2 # (C) Copyright 2000 - 2013
3 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
5 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
11 This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
12 Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
13 processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
14 initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
17 The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
18 the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
19 header files in common, and special provision has been made to
20 support booting of Linux images.
22 Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
23 configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
24 implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
25 add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
26 code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
27 load and run it dynamically.
33 In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
34 Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
35 "working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
37 In case of problems see the CHANGELOG file to find out who contributed
38 the specific port. In addition, there are various MAINTAINERS files
39 scattered throughout the U-Boot source identifying the people or
40 companies responsible for various boards and subsystems.
42 Note: As of August, 2010, there is no longer a CHANGELOG file in the
43 actual U-Boot source tree; however, it can be created dynamically
44 from the Git log using:
52 In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
53 U-Boot, you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
54 <u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
55 on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
56 Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
57 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
60 Where to get source code:
61 =========================
63 The U-Boot source code is maintained in the Git repository at
64 git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
65 http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
67 The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
68 any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
69 available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
72 Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
73 ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
79 - start from 8xxrom sources
80 - create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
82 - make it easier to add custom boards
83 - make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
84 - extend functions, especially:
85 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
88 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
89 - create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
90 - add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
91 - create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
92 - current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
98 The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
99 "U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
100 in source files etc.). Example:
102 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
104 File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
106 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
108 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
110 Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
111 the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
113 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
114 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
120 Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
121 were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
122 into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
123 names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
124 Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
125 releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
128 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
129 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
130 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candidate 1 for September 2010 release
136 /arch Architecture specific files
137 /arc Files generic to ARC architecture
138 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
139 /avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture
140 /blackfin Files generic to Analog Devices Blackfin architecture
141 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
142 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
143 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
144 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
145 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
146 /openrisc Files generic to OpenRISC architecture
147 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
148 /sandbox Files generic to HW-independent "sandbox"
149 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
150 /sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture
151 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
152 /api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
153 /board Board dependent files
154 /cmd U-Boot commands functions
155 /common Misc architecture independent functions
156 /configs Board default configuration files
157 /disk Code for disk drive partition handling
158 /doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
159 /drivers Commonly used device drivers
160 /dts Contains Makefile for building internal U-Boot fdt.
161 /examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
162 /fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
163 /include Header Files
164 /lib Library routines generic to all architectures
165 /Licenses Various license files
167 /post Power On Self Test
168 /scripts Various build scripts and Makefiles
169 /test Various unit test files
170 /tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
172 Software Configuration:
173 =======================
175 Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
176 rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
178 There are two classes of configuration variables:
180 * Configuration _OPTIONS_:
181 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
184 * Configuration _SETTINGS_:
185 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
186 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
189 Previously, all configuration was done by hand, which involved creating
190 symbolic links and editing configuration files manually. More recently,
191 U-Boot has added the Kbuild infrastructure used by the Linux kernel,
192 allowing you to use the "make menuconfig" command to configure your
196 Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
197 ---------------------------------------------------
199 For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
200 configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_defconfig".
202 Example: For a TQM823L module type:
205 make TQM823L_defconfig
207 Note: If you're looking for the default configuration file for a board
208 you're sure used to be there but is now missing, check the file
209 doc/README.scrapyard for a list of no longer supported boards.
214 U-Boot can be built natively to run on a Linux host using the 'sandbox'
215 board. This allows feature development which is not board- or architecture-
216 specific to be undertaken on a native platform. The sandbox is also used to
217 run some of U-Boot's tests.
219 See board/sandbox/README.sandbox for more details.
222 Board Initialisation Flow:
223 --------------------------
225 This is the intended start-up flow for boards. This should apply for both
226 SPL and U-Boot proper (i.e. they both follow the same rules).
228 Note: "SPL" stands for "Secondary Program Loader," which is explained in
229 more detail later in this file.
231 At present, SPL mostly uses a separate code path, but the function names
232 and roles of each function are the same. Some boards or architectures
233 may not conform to this. At least most ARM boards which use
234 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK conform to this.
236 Execution typically starts with an architecture-specific (and possibly
237 CPU-specific) start.S file, such as:
239 - arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
240 - arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc83xx/start.S
241 - arch/mips/cpu/start.S
243 and so on. From there, three functions are called; the purpose and
244 limitations of each of these functions are described below.
247 - purpose: essential init to permit execution to reach board_init_f()
248 - no global_data or BSS
249 - there is no stack (ARMv7 may have one but it will soon be removed)
250 - must not set up SDRAM or use console
251 - must only do the bare minimum to allow execution to continue to
253 - this is almost never needed
254 - return normally from this function
257 - purpose: set up the machine ready for running board_init_r():
258 i.e. SDRAM and serial UART
259 - global_data is available
261 - BSS is not available, so you cannot use global/static variables,
262 only stack variables and global_data
264 Non-SPL-specific notes:
265 - dram_init() is called to set up DRAM. If already done in SPL this
269 - you can override the entire board_init_f() function with your own
271 - preloader_console_init() can be called here in extremis
272 - should set up SDRAM, and anything needed to make the UART work
273 - these is no need to clear BSS, it will be done by crt0.S
274 - must return normally from this function (don't call board_init_r()
277 Here the BSS is cleared. For SPL, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined, then at
278 this point the stack and global_data are relocated to below
279 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR. For non-SPL, U-Boot is relocated to run at the top of
283 - purpose: main execution, common code
284 - global_data is available
286 - BSS is available, all static/global variables can be used
287 - execution eventually continues to main_loop()
289 Non-SPL-specific notes:
290 - U-Boot is relocated to the top of memory and is now running from
294 - stack is optionally in SDRAM, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined and
295 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR points into SDRAM
296 - preloader_console_init() can be called here - typically this is
297 done by defining CONFIG_SPL_BOARD_INIT and then supplying a
298 spl_board_init() function containing this call
299 - loads U-Boot or (in falcon mode) Linux
303 Configuration Options:
304 ----------------------
306 Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
307 such information is kept in a configuration file
308 "include/configs/<board_name>.h".
310 Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
311 "include/configs/TQM823L.h".
314 Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
315 kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
316 build a config tool - later.
319 The following options need to be configured:
321 - CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
323 - Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
325 - CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
326 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
328 - Marvell Family Member
329 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
330 multiple fs option at one time
331 for marvell soc family
333 - 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
334 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
335 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
336 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
337 reference PIT/RTC clock
338 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
341 - 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
342 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
343 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
344 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
345 See doc/README.MPC866
347 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
349 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
350 of relying on the correctness of the configured
351 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
352 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
353 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
354 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
356 CONFIG_SYS_DELAYED_ICACHE
358 Define this option if you want to enable the
359 ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
364 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
365 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
366 compliance, among other possible reasons.
368 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
370 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
371 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
372 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
374 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
376 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
377 tree nodes for the given platform.
379 CONFIG_SYS_PPC_E500_DEBUG_TLB
381 Enables a temporary TLB entry to be used during boot to work
382 around limitations in e500v1 and e500v2 external debugger
383 support. This reduces the portions of the boot code where
384 breakpoints and single stepping do not work. The value of this
385 symbol should be set to the TLB1 entry to be used for this
388 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
390 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
391 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
392 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
394 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
395 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
397 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
398 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
400 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
401 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
402 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
403 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
405 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
408 CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
409 Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
410 required during NOR boot.
412 CONFIG_A008044_WORKAROUND
413 Enables a workaround for T1040/T1042 erratum A008044. It is only
414 required during NAND boot and valid for Rev 1.0 SoC revision
416 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
418 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
419 according to the A004510 workaround.
421 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
422 This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
423 connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
425 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
426 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
427 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
429 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
430 This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
431 connected to the DSP core.
433 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
434 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
436 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
437 Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
438 In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
439 clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
441 CONFIG_SYS_CPC_REINIT_F
442 This CONFIG is defined when the CPC is configured as SRAM at the
443 time of U-Boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
446 Indicates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
447 supported, core will start to execute uboot when wakes up.
449 - Generic CPU options:
450 CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_GLOBAL_DATA
451 Defines global data is initialized in generic board board_init_f().
452 If this macro is defined, global data is created and cleared in
453 generic board board_init_f(). Without this macro, architecture/board
454 should initialize global data before calling board_init_f().
456 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
458 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
459 values is arch specific.
462 Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
463 found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx, mpc86xx as well as some ARM core
466 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
467 Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
469 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_EMU
470 Specify emulator support for DDR. Some DDR features such as
471 deskew training are not available.
473 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
474 Freescale DDR1 controller.
476 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
477 Freescale DDR2 controller.
479 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
480 Freescale DDR3 controller.
482 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN4
483 Freescale DDR4 controller.
485 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
486 Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
489 Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
490 Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
494 Board config to use DDR2. It can be enabled for SoCs with
495 Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
499 Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
500 Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
503 Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
507 Board config to use DDR4. It can be enabled for SoCs with
510 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
511 Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
513 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
514 Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
516 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_PBI
517 It enables addition of RCW (Power on reset configuration) in built image.
518 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
520 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_RCW
521 It adds PBI(pre-boot instructions) commands in u-boot build image.
522 PBI commands can be used to configure SoC before it starts the execution.
523 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
526 It adds a target to create boot binary having SPL binary in PBI format
527 concatenated with u-boot binary.
529 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
530 Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
532 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
533 Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
535 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
536 Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
537 same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for all Power SoCs. But
538 it could be different for ARM SoCs.
540 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
541 DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
542 interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
545 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_MAIN_NUM_CTRLS
546 Number of controllers used as main memory.
548 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_OTHER_DDR_NUM_CTRLS
549 Number of controllers used for other than main memory.
551 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_DP_DDR
552 Defines the SoC has DP-DDR used for DPAA.
554 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
555 Defines the SEC controller register space as Big Endian
557 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_LE
558 Defines the SEC controller register space as Little Endian
561 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
563 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
564 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
567 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
569 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
570 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
572 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
575 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
579 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
581 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
583 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
584 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
586 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
588 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
589 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
590 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
593 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
595 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
596 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
598 CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD
600 Use this flag to build U-Boot using the Thumb instruction
601 set for ARM architectures. Thumb instruction set provides
602 better code density. For ARM architectures that support
603 Thumb2 this flag will result in Thumb2 code generated by
606 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_716044
607 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_742230
608 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_743622
609 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_751472
610 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_761320
611 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_773022
612 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_774769
613 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_794072
615 If set, the workarounds for these ARM errata are applied early
616 during U-Boot startup. Note that these options force the
617 workarounds to be applied; no CPU-type/version detection
618 exists, unlike the similar options in the Linux kernel. Do not
619 set these options unless they apply!
622 Generic timer clock source frequency.
624 COUNTER_FREQUENCY_REAL
625 Generic timer clock source frequency if the real clock is
626 different from COUNTER_FREQUENCY, and can only be determined
629 NOTE: The following can be machine specific errata. These
630 do have ability to provide rudimentary version and machine
631 specific checks, but expect no product checks.
632 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_430973
633 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_454179
634 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_621766
635 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_798870
636 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_801819
639 CONFIG_TEGRA_SUPPORT_NON_SECURE
641 Support executing U-Boot in non-secure (NS) mode. Certain
642 impossible actions will be skipped if the CPU is in NS mode,
643 such as ARM architectural timer initialization.
645 - Linux Kernel Interface:
648 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
649 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
650 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
651 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
652 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
653 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
655 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
656 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
659 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
661 When transferring memsize parameter to Linux, some versions
662 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
663 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
667 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
668 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
672 * New libfdt-based support
673 * Adds the "fdt" command
674 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
676 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node (only required for
677 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
678 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node (only required for
679 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
680 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
681 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
683 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
686 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
688 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
689 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
691 CONFIG_OF_SYSTEM_SETUP
693 Other code has addition modification that it wants to make
694 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel.
695 This causes ft_system_setup() to be called before booting
700 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
701 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
702 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
703 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
704 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
705 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
707 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
709 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
710 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
711 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
712 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
713 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
714 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
715 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
717 - vxWorks boot parameters:
719 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
720 environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask,
721 serverip, gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
722 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
724 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
725 the defaults discussed just above.
727 - Cache Configuration:
728 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
729 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
730 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
732 - Cache Configuration for ARM:
733 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
735 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
736 controller register space
741 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
745 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
749 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
750 the clock speed of the UARTs.
