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27 This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
28 Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
29 processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
30 initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
33 The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
34 the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
35 header files in common, and special provision has been made to
36 support booting of Linux images.
38 Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
39 configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
40 implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
41 add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
42 code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
43 load and run it dynamically.
49 In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
50 Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
51 "working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
53 In case of problems see the CHANGELOG and CREDITS files to find out
54 who contributed the specific port. The MAINTAINERS file lists board
61 In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
62 U-Boot you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
63 <u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
64 on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
65 Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
66 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
69 Where to get source code:
70 =========================
72 The U-Boot source code is maintained in the git repository at
73 git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
74 http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
76 The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
77 any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
78 available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
81 Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
82 ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
88 - start from 8xxrom sources
89 - create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
91 - make it easier to add custom boards
92 - make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
93 - extend functions, especially:
94 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
97 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
98 - create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
99 - add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
100 - create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
101 - current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
107 The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
108 "U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
109 in source files etc.). Example:
111 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
113 File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
115 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
117 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
119 Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
120 the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
122 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
123 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
129 Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
130 were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
131 into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
132 names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
133 Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
134 releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
137 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
138 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
139 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candiate 1 for September 2010 release
145 /arch Architecture specific files
146 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
147 /cpu CPU specific files
148 /arm720t Files specific to ARM 720 CPUs
149 /arm920t Files specific to ARM 920 CPUs
150 /at91 Files specific to Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU
151 /imx Files specific to Freescale MC9328 i.MX CPUs
152 /s3c24x0 Files specific to Samsung S3C24X0 CPUs
153 /arm925t Files specific to ARM 925 CPUs
154 /arm926ejs Files specific to ARM 926 CPUs
155 /arm1136 Files specific to ARM 1136 CPUs
156 /ixp Files specific to Intel XScale IXP CPUs
157 /pxa Files specific to Intel XScale PXA CPUs
158 /s3c44b0 Files specific to Samsung S3C44B0 CPUs
159 /sa1100 Files specific to Intel StrongARM SA1100 CPUs
160 /lib Architecture specific library files
161 /avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture
162 /cpu CPU specific files
163 /lib Architecture specific library files
164 /blackfin Files generic to Analog Devices Blackfin architecture
165 /cpu CPU specific files
166 /lib Architecture specific library files
167 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
168 /cpu CPU specific files
169 /lib Architecture specific library files
170 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
171 /cpu CPU specific files
172 /mcf52x2 Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF52x2 CPUs
173 /mcf5227x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5227x CPUs
174 /mcf532x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5329 CPUs
175 /mcf5445x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5445x CPUs
176 /mcf547x_8x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF547x_8x CPUs
177 /lib Architecture specific library files
178 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
179 /cpu CPU specific files
180 /lib Architecture specific library files
181 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
182 /cpu CPU specific files
183 /mips32 Files specific to MIPS32 CPUs
184 /xburst Files specific to Ingenic XBurst CPUs
185 /lib Architecture specific library files
186 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
187 /cpu CPU specific files
188 /n1213 Files specific to Andes Technology N1213 CPUs
189 /lib Architecture specific library files
190 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
191 /cpu CPU specific files
192 /lib Architecture specific library files
193 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
194 /cpu CPU specific files
195 /74xx_7xx Files specific to Freescale MPC74xx and 7xx CPUs
196 /mpc5xx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xx CPUs
197 /mpc5xxx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xxx CPUs
198 /mpc8xx Files specific to Freescale MPC8xx CPUs
199 /mpc8220 Files specific to Freescale MPC8220 CPUs
200 /mpc824x Files specific to Freescale MPC824x CPUs
201 /mpc8260 Files specific to Freescale MPC8260 CPUs
202 /mpc85xx Files specific to Freescale MPC85xx CPUs
203 /ppc4xx Files specific to AMCC PowerPC 4xx CPUs
204 /lib Architecture specific library files
205 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
206 /cpu CPU specific files
207 /sh2 Files specific to sh2 CPUs
208 /sh3 Files specific to sh3 CPUs
209 /sh4 Files specific to sh4 CPUs
210 /lib Architecture specific library files
211 /sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture
212 /cpu CPU specific files
213 /leon2 Files specific to Gaisler LEON2 SPARC CPU
214 /leon3 Files specific to Gaisler LEON3 SPARC CPU
215 /lib Architecture specific library files
216 /api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
217 /board Board dependent files
218 /common Misc architecture independent functions
219 /disk Code for disk drive partition handling
220 /doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
221 /drivers Commonly used device drivers
222 /examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
223 /fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
224 /include Header Files
225 /lib Files generic to all architectures
226 /libfdt Library files to support flattened device trees
227 /lzma Library files to support LZMA decompression
228 /lzo Library files to support LZO decompression
230 /post Power On Self Test
231 /rtc Real Time Clock drivers
232 /tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
234 Software Configuration:
235 =======================
237 Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
238 rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
240 There are two classes of configuration variables:
242 * Configuration _OPTIONS_:
243 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
246 * Configuration _SETTINGS_:
247 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
248 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
251 Later we will add a configuration tool - probably similar to or even
252 identical to what's used for the Linux kernel. Right now, we have to
253 do the configuration by hand, which means creating some symbolic
254 links and editing some configuration files. We use the TQM8xxL boards
258 Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
259 ---------------------------------------------------
261 For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
262 configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_config".
264 Example: For a TQM823L module type:
269 For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the CPU type as well;
270 e.g. "make cogent_mpc8xx_config". And also configure the cogent
271 directory according to the instructions in cogent/README.
274 Configuration Options:
275 ----------------------
277 Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
278 such information is kept in a configuration file
279 "include/configs/<board_name>.h".
281 Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
282 "include/configs/TQM823L.h".
285 Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
286 kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
287 build a config tool - later.
290 The following options need to be configured:
292 - CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
294 - Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
296 - CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
297 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
299 - CPU Module Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
300 Define exactly one of
302 --- FIXME --- not tested yet:
303 CONFIG_CMA286_60, CONFIG_CMA286_21, CONFIG_CMA286_60P,
304 CONFIG_CMA287_23, CONFIG_CMA287_50
306 - Motherboard Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
307 Define exactly one of
308 CONFIG_CMA101, CONFIG_CMA102
310 - Motherboard I/O Modules: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
311 Define one or more of
314 - Motherboard Options: (if CONFIG_CMA101 or CONFIG_CMA102 are defined)
315 Define one or more of
316 CONFIG_LCD_HEARTBEAT - update a character position on
317 the LCD display every second with
320 - Board flavour: (if CONFIG_MPC8260ADS is defined)
323 CONFIG_SYS_8260ADS - original MPC8260ADS
324 CONFIG_SYS_8266ADS - MPC8266ADS
325 CONFIG_SYS_PQ2FADS - PQ2FADS-ZU or PQ2FADS-VR
326 CONFIG_SYS_8272ADS - MPC8272ADS
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 - MPC824X Family Member (if CONFIG_MPC824X is defined)
334 Define exactly one of
335 CONFIG_MPC8240, CONFIG_MPC8245
337 - 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
338 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
339 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
340 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
341 reference PIT/RTC clock
342 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
345 - 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
346 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
347 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
348 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
349 See doc/README.MPC866
351 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
353 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
354 of relying on the correctness of the configured
355 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
356 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
357 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
358 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
360 CONFIG_SYS_DELAYED_ICACHE
362 Define this option if you want to enable the
363 ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
368 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
369 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
370 compliance, among other possible reasons.
372 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
374 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
375 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
376 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
378 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
380 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
381 tree nodes for the given platform.
383 CONFIG_SYS_PPC_E500_DEBUG_TLB
385 Enables a temporary TLB entry to be used during boot to work
386 around limitations in e500v1 and e500v2 external debugger
387 support. This reduces the portions of the boot code where
388 breakpoints and single stepping do not work. The value of this
389 symbol should be set to the TLB1 entry to be used for this
392 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
394 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
395 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
396 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
398 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
399 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
401 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
402 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
404 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
405 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
406 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
407 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
409 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
412 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
414 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
415 according to the A004510 workaround.
417 - Generic CPU options:
418 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
420 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
421 values is arch specific.
423 - Intel Monahans options:
424 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO
426 Defines the Monahans run mode to oscillator
427 ratio. Valid values are 8, 16, 24, 31. The core
428 frequency is this value multiplied by 13 MHz.
