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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
8d321b81 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
afc1ce82 137 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
8d321b81 138 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
a47a12be 139 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
3fafced7 140 /riscv Files generic to RISC-V architecture
7207b366 141 /sandbox Files generic to HW-independent "sandbox"
8d321b81 142 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
33c7731b 143 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
e4eb313a 144 /xtensa Files generic to Xtensa architecture
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145/api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
146/board Board dependent files
740f7e5c 147/cmd U-Boot commands functions
8d321b81 148/common Misc architecture independent functions
7207b366 149/configs Board default configuration files
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150/disk Code for disk drive partition handling
151/doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
152/drivers Commonly used device drivers
33c7731b 153/dts Contains Makefile for building internal U-Boot fdt.
e4eb313a 154/env Environment files
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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
8d321b81 164/tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot 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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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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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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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
296 CONFIG_SPL_STACK_R_ADDR points into SDRAM
297 - preloader_console_init() can be called here - typically this is
0680f1b1 298 done by selecting CONFIG_SPL_BOARD_INIT and then supplying a
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299 spl_board_init() function containing this call
300 - loads U-Boot or (in falcon mode) Linux
301
302
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304Configuration Options:
305----------------------
306
307Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
308such information is kept in a configuration file
309"include/configs/<board_name>.h".
310
311Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
312"include/configs/TQM823L.h".
313
314
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315Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
316kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
317build a config tool - later.
318
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319- ARM Platform Bus Type(CCI):
320 CoreLink Cache Coherent Interconnect (CCI) is ARM BUS which
321 provides full cache coherency between two clusters of multi-core
322 CPUs and I/O coherency for devices and I/O masters
323
324 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_CCI400
325
326 Defined For SoC that has cache coherent interconnect
327 CCN-400
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329 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_CCN504
330
331 Defined for SoC that has cache coherent interconnect CCN-504
332
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333The following options need to be configured:
334
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335- CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
336
337- Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
6ccec449 338
66412c63 339- 85xx CPU Options:
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340 CONFIG_SYS_PPC64
341
342 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
343 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
344 compliance, among other possible reasons.
345
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346 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
347
348 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
349 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
350 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
351
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352 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
353
354 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
355 tree nodes for the given platform.
356
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357 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
358
359 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
360 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
361 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
362
363 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
364 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
365
366 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
367 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
368
369 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
370 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
371 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
372 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
373
374 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
375 this erratum.
376
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377 CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
378 Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
b445bbb4 379 required during NOR boot.
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381 CONFIG_A008044_WORKAROUND
382 Enables a workaround for T1040/T1042 erratum A008044. It is only
b445bbb4 383 required during NAND boot and valid for Rev 1.0 SoC revision
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385 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
386
387 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
388 according to the A004510 workaround.
389
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390 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
391 This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
392 connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
393
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394 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
395 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
396 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
397
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398 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
399 This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
400 connected to the DSP core.
401
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402 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
403 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
404
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405 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
406 Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
407 In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
408 clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
409
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410 CONFIG_SYS_CPC_REINIT_F
411 This CONFIG is defined when the CPC is configured as SRAM at the
a187559e 412 time of U-Boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
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aade2004 414 CONFIG_DEEP_SLEEP
b445bbb4 415 Indicates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
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416 supported, core will start to execute uboot when wakes up.
417
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419 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
420
421 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
422 values is arch specific.
423
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424 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR
425 Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
1c58857a 426 found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx as well as some ARM core SoCs.
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428 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
429 Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
430
431 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_EMU
432 Specify emulator support for DDR. Some DDR features such as
433 deskew training are not available.
434
435 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
436 Freescale DDR1 controller.
437
438 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
439 Freescale DDR2 controller.
440
441 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
442 Freescale DDR3 controller.
443
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444 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN4
445 Freescale DDR4 controller.
446
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447 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
448 Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
449
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450 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR1
451 Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
452 Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
453 implemetation.
454
455 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR2
62a3b7dd 456 Board config to use DDR2. It can be enabled for SoCs with
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457 Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
458 implementation.
459
460 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR3
461 Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
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462 Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
463
464 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR3L
465 Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
466 DDR3L controllers.
467
468 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR4
469 Board config to use DDR4. It can be enabled for SoCs with
470 DDR4 controllers.
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472 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
473 Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
474
475 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
476 Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
477
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478 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_CLK_DIV
479 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to IFC controller).
480
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481 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_LBC_CLK_DIV
482 Defines divider of platform clock(clock input to eLBC controller).
483
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484 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_PBI
485 It enables addition of RCW (Power on reset configuration) in built image.
486 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
487
488 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_RCW
489 It adds PBI(pre-boot instructions) commands in u-boot build image.
490 PBI commands can be used to configure SoC before it starts the execution.
491 Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
492
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493 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
494 Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
495
496 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
497 Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
498
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499 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
500 Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
501 same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for all Power SoCs. But
502 it could be different for ARM SoCs.
503
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504 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
505 DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
506 interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
507 SoCs with ARM core.
508
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509 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_MAIN_NUM_CTRLS
510 Number of controllers used as main memory.
511
512 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_OTHER_DDR_NUM_CTRLS
513 Number of controllers used for other than main memory.
514
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515 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_HAS_DP_DDR
516 Defines the SoC has DP-DDR used for DPAA.
517
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518 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
519 Defines the SEC controller register space as Big Endian
520
521 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_LE
522 Defines the SEC controller register space as Little Endian
523
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525 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
526
527 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
528 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
529 relocation.
530
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531 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
532
533 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
534 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
535 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
536
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537- ARM options:
538 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
539
540 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
541 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
542
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543 COUNTER_FREQUENCY
544 Generic timer clock source frequency.
545
546 COUNTER_FREQUENCY_REAL
547 Generic timer clock source frequency if the real clock is
548 different from COUNTER_FREQUENCY, and can only be determined
549 at run time.
550
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551- Tegra SoC options:
552 CONFIG_TEGRA_SUPPORT_NON_SECURE
553
554 Support executing U-Boot in non-secure (NS) mode. Certain
555 impossible actions will be skipped if the CPU is in NS mode,
556 such as ARM architectural timer initialization.
557
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559 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
560
b445bbb4 561 When transferring memsize parameter to Linux, some versions
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562 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
563 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
564
fec6d9ee 565 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
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567 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
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568 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
569 concepts).
570
571 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
572 * New libfdt-based support
573 * Adds the "fdt" command
3bb342fc 574 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
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576 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
577
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578 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
579 addresses
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581 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
582
583 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
584 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
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586 CONFIG_OF_SYSTEM_SETUP
587
588 Other code has addition modification that it wants to make
589 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel.
590 This causes ft_system_setup() to be called before booting
591 the kernel.
592
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593 CONFIG_OF_IDE_FIXUP
594
595 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
596 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
597 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
598 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
599 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
600 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
601
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602 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
603
604 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
605 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
606 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
047f6ec0 607 (see https://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
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608 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
609 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
610 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
611
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612- vxWorks boot parameters:
613
614 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
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615 environments variables: bootdev, bootfile, ipaddr, netmask,
616 serverip, gatewayip, hostname, othbootargs.
