 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
2053 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
2054 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2055 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2057 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
2059 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
2060 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2061 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
2063 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2064 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2065 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2066 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2067 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2068 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2069 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2070 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2071 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2072 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2073 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2074 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2075 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2076 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2077 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2078 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2079 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2080 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2081 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2082 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2083 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2084 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2085 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2086 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2087 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2088 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2089 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2090 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2091 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2092 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2093 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2094 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2095 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2096 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2097 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2098 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2099 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2100 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2101 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2102 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2103 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2104 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2105 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2106 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2107 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2108 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2109 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
2111 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
2113 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
2114 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2115 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
2117 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
2118 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling NetLoop()
2119 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in NetLoop() occurred
2120 81 common/cmd_net.c NetLoop() back without error
2121 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2122 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
2123 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2124 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
2125 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
2130 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2131 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2132 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2133 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2134 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2135 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
2136 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
2137 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2138 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2139 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2140 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2141 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2142 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2143 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
2144 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2145 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2146 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2147 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2148 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2149 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2150 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2151 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2153 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2154 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2155 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
2156 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
2157 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2158 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2159 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2160 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2161 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2162 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2163 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2164 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2165 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2166 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2167 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2168 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2170 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
2171 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2173 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
2174 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2176 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
2177 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2179 - Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2181 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2182 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2184 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2185 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2187 - MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2190 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
2191 Needed for mtdparts command support.
2193 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2195 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
2196 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
2202 [so far only for SMDK2400 and TRAB boards]
2204 - Modem support enable:
2205 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT
2207 - RTS/CTS Flow control enable:
2210 - Modem debug support:
2211 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG
2213 Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg())
2214 for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000.
2216 - Interrupt support (PPC):
2218 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2219 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
2220 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
2221 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
2222 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
2223 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
2224 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
2225 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2226 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2227 general timer_interrupt().
2231 In the target system modem support is enabled when a
2232 specific key (key combination) is pressed during
2233 power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally
2234 (autoboot). The key_pressed() function is called from
2235 board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy
2236 function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem
2239 If there are no modem init strings in the
2240 environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the
2241 previous output (banner, info printfs) will be
2244 See also: doc/README.Modem
2247 Configuration Settings:
2248 -----------------------
2250 - CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
2251 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2253 - CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2254 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2256 - CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
2257 prompt for user input.
2259 - CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
2261 - CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
2263 - CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
2265 - CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
2266 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2269 - CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
2270 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2272 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET
2273 Suppress display of console information at boot.
2275 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
2276 If the board specific function
2277 extern int overwrite_console (void);
2278 returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the
2279 serial port, else the settings in the environment are used.
2281 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE
2282 Enable the call to overwrite_console().
2284 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE
2285 Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings.
2287 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
2288 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2291 - CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
2292 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
2294 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
2295 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2296 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2298 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE (PPC only):
2299 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
2300 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
2301 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
2302 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2303 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2304 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
2305 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
2306 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
2307 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
2309 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2310 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2313 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2314 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2315 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2316 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2319 - CONFIG_SYS_TFTP_LOADADDR:
2320 Default load address for network file downloads
2322 - CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
2323 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2325 - CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
2326 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2328 - CONFIG_SYS_MBIO_BASE:
2329 Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a
2332 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
2333 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2335 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
2336 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2337 make config files to be same as the text base address
2338 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
2339 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
2341 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
2342 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2343 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2344 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2347 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
2348 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2350 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
2351 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
2352 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
2353 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
2354 to adjust this setting to your needs.
2356 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
2357 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
2358 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
2359 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
2360 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
2361 enviroment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
2362 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
2363 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
2364 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
2365 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
2366 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
2368 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
2369 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
2370 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
2373 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
2374 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
2375 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2377 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
2378 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
2379 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2381 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
2382 Max number of Flash memory banks
2384 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
2385 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
2387 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
2388 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
2390 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
2391 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
2393 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
2394 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
2396 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
2397 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
2399 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
2400 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
2401 instead of U-Boot software protection.
2403 - CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
2405 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
2406 without this option such a download has to be
2407 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
2408 copy from RAM to flash.