754 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
755 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
756 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
758 CONFIG_SERIAL_HW_FLOW_CONTROL
760 Define this variable to enable hw flow control in serial driver.
761 Current user of this option is drivers/serial/nsl16550.c driver
764 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port
765 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2,
766 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial
767 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE
769 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
770 port routines must be defined elsewhere
771 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
774 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
775 Select one of the baudrates listed in
776 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
777 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
779 - Console Rx buffer length
780 With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define
781 the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC.
782 This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible.
783 If using CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN also CONFIG_SYS_MAXIDLE
784 must be defined, to setup the maximum idle timeout for
789 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
790 define a command string that is automatically executed
791 when no character is read on the console interface
792 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
795 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
796 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
797 environment value "bootargs".
799 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
800 The value of these goes into the environment as
801 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
802 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
806 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
807 Implements a mechanism for detecting a repeating reboot
809 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
812 If no softreset save registers are found on the hardware
813 "bootcount" is stored in the environment. To prevent a
814 saveenv on all reboots, the environment variable
815 "upgrade_available" is used. If "upgrade_available" is
816 0, "bootcount" is always 0, if "upgrade_available" is
817 1 "bootcount" is incremented in the environment.
818 So the Userspace Applikation must set the "upgrade_available"
819 and "bootcount" variable to 0, if a boot was successfully.
824 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
825 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
826 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
827 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
828 entering interactive mode.
830 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
831 automatically generated or modified. For an example
832 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
833 modified when the user holds down a certain
834 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
837 - Serial Download Echo Mode:
839 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
840 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
841 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
842 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
843 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
844 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
846 - Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
848 Select one of the baudrates listed in
849 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
852 Monitor commands can be included or excluded
853 from the build by using the #include files
854 <config_cmd_all.h> and #undef'ing unwanted
855 commands, or adding #define's for wanted commands.
857 The default command configuration includes all commands
858 except those marked below with a "*".
860 CONFIG_CMD_AES AES 128 CBC encrypt/decrypt
861 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
862 CONFIG_CMD_BDI bdinfo
863 CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger
864 CONFIG_CMD_BMP * BMP support
865 CONFIG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands
866 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD bootd
867 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTI * ARM64 Linux kernel Image support
868 CONFIG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache
869 CONFIG_CMD_CLK * clock command support
870 CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo
871 CONFIG_CMD_CRC32 * crc32
872 CONFIG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time...
873 CONFIG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support
874 CONFIG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics
875 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510 * ds4510 I2C gpio commands
876 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO * ds4510 I2C info command
877 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM * ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
878 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST * ds4510 I2C rst command
879 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
880 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
881 CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV edit env variable
882 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
883 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM_LAYOUT* EEPROM layout aware commands
884 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
885 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_CALLBACK * display details about env callbacks
886 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_FLAGS * display details about env flags
887 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_EXISTS * check existence of env variable
888 CONFIG_CMD_EXPORTENV * export the environment
889 CONFIG_CMD_EXT2 * ext2 command support
890 CONFIG_CMD_EXT4 * ext4 command support
891 CONFIG_CMD_FS_GENERIC * filesystem commands (e.g. load, ls)
892 that work for multiple fs types
893 CONFIG_CMD_FS_UUID * Look up a filesystem UUID
894 CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV saveenv
895 CONFIG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support
896 CONFIG_CMD_FAT * FAT command support
897 CONFIG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect
898 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support
899 CONFIG_CMD_FUSE * Device fuse support
900 CONFIG_CMD_GETTIME * Get time since boot
901 CONFIG_CMD_GO * the 'go' command (exec code)
902 CONFIG_CMD_GREPENV * search environment
903 CONFIG_CMD_HASH * calculate hash / digest
904 CONFIG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support
905 CONFIG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support
906 CONFIG_CMD_IMI iminfo
907 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS List all images found in NOR flash
908 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS_NAND * List all images found in NAND flash
909 CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support
910 CONFIG_CMD_IOTRACE * I/O tracing for debugging
911 CONFIG_CMD_IMPORTENV * import an environment
912 CONFIG_CMD_INI * import data from an ini file into the env
913 CONFIG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo
914 CONFIG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values
915 CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support
916 CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb
917 CONFIG_CMD_LDRINFO * ldrinfo (display Blackfin loader)
918 CONFIG_CMD_LINK_LOCAL * link-local IP address auto-configuration
920 CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb
921 CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads
922 CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM * print md5 message digest
923 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
924 CONFIG_CMD_MEMINFO * Display detailed memory information
925 CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
927 CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST * mtest
928 CONFIG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc
929 CONFIG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support
930 CONFIG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands
931 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS * MTD partition support
932 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
933 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
934 CONFIG_CMD_NFS NFS support
935 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X * PCA953x I2C gpio commands
936 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
937 CONFIG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo
938 CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support
939 CONFIG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
941 CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O
942 CONFIG_CMD_READ * Read raw data from partition
943 CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump
944 CONFIG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable
945 CONFIG_CMD_SANDBOX * sb command to access sandbox features
946 CONFIG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump
947 CONFIG_SCSI * SCSI Support
948 CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information
949 (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
950 CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access
952 CONFIG_CMD_SF * Read/write/erase SPI NOR flash
953 CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM * print sha1 memory digest
954 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
955 CONFIG_CMD_SOFTSWITCH * Soft switch setting command for BF60x
956 CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support
957 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
958 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPSRV * TFTP transfer in server mode
959 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPPUT * TFTP put command (upload)
960 CONFIG_CMD_TIME * run command and report execution time (ARM specific)
961 CONFIG_CMD_TIMER * access to the system tick timer
962 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
963 CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support
964 CONFIG_CMD_MFSL * Microblaze FSL support
965 CONFIG_CMD_XIMG Load part of Multi Image
966 CONFIG_CMD_UUID * Generate random UUID or GUID string
968 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
969 support you can write:
971 #include "config_cmd_all.h"
972 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
975 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
977 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
978 (configuration option CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know
979 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data
980 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or
981 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be
982 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other
983 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an
984 initial stack and some data.
987 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
989 - Removal of commands
990 If no commands are needed to boot, you can disable
991 CONFIG_CMDLINE to remove them. In this case, the command line
992 will not be available, and when U-Boot wants to execute the
993 boot command (on start-up) it will call board_run_command()
994 instead. This can reduce image size significantly for very
995 simple boot procedures.
997 - Regular expression support:
999 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
1000 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
1001 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
1002 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
1006 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
1007 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
1008 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
1009 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
1010 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
1012 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
1013 be done using one of the two options below:
1016 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
1017 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
1018 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
1019 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
1020 the global data structure as gd->blob.
1023 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
1024 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
1025 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
1027 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
1029 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
1030 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
1031 still use the individual files if you need something more
1036 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
1037 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
1038 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260
1039 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
1040 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
1041 available, then no further board specific code should
1042 be needed to use it.
1045 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
1046 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
1047 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
1049 CONFIG_AT91_HW_WDT_TIMEOUT
1050 specify the timeout in seconds. default 2 seconds.
1053 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
1054 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
1055 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
1056 version as printed by the "version" command.
1057 Any change to this variable will be reverted at the
1062 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
1063 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
1066 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx
1067 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
1068 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
1069 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
1070 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
1071 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
1072 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
1073 CONFIG_RTC_DS1339 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1339 RTC
1074 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
1075 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
1076 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
1077 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
1078 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
1081 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
1082 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
1085 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
1087 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
1088 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
1089 pins supported by a particular chip.
1091 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
1092 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
1095 When CONFIG_IO_TRACE is selected, U-Boot intercepts all I/O
1096 accesses and can checksum them or write a list of them out
1097 to memory. See the 'iotrace' command for details. This is
1098 useful for testing device drivers since it can confirm that
1099 the driver behaves the same way before and after a code
1100 change. Currently this is supported on sandbox and arm. To
1101 add support for your architecture, add '#include <iotrace.h>'
1102 to the bottom of arch/<arch>/include/asm/io.h and test.
1104 Example output from the 'iotrace stats' command is below.
1105 Note that if the trace buffer is exhausted, the checksum will
1106 still continue to operate.
1109 Start: 10000000 (buffer start address)
1110 Size: 00010000 (buffer size)
1111 Offset: 00000120 (current buffer offset)
1112 Output: 10000120 (start + offset)
1113 Count: 00000018 (number of trace records)
1114 CRC32: 9526fb66 (CRC32 of all trace records)
1116 - Timestamp Support:
1118 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
1119 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
1120 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
1121 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
1123 - Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
1124 Zero or more of the following:
1125 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
1126 CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION MS Dos partition table, traditional on the
1127 Intel architecture, USB sticks, etc.
1128 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
1129 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
1130 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
1132 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS Memory Technology Device partition table.
1134 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
1135 CONFIG_SCSI) you must configure support for at
1136 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
1139 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
1140 board configurations files but used nowhere!
1142 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
1143 be performed by calling the function
1144 ide_set_reset(int reset)
1145 which has to be defined in a board specific file
1150 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
1155 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
1156 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
1157 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
1158 support disks up to 2.1TB.
1160 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
1161 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
1165 At the moment only there is only support for the
1166 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
1167 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
1169 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
1170 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
1171 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
1172 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
1174 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
1176 The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
1177 SCSI devices found during the last scan.
1179 - NETWORK Support (PCI):
1181 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
1184 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
1185 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
1186 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
1188 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
1189 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
1190 example with the "sspi" command.
1193 Management command for E1000 devices. When used on devices
1194 with SPI support you can reprogram the EEPROM from U-Boot.
1197 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
1198 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
1199 write routine for first time initialisation.
1202 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
1203 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
1204 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
1207 Support for National dp83815 chips.
1210 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
1212 - NETWORK Support (other):
1214 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
1215 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
1218 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
1220 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
1221 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
1222 The driver doen't show link status messages.
1224 CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
1225 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
1228 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
1230 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
1231 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
1234 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
1236 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
1237 Define this to hold the physical address
1238 of the device (I/O space)
1240 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
1241 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1243 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
1244 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
1245 (some hardware wont work with macros)
1247 CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
1248 Support for davinci emac
1250 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
1251 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
1254 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
1256 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
1257 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
1258 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
1259 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
1260 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
1261 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
1262 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
1263 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
1266 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
1269 Define this to hold the physical address
1270 of the device (I/O space)
1272 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
1273 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1275 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
1276 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
1277 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
1278 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
1281 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
1283 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
1284 Define the number of ports to be used
1286 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1287 Define the ETH PHY's address
1289 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1290 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1294 Support for PWM module on the imx6.
1298 Support TPM devices.
1300 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_INFINEON
1301 Support for Infineon i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
1302 per system is supported at this time.
1304 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
1305 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
1308 Support for STMicroelectronics TPM devices. Requires DM_TPM support.
1310 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_I2C
1311 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 I2C devices.
1312 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and I2C.
1314 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_SPI
1315 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 SPI devices.
1316 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and SPI.
1318 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
1319 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
1322 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1323 per system is supported at this time.
1325 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1326 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1327 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1331 Add tpm monitor functions.
1332 Requires CONFIG_TPM. If CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS is set, also
1333 provides monitor access to authorized functions.
1336 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
1337 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
1338 Requires support for a TPM device.
1340 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
1341 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
1342 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
1345 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
1346 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define
1347 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1348 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
1349 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
1352 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1354 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
1356 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
1360 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
1361 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
1362 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100
1363 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100
1364 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
1365 May be defined to allow interrupt polling
1366 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
1368 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1369 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1371 CONFIG_USB_DWC2_REG_ADDR the physical CPU address of the DWC2
1372 HW module registers.
1375 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1376 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1377 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
1378 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
1379 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1380 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
1381 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
1382 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1383 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1385 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1386 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1387 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1388 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
1391 Define this to build a UDC device
1394 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1395 talk to the UDC device
1398 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1399 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1400 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1401 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1402 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1405 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
1406 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1410 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
1411 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
1412 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
1414 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
1415 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
1416 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
1417 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1418 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1419 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1421 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1422 Define this string as the name of your company for
1423 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
1425 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1426 Define this string as the name of your product
1427 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1429 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1430 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1431 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1432 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1433 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
1435 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1436 Define this as the unique Product ID
1438 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
1440 - ULPI Layer Support:
1441 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1442 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1443 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1444 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1445 viewport is supported.