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617 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
618
81a05d9b 619 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will override
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620 the defaults discussed just above.
621
2c451f78 622- Cache Configuration:
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623 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
624
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625- Cache Configuration for ARM:
626 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
627 controller
628 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
629 controller register space
630
6705d81e 631- Serial Ports:
48d0192f 632 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL
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634 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
635
636 CONFIG_PL011_CLOCK
637
638 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
639 the clock speed of the UARTs.
640
641 CONFIG_PL01x_PORTS
642
643 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
644 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
645 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
646
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647 CONFIG_SERIAL_HW_FLOW_CONTROL
648
649 Define this variable to enable hw flow control in serial driver.
650 Current user of this option is drivers/serial/nsl16550.c driver
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652- Autoboot Command:
653 CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
654 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
655 define a command string that is automatically executed
656 when no character is read on the console interface
657 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
658
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660 The value of these goes into the environment as
661 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
662 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
11ccc33f 663 RAM and NFS.
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665- Serial Download Echo Mode:
666 CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
667 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
668 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
669 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
670 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
671 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
672 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
673
602ad3b3 674- Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
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675 CONFIG_KGDB_BAUDRATE
676 Select one of the baudrates listed in
6d0f6bcf 677 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
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679- Removal of commands
680 If no commands are needed to boot, you can disable
681 CONFIG_CMDLINE to remove them. In this case, the command line
682 will not be available, and when U-Boot wants to execute the
683 boot command (on start-up) it will call board_run_command()
684 instead. This can reduce image size significantly for very
685 simple boot procedures.
686
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687- Regular expression support:
688 CONFIG_REGEX
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689 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
690 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
691 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
692 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
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694- Device tree:
695 CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
696 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
697 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
698 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
699 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
700 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
701
2c0f79e4 702 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
82f766d1 703 be done using one of the three options below:
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704
705 CONFIG_OF_EMBED
706 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
707 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
708 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
709 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
eb3eb602 710 the global data structure as gd->fdt_blob.
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712 CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE
713 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
714 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
715 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
716
717 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
718
719 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
720 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
721 still use the individual files if you need something more
722 exotic.
723
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724 CONFIG_OF_BOARD
725 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use the device tree
726 provided by the board at runtime instead of embedding one with
727 the image. Only boards defining board_fdt_blob_setup() support
728 this option (see include/fdtdec.h file).
729
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730- Watchdog:
731 CONFIG_WATCHDOG
732 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
6abe6fb6 733 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
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734 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx
735 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
736 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
737 available, then no further board specific code should
738 be needed to use it.
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740 CONFIG_HW_WATCHDOG
741 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
742 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
743 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
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745 CONFIG_SYS_WATCHDOG_FREQ
746 Some platforms automatically call WATCHDOG_RESET()
747 from the timer interrupt handler every
748 CONFIG_SYS_WATCHDOG_FREQ interrupts. If not set by the
749 board configuration file, a default of CONFIG_SYS_HZ/2
750 (i.e. 500) is used. Setting CONFIG_SYS_WATCHDOG_FREQ
751 to 0 disables calling WATCHDOG_RESET() from the timer
752 interrupt.
753
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754- Real-Time Clock:
755
602ad3b3 756 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
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757 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
758 following options:
759
c609719b 760 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
4e8b7544 761 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
c609719b 762 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
1cb8e980 763 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
c609719b 764 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
7f70e853 765 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
412921d2 766 CONFIG_RTC_DS1339 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1339 RTC
3bac3513 767 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
9536dfcc 768 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
4c0d4c3b 769 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
2bd3cab3 770 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
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771 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
772 RV3029 RTC.
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774 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
775 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
776
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777- GPIO Support:
778 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
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780 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
781 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
782 pins supported by a particular chip.
783
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784 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
785 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
786
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787- I/O tracing:
788 When CONFIG_IO_TRACE is selected, U-Boot intercepts all I/O
789 accesses and can checksum them or write a list of them out
790 to memory. See the 'iotrace' command for details. This is
791 useful for testing device drivers since it can confirm that
792 the driver behaves the same way before and after a code
793 change. Currently this is supported on sandbox and arm. To
794 add support for your architecture, add '#include <iotrace.h>'
795 to the bottom of arch/<arch>/include/asm/io.h and test.
796
797 Example output from the 'iotrace stats' command is below.
798 Note that if the trace buffer is exhausted, the checksum will
799 still continue to operate.
800
801 iotrace is enabled
802 Start: 10000000 (buffer start address)
803 Size: 00010000 (buffer size)
804 Offset: 00000120 (current buffer offset)
805 Output: 10000120 (start + offset)
806 Count: 00000018 (number of trace records)
807 CRC32: 9526fb66 (CRC32 of all trace records)
808
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809- Timestamp Support:
810
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811 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
812 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
813 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
602ad3b3 814 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
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816- Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
817 Zero or more of the following:
818 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
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819 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
820 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
821 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
822 disk/part_efi.c
c649e3c9 823 CONFIG_SCSI) you must configure support for at
923c46f9 824 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
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826- IDE Reset method:
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827 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
828 board configurations files but used nowhere!
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830 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
831 be performed by calling the function
832 ide_set_reset(int reset)
833 which has to be defined in a board specific file
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835- ATAPI Support:
836 CONFIG_ATAPI
837
838 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
839
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840- LBA48 Support
841 CONFIG_LBA48
842
843 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
4b142feb 844 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
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845 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
846 support disks up to 2.1TB.
847
6d0f6bcf 848 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
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849 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
850 Default is 32bit.
851
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853 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
854 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
855 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
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856 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
857 devices.
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859 The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
860 SCSI devices found during the last scan.
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c609719b 862- NETWORK Support (PCI):
682011ff 863 CONFIG_E1000
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864 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
865
866 CONFIG_E1000_SPI
867 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
868 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
869 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
870
871 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
872 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
873 example with the "sspi" command.
874
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875 CONFIG_NATSEMI
876 Support for National dp83815 chips.
877
878 CONFIG_NS8382X
879 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
880
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881- NETWORK Support (other):
882
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883 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
884 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
885
886 CONFIG_RMII
887 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
888
889 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
890 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
891 The driver doen't show link status messages.
892
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893 CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
894 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
895
3bb46d23 896 CONFIG_LAN91C96
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897 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
898
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899 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
900 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
901
3bb46d23 902 CONFIG_SMC91111
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903 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
904
905 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
906 Define this to hold the physical address
907 of the device (I/O space)
908
909 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
910 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
911
912 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
913 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
914 (some hardware wont work with macros)
915
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916 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
917 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
918
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919 CONFIG_FTGMAC100
920 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
921
922 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
923 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
924 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
925 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
926 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
927 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
928 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
929 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
930
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931 CONFIG_SH_ETHER
932 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
933
934 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
935 Define the number of ports to be used
936
937 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
938 Define the ETH PHY's address
939
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940 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
941 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
942
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944 CONFIG_TPM
945 Support TPM devices.
946
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947 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_INFINEON
948 Support for Infineon i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
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949 per system is supported at this time.
950
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951 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
952 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
953
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954 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24
955 Support for STMicroelectronics TPM devices. Requires DM_TPM support.
956
957 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_I2C
958 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 I2C devices.