2410 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
2411 you can check if the download worked before you erase
2412 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
2413 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
2414 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
2416 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
2417 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
2418 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
2420 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
2421 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
2422 in the drivers directory
2424 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
2425 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
2426 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
2429 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
2430 Use buffered writes to flash.
2432 - CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
2433 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
2436 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
2437 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
2438 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
2439 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
2440 optionally available.
2442 - CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
2443 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
2444 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
2445 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
2447 - CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
2448 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
2449 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
2450 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
2451 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
2452 on high Ethernet traffic.
2453 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
2455 - CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
2457 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
2458 internally to store the environment settings. The default
2459 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
2460 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
2461 lib/hashtable.c for details.
2463 The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
2464 of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
2465 following configurations:
2467 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
2469 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
2471 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
2472 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
2473 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
2474 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
2475 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
2476 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
2477 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
2478 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
2479 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
2480 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
2481 between U-Boot and the environment.
2483 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2485 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
2486 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
2487 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
2488 for this sector is given here.
2490 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
2494 This is just another way to specify the start address of
2495 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
2498 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
2500 Size of the sector containing the environment.
2503 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
2504 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
2509 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
2510 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
2511 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
2512 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
2514 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
2515 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
2516 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
2517 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
2518 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
2519 updating the environment in flash makes it always
2520 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
2521 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
2522 RAM, your target system will be dead.
2524 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
2525 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
2527 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
2528 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
2529 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
2530 a "saveenv" operation.
2532 BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
2533 source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
2537 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
2539 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
2540 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
2546 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
2547 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
2548 can just be read and written to, without any special
2551 BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
2552 in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the
2553 console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
2556 Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
2557 environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
2558 keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
2559 to save the current settings.
2562 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
2564 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
2565 device and a driver for it.
2567 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2570 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
2571 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
2573 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
2574 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
2575 The default address is zero.
2577 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
2578 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
2579 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
2580 would require six bits.
2582 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
2583 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
2584 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
2586 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
2587 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
2588 that this is NOT the chip address length!
2590 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
2591 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
2592 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
2593 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
2594 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
2597 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
2598 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
2599 in the chip address.
2601 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
2602 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
2604 - CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C
2605 define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your
2606 EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.
2608 - CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS
2609 if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over
2610 I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this
2611 EEPROM. For example:
2613 #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS "pca9547:70:d\0"
2615 EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over
2616 a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.
2618 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
2620 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
2621 want to use for the environment.
2623 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2627 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
2628 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
2629 at the specified address.
2631 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
2633 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
2634 for the environment.
2636 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2639 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
2640 area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
2641 aligned to an erase block boundary.
2643 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
2645 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
2646 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
2647 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
2648 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_RENDUND must be
2649 aligned to an erase block boundary.
2651 - CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):
2653 Specifies the length of the region in which the environment
2654 can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's
2655 block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than
2656 are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within
2657 the range to be avoided.
2659 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):
2661 Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the
2662 environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The
2663 "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset.
2664 Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when
2665 using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.
2667 - CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
2669 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
2670 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
2671 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
2673 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
2675 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
2676 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
2677 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
2678 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
2679 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
2680 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
2681 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
2683 Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
2684 has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
2685 created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f()
2686 until then to read environment variables.
2688 The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
2689 is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
2690 with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
2691 necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
2692 "baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
2693 have any device yet where we could complain.]
2695 Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
2696 the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
2697 use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
2699 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
2700 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
2702 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
2703 also needs to be defined.
2705 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
2706 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
2708 - CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
2709 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
2710 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
2711 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
2712 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
2713 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
2715 Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
2716 ---------------------------------------------------
2718 - CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
2719 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
2721 - CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
2722 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
2724 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
2725 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
2726 the IMMR register after a reset.