1446 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1447 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
1448 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1449 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1450 the appropriate value in Hz.
1453 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1454 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1455 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
1456 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
1457 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1458 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
1461 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1463 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1464 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1467 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1470 Enable the generic MMC driver
1472 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_BOOT
1473 Enable some additional features of the eMMC boot partitions.
1475 CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_RPMB
1476 Enable the commands for reading, writing and programming the
1477 key for the Replay Protection Memory Block partition in eMMC.
1479 - USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
1480 CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_DFU
1481 This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class
1484 This enables the command "dfu" which is used to have
1485 U-Boot create a DFU class device via USB. This command
1486 requires that the "dfu_alt_info" environment variable be
1487 set and define the alt settings to expose to the host.
1490 This enables support for exposing (e)MMC devices via DFU.
1493 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
1496 This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
1497 Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
1498 allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
1499 one that would help mostly the developer.
1501 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
1502 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
1503 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
1504 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
1505 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
1507 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
1508 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
1509 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
1510 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
1511 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
1512 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
1514 DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
1515 Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
1516 host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
1517 a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
1519 DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
1520 Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
1521 entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
1522 sending again an USB request to the device.
1524 - USB Device Android Fastboot support:
1525 CONFIG_USB_FUNCTION_FASTBOOT
1526 This enables the USB part of the fastboot gadget
1529 This enables the command "fastboot" which enables the Android
1530 fastboot mode for the platform's USB device. Fastboot is a USB
1531 protocol for downloading images, flashing and device control
1532 used on Android devices.
1533 See doc/README.android-fastboot for more information.
1535 CONFIG_ANDROID_BOOT_IMAGE
1536 This enables support for booting images which use the Android
1537 image format header.
1539 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_ADDR
1540 The fastboot protocol requires a large memory buffer for
1541 downloads. Define this to the starting RAM address to use for
1544 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_SIZE
1545 The fastboot protocol requires a large memory buffer for
1546 downloads. This buffer should be as large as possible for a
1547 platform. Define this to the size available RAM for fastboot.
1549 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_FLASH
1550 The fastboot protocol includes a "flash" command for writing
1551 the downloaded image to a non-volatile storage device. Define
1552 this to enable the "fastboot flash" command.
1554 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_FLASH_MMC_DEV
1555 The fastboot "flash" command requires additional information
1556 regarding the non-volatile storage device. Define this to
1557 the eMMC device that fastboot should use to store the image.
1559 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_GPT_NAME
1560 The fastboot "flash" command supports writing the downloaded
1561 image to the Protective MBR and the Primary GUID Partition
1562 Table. (Additionally, this downloaded image is post-processed
1563 to generate and write the Backup GUID Partition Table.)
1564 This occurs when the specified "partition name" on the
1565 "fastboot flash" command line matches this value.
1566 The default is "gpt" if undefined.
1568 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_MBR_NAME
1569 The fastboot "flash" command supports writing the downloaded
1571 This occurs when the "partition name" specified on the
1572 "fastboot flash" command line matches this value.
1573 If not defined the default value "mbr" is used.
1575 - Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1577 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1579 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1580 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
1581 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1583 - FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem write function support:
1586 Define this to enable support for saving memory data as a
1587 file in FAT formatted partition.
1589 This will also enable the command "fatwrite" enabling the
1590 user to write files to FAT.
1592 - CBFS (Coreboot Filesystem) support:
1595 Define this to enable support for reading from a Coreboot
1596 filesystem. Available commands are cbfsinit, cbfsinfo, cbfsls
1599 - FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem cluster size:
1600 CONFIG_FS_FAT_MAX_CLUSTSIZE
1602 Define the max cluster size for fat operations else
1603 a default value of 65536 will be defined.
1606 See Kconfig help for available keyboard drivers.
1610 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1611 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1612 defined in your board-specific files. This option is deprecated
1613 and is only used by novena. For new boards, use driver model
1618 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1619 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1620 support, and should also define these other macros:
1626 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1627 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1629 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1631 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1632 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1633 boot. See the documentation file doc/README.video for a
1634 description of this variable.
1636 - LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1638 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1639 display); also select one of the supported displays
1640 by defining one of these:
1644 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1646 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
1648 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
1650 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1652 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1653 Active, color, single scan.
1655 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1657 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
1658 Active, color, single scan.
1662 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1663 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1665 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1667 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1668 Active, color, single scan.
1672 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1673 Active, color, single scan.
1677 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1679 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1683 320x240. Black & white.
1685 Normally display is black on white background; define
1686 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
1688 CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
1690 Normally the LCD is page-aligned (typically 4KB). If this is
1691 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
1692 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
1693 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
1694 a per-section basis.
1699 Sometimes, for example if the display is mounted in portrait
1700 mode or even if it's mounted landscape but rotated by 180degree,
1701 we need to rotate our content of the display relative to the
1702 framebuffer, so that user can read the messages which are
1704 Once CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is defined, the lcd_console will be
1705 initialized with a given rotation from "vl_rot" out of
1706 "vidinfo_t" which is provided by the board specific code.
1707 The value for vl_rot is coded as following (matching to
1708 fbcon=rotate:<n> linux-kernel commandline):
1709 0 = no rotation respectively 0 degree
1710 1 = 90 degree rotation
1711 2 = 180 degree rotation
1712 3 = 270 degree rotation
1714 If CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is not defined, the console will be
1715 initialized with 0degree rotation.
1719 Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
1723 Enables an 'i2c edid' command which can read EDID
1724 information over I2C from an attached LCD display.
1726 - Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
1728 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1729 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1730 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
1731 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
1732 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1733 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1734 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1735 loaded very quickly after power-on.
1737 CONFIG_SPLASHIMAGE_GUARD
1739 If this option is set, then U-Boot will prevent the environment
1740 variable "splashimage" from being set to a problematic address
1741 (see doc/README.displaying-bmps).
1742 This option is useful for targets where, due to alignment
1743 restrictions, an improperly aligned BMP image will cause a data
1744 abort. If you think you will not have problems with unaligned
1745 accesses (for example because your toolchain prevents them)
1746 there is no need to set this option.
1748 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1750 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1751 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1752 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1753 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1754 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1755 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1758 setenv splashpos m,m
1759 => image at center of screen
1761 setenv splashpos 30,20
1762 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1764 setenv splashpos -10,m
1765 => vertically centered image
1766 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1768 - Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1770 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1771 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1772 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1774 - Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1776 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1777 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1780 - Do compressing for memory range:
1783 If this option is set, it would use zlib deflate method
1784 to compress the specified memory at its best effort.
1786 - Compression support:
1789 Enabled by default to support gzip compressed images.
1793 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1794 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1795 compressed images are supported.
1797 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
1798 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
1803 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1806 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1807 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1810 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1812 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1813 and Literal pos bits.
1815 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1816 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1817 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1818 a very small buffer.
1820 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1821 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
1822 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
1826 If this option is set, support for LZO compressed images
1832 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1834 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1836 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1840 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
1841 detection of gigabit PHY is included.
1843 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1845 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1846 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1847 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1848 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1850 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1852 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1853 command issued before MII status register can be read
1858 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
1859 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
1860 determined through e.g. bootp.
1861 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
1863 - Server IP address:
1866 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
1867 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1868 (Environment variable "serverip")
1870 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1872 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1873 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1875 - Gateway IP address:
1878 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1879 default router where packets to other networks are
1881 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1886 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1887 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1888 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1889 forwarded through a router.
1890 (Environment variable "netmask")
1892 - Multicast TFTP Mode:
1895 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1896 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
1897 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
1898 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1901 - BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1902 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1904 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1905 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1906 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1907 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1908 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1909 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1910 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1911 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
1912 following delays are inserted then:
1914 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1915 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1916 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1918 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1920 CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE
1922 BOOTP packets are uniquely identified using a 32-bit ID. The
1923 server will copy the ID from client requests to responses and
1924 U-Boot will use this to determine if it is the destination of
1925 an incoming response. Some servers will check that addresses
1926 aren't in use before handing them out (usually using an ARP
1927 ping) and therefore take up to a few hundred milliseconds to
1928 respond. Network congestion may also influence the time it
1929 takes for a response to make it back to the client. If that
1930 time is too long, U-Boot will retransmit requests. In order
1931 to allow earlier responses to still be accepted after these
1932 retransmissions, U-Boot's BOOTP client keeps a small cache of
1933 IDs. The CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE controls the size of this
1934 cache. The default is to keep IDs for up to four outstanding
1935 requests. Increasing this will allow U-Boot to accept offers
1936 from a BOOTP client in networks with unusually high latency.
1938 - DHCP Advanced Options:
1939 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1940 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1942 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1943 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1944 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1945 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1946 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1947 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1950 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1951 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1952 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1953 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
1954 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
1956 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1957 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
1959 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1960 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1961 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1962 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1965 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1966 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1967 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1968 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1969 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1970 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1971 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1974 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1975 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1976 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
1977 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
1978 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1979 option 12 to the DHCP server.
1981 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1983 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1984 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1985 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1986 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1987 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1988 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1989 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1990 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1991 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1992 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1995 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1996 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1997 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1998 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1999 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
2001 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
2004 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
2006 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
2008 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
2010 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
2015 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
2016 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
2017 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
2019 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
2021 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
2022 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
2026 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
2030 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
2034 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
2036 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
2038 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
2039 device in .1 of milliwatts.
2041 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
2043 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
2045 - Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED
2047 Several configurations allow to display the current
2048 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
2049 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
2050 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
2051 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
2052 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
2053 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this
2059 The status LED can be connected to a GPIO pin.
2060 In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
2061 status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_GPIO_LED
2062 to include the gpio_led driver in the U-Boot binary.
2064 CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE
2065 Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
2066 case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
2067 GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
2068 In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
2069 with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
2071 - CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
2073 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
2074 on those systems that support this (optional)
2075 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
2077 - I2C Support: CONFIG_SYS_I2C
2079 This enable the NEW i2c subsystem, and will allow you to use
2080 i2c commands at the u-boot command line (as long as you set
2081 CONFIG_CMD_I2C in CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c
2082 based realtime clock chips or other i2c devices. See
2083 common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the command line
2086 ported i2c driver to the new framework:
2087 - drivers/i2c/soft_i2c.c:
2088 - activate first bus with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT define
2089 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE
2090 for defining speed and slave address
2091 - activate second bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS2 define
2092 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_2 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_2
2093 for defining speed and slave address
2094 - activate third bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS3 define
2095 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_3 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_3
2096 for defining speed and slave address
2097 - activate fourth bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS4 define
2098 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_4 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_4
2099 for defining speed and slave address
2101 - drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c:
2102 - activate i2c driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_FSL
2103 define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_OFFSET for setting the register
2104 offset CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SPEED for the i2c speed and
2105 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SLAVE for the slave addr of the first
2107 - If your board supports a second fsl i2c bus, define
2108 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_OFFSET for the register offset
2109 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SPEED for the speed and
2110 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SLAVE for the slave address of the
2113 - drivers/i2c/tegra_i2c.c:
2114 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_TEGRA
2115 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses with a fix speed from
2116 100000 and the slave addr 0!
2118 - drivers/i2c/ppc4xx_i2c.c
2119 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX
2120 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
2121 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
2123 - drivers/i2c/i2c_mxc.c
2124 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC
2125 - enable bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C1
2126 - enable bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C2
2127 - enable bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C3
2128 - enable bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C4
2129 - define speed for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SPEED
2130 - define slave for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SLAVE
2131 - define speed for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SPEED
2132 - define slave for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SLAVE
2133 - define speed for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SPEED
2134 - define slave for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SLAVE
2135 - define speed for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SPEED
2136 - define slave for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SLAVE
2137 If those defines are not set, default value is 100000
2138 for speed, and 0 for slave.