959 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and I2C.
960
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961 CONFIG_TPM_ST33ZP24_SPI
962 Support for STMicroelectronics ST33ZP24 SPI devices.
963 Requires TPM_ST33ZP24 and SPI.
964
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965 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
966 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
967
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969 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
970 per system is supported at this time.
971
972 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
973 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
974 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
975 0xfed40000.
976
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977 CONFIG_TPM
978 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
979 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
980 Requires support for a TPM device.
981
982 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
983 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
984 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
985
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987 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
064b55cf 988 supported (PIP405, MIP405); define
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989 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
990 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
30d56fae 991 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
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992 storage devices.
993 Note:
994 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
995 (TEAC FD-05PUB).
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997 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
998 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
999
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1000 CONFIG_USB_DWC2_REG_ADDR the physical CPU address of the DWC2
1001 HW module registers.
1002
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1004 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1005 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1006 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
11ccc33f 1007 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
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1008 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1009 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
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1011 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1012 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1013 a Linux host by
1014 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1015 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1016 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1017 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
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1020 Define this to build a UDC device
1021
1022 CONFIG_USB_TTY
1023 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1024 talk to the UDC device
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1026 CONFIG_USBD_HS
1027 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1028 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1029 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1030 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1031 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1032 speed.
1033
6d0f6bcf 1034 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
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1035 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1036 be set to usbtty.
1037
386eda02 1038 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
16c8d5e7 1039 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
386eda02 1040 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
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1041 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1042 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1043 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1044
1045 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1046 Define this string as the name of your company for
1047 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
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1049 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1050 Define this string as the name of your product
1051 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1052
1053 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1054 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1055 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1056 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1057 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
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1059 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1060 Define this as the unique Product ID
1061 for your device
1062 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
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1065 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1066 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1067 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1068 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1069 viewport is supported.
1070 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1071 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
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1072 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1073 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1074 the appropriate value in Hz.
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1077 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1078 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1079 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
71f95118 1080 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
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1081 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1082 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
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1084 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF
1085 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1086
1087 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1088 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1089
1090 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_CLK
1091 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1092
b3ba6e94 1093- USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
bb4059a5 1094 CONFIG_DFU_OVER_USB
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1095 This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class
1096
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1097 CONFIG_DFU_NAND
1098 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
1099
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1100 CONFIG_DFU_RAM
1101 This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
1102 Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
1103 allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
1104 one that would help mostly the developer.
1105
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1106 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
1107 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
1108 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
1109 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
1110 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
1111
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1112 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
1113 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
1114 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
1115 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
1116 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
1117 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
1118
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1119 DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
1120 Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
1121 host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
1122 a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
1123
1124 DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
1125 Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
1126 entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
1127 sending again an USB request to the device.
1128
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1132
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1134 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
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1136
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1138 See Kconfig help for available keyboard drivers.
1139
1140 CONFIG_KEYBOARD
1141
1142 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1143 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1144 defined in your board-specific files. This option is deprecated
1145 and is only used by novena. For new boards, use driver model
1146 instead.
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1148- Video support:
7d3053fb 1149 CONFIG_FSL_DIU_FB
04e5ae79 1150 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
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1152 support, and should also define these other macros:
1153
1154 CONFIG_SYS_DIU_ADDR
1155 CONFIG_VIDEO
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1156 CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE
1157 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1158 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1159 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
1160 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1161
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1162 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1163 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
8eca9439 1164 boot. See the documentation file doc/README.video for a
ba8e76bd 1165 description of this variable.
7d3053fb 1166
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1167- LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1168
1169 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1170 display); also select one of the supported displays
1171 by defining one of these:
1172
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1173 CONFIG_ATMEL_LCD:
1174
1175 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1176
fd3103bb 1177 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
c609719b 1178
fd3103bb 1179 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
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fd3103bb 1181 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
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1183 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1184 Active, color, single scan.
1185
1186 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1187
1188 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
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1189 Active, color, single scan.
1190
1191 CONFIG_SHARP_16x9
1192
1193 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1194 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1195
1196 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1197
1198 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1199 Active, color, single scan.
1200
1201 CONFIG_HLD1045
1202
1203 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1204 Active, color, single scan.
1205
1206 CONFIG_OPTREX_BW
1207
1208 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1209 or
1210 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1211 or
1212 Hitachi SP14Q002
1213
1214 320x240. Black & white.
1215
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1216 CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
1217
b445bbb4 1218 Normally the LCD is page-aligned (typically 4KB). If this is
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1219 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
1220 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
1221 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
1222 a per-section basis.
1223
1224
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1225 CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION
1226
1227 Sometimes, for example if the display is mounted in portrait
1228 mode or even if it's mounted landscape but rotated by 180degree,
1229 we need to rotate our content of the display relative to the
1230 framebuffer, so that user can read the messages which are
1231 printed out.
1232 Once CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is defined, the lcd_console will be
1233 initialized with a given rotation from "vl_rot" out of
1234 "vidinfo_t" which is provided by the board specific code.
1235 The value for vl_rot is coded as following (matching to
1236 fbcon=rotate:<n> linux-kernel commandline):
1237 0 = no rotation respectively 0 degree
1238 1 = 90 degree rotation
1239 2 = 180 degree rotation
1240 3 = 270 degree rotation
1241
1242 If CONFIG_LCD_ROTATION is not defined, the console will be
1243 initialized with 0degree rotation.
1244
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1245 CONFIG_LCD_BMP_RLE8
1246
1247 Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
1248
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1249 CONFIG_I2C_EDID
1250
1251 Enables an 'i2c edid' command which can read EDID
1252 information over I2C from an attached LCD display.
1253
17ea1177 1254- MII/PHY support:
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1255 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1256
1257 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1258
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1259 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1260
1261 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1262 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1263 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1264 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1265
1266 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1267
1268 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1269 command issued before MII status register can be read
1270
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1271- IP address:
1272 CONFIG_IPADDR
1273
1274 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
11ccc33f 1275 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
c609719b 1276 determined through e.g. bootp.
1ebcd654 1277 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
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1278
1279- Server IP address:
1280 CONFIG_SERVERIP
1281
11ccc33f 1282 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
c609719b 1283 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1ebcd654 1284 (Environment variable "serverip")
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1286 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1287
1288 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1289 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1290
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1291- Gateway IP address:
1292 CONFIG_GATEWAYIP
1293
1294 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1295 default router where packets to other networks are
1296 sent to.
1297 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1298
1299- Subnet mask:
1300 CONFIG_NETMASK
1301
1302 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1303 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1304 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1305 forwarded through a router.
