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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
57 Note: There is no CHANGELOG file in the actual U-Boot source tree;
58 it can be created dynamically from the Git log using:
66 In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
67 U-Boot you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
68 <u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
69 on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
70 Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
71 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
74 Where to get source code:
75 =========================
77 The U-Boot source code is maintained in the git repository at
78 git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
79 http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
81 The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
82 any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
83 available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
86 Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
87 ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
93 - start from 8xxrom sources
94 - create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
96 - make it easier to add custom boards
97 - make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
98 - extend functions, especially:
99 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
102 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
103 - create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
104 - add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
105 - create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
106 - current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
112 The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
113 "U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
114 in source files etc.). Example:
116 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
118 File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
120 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
122 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
124 Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
125 the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
127 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
128 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
134 Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
135 were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
136 into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
137 names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
138 Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
139 releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
142 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
143 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
144 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candiate 1 for September 2010 release
150 /arch Architecture specific files
151 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
152 /cpu CPU specific files
153 /arm720t Files specific to ARM 720 CPUs
154 /arm920t Files specific to ARM 920 CPUs
155 /at91 Files specific to Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU
156 /imx Files specific to Freescale MC9328 i.MX CPUs
157 /s3c24x0 Files specific to Samsung S3C24X0 CPUs
158 /arm925t Files specific to ARM 925 CPUs
159 /arm926ejs Files specific to ARM 926 CPUs
160 /arm1136 Files specific to ARM 1136 CPUs
161 /ixp Files specific to Intel XScale IXP CPUs
162 /pxa Files specific to Intel XScale PXA CPUs
163 /s3c44b0 Files specific to Samsung S3C44B0 CPUs
164 /sa1100 Files specific to Intel StrongARM SA1100 CPUs
165 /lib Architecture specific library files
166 /avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture
167 /cpu CPU specific files
168 /lib Architecture specific library files
169 /blackfin Files generic to Analog Devices Blackfin architecture
170 /cpu CPU specific files
171 /lib Architecture specific library files
172 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
173 /cpu CPU specific files
174 /lib Architecture specific library files
175 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
176 /cpu CPU specific files
177 /mcf52x2 Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF52x2 CPUs
178 /mcf5227x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5227x CPUs
179 /mcf532x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5329 CPUs
180 /mcf5445x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5445x CPUs
181 /mcf547x_8x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF547x_8x CPUs
182 /lib Architecture specific library files
183 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
184 /cpu CPU specific files
185 /lib Architecture specific library files
186 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
187 /cpu CPU specific files
188 /mips32 Files specific to MIPS32 CPUs
189 /xburst Files specific to Ingenic XBurst CPUs
190 /lib Architecture specific library files
191 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
192 /cpu CPU specific files
193 /n1213 Files specific to Andes Technology N1213 CPUs
194 /lib Architecture specific library files
195 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
196 /cpu CPU specific files
197 /lib Architecture specific library files
198 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
199 /cpu CPU specific files
200 /74xx_7xx Files specific to Freescale MPC74xx and 7xx CPUs
201 /mpc5xx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xx CPUs
202 /mpc5xxx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xxx CPUs
203 /mpc8xx Files specific to Freescale MPC8xx CPUs
204 /mpc8220 Files specific to Freescale MPC8220 CPUs
205 /mpc824x Files specific to Freescale MPC824x CPUs
206 /mpc8260 Files specific to Freescale MPC8260 CPUs
207 /mpc85xx Files specific to Freescale MPC85xx CPUs
208 /ppc4xx Files specific to AMCC PowerPC 4xx CPUs
209 /lib Architecture specific library files
210 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
211 /cpu CPU specific files
212 /sh2 Files specific to sh2 CPUs
213 /sh3 Files specific to sh3 CPUs
214 /sh4 Files specific to sh4 CPUs
215 /lib Architecture specific library files
216 /sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture
217 /cpu CPU specific files
218 /leon2 Files specific to Gaisler LEON2 SPARC CPU
219 /leon3 Files specific to Gaisler LEON3 SPARC CPU
220 /lib Architecture specific library files
221 /api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
222 /board Board dependent files
223 /common Misc architecture independent functions
224 /disk Code for disk drive partition handling
225 /doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
226 /drivers Commonly used device drivers
227 /examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
228 /fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
229 /include Header Files
230 /lib Files generic to all architectures
231 /libfdt Library files to support flattened device trees
232 /lzma Library files to support LZMA decompression
233 /lzo Library files to support LZO decompression
235 /post Power On Self Test
236 /rtc Real Time Clock drivers
237 /tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
239 Software Configuration:
240 =======================
242 Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
243 rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
245 There are two classes of configuration variables:
247 * Configuration _OPTIONS_:
248 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
251 * Configuration _SETTINGS_:
252 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
253 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
256 Later we will add a configuration tool - probably similar to or even
257 identical to what's used for the Linux kernel. Right now, we have to
258 do the configuration by hand, which means creating some symbolic
259 links and editing some configuration files. We use the TQM8xxL boards
263 Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
264 ---------------------------------------------------
266 For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
267 configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_config".
269 Example: For a TQM823L module type:
274 For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the CPU type as well;
275 e.g. "make cogent_mpc8xx_config". And also configure the cogent
276 directory according to the instructions in cogent/README.
279 Configuration Options:
280 ----------------------
282 Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
283 such information is kept in a configuration file
284 "include/configs/<board_name>.h".
286 Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
287 "include/configs/TQM823L.h".
290 Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
291 kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
292 build a config tool - later.
295 The following options need to be configured:
297 - CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
299 - Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
301 - CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
302 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
304 - CPU Module Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
305 Define exactly one of
307 --- FIXME --- not tested yet:
308 CONFIG_CMA286_60, CONFIG_CMA286_21, CONFIG_CMA286_60P,
309 CONFIG_CMA287_23, CONFIG_CMA287_50
311 - Motherboard Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
312 Define exactly one of
313 CONFIG_CMA101, CONFIG_CMA102
315 - Motherboard I/O Modules: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
316 Define one or more of
319 - Motherboard Options: (if CONFIG_CMA101 or CONFIG_CMA102 are defined)
320 Define one or more of
321 CONFIG_LCD_HEARTBEAT - update a character position on
322 the LCD display every second with
325 - Board flavour: (if CONFIG_MPC8260ADS is defined)
328 CONFIG_SYS_8260ADS - original MPC8260ADS
329 CONFIG_SYS_8266ADS - MPC8266ADS
330 CONFIG_SYS_PQ2FADS - PQ2FADS-ZU or PQ2FADS-VR
331 CONFIG_SYS_8272ADS - MPC8272ADS
333 - Marvell Family Member
334 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
335 multiple fs option at one time
336 for marvell soc family
338 - MPC824X Family Member (if CONFIG_MPC824X is defined)
339 Define exactly one of
340 CONFIG_MPC8240, CONFIG_MPC8245
342 - 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
343 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
344 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
345 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
346 reference PIT/RTC clock
347 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
350 - 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
351 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
352 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
353 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
354 See doc/README.MPC866
356 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
358 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
359 of relying on the correctness of the configured
360 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
361 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
362 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
363 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
365 CONFIG_SYS_DELAYED_ICACHE
367 Define this option if you want to enable the
368 ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
373 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
374 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
375 compliance, among other possible reasons.
377 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
379 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
380 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
381 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
383 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
385 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
386 tree nodes for the given platform.
388 CONFIG_SYS_PPC_E500_DEBUG_TLB
390 Enables a temporary TLB entry to be used during boot to work
391 around limitations in e500v1 and e500v2 external debugger
392 support. This reduces the portions of the boot code where
393 breakpoints and single stepping do not work. The value of this
394 symbol should be set to the TLB1 entry to be used for this
397 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
399 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
400 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
401 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
403 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
404 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
406 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
407 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
409 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
410 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
411 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
412 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
414 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
417 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
419 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
420 according to the A004510 workaround.
422 - Generic CPU options:
423 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
425 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
426 values is arch specific.
428 - Intel Monahans options:
429 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO
431 Defines the Monahans run mode to oscillator
432 ratio. Valid values are 8, 16, 24, 31. The core
433 frequency is this value multiplied by 13 MHz.
435 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_TURBO_RUN_MODE_RATIO
437 Defines the Monahans turbo mode to oscillator
438 ratio. Valid values are 1 (default if undefined) and
439 2. The core frequency as calculated above is multiplied
443 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
445 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
446 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
449 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
451 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
452 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
454 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
457 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
461 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
463 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
465 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
466 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
468 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
470 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
471 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
472 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
475 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
477 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
478 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
480 CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD
482 Use this flag to build U-Boot using the Thumb instruction
483 set for ARM architectures. Thumb instruction set provides
484 better code density. For ARM architectures that support
485 Thumb2 this flag will result in Thumb2 code generated by
488 - Linux Kernel Interface:
491 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
492 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
493 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
494 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
495 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
496 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
498 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
499 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
502 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
504 When transferring memsize parameter to linux, some versions
505 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
506 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
510 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
511 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
515 * New libfdt-based support
516 * Adds the "fdt" command
517 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
519 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node (only required for
520 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
521 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node (only required for
522 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
523 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
524 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
526 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
529 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
531 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
532 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
536 This define fills in the correct boot CPU in the boot
537 param header, the default value is zero if undefined.