2140 - drivers/i2c/rcar_i2c.c:
2141 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RCAR
2142 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses
2144 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_BASE for setting the register channel 0
2145 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_SPEED for for the speed channel 0
2146 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_BASE for setting the register channel 1
2147 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_SPEED for for the speed channel 1
2148 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_BASE for setting the register channel 2
2149 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_SPEED for for the speed channel 2
2150 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_BASE for setting the register channel 3
2151 - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_SPEED for for the speed channel 3
2152 - CONFIF_SYS_RCAR_I2C_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
2154 - drivers/i2c/sh_i2c.c:
2155 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH
2156 - This driver adds from 2 to 5 i2c buses
2158 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE0 for setting the register channel 0
2159 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED0 for for the speed channel 0
2160 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE1 for setting the register channel 1
2161 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED1 for for the speed channel 1
2162 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE2 for setting the register channel 2
2163 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED2 for for the speed channel 2
2164 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE3 for setting the register channel 3
2165 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED3 for for the speed channel 3
2166 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE4 for setting the register channel 4
2167 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED4 for for the speed channel 4
2168 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
2170 - drivers/i2c/omap24xx_i2c.c
2171 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_OMAP24XX
2172 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED speed channel 0
2173 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE slave addr channel 0
2174 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED1 speed channel 1
2175 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE1 slave addr channel 1
2176 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED2 speed channel 2
2177 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE2 slave addr channel 2
2178 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED3 speed channel 3
2179 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE3 slave addr channel 3
2180 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED4 speed channel 4
2181 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE4 slave addr channel 4
2183 - drivers/i2c/zynq_i2c.c
2184 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ
2185 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SPEED for speed setting
2186 - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SLAVE for slave addr
2188 - drivers/i2c/s3c24x0_i2c.c:
2189 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_S3C24X0
2190 - This driver adds i2c buses (11 for Exynos5250, Exynos5420
2191 9 i2c buses for Exynos4 and 1 for S3C24X0 SoCs from Samsung)
2192 with a fix speed from 100000 and the slave addr 0!
2194 - drivers/i2c/ihs_i2c.c
2195 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS
2196 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
2197 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0 speed channel 0
2198 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0 slave addr channel 0
2199 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
2200 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1 speed channel 1
2201 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1 slave addr channel 1
2202 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH2 activate hardware channel 2
2203 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2 speed channel 2
2204 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2 slave addr channel 2
2205 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH3 activate hardware channel 3
2206 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3 speed channel 3
2207 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3 slave addr channel 3
2208 - activate dual channel with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_DUAL
2209 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0_1 speed channel 0_1
2210 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0_1 slave addr channel 0_1
2211 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1_1 speed channel 1_1
2212 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1_1 slave addr channel 1_1
2213 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2_1 speed channel 2_1
2214 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2_1 slave addr channel 2_1
2215 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3_1 speed channel 3_1
2216 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3_1 slave addr channel 3_1
2220 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
2221 Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use.
2223 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
2224 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
2225 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
2228 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
2229 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
2230 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
2233 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
2234 hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
2235 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
2236 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
2237 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
2239 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
2240 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
2241 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
2242 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
2243 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
2244 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
2245 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
2246 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
2247 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
2251 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
2252 bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
2253 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
2254 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
2255 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
2256 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
2257 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
2258 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
2259 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
2261 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
2263 - Legacy I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C
2265 NOTE: It is intended to move drivers to CONFIG_SYS_I2C which
2266 provides the following compelling advantages:
2268 - more than one i2c adapter is usable
2269 - approved multibus support
2270 - better i2c mux support
2272 ** Please consider updating your I2C driver now. **
2274 These enable legacy I2C serial bus commands. Defining
2275 CONFIG_HARD_I2C will include the appropriate I2C driver
2276 for the selected CPU.
2278 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
2279 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
2280 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
2281 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
2282 command line interface.
2284 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
2286 There are several other quantities that must also be
2287 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
2289 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
2290 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
2291 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
2292 the CPU's i2c node address).
2294 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
2295 (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
2296 and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
2297 eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
2298 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
2300 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
2302 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
2303 chips might think that the current transfer is still
2304 in progress. Reset the slave devices by sending start
2305 commands until the slave device responds.
2307 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
2309 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
2310 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
2311 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
2315 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
2316 controller or configure ports.
2318 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
2322 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
2323 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
2324 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
2328 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
2329 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
2332 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
2336 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
2337 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
2340 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
2344 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
2347 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
2351 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
2352 is false, it clears it (low).
2354 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
2355 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
2356 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
2360 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
2361 is false, it clears it (low).
2363 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
2364 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
2365 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
2369 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
2370 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
2371 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
2374 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
2376 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
2378 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
2379 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
2380 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
2381 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
2383 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
2384 the generic GPIO functions.
2386 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
2388 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
2389 chips might think that the current transfer is still
2390 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
2391 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
2392 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
2393 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
2394 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
2395 is run early in the boot sequence.
2397 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
2399 An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
2400 defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
2401 boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
2402 is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
2403 using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
2404 controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
2405 i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
2406 controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
2408 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
2410 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
2411 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
2412 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
2414 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2416 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
2417 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
2418 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
2419 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
2421 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
2423 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
2424 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2425 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
2426 a 1D array of device addresses
2429 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2430 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
2432 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
2434 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2435 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
2437 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
2439 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
2441 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
2442 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
2444 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
2446 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
2447 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
2449 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
2451 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
2452 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
2454 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
2456 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
2457 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
2458 specified DTT device.
2460 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
2462 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
2463 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
2464 between writing the address pointer and reading the
2465 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
2466 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
2467 devices can use either method, but some require one or
2470 - SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
2472 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
2473 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
2474 D/As on the SACSng board)
2478 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
2479 only SH7757 is supported.
2483 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
2484 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
2485 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
2486 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
2487 defined, the board configuration must define several
2488 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
2489 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
2493 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
2494 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
2495 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
2496 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
2497 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
2501 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
2502 SoCs. Currently i.MX31/35/51 are supported.
2504 CONFIG_SYS_SPI_MXC_WAIT
2505 Timeout for waiting until spi transfer completed.
2506 default: (CONFIG_SYS_HZ/100) /* 10 ms */
2508 - FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
2510 Enables FPGA subsystem.
2512 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
2514 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
2517 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
2519 Enables support for FPGA family.
2520 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
2524 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
2526 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA_LOADMK
2528 Enable support for fpga loadmk command
2530 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA_LOADP
2532 Enable support for fpga loadp command - load partial bitstream
2534 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA_LOADBP
2536 Enable support for fpga loadbp command - load partial bitstream
2539 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
2541 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
2543 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
2545 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
2546 status by the configuration function. This option
2547 will require a board or device specific function to
2552 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
2553 configuration driver.
2555 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
2556 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2558 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
2560 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2561 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2562 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2563 indicated a CRC error).
2565 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
2567 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to de-assert
2568 after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
2569 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
2572 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
2574 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
2575 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
2577 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
2579 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
2582 - Configuration Management:
2585 Some SoCs need special image types (e.g. U-Boot binary
2586 with a special header) as build targets. By defining
2587 CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET in the SoC / board header, this
2588 special image will be automatically built upon calling
2593 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2594 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
2596 - Vendor Parameter Protection:
2598 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2599 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
2600 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
2601 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2602 protects these variables from casual modification by
2603 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2604 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
2605 change this behaviour:
2607 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2608 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
2609 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
2612 Alternatively, if you define _both_ an ethaddr in the
2613 default env _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
2614 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
2615 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2616 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2619 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
2620 for any variable by configuring the type of access
2621 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
2622 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
2627 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2628 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2629 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2630 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2631 this default value by defining an environment
2632 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2633 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2634 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2635 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2636 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2637 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2638 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2640 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
2643 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2644 either, which results in a memory region that will
2645 not be affected by reboots.
2647 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2648 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2649 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2650 following board configurations are known to be
2653 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
2654 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2657 - Access to physical memory region (> 4GB)
2658 Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not
2659 normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures
2660 support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit
2661 machines using physical address extension or similar.
2662 Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which
2663 currently only supports clearing the memory.
2668 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
2669 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
2670 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
2671 system where you want the system to reboot
2672 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
2673 useful during development since you can try to debug
2674 the conditions that lead to the situation.
2676 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2678 This variable defines the number of retries for
2679 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2680 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2681 default value of 5 is used.
2685 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2689 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2690 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2691 try longer timeout such as
2692 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2694 - Command Interpreter:
2695 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
2697 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
2699 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
2701 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2702 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2703 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2707 In the current implementation, the local variables
2708 space and global environment variables space are
2709 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2710 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2711 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2712 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2713 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
2715 Global environment variables are those you use
2716 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2717 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2718 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
2720 To store commands and special characters in a
2721 variable, please use double quotation marks
2722 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2723 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2726 - Command Line Editing and History:
2727 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
2729 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
2730 command line input operations
2732 - Command Line PS1/PS2 support:
2733 CONFIG_CMDLINE_PS_SUPPORT
2735 Enable support for changing the command prompt string
2736 at run-time. Only static string is supported so far.
2737 The string is obtained from environment variables PS1
2740 - Default Environment:
2741 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2743 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2744 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
2745 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2747 For example, place something like this in your
2748 board's config file:
2750 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2754 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2755 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2756 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2757 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
2758 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
2759 You better know what you are doing here.
2761 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2762 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
2763 the environment like the "source" command or the
2766 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_CONFIG
2768 Define this in order to add variables describing the
2769 U-Boot build configuration to the default environment.
2770 These will be named arch, cpu, board, vendor, and soc.
2772 Enabling this option will cause the following to be defined:
2780 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG
2782 Define this in order to add variables describing certain
2783 run-time determined information about the hardware to the
2784 environment. These will be named board_name, board_rev.
2786 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
2788 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
2789 initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
2790 that so that the environment is not available until
2791 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
2792 this is instead controlled by the value of
2793 /config/load-environment.
2795 - Parallel Flash support:
2798 Traditionally U-Boot was run on systems with parallel NOR
2799 flash. This option is used to disable support for parallel NOR
2800 flash. This option should be defined if the board does not have
2803 If this option is not defined one of the generic flash drivers
2804 (e.g. CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER or CONFIG_ST_SMI) must be
2805 selected or the board must provide an implementation of the
2806 flash API (see include/flash.h).
2808 - DataFlash Support:
2809 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
2811 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
2812 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
2815 - Serial Flash support
2818 Defining this option enables SPI flash commands
2819 'sf probe/read/write/erase/update'.
2821 Usage requires an initial 'probe' to define the serial
2822 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2825 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2826 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2827 flash is present on the system.
2829 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2830 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2831 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2832 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2836 Define this option to include a destructive SPI flash
2839 CONFIG_SF_DUAL_FLASH Dual flash memories
2841 Define this option to use dual flash support where two flash
2842 memories can be connected with a given cs line.
2843 Currently Xilinx Zynq qspi supports these type of connections.
2845 - SystemACE Support:
2848 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
2849 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
2850 of the chip must also be defined in the
2851 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
2853 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
2854 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
2856 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
2857 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
2859 - TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2862 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
2863 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
2864 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
2865 number generator is used.
2867 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2868 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2869 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2871 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
2872 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2873 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2874 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2875 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2876 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2877 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2882 This enables a generic 'hash' command which can produce
2883 hashes / digests from a few algorithms (e.g. SHA1, SHA256).
2887 Enable the hash verify command (hash -v). This adds to code
2890 CONFIG_SHA1 - This option enables support of hashing using SHA1
2891 algorithm. The hash is calculated in software.
2892 CONFIG_SHA256 - This option enables support of hashing using
2893 SHA256 algorithm. The hash is calculated in software.
2894 CONFIG_SHA_HW_ACCEL - This option enables hardware acceleration
2895 for SHA1/SHA256 hashing.
2896 This affects the 'hash' command and also the
2897 hash_lookup_algo() function.
2898 CONFIG_SHA_PROG_HW_ACCEL - This option enables
2899 hardware-acceleration for SHA1/SHA256 progressive hashing.
2900 Data can be streamed in a block at a time and the hashing
2901 is performed in hardware.
2903 Note: There is also a sha1sum command, which should perhaps
2904 be deprecated in favour of 'hash sha1'.
2906 - Freescale i.MX specific commands:
2907 CONFIG_CMD_HDMIDETECT
2908 This enables 'hdmidet' command which returns true if an
2909 HDMI monitor is detected. This command is i.MX 6 specific.
2912 This enables the 'bmode' (bootmode) command for forcing
2913 a boot from specific media.
2915 This is useful for forcing the ROM's usb downloader to
2916 activate upon a watchdog reset which is nice when iterating
2917 on U-Boot. Using the reset button or running bmode normal
2918 will set it back to normal. This command currently
2919 supports i.MX53 and i.MX6.