1306 (Environment variable "netmask")
1307
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1308- BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1309 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1310
1311 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1312 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1313 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1314 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1315 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1316 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1317 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1318 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
6c33c785 1319 following delays are inserted then:
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1321 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1322 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1323 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1324 4th and following
1325 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1326
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1327 CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE
1328
1329 BOOTP packets are uniquely identified using a 32-bit ID. The
1330 server will copy the ID from client requests to responses and
1331 U-Boot will use this to determine if it is the destination of
1332 an incoming response. Some servers will check that addresses
1333 aren't in use before handing them out (usually using an ARP
1334 ping) and therefore take up to a few hundred milliseconds to
1335 respond. Network congestion may also influence the time it
1336 takes for a response to make it back to the client. If that
1337 time is too long, U-Boot will retransmit requests. In order
1338 to allow earlier responses to still be accepted after these
1339 retransmissions, U-Boot's BOOTP client keeps a small cache of
1340 IDs. The CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE controls the size of this
1341 cache. The default is to keep IDs for up to four outstanding
1342 requests. Increasing this will allow U-Boot to accept offers
1343 from a BOOTP client in networks with unusually high latency.
1344
fe389a82 1345- DHCP Advanced Options:
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1346 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1347 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1348
1fe80d79 1349 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1fe80d79 1350 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
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1351 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1352 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1353 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
2c00e099 1354 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
fe389a82 1355
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1356 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1357 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
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1359 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1360 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1361 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1362 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1363 is not available.
1364
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1365 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1366
1367 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1368 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1369 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1370 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1371 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1372 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1373 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1374 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1375 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1376 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1377 this delay.
1378
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1379 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1380 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1381 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1382 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1383 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1384
1385 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1386
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1387 - MAC address from environment variables
1388
1389 FDT_SEQ_MACADDR_FROM_ENV
1390
1391 Fix-up device tree with MAC addresses fetched sequentially from
1392 environment variables. This config work on assumption that
1393 non-usable ethernet node of device-tree are either not present
1394 or their status has been marked as "disabled".
1395
a3d991bd 1396 - CDP Options:
6e592385 1397 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
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1398
1399 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1400
1401 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1402
1403 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1404 of the device.
1405
1406 CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID
1407
1408 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1409 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
11ccc33f 1410 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
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1412 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1413
1414 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1415 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1416
1417 CONFIG_CDP_VERSION
1418
1419 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1420
1421 CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM
1422
1423 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1424
1425 CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER
1426
1427 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1428
1429 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1430
1431 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1432 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1433
1434 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1435
1436 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1437
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1439
1440 Several configurations allow to display the current
1441 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1442 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1443 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1444 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1445 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
79267edd 1446 kernel). Defining CONFIG_LED_STATUS enables this
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1447 feature in U-Boot.
1448
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1449 Additional options:
1450
79267edd 1451 CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
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1452 The status LED can be connected to a GPIO pin.
1453 In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
79267edd 1454 status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_LED_STATUS_GPIO
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1455 to include the gpio_led driver in the U-Boot binary.
1456
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1457 CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE
1458 Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
1459 case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
1460 GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
1461 In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
1462 with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
1463
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1465
1466 This enable the NEW i2c subsystem, and will allow you to use
1467 i2c commands at the u-boot command line (as long as you set
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1468 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE
1469 for defining speed and slave address
1470 - activate second bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS2 define
1471 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_2 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_2
1472 for defining speed and slave address
1473 - activate third bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS3 define
1474 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_3 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_3
1475 for defining speed and slave address
1476 - activate fourth bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS4 define
1477 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_4 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_4
1478 for defining speed and slave address
3f4978c7 1479
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1480 - drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c:
1481 - activate i2c driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_FSL
1482 define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_OFFSET for setting the register
1483 offset CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SPEED for the i2c speed and
1484 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SLAVE for the slave addr of the first
1485 bus.
93e14596 1486 - If your board supports a second fsl i2c bus, define
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1487 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_OFFSET for the register offset
1488 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SPEED for the speed and
1489 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SLAVE for the slave address of the
1490 second bus.
1491
1f2ba722 1492 - drivers/i2c/tegra_i2c.c:
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1493 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_TEGRA
1494 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses with a fix speed from
1495 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1f2ba722 1496
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1497 - drivers/i2c/ppc4xx_i2c.c
1498 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX
1499 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1500 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1501
fac96408 1502 - drivers/i2c/i2c_mxc.c
1503 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC
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1504 - enable bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C1
1505 - enable bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C2
1506 - enable bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C3
1507 - enable bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC_I2C4
fac96408 1508 - define speed for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SPEED
1509 - define slave for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SLAVE
1510 - define speed for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SPEED
1511 - define slave for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SLAVE
1512 - define speed for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SPEED
1513 - define slave for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SLAVE
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1514 - define speed for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SPEED
1515 - define slave for bus 4 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C4_SLAVE
b445bbb4 1516 If those defines are not set, default value is 100000
fac96408 1517 for speed, and 0 for slave.
1518
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1519 - drivers/i2c/rcar_i2c.c:
1520 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RCAR
1521 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses
1522
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1523 - drivers/i2c/sh_i2c.c:
1524 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH
1525 - This driver adds from 2 to 5 i2c buses
1526
1527 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE0 for setting the register channel 0
1528 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED0 for for the speed channel 0
1529 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE1 for setting the register channel 1
1530 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED1 for for the speed channel 1
1531 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE2 for setting the register channel 2
1532 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED2 for for the speed channel 2
1533 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE3 for setting the register channel 3
1534 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED3 for for the speed channel 3
1535 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE4 for setting the register channel 4
1536 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED4 for for the speed channel 4
b445bbb4 1537 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
2035d77d 1538
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1539 - drivers/i2c/omap24xx_i2c.c
1540 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_OMAP24XX
1541 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED speed channel 0
1542 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE slave addr channel 0
1543 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED1 speed channel 1
1544 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE1 slave addr channel 1
1545 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED2 speed channel 2
1546 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE2 slave addr channel 2
1547 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED3 speed channel 3
1548 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE3 slave addr channel 3
1549 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED4 speed channel 4
1550 - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE4 slave addr channel 4
1551
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1552 - drivers/i2c/s3c24x0_i2c.c:
1553 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_S3C24X0
1554 - This driver adds i2c buses (11 for Exynos5250, Exynos5420
1555 9 i2c buses for Exynos4 and 1 for S3C24X0 SoCs from Samsung)
1556 with a fix speed from 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1557
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1558 - drivers/i2c/ihs_i2c.c
1559 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS
1560 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1561 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0 speed channel 0
1562 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0 slave addr channel 0
1563 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1564 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1 speed channel 1
1565 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1 slave addr channel 1
1566 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH2 activate hardware channel 2
1567 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2 speed channel 2
1568 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2 slave addr channel 2
1569 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH3 activate hardware channel 3
1570 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3 speed channel 3
1571 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3 slave addr channel 3
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1572 - activate dual channel with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_DUAL
1573 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0_1 speed channel 0_1
1574 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0_1 slave addr channel 0_1
1575 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1_1 speed channel 1_1
1576 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1_1 slave addr channel 1_1
1577 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2_1 speed channel 2_1
1578 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2_1 slave addr channel 2_1
1579 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3_1 speed channel 3_1
1580 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3_1 slave addr channel 3_1
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1583
1584 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
945a18e6 1585 Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use.
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1586
1587 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
1588 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
1589 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
1590 omit this define.
1591
1592 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
1593 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
1594 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
1595 define.
