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83d290c5 1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
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eca3aeb3 3# (C) Copyright 2000 - 2013
c609719b 4# Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, [email protected].
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5
6Summary:
7========
8
24ee89b9 9This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
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10Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
11processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
12initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
13code.
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14
15The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
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16the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
17header files in common, and special provision has been made to
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18support booting of Linux images.
19
20Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
21configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
22implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
23add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
24code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
25load and run it dynamically.
26
27
28Status:
29=======
30
31In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
24ee89b9 32Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
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33"working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
34
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35In case of problems see the CHANGELOG file to find out who contributed
36the specific port. In addition, there are various MAINTAINERS files
37scattered throughout the U-Boot source identifying the people or
38companies responsible for various boards and subsystems.
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40Note: As of August, 2010, there is no longer a CHANGELOG file in the
41actual U-Boot source tree; however, it can be created dynamically
42from the Git log using:
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44 make CHANGELOG
45
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47Where to get help:
48==================
49
24ee89b9 50In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
7207b366 51U-Boot, you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
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52<[email protected]>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
53on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
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54Please see https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
55https://marc.info/?l=u-boot
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57Where to get source code:
58=========================
59
7207b366 60The U-Boot source code is maintained in the Git repository at
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61https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
62https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot
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c4bd51e2 64The "Tags" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
11ccc33f 65any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
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66available from the DENX file server through HTTPS or FTP.
67https://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
68ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
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69
70
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71Where we come from:
72===================
73
74- start from 8xxrom sources
047f6ec0 75- create PPCBoot project (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
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76- clean up code
77- make it easier to add custom boards
78- make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
79- extend functions, especially:
80 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
81 * S-Record download
82 * network boot
9e5616de 83 * ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
047f6ec0 84- create ARMBoot project (https://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
c609719b 85- add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
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86- create U-Boot project (https://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
87- current project page: see https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
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89
90Names and Spelling:
91===================
92
93The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
94"U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
95in source files etc.). Example:
96
97 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
98
99File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
100
101 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
102
103 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
104
105Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
106the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
107
108 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
109 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
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111
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112Versioning:
113===========
114
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115Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
116were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
117into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
118names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
119Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
120releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
121
122Examples:
c0f40859 123 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
360d883a 124 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
0de21ecb 125 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candidate 1 for September 2010 release
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126
127
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128Directory Hierarchy:
129====================
130
6e73ed00 131/arch Architecture-specific files
6eae68e4 132 /arc Files generic to ARC architecture
8d321b81 133 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
8d321b81 134 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
8d321b81 135 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
8d321b81 136 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
8d321b81 137 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
a47a12be 138 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
3fafced7 139 /riscv Files generic to RISC-V architecture
7207b366 140 /sandbox Files generic to HW-independent "sandbox"
8d321b81 141 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
33c7731b 142 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
e4eb313a 143 /xtensa Files generic to Xtensa architecture
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144/api Machine/arch-independent API for external apps
145/board Board-dependent files
19a91f24 146/boot Support for images and booting
740f7e5c 147/cmd U-Boot commands functions
6e73ed00 148/common Misc architecture-independent functions
7207b366 149/configs Board default configuration files
8d321b81 150/disk Code for disk drive partition handling
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151/doc Documentation (a mix of ReST and READMEs)
152/drivers Device drivers
153/dts Makefile for building internal U-Boot fdt.
154/env Environment support
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155/examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
156/fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
157/include Header Files
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158/lib Library routines generic to all architectures
159/Licenses Various license files
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160/net Networking code
161/post Power On Self Test
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162/scripts Various build scripts and Makefiles
163/test Various unit test files
6e73ed00 164/tools Tools to build and sign FIT images, etc.
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166Software Configuration:
167=======================
168
169Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
170rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
171
172There are two classes of configuration variables:
173
174* Configuration _OPTIONS_:
175 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
176 "CONFIG_".
177
178* Configuration _SETTINGS_:
179 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
180 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
6d0f6bcf 181 "CONFIG_SYS_".
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183Previously, all configuration was done by hand, which involved creating
184symbolic links and editing configuration files manually. More recently,
185U-Boot has added the Kbuild infrastructure used by the Linux kernel,
186allowing you to use the "make menuconfig" command to configure your
187build.
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188
189
190Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
191---------------------------------------------------
192
193For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
ab584d67 194configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_defconfig".
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195
196Example: For a TQM823L module type:
197
198 cd u-boot
ab584d67 199 make TQM823L_defconfig
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201Note: If you're looking for the default configuration file for a board
202you're sure used to be there but is now missing, check the file
203doc/README.scrapyard for a list of no longer supported boards.
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205Sandbox Environment:
206--------------------
207
208U-Boot can be built natively to run on a Linux host using the 'sandbox'
209board. This allows feature development which is not board- or architecture-
210specific to be undertaken on a native platform. The sandbox is also used to
211run some of U-Boot's tests.
212
bbb140ed 213See doc/arch/sandbox.rst for more details.
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215
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216Board Initialisation Flow:
217--------------------------
218
219This is the intended start-up flow for boards. This should apply for both
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220SPL and U-Boot proper (i.e. they both follow the same rules).
221
222Note: "SPL" stands for "Secondary Program Loader," which is explained in
223more detail later in this file.
224
225At present, SPL mostly uses a separate code path, but the function names
226and roles of each function are the same. Some boards or architectures
227may not conform to this. At least most ARM boards which use
228CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK conform to this.
229
230Execution typically starts with an architecture-specific (and possibly
231CPU-specific) start.S file, such as:
232
233 - arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.S
234 - arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc83xx/start.S
235 - arch/mips/cpu/start.S
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237and so on. From there, three functions are called; the purpose and
238limitations of each of these functions are described below.
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239
240lowlevel_init():
241 - purpose: essential init to permit execution to reach board_init_f()
242 - no global_data or BSS
243 - there is no stack (ARMv7 may have one but it will soon be removed)
244 - must not set up SDRAM or use console
245 - must only do the bare minimum to allow execution to continue to
246 board_init_f()
247 - this is almost never needed
248 - return normally from this function
249
250board_init_f():
251 - purpose: set up the machine ready for running board_init_r():
252 i.e. SDRAM and serial UART
253 - global_data is available
254 - stack is in SRAM
255 - BSS is not available, so you cannot use global/static variables,
256 only stack variables and global_data
257
258 Non-SPL-specific notes:
259 - dram_init() is called to set up DRAM. If already done in SPL this
260 can do nothing
261
262 SPL-specific notes:
263 - you can override the entire board_init_f() function with your own
264 version as needed.
265 - preloader_console_init() can be called here in extremis
266 - should set up SDRAM, and anything needed to make the UART work
499696e4 267 - there is no need to clear BSS, it will be done by crt0.S
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268 - for specific scenarios on certain architectures an early BSS *can*
269 be made available (via CONFIG_SPL_EARLY_BSS by moving the clearing
270 of BSS prior to entering board_init_f()) but doing so is discouraged.
271 Instead it is strongly recommended to architect any code changes
272 or additions such to not depend on the availability of BSS during
273 board_init_f() as indicated in other sections of this README to
274 maintain compatibility and consistency across the entire code base.
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275 - must return normally from this function (don't call board_init_r()
276 directly)
277
278Here the BSS is cleared. For SPL, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined, then at
279this point the stack and global_data are relocated to below
280CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR. For non-SPL, U-Boot is relocated to run at the top of
281memory.
282
283board_init_r():
284 - purpose: main execution, common code
285 - global_data is available
286 - SDRAM is available
287 - BSS is available, all static/global variables can be used
288 - execution eventually continues to main_loop()
289
290 Non-SPL-specific notes:
291 - U-Boot is relocated to the top of memory and is now running from
292 there.
293
294 SPL-specific notes:
295 - stack is optionally in SDRAM, if CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R is defined and
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296 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_CCI400
297
298 Defined For SoC that has cache coherent interconnect
299 CCN-400
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301 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_CCN504
302
303 Defined for SoC that has cache coherent interconnect CCN-504
304
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305The following options need to be configured:
306
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307- CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
308
309- Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
6ccec449 310
66412c63 311- 85xx CPU Options:
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312 CONFIG_SYS_PPC64
313
314 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
315 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
316 compliance, among other possible reasons.