2921 - bootcount support:
2922 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
2924 This enables the bootcounter support, see:
2925 http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
2928 enable special bootcounter support on at91sam9xe based boards.
2930 enable special bootcounter support on blackfin based boards.
2932 enable special bootcounter support on da850 based boards.
2933 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_RAM
2934 enable support for the bootcounter in RAM
2935 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_I2C
2936 enable support for the bootcounter on an i2c (like RTC) device.
2937 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RTC_ADDR = i2c chip address
2938 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR = i2c addr which is used for
2940 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ALEN = address len
2942 - Show boot progress:
2943 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2945 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2946 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2947 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2948 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2949 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2950 the following checkpoints are implemented:
2953 Legacy uImage format:
2956 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
2957 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
2958 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
2959 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
2960 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
2961 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
2962 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2963 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2964 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2965 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
2966 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2967 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2968 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2969 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
2970 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
2971 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
2973 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2974 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2975 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2976 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2977 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2978 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2979 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
2980 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
2981 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2982 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2984 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
2986 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
2987 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2988 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
2990 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2991 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2992 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2993 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2994 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2995 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2996 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2997 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2998 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2999 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
3000 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
3001 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
3002 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
3003 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
3004 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
3005 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
3006 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
3007 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
3008 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
3009 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
3010 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
3011 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
3012 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
3013 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
3014 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
3015 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
3016 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
3017 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
3018 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
3019 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
3020 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
3021 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
3022 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
3023 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
3024 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
3025 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
3026 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
3027 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
3028 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
3029 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
3030 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
3031 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
3032 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
3033 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
3034 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
3035 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
3036 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
3038 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
3040 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
3041 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
3042 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
3044 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
3045 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling net_loop()
3046 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in net_loop() occurred
3047 81 common/cmd_net.c net_loop() back without error
3048 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
3049 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
3050 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
3051 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
3052 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
3057 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
3058 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
3059 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
3060 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
3061 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
3062 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
3063 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
3064 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
3065 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
3066 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
3067 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
3068 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
3069 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
3070 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
3071 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
3072 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
3073 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
3074 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
3075 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
3076 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
3077 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
3078 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
3080 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
3081 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
3082 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
3083 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
3084 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
3085 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
3086 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
3087 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
3088 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
3089 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
3090 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
3091 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
3092 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
3093 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
3094 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
3095 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
3097 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
3098 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
3100 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
3101 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
3103 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
3104 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
3106 - legacy image format:
3107 CONFIG_IMAGE_FORMAT_LEGACY
3108 enables the legacy image format support in U-Boot.
3111 enabled if CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE is not defined.
3113 CONFIG_DISABLE_IMAGE_LEGACY
3114 disable the legacy image format
3116 This define is introduced, as the legacy image format is
3117 enabled per default for backward compatibility.
3119 - FIT image support:
3120 CONFIG_FIT_DISABLE_SHA256
3121 Supporting SHA256 hashes has quite an impact on binary size.
3122 For constrained systems sha256 hash support can be disabled
3125 TODO(sjg@chromium.org): Adjust this option to be positive,
3126 and move it to Kconfig
3128 - Standalone program support:
3129 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
3131 This option defines a board specific value for the
3132 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
3133 overwriting the architecture dependent default
3136 - Frame Buffer Address:
3139 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
3140 address for frame buffer. This is typically the case
3141 when using a graphics controller has separate video
3142 memory. U-Boot will then place the frame buffer at
3143 the given address instead of dynamically reserving it
3144 in system RAM by calling lcd_setmem(), which grabs
3145 the memory for the frame buffer depending on the
3146 configured panel size.
3148 Please see board_init_f function.
3150 - Automatic software updates via TFTP server
3152 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
3153 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
3155 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
3156 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
3158 - MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
3161 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
3162 Needed for mtdparts command support.
3164 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
3166 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
3167 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
3172 Adds commands for interacting with MTD partitions formatted
3173 with the UBI flash translation layer
3175 Requires also defining CONFIG_RBTREE
3177 CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
3179 Make the verbose messages from UBI stop printing. This leaves
3180 warnings and errors enabled.
3183 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
3184 This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
3185 erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
3186 of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
3187 wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
3188 counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
3190 The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
3191 other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
3192 However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
3193 life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
3194 to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
3198 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
3199 This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
3200 expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the
3201 underlying flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR
3202 flash), this value is ignored.
3204 NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM
3205 (Number of Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime.
3206 The maximum expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks
3207 then can be calculated as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)",
3208 which gives 20 for most NANDs (MaxNVB is basically the total
3209 count of eraseblocks on the chip).
3211 To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to
3212 reserve about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
3213 handling. And that will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire
3214 NAND chip, not just the MTD partition UBI attaches. This means
3215 that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip admits maximum 40 bad
3216 eraseblocks, and it is split on two MTD partitions of the same
3217 size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when attaching a
3222 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
3223 Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
3224 in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
3225 only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
3226 The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
3227 the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
3228 attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
3229 a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI parameter
3230 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT to 1 if you want so. Please note
3231 that fastmap-enabled images are still usable with UBI implementations
3232 without fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap
3233 fits into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
3235 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT
3236 Set this parameter to enable fastmap automatically on images
3240 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FM_DEBUG
3241 Enable UBI fastmap debug
3247 Adds commands for interacting with UBI volumes formatted as
3248 UBIFS. UBIFS is read-only in u-boot.
3250 Requires UBI support as well as CONFIG_LZO
3252 CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
3254 Make the verbose messages from UBIFS stop printing. This leaves
3255 warnings and errors enabled.
3259 Enable building of SPL globally.
3262 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
3264 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT
3265 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL, BSS included.
3266 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory
3267 used by SPL from _start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
3268 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
3269 must not be both defined at the same time.
3272 Maximum size of the SPL image (text, data, rodata, and
3273 linker lists sections), BSS excluded.
3274 When defined, the linker checks that the actual size does
3277 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
3278 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
3280 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
3281 Address to relocate to. If unspecified, this is equal to
3282 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
3284 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
3285 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
3287 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
3288 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL BSS.
3289 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory used
3290 by SPL from __bss_start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
3291 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
3292 must not be both defined at the same time.
3295 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
3297 CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
3298 When defined, SPL will panic() if the image it has
3299 loaded does not have a signature.
3300 Defining this is useful when code which loads images
3301 in SPL cannot guarantee that absolutely all read errors
3303 An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which will
3304 consider that a completely unreadable NAND block is bad,
3305 and thus should be skipped silently.
3307 CONFIG_SPL_ABORT_ON_RAW_IMAGE
3308 When defined, SPL will proceed to another boot method
3309 if the image it has loaded does not have a signature.
3311 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
3312 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
3313 relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
3316 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
3317 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
3318 When this option is set the full malloc is used in SPL and
3319 it is set up by spl_init() and before that, the simple malloc()
3320 can be used if CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F is defined.
3322 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
3323 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
3325 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK
3326 Enable the SPL framework under common/. This framework
3327 supports MMC, NAND and YMODEM loading of U-Boot and NAND
3328 NAND loading of the Linux Kernel.
3331 Enable booting directly to an OS from SPL.
3332 See also: doc/README.falcon
3334 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
3335 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
3336 about the running system.
3338 CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
3339 Arch init code should be built for a very small image
3341 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION
3342 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
3345 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_KERNEL_SECTOR
3346 Sector to load kernel uImage from when MMC is being
3347 used in raw mode (for Falcon mode)
3349 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTOR,
3350 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTORS
3351 Sector and number of sectors to load kernel argument
3352 parameters from when MMC is being used in raw mode
3355 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_FS_BOOT_PARTITION
3356 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
3359 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
3360 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from filesystem
3362 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_KERNEL_NAME
3363 Filename to read to load kernel uImage when reading
3364 from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
3366 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_ARGS_NAME
3367 Filename to read to load kernel argument parameters
3368 when reading from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
3370 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
3371 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
3372 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
3373 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
3374 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
3376 CONFIG_SPL_SKIP_RELOCATE
3377 Avoid SPL relocation
3379 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE
3380 Include nand_base.c in the SPL. Requires
3381 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS.
3383 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS
3384 SPL uses normal NAND drivers, not minimal drivers.
3387 Include standard software ECC in the SPL
3389 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
3390 Support for NAND boot using simple NAND drivers that
3391 expose the cmd_ctrl() interface.
3394 Support for a lightweight UBI (fastmap) scanner and
3397 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_RAW_ONLY
3398 Support to boot only raw u-boot.bin images. Use this only
3399 if you need to save space.
3401 CONFIG_SPL_COMMON_INIT_DDR
3402 Set for common ddr init with serial presence detect in
3405 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
3406 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
3407 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
3408 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
3409 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
3410 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
3413 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BOOT
3414 Add support NAND boot
3416 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
3417 Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
3419 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
3420 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
3422 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
3423 Size of image to load
3425 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
3426 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
3428 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
3429 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
3430 data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
3432 CONFIG_SPL_OMAP3_ID_NAND
3433 Support for an OMAP3-specific set of functions to return the
3434 ID and MFR of the first attached NAND chip, if present.
3436 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
3437 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
3440 Image offset to which the SPL should be padded before appending
3441 the SPL payload. By default, this is defined as
3442 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
3443 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
3444 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
3447 Final target image containing SPL and payload. Some SPLs
3448 use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
3449 example if more than one image needs to be produced.
3451 CONFIG_FIT_SPL_PRINT
3452 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
3453 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
3454 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
3455 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
3459 Enable building of TPL globally.
3462 Image offset to which the TPL should be padded before appending
3463 the TPL payload. By default, this is defined as
3464 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
3465 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
3466 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
3468 - Interrupt support (PPC):
3470 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
3471 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
3472 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
3473 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
3474 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
3475 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
3476 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
3477 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
3478 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
3479 general timer_interrupt().
3482 Board initialization settings:
3483 ------------------------------
3485 During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
3486 to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
3487 before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
3488 following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
3489 architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
3490 typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
3492 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
3493 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
3494 - CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
3495 - CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
3497 Configuration Settings:
3498 -----------------------
3500 - CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit.
3501 Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.
3503 - CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
3504 undefine this when you're short of memory.
3506 - CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
3507 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
3509 - CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
3510 prompt for user input.
3512 - CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
3514 - CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
3516 - CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
3518 - CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
3519 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
3522 - CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
3523 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
3525 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
3526 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
3529 - CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
3530 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
3532 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
3533 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
3534 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
3536 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE
3537 Only implemented for ARMv8 for now.
3538 If defined, the size of CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE memory
3539 is substracted from total RAM and won't be reported to OS.
3540 This memory can be used as secure memory. A variable
3541 gd->arch.secure_ram is used to track the location. In systems
3542 the RAM base is not zero, or RAM is divided into banks,
3543 this variable needs to be recalcuated to get the address.
3545 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE:
3546 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
3547 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
3548 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
3549 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
3550 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
3551 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
3552 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
3553 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
3554 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
3556 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
3557 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
3560 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
3561 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
3562 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
3563 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
3566 - CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
3567 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
3569 - CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
3570 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
3572 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
3573 Physical start address of Flash memory.
3575 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
3576 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
3577 make config files to be same as the text base address
3578 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
3579 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
3581 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
3582 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
3583 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
3584 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
3587 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
3588 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
3590 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
3591 Size of the malloc() pool for use before relocation. If
3592 this is defined, then a very simple malloc() implementation
3593 will become available before relocation. The address is just
3594 below the global data, and the stack is moved down to make
3597 This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
3598 within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
3599 is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
3600 The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
3601 U-Boot relocates itself.
3603 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
3604 Provides a simple and small malloc() and calloc() for those
3605 boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is
3606 enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START).
3608 - CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY:
3609 Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be
3610 typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped
3611 uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would
3612 otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For
3613 some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the
3614 cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed
3615 are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding
3616 cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e.
3617 if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the
3618 size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of
3619 one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has
3620 written to another region in the same cache-line. This can
3621 happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for
3622 buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g.
3623 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).
3625 Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
3627 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
3628 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
3629 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
3630 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
3631 to adjust this setting to your needs.
3633 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
3634 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
3635 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
3636 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
3637 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
3638 environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
3639 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
3640 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
3641 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
3642 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
3643 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
3645 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
3646 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
3647 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
3650 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
3651 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
3652 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3654 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
3655 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
3656 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3658 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
3659 Max number of Flash memory banks
3661 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
3662 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
3664 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
3665 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
3667 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
3668 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
3670 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
3671 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
3673 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
3674 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
3676 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
3677 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
3678 instead of U-Boot software protection.