430 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_TURBO_RUN_MODE_RATIO
432 Defines the Monahans turbo mode to oscillator
433 ratio. Valid values are 1 (default if undefined) and
434 2. The core frequency as calculated above is multiplied
438 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
440 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
441 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
444 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
446 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
447 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
449 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
452 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
456 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
458 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
460 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
461 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
463 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
465 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
466 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
467 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
470 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
472 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
473 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
475 CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD
477 Use this flag to build U-Boot using the Thumb instruction
478 set for ARM architectures. Thumb instruction set provides
479 better code density. For ARM architectures that support
480 Thumb2 this flag will result in Thumb2 code generated by
483 - Linux Kernel Interface:
486 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
487 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
488 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
489 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
490 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
491 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
493 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
494 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
497 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
499 When transferring memsize parameter to linux, some versions
500 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
501 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
505 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
506 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
510 * New libfdt-based support
511 * Adds the "fdt" command
512 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
514 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node (only required for
515 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
516 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node (only required for
517 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
518 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
519 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
521 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
524 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
526 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
527 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
531 This define fills in the correct boot CPU in the boot
532 param header, the default value is zero if undefined.
536 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
537 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
538 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
539 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
540 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
541 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
543 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
545 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
546 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
547 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
548 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
549 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
550 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
551 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
553 - vxWorks boot parameters:
555 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
556 environments variables: bootfile, ipaddr, serverip, hostname.
557 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
559 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_DEVICE - The vxworks device name
560 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_MAC_PTR - Ethernet 6 byte MA -address
561 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_SERVERNAME - Name of the server
562 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_ADDR - Address of boot parameters
564 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_ADD_PARAMS
566 Add it at the end of the bootline. E.g "u=username pw=secret"
568 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
569 the defaults discussed just above.
571 - Cache Configuration:
572 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
573 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
574 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
576 - Cache Configuration for ARM:
577 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
579 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
580 controller register space
585 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
589 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
593 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
594 the clock speed of the UARTs.
598 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
599 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
600 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
602 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_RLCR
604 Some vendor versions of PL011 serial ports (e.g. ST-Ericsson U8500)
605 have separate receive and transmit line control registers. Set
606 this variable to initialize the extra register.
608 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_FLUSH_ON_INIT
610 On some platforms (e.g. U8500) U-Boot is loaded by a second stage
611 boot loader that has already initialized the UART. Define this
612 variable to flush the UART at init time.
616 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port
617 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2,
618 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial
619 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE
621 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
622 port routines must be defined elsewhere
623 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
626 Enables console device for a color framebuffer. Needs following
627 defines (cf. smiLynxEM, i8042)
628 VIDEO_FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN graphic memory organisation
630 VIDEO_HW_RECTFILL graphic chip supports
633 VIDEO_HW_BITBLT graphic chip supports
634 bit-blit (cf. smiLynxEM)
635 VIDEO_VISIBLE_COLS visible pixel columns
637 VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS visible pixel rows
638 VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE bytes per pixel
639 VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT graphic data format
640 (0-5, cf. cfb_console.c)
641 VIDEO_FB_ADRS framebuffer address
642 VIDEO_KBD_INIT_FCT keyboard int fct
643 (i.e. i8042_kbd_init())
644 VIDEO_TSTC_FCT test char fct
646 VIDEO_GETC_FCT get char fct
648 CONFIG_CONSOLE_CURSOR cursor drawing on/off
649 (requires blink timer
651 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c)
652 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME display time/date info in
654 (requires CONFIG_CMD_DATE)
655 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO display Linux logo in
657 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO use bmp_logo.h instead of
658 linux_logo.h for logo.
659 Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
660 CONFIG_CONSOLE_EXTRA_INFO
661 additional board info beside
664 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is
665 default i/o. Serial console can be forced with
666 environment 'console=serial'.
668 When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console
669 messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with
670 the "silent" environment variable. See
671 doc/README.silent for more information.
674 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
675 Select one of the baudrates listed in
676 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
677 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
679 - Console Rx buffer length
680 With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define
681 the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC.
682 This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible.
683 If using CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN also CONFIG_SYS_MAXIDLE
684 must be defined, to setup the maximum idle timeout for
687 - Pre-Console Buffer:
688 Prior to the console being initialised (i.e. serial UART
689 initialised etc) all console output is silently discarded.
690 Defining CONFIG_PRE_CONSOLE_BUFFER will cause U-Boot to
691 buffer any console messages prior to the console being
692 initialised to a buffer of size CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ
693 bytes located at CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR. The buffer is
694 a circular buffer, so if more than CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ
695 bytes are output before the console is initialised, the
696 earlier bytes are discarded.
698 'Sane' compilers will generate smaller code if
699 CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ is a power of 2
701 - Safe printf() functions
702 Define CONFIG_SYS_VSNPRINTF to compile in safe versions of
703 the printf() functions. These are defined in
704 include/vsprintf.h and include snprintf(), vsnprintf() and
705 so on. Code size increase is approximately 300-500 bytes.
706 If this option is not given then these functions will
707 silently discard their buffer size argument - this means
708 you are not getting any overflow checking in this case.
710 - Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds
711 Delay before automatically booting the default image;
712 set to -1 to disable autoboot.
713 set to -2 to autoboot with no delay and not check for abort
714 (even when CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK is defined).
716 See doc/README.autoboot for these options that
717 work with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY. None are required.
718 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
719 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_MIN
720 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
721 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT
722 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
723 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
724 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2
725 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR2
726 CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK
727 CONFIG_RESET_TO_RETRY
731 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
732 define a command string that is automatically executed
733 when no character is read on the console interface
734 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
737 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
738 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
739 environment value "bootargs".
741 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
742 The value of these goes into the environment as
743 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
744 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
750 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
751 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
752 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
753 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
754 entering interactive mode.
756 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
757 automatically generated or modified. For an example
758 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
759 modified when the user holds down a certain
760 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
763 - Serial Download Echo Mode:
765 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
766 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
767 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
768 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
769 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
770 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
772 - Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
774 Select one of the baudrates listed in
775 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
778 Monitor commands can be included or excluded
779 from the build by using the #include files
780 <config_cmd_all.h> and #undef'ing unwanted
781 commands, or using <config_cmd_default.h>
782 and augmenting with additional #define's
785 The default command configuration includes all commands
786 except those marked below with a "*".
788 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
789 CONFIG_CMD_BDI bdinfo
790 CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger
791 CONFIG_CMD_BMP * BMP support
792 CONFIG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands
793 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD bootd
794 CONFIG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache
795 CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo
796 CONFIG_CMD_CRC32 * crc32
797 CONFIG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time...
798 CONFIG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support
799 CONFIG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics
800 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510 * ds4510 I2C gpio commands
801 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO * ds4510 I2C info command
802 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM * ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
803 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST * ds4510 I2C rst command
804 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
805 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
806 CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV edit env variable
807 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
808 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
809 CONFIG_CMD_EXPORTENV * export the environment
810 CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV saveenv
811 CONFIG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support
812 CONFIG_CMD_FAT * FAT partition support
813 CONFIG_CMD_FDOS * Dos diskette Support
814 CONFIG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect
815 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support
816 CONFIG_CMD_GO * the 'go' command (exec code)
817 CONFIG_CMD_GREPENV * search environment
818 CONFIG_CMD_HWFLOW * RTS/CTS hw flow control
819 CONFIG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support
820 CONFIG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support
821 CONFIG_CMD_IMI iminfo
822 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS List all found images
823 CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support
824 CONFIG_CMD_IMPORTENV * import an environment
825 CONFIG_CMD_INI * import data from an ini file into the env
826 CONFIG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo
827 CONFIG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values
828 CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support
829 CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb
830 CONFIG_CMD_LDRINFO ldrinfo (display Blackfin loader)
831 CONFIG_CMD_LINK_LOCAL * link-local IP address auto-configuration
833 CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb
834 CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads
835 CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM print md5 message digest
836 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
837 CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
839 CONFIG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc
840 CONFIG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support
841 CONFIG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands
842 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS * MTD partition support
843 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
844 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
845 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X * PCA953x I2C gpio commands
846 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
847 CONFIG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo
848 CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support
849 CONFIG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
851 CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O
852 CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump
853 CONFIG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable
854 CONFIG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump
855 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI * SCSI Support
856 CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information
857 (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
858 CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access
860 CONFIG_CMD_SF * Read/write/erase SPI NOR flash
861 CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM print sha1 memory digest
862 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
863 CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support
864 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
865 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPSRV * TFTP transfer in server mode
866 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPPUT * TFTP put command (upload)
867 CONFIG_CMD_TIME * run command and report execution time (ARM specific)
868 CONFIG_CMD_TIMER * access to the system tick timer
869 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
870 CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support
871 CONFIG_CMD_MFSL * Microblaze FSL support
874 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
875 support you can write:
877 #include "config_cmd_all.h"
878 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
881 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
883 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
884 (configuration option CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know
885 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data
886 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or
887 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be
888 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other
889 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an
890 initial stack and some data.
893 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
897 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
898 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
899 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
900 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
901 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
903 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
904 be done using one of the two options below:
907 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
908 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
909 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
910 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
911 the global data structure as gd->blob.