1596
1597 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
b445bbb4 1598 hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
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1599 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
1600 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
1601 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
1602
1603 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1604 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
1605 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
1606 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
1607 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
1608 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
1609 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
1610 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
1611 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
1612 }
1613
1614 which defines
1615 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
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1616 bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
1617 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
1618 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
1619 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
1620 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
3f4978c7 1621 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
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1622 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
1623 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
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1624
1625 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
1626
ce3b5d69 1627- Legacy I2C Support:
ea818dbb 1628 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
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1629 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1630 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
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1632 I2C_INIT
1633
b37c7e5e 1634 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
43d9616c 1635 controller or configure ports.
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ba56f625 1637 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
b37c7e5e 1638
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1640
1641 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1642 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1643 define can be null.
1644
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1645 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1646
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1648
1649 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1650 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1651 define can be null.
1652
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1653 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1654
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1655 I2C_READ
1656
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1657 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
1658 false if it is low.
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1660 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1661
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1662 I2C_SDA(bit)
1663
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1664 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1665 is false, it clears it (low).
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b37c7e5e 1667 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
2535d602 1668 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
ba56f625 1669 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
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1672
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1673 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1674 is false, it clears it (low).
c609719b 1675
b37c7e5e 1676 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
2535d602 1677 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
ba56f625 1678 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
b37c7e5e 1679
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1681
1682 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1683 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
b37c7e5e 1684 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
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1685 like:
1686
b37c7e5e 1687 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
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1689 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1690
1691 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1692 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1693 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1694 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1695
1696 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1697 the generic GPIO functions.
1698
6d0f6bcf 1699 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
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1701 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1702 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1703 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1704 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1705 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1706 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1707 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1708 is run early in the boot sequence.
47cd00fa 1709
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1710 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1711
1712 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
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1713 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1714 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
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1715 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1716
6d0f6bcf 1717 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
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1718
1719 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
c0f40859 1720 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
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1721 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1722 a 1D array of device addresses
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1723
1724 e.g.
1725 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
c0f40859 1726 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
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1727
1728 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1729
c0f40859 1730 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
945a18e6 1731 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
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1733 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1734
6d0f6bcf 1735 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
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1737 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1738 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1739
6d0f6bcf 1740 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
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1741
1742 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1743 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1744
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1745 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1746
1747 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1748 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1749 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1750 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1751 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1752 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1753 the other.
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1756
1757 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1758 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1759 D/As on the SACSng board)
1760
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1761 CONFIG_SOFT_SPI
1762
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1763 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
1764 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
1765 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
1766 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
1767 defined, the board configuration must define several
1768 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
1769 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
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1771 CONFIG_SYS_SPI_MXC_WAIT
1772 Timeout for waiting until spi transfer completed.
1773 default: (CONFIG_SYS_HZ/100) /* 10 ms */
1774
0133502e 1775- FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
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1777 Enables FPGA subsystem.
1778
1779 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
1780
1781 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
1782 (ALTERA, XILINX)
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0133502e 1784 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
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1786 Enables support for FPGA family.
1787 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
1788
1789 CONFIG_FPGA_COUNT
1790
1791 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
c609719b 1792
6d0f6bcf 1793 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
c609719b 1794
8bde7f77 1795 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
c609719b 1796
6d0f6bcf 1797 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
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1799 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
1800 status by the configuration function. This option
1801 will require a board or device specific function to
1802 be written.
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1804 CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY
1805
1806 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
1807 configuration driver.
1808
6d0f6bcf 1809 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
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1810 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
1811
6d0f6bcf 1812 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
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1814 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
1815 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
1816 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
1817 indicated a CRC error).
c609719b 1818
6d0f6bcf 1819 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
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1822 after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
43d9616c 1823 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
11ccc33f 1824 ms.
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6d0f6bcf 1826 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
c609719b 1827
b445bbb4 1828 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
11ccc33f 1829 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
c609719b 1830
6d0f6bcf 1831 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
c609719b 1832
43d9616c 1833 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
11ccc33f 1834 200 ms.
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1836- Configuration Management:
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1838 CONFIG_IDENT_STRING
1839
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1840 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
1841 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
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1842
1843- Vendor Parameter Protection:
1844
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1845 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
1846 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
7152b1d0 1847 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
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1848 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
1849 protects these variables from casual modification by
1850 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
1851 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
11ccc33f 1852 change this behaviour:
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1854 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
1855 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
47cd00fa 1856 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
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1857 these parameters.
1858
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1859 Alternatively, if you define _both_ an ethaddr in the
1860 default env _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
11ccc33f 1861 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
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1862 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
1863 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
1864 read-only.]
1865
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1866 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
1867 for any variable by configuring the type of access
1868 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
1869 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
1870
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1871- Protected RAM:
1872 CONFIG_PRAM
1873
1874 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
1875 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
1876 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
1877 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
1878 this default value by defining an environment
1879 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
1880 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
1881 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
1882 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
1883 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
1884 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
1885 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
1886
fe126d8b 1887 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
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1888 saveenv
1889
1890 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
1891 either, which results in a memory region that will
1892 not be affected by reboots.
1893
1894 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
1895 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
1896 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
1897 following board configurations are known to be
1898 "pRAM-clean":
1899
5b8e76c3 1900 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx,
1b0757ec 1901 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2eb48ff7 1902 FLAGADM
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1905 Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not
1906 normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures
1907 support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit
1908 machines using physical address extension or similar.
1909 Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which
1910 currently only supports clearing the memory.
1911
c609719b 1912- Error Recovery:
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1913 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
1914
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1915 This variable defines the number of retries for
1916 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
1917 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
1918 default value of 5 is used.
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1920 CONFIG_ARP_TIMEOUT
1921
1922 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
1923
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1924 CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT
1925
1926 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
1927 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
1928 try longer timeout such as
1929 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
1930
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1932
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1933 In the current implementation, the local variables
1934 space and global environment variables space are
1935 separated. Local variables are those you define by
1936 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
1937 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
1938 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
1939 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
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1941 Global environment variables are those you use
1942 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
1943 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
1944 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
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1945
1946 To store commands and special characters in a
1947 variable, please use double quotation marks
1948 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
1949 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
1950 symbols.
1951
b445bbb4 1952- Command Line Editing and History:
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1953 CONFIG_CMDLINE_PS_SUPPORT
1954
1955 Enable support for changing the command prompt string
1956 at run-time. Only static string is supported so far.
1957 The string is obtained from environment variables PS1
1958 and PS2.
1959
a8c7c708 1960- Default Environment:
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1961 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
1962
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1963 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
1964 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
7152b1d0 1965 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2262cfee 1966
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1967 For example, place something like this in your
1968 board's config file:
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1969
1970 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
1971 "myvar1=value1\0" \
1972 "myvar2=value2\0"
1973
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1974 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
1975 internal format how the environment is stored by the
1976 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
1977 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
7152b1d0 1978 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
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1979 You better know what you are doing here.
1980
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1981 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
1982 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
74de7aef 1983 the environment like the "source" command or the
43d9616c 1984 boot command first.
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1986 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
1987
1988 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
b445bbb4 1989 initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
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1990 that so that the environment is not available until
1991 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
1992 this is instead controlled by the value of
1993 /config/load-environment.