317
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318 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
319
320 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
321 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
322 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
323
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324 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
325
326 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
327 tree nodes for the given platform.
328
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329 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
330
331 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
332 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
333 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
334
335 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
336 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
337
338 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
339 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
340
341 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
342 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
343 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
344 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
345
346 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
347 this erratum.
348
349 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
350
351 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
352 according to the A004510 workaround.
353
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354 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
355 This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
356 connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
357
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358 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
359 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
360 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
361
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362 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
363 This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
364 connected to the DSP core.
365
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366 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
367 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
368
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369 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
370 Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
371 In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
372 clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
373
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374- Generic CPU options:
375 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
376
377 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
378 values is arch specific.
379
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380 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR
381 Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
1c58857a 382 found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx as well as some ARM core SoCs.
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383
384 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
385 Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
386
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387 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
388 Freescale DDR1 controller.
389
390 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
391 Freescale DDR2 controller.
392
393 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
394 Freescale DDR3 controller.
395
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397 Freescale DDR4 controller.
398
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399 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
400 Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
401
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402 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR1
403 Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
404 Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
405 implemetation.
406
407 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR2
62a3b7dd 408 Board config to use DDR2. It can be enabled for SoCs with
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409 Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
410 implementation.
411
412 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR3
413 Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
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414 Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
415
416 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR3L
417 Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
418 DDR3L controllers.
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420 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
421 Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
422
423 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
424 Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
425
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426 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_CLK_DIV
427 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to IFC controller).
428
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429 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_LBC_CLK_DIV
430 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to eLBC controller).
431
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432 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
433 Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
434
435 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
436 Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
437
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438 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
439 Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
440 same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for all Power SoCs. But
441 it could be different for ARM SoCs.
442
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443 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
444 DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
445 interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
446 SoCs with ARM core.
447
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448 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_MAIN_NUM_CTRLS
449 Number of controllers used as main memory.
450
451 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_OTHER_DDR_NUM_CTRLS
452 Number of controllers used for other than main memory.
453
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454 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
455 Defines the SEC controller register space as Big Endian
456
457 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_LE
458 Defines the SEC controller register space as Little Endian
459
92bbd64e 460- MIPS CPU options:
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461 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
462
463 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
464 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
465 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
466
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467- ARM options:
468 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
469
470 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
471 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
472
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473 COUNTER_FREQUENCY
474 Generic timer clock source frequency.
475
476 COUNTER_FREQUENCY_REAL
477 Generic timer clock source frequency if the real clock is
478 different from COUNTER_FREQUENCY, and can only be determined
479 at run time.
480
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482 CONFIG_TEGRA_SUPPORT_NON_SECURE
483
484 Support executing U-Boot in non-secure (NS) mode. Certain
485 impossible actions will be skipped if the CPU is in NS mode,
486 such as ARM architectural timer initialization.
487
5da627a4 488- Linux Kernel Interface:
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489 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
490
b445bbb4 491 When transferring memsize parameter to Linux, some versions
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492 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
493 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
494
fec6d9ee 495 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
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497 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
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498 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
499 concepts).
500
501 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
502 * New libfdt-based support
503 * Adds the "fdt" command
3bb342fc 504 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
213bf8c8 505
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506 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
507
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508 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
509 addresses
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511 CONFIG_OF_IDE_FIXUP
512
513 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
514 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
515 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
516 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
517 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
518 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
519
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521
522 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
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523 environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask,
524 serverip, gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
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525 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
526
81a05d9b 527 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will override
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528 the defaults discussed just above.
529
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530- Cache Configuration for ARM:
531 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
532 controller
533 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
534 controller register space
535
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537 CONFIG_PL011_CLOCK
538
539 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
540 the clock speed of the UARTs.
541
542 CONFIG_PL01x_PORTS
543
544 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
545 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
546 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
547
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548 CONFIG_SERIAL_HW_FLOW_CONTROL
549
550 Define this variable to enable hw flow control in serial driver.
551 Current user of this option is drivers/serial/nsl16550.c driver
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553- Serial Download Echo Mode:
554 CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
555 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
556 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
557 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
558 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
559 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
560 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
561
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562- Removal of commands
563 If no commands are needed to boot, you can disable
564 CONFIG_CMDLINE to remove them. In this case, the command line
565 will not be available, and when U-Boot wants to execute the
566 boot command (on start-up) it will call board_run_command()
567 instead. This can reduce image size significantly for very
568 simple boot procedures.
569
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570- Regular expression support:
571 CONFIG_REGEX
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572 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
573 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
574 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
575 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
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578 CONFIG_SYS_WATCHDOG_FREQ
579 Some platforms automatically call WATCHDOG_RESET()
580 from the timer interrupt handler every
581 CONFIG_SYS_WATCHDOG_FREQ interrupts. If not set by the
582 board configuration file, a default of CONFIG_SYS_HZ/2
583 (i.e. 500) is used. Setting CONFIG_SYS_WATCHDOG_FREQ
584 to 0 disables calling WATCHDOG_RESET() from the timer
585 interrupt.
586
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587- Real-Time Clock:
588
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590 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
591 following options:
592
c609719b 593 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
4e8b7544 594 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
c609719b 595 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
1cb8e980 596 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
c609719b 597 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
7f70e853 598 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
412921d2 599 CONFIG_RTC_DS1339 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1339 RTC
3bac3513 600 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
9536dfcc 601 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
4c0d4c3b 602 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
2bd3cab3 603 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
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605 RV3029 RTC.
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608 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
609
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611 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
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613 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
614 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
615 pins supported by a particular chip.
616
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617 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
618 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
619
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620- I/O tracing:
621 When CONFIG_IO_TRACE is selected, U-Boot intercepts all I/O
622 accesses and can checksum them or write a list of them out
623 to memory. See the 'iotrace' command for details. This is
624 useful for testing device drivers since it can confirm that
625 the driver behaves the same way before and after a code
626 change. Currently this is supported on sandbox and arm. To
627 add support for your architecture, add '#include <iotrace.h>'
628 to the bottom of arch/<arch>/include/asm/io.h and test.
629
630 Example output from the 'iotrace stats' command is below.
631 Note that if the trace buffer is exhausted, the checksum will
632 still continue to operate.
633
634 iotrace is enabled
635 Start: 10000000 (buffer start address)
636 Size: 00010000 (buffer size)
637 Offset: 00000120 (current buffer offset)
638 Output: 10000120 (start + offset)
639 Count: 00000018 (number of trace records)
640 CRC32: 9526fb66 (CRC32 of all trace records)
641
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643
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644 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
645 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
646 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
602ad3b3 647 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
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649- Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
650 Zero or more of the following:
651 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
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652 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
653 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
654 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
655 disk/part_efi.c
c649e3c9 656 CONFIG_SCSI) you must configure support for at
923c46f9 657 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
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c609719b 659- NETWORK Support (PCI):
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661 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
662 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
663 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
664
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666 Support for National dp83815 chips.
667
668 CONFIG_NS8382X
669 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
670
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672 CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
673 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
674
3bb46d23 675 CONFIG_LAN91C96
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676 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
677
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678 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
679 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
680
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683
684 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
685 Define this to hold the physical address
686 of the device (I/O space)
687
688 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
689 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
690
691 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
692 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
693 (some hardware wont work with macros)
694
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695 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
696 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
697
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699 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
700
701 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
702 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
703 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
704 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
705 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
706 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
707 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
708 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
709
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711 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
712
713 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
714 Define the number of ports to be used
715
716 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
717 Define the ETH PHY's address
718
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719 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
720 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
721
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723 CONFIG_TPM
724 Support TPM devices.
725
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727 Support for Infineon i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
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728 per system is supported at this time.
729
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730 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
731 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
732
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733 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24
734 Support for STMicroelectronics TPM devices. Requires DM_TPM support.
735
736 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_I2C
737 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 I2C devices.
738 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and I2C.
739
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740 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_SPI
741 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 SPI devices.
742 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and SPI.
743
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744 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
745 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
746
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748 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
749 per system is supported at this time.
750
751 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
752 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
753 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
754 0xfed40000.
755
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756 CONFIG_TPM
757 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
758 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
759 Requires support for a TPM device.
760
761 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
762 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
763 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
764
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766 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
064b55cf 767 supported (PIP405, MIP405); define
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769 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
30d56fae 770 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
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771 storage devices.
772 Note:
773 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
774 (TEAC FD-05PUB).