914 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
915 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
916 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
918 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
920 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
921 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
922 still use the individual files if you need something more
927 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
928 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
929 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260
930 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
931 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
932 available, then no further board specific code should
936 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
937 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
938 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
941 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
942 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
943 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
944 version as printed by the "version" command.
945 Any change to this variable will be reverted at the
950 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
951 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
954 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx
955 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
956 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
957 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
958 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
959 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
960 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
961 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
962 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
963 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
964 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
965 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
968 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
969 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
972 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
973 CONFIG_PCA953X_INFO - enable pca953x info command
975 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
976 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
977 pins supported by a particular chip.
979 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
980 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
984 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
985 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
986 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
987 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
989 - Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
990 Zero or more of the following:
991 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
992 CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION MS Dos partition table, traditional on the
993 Intel architecture, USB sticks, etc.
994 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
995 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
996 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
998 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS Memory Technology Device partition table.
1000 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
1001 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at
1002 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
1005 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
1006 board configurations files but used nowhere!
1008 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
1009 be performed by calling the function
1010 ide_set_reset(int reset)
1011 which has to be defined in a board specific file
1016 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
1021 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
1022 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
1023 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
1024 support disks up to 2.1TB.
1026 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
1027 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
1031 At the moment only there is only support for the
1032 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
1033 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
1035 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
1036 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
1037 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
1038 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
1040 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
1042 - NETWORK Support (PCI):
1044 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
1047 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
1048 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
1049 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
1051 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
1052 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
1053 example with the "sspi" command.
1056 Management command for E1000 devices. When used on devices
1057 with SPI support you can reprogram the EEPROM from U-Boot.
1059 CONFIG_E1000_FALLBACK_MAC
1060 default MAC for empty EEPROM after production.
1063 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
1064 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
1065 write routine for first time initialisation.
1068 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
1069 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
1070 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
1073 Support for National dp83815 chips.
1076 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
1078 - NETWORK Support (other):
1080 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
1081 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
1084 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
1086 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
1087 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
1088 The driver doen't show link status messages.
1090 CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
1091 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
1094 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
1096 CONFIG_LAN91C96_BASE
1097 Define this to hold the physical address
1098 of the LAN91C96's I/O space
1100 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
1101 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
1104 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
1106 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
1107 Define this to hold the physical address
1108 of the device (I/O space)
1110 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
1111 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1113 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
1114 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
1115 (some hardware wont work with macros)
1117 CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
1118 Support for davinci emac
1120 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
1121 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
1124 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
1126 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
1127 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
1128 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
1129 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
1130 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
1131 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
1132 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
1133 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
1136 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
1139 Define this to hold the physical address
1140 of the device (I/O space)
1142 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
1143 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1145 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
1146 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
1147 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
1148 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
1151 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
1153 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
1154 Define the number of ports to be used
1156 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1157 Define the ETH PHY's address
1159 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1160 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1163 CONFIG_GENERIC_LPC_TPM
1164 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1165 per system is supported at this time.
1167 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1168 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1169 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1173 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
1174 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define
1175 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1176 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
1177 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
1180 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1182 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
1184 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
1188 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
1189 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
1190 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100
1191 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100
1192 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
1193 May be defined to allow interrupt polling
1194 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
1196 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1197 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1200 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1201 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1202 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
1203 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
1204 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1205 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
1206 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
1207 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1208 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1210 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1211 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1212 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1213 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
1216 Define this to build a UDC device
1219 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1220 talk to the UDC device
1223 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1224 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1225 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1226 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1227 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1230 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
1231 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1235 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
1236 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
1237 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
1239 CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0xBLAH
1240 Derive USB clock from brgclk
1241 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0x04
1243 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
1244 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
1245 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
1246 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1247 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1248 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1250 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1251 Define this string as the name of your company for
1252 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
1254 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1255 Define this string as the name of your product
1256 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1258 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1259 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1260 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1261 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1262 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
1264 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1265 Define this as the unique Product ID
1267 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
1269 - ULPI Layer Support:
1270 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1271 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1272 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1273 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1274 viewport is supported.
1275 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1276 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
1277 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1278 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1279 the appropriate value in Hz.
1282 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1283 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1284 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
1285 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
1286 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1287 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
1290 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1292 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1293 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1296 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1298 - Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1299 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE,
1300 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV
1301 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1303 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1304 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
1305 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1307 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART
1308 Define this to create an own partition. You have to provide a
1309 function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num)
1311 If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to
1312 #define CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_SINGLE_PART 1
1313 to disable the command chpart. This is the default when you
1314 have not defined a custom partition
1316 - FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem write function support:
1319 Define this to enable support for saving memory data as a
1320 file in FAT formatted partition.
1322 This will also enable the command "fatwrite" enabling the
1323 user to write files to FAT.
1325 CBFS (Coreboot Filesystem) support
1328 Define this to enable support for reading from a Coreboot
1329 filesystem. Available commands are cbfsinit, cbfsinfo, cbfsls
1335 Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard
1339 Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and
1340 GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support.
1341 Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc
1342 for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking.
1347 Define this to enable video support (for output to
1350 CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000
1352 Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip
1354 CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM
1355 Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The
1356 video output is selected via environment 'videoout'
1357 (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is
1360 For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is
1361 selected via environment 'videomode'. Two different ways
1363 - "videomode=num" 'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers.
1364 Following standard modes are supported (* is default):
1366 Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024
1367 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1368 8 bits | 0x301* 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307
1369 15 bits | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319
1370 16 bits | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A
1371 24 bits | 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B
1372 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1373 (i.e. setenv videomode 317; saveenv; reset;)
1375 - "videomode=bootargs" all the video parameters are parsed
1376 from the bootargs. (See drivers/video/videomodes.c)
1379 CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806
1380 Enable Epson SED13806 driver. This driver supports 8bpp
1381 and 16bpp modes defined by CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_8BPP
1382 or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP
1385 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1386 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1387 support, and should also define these other macros:
1393 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1394 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1396 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1398 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1399 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1400 boot. See the documentation file README.video for a
1401 description of this variable.
1406 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1407 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1408 defined in your board-specific files.
1409 The only board using this so far is RBC823.
1411 - LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1413 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1414 display); also select one of the supported displays
1415 by defining one of these:
1419 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1421 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
1423 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
1425 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1427 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1428 Active, color, single scan.
1430 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1432 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
1433 Active, color, single scan.
1437 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1438 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1440 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1442 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1443 Active, color, single scan.
1447 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1448 Active, color, single scan.
1452 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1454 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1458 320x240. Black & white.
1460 Normally display is black on white background; define
1461 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
1463 - Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
1465 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1466 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1467 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
1468 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
1469 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1470 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1471 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1472 loaded very quickly after power-on.
1474 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1476 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1477 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1478 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1479 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1480 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1481 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1484 setenv splashpos m,m
1485 => image at center of screen
1487 setenv splashpos 30,20
1488 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1490 setenv splashpos -10,m
1491 => vertically centered image
1492 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1494 - Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1496 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1497 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1498 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1500 - Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1502 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1503 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1506 - Do compresssing for memory range:
1509 If this option is set, it would use zlib deflate method
1510 to compress the specified memory at its best effort.
1512 - Compression support:
1515 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1516 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1517 compressed images are supported.
1519 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
1520 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
1525 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1528 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1529 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1532 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1534 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1535 and Literal pos bits.
1537 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1538 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1539 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1540 a very small buffer.
1542 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1543 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
1544 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
1549 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1551 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1553 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1557 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
1558 detection of gigabit PHY is included.
1560 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1562 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1563 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1564 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1565 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1567 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1569 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1570 command issued before MII status register can be read
1580 Define a default value for Ethernet address to use
1581 for the respective Ethernet interface, in case this
1582 is not determined automatically.
1587 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
1588 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
1589 determined through e.g. bootp.
1590 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
1592 - Server IP address:
1595 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
1596 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1597 (Environment variable "serverip")
1599 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1601 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1602 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1604 - Gateway IP address:
1607 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1608 default router where packets to other networks are
1610 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1615 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1616 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1617 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1618 forwarded through a router.
1619 (Environment variable "netmask")
1621 - Multicast TFTP Mode:
1624 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1625 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
1626 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
1627 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1630 - BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1631 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1633 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1634 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1635 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1636 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1637 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1638 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1639 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1640 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
1641 following delays are inserted then:
1643 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1644 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1645 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1647 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1649 - DHCP Advanced Options:
1650 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1651 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1653 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1654 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1655 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1656 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1657 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1658 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1661 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1662 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1663 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1664 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
1665 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
1667 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1668 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
1670 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1671 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1672 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1673 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1676 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1677 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1678 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1679 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1680 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1681 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1682 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1685 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1686 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1687 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
1688 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
1689 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1690 option 12 to the DHCP server.