541 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
542 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
543 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
544 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
545 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
546 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
548 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
550 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
551 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
552 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
553 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
554 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
555 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
556 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
558 - vxWorks boot parameters:
560 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
561 environments variables: bootfile, ipaddr, serverip, hostname.
562 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
564 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_DEVICE - The vxworks device name
565 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_MAC_PTR - Ethernet 6 byte MA -address
566 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_SERVERNAME - Name of the server
567 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_ADDR - Address of boot parameters
569 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_ADD_PARAMS
571 Add it at the end of the bootline. E.g "u=username pw=secret"
573 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
574 the defaults discussed just above.
576 - Cache Configuration:
577 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
578 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
579 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
581 - Cache Configuration for ARM:
582 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
584 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
585 controller register space
590 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
594 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
598 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
599 the clock speed of the UARTs.
603 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
604 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
605 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
607 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_RLCR
609 Some vendor versions of PL011 serial ports (e.g. ST-Ericsson U8500)
610 have separate receive and transmit line control registers. Set
611 this variable to initialize the extra register.
613 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_FLUSH_ON_INIT
615 On some platforms (e.g. U8500) U-Boot is loaded by a second stage
616 boot loader that has already initialized the UART. Define this
617 variable to flush the UART at init time.
621 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port
622 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2,
623 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial
624 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE
626 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
627 port routines must be defined elsewhere
628 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
631 Enables console device for a color framebuffer. Needs following
632 defines (cf. smiLynxEM, i8042)
633 VIDEO_FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN graphic memory organisation
635 VIDEO_HW_RECTFILL graphic chip supports
638 VIDEO_HW_BITBLT graphic chip supports
639 bit-blit (cf. smiLynxEM)
640 VIDEO_VISIBLE_COLS visible pixel columns
642 VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS visible pixel rows
643 VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE bytes per pixel
644 VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT graphic data format
645 (0-5, cf. cfb_console.c)
646 VIDEO_FB_ADRS framebuffer address
647 VIDEO_KBD_INIT_FCT keyboard int fct
648 (i.e. i8042_kbd_init())
649 VIDEO_TSTC_FCT test char fct
651 VIDEO_GETC_FCT get char fct
653 CONFIG_CONSOLE_CURSOR cursor drawing on/off
654 (requires blink timer
656 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c)
657 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME display time/date info in
659 (requires CONFIG_CMD_DATE)
660 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO display Linux logo in
662 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO use bmp_logo.h instead of
663 linux_logo.h for logo.
664 Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
665 CONFIG_CONSOLE_EXTRA_INFO
666 additional board info beside
669 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE_ANSI is defined, console will support
670 a limited number of ANSI escape sequences (cursor control,
671 erase functions and limited graphics rendition control).
673 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is
674 default i/o. Serial console can be forced with
675 environment 'console=serial'.
677 When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console
678 messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with
679 the "silent" environment variable. See
680 doc/README.silent for more information.
683 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
684 Select one of the baudrates listed in
685 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
686 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
688 - Console Rx buffer length
689 With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define
690 the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC.
691 This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible.
692 If using CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN also CONFIG_SYS_MAXIDLE
693 must be defined, to setup the maximum idle timeout for
696 - Pre-Console Buffer:
697 Prior to the console being initialised (i.e. serial UART
698 initialised etc) all console output is silently discarded.
699 Defining CONFIG_PRE_CONSOLE_BUFFER will cause U-Boot to
700 buffer any console messages prior to the console being
701 initialised to a buffer of size CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ
702 bytes located at CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR. The buffer is
703 a circular buffer, so if more than CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ
704 bytes are output before the console is initialised, the
705 earlier bytes are discarded.
707 'Sane' compilers will generate smaller code if
708 CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ is a power of 2
710 - Safe printf() functions
711 Define CONFIG_SYS_VSNPRINTF to compile in safe versions of
712 the printf() functions. These are defined in
713 include/vsprintf.h and include snprintf(), vsnprintf() and
714 so on. Code size increase is approximately 300-500 bytes.
715 If this option is not given then these functions will
716 silently discard their buffer size argument - this means
717 you are not getting any overflow checking in this case.
719 - Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds
720 Delay before automatically booting the default image;
721 set to -1 to disable autoboot.
722 set to -2 to autoboot with no delay and not check for abort
723 (even when CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK is defined).
725 See doc/README.autoboot for these options that
726 work with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY. None are required.
727 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
728 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_MIN
729 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
730 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT
731 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
732 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
733 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2
734 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR2
735 CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK
736 CONFIG_RESET_TO_RETRY
740 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
741 define a command string that is automatically executed
742 when no character is read on the console interface
743 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
746 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
747 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
748 environment value "bootargs".
750 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
751 The value of these goes into the environment as
752 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
753 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
759 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
760 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
761 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
762 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
763 entering interactive mode.
765 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
766 automatically generated or modified. For an example
767 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
768 modified when the user holds down a certain
769 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
772 - Serial Download Echo Mode:
774 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
775 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
776 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
777 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
778 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
779 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
781 - Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
783 Select one of the baudrates listed in
784 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
787 Monitor commands can be included or excluded
788 from the build by using the #include files
789 <config_cmd_all.h> and #undef'ing unwanted
790 commands, or using <config_cmd_default.h>
791 and augmenting with additional #define's
794 The default command configuration includes all commands
795 except those marked below with a "*".
797 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
798 CONFIG_CMD_BDI bdinfo
799 CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger
800 CONFIG_CMD_BMP * BMP support
801 CONFIG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands
802 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD bootd
803 CONFIG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache
804 CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo
805 CONFIG_CMD_CRC32 * crc32
806 CONFIG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time...
807 CONFIG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support
808 CONFIG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics
809 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510 * ds4510 I2C gpio commands
810 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO * ds4510 I2C info command
811 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM * ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
812 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST * ds4510 I2C rst command
813 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
814 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
815 CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV edit env variable
816 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
817 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
818 CONFIG_CMD_EXPORTENV * export the environment
819 CONFIG_CMD_EXT2 * ext2 command support
820 CONFIG_CMD_EXT4 * ext4 command support
821 CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV saveenv
822 CONFIG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support
823 CONFIG_CMD_FAT * FAT command support
824 CONFIG_CMD_FDOS * Dos diskette Support
825 CONFIG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect
826 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support
827 CONFIG_CMD_GETTIME * Get time since boot
828 CONFIG_CMD_GO * the 'go' command (exec code)
829 CONFIG_CMD_GREPENV * search environment
830 CONFIG_CMD_HWFLOW * RTS/CTS hw flow control
831 CONFIG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support
832 CONFIG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support
833 CONFIG_CMD_IMI iminfo
834 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS List all found images
835 CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support
836 CONFIG_CMD_IMPORTENV * import an environment
837 CONFIG_CMD_INI * import data from an ini file into the env
838 CONFIG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo
839 CONFIG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values
840 CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support
841 CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb
842 CONFIG_CMD_LDRINFO ldrinfo (display Blackfin loader)
843 CONFIG_CMD_LINK_LOCAL * link-local IP address auto-configuration
845 CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb
846 CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads
847 CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM print md5 message digest
848 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
849 CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
851 CONFIG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc
852 CONFIG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support
853 CONFIG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands
854 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS * MTD partition support
855 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
856 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
857 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X * PCA953x I2C gpio commands
858 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
859 CONFIG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo
860 CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support
861 CONFIG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
863 CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O
864 CONFIG_CMD_READ * Read raw data from partition
865 CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump
866 CONFIG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable
867 CONFIG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump
868 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI * SCSI Support
869 CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information
870 (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
871 CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access
873 CONFIG_CMD_SF * Read/write/erase SPI NOR flash
874 CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM print sha1 memory digest
875 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
876 CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support
877 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
878 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPSRV * TFTP transfer in server mode
879 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPPUT * TFTP put command (upload)
880 CONFIG_CMD_TIME * run command and report execution time (ARM specific)
881 CONFIG_CMD_TIMER * access to the system tick timer
882 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
883 CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support
884 CONFIG_CMD_MFSL * Microblaze FSL support
887 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
888 support you can write:
890 #include "config_cmd_all.h"
891 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
894 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
896 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
897 (configuration option CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know
898 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data
899 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or
900 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be
901 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other
902 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an
903 initial stack and some data.
906 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
910 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
911 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
912 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
913 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
914 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
916 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
917 be done using one of the two options below:
920 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
921 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
922 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
923 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
924 the global data structure as gd->blob.
927 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
928 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
929 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
931 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
933 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
934 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
935 still use the individual files if you need something more
940 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
941 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
942 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260
943 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
944 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
945 available, then no further board specific code should
949 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
950 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
951 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
954 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
955 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
956 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
957 version as printed by the "version" command.