3680 - CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
3682 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
3683 without this option such a download has to be
3684 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
3685 copy from RAM to flash.
3687 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
3688 you can check if the download worked before you erase
3689 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
3690 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
3691 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
3693 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
3694 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
3695 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
3697 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
3698 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
3699 in the drivers directory
3701 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
3702 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
3703 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
3706 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
3707 Use buffered writes to flash.
3709 - CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
3710 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
3713 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
3714 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
3715 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
3716 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
3717 optionally available.
3719 - CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
3720 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
3721 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
3722 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
3724 - CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY
3725 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
3726 against the source after the write operation. An error message
3727 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
3728 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
3729 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
3730 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
3731 this option if you really know what you are doing.
3733 - CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
3734 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
3735 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
3736 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
3737 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
3738 on high Ethernet traffic.
3739 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
3741 - CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
3743 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
3744 internally to store the environment settings. The default
3745 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
3746 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
3747 lib/hashtable.c for details.
3749 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3750 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3751 Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when
3752 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
3753 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
3754 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
3756 The format of the list is:
3757 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
3758 access_attribute = [a|r|o|c]
3759 attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute]
3760 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
3763 The type attributes are:
3764 s - String (default)
3767 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
3771 The access attributes are:
3777 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3778 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
3779 environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
3781 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3782 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
3783 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
3784 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
3785 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
3788 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
3789 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to define the same
3790 flags without explicitly listing them for each variable.
3792 - CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
3793 If defined, don't allow the -f switch to env set override variable
3796 - CONFIG_OMAP_PLATFORM_RESET_TIME_MAX_USEC (OMAP only)
3797 This is set by OMAP boards for the max time that reset should
3798 be asserted. See doc/README.omap-reset-time for details on how
3799 the value can be calculated on a given board.
3802 If stdint.h is available with your toolchain you can define this
3803 option to enable it. You can provide option 'USE_STDINT=1' when
3804 building U-Boot to enable this.
3806 The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
3807 of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
3808 following configurations:
3810 - CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
3812 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
3813 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
3815 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
3817 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
3819 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
3820 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
3821 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
3822 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
3823 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
3824 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
3825 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
3826 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
3827 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
3828 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
3829 between U-Boot and the environment.
3831 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3833 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
3834 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
3835 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
3836 for this sector is given here.
3838 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
3842 This is just another way to specify the start address of
3843 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
3846 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
3848 Size of the sector containing the environment.
3851 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
3852 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
3857 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
3858 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
3859 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
3860 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
3862 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
3863 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
3864 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
3865 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
3866 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
3867 updating the environment in flash makes it always
3868 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
3869 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
3870 RAM, your target system will be dead.
3872 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
3873 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
3875 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
3876 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
3877 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
3878 a "saveenv" operation.
3880 BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
3881 source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
3885 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
3887 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
3888 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
3894 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
3895 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
3896 can just be read and written to, without any special
3899 BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
3900 in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the
3901 console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
3904 Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3905 environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3906 keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3907 to save the current settings.
3910 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
3912 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
3913 device and a driver for it.
3915 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3918 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
3919 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
3921 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
3922 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
3923 The default address is zero.
3925 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_BUS:
3926 If defined, specified the i2c bus of the EEPROM device.
3928 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
3929 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
3930 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
3931 would require six bits.
3933 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
3934 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
3935 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
3937 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
3938 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
3939 that this is NOT the chip address length!
3941 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
3942 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
3943 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
3944 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
3945 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
3948 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
3949 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
3950 in the chip address.
3952 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
3953 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
3955 - CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C
3956 define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your
3957 EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.
3959 - CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS
3960 if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over
3961 I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this
3962 EEPROM. For example:
3964 #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS 1
3966 EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over
3967 a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.
3969 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
3971 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
3972 want to use for the environment.
3974 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3978 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
3979 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
3980 at the specified address.
3982 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_SPI_FLASH:
3984 Define this if you have a SPI Flash memory device which you
3985 want to use for the environment.
3987 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3990 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
3991 environment area within the SPI Flash. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
3992 aligned to an erase sector boundary.
3994 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
3996 Define the SPI flash's sector size.
3998 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
4000 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
4001 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
4002 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
4003 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND must be
4004 aligned to an erase sector boundary.
4006 - CONFIG_ENV_SPI_BUS (optional):
4007 - CONFIG_ENV_SPI_CS (optional):
4009 Define the SPI bus and chip select. If not defined they will be 0.
4011 - CONFIG_ENV_SPI_MAX_HZ (optional):
4013 Define the SPI max work clock. If not defined then use 1MHz.
4015 - CONFIG_ENV_SPI_MODE (optional):
4017 Define the SPI work mode. If not defined then use SPI_MODE_3.
4019 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_REMOTE:
4021 Define this if you have a remote memory space which you
4022 want to use for the local device's environment.
4027 These two #defines specify the address and size of the
4028 environment area within the remote memory space. The
4029 local device can get the environment from remote memory
4030 space by SRIO or PCIE links.
4032 BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
4033 "saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
4034 environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
4035 but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
4037 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
4039 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
4040 for the environment.
4042 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
4045 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
4046 area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
4047 aligned to an erase block boundary.
4049 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
4051 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
4052 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
4053 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
4054 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND must be
4055 aligned to an erase block boundary.
4057 - CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):
4059 Specifies the length of the region in which the environment
4060 can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's
4061 block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than
4062 are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within
4063 the range to be avoided.
4065 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):
4067 Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the
4068 environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The
4069 "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset.
4070 Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when
4071 using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.
4073 - CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
4075 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
4076 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
4077 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
4079 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_UBI:
4081 Define this if you have an UBI volume that you want to use for the
4082 environment. This has the benefit of wear-leveling the environment
4083 accesses, which is important on NAND.
4085 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_PART:
4087 Define this to a string that is the mtd partition containing the UBI.
4089 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_VOLUME:
4091 Define this to the name of the volume that you want to store the
4094 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_VOLUME_REDUND:
4096 Define this to the name of another volume to store a second copy of
4097 the environment in. This will enable redundant environments in UBI.
4098 It is assumed that both volumes are in the same MTD partition.
4100 - CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
4101 - CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
4103 You will probably want to define these to avoid a really noisy system
4104 when storing the env in UBI.
4106 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FAT:
4107 Define this if you want to use the FAT file system for the environment.
4109 - FAT_ENV_INTERFACE:
4111 Define this to a string that is the name of the block device.
4113 - FAT_ENV_DEVICE_AND_PART:
4115 Define this to a string to specify the partition of the device. It can
4118 "D:P", "D:0", "D", "D:" or "D:auto" (D, P are integers. And P >= 1)
4119 - "D:P": device D partition P. Error occurs if device D has no
4122 - "D" or "D:": device D partition 1 if device D has partition
4123 table, or the whole device D if has no partition
4125 - "D:auto": first partition in device D with bootable flag set.
4126 If none, first valid partition in device D. If no
4127 partition table then means device D.
4131 It's a string of the FAT file name. This file use to store the
4135 This should be defined. Otherwise it cannot save the environment file.
4137 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC:
4139 Define this if you have an MMC device which you want to use for the
4142 - CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV:
4144 Specifies which MMC device the environment is stored in.
4146 - CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_PART (optional):
4148 Specifies which MMC partition the environment is stored in. If not
4149 set, defaults to partition 0, the user area. Common values might be
4150 1 (first MMC boot partition), 2 (second MMC boot partition).
4152 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
4155 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
4156 area within the specified MMC device.
4158 If offset is positive (the usual case), it is treated as relative to
4159 the start of the MMC partition. If offset is negative, it is treated
4160 as relative to the end of the MMC partition. This can be useful if
4161 your board may be fitted with different MMC devices, which have
4162 different sizes for the MMC partitions, and you always want the
4163 environment placed at the very end of the partition, to leave the
4164 maximum possible space before it, to store other data.
4166 These two values are in units of bytes, but must be aligned to an
4167 MMC sector boundary.
4169 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
4171 Specifies a second storage area, of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE size, used to
4172 hold a redundant copy of the environment data. This provides a
4173 valid backup copy in case the other copy is corrupted, e.g. due
4174 to a power failure during a "saveenv" operation.
4176 This value may also be positive or negative; this is handled in the
4177 same way as CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET.
4179 This value is also in units of bytes, but must also be aligned to
4180 an MMC sector boundary.
4182 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND (optional):
4184 This value need not be set, even when CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is
4185 set. If this value is set, it must be set to the same value as
4188 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
4190 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
4191 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
4192 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
4193 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
4194 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
4195 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
4196 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
4198 Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
4199 has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
4200 created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f()
4201 until then to read environment variables.
4203 The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
4204 is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
4205 with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
4206 necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
4207 "baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
4208 have any device yet where we could complain.]
4210 Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
4211 the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
4212 use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
4214 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
4215 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
4217 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
4218 also needs to be defined.
4220 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
4221 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
4223 - CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
4224 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
4225 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
4226 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
4227 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
4228 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
4230 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
4231 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
4232 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
4235 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
4236 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
4237 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
4240 - CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT:
4241 Maximum size of the U-Boot image. When defined, the
4242 build system checks that the actual size does not
4245 Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
4246 ---------------------------------------------------
4248 - CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
4249 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
4251 - CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
4252 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
4254 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
4255 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
4256 the IMMR register after a reset.
4258 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
4259 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
4262 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
4263 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
4264 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
4266 CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR must also be set to this value,
4267 for cross-platform code that uses that macro instead.
4269 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
4270 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
4271 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
4272 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
4273 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
4274 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
4275 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
4277 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
4278 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
4280 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
4281 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
4282 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
4283 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
4284 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
4286 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
4287 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
4288 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
4289 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
4291 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
4292 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
4293 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
4295 - Floppy Disk Support:
4296 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
4298 the default drive number (default value 0)
4300 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
4302 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
4305 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
4307 defines the offset of register from address. It
4308 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
4309 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
4311 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
4312 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
4315 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
4316 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
4317 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
4318 source code. It is used to make hardware-dependent
4322 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
4323 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
4324 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
4325 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
4326 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
4329 - CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
4330 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
4331 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
4333 - CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
4335 Start address of memory area that can be used for
4336 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
4337 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
4338 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
4339 will become available only after programming the
4340 memory controller and running certain initialization
4343 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
4344 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
4345 - MPC824X: data cache
4346 - PPC4xx: data cache
4348 - CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
4350 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
4351 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
4352 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
4353 data is located at the end of the available space
4354 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
4355 GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
4356 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
4357 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
4360 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
4361 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
4362 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
4363 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
4364 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
4366 - CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
4368 - CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
4370 - CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
4372 - CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
4374 - CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
4376 - CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
4378 - CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
4381 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
4382 periodic timer for refresh
4384 - CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
4386 - FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
4387 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
4388 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
4389 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
4390 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
4392 - SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
4393 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
4394 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
4395 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
4397 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
4398 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
4399 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
4400 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
4402 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4403 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4404 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
4406 - CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4407 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4408 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
4410 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4411 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4412 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
4414 - CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
4415 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
4416 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
4417 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
4420 - CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
4421 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
4422 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
4423 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
4424 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
4425 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
4426 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
4427 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
4428 Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
4430 - CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE:
4431 Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
4434 - CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
4435 Only scan through and get the devices on the buses.
4436 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
4437 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
4438 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
4439 by coreboot or similar.
4441 - CONFIG_PCI_INDIRECT_BRIDGE:
4442 Enable support for indirect PCI bridges.
4445 Chip has SRIO or not
4448 Board has SRIO 1 port available
4451 Board has SRIO 2 port available
4453 - CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
4454 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
4456 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
4457 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4459 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
4460 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4462 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
4463 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4465 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
4466 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
4468 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
4469 Example of drivers that use it:
4470 - drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c
4471 - drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
4473 - CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
4474 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
4475 a default value will be used.
4478 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
4479 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
4482 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
4484 - CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
4485 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
4486 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
4487 to something your driver can deal with.
4489 - CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
4490 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
4491 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
4492 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
4493 header files or board specific files.