1692 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1694 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1695 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1696 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1697 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1698 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1699 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1700 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1701 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1702 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1703 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1706 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1707 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1708 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1709 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1710 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1712 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1715 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
1717 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1719 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1721 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1726 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1727 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
1728 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
1730 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1732 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1733 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1737 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1741 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1745 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1747 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1749 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1750 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1752 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1754 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1756 - Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED
1758 Several configurations allow to display the current
1759 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1760 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1761 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1762 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1763 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1764 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this
1767 - CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
1769 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
1770 on those systems that support this (optional)
1771 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
1773 - I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C | CONFIG_SOFT_I2C
1775 These enable I2C serial bus commands. Defining either of
1776 (but not both of) CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C will
1777 include the appropriate I2C driver for the selected CPU.
1779 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
1780 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
1781 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
1782 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
1783 command line interface.
1785 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
1787 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C configures u-boot to use a software (aka
1788 bit-banging) driver instead of CPM or similar hardware
1791 There are several other quantities that must also be
1792 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C.
1794 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
1795 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
1796 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
1797 the CPU's i2c node address).
1799 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
1800 (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
1801 and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
1802 eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
1803 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
1805 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
1807 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1808 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1809 in progress. Reset the slave devices by sending start
1810 commands until the slave device responds.
1812 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
1814 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SOFT_I2C)
1815 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1816 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
1820 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
1821 controller or configure ports.
1823 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
1827 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
1828 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
1829 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
1833 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1834 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1837 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1841 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1842 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1845 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1849 Code that returns TRUE if the I2C data line is high,
1852 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1856 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1857 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1859 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
1860 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
1861 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
1865 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1866 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1868 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
1869 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
1870 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
1874 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1875 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
1876 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
1879 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
1881 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1883 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1884 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1885 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1886 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1888 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1889 the generic GPIO functions.
1891 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
1893 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1894 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1895 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1896 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1897 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1898 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1899 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1900 is run early in the boot sequence.
1902 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
1904 An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
1905 defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
1906 boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
1907 is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
1908 using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
1909 controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
1910 i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
1911 controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
1913 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
1915 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
1916 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
1917 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
1919 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1921 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
1922 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1923 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
1924 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1926 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
1928 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
1929 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1930 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1931 a 1D array of device addresses
1934 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1935 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
1937 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1939 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1940 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MULTI_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
1942 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1944 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
1946 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1947 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1949 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
1951 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1952 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1954 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
1956 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
1957 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
1959 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
1961 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
1962 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
1963 specified DTT device.
1967 Define this option if you want to use Freescale's I2C driver in
1968 drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c.
1972 Define this option if you have I2C devices reached over 1 .. n
1973 I2C Muxes like the pca9544a. This option addes a new I2C
1974 Command "i2c bus [muxtype:muxaddr:muxchannel]" which adds a
1975 new I2C Bus to the existing I2C Busses. If you select the
1976 new Bus with "i2c dev", u-bbot sends first the commandos for
1977 the muxes to activate this new "bus".
1979 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS must be also defined, to use this
1983 Adding a new I2C Bus reached over 2 pca9544a muxes
1984 The First mux with address 70 and channel 6
1985 The Second mux with address 71 and channel 4
1987 => i2c bus pca9544a:70:6:pca9544a:71:4
1989 Use the "i2c bus" command without parameter, to get a list
1990 of I2C Busses with muxes:
1993 Busses reached over muxes:
1995 reached over Mux(es):
1998 reached over Mux(es):
2003 If you now switch to the new I2C Bus 3 with "i2c dev 3"
2004 u-boot first sends the command to the mux@70 to enable
2005 channel 6, and then the command to the mux@71 to enable
2008 After that, you can use the "normal" i2c commands as
2009 usual to communicate with your I2C devices behind
2012 This option is actually implemented for the bitbanging
2013 algorithm in common/soft_i2c.c and for the Hardware I2C
2014 Bus on the MPC8260. But it should be not so difficult
2015 to add this option to other architectures.
2017 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
2019 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
2020 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
2021 between writing the address pointer and reading the
2022 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
2023 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
2024 devices can use either method, but some require one or
2027 - SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
2029 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
2030 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
2031 D/As on the SACSng board)
2035 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
2036 only SH7757 is supported.
2040 Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing.
2041 (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X)
2045 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
2046 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
2047 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
2048 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
2049 defined, the board configuration must define several
2050 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
2051 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
2055 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
2056 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
2057 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
2058 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
2059 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
2063 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
2064 SoCs. Currently i.MX31/35/51 are supported.
2066 - FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
2068 Enables FPGA subsystem.
2070 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
2072 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
2075 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
2077 Enables support for FPGA family.
2078 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
2082 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
2084 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
2086 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
2088 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
2090 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
2091 status by the configuration function. This option
2092 will require a board or device specific function to
2097 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
2098 configuration driver.
2100 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
2101 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2103 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
2105 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2106 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2107 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2108 indicated a CRC error).
2110 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
2112 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert
2113 after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II
2114 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
2117 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
2119 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during
2120 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
2122 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
2124 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
2127 - Configuration Management:
2130 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2131 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
2133 - Vendor Parameter Protection:
2135 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2136 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
2137 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
2138 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2139 protects these variables from casual modification by
2140 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2141 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
2142 change this behaviour:
2144 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2145 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
2146 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
2149 Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR
2150 _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
2151 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
2152 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2153 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2159 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2160 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2161 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2162 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2163 this default value by defining an environment
2164 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2165 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2166 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2167 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2168 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2169 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2170 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2172 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
2175 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2176 either, which results in a memory region that will
2177 not be affected by reboots.
2179 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2180 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2181 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2182 following board configurations are known to be
2185 ETX094, IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
2186 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON, LANTEC,
2192 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
2193 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
2194 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
2195 system where you want the system to reboot
2196 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
2197 useful during development since you can try to debug
2198 the conditions that lead to the situation.
2200 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2202 This variable defines the number of retries for
2203 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2204 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2205 default value of 5 is used.
2209 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2213 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2214 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2215 try longer timeout such as
2216 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2218 - Command Interpreter:
2219 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
2221 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
2223 Note that this feature has NOT been implemented yet
2224 for the "hush" shell.
2227 CONFIG_SYS_HUSH_PARSER
2229 Define this variable to enable the "hush" shell (from
2230 Busybox) as command line interpreter, thus enabling
2231 powerful command line syntax like
2232 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||'
2233 constructs ("shell scripts").
2235 If undefined, you get the old, much simpler behaviour
2236 with a somewhat smaller memory footprint.
2239 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
2241 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2242 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2243 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2247 In the current implementation, the local variables
2248 space and global environment variables space are
2249 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2250 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2251 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2252 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2253 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
2255 Global environment variables are those you use
2256 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2257 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2258 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
2260 To store commands and special characters in a
2261 variable, please use double quotation marks
2262 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2263 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2266 - Commandline Editing and History:
2267 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
2269 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
2270 commandline input operations
2272 - Default Environment:
2273 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2275 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2276 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
2277 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2279 For example, place something like this in your
2280 board's config file:
2282 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2286 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2287 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2288 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2289 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
2290 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
2291 You better know what you are doing here.
2293 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2294 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
2295 the environment like the "source" command or the
2298 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_CONFIG
2300 Define this in order to add variables describing the
2301 U-Boot build configuration to the default environment.
2302 These will be named arch, cpu, board, vendor, and soc.
2304 Enabling this option will cause the following to be defined:
2312 - DataFlash Support:
2313 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
2315 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
2316 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
2319 - Serial Flash support
2322 Defining this option enables SPI flash commands
2323 'sf probe/read/write/erase/update'.
2325 Usage requires an initial 'probe' to define the serial
2326 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2329 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2330 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2331 flash is present on the system.
2333 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2334 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2335 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2336 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2338 - SystemACE Support:
2341 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
2342 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
2343 of the chip must also be defined in the
2344 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
2346 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
2347 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
2349 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
2350 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
2352 - TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2355 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
2356 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
2357 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
2358 number generator is used.
2360 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2361 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2362 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2364 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
2365 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2366 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2367 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2368 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2369 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2370 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2372 - Show boot progress:
2373 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2375 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2376 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2377 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2378 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2379 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2380 the following checkpoints are implemented:
2382 - Detailed boot stage timing
2384 Define this option to get detailed timing of each stage
2385 of the boot process.
2387 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_USER_COUNT
2388 This is the number of available user bootstage records.
2389 Each time you call bootstage_mark(BOOTSTAGE_ID_ALLOC, ...)
2390 a new ID will be allocated from this stash. If you exceed
2391 the limit, recording will stop.
2393 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_REPORT
2394 Define this to print a report before boot, similar to this:
2396 Timer summary in microseconds:
2399 3,575,678 3,575,678 board_init_f start
2400 3,575,695 17 arch_cpu_init A9
2401 3,575,777 82 arch_cpu_init done
2402 3,659,598 83,821 board_init_r start
2403 3,910,375 250,777 main_loop
2404 29,916,167 26,005,792 bootm_start
2405 30,361,327 445,160 start_kernel
2407 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTSTAGE
2408 Add a 'bootstage' command which supports printing a report
2409 and un/stashing of bootstage data.