958 Any change to this variable will be reverted at the
963 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
964 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
967 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx
968 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
969 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
970 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
971 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
972 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
973 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
974 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
975 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
976 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
977 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
978 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
981 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
982 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
985 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
986 CONFIG_PCA953X_INFO - enable pca953x info command
988 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
989 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
990 pins supported by a particular chip.
992 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
993 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
997 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
998 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
999 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
1000 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
1002 - Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
1003 Zero or more of the following:
1004 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
1005 CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION MS Dos partition table, traditional on the
1006 Intel architecture, USB sticks, etc.
1007 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
1008 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
1009 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
1011 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS Memory Technology Device partition table.
1013 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
1014 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at
1015 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
1018 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
1019 board configurations files but used nowhere!
1021 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
1022 be performed by calling the function
1023 ide_set_reset(int reset)
1024 which has to be defined in a board specific file
1029 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
1034 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
1035 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
1036 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
1037 support disks up to 2.1TB.
1039 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
1040 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
1044 At the moment only there is only support for the
1045 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
1046 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
1048 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
1049 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
1050 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
1051 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
1053 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
1055 The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
1056 SCSI devices found during the last scan.
1058 - NETWORK Support (PCI):
1060 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
1063 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
1064 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
1065 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
1067 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
1068 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
1069 example with the "sspi" command.
1072 Management command for E1000 devices. When used on devices
1073 with SPI support you can reprogram the EEPROM from U-Boot.
1075 CONFIG_E1000_FALLBACK_MAC
1076 default MAC for empty EEPROM after production.
1079 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
1080 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
1081 write routine for first time initialisation.
1084 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
1085 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
1086 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
1089 Support for National dp83815 chips.
1092 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
1094 - NETWORK Support (other):
1096 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
1097 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
1100 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
1102 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
1103 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
1104 The driver doen't show link status messages.
1106 CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
1107 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
1110 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
1112 CONFIG_LAN91C96_BASE
1113 Define this to hold the physical address
1114 of the LAN91C96's I/O space
1116 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
1117 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
1120 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
1122 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
1123 Define this to hold the physical address
1124 of the device (I/O space)
1126 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
1127 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1129 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
1130 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
1131 (some hardware wont work with macros)
1133 CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
1134 Support for davinci emac
1136 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
1137 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
1140 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
1142 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
1143 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
1144 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
1145 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
1146 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
1147 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
1148 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
1149 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
1152 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
1155 Define this to hold the physical address
1156 of the device (I/O space)
1158 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
1159 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1161 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
1162 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
1163 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
1164 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
1167 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
1169 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
1170 Define the number of ports to be used
1172 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1173 Define the ETH PHY's address
1175 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1176 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1179 CONFIG_GENERIC_LPC_TPM
1180 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1181 per system is supported at this time.
1183 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1184 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1185 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1189 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
1190 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define
1191 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1192 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
1193 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
1196 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1198 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
1200 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
1204 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
1205 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
1206 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100
1207 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100
1208 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
1209 May be defined to allow interrupt polling
1210 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
1212 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1213 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1216 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1217 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1218 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
1219 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
1220 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1221 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
1222 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
1223 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1224 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1226 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1227 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1228 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1229 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
1232 Define this to build a UDC device
1235 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1236 talk to the UDC device
1239 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1240 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1241 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1242 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1243 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1246 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
1247 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1251 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
1252 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
1253 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
1255 CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0xBLAH
1256 Derive USB clock from brgclk
1257 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0x04
1259 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
1260 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
1261 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
1262 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1263 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1264 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1266 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1267 Define this string as the name of your company for
1268 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
1270 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1271 Define this string as the name of your product
1272 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1274 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1275 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1276 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1277 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1278 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
1280 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1281 Define this as the unique Product ID
1283 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
1285 - ULPI Layer Support:
1286 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1287 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1288 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1289 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1290 viewport is supported.
1291 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1292 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
1293 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1294 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1295 the appropriate value in Hz.
1298 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1299 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1300 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
1301 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
1302 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1303 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
1306 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1308 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1309 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1312 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1314 - Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1315 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE,
1316 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV
1317 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1319 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1320 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
1321 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1323 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART
1324 Define this to create an own partition. You have to provide a
1325 function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num)
1327 If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to
1328 #define CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_SINGLE_PART 1
1329 to disable the command chpart. This is the default when you
1330 have not defined a custom partition
1332 - FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem write function support:
1335 Define this to enable support for saving memory data as a
1336 file in FAT formatted partition.
1338 This will also enable the command "fatwrite" enabling the
1339 user to write files to FAT.
1341 CBFS (Coreboot Filesystem) support
1344 Define this to enable support for reading from a Coreboot
1345 filesystem. Available commands are cbfsinit, cbfsinfo, cbfsls
1351 Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard
1355 Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and
1356 GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support.
1357 Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc
1358 for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking.
1363 Define this to enable video support (for output to
1366 CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000
1368 Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip
1370 CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM
1371 Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The
1372 video output is selected via environment 'videoout'
1373 (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is
1376 For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is
1377 selected via environment 'videomode'. Two different ways
1379 - "videomode=num" 'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers.
1380 Following standard modes are supported (* is default):
1382 Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024
1383 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1384 8 bits | 0x301* 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307
1385 15 bits | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319
1386 16 bits | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A
1387 24 bits | 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B
1388 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1389 (i.e. setenv videomode 317; saveenv; reset;)
1391 - "videomode=bootargs" all the video parameters are parsed
1392 from the bootargs. (See drivers/video/videomodes.c)
1395 CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806
1396 Enable Epson SED13806 driver. This driver supports 8bpp
1397 and 16bpp modes defined by CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_8BPP
1398 or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP
1401 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1402 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1403 support, and should also define these other macros:
1409 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1410 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1412 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1414 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1415 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1416 boot. See the documentation file README.video for a
1417 description of this variable.
1421 Enable the VGA video / BIOS for x86. The alternative if you
1422 are using coreboot is to use the coreboot frame buffer
1429 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1430 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1431 defined in your board-specific files.
1432 The only board using this so far is RBC823.
1434 - LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1436 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1437 display); also select one of the supported displays
1438 by defining one of these:
1442 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1444 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
1446 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
1448 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1450 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1451 Active, color, single scan.
1453 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1455 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
1456 Active, color, single scan.
1460 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1461 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1463 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1465 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1466 Active, color, single scan.
1470 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1471 Active, color, single scan.
1475 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1477 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1481 320x240. Black & white.
1483 Normally display is black on white background; define
1484 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
1488 Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
1491 - Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
1493 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1494 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1495 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
1496 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
1497 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1498 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1499 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1500 loaded very quickly after power-on.
1502 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1504 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1505 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1506 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1507 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1508 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1509 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1512 setenv splashpos m,m
1513 => image at center of screen
1515 setenv splashpos 30,20
1516 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1518 setenv splashpos -10,m
1519 => vertically centered image
1520 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1522 - Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1524 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1525 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1526 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1528 - Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1530 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1531 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1534 - Do compresssing for memory range:
1537 If this option is set, it would use zlib deflate method
1538 to compress the specified memory at its best effort.
1540 - Compression support:
1543 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1544 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1545 compressed images are supported.
1547 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
1548 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
1553 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1556 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1557 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1560 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1562 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1563 and Literal pos bits.
1565 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1566 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1567 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1568 a very small buffer.
1570 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1571 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
1572 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
1577 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1579 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1581 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1585 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
1586 detection of gigabit PHY is included.
1588 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1590 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1591 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1592 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1593 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1595 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1597 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1598 command issued before MII status register can be read
1608 Define a default value for Ethernet address to use
1609 for the respective Ethernet interface, in case this
1610 is not determined automatically.
1615 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
1616 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
1617 determined through e.g. bootp.
1618 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
1620 - Server IP address:
1623 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
1624 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1625 (Environment variable "serverip")
1627 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1629 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1630 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1632 - Gateway IP address:
1635 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1636 default router where packets to other networks are
1638 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1643 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1644 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1645 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1646 forwarded through a router.
1647 (Environment variable "netmask")
1649 - Multicast TFTP Mode:
1652 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1653 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
1654 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
1655 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1658 - BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1659 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1661 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1662 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1663 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1664 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1665 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1666 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1667 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1668 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
1669 following delays are inserted then:
1671 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1672 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1673 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1675 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1677 - DHCP Advanced Options:
1678 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1679 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1681 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1682 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1683 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1684 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1685 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1686 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1689 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1690 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1691 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1692 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
1693 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
1695 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1696 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
1698 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1699 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1700 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1701 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1704 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1705 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1706 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1707 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1708 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1709 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1710 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1713 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1714 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1715 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
1716 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
1717 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1718 option 12 to the DHCP server.
1720 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1722 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1723 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1724 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1725 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1726 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1727 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1728 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1729 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1730 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1731 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1734 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1735 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1736 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1737 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1738 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1740 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1743 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
1745 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1747 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1749 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1754 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1755 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
1756 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
1758 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1760 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1761 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1765 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1769 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1773 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1775 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1777 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1778 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1780 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1782 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1784 - Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED
1786 Several configurations allow to display the current
1787 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1788 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1789 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1790 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1791 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1792 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this
1795 - CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
1797 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
1798 on those systems that support this (optional)
1799 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
1801 - I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C | CONFIG_SOFT_I2C
1803 These enable I2C serial bus commands. Defining either of
1804 (but not both of) CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C will
1805 include the appropriate I2C driver for the selected CPU.