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776 CONFIG_USB_DWC2_REG_ADDR the physical CPU address of the DWC2
777 HW module registers.
778
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780 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
781 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
782 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
11ccc33f 783 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
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785 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
386eda02 786 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
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788 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
789 a Linux host by
790 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
791 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
792 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
793 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
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796 Define this to build a UDC device
797
798 CONFIG_USB_TTY
799 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
800 talk to the UDC device
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803 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
804 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
805 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
806 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
807 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
808 speed.
809
386eda02 810 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
16c8d5e7 811 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
386eda02 812 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
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813 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
814 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
815 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
816
817 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
818 Define this string as the name of your company for
819 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
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822 Define this string as the name of your product
823 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
824
825 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
826 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
827 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
828 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
829 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
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832 Define this as the unique Product ID
833 for your device
834 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
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837 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
838 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
839 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
840 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
841 viewport is supported.
842 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
843 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
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845 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
846 the appropriate value in Hz.
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850 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
851
852 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
853 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
854
855 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_CLK
856 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
857
b3ba6e94 858- USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
bb4059a5 859 CONFIG_DFU_OVER_USB
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861
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862 CONFIG_DFU_NAND
863 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
864
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865 CONFIG_DFU_RAM
866 This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
867 Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
868 allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
869 one that would help mostly the developer.
870
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871 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
872 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
873 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
874 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
875 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
876
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878 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
879 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
880 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
881 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
882 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
883
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884 DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
885 Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
886 host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
887 a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
888
889 DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
890 Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
891 entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
892 sending again an USB request to the device.
893
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895 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
896 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
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898
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900 See Kconfig help for available keyboard drivers.
901
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903
904 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
905 display); also select one of the supported displays
906 by defining one of these:
907
fd3103bb 908 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
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fd3103bb 910 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
c609719b 911
fd3103bb 912 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
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915 Active, color, single scan.
916
917 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
918
919 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
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921
922 CONFIG_SHARP_16x9
923
924 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
925 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
926
927 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
928
929 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
930 Active, color, single scan.
931
932 CONFIG_HLD1045
933
934 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
935 Active, color, single scan.
936
937 CONFIG_OPTREX_BW
938
939 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
940 or
941 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
942 or
943 Hitachi SP14Q002
944
945 320x240. Black & white.
946
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948
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950 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
951 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
952 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
953 a per-section basis.
954
955
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957
958 Sometimes, for example if the display is mounted in portrait
959 mode or even if it's mounted landscape but rotated by 180degree,
960 we need to rotate our content of the display relative to the
961 framebuffer, so that user can read the messages which are
962 printed out.
963 Once CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is defined, the lcd_console will be
964 initialized with a given rotation from "vl_rot" out of
965 "vidinfo_t" which is provided by the board specific code.
966 The value for vl_rot is coded as following (matching to
967 fbcon=rotate:<n> linux-kernel commandline):
968 0 = no rotation respectively 0 degree
969 1 = 90 degree rotation
970 2 = 180 degree rotation
971 3 = 270 degree rotation
972
973 If CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is not defined, the console will be
974 initialized with 0degree rotation.
975
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978
979 The clock frequency of the MII bus
980
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982
983 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
984 command issued before MII status register can be read
985
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987 CONFIG_IPADDR
988
989 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
11ccc33f 990 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
c609719b 991 determined through e.g. bootp.
1ebcd654 992 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
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994- Server IP address:
995 CONFIG_SERVERIP
996
11ccc33f 997 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
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1ebcd654 999 (Environment variable "serverip")
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1002 CONFIG_GATEWAYIP
1003
1004 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1005 default router where packets to other networks are
1006 sent to.
1007 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1008
1009- Subnet mask:
1010 CONFIG_NETMASK
1011
1012 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1013 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1014 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1015 forwarded through a router.
1016 (Environment variable "netmask")
1017
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1019 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1020
1021 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1022 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1023 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1024 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1025 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1026 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1027 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1028 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
6c33c785 1029 following delays are inserted then:
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1031 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1032 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1033 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1034 4th and following
1035 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1036
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1038
1039 BOOTP packets are uniquely identified using a 32-bit ID. The
1040 server will copy the ID from client requests to responses and
1041 U-Boot will use this to determine if it is the destination of
1042 an incoming response. Some servers will check that addresses
1043 aren't in use before handing them out (usually using an ARP
1044 ping) and therefore take up to a few hundred milliseconds to
1045 respond. Network congestion may also influence the time it
1046 takes for a response to make it back to the client. If that
1047 time is too long, U-Boot will retransmit requests. In order
1048 to allow earlier responses to still be accepted after these
1049 retransmissions, U-Boot's BOOTP client keeps a small cache of
1050 IDs. The CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE controls the size of this
1051 cache. The default is to keep IDs for up to four outstanding
1052 requests. Increasing this will allow U-Boot to accept offers
1053 from a BOOTP client in networks with unusually high latency.
1054
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1058 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1059 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1060 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1061 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1062
1063 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1064
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1066
1067 FDT_SEQ_MACADDR_FROM_ENV
1068
1069 Fix-up device tree with MAC addresses fetched sequentially from
1070 environment variables. This config work on assumption that
1071 non-usable ethernet node of device-tree are either not present
1072 or their status has been marked as "disabled".
1073
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1077 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1078
1079 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1080
1081 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1082 of the device.
1083
1084 CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID
1085
1086 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1087 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
11ccc33f 1088 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
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1090 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1091
1092 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1093 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1094
1095 CONFIG_CDP_VERSION
1096
1097 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1098
1099 CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM
1100
1101 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1102
1103 CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER
1104
1105 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1106
1107 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1108
1109 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1110 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1111
1112 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1113
1114 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1115
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1118 Several configurations allow to display the current
1119 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1120 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1121 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1122 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1123 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
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1126
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1128
79267edd 1129 CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
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1131 In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
79267edd 1132 status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
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1134
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1136 Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
1137 case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
1138 GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
1139 In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
1140 with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
1141
55dabcc8 1142- I2C Support:
3f4978c7 1143 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
945a18e6 1144 Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use.
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1146 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
1147 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
1148 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
1149 omit this define.
1150
1151 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
1152 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
1153 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
1154 define.
1155
1156 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
b445bbb4 1157 hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
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1159 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
1160 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
1161
1162 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1163 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
1164 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
1165 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
1166 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
1167 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
1168 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1169 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
1170 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
1171 }
1172
1173 which defines
1174 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
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1176 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
1177 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
1178 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
1179 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
3f4978c7 1180 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
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1181 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
1182 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
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1183
1184 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
1185
ce3b5d69 1186- Legacy I2C Support:
ea818dbb 1187 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
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1188 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1189 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
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1190
1191 I2C_INIT
1192
b37c7e5e 1193 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
43d9616c 1194 controller or configure ports.
c609719b 1195
ba56f625 1196 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
b37c7e5e 1197
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1199
1200 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1201 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1202 define can be null.
1203
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1204 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1205
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1206 I2C_TRISTATE
1207
1208 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1209 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1210 define can be null.
1211
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1212 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1213
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1214 I2C_READ
1215
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1216 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
1217 false if it is low.
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1219 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1220
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1221 I2C_SDA(bit)
1222
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1223 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1224 is false, it clears it (low).
c609719b 1225
b37c7e5e 1226 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
2535d602 1227 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
ba56f625 1228 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
b37c7e5e 1229
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1230 I2C_SCL(bit)
1231
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1232 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1233 is false, it clears it (low).
c609719b 1234
b37c7e5e 1235 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
2535d602 1236 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
ba56f625 1237 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
b37c7e5e 1238
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1239 I2C_DELAY
1240
1241 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1242 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
b37c7e5e 1243 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
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1244 like:
1245
b37c7e5e 1246 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
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1248 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1249
1250 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1251 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1252 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1253 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1254
1255 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1256 the generic GPIO functions.
1257
6d0f6bcf 1258 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
47cd00fa 1259
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1260 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1261 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1262 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1263 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1264 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1265 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1266 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1267 is run early in the boot sequence.
47cd00fa 1268
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1269 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1270
1271 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
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1272 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1273 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
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1274 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1275
6d0f6bcf 1276 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
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1277
1278 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
c0f40859 1279 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
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1280 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1281 a 1D array of device addresses
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1282
1283 e.g.