2728 - Floppy Disk Support:
2729 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
2731 the default drive number (default value 0)
2733 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
2735 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
2738 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
2740 defines the offset of register from address. It
2741 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
2742 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
2744 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
2745 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
2748 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
2749 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
2750 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
2751 source code. It is used to make hardware dependant
2755 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
2756 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
2757 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
2758 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
2759 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
2762 - CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
2763 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
2764 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
2766 - CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
2768 Start address of memory area that can be used for
2769 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
2770 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
2771 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
2772 will become available only after programming the
2773 memory controller and running certain initialization
2776 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
2777 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
2778 - MPC824X: data cache
2779 - PPC4xx: data cache
2781 - CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
2783 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
2784 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
2785 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
2786 data is located at the end of the available space
2787 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
2788 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
2789 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
2790 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
2793 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
2794 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
2795 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
2796 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
2797 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
2799 - CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
2801 - CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
2803 - CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
2805 - CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
2807 - CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
2809 - CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
2811 - CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
2814 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
2815 periodic timer for refresh
2817 - CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
2819 - FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
2820 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
2821 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
2822 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
2823 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
2825 - SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
2826 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
2827 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
2828 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
2830 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
2831 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
2832 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
2833 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
2835 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
2836 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2837 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
2839 - CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
2840 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2841 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
2843 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
2844 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2845 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
2847 - CONFIG_SYS_USE_OSCCLK:
2848 Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful,
2849 wrong setting might damage your board. Read
2850 doc/README.MBX before setting this variable!
2852 - CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
2853 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
2854 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
2855 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
2858 - CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
2859 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
2860 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
2861 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
2862 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
2863 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
2864 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
2865 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
2866 Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
2868 - CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE:
2869 Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
2873 Chip has SRIO or not
2876 Board has SRIO 1 port available
2879 Board has SRIO 2 port available
2881 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
2882 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2884 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
2885 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2887 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
2888 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2891 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
2892 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
2895 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
2897 - CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
2898 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
2899 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
2900 to something your driver can deal with.
2902 - CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
2903 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
2904 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
2906 - CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
2907 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
2909 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
2910 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
2911 to the given FEC; i. e.
2912 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
2913 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
2915 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
2917 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
2918 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
2919 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
2922 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
2923 Note that this is a global option, we can't
2924 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
2926 - CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
2927 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
2930 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
2932 Where address/count indicate a memory area
2933 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
2937 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
2938 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
2941 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
2946 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
2948 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
2949 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
2951 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
2952 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
2954 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
2955 [ARM only] If this variable is defined, then certain
2956 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
2957 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
2958 relocate itself into RAM.
2960 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
2961 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
2962 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
2963 these initializations itself.
2966 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
2967 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
2968 compiling a NAND SPL.
2970 - CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMCPY
2971 CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET
2972 If these options are used a optimized version of memcpy/memset will
2973 be used if available. These functions may be faster under some
2974 conditions but may increase the binary size.
2976 Building the Software:
2977 ======================
2979 Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
2980 and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
2981 all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
2982 (potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
2983 recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
2984 which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
2986 If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
2987 have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
2988 you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
2989 Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
2990 necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
2992 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
2993 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
2995 Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
2996 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
2997 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
2998 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
3000 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
3002 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
3003 be executed on computers running Windows.
3005 U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
3006 sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
3011 where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing configu-
3012 rations; see the main Makefile for supported names.
3014 Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
3015 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
3016 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
3017 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
3018 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
3021 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
3023 make TQM823L_LCD_config
3024 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
3029 Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
3030 images ready for download to / installation on your system:
3032 - "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
3033 - "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
3034 - "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
3036 By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
3037 in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
3038 this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
3040 1. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
3042 make O=/tmp/build distclean
3043 make O=/tmp/build NAME_config
3044 make O=/tmp/build all
3046 2. Set environment variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location:
3048 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3053 Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the BUILD_DIR environment
3057 Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
3058 for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
3062 If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
3063 to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
3066 1. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel
3067 "Makefile" and to the "MAKEALL" script, using the existing
3068 entries as examples. Note that here and at many other places
3069 boards and other names are listed in alphabetical sort order. Please
3071 2. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
3072 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3073 the "Makefile", a "<board>.c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds".
3074 3. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3076 3. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3077 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
3078 4. Run "make <board>_config" with your new name.
3079 5. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3080 to be installed on your target system.