1807 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
1808 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
1809 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
1810 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
1811 command line interface.
1813 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
1815 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C configures u-boot to use a software (aka
1816 bit-banging) driver instead of CPM or similar hardware
1819 There are several other quantities that must also be
1820 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C.
1822 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
1823 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
1824 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
1825 the CPU's i2c node address).
1827 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
1828 (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
1829 and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
1830 eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
1831 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
1833 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
1835 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1836 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1837 in progress. Reset the slave devices by sending start
1838 commands until the slave device responds.
1840 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
1842 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SOFT_I2C)
1843 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1844 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
1848 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
1849 controller or configure ports.
1851 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
1855 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
1856 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
1857 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
1861 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1862 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1865 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1869 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1870 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1873 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1877 Code that returns TRUE if the I2C data line is high,
1880 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1884 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1885 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1887 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
1888 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
1889 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
1893 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1894 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1896 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
1897 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
1898 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
1902 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1903 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
1904 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
1907 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
1909 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1911 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1912 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1913 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1914 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1916 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1917 the generic GPIO functions.
1919 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
1921 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1922 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1923 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1924 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1925 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1926 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1927 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1928 is run early in the boot sequence.
1930 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
1932 An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
1933 defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
1934 boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
1935 is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
1936 using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
1937 controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
1938 i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
1939 controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
1941 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
1943 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
1944 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
1945 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
1947 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1949 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
1950 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1951 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
1952 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1954 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
1956 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
1957 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1958 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1959 a 1D array of device addresses
1962 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1963 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
1965 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1967 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1968 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MULTI_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
1970 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1972 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
1974 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1975 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1977 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
1979 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1980 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1982 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
1984 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
1985 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
1987 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
1989 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
1990 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
1991 specified DTT device.
1995 Define this option if you want to use Freescale's I2C driver in
1996 drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c.
2000 Define this option if you have I2C devices reached over 1 .. n
2001 I2C Muxes like the pca9544a. This option addes a new I2C
2002 Command "i2c bus [muxtype:muxaddr:muxchannel]" which adds a
2003 new I2C Bus to the existing I2C Busses. If you select the
2004 new Bus with "i2c dev", u-bbot sends first the commandos for
2005 the muxes to activate this new "bus".
2007 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS must be also defined, to use this
2011 Adding a new I2C Bus reached over 2 pca9544a muxes
2012 The First mux with address 70 and channel 6
2013 The Second mux with address 71 and channel 4
2015 => i2c bus pca9544a:70:6:pca9544a:71:4
2017 Use the "i2c bus" command without parameter, to get a list
2018 of I2C Busses with muxes:
2021 Busses reached over muxes:
2023 reached over Mux(es):
2026 reached over Mux(es):
2031 If you now switch to the new I2C Bus 3 with "i2c dev 3"
2032 u-boot first sends the command to the mux@70 to enable
2033 channel 6, and then the command to the mux@71 to enable
2036 After that, you can use the "normal" i2c commands as
2037 usual to communicate with your I2C devices behind
2040 This option is actually implemented for the bitbanging
2041 algorithm in common/soft_i2c.c and for the Hardware I2C
2042 Bus on the MPC8260. But it should be not so difficult
2043 to add this option to other architectures.
2045 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
2047 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
2048 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
2049 between writing the address pointer and reading the
2050 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
2051 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
2052 devices can use either method, but some require one or
2055 - SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
2057 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
2058 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
2059 D/As on the SACSng board)
2063 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
2064 only SH7757 is supported.
2068 Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing.
2069 (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X)
2073 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
2074 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
2075 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
2076 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
2077 defined, the board configuration must define several
2078 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
2079 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
2083 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
2084 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
2085 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
2086 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
2087 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
2091 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
2092 SoCs. Currently i.MX31/35/51 are supported.
2094 - FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
2096 Enables FPGA subsystem.
2098 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
2100 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
2103 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
2105 Enables support for FPGA family.
2106 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
2110 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
2112 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
2114 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
2116 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
2118 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
2119 status by the configuration function. This option
2120 will require a board or device specific function to
2125 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
2126 configuration driver.
2128 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
2129 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2131 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
2133 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2134 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2135 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2136 indicated a CRC error).
2138 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
2140 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert
2141 after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II
2142 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
2145 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
2147 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during
2148 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
2150 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
2152 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
2155 - Configuration Management:
2158 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2159 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
2161 - Vendor Parameter Protection:
2163 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2164 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
2165 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
2166 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2167 protects these variables from casual modification by
2168 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2169 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
2170 change this behaviour:
2172 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2173 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
2174 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
2177 Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR
2178 _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
2179 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
2180 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2181 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2187 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2188 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2189 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2190 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2191 this default value by defining an environment
2192 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2193 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2194 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2195 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2196 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2197 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2198 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2200 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
2203 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2204 either, which results in a memory region that will
2205 not be affected by reboots.
2207 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2208 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2209 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2210 following board configurations are known to be
2213 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
2214 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2217 - Access to physical memory region (> 4GB)
2218 Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not
2219 normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures
2220 support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit
2221 machines using physical address extension or similar.
2222 Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which
2223 currently only supports clearing the memory.
2228 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
2229 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
2230 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
2231 system where you want the system to reboot
2232 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
2233 useful during development since you can try to debug
2234 the conditions that lead to the situation.
2236 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2238 This variable defines the number of retries for
2239 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2240 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2241 default value of 5 is used.
2245 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2249 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2250 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2251 try longer timeout such as
2252 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2254 - Command Interpreter:
2255 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
2257 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
2259 Note that this feature has NOT been implemented yet
2260 for the "hush" shell.
2263 CONFIG_SYS_HUSH_PARSER
2265 Define this variable to enable the "hush" shell (from
2266 Busybox) as command line interpreter, thus enabling
2267 powerful command line syntax like
2268 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||'
2269 constructs ("shell scripts").
2271 If undefined, you get the old, much simpler behaviour
2272 with a somewhat smaller memory footprint.
2275 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
2277 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2278 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2279 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2283 In the current implementation, the local variables
2284 space and global environment variables space are
2285 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2286 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2287 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2288 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2289 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
2291 Global environment variables are those you use
2292 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2293 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2294 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
2296 To store commands and special characters in a
2297 variable, please use double quotation marks
2298 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2299 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2302 - Commandline Editing and History:
2303 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
2305 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
2306 commandline input operations
2308 - Default Environment:
2309 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2311 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2312 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
2313 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2315 For example, place something like this in your
2316 board's config file:
2318 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2322 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2323 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2324 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2325 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
2326 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
2327 You better know what you are doing here.
2329 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2330 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
2331 the environment like the "source" command or the
2334 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_CONFIG
2336 Define this in order to add variables describing the
2337 U-Boot build configuration to the default environment.
2338 These will be named arch, cpu, board, vendor, and soc.
2340 Enabling this option will cause the following to be defined:
2348 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG
2350 Define this in order to add variables describing certain
2351 run-time determined information about the hardware to the
2352 environment. These will be named board_name, board_rev.
2354 - DataFlash Support:
2355 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
2357 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
2358 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
2361 - Serial Flash support
2364 Defining this option enables SPI flash commands
2365 'sf probe/read/write/erase/update'.
2367 Usage requires an initial 'probe' to define the serial
2368 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2371 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2372 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2373 flash is present on the system.
2375 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2376 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2377 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2378 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2380 - SystemACE Support:
2383 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
2384 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
2385 of the chip must also be defined in the
2386 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
2388 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
2389 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
2391 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
2392 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
2394 - TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2397 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
2398 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
2399 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
2400 number generator is used.
2402 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2403 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2404 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2406 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
2407 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2408 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2409 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2410 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2411 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2412 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2414 - Show boot progress:
2415 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2417 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2418 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2419 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2420 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2421 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2422 the following checkpoints are implemented:
2424 - Detailed boot stage timing
2426 Define this option to get detailed timing of each stage
2427 of the boot process.
2429 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_USER_COUNT
2430 This is the number of available user bootstage records.
2431 Each time you call bootstage_mark(BOOTSTAGE_ID_ALLOC, ...)
2432 a new ID will be allocated from this stash. If you exceed
2433 the limit, recording will stop.
2435 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_REPORT
2436 Define this to print a report before boot, similar to this:
2438 Timer summary in microseconds:
2441 3,575,678 3,575,678 board_init_f start
2442 3,575,695 17 arch_cpu_init A9
2443 3,575,777 82 arch_cpu_init done
2444 3,659,598 83,821 board_init_r start
2445 3,910,375 250,777 main_loop
2446 29,916,167 26,005,792 bootm_start
2447 30,361,327 445,160 start_kernel
2449 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTSTAGE
2450 Add a 'bootstage' command which supports printing a report
2451 and un/stashing of bootstage data.