1994
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1995- TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
1996 CONFIG_TFTP_PORT
1997
28cb9375 1998 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
ecb0ccd9 1999 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
28cb9375 2000 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
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2001 number generator is used.
2002
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2003 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2004 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2005 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2006
2007 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
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2008 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2009 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2010 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2011 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2012 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2013 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2014
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2015 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2016
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2017 This option defines a board specific value for the
2018 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
2019 overwriting the architecture dependent default
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2020 settings.
2021
2022- Frame Buffer Address:
2023 CONFIG_FB_ADDR
2024
2025 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
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2026 address for frame buffer. This is typically the case
2027 when using a graphics controller has separate video
2028 memory. U-Boot will then place the frame buffer at
2029 the given address instead of dynamically reserving it
2030 in system RAM by calling lcd_setmem(), which grabs
2031 the memory for the frame buffer depending on the
2032 configured panel size.
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2033
2034 Please see board_init_f function.
2035
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2036- Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2037 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP
2038 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2039 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2040
2041 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2042 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2043
2044- MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
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2045 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
2046 This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
2047 erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
2048 of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
2049 wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
2050 counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
2051
2052 The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
2053 other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
2054 However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
2055 life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
2056 to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
2057
2058 default: 4096
c654b517 2059
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2060 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
2061 This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
2062 expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the
2063 underlying flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR
2064 flash), this value is ignored.
2065
2066 NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM
2067 (Number of Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime.
2068 The maximum expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks
2069 then can be calculated as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)",
2070 which gives 20 for most NANDs (MaxNVB is basically the total
2071 count of eraseblocks on the chip).
2072
2073 To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to
2074 reserve about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
2075 handling. And that will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire
2076 NAND chip, not just the MTD partition UBI attaches. This means
2077 that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip admits maximum 40 bad
2078 eraseblocks, and it is split on two MTD partitions of the same
2079 size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when attaching a
2080 partition.
2081
2082 default: 20
2083
2084 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
2085 Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
2086 in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
2087 only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
2088 The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
2089 the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
2090 attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
2091 a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI parameter
2092 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT to 1 if you want so. Please note
2093 that fastmap-enabled images are still usable with UBI implementations
2094 without fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap
2095 fits into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
2096
2097 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT
2098 Set this parameter to enable fastmap automatically on images
2099 without a fastmap.
2100 default: 0
2101
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2102 CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FM_DEBUG
2103 Enable UBI fastmap debug
2104 default: 0
2105
6a11cf48 2106- SPL framework
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2107 CONFIG_SPL
2108 Enable building of SPL globally.
6a11cf48 2109
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2110 CONFIG_SPL_LDSCRIPT
2111 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
2112
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2113 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT
2114 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL, BSS included.
2115 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory
2116 used by SPL from _start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
8960af8b 2117 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
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2118 must not be both defined at the same time.
2119
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2121 Maximum size of the SPL image (text, data, rodata, and
2122 linker lists sections), BSS excluded.
2123 When defined, the linker checks that the actual size does
2124 not exceed it.
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2126 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
2127 Address to relocate to. If unspecified, this is equal to
2128 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
2129
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2130 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
2131 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
2132
2133 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
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2134 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL BSS.
2135 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory used
2136 by SPL from __bss_start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
8960af8b 2137 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
6ebc3461 2138 must not be both defined at the same time.
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2139
2140 CONFIG_SPL_STACK
2141 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
2142
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2143 CONFIG_SPL_PANIC_ON_RAW_IMAGE
2144 When defined, SPL will panic() if the image it has
2145 loaded does not have a signature.
2146 Defining this is useful when code which loads images
2147 in SPL cannot guarantee that absolutely all read errors
2148 will be caught.
2149 An example is the LPC32XX MLC NAND driver, which will
2150 consider that a completely unreadable NAND block is bad,
2151 and thus should be skipped silently.
2152
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2153 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
2154 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
2155 relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
2156 CONFIG_SPL_STACK.
2157
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2158 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
2159 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
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2160 When this option is set the full malloc is used in SPL and
2161 it is set up by spl_init() and before that, the simple malloc()
2162 can be used if CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F is defined.
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2164 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
2165 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
6a11cf48 2166
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2167 CONFIG_SPL_OS_BOOT
2168 Enable booting directly to an OS from SPL.
2169 See also: doc/README.falcon
2170
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2171 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
2172 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
2173 about the running system.
2174
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2175 CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
2176 Arch init code should be built for a very small image
2177
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2178 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION
2179 Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
2180 used in raw mode
2181
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2182 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_KERNEL_SECTOR
2183 Sector to load kernel uImage from when MMC is being
2184 used in raw mode (for Falcon mode)
2185
2186 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTOR,
2187 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTORS
2188 Sector and number of sectors to load kernel argument
2189 parameters from when MMC is being used in raw mode
2190 (for falcon mode)
2191
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2192 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
2193 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from filesystem
2194
2195 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_KERNEL_NAME
7ad2cc79 2196 Filename to read to load kernel uImage when reading
fae81c72 2197 from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
7ad2cc79 2198
fae81c72 2199 CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_ARGS_NAME
7ad2cc79 2200 Filename to read to load kernel argument parameters
fae81c72 2201 when reading from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
7ad2cc79 2202
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2203 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
2204 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
2205 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
2206 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
2207 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
2208
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2209 CONFIG_SPL_SKIP_RELOCATE
2210 Avoid SPL relocation
2211
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2212 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_IDENT
2213 SPL uses the chip ID list to identify the NAND flash.
2214 Requires CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE.
2215
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2216 CONFIG_SPL_UBI
2217 Support for a lightweight UBI (fastmap) scanner and
2218 loader
2219
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2220 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_RAW_ONLY
2221 Support to boot only raw u-boot.bin images. Use this only
2222 if you need to save space.
2223
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2224 CONFIG_SPL_COMMON_INIT_DDR
2225 Set for common ddr init with serial presence detect in
2226 SPL binary.
2227
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2228 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
2229 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
2230 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
2231 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
2232 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
2233 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
7d4b7955 2234 to read U-Boot
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2235
2236 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
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2237 Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
2238
2239 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
2240 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
2241
2242 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
2243 Size of image to load
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2244
2245 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
7d4b7955 2246 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
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2247
2248 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
2249 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
b445bbb4 2250 data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
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2252 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
2253 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
6a11cf48 2254
74752baa 2255 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO
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2256 Image offset to which the SPL should be padded before appending
2257 the SPL payload. By default, this is defined as
2258 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2259 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2260 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
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2262 CONFIG_SPL_TARGET
2263 Final target image containing SPL and payload. Some SPLs
2264 use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
2265 example if more than one image needs to be produced.
2266
b527b9c6 2267 CONFIG_SPL_FIT_PRINT
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2268 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
2269 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
2270 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
2271 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
2272
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2273- TPL framework
2274 CONFIG_TPL
2275 Enable building of TPL globally.
2276
2277 CONFIG_TPL_PAD_TO
2278 Image offset to which the TPL should be padded before appending
2279 the TPL payload. By default, this is defined as
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2280 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
2281 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
2282 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
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2284- Interrupt support (PPC):
2285
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2286 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2287 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
11ccc33f 2288 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
d4ca31c4 2289 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
11ccc33f 2290 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
d4ca31c4 2291 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
11ccc33f 2292 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
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2293 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2294 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2295 general timer_interrupt().