2411 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_FDT
2412 Stash the bootstage information in the FDT. A root 'bootstage'
2413 node is created with each bootstage id as a child. Each child
2414 has a 'name' property and either 'mark' containing the
2415 mark time in microsecond, or 'accum' containing the
2416 accumulated time for that bootstage id in microseconds.
2421 name = "board_init_f";
2430 Code in the Linux kernel can find this in /proc/devicetree.
2432 Legacy uImage format:
2435 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
2436 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
2437 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
2438 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
2439 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
2440 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
2441 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2442 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2443 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2444 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
2445 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2446 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2447 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2448 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
2449 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
2450 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
2452 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2453 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2454 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2455 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2456 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2457 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2458 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
2459 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
2460 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2461 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2463 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
2465 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
2466 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2467 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
2469 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2470 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2471 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2472 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2473 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2474 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2475 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2476 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2477 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2478 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2479 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2480 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2481 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2482 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2483 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2484 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2485 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2486 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2487 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2488 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2489 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2490 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2491 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2492 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2493 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2494 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2495 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2496 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2497 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2498 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2499 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2500 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2501 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2502 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2503 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2504 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2505 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2506 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2507 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2508 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2509 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2510 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2511 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2512 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2513 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2514 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2515 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
2517 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
2519 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
2520 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2521 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
2523 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
2524 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling NetLoop()
2525 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in NetLoop() occurred
2526 81 common/cmd_net.c NetLoop() back without error
2527 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2528 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
2529 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2530 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
2531 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
2536 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2537 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2538 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2539 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2540 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2541 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
2542 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
2543 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2544 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2545 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2546 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2547 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2548 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2549 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
2550 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2551 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2552 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2553 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2554 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2555 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2556 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2557 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2559 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2560 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2561 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
2562 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
2563 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2564 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2565 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2566 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2567 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2568 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2569 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2570 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2571 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2572 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2573 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2574 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2576 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
2577 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2579 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
2580 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2582 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
2583 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2585 - Standalone program support:
2586 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2588 This option defines a board specific value for the
2589 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
2590 overwriting the architecture dependent default
2593 - Frame Buffer Address:
2596 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
2597 address for frame buffer.
2598 Then system will reserve the frame buffer address to
2599 defined address instead of lcd_setmem (this function
2600 grabs the memory for frame buffer by panel's size).
2602 Please see board_init_f function.
2604 - Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2606 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2607 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2609 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2610 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2612 - MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2615 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
2616 Needed for mtdparts command support.
2618 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2620 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
2621 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
2625 Enable building of SPL globally.
2628 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
2631 Maximum binary size (text, data and rodata) of the SPL binary.
2633 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
2634 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
2636 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
2637 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
2639 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2640 Maximum binary size of the BSS section of the SPL binary.
2643 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
2645 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
2646 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2648 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
2649 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2651 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK
2652 Enable the SPL framework under common/. This framework
2653 supports MMC, NAND and YMODEM loading of U-Boot and NAND
2654 NAND loading of the Linux Kernel.
2656 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
2657 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
2658 about the running system.
2660 CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
2661 Support for common/libcommon.o in SPL binary
2663 CONFIG_SPL_LIBDISK_SUPPORT
2664 Support for disk/libdisk.o in SPL binary
2666 CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT
2667 Support for drivers/i2c/libi2c.o in SPL binary
2669 CONFIG_SPL_GPIO_SUPPORT
2670 Support for drivers/gpio/libgpio.o in SPL binary
2672 CONFIG_SPL_MMC_SUPPORT
2673 Support for drivers/mmc/libmmc.o in SPL binary
2675 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR,
2676 CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_MAX_SIZE_SECTORS,
2677 CONFIG_SYS_MMC_SD_FAT_BOOT_PARTITION
2678 Address, size and partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from
2679 when the MMC is being used in raw mode.
2681 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT
2682 Support for fs/fat/libfat.o in SPL binary
2684 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
2685 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from FAT
2687 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
2688 Support for drivers/mtd/nand/libnand.o in SPL binary
2690 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
2691 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
2692 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
2693 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
2694 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
2695 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
2696 to read U-Boot with CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
2698 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
2699 Location in NAND for CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE to read U-Boot
2702 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
2703 Location in memory for CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE to load U-Boot
2706 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
2707 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
2708 data. This is used for example on davinci plattforms.
2710 CONFIG_SPL_OMAP3_ID_NAND
2711 Support for an OMAP3-specific set of functions to return the
2712 ID and MFR of the first attached NAND chip, if present.
2714 CONFIG_SPL_SERIAL_SUPPORT
2715 Support for drivers/serial/libserial.o in SPL binary
2717 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_FLASH_SUPPORT
2718 Support for drivers/mtd/spi/libspi_flash.o in SPL binary
2720 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUPPORT
2721 Support for drivers/spi/libspi.o in SPL binary
2723 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
2724 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
2726 CONFIG_SPL_LIBGENERIC_SUPPORT
2727 Support for lib/libgeneric.o in SPL binary
2732 [so far only for SMDK2400 boards]
2734 - Modem support enable:
2735 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT
2737 - RTS/CTS Flow control enable:
2740 - Modem debug support:
2741 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG
2743 Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg())
2744 for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000.
2746 - Interrupt support (PPC):
2748 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2749 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
2750 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
2751 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
2752 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
2753 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
2754 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
2755 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2756 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2757 general timer_interrupt().
2761 In the target system modem support is enabled when a
2762 specific key (key combination) is pressed during
2763 power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally
2764 (autoboot). The key_pressed() function is called from
2765 board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy
2766 function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem
2769 If there are no modem init strings in the
2770 environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the
2771 previous output (banner, info printfs) will be
2774 See also: doc/README.Modem
2776 Board initialization settings:
2777 ------------------------------
2779 During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
2780 to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
2781 before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
2782 following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
2783 architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
2784 typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
2786 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
2787 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
2788 - CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
2789 - CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
2791 Configuration Settings:
2792 -----------------------
2794 - CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
2795 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2797 - CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2798 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2800 - CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
2801 prompt for user input.
2803 - CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
2805 - CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
2807 - CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
2809 - CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
2810 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2813 - CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
2814 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2816 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET
2817 Suppress display of console information at boot.
2819 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
2820 If the board specific function
2821 extern int overwrite_console (void);
2822 returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the
2823 serial port, else the settings in the environment are used.
2825 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE
2826 Enable the call to overwrite_console().
2828 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE
2829 Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings.
2831 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
2832 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2835 - CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
2836 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
2838 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
2839 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2840 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2842 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE (PPC only):
2843 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
2844 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
2845 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
2846 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2847 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2848 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
2849 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
2850 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
2851 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
2853 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2854 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2857 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2858 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2859 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2860 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2863 - CONFIG_SYS_TFTP_LOADADDR:
2864 Default load address for network file downloads
2866 - CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
2867 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2869 - CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
2870 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2872 - CONFIG_SYS_MBIO_BASE:
2873 Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a
2876 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
2877 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2879 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
2880 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2881 make config files to be same as the text base address
2882 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
2883 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
2885 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
2886 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2887 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2888 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2891 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
2892 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2894 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
2895 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
2896 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
2897 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
2898 to adjust this setting to your needs.
2900 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
2901 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
2902 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
2903 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
2904 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
2905 enviroment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
2906 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
2907 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
2908 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
2909 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
2910 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
2912 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
2913 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
2914 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
2917 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
2918 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
2919 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2921 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
2922 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
2923 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2925 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
2926 Max number of Flash memory banks
2928 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
2929 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
2931 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
2932 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
2934 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
2935 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
2937 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
2938 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
2940 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
2941 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
2943 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
2944 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
2945 instead of U-Boot software protection.
2947 - CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
2949 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
2950 without this option such a download has to be
2951 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
2952 copy from RAM to flash.
2954 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
2955 you can check if the download worked before you erase
2956 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
2957 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
2958 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
2960 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
2961 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
2962 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
2964 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
2965 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
2966 in the drivers directory
2968 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
2969 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
2970 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
2973 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
2974 Use buffered writes to flash.
2976 - CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
2977 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
2980 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
2981 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
2982 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
2983 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
2984 optionally available.
2986 - CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
2987 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
2988 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
2989 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
2991 - CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
2992 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
2993 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
2994 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
2995 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
2996 on high Ethernet traffic.
2997 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
2999 - CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
3001 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
3002 internally to store the environment settings. The default
3003 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
3004 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
3005 lib/hashtable.c for details.