4495 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
4496 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
4498 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_SYNC_REFRESH
4499 Enable sync of refresh for multiple controllers.
4501 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_BIST
4502 Enable built-in memory test for Freescale DDR controllers.
4504 - CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
4505 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
4506 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
4508 - CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
4509 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
4511 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
4512 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
4513 to the given FEC; i. e.
4514 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
4515 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
4517 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
4519 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
4520 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
4521 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
4524 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
4525 Note that this is a global option, we can't
4526 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
4528 - CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
4529 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
4532 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
4534 Where address/count indicate a memory area
4535 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
4539 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
4540 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
4543 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
4548 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
4550 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
4551 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
4553 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
4554 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
4556 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
4557 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain
4558 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
4559 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
4560 relocate itself into RAM.
4562 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
4563 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
4564 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
4565 these initializations itself.
4567 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT_ONLY
4568 [ARM926EJ-S only] This allows just the call to lowlevel_init()
4569 to be skipped. The normal CP15 init (such as enabling the
4570 instruction cache) is still performed.
4573 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
4574 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
4575 compiling a NAND SPL.
4578 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
4579 that is executed after the SPL and before the actual U-Boot.
4580 It is loaded by the SPL.
4582 - CONFIG_SYS_MPC85XX_NO_RESETVEC
4583 Only for 85xx systems. If this variable is specified, the section
4584 .resetvec is not kept and the section .bootpg is placed in the
4585 previous 4k of the .text section.
4587 - CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
4588 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
4589 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
4590 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
4591 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
4592 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
4593 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
4594 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
4596 - CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMCPY
4597 CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET
4598 If these options are used a optimized version of memcpy/memset will
4599 be used if available. These functions may be faster under some
4600 conditions but may increase the binary size.
4602 - CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
4603 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
4604 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
4607 Defines the MPU clock speed (in MHz).
4609 NOTE : currently only supported on AM335x platforms.
4611 - CONFIG_SPL_AM33XX_ENABLE_RTC32K_OSC:
4612 Enables the RTC32K OSC on AM33xx based plattforms
4614 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE
4615 Option to disable subpage write in NAND driver
4616 driver that uses this:
4617 drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c
4619 Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
4620 -----------------------------------
4622 The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
4623 loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
4624 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
4625 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
4628 - CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR
4629 The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The
4630 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
4633 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR
4634 The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The
4635 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
4638 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
4639 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
4640 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
4641 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
4642 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
4644 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
4645 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
4646 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
4647 virtual address in NOR flash.
4649 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
4650 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
4651 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
4653 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
4654 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
4655 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
4657 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
4658 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
4659 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
4660 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
4661 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
4662 master's memory space.
4664 Freescale Layerscape Management Complex Firmware Support:
4665 ---------------------------------------------------------
4666 The Freescale Layerscape Management Complex (MC) supports the loading of
4668 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
4669 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
4672 - CONFIG_FSL_MC_ENET
4673 Enable the MC driver for Layerscape SoCs.
4675 Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support:
4676 -------------------------------------------
4677 The Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support supports the loading of
4678 "Debug Server firmware" and triggering SP boot-rom.
4679 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting.
4681 - CONFIG_SYS_MC_RSV_MEM_ALIGN
4682 Define alignment of reserved memory MC requires
4687 In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
4688 process have to be set to a fixed value.
4690 This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
4691 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is to be set on the build host's shell, not as a configuration
4692 option for U-Boot or an environment variable in U-Boot.
4694 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should be set to a number of seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
4696 Building the Software:
4697 ======================
4699 Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
4700 and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
4701 all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
4702 (potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
4703 recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
4704 which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
4706 If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
4707 have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
4708 you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
4709 Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
4710 necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
4712 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
4713 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
4715 Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
4716 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
4717 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
4718 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
4720 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
4722 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
4723 be executed on computers running Windows.
4725 U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
4726 sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
4731 where "NAME_defconfig" is the name of one of the existing configu-
4732 rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
4734 Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
4735 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
4736 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
4737 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
4738 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
4740 make TQM823L_defconfig
4741 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
4743 make TQM823L_LCD_defconfig
4744 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
4749 Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
4750 images ready for download to / installation on your system:
4752 - "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
4753 - "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
4754 - "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
4756 By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
4757 in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
4758 this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
4760 1. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
4762 make O=/tmp/build distclean
4763 make O=/tmp/build NAME_defconfig
4764 make O=/tmp/build all
4766 2. Set environment variable KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the desired location:
4768 export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/build
4773 Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
4777 Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
4778 for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
4782 If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
4783 to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
4786 1. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
4787 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
4788 the "Makefile" and a "<board>.c".
4789 2. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
4791 3. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
4792 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
4793 4. Run "make <board>_defconfig" with your new name.
4794 5. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
4795 to be installed on your target system.
4796 6. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
4797 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
4800 Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
4801 ==============================================================
4803 If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
4804 or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
4805 provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
4806 the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
4807 official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
4809 But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
4810 cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
4811 the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
4812 just run the buildman script (tools/buildman/buildman), which will
4813 configure and build U-Boot for ALL supported system. Be warned, this
4814 will take a while. Please see the buildman README, or run 'buildman -H'
4818 See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
4821 Monitor Commands - Overview:
4822 ============================
4824 go - start application at address 'addr'
4825 run - run commands in an environment variable
4826 bootm - boot application image from memory
4827 bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
4828 bootz - boot zImage from memory
4829 tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
4830 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
4831 (and eventually "gatewayip")
4832 tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
4833 rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
4834 diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
4835 loads - load S-Record file over serial line
4836 loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
4838 mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
4839 nm - memory modify (constant address)
4840 mw - memory write (fill)
4842 cmp - memory compare
4843 crc32 - checksum calculation
4844 i2c - I2C sub-system
4845 sspi - SPI utility commands
4846 base - print or set address offset
4847 printenv- print environment variables
4848 setenv - set environment variables
4849 saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
4850 protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
4851 erase - erase FLASH memory
4852 flinfo - print FLASH memory information
4853 nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
4854 bdinfo - print Board Info structure
4855 iminfo - print header information for application image
4856 coninfo - print console devices and informations
4857 ide - IDE sub-system
4858 loop - infinite loop on address range
4859 loopw - infinite write loop on address range
4860 mtest - simple RAM test
4861 icache - enable or disable instruction cache
4862 dcache - enable or disable data cache
4863 reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
4864 echo - echo args to console
4865 version - print monitor version
4866 help - print online help
4867 ? - alias for 'help'
4870 Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
4871 ========================================
4875 For now: just type "help <command>".
4878 Environment Variables:
4879 ======================
4881 U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
4882 can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
4884 Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
4885 "printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
4886 without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
4887 environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
4888 working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
4889 environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
4891 Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
4893 List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
4895 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
4897 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
4899 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
4901 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
4903 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
4905 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
4906 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
4907 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
4908 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
4909 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
4910 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
4911 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
4914 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
4915 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
4916 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
4917 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
4918 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
4919 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
4922 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
4923 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
4924 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
4925 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
4926 environment variable.
4928 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
4929 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
4930 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
4932 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
4933 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
4934 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
4935 load any image using TFTP
4937 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
4938 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
4939 be automatically started (by internally calling
4942 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
4943 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
4944 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
4945 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
4948 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
4949 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
4950 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
4951 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
4952 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
4953 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
4954 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
4955 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
4956 access it during the boot procedure.
4958 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
4959 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
4960 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
4961 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
4962 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
4963 must be accessible by the kernel.
4965 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
4966 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
4969 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
4970 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
4971 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
4972 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
4973 it must be saved and board must be reset.
4975 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
4976 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
4977 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
4978 is usually what you want since it allows for
4979 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
4980 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
4981 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
4982 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
4983 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
4984 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
4985 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
4987 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
4988 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
4989 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
4990 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
4991 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
4992 12 MB as well - this can be done with
4994 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
4996 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
4997 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
4998 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
4999 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
5000 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
5001 boot time on your system, but requires that this
5002 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
5004 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
5006 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
5007 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
5009 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
5011 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
5013 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
5015 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
5017 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
5019 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
5021 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
5022 For example you can do the following
5024 => setenv ethact FEC
5025 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
5026 => setenv ethact SCC
5027 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
5029 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
5030 available network interfaces.
5031 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
5033 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
5034 either succeed or fail without retrying.
5035 When set to "once" the network operation will
5036 fail when all the available network interfaces
5037 are tried once without success.
5038 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
5041 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
5043 silent_linux - If set then Linux will be told to boot silently, by
5044 changing the console to be empty. If "yes" it will be
5045 made silent. If "no" it will not be made silent. If
5046 unset, then it will be made silent if the U-Boot console
5049 tftpsrcp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
5052 tftpdstp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
5053 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
5055 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
5056 we use the TFTP server's default block size
5058 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
5059 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
5060 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
5061 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
5062 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
5063 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
5064 with unreliable TFTP servers.
5066 tftptimeoutcountmax - maximum count of TFTP timeouts (no
5067 unit, minimum value = 0). Defines how many timeouts
5068 can happen during a single file transfer before that
5069 transfer is aborted. The default is 10, and 0 means
5070 'no timeouts allowed'. Increasing this value may help
5071 downloads succeed with high packet loss rates, or with
5072 unreliable TFTP servers or client hardware.
5074 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
5075 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
5078 bootpretryperiod - Period during which BOOTP/DHCP sends retries.
5079 Unsigned value, in milliseconds. If not set, the period will
5080 be either the default (28000), or a value based on
5081 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT, if defined. This value has
5082 precedence over the valu based on CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT.
5084 The following image location variables contain the location of images
5085 used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
5086 not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
5087 variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
5088 server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
5089 loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
5090 flash or offset in NAND flash.
5092 *Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
5093 boards currently use other variables for these purposes, and some
5094 boards use these variables for other purposes.
5096 Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
5097 ----- --------- ----------- --------------
5098 u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
5099 Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
5100 device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
5101 ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
5103 The following environment variables may be used and automatically
5104 updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
5105 depending the information provided by your boot server:
5107 bootfile - see above
5108 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
5109 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
5110 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
5111 hostname - Target hostname
5113 netmask - Subnet Mask
5114 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
5115 serverip - see above
5118 There are two special Environment Variables:
5120 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
5121 as type string and/or serial number
5122 ethaddr - Ethernet address
5124 These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
5125 the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
5126 once they have been set once.
5129 Further special Environment Variables:
5131 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
5132 with the "version" command. This variable is
5133 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
5136 Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
5137 only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
5140 Callback functions for environment variables:
5141 ---------------------------------------------
5143 For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change
5144 when their values are changed. This functionality allows functions to
5145 be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or
5146 deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side
5147 effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.
5149 The callbacks are named and associated with a function using the
5150 U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK macro in your board or driver code.
5152 These callbacks are associated with variables in one of two ways. The
5153 static list can be added to by defining CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC
5154 in the board configuration to a string that defines a list of
5155 associations. The list must be in the following format:
5157 entry = variable_name[:callback_name]
5160 If the callback name is not specified, then the callback is deleted.
5161 Spaces are also allowed anywhere in the list.
5163 Callbacks can also be associated by defining the ".callbacks" variable
5164 with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will
5165 override any association in the static list. You can define
5166 CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
5167 ".callbacks" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
5169 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
5170 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to be connected to
5171 the same callback without explicitly listing them all out.
5174 Command Line Parsing:
5175 =====================
5177 There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
5178 the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
5180 Old, simple command line parser:
5181 --------------------------------
5183 - supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
5184 - several commands on one line, separated by ';'
5185 - variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
5186 - special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
5188 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
5189 - You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
5190 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
5195 - similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
5196 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
5197 until...do...done, ...
5198 - supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
5199 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
5200 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
5206 (1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
5207 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
5208 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
5211 (2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
5212 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
5213 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
5214 variables are not executed.
5216 Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
5217 =======================================
5219 Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
5220 such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
5221 "working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
5223 Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
5224 MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
5225 "eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
5227 If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
5228 in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
5229 ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
5230 variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
5232 o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
5233 environment, the SROM's address is used.
5235 o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
5236 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
5239 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
5240 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
5242 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
5243 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
5246 o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
5247 is raised. If CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR is defined, then in this case
5248 a random, locally-assigned MAC is used.