3081 6. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3082 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
3085 Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3086 ==============================================================
3088 If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3089 or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
3090 provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
3091 the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
3092 official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
3094 But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3095 cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
3096 the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
3097 just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot
3098 for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can
3099 select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE'
3100 environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the ELDK cross tools
3103 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3105 or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type
3107 CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL
3109 When using the MAKEALL script, the default behaviour is to build
3110 U-Boot in the source directory. This location can be changed by
3111 setting the BUILD_DIR environment variable. Also, for each target
3112 built, the MAKEALL script saves two log files (<target>.ERR and
3113 <target>.MAKEALL) in the <source dir>/LOG directory. This default
3114 location can be changed by setting the MAKEALL_LOGDIR environment
3115 variable. For example:
3117 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3118 export MAKEALL_LOGDIR=/tmp/log
3119 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3121 With the above settings build objects are saved in the /tmp/build,
3122 log files are saved in the /tmp/log and the source tree remains clean
3123 during the whole build process.
3126 See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
3129 Monitor Commands - Overview:
3130 ============================
3132 go - start application at address 'addr'
3133 run - run commands in an environment variable
3134 bootm - boot application image from memory
3135 bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
3136 tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3137 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3138 (and eventually "gatewayip")
3139 rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3140 diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3141 loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3142 loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3144 mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3145 nm - memory modify (constant address)
3146 mw - memory write (fill)
3148 cmp - memory compare
3149 crc32 - checksum calculation
3150 i2c - I2C sub-system
3151 sspi - SPI utility commands
3152 base - print or set address offset
3153 printenv- print environment variables
3154 setenv - set environment variables
3155 saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3156 protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3157 erase - erase FLASH memory
3158 flinfo - print FLASH memory information
3159 bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3160 iminfo - print header information for application image
3161 coninfo - print console devices and informations
3162 ide - IDE sub-system
3163 loop - infinite loop on address range
3164 loopw - infinite write loop on address range
3165 mtest - simple RAM test
3166 icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3167 dcache - enable or disable data cache
3168 reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3169 echo - echo args to console
3170 version - print monitor version
3171 help - print online help
3172 ? - alias for 'help'
3175 Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3176 ========================================
3180 For now: just type "help <command>".
3183 Environment Variables:
3184 ======================
3186 U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3187 can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
3189 Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3190 "printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3191 without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3192 environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3193 working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3194 environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
3196 Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3198 List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
3200 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
3202 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
3204 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
3206 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
3208 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
3210 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3211 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3212 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3213 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3214 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3215 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
3216 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
3219 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
3220 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
3221 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
3222 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
3223 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
3224 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
3227 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3228 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3229 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3230 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3231 environment variable.
3233 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3234 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3235 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3237 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3238 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3239 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3240 load any image using TFTP
3242 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3243 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3244 be automatically started (by internally calling
3247 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3248 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3249 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3250 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3253 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3254 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3255 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3256 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3257 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3259 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3260 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3261 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3262 is usually what you want since it allows for
3263 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3264 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
3265 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
3266 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3267 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3268 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3269 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
3271 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3272 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3273 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3274 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3275 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3276 12 MB as well - this can be done with
3278 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
3280 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3281 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3282 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3283 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3284 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3285 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3286 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
3288 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3290 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3291 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
3293 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
3295 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3297 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
3299 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
3301 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
3303 ethprime - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which
3304 interface is used first.
3306 ethact - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which
3307 interface is currently active. For example you
3308 can do the following
3310 => setenv ethact FEC
3311 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
3312 => setenv ethact SCC
3313 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
3315 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3316 available network interfaces.
3317 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3319 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
3320 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3321 When set to "once" the network operation will
3322 fail when all the available network interfaces
3323 are tried once without success.
3324 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3327 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
3329 tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
3332 tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
3333 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
3335 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
3336 we use the TFTP server's default block size
3338 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
3339 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
3340 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
3341 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
3342 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
3343 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
3344 with unreliable TFTP servers.
3346 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
3347 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
3350 The following environment variables may be used and automatically
3351 updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
3352 depending the information provided by your boot server:
3354 bootfile - see above
3355 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
3356 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
3357 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
3358 hostname - Target hostname
3360 netmask - Subnet Mask
3361 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
3362 serverip - see above
3365 There are two special Environment Variables:
3367 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
3368 as type string and/or serial number
3369 ethaddr - Ethernet address
3371 These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
3372 the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
3373 once they have been set once.