3007 The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
3008 of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
3009 following configurations:
3011 - CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
3013 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
3014 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
3016 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
3018 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
3020 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
3021 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
3022 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
3023 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
3024 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
3025 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
3026 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
3027 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
3028 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
3029 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
3030 between U-Boot and the environment.
3032 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3034 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
3035 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
3036 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
3037 for this sector is given here.
3039 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
3043 This is just another way to specify the start address of
3044 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
3047 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
3049 Size of the sector containing the environment.
3052 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
3053 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
3058 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
3059 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
3060 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
3061 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
3063 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
3064 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
3065 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
3066 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
3067 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
3068 updating the environment in flash makes it always
3069 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
3070 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
3071 RAM, your target system will be dead.
3073 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
3074 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
3076 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
3077 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
3078 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
3079 a "saveenv" operation.
3081 BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
3082 source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
3086 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
3088 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
3089 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
3095 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
3096 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
3097 can just be read and written to, without any special
3100 BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
3101 in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the
3102 console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
3105 Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3106 environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3107 keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3108 to save the current settings.
3111 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
3113 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
3114 device and a driver for it.
3116 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3119 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
3120 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
3122 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
3123 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
3124 The default address is zero.
3126 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
3127 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
3128 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
3129 would require six bits.
3131 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
3132 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
3133 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
3135 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
3136 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
3137 that this is NOT the chip address length!
3139 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
3140 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
3141 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
3142 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
3143 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
3146 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
3147 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
3148 in the chip address.
3150 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
3151 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
3153 - CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C
3154 define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your
3155 EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.
3157 - CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS
3158 if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over
3159 I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this
3160 EEPROM. For example:
3162 #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS "pca9547:70:d\0"
3164 EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over
3165 a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.
3167 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
3169 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
3170 want to use for the environment.
3172 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3176 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
3177 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
3178 at the specified address.
3180 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_REMOTE:
3182 Define this if you have a remote memory space which you
3183 want to use for the local device's environment.
3188 These two #defines specify the address and size of the
3189 environment area within the remote memory space. The
3190 local device can get the environment from remote memory
3191 space by SRIO or PCIE links.
3193 BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
3194 "saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
3195 environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
3196 but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
3198 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
3200 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
3201 for the environment.
3203 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3206 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
3207 area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
3208 aligned to an erase block boundary.
3210 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
3212 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
3213 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
3214 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
3215 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_RENDUND must be
3216 aligned to an erase block boundary.
3218 - CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):
3220 Specifies the length of the region in which the environment
3221 can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's
3222 block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than
3223 are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within
3224 the range to be avoided.
3226 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):
3228 Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the
3229 environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The
3230 "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset.
3231 Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when
3232 using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.
3234 - CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
3236 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
3237 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
3238 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
3240 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
3242 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
3243 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
3244 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
3245 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
3246 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
3247 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
3248 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
3250 Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
3251 has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
3252 created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f()
3253 until then to read environment variables.
3255 The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
3256 is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
3257 with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
3258 necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
3259 "baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
3260 have any device yet where we could complain.]
3262 Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
3263 the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
3264 use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
3266 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
3267 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
3269 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
3270 also needs to be defined.
3272 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
3273 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
3275 - CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
3276 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
3277 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
3278 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
3279 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
3280 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
3282 Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
3283 ---------------------------------------------------
3285 - CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
3286 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
3288 - CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
3289 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
3291 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
3292 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
3293 the IMMR register after a reset.
3295 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
3296 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
3299 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
3300 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
3301 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
3303 CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR must also be set to this value,
3304 for cross-platform code that uses that macro instead.
3306 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
3307 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
3308 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
3309 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
3310 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
3311 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
3312 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
3314 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
3315 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
3317 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
3318 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
3319 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
3320 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3321 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3323 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
3324 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
3325 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3326 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3328 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
3329 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
3330 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
3332 - Floppy Disk Support:
3333 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
3335 the default drive number (default value 0)
3337 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
3339 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
3342 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
3344 defines the offset of register from address. It
3345 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
3346 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
3348 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
3349 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
3352 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
3353 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
3354 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
3355 source code. It is used to make hardware dependant
3359 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
3360 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
3361 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
3362 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
3363 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
3366 - CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
3367 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
3368 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
3370 - CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
3372 Start address of memory area that can be used for
3373 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
3374 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
3375 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
3376 will become available only after programming the
3377 memory controller and running certain initialization
3380 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
3381 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
3382 - MPC824X: data cache
3383 - PPC4xx: data cache
3385 - CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
3387 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
3388 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
3389 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
3390 data is located at the end of the available space
3391 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
3392 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
3393 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
3394 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
3397 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
3398 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
3399 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
3400 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
3401 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
3403 - CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
3405 - CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
3407 - CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
3409 - CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
3411 - CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
3413 - CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
3415 - CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
3418 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
3419 periodic timer for refresh
3421 - CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
3423 - FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
3424 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
3425 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
3426 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
3427 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
3429 - SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
3430 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
3431 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
3432 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
3434 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
3435 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
3436 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
3437 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
3439 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
3440 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
3441 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
3443 - CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
3444 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
3445 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
3447 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
3448 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
3449 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
3451 - CONFIG_SYS_USE_OSCCLK:
3452 Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful,
3453 wrong setting might damage your board. Read
3454 doc/README.MBX before setting this variable!
3456 - CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
3457 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
3458 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
3459 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
3462 - CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
3463 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
3464 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
3465 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
3466 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
3467 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
3468 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
3469 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
3470 Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
3472 - CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE:
3473 Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
3476 - CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
3477 Only scan through and get the devices on the busses.
3478 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
3479 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
3480 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
3481 by coreboot or similar.
3484 Chip has SRIO or not
3487 Board has SRIO 1 port available
3490 Board has SRIO 2 port available
3492 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
3493 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3495 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
3496 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3498 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
3499 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3501 - CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_16
3502 Defined to tell the NDFC that the NAND chip is using a
3505 - CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
3506 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
3507 a default value will be used.
3510 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
3511 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
3514 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
3516 - CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
3517 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
3518 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
3519 to something your driver can deal with.
3521 - CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
3522 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
3523 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
3524 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
3525 header files or board specific files.
3527 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
3528 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
3530 - CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
3531 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
3532 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
3534 - CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
3535 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
3537 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
3538 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
3539 to the given FEC; i. e.
3540 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
3541 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
3543 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
3545 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
3546 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
3547 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
3550 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
3551 Note that this is a global option, we can't
3552 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
3554 - CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
3555 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
3558 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
3560 Where address/count indicate a memory area
3561 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
3565 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
3566 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
3569 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
3574 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
3576 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
3577 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
3579 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
3580 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
3582 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
3583 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain
3584 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
3585 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
3586 relocate itself into RAM.
3588 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
3589 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
3590 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
3591 these initializations itself.
3594 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3595 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
3596 compiling a NAND SPL.
3598 - CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMCPY
3599 CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET
3600 If these options are used a optimized version of memcpy/memset will
3601 be used if available. These functions may be faster under some
3602 conditions but may increase the binary size.
3604 Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
3605 -----------------------------------
3607 The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
3608 loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
3609 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3610 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3613 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_ADDR
3614 The address in the storage device where the firmware is located. The
3615 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3618 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
3619 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
3620 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
3621 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
3622 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
3624 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
3625 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
3626 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
3627 virtual address in NOR flash.
3629 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
3630 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
3631 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
3633 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
3634 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
3635 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
3637 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_SPIFLASH
3638 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SPI
3639 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
3641 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
3642 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
3643 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
3644 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
3645 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
3646 master's memory space.
3648 Building the Software:
3649 ======================
3651 Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
3652 and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
3653 all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
3654 (potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
3655 recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
3656 which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
3658 If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
3659 have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
3660 you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
3661 Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
3662 necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
3664 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
3665 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
3667 Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
3668 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
3669 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
3670 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
3672 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
3674 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
3675 be executed on computers running Windows.
3677 U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
3678 sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
3683 where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing configu-
3684 rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
3686 Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
3687 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
3688 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
3689 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
3690 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
3693 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
3695 make TQM823L_LCD_config
3696 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
3701 Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
3702 images ready for download to / installation on your system:
3704 - "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
3705 - "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
3706 - "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
3708 By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
3709 in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
3710 this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
3712 1. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
3714 make O=/tmp/build distclean
3715 make O=/tmp/build NAME_config
3716 make O=/tmp/build all
3718 2. Set environment variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location:
3720 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3725 Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the BUILD_DIR environment
3729 Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
3730 for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
3734 If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
3735 to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
3738 1. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel
3739 "boards.cfg" file, using the existing entries as examples.
3740 Follow the instructions there to keep the boards in order.
3741 2. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
3742 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3743 the "Makefile", a "<board>.c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds".
3744 3. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3746 3. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3747 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
3748 4. Run "make <board>_config" with your new name.