1284 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
c0f40859 1285 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
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1286
1287 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1288
c0f40859 1289 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
945a18e6 1290 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
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1291
1292 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1293
6d0f6bcf 1294 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
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1295
1296 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1297 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1298
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1299 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1300
1301 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1302 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1303 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1304 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1305 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1306 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1307 the other.
be5e6181 1308
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1309- SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
1310
1311 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1312 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1313 D/As on the SACSng board)
1314
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1315 CONFIG_SYS_SPI_MXC_WAIT
1316 Timeout for waiting until spi transfer completed.
1317 default: (CONFIG_SYS_HZ/100) /* 10 ms */
1318
0133502e 1319- FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
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1321 Enables FPGA subsystem.
1322
1323 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
1324
1325 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
1326 (ALTERA, XILINX)
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0133502e 1328 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
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1330 Enables support for FPGA family.
1331 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
1332
6d0f6bcf 1333 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
c609719b 1334
8bde7f77 1335 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
c609719b 1336
6d0f6bcf 1337 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
c609719b 1338
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1339 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
1340 status by the configuration function. This option
1341 will require a board or device specific function to
1342 be written.
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1343
1344 CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY
1345
1346 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
1347 configuration driver.
1348
6d0f6bcf 1349 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
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1350 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
1351
6d0f6bcf 1352 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
c609719b 1353
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1354 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
1355 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
1356 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
1357 indicated a CRC error).
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6d0f6bcf 1359 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
c609719b 1360
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1361 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to de-assert
1362 after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
43d9616c 1363 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
11ccc33f 1364 ms.
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6d0f6bcf 1366 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
c609719b 1367
b445bbb4 1368 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
11ccc33f 1369 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
c609719b 1370
6d0f6bcf 1371 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
c609719b 1372
43d9616c 1373 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
11ccc33f 1374 200 ms.
c609719b 1375
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1376- Vendor Parameter Protection:
1377
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1378 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
1379 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
7152b1d0 1380 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
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1381 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
1382 protects these variables from casual modification by
1383 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
1384 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
11ccc33f 1385 change this behaviour:
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1386
1387 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
1388 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
47cd00fa 1389 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
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1390 these parameters.
1391
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1392 Alternatively, if you define _both_ an ethaddr in the
1393 default env _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
11ccc33f 1394 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
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1395 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
1396 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
1397 read-only.]
1398
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1399 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
1400 for any variable by configuring the type of access
1401 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
1402 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
1403
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1404- Protected RAM:
1405 CONFIG_PRAM
1406
1407 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
1408 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
1409 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
1410 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
1411 this default value by defining an environment
1412 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
1413 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
1414 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
1415 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
1416 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
1417 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
1418 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
1419
fe126d8b 1420 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
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1421 saveenv
1422
1423 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
1424 either, which results in a memory region that will
1425 not be affected by reboots.
1426
1427 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
1428 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
1429 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
1430 following board configurations are known to be
1431 "pRAM-clean":
1432
5b8e76c3 1433 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx,
1b0757ec 1434 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2eb48ff7 1435 FLAGADM
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1436
1437- Error Recovery:
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1438 Note:
1439
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1440 In the current implementation, the local variables
1441 space and global environment variables space are
1442 separated. Local variables are those you define by
1443 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
1444 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
1445 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
1446 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
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1448 Global environment variables are those you use
1449 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
1450 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
1451 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
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1452
1453 To store commands and special characters in a
1454 variable, please use double quotation marks
1455 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
1456 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
1457 symbols.
1458
a8c7c708 1459- Default Environment:
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1460 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
1461
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1462 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
1463 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
7152b1d0 1464 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2262cfee 1465
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1466 For example, place something like this in your
1467 board's config file:
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1468
1469 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
1470 "myvar1=value1\0" \
1471 "myvar2=value2\0"
1472
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1473 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
1474 internal format how the environment is stored by the
1475 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
1476 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
7152b1d0 1477 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
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1478 You better know what you are doing here.
1479
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1480 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
1481 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
74de7aef 1482 the environment like the "source" command or the
43d9616c 1483 boot command first.
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1485 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
1486
1487 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
b445bbb4 1488 initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
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1489 that so that the environment is not available until
1490 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
1491 this is instead controlled by the value of
1492 /config/load-environment.
1493
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1494 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
1495
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1496 This option defines a board specific value for the
1497 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
1498 overwriting the architecture dependent default
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1499 settings.
1500
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1501- Automatic software updates via TFTP server
1502 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP
1503 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
1504 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
1505
1506 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
1507 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
1508
1509- MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
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1510 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
1511 This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
1512 erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
1513 of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
1514 wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
1515 counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
1516
1517 The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
1518 other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
1519 However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
1520 life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
1521 to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
1522
1523 default: 4096
c654b517 1524
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1525 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
1526 This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
1527 expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the
1528 underlying flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR
1529 flash), this value is ignored.
1530
1531 NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM
1532 (Number of Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime.
1533 The maximum expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks
1534 then can be calculated as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)",
1535 which gives 20 for most NANDs (MaxNVB is basically the total
1536 count of eraseblocks on the chip).
1537
1538 To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to
1539 reserve about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
1540 handling. And that will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire
1541 NAND chip, not just the MTD partition UBI attaches. This means
1542 that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip admits maximum 40 bad
1543 eraseblocks, and it is split on two MTD partitions of the same
1544 size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when attaching a
1545 partition.
1546
1547 default: 20
1548
1549 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
1550 Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
1551 in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
1552 only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
1553 The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
1554 the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
1555 attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
1556 a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI parameter
1557 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT to 1 if you want so. Please note
1558 that fastmap-enabled images are still usable with UBI implementations
1559 without fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap
1560 fits into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
1561
1562 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT
1563 Set this parameter to enable fastmap automatically on images
1564 without a fastmap.
1565 default: 0
1566
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1567 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FM_DEBUG
1568 Enable UBI fastmap debug
1569 default: 0
1570
6a11cf48 1571- SPL framework
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1572 CONFIG_SPL
1573 Enable building of SPL globally.
6a11cf48 1574
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1575 CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
1576 When defined, SPL will panic() if the image it has
1577 loaded does not have a signature.
1578 Defining this is useful when code which loads images
1579 in SPL cannot guarantee that absolutely all read errors
1580 will be caught.
1581 An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which will
1582 consider that a completely unreadable NAND block is bad,
1583 and thus should be skipped silently.
1584
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1585 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
1586 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
1587 about the running system.
1588
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1589 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
1590 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
1591 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
1592 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
1593 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
1594
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1595 CONFIG_SPL_UBI
1596 Support for a lightweight UBI (fastmap) scanner and
1597 loader
1598
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1599 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
1600 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
1601 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
1602 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
1603 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
1604 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
7d4b7955 1605 to read U-Boot
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1607 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
1608 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
1609
1610 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
1611 Size of image to load
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1612
1613 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
7d4b7955 1614 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
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1615
1616 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
1617 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
b445bbb4 1618 data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
95579793 1619
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1620 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
1621 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
6a11cf48 1622
b527b9c6 1623 CONFIG_SPL_FIT_PRINT
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1624 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
1625 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
1626 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
1627 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
1628
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1629- Interrupt support (PPC):
1630
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1631 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
1632 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
11ccc33f 1633 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
d4ca31c4 1634 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
11ccc33f 1635 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
d4ca31c4 1636 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
11ccc33f 1637 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
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1638 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
1639 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
1640 general timer_interrupt().
a8c7c708 1641
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1643Board initialization settings:
1644------------------------------
1645
1646During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
1647to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
1648before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
1649following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
1650architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
1651typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
1652
1653- CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
1654- CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
1655- CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
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1657Configuration Settings:
1658-----------------------
1659
4d979bfd 1660- MEM_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit.
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1661 Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.
1662
6d0f6bcf 1663- CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
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1664 undefine this when you're short of memory.
1665
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1666- CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
1667 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
1668
6d0f6bcf 1669- CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
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1670 prompt for user input.
1671
6d0f6bcf 1672- CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
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1673 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
1674
e8149522 1675- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE
e61a7534 1676 Only implemented for ARMv8 for now.
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1677 If defined, the size of CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE memory
1678 is substracted from total RAM and won't be reported to OS.