2453 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_FDT
2454 Stash the bootstage information in the FDT. A root 'bootstage'
2455 node is created with each bootstage id as a child. Each child
2456 has a 'name' property and either 'mark' containing the
2457 mark time in microsecond, or 'accum' containing the
2458 accumulated time for that bootstage id in microseconds.
2463 name = "board_init_f";
2472 Code in the Linux kernel can find this in /proc/devicetree.
2474 Legacy uImage format:
2477 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
2478 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
2479 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
2480 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
2481 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
2482 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
2483 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2484 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2485 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2486 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
2487 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2488 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2489 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2490 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
2491 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
2492 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
2494 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2495 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2496 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2497 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2498 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2499 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2500 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
2501 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
2502 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2503 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2505 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
2507 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
2508 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2509 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
2511 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2512 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2513 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2514 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2515 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2516 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2517 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2518 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2519 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2520 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2521 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2522 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2523 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2524 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2525 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2526 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2527 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2528 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2529 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2530 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2531 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2532 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2533 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2534 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2535 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2536 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2537 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2538 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2539 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2540 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2541 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2542 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2543 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2544 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2545 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2546 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2547 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2548 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2549 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2550 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2551 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2552 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2553 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2554 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2555 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2556 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2557 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
2559 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
2561 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
2562 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2563 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
2565 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
2566 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling NetLoop()
2567 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in NetLoop() occurred
2568 81 common/cmd_net.c NetLoop() back without error
2569 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2570 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
2571 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2572 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
2573 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
2578 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2579 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2580 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2581 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2582 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2583 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
2584 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
2585 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2586 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2587 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2588 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2589 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2590 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2591 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
2592 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2593 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2594 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2595 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2596 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2597 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2598 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2599 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2601 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2602 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2603 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
2604 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
2605 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2606 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2607 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2608 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2609 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2610 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2611 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2612 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2613 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2614 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2615 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2616 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2618 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
2619 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2621 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
2622 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2624 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
2625 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2627 - FIT image support:
2629 Enable support for the FIT uImage format.
2631 CONFIG_FIT_BEST_MATCH
2632 When no configuration is explicitly selected, default to the
2633 one whose fdt's compatibility field best matches that of
2634 U-Boot itself. A match is considered "best" if it matches the
2635 most specific compatibility entry of U-Boot's fdt's root node.
2636 The order of entries in the configuration's fdt is ignored.
2638 - Standalone program support:
2639 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2641 This option defines a board specific value for the
2642 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
2643 overwriting the architecture dependent default
2646 - Frame Buffer Address:
2649 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
2650 address for frame buffer.
2651 Then system will reserve the frame buffer address to
2652 defined address instead of lcd_setmem (this function
2653 grabs the memory for frame buffer by panel's size).
2655 Please see board_init_f function.
2657 - Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2659 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2660 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2662 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2663 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2665 - MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2668 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
2669 Needed for mtdparts command support.
2671 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2673 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
2674 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
2678 Enable building of SPL globally.
2681 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
2684 Maximum binary size (text, data and rodata) of the SPL binary.
2686 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
2687 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
2689 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
2690 Address to relocate to. If unspecified, this is equal to
2691 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
2693 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
2694 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
2696 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2697 Maximum binary size of the BSS section of the SPL binary.
2700 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
2702 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
2703 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
2704 relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
2707 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
2708 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2710 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
2711 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2713 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK
2714 Enable the SPL framework under common/. This framework
2715 supports MMC, NAND and YMODEM loading of U-Boot and NAND
2716 NAND loading of the Linux Kernel.
2718 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
2719 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
2720 about the running system.
2722 CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
2723 Arch init code should be built for a very small image
2725 CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
2726 Support for common/libcommon.o in SPL binary
2728 CONFIG_SPL_LIBDISK_SUPPORT
2729 Support for disk/libdisk.o in SPL binary
2731 CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT
2732 Support for drivers/i2c/libi2c.o in SPL binary
2734 CONFIG_SPL_GPIO_SUPPORT
2735 Support for drivers/gpio/libgpio.o in SPL binary
2737 CONFIG_SPL_MMC_SUPPORT
2738 Support for drivers/mmc/libmmc.o in SPL binary
2740 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR,
2741 CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_MAX_SIZE_SECTORS,
2742 CONFIG_SYS_MMC_SD_FAT_BOOT_PARTITION
2743 Address, size and partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from
2744 when the MMC is being used in raw mode.
2746 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT
2747 Support for fs/fat/libfat.o in SPL binary
2749 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
2750 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from FAT
2752 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE
2753 Include nand_base.c in the SPL. Requires
2754 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS.
2756 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS
2757 SPL uses normal NAND drivers, not minimal drivers.
2760 Include standard software ECC in the SPL
2762 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
2763 Support for NAND boot using simple NAND drivers that
2764 expose the cmd_ctrl() interface.
2766 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
2767 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
2768 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
2769 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
2770 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
2771 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
2774 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
2775 Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
2777 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
2778 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
2780 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
2781 Size of image to load
2783 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
2784 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
2786 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
2787 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
2788 data. This is used for example on davinci plattforms.
2790 CONFIG_SPL_OMAP3_ID_NAND
2791 Support for an OMAP3-specific set of functions to return the
2792 ID and MFR of the first attached NAND chip, if present.
2794 CONFIG_SPL_SERIAL_SUPPORT
2795 Support for drivers/serial/libserial.o in SPL binary
2797 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_FLASH_SUPPORT
2798 Support for drivers/mtd/spi/libspi_flash.o in SPL binary
2800 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUPPORT
2801 Support for drivers/spi/libspi.o in SPL binary
2803 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
2804 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
2806 CONFIG_SPL_LIBGENERIC_SUPPORT
2807 Support for lib/libgeneric.o in SPL binary
2810 Final target image containing SPL and payload. Some SPLs
2811 use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
2812 example if more than one image needs to be produced.
2817 [so far only for SMDK2400 boards]
2819 - Modem support enable:
2820 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT
2822 - RTS/CTS Flow control enable:
2825 - Modem debug support:
2826 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG
2828 Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg())
2829 for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000.
2831 - Interrupt support (PPC):
2833 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2834 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
2835 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
2836 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
2837 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
2838 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
2839 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
2840 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2841 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2842 general timer_interrupt().
2846 In the target system modem support is enabled when a
2847 specific key (key combination) is pressed during
2848 power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally
2849 (autoboot). The key_pressed() function is called from
2850 board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy
2851 function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem
2854 If there are no modem init strings in the
2855 environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the
2856 previous output (banner, info printfs) will be
2859 See also: doc/README.Modem
2861 Board initialization settings:
2862 ------------------------------
2864 During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
2865 to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
2866 before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
2867 following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
2868 architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
2869 typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
2871 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
2872 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
2873 - CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
2874 - CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
2876 Configuration Settings:
2877 -----------------------
2879 - CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
2880 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2882 - CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2883 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2885 - CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
2886 prompt for user input.
2888 - CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
2890 - CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
2892 - CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
2894 - CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
2895 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2898 - CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
2899 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2901 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET
2902 Suppress display of console information at boot.
2904 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
2905 If the board specific function
2906 extern int overwrite_console (void);
2907 returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the
2908 serial port, else the settings in the environment are used.
2910 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE
2911 Enable the call to overwrite_console().
2913 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE
2914 Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings.
2916 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
2917 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2920 - CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
2921 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
2923 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
2924 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2925 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2927 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE (PPC only):
2928 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
2929 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
2930 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
2931 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2932 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2933 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
2934 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
2935 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
2936 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
2938 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2939 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2942 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2943 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2944 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2945 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2948 - CONFIG_SYS_TFTP_LOADADDR:
2949 Default load address for network file downloads
2951 - CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
2952 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2954 - CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
2955 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2957 - CONFIG_SYS_MBIO_BASE:
2958 Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a
2961 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
2962 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2964 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
2965 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2966 make config files to be same as the text base address
2967 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
2968 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
2970 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
2971 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2972 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2973 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2976 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
2977 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2979 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
2980 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
2981 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
2982 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
2983 to adjust this setting to your needs.
2985 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
2986 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
2987 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
2988 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
2989 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
2990 enviroment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
2991 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
2992 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
2993 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
2994 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
2995 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
2997 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
2998 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
2999 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
3002 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
3003 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
3004 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3006 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
3007 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
3008 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3010 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
3011 Max number of Flash memory banks
3013 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
3014 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
3016 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
3017 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
3019 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
3020 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
3022 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
3023 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
3025 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
3026 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
3028 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
3029 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
3030 instead of U-Boot software protection.
3032 - CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
3034 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
3035 without this option such a download has to be
3036 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
3037 copy from RAM to flash.
3039 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
3040 you can check if the download worked before you erase
3041 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
3042 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
3043 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
3045 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
3046 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
3047 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
3049 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
3050 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
3051 in the drivers directory
3053 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
3054 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
3055 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
3058 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
3059 Use buffered writes to flash.
3061 - CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
3062 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
3065 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
3066 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
3067 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
3068 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
3069 optionally available.
3071 - CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
3072 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
3073 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
3074 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
3076 - CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
3077 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
3078 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
3079 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
3080 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
3081 on high Ethernet traffic.