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2298Board initialization settings:
2299------------------------------
2300
2301During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
2302to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
2303before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
2304following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
2305architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
2306typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
2307
2308- CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
2309- CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
2310- CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
2311- CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
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2313Configuration Settings:
2314-----------------------
2315
4d979bfd 2316- MEM_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit.
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2317 Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.
2318
6d0f6bcf 2319- CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
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2320 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2321
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2322- CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2323 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2324
6d0f6bcf 2325- CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
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2326 prompt for user input.
2327
6d0f6bcf 2328- CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
c609719b 2329
6d0f6bcf 2330- CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
c609719b 2331
6d0f6bcf 2332- CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
c609719b 2333
6d0f6bcf 2334- CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
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2335 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2336 booted
2337
6d0f6bcf 2338- CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
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2339 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2340
e8149522 2341- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE
e61a7534 2342 Only implemented for ARMv8 for now.
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2343 If defined, the size of CONFIG_SYS_MEM_RESERVE_SECURE memory
2344 is substracted from total RAM and won't be reported to OS.
2345 This memory can be used as secure memory. A variable
e61a7534 2346 gd->arch.secure_ram is used to track the location. In systems
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2347 the RAM base is not zero, or RAM is divided into banks,
2348 this variable needs to be recalcuated to get the address.
2349
aabd7ddb 2350- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE:
6d0f6bcf 2351 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
14f73ca6 2352 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
11ccc33f 2353 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
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2354 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2355 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2356 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
5e12e75d 2357 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
14f73ca6 2358 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
5e12e75d 2359 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
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2360
2361 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2362 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2363 be touched.
2364
2365 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2366 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2367 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2368 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2369 problems.
2370
6d0f6bcf 2371- CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
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2372 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2373
6d0f6bcf 2374- CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
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2375 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2376
6d0f6bcf 2377- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
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2378 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2379
6d0f6bcf 2380- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
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2381 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2382 make config files to be same as the text base address
14d0a02a 2383 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
6d0f6bcf 2384 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
c609719b 2385
6d0f6bcf 2386- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
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2387 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2388 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2389 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2390 flash sector.
c609719b 2391
6d0f6bcf 2392- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
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2393 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2394
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2395- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
2396 Size of the malloc() pool for use before relocation. If
2397 this is defined, then a very simple malloc() implementation
2398 will become available before relocation. The address is just
2399 below the global data, and the stack is moved down to make
2400 space.
2401
2402 This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
2403 within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
2404 is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
b445bbb4 2405 The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
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2406 U-Boot relocates itself.
2407
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2408- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE
2409 Provides a simple and small malloc() and calloc() for those
2410 boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is
2411 enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START).
2412
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2413- CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY:
2414 Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be
2415 typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped
2416 uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would
2417 otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For
2418 some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the
2419 cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed
2420 are not a multiple of the cache-line size, *and* padding
2421 cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e.
2422 if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the
2423 size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of
2424 one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has
2425 written to another region in the same cache-line. This can
2426 happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for
2427 buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g.
2428 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).
2429
2430 Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
2431
6d0f6bcf 2432- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
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2433 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
2434 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
6d0f6bcf 2435 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
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2436 to adjust this setting to your needs.
2437
6d0f6bcf 2438- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
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2439 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
2440 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
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2441 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
2442 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
1bce2aeb 2443 environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
7d721e34 2444 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
c0f40859 2445 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
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2446 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
2447 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
2448 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
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2450- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
2451 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
2452 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
2453 is enabled.
2454
2455- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
2456 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
2457 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2458
2459- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
2460 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
2461 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2462
6d0f6bcf 2463- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
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2464 Max number of Flash memory banks
2465
6d0f6bcf 2466- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
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2467 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
2468
6d0f6bcf 2469- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
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2470 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
2471
6d0f6bcf 2472- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
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2473 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
2474
6d0f6bcf 2475- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
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2476 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
2477
6d0f6bcf 2478- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
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2479 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
2480
6d0f6bcf 2481- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
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2482 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
2483 instead of U-Boot software protection.
2484
6d0f6bcf 2485- CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
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2486
2487 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
2488 without this option such a download has to be
2489 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
2490 copy from RAM to flash.
2491
2492 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
2493 you can check if the download worked before you erase
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2494 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
2495 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
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2496 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
2497
6d0f6bcf 2498- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
43d9616c 2499 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
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2500 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
2501
00b1883a 2502- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
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2503 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
2504 in the drivers directory
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2506- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
2507 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
2508 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
2509 to the MTD layer.
2510
6d0f6bcf 2511- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
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2512 Use buffered writes to flash.
2513
2514- CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
2515 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
2516 write commands.
2517
6d0f6bcf 2518- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
5568e613
SR
2519 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
2520 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
2521 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
2522 optionally available.
2523
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2524- CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
2525 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
2526 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
2527 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
2528
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2529- CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY
2530 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
2531 against the source after the write operation. An error message
2532 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
2533 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
2534 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
2535 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
2536 this option if you really know what you are doing.
2537
6d0f6bcf 2538- CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
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2539 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
2540 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
53cf9435
SR
2541 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
2542 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
11ccc33f 2543 on high Ethernet traffic.
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2544 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
2545
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2546- CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
2547
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2548 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
2549 internally to store the environment settings. The default
2550 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
2551 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
2552 lib/hashtable.c for details.
ea882baf 2553
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2554- CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
2555- CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
1bce2aeb 2556 Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when
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2557 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
2558 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
2559 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
2560
2561 The format of the list is:
2562 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
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2563 access_attribute = [a|r|o|c]
2564 attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute]
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2565 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
2566 list = entry[,list]
2567
2568 The type attributes are:
2569 s - String (default)
2570 d - Decimal
2571 x - Hexadecimal
2572 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
2573 i - IP address
2574 m - MAC address
2575
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2576 The access attributes are:
2577 a - Any (default)
2578 r - Read-only
2579 o - Write-once
2580 c - Change-default
2581
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2582 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
2583 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
b445bbb4 2584 environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
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2585
2586 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
2587 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
2588 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
2589 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
2590 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
2591 ".flags" variable.
2592
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2593 If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
2594 regular expression. This allows multiple variables to define the same
2595 flags without explicitly listing them for each variable.
2596
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2597The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
2598of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
2599following configurations:
2600
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2601- CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
2602
2603 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
2604 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
2605
c609719b 2606BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
b445bbb4 2607in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the
11ccc33f 2608console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
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2609U-Boot will hang.
2610
2611Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
2612environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
2613keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
2614to save the current settings.
2615
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2616BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
2617"saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
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2618environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
2619but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
0a85a9e7 2620
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2621- CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
2622
2623 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
2624 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
2625 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
2626
e881cb56 2627Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
c609719b 2628has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
00caae6d 2629created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use env_get_f()
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2630until then to read environment variables.