1679 This memory can be used as secure memory. A variable
e61a7534 1680 gd->arch.secure_ram is used to track the location. In systems
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1681 the RAM base is not zero, or RAM is divided into banks,
1682 this variable needs to be recalcuated to get the address.
1683
6d0f6bcf 1684- CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
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1685 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
1686
6d0f6bcf 1687- CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
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1688 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
1689
6d0f6bcf 1690- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
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1691 Physical start address of Flash memory.
1692
6d0f6bcf 1693- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
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1694 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
1695 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
1696 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
1697 flash sector.
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6d0f6bcf 1699- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
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1700 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
1701
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1702- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
1703 Size of the malloc() pool for use before relocation. If
1704 this is defined, then a very simple malloc() implementation
1705 will become available before relocation. The address is just
1706 below the global data, and the stack is moved down to make
1707 space.
1708
1709 This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
1710 within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
1711 is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
b445bbb4 1712 The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
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1713 U-Boot relocates itself.
1714
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1716 Provides a simple and small malloc() and calloc() for those
1717 boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is
10f6e4dc 1718 enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC).
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1721 Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be
1722 typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped
1723 uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would
1724 otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For
1725 some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the
1726 cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed
1727 are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding
1728 cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e.
1729 if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the
1730 size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of
1731 one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has
1732 written to another region in the same cache-line. This can
1733 happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for
1734 buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g.
1735 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).
1736
1737 Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
1738
6d0f6bcf 1739- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
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1740 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
1741 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
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1742 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
1743 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
1bce2aeb 1744 environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
7d721e34 1745 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
c0f40859 1746 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
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1748 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
1749 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
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1751- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
1752 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
1753 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
1754
1755- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
1756 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
1757 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
1758
6d0f6bcf 1759- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
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1760 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
1761
6d0f6bcf 1762- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
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1763 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
1764
6d0f6bcf 1765- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
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1766 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
1767
6d0f6bcf 1768- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
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1770
6d0f6bcf 1771- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
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1772 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
1773
6d0f6bcf 1774- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
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1775 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
1776 instead of U-Boot software protection.
1777
6d0f6bcf 1778- CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
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1780 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
1781 without this option such a download has to be
1782 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
1783 copy from RAM to flash.
1784
1785 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
1786 you can check if the download worked before you erase
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1788 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
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1789 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
1790
6d0f6bcf 1791- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
43d9616c 1792 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
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1794
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1797 in the drivers directory
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1800 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
1801 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
1802 to the MTD layer.
1803
6d0f6bcf 1804- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
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1805 Use buffered writes to flash.
1806
1807- CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
1808 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
1809 write commands.
1810
6d0f6bcf 1811- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
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1812 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
1813 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
1814 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
1815 optionally available.
1816
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1818 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
1819 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
1820 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
1821
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1823 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
1824 against the source after the write operation. An error message
1825 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
1826 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
1827 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
1828 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
1829 this option if you really know what you are doing.
1830
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1832- CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
1bce2aeb 1833 Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when
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1834 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
1835 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
1836 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
1837
1838 The format of the list is:
1839 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
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1840 access_attribute = [a|r|o|c]
1841 attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute]
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1842 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
1843 list = entry[,list]
1844
1845 The type attributes are:
1846 s - String (default)
1847 d - Decimal
1848 x - Hexadecimal
1849 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
1850 i - IP address
1851 m - MAC address
1852
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1853 The access attributes are:
1854 a - Any (default)
1855 r - Read-only
1856 o - Write-once
1857 c - Change-default
1858
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1859 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
1860 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
b445bbb4 1861 environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
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1862
1863 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
1864 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
1865 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
1866 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
1867 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
1868 ".flags" variable.
1869
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1870 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
1871 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to define the same
1872 flags without explicitly listing them for each variable.
1873
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1874The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
1875of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
1876following configurations:
1877
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1878- CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
1879
1880 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
1881 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
1882
c609719b 1883BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
b445bbb4 1884in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the
11ccc33f 1885console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
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1887
1888Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
1889environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
1890keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
1891to save the current settings.
1892
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1893BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
1894"saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
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1895environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
1896but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
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1898- CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
1899
1900 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
1901 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
1902 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
1903
e881cb56 1904Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
c609719b 1905has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
00caae6d 1906created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use env_get_f()
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1907until then to read environment variables.
1908
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1909The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
1910is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
1911with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
1912necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
1913"baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
1914have any device yet where we could complain.]
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1916Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
1917the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
85ec0bcc 1918use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
c609719b 1919
6d0f6bcf 1920- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
42d1f039 1921 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
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1923- CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
1924 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
1925 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
1926 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
1927 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
1928 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
1929
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1930- CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
1931 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
1932 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
1933 to do this.
1934
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1935- CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
1936 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
1937 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
1938 present.
1939
c609719b 1940Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
dc7c9a1a 1941---------------------------------------------------
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6d0f6bcf 1943- CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
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1944 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
1945
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1946- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
1947 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
1948 PowerPC SOCs.
1949
1950- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
1951 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
1952 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
1953
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1954- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
1955 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
1956 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
c0f40859 1957 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
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1958 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
1959 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
1960 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
1961
1962 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
1963 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
1964
1965- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
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1966 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
1967 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
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1968 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
1969 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
1970
1971- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
1972 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
1973 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
1974 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
1975
6d0f6bcf 1976- CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
efe2a4d5 1977 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
907208c4 1978 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx systems only]
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6d0f6bcf 1980- CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
c609719b 1981
7152b1d0 1982 Start address of memory area that can be used for
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1983 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
1984 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
1985 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
1986 will become available only after programming the
1987 memory controller and running certain initialization
1988 sequences.
1989
1990 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
907208c4 1991 - MPC8xx: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
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6d0f6bcf 1993- CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
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6d0f6bcf 1995- CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
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1996 SDRAM timing
1997
6d0f6bcf 1998- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
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1999 periodic timer for refresh
2000
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2001- CONFIG_SYS_SRIO:
2002 Chip has SRIO or not
2003
2004- CONFIG_SRIO1:
2005 Board has SRIO 1 port available
2006
2007- CONFIG_SRIO2:
2008 Board has SRIO 2 port available
2009
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2010- CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
2011 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
2012
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2013- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
2014 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2015
62f9b654 2016- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYxS:
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2017 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2018
2019- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
2020 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2021
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2022- CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
2023 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
2024 a 16 bit bus.
2025 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
a430e916 2026 Example of drivers that use it:
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2027 - drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ndfc.c
2028 - drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c
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2029
2030- CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
2031 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
2032 a default value will be used.
2033
bb99ad6d 2034- CONFIG_SPD_EEPROM
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2035 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
2036 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
2037
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2038 SPD_EEPROM_ADDRESS
2039 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
2040
6d0f6bcf 2041- CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
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2042 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
2043 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
2044 to something your driver can deal with.
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2046- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
2047 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
2048
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2049- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_SYNC_REFRESH
2050 Enable sync of refresh for multiple controllers.
2051
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2052- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_BIST
2053 Enable built-in memory test for Freescale DDR controllers.
2054
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2055- CONFIG_RMII
2056 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
2057 Note that this is a global option, we can't
2058 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
2059
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2060- CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
2061 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
2062 The syntax is:
2063
2064 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
2065
2066 Where address/count indicate a memory area
2067 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
2068 area should have.
2069
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2070- CONFIG_LOOPW
2071 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
493f420e 2072 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
56523f12 2073
72732318 2074- CONFIG_CMD_MX_CYCLIC
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2075 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
2076 "md/mw" commands.
2077 Examples:
2078
efe2a4d5 2079 => mdc.b 10 4 500
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2080 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
2081
efe2a4d5 2082 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
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2083 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
2084
efe2a4d5 2085 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
493f420e 2086 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
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401bb30b 2088- CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
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2089 Set when the currently-running compilation is for an artifact
2090 that will end up in the SPL (as opposed to the TPL or U-Boot
2091 proper). Code that needs stage-specific behavior should check
2092 this.
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3aa29de0 2094- CONFIG_TPL_BUILD
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2095 Set when the currently-running compilation is for an artifact
2096 that will end up in the TPL (as opposed to the SPL or U-Boot
2097 proper). Code that needs stage-specific behavior should check
2098 this.