3082 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
3084 - CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
3086 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
3087 internally to store the environment settings. The default
3088 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
3089 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
3090 lib/hashtable.c for details.
3092 The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
3093 of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
3094 following configurations:
3096 - CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
3098 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
3099 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
3101 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
3103 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
3105 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
3106 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
3107 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
3108 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
3109 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
3110 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
3111 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
3112 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
3113 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
3114 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
3115 between U-Boot and the environment.
3117 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3119 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
3120 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
3121 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
3122 for this sector is given here.
3124 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
3128 This is just another way to specify the start address of
3129 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
3132 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
3134 Size of the sector containing the environment.
3137 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
3138 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
3143 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
3144 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
3145 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
3146 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
3148 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
3149 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
3150 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
3151 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
3152 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
3153 updating the environment in flash makes it always
3154 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
3155 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
3156 RAM, your target system will be dead.
3158 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
3159 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
3161 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
3162 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
3163 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
3164 a "saveenv" operation.
3166 BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
3167 source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
3171 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
3173 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
3174 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
3180 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
3181 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
3182 can just be read and written to, without any special
3185 BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
3186 in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the
3187 console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
3190 Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3191 environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3192 keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3193 to save the current settings.
3196 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
3198 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
3199 device and a driver for it.
3201 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3204 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
3205 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
3207 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
3208 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
3209 The default address is zero.
3211 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
3212 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
3213 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
3214 would require six bits.
3216 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
3217 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
3218 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
3220 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
3221 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
3222 that this is NOT the chip address length!
3224 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
3225 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
3226 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
3227 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
3228 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
3231 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
3232 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
3233 in the chip address.
3235 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
3236 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
3238 - CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C
3239 define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your
3240 EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.
3242 - CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS
3243 if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over
3244 I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this
3245 EEPROM. For example:
3247 #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS "pca9547:70:d\0"
3249 EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over
3250 a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.
3252 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
3254 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
3255 want to use for the environment.
3257 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3261 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
3262 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
3263 at the specified address.
3265 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_REMOTE:
3267 Define this if you have a remote memory space which you
3268 want to use for the local device's environment.
3273 These two #defines specify the address and size of the
3274 environment area within the remote memory space. The
3275 local device can get the environment from remote memory
3276 space by SRIO or PCIE links.
3278 BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
3279 "saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
3280 environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
3281 but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
3283 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
3285 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
3286 for the environment.
3288 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3291 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
3292 area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
3293 aligned to an erase block boundary.
3295 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
3297 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
3298 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
3299 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
3300 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_RENDUND must be
3301 aligned to an erase block boundary.
3303 - CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):
3305 Specifies the length of the region in which the environment
3306 can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's
3307 block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than
3308 are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within
3309 the range to be avoided.
3311 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):
3313 Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the
3314 environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The
3315 "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset.
3316 Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when
3317 using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.
3319 - CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
3321 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
3322 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
3323 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
3325 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
3327 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
3328 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
3329 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
3330 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
3331 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
3332 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
3333 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
3335 Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
3336 has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
3337 created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f()
3338 until then to read environment variables.
3340 The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
3341 is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
3342 with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
3343 necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
3344 "baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
3345 have any device yet where we could complain.]
3347 Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
3348 the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
3349 use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
3351 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
3352 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
3354 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
3355 also needs to be defined.
3357 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
3358 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
3360 - CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
3361 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
3362 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
3363 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
3364 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
3365 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
3367 Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
3368 ---------------------------------------------------
3370 - CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
3371 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
3373 - CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
3374 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
3376 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
3377 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
3378 the IMMR register after a reset.
3380 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
3381 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
3384 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
3385 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
3386 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
3388 CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR must also be set to this value,
3389 for cross-platform code that uses that macro instead.
3391 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
3392 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
3393 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
3394 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
3395 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
3396 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
3397 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
3399 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
3400 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
3402 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
3403 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
3404 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
3405 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3406 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3408 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
3409 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
3410 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3411 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3413 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
3414 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
3415 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
3417 - Floppy Disk Support:
3418 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
3420 the default drive number (default value 0)
3422 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
3424 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
3427 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
3429 defines the offset of register from address. It
3430 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
3431 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
3433 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
3434 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
3437 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
3438 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
3439 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
3440 source code. It is used to make hardware dependant
3444 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
3445 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
3446 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
3447 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
3448 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
3451 - CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
3452 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
3453 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
3455 - CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
3457 Start address of memory area that can be used for
3458 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
3459 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
3460 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
3461 will become available only after programming the
3462 memory controller and running certain initialization
3465 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
3466 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
3467 - MPC824X: data cache
3468 - PPC4xx: data cache
3470 - CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
3472 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
3473 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
3474 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
3475 data is located at the end of the available space
3476 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
3477 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
3478 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
3479 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
3482 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
3483 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
3484 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
3485 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
3486 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
3488 - CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
3490 - CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
3492 - CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
3494 - CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
3496 - CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
3498 - CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
3500 - CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
3503 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
3504 periodic timer for refresh
3506 - CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
3508 - FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
3509 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
3510 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
3511 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
3512 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
3514 - SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
3515 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
3516 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
3517 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
3519 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
3520 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
3521 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
3522 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
3524 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
3525 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
3526 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
3528 - CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
3529 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
3530 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
3532 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
3533 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
3534 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
3536 - CONFIG_SYS_USE_OSCCLK:
3537 Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful,
3538 wrong setting might damage your board. Read
3539 doc/README.MBX before setting this variable!
3541 - CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
3542 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
3543 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
3544 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
3547 - CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
3548 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
3549 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
3550 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
3551 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
3552 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
3553 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
3554 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
3555 Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
3557 - CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE:
3558 Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
3561 - CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
3562 Only scan through and get the devices on the busses.
3563 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
3564 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
3565 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
3566 by coreboot or similar.
3569 Chip has SRIO or not
3572 Board has SRIO 1 port available
3575 Board has SRIO 2 port available
3577 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
3578 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3580 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
3581 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3583 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
3584 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
3586 - CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_16
3587 Defined to tell the NDFC that the NAND chip is using a
3590 - CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
3591 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
3592 a default value will be used.
3595 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
3596 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
3599 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
3601 - CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
3602 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
3603 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
3604 to something your driver can deal with.
3606 - CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
3607 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
3608 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
3609 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
3610 header files or board specific files.
3612 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
3613 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
3615 - CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
3616 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
3617 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
3619 - CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
3620 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
3622 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
3623 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
3624 to the given FEC; i. e.
3625 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
3626 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
3628 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
3630 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
3631 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
3632 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
3635 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
3636 Note that this is a global option, we can't
3637 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
3639 - CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
3640 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
3643 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
3645 Where address/count indicate a memory area
3646 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
3650 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
3651 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
3654 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
3659 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
3661 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
3662 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
3664 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
3665 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
3667 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
3668 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain
3669 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
3670 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
3671 relocate itself into RAM.
3673 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
3674 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
3675 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
3676 these initializations itself.
3679 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
3680 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
3681 compiling a NAND SPL.
3683 - CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMCPY
3684 CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET
3685 If these options are used a optimized version of memcpy/memset will
3686 be used if available. These functions may be faster under some
3687 conditions but may increase the binary size.
3689 - CONFIG_X86_NO_RESET_VECTOR
3690 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is excluded. You will need
3691 to do this when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
3693 - CONFIG_X86_NO_REAL_MODE
3694 If defined, x86 real mode code is omitted. This assumes a
3695 32-bit environment where such code is not needed. You will
3696 need to do this when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
3699 Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
3700 -----------------------------------
3702 The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
3703 loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
3704 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
3705 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
3708 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_ADDR
3709 The address in the storage device where the firmware is located. The
3710 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
3713 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
3714 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
3715 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
3716 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
3717 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
3719 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
3720 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
3721 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
3722 virtual address in NOR flash.
3724 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
3725 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
3726 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
3728 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
3729 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
3730 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
3732 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_SPIFLASH
3733 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SPI
3734 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
3736 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
3737 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
3738 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
3739 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
3740 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
3741 master's memory space.
3743 Building the Software:
3744 ======================
3746 Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
3747 and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
3748 all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
3749 (potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
3750 recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
3751 which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
3753 If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
3754 have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
3755 you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
3756 Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
3757 necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
3759 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
3760 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
3762 Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
3763 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
3764 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
3765 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
3767 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
3769 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
3770 be executed on computers running Windows.
3772 U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
3773 sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
3778 where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing configu-
3779 rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
3781 Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
3782 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
3783 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
3784 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
3785 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
3788 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
3790 make TQM823L_LCD_config
3791 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
3796 Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
3797 images ready for download to / installation on your system:
3799 - "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
3800 - "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
3801 - "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
3803 By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
3804 in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
3805 this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
3807 1. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
3809 make O=/tmp/build distclean
3810 make O=/tmp/build NAME_config
3811 make O=/tmp/build all
3813 2. Set environment variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location:
3815 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3820 Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the BUILD_DIR environment
3824 Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
3825 for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
3829 If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
3830 to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
3833 1. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel
3834 "boards.cfg" file, using the existing entries as examples.