3749 5. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3750 to be installed on your target system.
3751 6. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3752 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
3755 Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3756 ==============================================================
3758 If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3759 or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
3760 provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
3761 the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
3762 official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
3764 But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3765 cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
3766 the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
3767 just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot
3768 for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can
3769 select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE'
3770 environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the ELDK cross tools
3773 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3775 or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type
3777 CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL
3779 When using the MAKEALL script, the default behaviour is to build
3780 U-Boot in the source directory. This location can be changed by
3781 setting the BUILD_DIR environment variable. Also, for each target
3782 built, the MAKEALL script saves two log files (<target>.ERR and
3783 <target>.MAKEALL) in the <source dir>/LOG directory. This default
3784 location can be changed by setting the MAKEALL_LOGDIR environment
3785 variable. For example:
3787 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3788 export MAKEALL_LOGDIR=/tmp/log
3789 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3791 With the above settings build objects are saved in the /tmp/build,
3792 log files are saved in the /tmp/log and the source tree remains clean
3793 during the whole build process.
3796 See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
3799 Monitor Commands - Overview:
3800 ============================
3802 go - start application at address 'addr'
3803 run - run commands in an environment variable
3804 bootm - boot application image from memory
3805 bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
3806 bootz - boot zImage from memory
3807 tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3808 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3809 (and eventually "gatewayip")
3810 tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
3811 rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3812 diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3813 loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3814 loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3816 mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3817 nm - memory modify (constant address)
3818 mw - memory write (fill)
3820 cmp - memory compare
3821 crc32 - checksum calculation
3822 i2c - I2C sub-system
3823 sspi - SPI utility commands
3824 base - print or set address offset
3825 printenv- print environment variables
3826 setenv - set environment variables
3827 saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3828 protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3829 erase - erase FLASH memory
3830 flinfo - print FLASH memory information
3831 bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3832 iminfo - print header information for application image
3833 coninfo - print console devices and informations
3834 ide - IDE sub-system
3835 loop - infinite loop on address range
3836 loopw - infinite write loop on address range
3837 mtest - simple RAM test
3838 icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3839 dcache - enable or disable data cache
3840 reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3841 echo - echo args to console
3842 version - print monitor version
3843 help - print online help
3844 ? - alias for 'help'
3847 Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3848 ========================================
3852 For now: just type "help <command>".
3855 Environment Variables:
3856 ======================
3858 U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3859 can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
3861 Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3862 "printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3863 without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3864 environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3865 working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3866 environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
3868 Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3870 List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
3872 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
3874 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
3876 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
3878 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
3880 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
3882 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3883 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3884 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3885 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3886 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3887 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
3888 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
3891 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
3892 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
3893 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
3894 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
3895 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
3896 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
3899 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3900 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3901 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3902 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3903 environment variable.
3905 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3906 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3907 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3909 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3910 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3911 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3912 load any image using TFTP
3914 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3915 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3916 be automatically started (by internally calling
3919 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3920 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3921 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3922 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3925 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
3926 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
3927 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
3928 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
3929 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
3930 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
3931 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
3932 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
3933 access it during the boot procedure.
3935 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
3936 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
3937 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
3938 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
3939 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
3940 must be accessible by the kernel.
3942 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
3943 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
3946 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3947 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3948 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3949 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3950 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3952 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3953 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3954 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3955 is usually what you want since it allows for
3956 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3957 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
3958 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
3959 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3960 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3961 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3962 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
3964 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3965 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3966 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3967 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3968 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3969 12 MB as well - this can be done with
3971 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
3973 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3974 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3975 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3976 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3977 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3978 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3979 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
3981 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3983 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3984 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
3986 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
3988 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
3990 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
3992 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
3994 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
3996 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
3998 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
3999 For example you can do the following
4001 => setenv ethact FEC
4002 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
4003 => setenv ethact SCC
4004 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
4006 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
4007 available network interfaces.
4008 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
4010 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
4011 either succeed or fail without retrying.
4012 When set to "once" the network operation will
4013 fail when all the available network interfaces
4014 are tried once without success.
4015 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
4018 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
4020 tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
4023 tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
4024 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
4026 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
4027 we use the TFTP server's default block size
4029 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
4030 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
4031 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
4032 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
4033 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
4034 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
4035 with unreliable TFTP servers.
4037 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
4038 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
4041 The following image location variables contain the location of images
4042 used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
4043 not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
4044 variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
4045 server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
4046 loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
4047 flash or offset in NAND flash.
4049 *Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
4050 boards currenlty use other variables for these purposes, and some
4051 boards use these variables for other purposes.
4053 Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
4054 ----- --------- ----------- --------------
4055 u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
4056 Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
4057 device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
4058 ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
4060 The following environment variables may be used and automatically
4061 updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
4062 depending the information provided by your boot server:
4064 bootfile - see above
4065 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
4066 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
4067 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
4068 hostname - Target hostname
4070 netmask - Subnet Mask
4071 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
4072 serverip - see above
4075 There are two special Environment Variables:
4077 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
4078 as type string and/or serial number
4079 ethaddr - Ethernet address
4081 These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
4082 the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
4083 once they have been set once.
4086 Further special Environment Variables:
4088 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
4089 with the "version" command. This variable is
4090 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
4093 Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
4094 only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
4097 Command Line Parsing:
4098 =====================
4100 There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
4101 the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
4103 Old, simple command line parser:
4104 --------------------------------
4106 - supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
4107 - several commands on one line, separated by ';'
4108 - variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
4109 - special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
4111 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
4112 - You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
4113 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
4118 - similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
4119 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
4120 until...do...done, ...
4121 - supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
4122 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
4123 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
4129 (1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
4130 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
4131 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
4134 (2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
4135 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
4136 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
4137 variables are not executed.
4139 Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
4140 =======================================
4142 Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
4143 such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
4144 "working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
4146 Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
4147 MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
4148 "eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
4150 If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
4151 in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
4152 ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
4153 variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
4155 o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
4156 environment, the SROM's address is used.
4158 o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
4159 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
4162 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
4163 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
4165 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
4166 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
4169 o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
4172 If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
4173 will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
4174 may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
4175 The naming convention is as follows:
4176 "ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
4181 U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
4182 images in two formats:
4184 New uImage format (FIT)
4185 -----------------------
4187 Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
4188 to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
4189 components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
4190 SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
4196 Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
4197 preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
4198 details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
4200 * Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
4201 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
4202 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
4203 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
4205 * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
4206 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
4207 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
4208 * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
4214 The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
4215 and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
4222 Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
4223 easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
4226 U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
4227 special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
4228 "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
4229 instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
4230 serves several purposes:
4232 - the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
4233 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
4234 Flash memory footprint)
4236 - it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
4237 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
4239 - the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
4240 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
4241 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
4242 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
4243 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
4244 software is easier now.
4250 Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
4251 ---------------------------------------
4253 U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
4254 configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
4255 (no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
4258 But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
4260 Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
4261 include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
4262 Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
4263 and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
4264 as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
4267 Configuring the Linux kernel:
4268 -----------------------------
4270 No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
4271 device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
4274 Building a Linux Image:
4275 -----------------------
4277 With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
4278 not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
4279 "uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
4280 U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
4281 which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
4282 100% compatible format.
4291 The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
4292 encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
4293 CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
4295 * build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
4297 * convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
4299 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
4300 -R .note -R .comment \
4301 -S vmlinux linux.bin
4303 * compress the binary image:
4307 * package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
4309 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
4310 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
4311 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
4314 The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
4315 with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
4316 combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
4317 byte header containing information about target architecture,
4318 operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
4319 stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
4321 "mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
4322 print the header information, or to build new images.