3aa29de0 2099
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2100- CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
2101 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
2102 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
2103 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
2104 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
2105 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
2106 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
2107 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
2108
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2109- CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
2110 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
2111 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
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2113- CONFIG_SYS_NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE
2114 Option to disable subpage write in NAND driver
2115 driver that uses this:
a430fa06 2116 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c
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2118Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
2119-----------------------------------
2120
2121The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
2122loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
2123This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
2124are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
2125within that device.
2126
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2128 The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The
cc1e98b5 2129 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_xxx macro
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2130 is also specified.
2131
2132- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR
2133 The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The
cc1e98b5 2134 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_xxx macro
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2135 is also specified.
2136
2137- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
2138 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
2139 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
2140 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
2141 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
2142
2143- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
2144 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
2145 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
2146 virtual address in NOR flash.
2147
2148- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
2149 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
2150 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
2151
2152- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
2153 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
2154 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
2155
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2156- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
2157 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
2158 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
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2159 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
2160 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
2161 master's memory space.
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2163Freescale Layerscape Management Complex Firmware Support:
2164---------------------------------------------------------
2165The Freescale Layerscape Management Complex (MC) supports the loading of
2166"firmware".
2167This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
2168are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
2169within that device.
2170
2171- CONFIG_FSL_MC_ENET
2172 Enable the MC driver for Layerscape SoCs.
2173
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2174Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support:
2175-------------------------------------------
2176The Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support supports the loading of
2177"Debug Server firmware" and triggering SP boot-rom.
2178This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting.
2179
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2180- CONFIG_SYS_MC_RSV_MEM_ALIGN
2181 Define alignment of reserved memory MC requires
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2183Reproducible builds
2184-------------------
2185
2186In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
2187process have to be set to a fixed value.
2188
2189This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
2190SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is to be set on the build host's shell, not as a configuration
2191option for U-Boot or an environment variable in U-Boot.
2192
2193SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should be set to a number of seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
2194
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2195Building the Software:
2196======================
2197
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2198Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
2199and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
2200all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
2201(potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
047f6ec0 2202recommend to use the ELDK (see https://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
218ca724 2203which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
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2205If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
2206have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
2207you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
2208Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
2209necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
c609719b 2210
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2211 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
2212 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
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2215sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
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2216is done by typing:
2217
ab584d67 2218 make NAME_defconfig
c609719b 2219
ab584d67 2220where "NAME_defconfig" is the name of one of the existing configu-
ecb3a0a1 2221rations; see configs/*_defconfig for supported names.
db01a2ea 2222
ecb3a0a1 2223Note: for some boards special configuration names may exist; check if
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2224 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
2225 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
2226 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
11ccc33f 2227 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
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ab584d67 2229 make TQM823L_defconfig
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2230 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
2231
ab584d67 2232 make TQM823L_LCD_defconfig
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2234
2235 etc.
2236
2237
2238Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
2239images ready for download to / installation on your system:
2240
2241- "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
2242- "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
2243- "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
2244
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2245By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
2246in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
2247this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
2248
22491. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
2250
2251 make O=/tmp/build distclean
ab584d67 2252 make O=/tmp/build NAME_defconfig
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2253 make O=/tmp/build all
2254
adbba996 22552. Set environment variable KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the desired location:
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adbba996 2257 export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/build
baf31249 2258 make distclean
ab584d67 2259 make NAME_defconfig
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2260 make all
2261
adbba996 2262Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
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2263variable.
2264
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2265User specific CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS can be passed to the compiler by
2266setting the according environment variables KCPPFLAGS, KAFLAGS and KCFLAGS.
2267For example to treat all compiler warnings as errors:
2268
2269 make KCFLAGS=-Werror
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2270
2271Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
2272for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
2273native "make".
2274
2275
2276If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
2277to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
2278steps:
2279
3c1496cd 22801. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
2729af9d 2281 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
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2282 the "Makefile" and a "<board>.c".
22832. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
2284 your board.
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22853. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
2286 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
ab584d67 22874. Run "make <board>_defconfig" with your new name.
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22885. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
2289 to be installed on your target system.
22906. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
2291 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
2292
2293
2294Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
2295==============================================================
2296
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2297If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
2298or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
2729af9d 2299provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
32f2ca2a 2300the form of a "patch", i.e. a context diff against a certain (latest
218ca724 2301official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
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2303But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
2304cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
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2306just run the buildman script (tools/buildman/buildman), which will
2307configure and build U-Boot for ALL supported system. Be warned, this
2308will take a while. Please see the buildman README, or run 'buildman -H'
2309for documentation.
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2310
2311
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2312See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
2313
2314
2315Monitor Commands - Overview:
2316============================
2317
2318go - start application at address 'addr'
2319run - run commands in an environment variable
2320bootm - boot application image from memory
2321bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
44f074c7 2322bootz - boot zImage from memory
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2323tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
2324 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
2325 (and eventually "gatewayip")
1fb7cd49 2326tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
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2327rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
2328diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
2329loads - load S-Record file over serial line
2330loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
bfef72e4 2331loadm - load binary blob from source address to destination address
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2332md - memory display
2333mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
2334nm - memory modify (constant address)
2335mw - memory write (fill)
bdded201 2336ms - memory search
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2337cp - memory copy
2338cmp - memory compare
2339crc32 - checksum calculation
0f89c54b 2340i2c - I2C sub-system
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2341sspi - SPI utility commands
2342base - print or set address offset
2343printenv- print environment variables
9e9a530a 2344pwm - control pwm channels
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2345setenv - set environment variables
2346saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
2347protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
2348erase - erase FLASH memory
2349flinfo - print FLASH memory information
10635afa 2350nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
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2351bdinfo - print Board Info structure
2352iminfo - print header information for application image
2353coninfo - print console devices and informations
2354ide - IDE sub-system
2355loop - infinite loop on address range
56523f12 2356loopw - infinite write loop on address range
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2357mtest - simple RAM test
2358icache - enable or disable instruction cache
2359dcache - enable or disable data cache
2360reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
2361echo - echo args to console
2362version - print monitor version
2363help - print online help
2364? - alias for 'help'
2365
2366
2367Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
2368========================================
2369
2370TODO.
2371
2372For now: just type "help <command>".
2373
2374
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2375Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
2376=======================================
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11ccc33f 2378Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
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2379such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
2380"working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
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2382Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
2383MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
2384"eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
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2386If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
2387in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
2388ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
2389variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
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2391o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
2392 environment, the SROM's address is used.
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2394o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
2395 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
2396 used.
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2398o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
2399 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
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2401o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
2402 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
2403 warning is printed.
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2406 is raised. If CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR is defined, then in this case
2407 a random, locally-assigned MAC is used.
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ecee9324 2409If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
c0f40859 2410will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
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2411may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
2412The naming convention is as follows:
2413"ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
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2415Image Formats:
2416==============
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2418U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
2419images in two formats:
2420
2421New uImage format (FIT)
2422-----------------------
2423
2424Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
2425to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
2426components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
2427SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
2428
2429
2430Old uImage format
2431-----------------
2432
2433Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
2434preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
2435details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
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2437* Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
2438 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
f5ed9e39 2439 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
0797e736 2440 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY).
daab59ac 2441* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, Intel x86,
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2442 IA64, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
2443 Currently supported: ARM, Intel x86, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC).
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2444* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
2445* Load Address
2446* Entry Point
2447* Image Name
2448* Image Timestamp
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2450The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
2451and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
2452CRC32 checksums.
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2453
2454
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2455Linux Support:
2456==============
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2458Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
2459easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
2460U-Boot.
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2462U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
2463special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
2464"initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
2465instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
2466serves several purposes:
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2468- the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
2469 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
2470 Flash memory footprint)
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2472- it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
2473 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
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2475- the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
2476 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
2477 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
2478 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
2479 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
2480 software is easier now.
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2483Linux HOWTO:
2484============
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2486Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
2487---------------------------------------
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2489U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
2490configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
2491(no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
2492Linux :-).
c609719b 2493
a47a12be 2494But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
24ee89b9 2495
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2496Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
2497include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
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2498Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
2499and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
6d0f6bcf 2500as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
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2502Note that U-Boot now has a driver model, a unified model for drivers.
2503If you are adding a new driver, plumb it into driver model. If there
2504is no uclass available, you are encouraged to create one. See
2505doc/driver-model.