3376 Further special Environment Variables:
3378 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
3379 with the "version" command. This variable is
3380 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
3383 Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
3384 only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
3387 Command Line Parsing:
3388 =====================
3390 There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
3391 the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
3393 Old, simple command line parser:
3394 --------------------------------
3396 - supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
3397 - several commands on one line, separated by ';'
3398 - variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
3399 - special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
3401 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
3402 - You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
3403 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
3408 - similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
3409 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
3410 until...do...done, ...
3411 - supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
3412 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
3413 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
3419 (1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
3420 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
3421 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
3424 (2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
3425 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
3426 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
3427 variables are not executed.
3429 Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
3430 =======================================
3432 Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
3433 such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
3434 "working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
3436 Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
3437 MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
3438 "eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
3440 If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
3441 in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
3442 ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
3443 variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
3445 o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
3446 environment, the SROM's address is used.
3448 o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
3449 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
3452 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
3453 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
3455 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
3456 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
3459 o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
3462 If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
3463 will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
3464 may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
3465 The naming convention is as follows:
3466 "ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
3471 U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
3472 images in two formats:
3474 New uImage format (FIT)
3475 -----------------------
3477 Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
3478 to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
3479 components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
3480 SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
3486 Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
3487 preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
3488 details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
3490 * Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
3491 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
3492 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
3493 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
3495 * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
3496 IA64, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
3497 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC).
3498 * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
3504 The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
3505 and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
3512 Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
3513 easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
3516 U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
3517 special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
3518 "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
3519 instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
3520 serves several purposes:
3522 - the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
3523 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
3524 Flash memory footprint)
3526 - it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
3527 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
3529 - the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
3530 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
3531 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
3532 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
3533 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
3534 software is easier now.
3540 Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
3541 ---------------------------------------
3543 U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
3544 configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
3545 (no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
3548 But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
3550 Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
3551 include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
3552 Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
3553 and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
3554 as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
3557 Configuring the Linux kernel:
3558 -----------------------------
3560 No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
3561 device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
3564 Building a Linux Image:
3565 -----------------------
3567 With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
3568 not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
3569 "uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
3570 U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
3571 which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
3572 100% compatible format.
3581 The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
3582 encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
3583 CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
3585 * build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
3587 * convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
3589 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
3590 -R .note -R .comment \
3591 -S vmlinux linux.bin
3593 * compress the binary image:
3597 * package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
3599 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
3600 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
3601 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
3604 The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
3605 with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
3606 combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
3607 byte header containing information about target architecture,
3608 operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
3609 stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
3611 "mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
3612 print the header information, or to build new images.
3614 In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
3615 contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
3616 checksum verification:
3618 tools/mkimage -l image
3619 -l ==> list image header information
3621 The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
3622 from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
3624 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
3625 -n name -d data_file image
3626 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
3627 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
3628 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
3629 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
3630 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
3631 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
3632 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
3633 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
3635 Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
3636 address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
3639 - 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
3640 - 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
3642 So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
3644 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3645 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
3646 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
3647 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
3648 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3649 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3650 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3651 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3652 Load Address: 0x00000000
3653 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3655 To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
3657 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
3658 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3659 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3660 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3661 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3662 Load Address: 0x00000000
3663 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3665 NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
3666 speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
3667 needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
3668 need to be uncompressed:
3670 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
3671 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3672 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
3673 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
3674 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
3675 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3676 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3677 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
3678 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
3679 Load Address: 0x00000000
3680 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3683 Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
3684 when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
3686 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
3687 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
3688 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
3689 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3690 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
3691 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3692 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
3693 Load Address: 0x00000000
3694 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3697 Installing a Linux Image:
3698 -------------------------
3700 To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
3701 you must convert the image to S-Record format:
3703 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
3705 The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
3706 image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
3707 address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
3708 specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
3711 Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
3712 TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
3714 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
3720 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3721 ~>examples/image.srec
3722 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
3724 15989 15990 15991 15992
3725 [file transfer complete]
3727 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
3730 You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
3731 this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
3732 corruption happened:
3736 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3737 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3738 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3739 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3740 Load Address: 00000000
3741 Entry Point: 0000000c
3742 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3748 The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