4324 In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
4325 contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
4326 checksum verification:
4328 tools/mkimage -l image
4329 -l ==> list image header information
4331 The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
4332 from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
4334 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
4335 -n name -d data_file image
4336 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
4337 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
4338 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4339 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
4340 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
4341 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
4342 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
4343 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
4345 Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
4346 address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
4349 - 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
4350 - 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
4352 So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
4354 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4355 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
4356 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
4357 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
4358 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4359 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4360 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4361 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4362 Load Address: 0x00000000
4363 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4365 To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
4367 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
4368 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4369 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4370 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4371 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4372 Load Address: 0x00000000
4373 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4375 NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
4376 speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
4377 needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
4378 need to be uncompressed:
4380 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
4381 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4382 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
4383 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
4384 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
4385 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4386 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4387 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
4388 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
4389 Load Address: 0x00000000
4390 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4393 Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
4394 when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
4396 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
4397 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
4398 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
4399 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4400 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
4401 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4402 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
4403 Load Address: 0x00000000
4404 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4407 Installing a Linux Image:
4408 -------------------------
4410 To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
4411 you must convert the image to S-Record format:
4413 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
4415 The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
4416 image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
4417 address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
4418 specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
4421 Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
4422 TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
4424 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
4430 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4431 ~>examples/image.srec
4432 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
4434 15989 15990 15991 15992
4435 [file transfer complete]
4437 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
4440 You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
4441 this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
4442 corruption happened:
4446 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4447 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4448 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4449 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4450 Load Address: 00000000
4451 Entry Point: 0000000c
4452 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4458 The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
4459 memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
4460 of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
4461 parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
4462 "printenv" and "setenv" commands:
4465 => printenv bootargs
4466 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
4468 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4470 => printenv bootargs
4471 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4474 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
4475 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
4476 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4477 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
4478 Load Address: 00000000
4479 Entry Point: 0000000c
4480 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4481 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4482 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
4483 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4484 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4485 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4486 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
4489 If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
4490 the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
4491 format!) to the "bootm" command:
4493 => imi 40100000 40200000
4495 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4496 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4497 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4498 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4499 Load Address: 00000000
4500 Entry Point: 0000000c
4501 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4503 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
4504 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4505 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4506 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4507 Load Address: 00000000
4508 Entry Point: 00000000
4509 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4511 => bootm 40100000 40200000
4512 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
4513 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4514 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4515 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4516 Load Address: 00000000
4517 Entry Point: 0000000c
4518 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4519 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4520 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
4521 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4522 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4523 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4524 Load Address: 00000000
4525 Entry Point: 00000000
4526 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4527 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
4528 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
4529 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
4530 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4531 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4533 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
4534 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
4538 Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
4541 First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
4542 titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
4543 following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
4549 oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
4550 => tftp $oftaddr $oft
4551 Speed: 1000, full duplex
4553 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
4554 Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
4555 Load address: 0x300000
4558 Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
4559 => tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
4560 Speed: 1000, full duplex
4562 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
4564 Load address: 0x200000
4565 Loading:############
4567 Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
4572 => bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
4573 ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
4574 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
4575 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4576 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
4577 Load Address: 00000000
4578 Entry Point: 00000000
4579 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4580 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4581 Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
4582 Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
4583 Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
4587 More About U-Boot Image Types:
4588 ------------------------------
4590 U-Boot supports the following image types:
4592 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
4593 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
4594 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
4595 the Standalone Program.
4596 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
4597 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
4598 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
4599 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
4600 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
4601 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
4602 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
4604 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
4605 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
4606 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
4607 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
4608 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
4609 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
4611 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
4612 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
4613 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
4614 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
4615 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
4616 a multiple of 4 bytes).
4618 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
4619 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
4622 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
4623 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
4624 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
4625 as command interpreter.
4627 Booting the Linux zImage:
4628 -------------------------
4630 On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
4631 using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
4632 as the syntax of "bootm" command.
4634 Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_INITRD_RAW allows user to supply
4635 kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
4636 address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
4637 format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
4643 One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
4644 run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
4645 U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
4647 Two simple examples are included with the sources:
4652 'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
4653 application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
4654 It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
4658 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4659 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
4660 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4661 [file transfer complete]
4663 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4665 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
4666 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4677 Hit any key to exit ...
4679 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4681 Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
4682 handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
4683 Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
4684 The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
4685 character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
4686 controlled by the following keys:
4688 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
4689 b - enable interrupts and start timer
4690 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
4691 q - quit application
4694 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4695 ~>examples/timer.srec
4696 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4697 [file transfer complete]
4699 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4702 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4705 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
4708 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
4711 [q, b, e, ?] ........
4712 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
4715 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
4718 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
4721 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
4723 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
4725 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4731 Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
4732 "minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
4733 consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
4734 Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
4735 especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
4736 use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
4737 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
4738 for help with kermit.
4741 Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
4742 configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
4744 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
4745 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
4746 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
4752 Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
4753 (build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
4755 Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
4756 NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
4757 need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
4758 Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
4759 attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
4760 missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
4762 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
4764 # ln -s powerpc machine
4765 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
4766 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
4768 Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
4769 and U-Boot include files.
4771 Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
4772 stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
4773 proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
4774 tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
4775 meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
4778 Implementation Internals:
4779 =========================
4781 The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
4782 implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
4783 inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
4787 Initial Stack, Global Data:
4788 ---------------------------
4790 The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
4791 starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
4792 system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
4793 This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
4794 is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
4795 at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
4796 options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
4797 models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
4798 MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
4799 locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
4801 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
4802 U-Boot mailing list:
4804 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4805 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
4806 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4809 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4810 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4811 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4812 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4813 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
4814 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
4815 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4816 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
4818 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4819 is another option for the system designer to use as an
4820 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
4821 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4822 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4823 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4826 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
4827 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4828 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
4829 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
4830 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4831 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4832 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4833 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4834 you get the config right.
4839 It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4840 code for the initialization procedures:
4842 * Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4845 * Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitely initialized
4846 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4847 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
4849 * Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4852 Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
4853 normal global data to share information beween the code. But it
4854 turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4855 simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4856 functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4857 functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4858 the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4859 place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4860 reserve for this purpose.
4862 When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4863 relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4864 GCC's implementation.
4866 For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4868 R2: reserved for system use
4869 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4870 R5-R10: parameter passing
4871 R13: small data area pointer
4875 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4876 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4877 going back and forth between asm and C)
4879 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
4881 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4882 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4883 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4884 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4885 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4886 624 text + 127 data).
4888 On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here:
4889 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
4891 ==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data
4893 On ARM, the following registers are used:
4895 R0: function argument word/integer result
4896 R1-R3: function argument word
4898 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking if enabled)
4899 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4900 R12: temporary workspace
4903 R15: program counter
4905 ==> U-Boot will use R8 to hold a pointer to the global data
4907 On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
4908 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
4910 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4912 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4913 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4915 On NDS32, the following registers are used:
4917 R0-R1: argument/return
4919 R15: temporary register for assembler
4920 R16: trampoline register
4921 R28: frame pointer (FP)
4922 R29: global pointer (GP)
4923 R30: link register (LP)
4924 R31: stack pointer (SP)
4925 PC: program counter (PC)
4927 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
4929 NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4930 or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
4935 U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4936 MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
4938 The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4939 controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4940 memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4941 physical memory banks.
4943 U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4944 TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4945 booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4946 to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
4947 memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
4948 configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4949 Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
4951 Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4952 of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
4954 So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
4957 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
4960 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
4966 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
4967 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
4968 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
4971 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
4972 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
4973 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
4974 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
4977 System Initialization:
4978 ----------------------
4980 In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
4981 (on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
4982 configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory.
4983 To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
4984 To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
4985 initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
4986 which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
4987 part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
4988 the caches and the SIU.
4990 Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
4991 preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
4992 (multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
4993 on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
4994 programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
4995 simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
4998 When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
4999 different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
5000 bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
5001 0x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
5002 contiguous memory starting from 0.
5004 Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
5005 and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
5006 Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
5007 pages, and the final stack is set up.
5009 Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
5010 until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
5011 running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
5015 U-Boot Porting Guide:
5016 ----------------------
5018 [Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
5022 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
5024 sighandler_t no_more_time;
5026 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
5027 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
5029 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
5030 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
5034 Download latest U-Boot source;
5036 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
5039 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
5042 Read the README file in the top level directory;
5043 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
5044 Read applicable doc/*.README;
5045 Read the source, Luke;
5046 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
5049 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
5052 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
5054 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
5055 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
5056 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
5058 Create your own board support subdirectory;
5059 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
5061 Edit new board/<myboard> files
5062 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
5067 Add / modify source code;
5071 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
5073 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
5074 if (reasonable critiques)
5075 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
5077 Defend code as written;
5083 void no_more_time (int sig)
5092 All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
5093 coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
5094 "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
5096 Source files originating from a different project (for example the
5097 MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
5098 reformated to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
5101 Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
5102 Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
5105 Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
5106 - remove any trailing white space
5107 - use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
5108 - make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
5109 - do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
5110 - do not add trailing empty lines to source files
5112 Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
5113 with a request to reformat the changes.
5119 Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
5120 establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
5121 may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
5123 Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
5125 Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
5126 see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
5128 When you send a patch, please include the following information with
5131 * For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
5132 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
5133 patch actually fixes something.
5135 * For new features: a description of the feature and your
5138 * A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
5140 * For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file
5142 * When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add this
5143 board to the MAINTAINERS file, too.
5145 * If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
5146 document these in the README file.
5148 * The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
5149 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
5150 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
5151 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
5152 with some other mail clients.
5154 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
5155 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
5158 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
5159 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
5160 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
5163 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
5164 and compressed attachments must not be used.
5166 * If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
5167 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
5169 * Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
5170 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
5175 * Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched
5176 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
5177 for any of the boards.
5179 * Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
5180 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
5181 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
5183 * If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
5184 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
5185 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
5186 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
5187 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
5190 * Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
5191 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
5192 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
5193 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.