3835 Follow the instructions there to keep the boards in order.
3836 2. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
3837 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3838 the "Makefile", a "<board>.c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds".
3839 3. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3841 3. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3842 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
3843 4. Run "make <board>_config" with your new name.
3844 5. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3845 to be installed on your target system.
3846 6. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3847 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
3850 Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3851 ==============================================================
3853 If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3854 or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
3855 provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
3856 the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
3857 official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
3859 But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3860 cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
3861 the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
3862 just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot
3863 for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can
3864 select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE'
3865 environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the ELDK cross tools
3868 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3870 or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type
3872 CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL
3874 When using the MAKEALL script, the default behaviour is to build
3875 U-Boot in the source directory. This location can be changed by
3876 setting the BUILD_DIR environment variable. Also, for each target
3877 built, the MAKEALL script saves two log files (<target>.ERR and
3878 <target>.MAKEALL) in the <source dir>/LOG directory. This default
3879 location can be changed by setting the MAKEALL_LOGDIR environment
3880 variable. For example:
3882 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3883 export MAKEALL_LOGDIR=/tmp/log
3884 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3886 With the above settings build objects are saved in the /tmp/build,
3887 log files are saved in the /tmp/log and the source tree remains clean
3888 during the whole build process.
3891 See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
3894 Monitor Commands - Overview:
3895 ============================
3897 go - start application at address 'addr'
3898 run - run commands in an environment variable
3899 bootm - boot application image from memory
3900 bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
3901 bootz - boot zImage from memory
3902 tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3903 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3904 (and eventually "gatewayip")
3905 tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
3906 rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3907 diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3908 loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3909 loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3911 mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3912 nm - memory modify (constant address)
3913 mw - memory write (fill)
3915 cmp - memory compare
3916 crc32 - checksum calculation
3917 i2c - I2C sub-system
3918 sspi - SPI utility commands
3919 base - print or set address offset
3920 printenv- print environment variables
3921 setenv - set environment variables
3922 saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3923 protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3924 erase - erase FLASH memory
3925 flinfo - print FLASH memory information
3926 nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
3927 bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3928 iminfo - print header information for application image
3929 coninfo - print console devices and informations
3930 ide - IDE sub-system
3931 loop - infinite loop on address range
3932 loopw - infinite write loop on address range
3933 mtest - simple RAM test
3934 icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3935 dcache - enable or disable data cache
3936 reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3937 echo - echo args to console
3938 version - print monitor version
3939 help - print online help
3940 ? - alias for 'help'
3943 Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3944 ========================================
3948 For now: just type "help <command>".
3951 Environment Variables:
3952 ======================
3954 U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3955 can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
3957 Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3958 "printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3959 without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3960 environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3961 working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3962 environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
3964 Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3966 List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
3968 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
3970 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
3972 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
3974 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
3976 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
3978 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3979 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3980 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3981 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3982 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3983 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
3984 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
3987 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
3988 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
3989 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
3990 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
3991 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
3992 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
3995 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3996 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3997 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3998 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3999 environment variable.
4001 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
4002 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
4003 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
4005 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
4006 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
4007 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
4008 load any image using TFTP
4010 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
4011 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
4012 be automatically started (by internally calling
4015 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
4016 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
4017 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
4018 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
4021 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
4022 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
4023 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
4024 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
4025 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
4026 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
4027 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
4028 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
4029 access it during the boot procedure.
4031 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
4032 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
4033 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
4034 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
4035 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
4036 must be accessible by the kernel.
4038 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
4039 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
4042 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
4043 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
4044 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
4045 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
4046 it must be saved and board must be reset.
4048 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
4049 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
4050 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
4051 is usually what you want since it allows for
4052 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
4053 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
4054 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
4055 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
4056 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
4057 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
4058 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
4060 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
4061 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
4062 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
4063 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
4064 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
4065 12 MB as well - this can be done with
4067 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
4069 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
4070 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
4071 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
4072 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
4073 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
4074 boot time on your system, but requires that this
4075 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
4077 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
4079 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
4080 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
4082 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
4084 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
4086 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
4088 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
4090 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
4092 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
4094 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
4095 For example you can do the following
4097 => setenv ethact FEC
4098 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
4099 => setenv ethact SCC
4100 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
4102 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
4103 available network interfaces.
4104 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
4106 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
4107 either succeed or fail without retrying.
4108 When set to "once" the network operation will
4109 fail when all the available network interfaces
4110 are tried once without success.
4111 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
4114 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
4116 tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
4119 tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
4120 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
4122 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
4123 we use the TFTP server's default block size
4125 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
4126 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
4127 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
4128 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
4129 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
4130 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
4131 with unreliable TFTP servers.
4133 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
4134 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
4137 The following image location variables contain the location of images
4138 used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
4139 not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
4140 variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
4141 server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
4142 loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
4143 flash or offset in NAND flash.
4145 *Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
4146 boards currenlty use other variables for these purposes, and some
4147 boards use these variables for other purposes.
4149 Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
4150 ----- --------- ----------- --------------
4151 u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
4152 Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
4153 device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
4154 ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
4156 The following environment variables may be used and automatically
4157 updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
4158 depending the information provided by your boot server:
4160 bootfile - see above
4161 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
4162 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
4163 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
4164 hostname - Target hostname
4166 netmask - Subnet Mask
4167 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
4168 serverip - see above
4171 There are two special Environment Variables:
4173 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
4174 as type string and/or serial number
4175 ethaddr - Ethernet address
4177 These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
4178 the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
4179 once they have been set once.
4182 Further special Environment Variables:
4184 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
4185 with the "version" command. This variable is
4186 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
4189 Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
4190 only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
4193 Command Line Parsing:
4194 =====================
4196 There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
4197 the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
4199 Old, simple command line parser:
4200 --------------------------------
4202 - supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
4203 - several commands on one line, separated by ';'
4204 - variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
4205 - special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
4207 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
4208 - You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
4209 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
4214 - similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
4215 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
4216 until...do...done, ...
4217 - supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
4218 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
4219 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
4225 (1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
4226 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
4227 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
4230 (2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
4231 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
4232 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
4233 variables are not executed.
4235 Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
4236 =======================================
4238 Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
4239 such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
4240 "working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
4242 Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
4243 MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
4244 "eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
4246 If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
4247 in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
4248 ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
4249 variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
4251 o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
4252 environment, the SROM's address is used.
4254 o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
4255 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
4258 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
4259 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
4261 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
4262 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
4265 o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
4268 If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
4269 will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
4270 may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
4271 The naming convention is as follows:
4272 "ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
4277 U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
4278 images in two formats:
4280 New uImage format (FIT)
4281 -----------------------
4283 Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
4284 to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
4285 components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
4286 SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
4292 Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
4293 preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
4294 details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
4296 * Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
4297 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
4298 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
4299 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
4301 * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
4302 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
4303 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
4304 * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
4310 The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
4311 and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
4318 Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
4319 easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
4322 U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
4323 special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
4324 "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
4325 instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
4326 serves several purposes:
4328 - the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
4329 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
4330 Flash memory footprint)
4332 - it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
4333 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
4335 - the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
4336 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
4337 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
4338 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
4339 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
4340 software is easier now.
4346 Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
4347 ---------------------------------------
4349 U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
4350 configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
4351 (no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
4354 But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
4356 Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
4357 include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
4358 Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
4359 and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
4360 as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
4363 Configuring the Linux kernel:
4364 -----------------------------
4366 No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
4367 device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
4370 Building a Linux Image:
4371 -----------------------
4373 With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
4374 not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
4375 "uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
4376 U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
4377 which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
4378 100% compatible format.
4387 The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
4388 encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
4389 CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
4391 * build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
4393 * convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
4395 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
4396 -R .note -R .comment \
4397 -S vmlinux linux.bin
4399 * compress the binary image:
4403 * package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
4405 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
4406 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
4407 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
4410 The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
4411 with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
4412 combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
4413 byte header containing information about target architecture,
4414 operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
4415 stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
4417 "mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
4418 print the header information, or to build new images.