5250 If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
5251 will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
5252 may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
5253 The naming convention is as follows:
5254 "ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
5259 U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
5260 images in two formats:
5262 New uImage format (FIT)
5263 -----------------------
5265 Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
5266 to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
5267 components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
5268 SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
5274 Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
5275 preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
5276 details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
5278 * Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
5279 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
5280 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
5281 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
5283 * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
5284 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
5285 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
5286 * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
5292 The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
5293 and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
5300 Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
5301 easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
5304 U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
5305 special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
5306 "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
5307 instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
5308 serves several purposes:
5310 - the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
5311 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
5312 Flash memory footprint)
5314 - it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
5315 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
5317 - the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
5318 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
5319 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
5320 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
5321 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
5322 software is easier now.
5328 Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
5329 ---------------------------------------
5331 U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
5332 configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
5333 (no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
5336 But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
5338 Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
5339 include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
5340 Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
5341 and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
5342 as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
5344 Note that U-Boot now has a driver model, a unified model for drivers.
5345 If you are adding a new driver, plumb it into driver model. If there
5346 is no uclass available, you are encouraged to create one. See
5350 Configuring the Linux kernel:
5351 -----------------------------
5353 No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
5354 device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
5357 Building a Linux Image:
5358 -----------------------
5360 With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
5361 not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
5362 "uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
5363 U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
5364 which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
5365 100% compatible format.
5369 make TQM850L_defconfig
5374 The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
5375 encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
5376 CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
5378 * build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
5380 * convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
5382 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
5383 -R .note -R .comment \
5384 -S vmlinux linux.bin
5386 * compress the binary image:
5390 * package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
5392 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
5393 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
5394 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
5397 The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
5398 with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
5399 combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
5400 byte header containing information about target architecture,
5401 operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
5402 stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
5404 "mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
5405 print the header information, or to build new images.
5407 In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
5408 contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
5409 checksum verification:
5411 tools/mkimage -l image
5412 -l ==> list image header information
5414 The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
5415 from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
5417 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
5418 -n name -d data_file image
5419 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
5420 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
5421 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
5422 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
5423 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
5424 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
5425 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
5426 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
5428 Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
5429 address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
5432 - 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
5433 - 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
5435 So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
5437 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
5438 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
5439 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
5440 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
5441 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5442 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5443 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5444 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
5445 Load Address: 0x00000000
5446 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5448 To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
5450 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
5451 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5452 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5453 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5454 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
5455 Load Address: 0x00000000
5456 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5458 NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
5459 speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
5460 needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
5461 need to be uncompressed:
5463 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
5464 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
5465 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
5466 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
5467 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
5468 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5469 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5470 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
5471 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
5472 Load Address: 0x00000000
5473 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5476 Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
5477 when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
5479 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
5480 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
5481 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
5482 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5483 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
5484 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5485 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
5486 Load Address: 0x00000000
5487 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5489 The "dumpimage" is a tool to disassemble images built by mkimage. Its "-i"
5490 option performs the converse operation of the mkimage's second form (the "-d"
5491 option). Given an image built by mkimage, the dumpimage extracts a "data file"
5494 tools/dumpimage -i image -T type -p position data_file
5495 -i ==> extract from the 'image' a specific 'data_file'
5496 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
5497 -p ==> 'position' (starting at 0) of the 'data_file' inside the 'image'
5500 Installing a Linux Image:
5501 -------------------------
5503 To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
5504 you must convert the image to S-Record format:
5506 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
5508 The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
5509 image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
5510 address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
5511 specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
5514 Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
5515 TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
5517 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
5523 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5524 ~>examples/image.srec
5525 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
5527 15989 15990 15991 15992
5528 [file transfer complete]
5530 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
5533 You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
5534 this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
5535 corruption happened:
5539 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
5540 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5541 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5542 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5543 Load Address: 00000000
5544 Entry Point: 0000000c
5545 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5551 The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
5552 memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
5553 of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
5554 parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
5555 "printenv" and "setenv" commands:
5558 => printenv bootargs
5559 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
5561 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5563 => printenv bootargs
5564 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5567 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
5568 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
5569 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5570 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
5571 Load Address: 00000000
5572 Entry Point: 0000000c
5573 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5574 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5575 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
5576 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5577 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
5578 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
5579 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
5582 If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
5583 the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
5584 format!) to the "bootm" command:
5586 => imi 40100000 40200000
5588 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
5589 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5590 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5591 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5592 Load Address: 00000000
5593 Entry Point: 0000000c
5594 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5596 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
5597 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5598 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5599 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
5600 Load Address: 00000000
5601 Entry Point: 00000000
5602 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5604 => bootm 40100000 40200000
5605 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
5606 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5607 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5608 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5609 Load Address: 00000000
5610 Entry Point: 0000000c
5611 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5612 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5613 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
5614 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5615 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5616 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
5617 Load Address: 00000000
5618 Entry Point: 00000000
5619 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5620 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
5621 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
5622 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
5623 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
5624 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
5626 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
5627 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
5631 Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
5634 First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
5635 titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
5636 following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
5642 oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
5643 => tftp $oftaddr $oft
5644 Speed: 1000, full duplex
5646 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
5647 Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
5648 Load address: 0x300000
5651 Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
5652 => tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
5653 Speed: 1000, full duplex
5655 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
5657 Load address: 0x200000
5658 Loading:############
5660 Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
5665 => bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
5666 ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
5667 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
5668 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5669 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
5670 Load Address: 00000000
5671 Entry Point: 00000000
5672 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5673 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5674 Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
5675 Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
5676 Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
5680 More About U-Boot Image Types:
5681 ------------------------------
5683 U-Boot supports the following image types:
5685 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
5686 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
5687 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
5688 the Standalone Program.
5689 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
5690 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
5691 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
5692 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
5693 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
5694 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
5695 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
5697 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
5698 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
5699 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
5700 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
5701 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
5702 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
5704 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
5705 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
5706 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
5707 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
5708 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
5709 a multiple of 4 bytes).
5711 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
5712 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
5715 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
5716 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
5717 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
5718 as command interpreter.
5720 Booting the Linux zImage:
5721 -------------------------
5723 On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
5724 using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
5725 as the syntax of "bootm" command.
5727 Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
5728 kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
5729 address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
5730 format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
5736 One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
5737 run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
5738 U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
5740 Two simple examples are included with the sources:
5745 'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
5746 application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
5747 It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
5751 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5752 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
5753 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
5754 [file transfer complete]
5756 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
5758 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
5759 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
5770 Hit any key to exit ...
5772 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
5774 Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
5775 handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
5776 Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
5777 The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
5778 character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
5779 controlled by the following keys:
5781 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
5782 b - enable interrupts and start timer
5783 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
5784 q - quit application
5787 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5788 ~>examples/timer.srec
5789 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
5790 [file transfer complete]
5792 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
5795 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
5798 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
5801 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
5804 [q, b, e, ?] ........
5805 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
5808 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
5811 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
5814 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
5816 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
5818 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
5824 Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
5825 "minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
5826 consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
5827 Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
5828 especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
5829 use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
5830 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
5831 for help with kermit.
5834 Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
5835 configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
5837 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
5838 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
5839 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
5845 Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
5846 (build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
5848 Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
5849 NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
5850 need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
5851 Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
5852 attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
5853 missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
5855 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
5857 # ln -s powerpc machine
5858 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
5859 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
5861 Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
5862 and U-Boot include files.
5864 Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
5865 stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
5866 proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
5867 tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
5868 meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
5871 Implementation Internals:
5872 =========================
5874 The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
5875 implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
5876 inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
5880 Initial Stack, Global Data:
5881 ---------------------------
5883 The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
5884 starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
5885 system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
5886 This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
5887 is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
5888 at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
5889 options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
5890 models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
5891 MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
5892 locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
5894 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
5895 U-Boot mailing list:
5897 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
5898 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
5899 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
5902 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
5903 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
5904 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
5905 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
5906 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
5907 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
5908 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
5909 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
5911 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
5912 is another option for the system designer to use as an
5913 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
5914 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
5915 board designers haven't used it for something that would
5916 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
5919 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
5920 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
5921 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
5922 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
5923 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
5924 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
5925 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
5926 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
5927 you get the config right.
5932 It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
5933 code for the initialization procedures:
5935 * Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
5938 * Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized
5939 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
5940 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
5942 * Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
5945 Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
5946 normal global data to share information between the code. But it
5947 turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
5948 simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
5949 functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
5950 functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
5951 the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
5952 place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
5953 reserve for this purpose.
5955 When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
5956 relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
5957 GCC's implementation.
5959 For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
5961 R2: reserved for system use
5962 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
5963 R5-R10: parameter passing
5964 R13: small data area pointer
5968 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
5969 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
5970 going back and forth between asm and C)
5972 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
5974 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
5975 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
5976 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
5977 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
5978 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
5979 624 text + 127 data).
5981 On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here:
5982 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
5984 ==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data
5986 On ARM, the following registers are used:
5988 R0: function argument word/integer result
5989 R1-R3: function argument word
5990 R9: platform specific
5991 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
5992 R11: argument (frame) pointer
5993 R12: temporary workspace
5996 R15: program counter
5998 ==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data
6000 Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.
6002 On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
6003 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
6005 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
6007 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
6008 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
6010 On NDS32, the following registers are used:
6012 R0-R1: argument/return
6014 R15: temporary register for assembler
6015 R16: trampoline register
6016 R28: frame pointer (FP)
6017 R29: global pointer (GP)
6018 R30: link register (LP)
6019 R31: stack pointer (SP)
6020 PC: program counter (PC)
6022 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
6024 NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
6025 or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
6030 U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
6031 MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
6033 The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
6034 controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
6035 memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
6036 physical memory banks.
6038 U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
6039 TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
6040 booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
6041 to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
6042 memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
6043 configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
6044 Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
6046 Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
6047 of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
6049 So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
6052 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
6055 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
6061 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
6062 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
6063 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
6066 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
6067 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
6068 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
6069 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
6072 System Initialization:
6073 ----------------------
6075 In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
6076 (on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
6077 configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory.
6078 To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
6079 To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
6080 initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
6081 which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
6082 part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
6083 the caches and the SIU.
6085 Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
6086 preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
6087 (multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
6088 on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
6089 programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
6090 simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
6093 When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
6094 different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
6095 bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
6096 0x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
6097 contiguous memory starting from 0.
6099 Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
6100 and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
6101 Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
6102 pages, and the final stack is set up.
6104 Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
6105 until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
6106 running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
6110 U-Boot Porting Guide:
6111 ----------------------
6113 [Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
6117 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
6119 sighandler_t no_more_time;
6121 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
6122 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
6124 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
6125 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
6129 Download latest U-Boot source;
6131 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
6134 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
6137 Read the README file in the top level directory;
6138 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
6139 Read applicable doc/*.README;
6140 Read the source, Luke;
6141 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
6144 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
6147 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
6149 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
6150 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
6151 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
6153 Create your own board support subdirectory;
6154 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
6156 Edit new board/<myboard> files
6157 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
6162 Add / modify source code;
6166 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
6168 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
6169 if (reasonable critiques)
6170 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
6172 Defend code as written;
6178 void no_more_time (int sig)
6187 All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
6188 coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
6189 "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
6191 Source files originating from a different project (for example the
6192 MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
6193 reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
6196 Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
6197 Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
6200 Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
6201 - remove any trailing white space
6202 - use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
6203 - make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
6204 - do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
6205 - do not add trailing empty lines to source files
6207 Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
6208 with a request to reformat the changes.
6214 Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
6215 establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
6216 may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
6218 Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
6220 Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
6221 see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
6223 When you send a patch, please include the following information with
6226 * For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
6227 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
6228 patch actually fixes something.
6230 * For new features: a description of the feature and your
6233 * A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
6235 * For major contributions, add a MAINTAINERS file with your
6236 information and associated file and directory references.
6238 * When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a
6239 maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.
6241 * If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
6242 document these in the README file.
6244 * The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
6245 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
6246 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
6247 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
6248 with some other mail clients.
6250 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
6251 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
6254 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
6255 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
6256 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
6259 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
6260 and compressed attachments must not be used.
6262 * If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
6263 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
6265 * Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
6266 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
6271 * Before sending the patch, run the buildman script on your patched
6272 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
6273 for any of the boards.
6275 * Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
6276 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
6277 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
6279 * If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
6280 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
6281 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
6282 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
6283 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
6286 * Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
6287 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
6288 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
6289 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.