2506
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2508Configuring the Linux kernel:
2509-----------------------------
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2511No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
2512device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
2513
2514
2515Building a Linux Image:
2516-----------------------
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2518With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
2519not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
2520"uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
2521U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
2522which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
2523100% compatible format.
2524
2525Example:
2526
ab584d67 2527 make TQM850L_defconfig
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2528 make oldconfig
2529 make dep
2530 make uImage
2531
2532The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
2533encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
2534CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
2535
2536* build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
2537
2538* convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
2539
2540 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
2541 -R .note -R .comment \
2542 -S vmlinux linux.bin
2543
2544* compress the binary image:
2545
2546 gzip -9 linux.bin
2547
2548* package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
2549
2550 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
2551 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
2552 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
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2555The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
2556with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
2557combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
2558byte header containing information about target architecture,
2559operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
2560stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
2561
2562"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
2563print the header information, or to build new images.
2564
2565In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
2566contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
2567checksum verification:
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2569 tools/mkimage -l image
2570 -l ==> list image header information
2571
2572The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
2573from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
2574
2575 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
2576 -n name -d data_file image
2577 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
2578 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
2579 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
2580 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
2581 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
2582 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
2583 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
2584 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
2585
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2586Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
2587address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
2588kernel version:
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2589
2590- 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
2591- 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
2592
2593So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
2594
2595 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
2596 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
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2598 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
2599 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
2600 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
2601 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2602 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
2603 Load Address: 0x00000000
2604 Entry Point: 0x00000000
2605
2606To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
2607
2608 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
2609 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
2610 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
2611 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2612 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
2613 Load Address: 0x00000000
2614 Entry Point: 0x00000000
2615
2616NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
2617speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
2618needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
2619need to be uncompressed:
2620
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2622 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
2623 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
a47a12be 2624 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
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2625 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
2626 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
2627 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
2628 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
2629 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
2630 Load Address: 0x00000000
2631 Entry Point: 0x00000000
2632
2633
2634Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
2635when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
2636
2637 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
2638 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
2639 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
2640 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
2641 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
2642 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
2643 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
2644 Load Address: 0x00000000
2645 Entry Point: 0x00000000
2646
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2648built by mkimage. See dumpimage's help output (-h) for details.
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2649
2650Installing a Linux Image:
2651-------------------------
2652
2653To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
2654you must convert the image to S-Record format:
2655
2656 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
2657
2658The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
2659image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
2660address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
2661specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
2662command.
2663
2664Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
2665TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
2666
2667 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
2668
2669 .......... done
2670 Erased 8 sectors
2671
2672 => loads 40100000
2673 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
2674 ~>examples/image.srec
2675 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
2676 ...
2677 15989 15990 15991 15992
2678 [file transfer complete]
2679 [connected]
2680 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
2681
2682
2683You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
218ca724 2684this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
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2685corruption happened:
2686
2687 => imi 40100000
2688
2689 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
2690 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
2691 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2692 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
2693 Load Address: 00000000
2694 Entry Point: 0000000c
2695 Verifying Checksum ... OK
2696
2697
2698Boot Linux:
2699-----------
2700
2701The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
2702memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
2703of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
2704parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
2705"printenv" and "setenv" commands:
2706
2707
2708 => printenv bootargs
2709 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
2710
2711 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
2712
2713 => printenv bootargs
2714 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
2715
2716 => bootm 40020000
2717 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
2718 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
2719 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2720 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
2721 Load Address: 00000000
2722 Entry Point: 0000000c
2723 Verifying Checksum ... OK
2724 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
2725 Linux version 2.2.13 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Jul 19 02:35:17 MEST 2000
2726 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
2727 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
2728 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
2729 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
2730 ...
2731
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2733the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
2734format!) to the "bootm" command:
2735
2736 => imi 40100000 40200000
2737
2738 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
2739 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
2740 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2741 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
2742 Load Address: 00000000
2743 Entry Point: 0000000c
2744 Verifying Checksum ... OK
2745
2746 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
2747 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
2748 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
2749 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
2750 Load Address: 00000000
2751 Entry Point: 00000000
2752 Verifying Checksum ... OK
2753
2754 => bootm 40100000 40200000
2755 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
2756 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
2757 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2758 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
2759 Load Address: 00000000
2760 Entry Point: 0000000c
2761 Verifying Checksum ... OK
2762 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
2763 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
2764 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
2765 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
2766 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
2767 Load Address: 00000000
2768 Entry Point: 00000000
2769 Verifying Checksum ... OK
2770 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
2771 Linux version 2.2.13 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Jul 19 02:32:08 MEST 2000
2772 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
2773 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
2774 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
2775 ...
2776 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
2777 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
2778
2779 bash#
2780
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2781Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
2782-----------
2783
2784First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
2785titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
2786following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
2787flat device tree:
2788
2789=> print oftaddr
2790oftaddr=0x300000
2791=> print oft
2792oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
2793=> tftp $oftaddr $oft
2794Speed: 1000, full duplex
2795Using TSEC0 device
2796TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
2797Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
2798Load address: 0x300000
2799Loading: #
2800done
2801Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
2802=> tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
2803Speed: 1000, full duplex
2804Using TSEC0 device
2805TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
2806Filename 'uImage'.
2807Load address: 0x200000
2808Loading:############
2809done
2810Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
2811=> print loadaddr
2812loadaddr=200000
2813=> print oftaddr
2814oftaddr=0x300000
2815=> bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
2816## Booting image at 00200000 ...
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2817 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
2818 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
2819 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
0267768e 2820 Load Address: 00000000
a9398e01 2821 Entry Point: 00000000
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2822 Verifying Checksum ... OK
2823 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
2824Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
2825Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
2826Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
2827[snip]
2828
2829
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2830More About U-Boot Image Types:
2831------------------------------
2832
2833U-Boot supports the following image types:
2834
2835 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
2836 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
2837 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
2838 the Standalone Program.
2839 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
2840 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
2841 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
2842 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
2843 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
2844 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
2845 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
2846 being started.
2847 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
2848 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
2849 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
2850 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
2851 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
2852 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
2853
2854 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
2855 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
2856 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
2857 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
2858 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
2859 a multiple of 4 bytes).
2860
2861 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
2862 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
2863 flash memory.
2864
2865 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
2866 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
2867 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
2868 as command interpreter.
2869
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2870Booting the Linux zImage:
2871-------------------------
2872
2873On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
2874using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
2875as the syntax of "bootm" command.
2876
8ac28563 2877Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
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2878kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
2879address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
2880format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
2881
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2882
2883Standalone HOWTO:
2884=================
2885
2886One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
2887run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
2888U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
2889
2890Two simple examples are included with the sources:
2891
2892"Hello World" Demo:
2893-------------------
2894
2895'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
2896application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
2897It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
2898like that:
2899
2900 => loads
2901 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
2902 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
2903 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
2904 [file transfer complete]
2905 [connected]
2906 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
2907
2908 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
2909 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
2910 Hello World
2911 argc = 7
2912 argv[0] = "40004"
2913 argv[1] = "Hello"
2914 argv[2] = "World!"
2915 argv[3] = "This"
2916 argv[4] = "is"
2917 argv[5] = "a"
2918 argv[6] = "test."
2919 argv[7] = "<NULL>"
2920 Hit any key to exit ...
2921
2922 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
2923
2924Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
2925handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
2926Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
2927The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
2928character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
2929controlled by the following keys:
2930
2931 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
2932 b - enable interrupts and start timer
2933 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
2934 q - quit application
2935
2936 => loads
2937 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
2938 ~>examples/timer.srec
2939 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
2940 [file transfer complete]
2941 [connected]
2942 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
2943
2944 => go 40004
2945 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
2946 TIMERS=0xfff00980
2947 Using timer 1
2948 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
2949
2950Hit 'b':
2951 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
2952 Enabling timer
2953Hit '?':
2954 [q, b, e, ?] ........
2955 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
2956Hit '?':
2957 [q, b, e, ?] .
2958 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
2959Hit '?':
2960 [q, b, e, ?] .
2961 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
2962Hit '?':
2963 [q, b, e, ?] .
2964 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
2965Hit 'e':
2966 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
2967Hit 'q':
2968 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
2969
2970
2971Minicom warning:
2972================
2973
2974Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
2975"minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
2976consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
2977Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
2978especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
e53515a2 2979use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
047f6ec0 2980https://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
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2981for help with kermit.