4420 In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
4421 contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
4422 checksum verification:
4424 tools/mkimage -l image
4425 -l ==> list image header information
4427 The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
4428 from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
4430 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
4431 -n name -d data_file image
4432 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
4433 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
4434 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4435 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
4436 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
4437 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
4438 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
4439 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
4441 Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
4442 address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
4445 - 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
4446 - 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
4448 So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
4450 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4451 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
4452 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
4453 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
4454 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4455 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4456 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4457 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4458 Load Address: 0x00000000
4459 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4461 To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
4463 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
4464 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4465 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4466 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4467 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
4468 Load Address: 0x00000000
4469 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4471 NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
4472 speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
4473 needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
4474 need to be uncompressed:
4476 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
4477 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4478 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
4479 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
4480 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
4481 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4482 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4483 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
4484 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
4485 Load Address: 0x00000000
4486 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4489 Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
4490 when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
4492 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
4493 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
4494 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
4495 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4496 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
4497 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4498 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
4499 Load Address: 0x00000000
4500 Entry Point: 0x00000000
4503 Installing a Linux Image:
4504 -------------------------
4506 To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
4507 you must convert the image to S-Record format:
4509 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
4511 The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
4512 image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
4513 address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
4514 specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
4517 Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
4518 TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
4520 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
4526 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4527 ~>examples/image.srec
4528 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
4530 15989 15990 15991 15992
4531 [file transfer complete]
4533 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
4536 You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
4537 this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
4538 corruption happened:
4542 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4543 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4544 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4545 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4546 Load Address: 00000000
4547 Entry Point: 0000000c
4548 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4554 The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
4555 memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
4556 of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
4557 parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
4558 "printenv" and "setenv" commands:
4561 => printenv bootargs
4562 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
4564 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4566 => printenv bootargs
4567 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4570 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
4571 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
4572 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4573 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
4574 Load Address: 00000000
4575 Entry Point: 0000000c
4576 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4577 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4578 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
4579 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
4580 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4581 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4582 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
4585 If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
4586 the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
4587 format!) to the "bootm" command:
4589 => imi 40100000 40200000
4591 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
4592 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4593 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4594 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4595 Load Address: 00000000
4596 Entry Point: 0000000c
4597 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4599 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
4600 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4601 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4602 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4603 Load Address: 00000000
4604 Entry Point: 00000000
4605 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4607 => bootm 40100000 40200000
4608 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
4609 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
4610 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4611 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
4612 Load Address: 00000000
4613 Entry Point: 0000000c
4614 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4615 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4616 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
4617 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
4618 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
4619 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
4620 Load Address: 00000000
4621 Entry Point: 00000000
4622 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4623 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
4624 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
4625 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
4626 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
4627 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
4629 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
4630 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
4634 Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
4637 First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
4638 titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
4639 following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
4645 oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
4646 => tftp $oftaddr $oft
4647 Speed: 1000, full duplex
4649 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
4650 Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
4651 Load address: 0x300000
4654 Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
4655 => tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
4656 Speed: 1000, full duplex
4658 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
4660 Load address: 0x200000
4661 Loading:############
4663 Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
4668 => bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
4669 ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
4670 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
4671 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
4672 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
4673 Load Address: 00000000
4674 Entry Point: 00000000
4675 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4676 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4677 Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
4678 Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
4679 Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
4683 More About U-Boot Image Types:
4684 ------------------------------
4686 U-Boot supports the following image types:
4688 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
4689 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
4690 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
4691 the Standalone Program.
4692 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
4693 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
4694 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
4695 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
4696 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
4697 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
4698 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
4700 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
4701 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
4702 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
4703 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
4704 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
4705 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
4707 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
4708 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
4709 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
4710 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
4711 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
4712 a multiple of 4 bytes).
4714 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
4715 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
4718 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
4719 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
4720 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
4721 as command interpreter.
4723 Booting the Linux zImage:
4724 -------------------------
4726 On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
4727 using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
4728 as the syntax of "bootm" command.
4730 Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_INITRD_RAW allows user to supply
4731 kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
4732 address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
4733 format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
4739 One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
4740 run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
4741 U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
4743 Two simple examples are included with the sources:
4748 'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
4749 application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
4750 It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
4754 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4755 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
4756 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4757 [file transfer complete]
4759 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4761 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
4762 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4773 Hit any key to exit ...
4775 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4777 Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
4778 handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
4779 Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
4780 The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
4781 character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
4782 controlled by the following keys:
4784 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
4785 b - enable interrupts and start timer
4786 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
4787 q - quit application
4790 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4791 ~>examples/timer.srec
4792 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4793 [file transfer complete]
4795 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4798 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4801 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
4804 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
4807 [q, b, e, ?] ........
4808 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
4811 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
4814 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
4817 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
4819 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
4821 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4827 Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
4828 "minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
4829 consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
4830 Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
4831 especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
4832 use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
4833 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
4834 for help with kermit.
4837 Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
4838 configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
4840 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
4841 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
4842 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
4848 Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
4849 (build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
4851 Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
4852 NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
4853 need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
4854 Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
4855 attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
4856 missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
4858 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
4860 # ln -s powerpc machine
4861 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
4862 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
4864 Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
4865 and U-Boot include files.
4867 Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
4868 stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
4869 proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
4870 tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
4871 meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
4874 Implementation Internals:
4875 =========================
4877 The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
4878 implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
4879 inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
4883 Initial Stack, Global Data:
4884 ---------------------------
4886 The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
4887 starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
4888 system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
4889 This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
4890 is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
4891 at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
4892 options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
4893 models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
4894 MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
4895 locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
4897 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
4898 U-Boot mailing list:
4900 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4901 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
4902 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4905 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4906 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4907 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4908 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4909 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
4910 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
4911 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4912 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
4914 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4915 is another option for the system designer to use as an
4916 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
4917 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4918 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4919 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4922 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
4923 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4924 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
4925 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
4926 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4927 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4928 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4929 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4930 you get the config right.
4935 It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4936 code for the initialization procedures:
4938 * Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4941 * Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitely initialized
4942 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4943 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
4945 * Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4948 Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
4949 normal global data to share information beween the code. But it
4950 turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4951 simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4952 functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4953 functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4954 the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4955 place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4956 reserve for this purpose.
4958 When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4959 relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4960 GCC's implementation.
4962 For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4964 R2: reserved for system use
4965 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4966 R5-R10: parameter passing
4967 R13: small data area pointer
4971 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4972 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4973 going back and forth between asm and C)
4975 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
4977 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4978 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4979 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4980 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4981 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4982 624 text + 127 data).
4984 On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here:
4985 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
4987 ==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data
4989 On ARM, the following registers are used:
4991 R0: function argument word/integer result
4992 R1-R3: function argument word
4994 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking if enabled)
4995 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4996 R12: temporary workspace
4999 R15: program counter
5001 ==> U-Boot will use R8 to hold a pointer to the global data
5003 On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
5004 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
5006 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
5008 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
5009 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
5011 On NDS32, the following registers are used:
5013 R0-R1: argument/return
5015 R15: temporary register for assembler
5016 R16: trampoline register
5017 R28: frame pointer (FP)
5018 R29: global pointer (GP)
5019 R30: link register (LP)
5020 R31: stack pointer (SP)
5021 PC: program counter (PC)
5023 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
5025 NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
5026 or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
5031 U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
5032 MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
5034 The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
5035 controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
5036 memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
5037 physical memory banks.
5039 U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
5040 TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
5041 booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
5042 to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
5043 memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
5044 configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
5045 Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
5047 Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
5048 of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
5050 So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
5053 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
5056 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
5062 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
5063 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
5064 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
5067 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
5068 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
5069 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
5070 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
5073 System Initialization:
5074 ----------------------
5076 In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
5077 (on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
5078 configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory.
5079 To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
5080 To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
5081 initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
5082 which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
5083 part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
5084 the caches and the SIU.
5086 Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
5087 preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
5088 (multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
5089 on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
5090 programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
5091 simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
5094 When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
5095 different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
5096 bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
5097 0x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
5098 contiguous memory starting from 0.
5100 Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
5101 and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
5102 Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
5103 pages, and the final stack is set up.
5105 Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
5106 until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
5107 running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
5111 U-Boot Porting Guide:
5112 ----------------------
5114 [Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
5118 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
5120 sighandler_t no_more_time;
5122 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
5123 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
5125 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
5126 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
5130 Download latest U-Boot source;
5132 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
5135 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
5138 Read the README file in the top level directory;
5139 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
5140 Read applicable doc/*.README;
5141 Read the source, Luke;
5142 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
5145 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
5148 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
5150 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
5151 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
5152 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
5154 Create your own board support subdirectory;
5155 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
5157 Edit new board/<myboard> files
5158 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
5163 Add / modify source code;
5167 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
5169 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
5170 if (reasonable critiques)
5171 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
5173 Defend code as written;
5179 void no_more_time (int sig)
5188 All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
5189 coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
5190 "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
5192 Source files originating from a different project (for example the
5193 MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
5194 reformated to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
5197 Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
5198 Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
5201 Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
5202 - remove any trailing white space
5203 - use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
5204 - make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
5205 - do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
5206 - do not add trailing empty lines to source files
5208 Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
5209 with a request to reformat the changes.
5215 Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
5216 establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
5217 may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
5219 Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
5221 Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
5222 see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
5224 When you send a patch, please include the following information with
5227 * For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
5228 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
5229 patch actually fixes something.
5231 * For new features: a description of the feature and your
5234 * A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
5236 * For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file
5238 * When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add this
5239 board to the MAINTAINERS file, too.
5241 * If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
5242 document these in the README file.
5244 * The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
5245 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
5246 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
5247 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
5248 with some other mail clients.
5250 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
5251 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
5254 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
5255 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
5256 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
5259 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
5260 and compressed attachments must not be used.
5262 * If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
5263 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
5265 * Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
5266 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
5271 * Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched
5272 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
5273 for any of the boards.
5275 * Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
5276 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
5277 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
5279 * If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
5280 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
5281 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
5282 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
5283 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
5286 * Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
5287 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
5288 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
5289 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.