3749 memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
3750 of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
3751 parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
3752 "printenv" and "setenv" commands:
3755 => printenv bootargs
3756 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
3758 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3760 => printenv bootargs
3761 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3764 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
3765 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
3766 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3767 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
3768 Load Address: 00000000
3769 Entry Point: 0000000c
3770 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3771 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3772 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
3773 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3774 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3775 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3776 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
3779 If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
3780 the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
3781 format!) to the "bootm" command:
3783 => imi 40100000 40200000
3785 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3786 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3787 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3788 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3789 Load Address: 00000000
3790 Entry Point: 0000000c
3791 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3793 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
3794 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3795 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3796 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3797 Load Address: 00000000
3798 Entry Point: 00000000
3799 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3801 => bootm 40100000 40200000
3802 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
3803 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3804 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3805 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3806 Load Address: 00000000
3807 Entry Point: 0000000c
3808 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3809 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3810 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
3811 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3812 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3813 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3814 Load Address: 00000000
3815 Entry Point: 00000000
3816 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3817 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
3818 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
3819 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
3820 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3821 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3823 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
3824 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
3828 Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
3831 First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
3832 titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
3833 following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
3839 oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
3840 => tftp $oftaddr $oft
3841 Speed: 1000, full duplex
3843 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
3844 Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
3845 Load address: 0x300000
3848 Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
3849 => tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
3850 Speed: 1000, full duplex
3852 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
3854 Load address: 0x200000
3855 Loading:############
3857 Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
3862 => bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
3863 ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
3864 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
3865 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3866 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
3867 Load Address: 00000000
3868 Entry Point: 00000000
3869 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3870 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3871 Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
3872 Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
3873 Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
3877 More About U-Boot Image Types:
3878 ------------------------------
3880 U-Boot supports the following image types:
3882 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
3883 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
3884 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
3885 the Standalone Program.
3886 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
3887 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
3888 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
3889 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
3890 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
3891 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
3892 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
3894 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
3895 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
3896 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
3897 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
3898 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
3899 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
3901 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
3902 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
3903 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
3904 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
3905 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
3906 a multiple of 4 bytes).
3908 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
3909 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
3912 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
3913 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
3914 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
3915 as command interpreter.
3921 One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
3922 run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
3923 U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
3925 Two simple examples are included with the sources:
3930 'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
3931 application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
3932 It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
3936 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3937 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
3938 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
3939 [file transfer complete]
3941 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
3943 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
3944 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
3955 Hit any key to exit ...
3957 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
3959 Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
3960 handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
3961 Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
3962 The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
3963 character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
3964 controlled by the following keys:
3966 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
3967 b - enable interrupts and start timer
3968 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
3969 q - quit application
3972 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3973 ~>examples/timer.srec
3974 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
3975 [file transfer complete]
3977 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
3980 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
3983 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
3986 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
3989 [q, b, e, ?] ........
3990 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
3993 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
3996 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
3999 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
4001 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
4003 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4009 Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
4010 "minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
4011 consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
4012 Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
4013 especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
4014 use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command).
4016 Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
4017 configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
4019 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
4020 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
4021 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
4027 Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
4028 (build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
4030 Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
4031 NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
4032 need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
4033 Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
4034 attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
4035 missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
4037 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
4039 # ln -s powerpc machine
4040 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
4041 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
4043 Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
4044 and U-Boot include files.
4046 Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
4047 stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
4048 proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
4049 tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
4050 meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
4053 Implementation Internals:
4054 =========================
4056 The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
4057 implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
4058 inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
4062 Initial Stack, Global Data:
4063 ---------------------------
4065 The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
4066 starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
4067 system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
4068 This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
4069 is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
4070 at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
4071 options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
4072 models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
4073 MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
4074 locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
4076 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
4077 U-Boot mailing list:
4079 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4080 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
4081 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4084 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4085 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4086 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4087 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4088 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
4089 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
4090 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4091 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
4093 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4094 is another option for the system designer to use as an
4095 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
4096 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4097 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4098 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4101 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
4102 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4103 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
4104 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
4105 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4106 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4107 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4108 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4109 you get the config right.