2982
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2983
2984Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
2985configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
2986
2987 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
2988 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
2989 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
2990
2991
2992NetBSD Notes:
2993=============
2994
2995Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
2996(build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
2997
2998Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
2999NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
3000need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
3001Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
3002attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
3003missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
3004
3005 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
3006 # mkdir powerpc
3007 # ln -s powerpc machine
3008 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
3009 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
3010
3011Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
3012and U-Boot include files.
3013
3014Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
3015stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
3016proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
3017tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
2a8af187 3018meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
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3019
3020
3021Implementation Internals:
3022=========================
3023
3024The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
3025implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
3026inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
3027hardware.
3028
3029
3030Initial Stack, Global Data:
3031---------------------------
3032
3033The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
3034starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
3035system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
3036This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
3037is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
3038at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
3039options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
3040models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
3041MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
3042locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
3043
218ca724 3044 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
0668236b 3045 U-Boot mailing list:
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3046
3047 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
3048 From: "Chris Hallinan" <[email protected]>
3049 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
3050 ...
3051
3052 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
3053 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
3054 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
3055 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
3056 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
11ccc33f 3057 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
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3058 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
3059 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
3060
3061 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
3062 is another option for the system designer to use as an
11ccc33f 3063 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
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3064 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
3065 board designers haven't used it for something that would
3066 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
3067 used.
3068
6d0f6bcf 3069 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
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3070 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
3071 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
8a316c9b 3072 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
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3073 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
3074 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
3075 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
3076 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
3077 you get the config right.
3078
3079 -Chris Hallinan
3080 DS4.COM, Inc.
3081
3082It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
3083code for the initialization procedures:
3084
3085* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
3086 to write it.
3087
b445bbb4 3088* Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized
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3089 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
3090 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
3091
3092* Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
3093 that.
3094
3095Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
b445bbb4 3096normal global data to share information between the code. But it
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3097turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
3098simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
3099functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
3100functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
3101the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
3102place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
3103reserve for this purpose.
3104
3105When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
3106relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
3107GCC's implementation.
3108
3109For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
3110 R1: stack pointer
e7670f6c 3111 R2: reserved for system use
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3112 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
3113 R5-R10: parameter passing
3114 R13: small data area pointer
3115 R30: GOT pointer
3116 R31: frame pointer
3117
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3118 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
3119 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
3120 going back and forth between asm and C)
2729af9d 3121
e7670f6c 3122 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
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3123
3124 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
3125 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
3126 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
3127 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
3128 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
3129 624 text + 127 data).
3130
3131On ARM, the following registers are used:
3132
3133 R0: function argument word/integer result
3134 R1-R3: function argument word
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3135 R9: platform specific
3136 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
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3137 R11: argument (frame) pointer
3138 R12: temporary workspace
3139 R13: stack pointer
3140 R14: link register
3141 R15: program counter
3142
12eba1b4
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3143 ==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data
3144
3145 Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.
2729af9d 3146
0df01fd3 3147On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
047f6ec0 3148 https://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
0df01fd3
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3149
3150 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
3151
3152 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
3153 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
3154
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3155On RISC-V, the following registers are used:
3156
3157 x0: hard-wired zero (zero)
3158 x1: return address (ra)
3159 x2: stack pointer (sp)
3160 x3: global pointer (gp)
3161 x4: thread pointer (tp)
3162 x5: link register (t0)
3163 x8: frame pointer (fp)
3164 x10-x11: arguments/return values (a0-1)
3165 x12-x17: arguments (a2-7)
3166 x28-31: temporaries (t3-6)
3167 pc: program counter (pc)
3168
3169 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
3170
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3171Memory Management:
3172------------------
3173
3174U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
3175MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
3176
3177The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
3178controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
3179memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
3180physical memory banks.
3181
3182U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
3183TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
3184booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
3185to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
6d0f6bcf 3186memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
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3187configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
3188Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
3189
3190Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
3191of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
3192
3193So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
3194this:
3195
3196 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
3197 :
3198 0x0000 1FFF
3199 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
3200 :
3201 :
3202
3203 :
3204 :
3205 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
3206 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
3207 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
3208 :
3209 0x00FD FFFF
3210 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
3211 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
3212 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
3213 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
3214
3215
3216System Initialization:
3217----------------------
c609719b 3218
2729af9d 3219In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
11ccc33f 3220(on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
b445bbb4 3221configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory.
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3222To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
3223To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
3224initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
2eb48ff7
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3225which provide such a feature like), or in a locked part of the data
3226cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core, the caches and
3227the SIU.
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3228
3229Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
3230preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
3231(multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
3232on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
3233programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
3234simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
3235banks.
3236
3237When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
3238different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
3239bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
32400x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
3241contiguous memory starting from 0.
3242
3243Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
3244and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
3245Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
3246pages, and the final stack is set up.
3247
3248Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
3249until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
3250running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
3251new address in RAM.
3252
3253
3254U-Boot Porting Guide:
3255----------------------
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3257[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
3258list, October 2002]
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3259
3260
6c3fef28 3261int main(int argc, char *argv[])
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3262{
3263 sighandler_t no_more_time;
c609719b 3264
6c3fef28
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3265 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
3266 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
c609719b 3267
2729af9d 3268 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
6c3fef28 3269 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
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3270 return 0;
3271 }
3272
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3273 Download latest U-Boot source;
3274
0668236b 3275 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
2729af9d 3276
6c3fef28
JVB
3277 if (clueless)
3278 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
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3279
3280 while (learning) {
3281 Read the README file in the top level directory;
047f6ec0 3282 Read https://www.denx.de/wiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
24bcaec7 3283 Read applicable doc/README.*;
2729af9d 3284 Read the source, Luke;
6c3fef28 3285 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
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3286 }
3287
6c3fef28
JVB
3288 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
3289 Buy a BDI3000;
3290 else
2729af9d 3291 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
2729af9d 3292
6c3fef28
JVB
3293 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
3294 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
3295 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
3296 } else {
3297 Create your own board support subdirectory;
3298 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
3299 }
3300 Edit new board/<myboard> files
3301 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
3302
3303 while (!accepted) {
3304 while (!running) {
3305 do {
3306 Add / modify source code;
3307 } until (compiles);
3308 Debug;
3309 if (clueless)
3310 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
3311 }
3312 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
3313 if (reasonable critiques)
3314 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
3315 else
3316 Defend code as written;
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3318
3319 return 0;
3320}
3321
3322void no_more_time (int sig)
3323{
3324 hire_a_guru();
3325}
3326
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3328Coding Standards:
3329-----------------
c609719b 3330
2729af9d 3331All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
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3332coding style; see the kernel coding style guide at
3333https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html, and the
3334script "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
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3335
3336Source files originating from a different project (for example the
3337MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
b445bbb4 3338reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
2c051651
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3339sources.
3340
3341Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
3342Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
3343in your code.
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3345Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
3346- remove any trailing white space
7ca9296e 3347- use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
2729af9d 3348- make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
7ca9296e 3349- do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
2729af9d 3350- do not add trailing empty lines to source files
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3352Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
3353with a request to reformat the changes.
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3354
3355
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3356Submitting Patches:
3357-------------------
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3359Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
3360establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
3361may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
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047f6ec0 3363Please see https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
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0668236b 3365Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <[email protected]>;
1dade18e 3366see https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
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3368When you send a patch, please include the following information with
3369it:
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3371* For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
3372 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
3373 patch actually fixes something.
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3375* For new features: a description of the feature and your
3376 implementation.
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3378* For major contributions, add a MAINTAINERS file with your
3379 information and associated file and directory references.
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3381* When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a
3382 maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.
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3384* If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
3385 document these in the README file.
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3387* The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
3388 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
7ca9296e 3389 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
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3390 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
3391 with some other mail clients.
3392
3393 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
3394 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
3395 GNU diff.
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3397 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
3398 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
3399 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
3400 affected files).
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3402 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
3403 and compressed attachments must not be used.
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3405* If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
3406 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
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3408* Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
3409 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
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6de80f21 3414* Before sending the patch, run the buildman script on your patched
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3415 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
3416 for any of the boards.
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3418* Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
3419 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
3420 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
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3422* If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
3423 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
3424 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
3425 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
3426 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
3427 modification.
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3429* Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
3430 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
3431 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
3432 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.
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