4114 It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4115 code for the initialization procedures:
4117 * Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4120 * Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitely initialized
4121 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4122 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
4124 * Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4127 Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
4128 normal global data to share information beween the code. But it
4129 turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4130 simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4131 functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4132 functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4133 the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4134 place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4135 reserve for this purpose.
4137 When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4138 relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4139 GCC's implementation.
4141 For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4143 R2: reserved for system use
4144 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4145 R5-R10: parameter passing
4146 R13: small data area pointer
4150 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4151 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4152 going back and forth between asm and C)
4154 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
4156 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4157 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4158 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4159 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4160 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4161 624 text + 127 data).
4163 On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here:
4164 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
4166 ==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data
4168 On ARM, the following registers are used:
4170 R0: function argument word/integer result
4171 R1-R3: function argument word
4173 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking if enabled)
4174 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4175 R12: temporary workspace
4178 R15: program counter
4180 ==> U-Boot will use R8 to hold a pointer to the global data
4182 On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
4183 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
4185 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4187 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4188 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4190 NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4191 or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
4196 U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4197 MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
4199 The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4200 controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4201 memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4202 physical memory banks.
4204 U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4205 TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4206 booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4207 to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
4208 memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
4209 configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4210 Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
4212 Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4213 of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
4215 So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
4218 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
4221 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
4227 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
4228 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
4229 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
4232 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
4233 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
4234 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
4235 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
4238 System Initialization:
4239 ----------------------
4241 In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
4242 (on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
4243 configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory.
4244 To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
4245 To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
4246 initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
4247 which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
4248 part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
4249 the caches and the SIU.
4251 Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
4252 preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
4253 (multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
4254 on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
4255 programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
4256 simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
4259 When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
4260 different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
4261 bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
4262 0x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
4263 contiguous memory starting from 0.
4265 Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
4266 and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
4267 Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
4268 pages, and the final stack is set up.
4270 Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
4271 until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
4272 running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
4276 U-Boot Porting Guide:
4277 ----------------------
4279 [Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
4283 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
4285 sighandler_t no_more_time;
4287 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
4288 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
4290 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
4291 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
4295 Download latest U-Boot source;
4297 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
4300 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
4303 Read the README file in the top level directory;
4304 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
4305 Read applicable doc/*.README;
4306 Read the source, Luke;
4307 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
4310 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
4313 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
4315 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
4316 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
4317 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
4319 Create your own board support subdirectory;
4320 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
4322 Edit new board/<myboard> files
4323 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
4328 Add / modify source code;
4332 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
4334 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
4335 if (reasonable critiques)
4336 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
4338 Defend code as written;
4344 void no_more_time (int sig)
4353 All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
4354 coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
4355 "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory. In sources
4356 originating from U-Boot a style corresponding to "Lindent -pcs" (adding
4357 spaces before parameters to function calls) is actually used.
4359 Source files originating from a different project (for example the
4360 MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
4361 reformated to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
4364 Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
4365 Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
4368 Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
4369 - remove any trailing white space
4370 - use TAB characters for indentation, not spaces
4371 - make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
4372 - do not add more than 2 empty lines to source files
4373 - do not add trailing empty lines to source files
4375 Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
4376 with a request to reformat the changes.
4382 Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
4383 establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
4384 may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
4386 Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
4388 Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
4389 see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
4391 When you send a patch, please include the following information with
4394 * For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
4395 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
4396 patch actually fixes something.
4398 * For new features: a description of the feature and your
4401 * A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
4403 * For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file
4405 * When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add this
4406 board to the MAKEALL script, too.
4408 * If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
4409 document these in the README file.
4411 * The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
4412 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
4413 "git-format-patch". If you then use "git-send-email" to send it to
4414 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
4415 with some other mail clients.
4417 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
4418 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
4421 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
4422 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
4423 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
4426 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
4427 and compressed attachments must not be used.
4429 * If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
4430 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
4432 * Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
4433 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
4438 * Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched
4439 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
4440 for any of the boards.
4442 * Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
4443 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
4444 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
4446 * If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
4447 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
4448 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
4449 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
4450 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
4453 * Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
4454 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
4455 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
4456 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.