2631
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2632The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
2633is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
2634with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
2635necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
2636"baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
2637have any device yet where we could complain.]
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2638
2639Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
2640the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
85ec0bcc 2641use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
c609719b 2642
6d0f6bcf 2643- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
42d1f039 2644 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
fc3e2165 2645
6d0f6bcf 2646 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
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2647 also needs to be defined.
2648
6d0f6bcf 2649- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
42d1f039 2650 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
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2652- CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
2653 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
2654 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
2655 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
2656 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
2657 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
2658
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2659- CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
2660 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
2661 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
2662 to do this.
2663
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2664- CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
2665 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
2666 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
2667 present.
2668
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2669- CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT:
2670 Maximum size of the U-Boot image. When defined, the
2671 build system checks that the actual size does not
2672 exceed it.
2673
c609719b 2674Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
dc7c9a1a 2675---------------------------------------------------
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6d0f6bcf 2677- CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
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2678 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
2679
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2680- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
2681 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
2682 PowerPC SOCs.
2683
2684- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
2685 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
2686 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
2687
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2688- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
2689 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
2690 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
c0f40859 2691 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
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2692 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
2693 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
2694 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
2695
2696 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
2697 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
2698
2699- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
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2700 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
2701 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
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2702 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
2703 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
2704
2705- CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
2706 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
2707 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
2708 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
2709
2710- CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
2711 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
2712 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
2713
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2714- CONFIG_IDE_AHB:
2715 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
2716 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
2717 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
2718 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
2719 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
b445bbb4 2720 is required.
0abddf82 2721
6d0f6bcf 2722- CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
efe2a4d5 2723 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
907208c4 2724 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx systems only]
c609719b 2725
6d0f6bcf 2726- CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
c609719b 2727
7152b1d0 2728 Start address of memory area that can be used for
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2729 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
2730 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
2731 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
2732 will become available only after programming the
2733 memory controller and running certain initialization
2734 sequences.
2735
2736 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
907208c4 2737 - MPC8xx: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
c609719b 2738
6d0f6bcf 2739- CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
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2740
2741 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
6d0f6bcf
JCPV
2742 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
2743 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
c609719b 2744 data is located at the end of the available space
553f0982 2745 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
acd51f9d 2746 GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
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2747 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
2748 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
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2749
2750 Note:
2751 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
2752 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
6d0f6bcf 2753 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
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2754 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
2755 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
2756
6d0f6bcf 2757- CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
c609719b 2758
6d0f6bcf 2759- CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
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2760 SDRAM timing
2761
6d0f6bcf 2762- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
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2763 periodic timer for refresh
2764
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2765- FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
2766 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
2767 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
2768 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
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2769 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
2770
2771- SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
6d0f6bcf
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2772 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
2773 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
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2774 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
2775
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2776- CONFIG_PCI_INDIRECT_BRIDGE:
2777 Enable support for indirect PCI bridges.
2778
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2779- CONFIG_SYS_SRIO:
2780 Chip has SRIO or not
2781
2782- CONFIG_SRIO1:
2783 Board has SRIO 1 port available
2784
2785- CONFIG_SRIO2:
2786 Board has SRIO 2 port available
2787
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2788- CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
2789 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
2790
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2791- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
2792 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2793
62f9b654 2794- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYxS:
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2795 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2796
2797- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
2798 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2799
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2800- CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
2801 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
2802 a 16 bit bus.
2803 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
a430e916 2804 Example of drivers that use it:
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2805 - drivers/mtd/nand/raw/ndfc.c
2806 - drivers/mtd/nand/raw/mxc_nand.c
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2807
2808- CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
2809 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
2810 a default value will be used.
2811
bb99ad6d 2812- CONFIG_SPD_EEPROM
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2813 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
2814 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
2815
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2816 SPD_EEPROM_ADDRESS
2817 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
2818
6d0f6bcf 2819- CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
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2820 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
2821 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
2822 to something your driver can deal with.
bb99ad6d 2823
1b3e3c4f
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2824- CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
2825 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
2826 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
2827 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
2828 header files or board specific files.
2829
6f5e1dc5
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2830- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
2831 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
2832
e32d59a2
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2833- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_SYNC_REFRESH
2834 Enable sync of refresh for multiple controllers.
2835
4516ff81
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2836- CONFIG_FSL_DDR_BIST
2837 Enable built-in memory test for Freescale DDR controllers.
2838
6d0f6bcf 2839- CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
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2840 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
2841 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
2ad6b513 2842
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2843- CONFIG_RMII
2844 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
2845 Note that this is a global option, we can't
2846 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
2847
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2848- CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
2849 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
2850 The syntax is:
2851
2852 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
2853
2854 Where address/count indicate a memory area
2855 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
2856 area should have.
2857
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2858- CONFIG_LOOPW
2859 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
493f420e 2860 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
56523f12 2861
72732318 2862- CONFIG_CMD_MX_CYCLIC
7b466641
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2863 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
2864 "md/mw" commands.
2865 Examples:
2866
efe2a4d5 2867 => mdc.b 10 4 500
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2868 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
2869
efe2a4d5 2870 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
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2871 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
2872
efe2a4d5 2873 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
493f420e 2874 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY).
7b466641 2875
8aa1a2d1 2876- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
3fafced7 2877 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS, RISC-V only] If this variable is defined, then certain
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2878 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
2879 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
2880 relocate itself into RAM.
2881
2882 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
2883 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
2884 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
2885 these initializations itself.
8aa1a2d1 2886
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2887- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT_ONLY
2888 [ARM926EJ-S only] This allows just the call to lowlevel_init()
90211f77 2889 to be skipped. The normal CP15 init (such as enabling the
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2890 instruction cache) is still performed.
2891
401bb30b 2892- CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
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2893 Set when the currently-running compilation is for an artifact
2894 that will end up in the SPL (as opposed to the TPL or U-Boot
2895 proper). Code that needs stage-specific behavior should check
2896 this.
400558b5 2897
3aa29de0 2898- CONFIG_TPL_BUILD
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2899 Set when the currently-running compilation is for an artifact
2900 that will end up in the TPL (as opposed to the SPL or U-Boot
2901 proper). Code that needs stage-specific behavior should check
2902 this.
3aa29de0 2903
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2904- CONFIG_SYS_MPC85XX_NO_RESETVEC
2905 Only for 85xx systems. If this variable is specified, the section
2906 .resetvec is not kept and the section .bootpg is placed in the
2907 previous 4k of the .text section.
2908
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2909- CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
2910 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
2911 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
2912 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
2913 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
2914 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
2915 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
2916 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
2917
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2918- CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
2919 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
2920 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
b16f521a 2921
999d7d32
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2922- CONFIG_SYS_NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE
2923 Option to disable subpage write in NAND driver
2924 driver that uses this:
a430fa06 2925 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/davinci_nand.c
999d7d32 2926
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2927Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
2928-----------------------------------
2929
2930The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
2931loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
2932This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
2933are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
2934within that device.
2935
dcf1d774
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2936- CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR
2937 The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The
cc1e98b5 2938 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_xxx macro
dcf1d774
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2939 is also specified.
2940
2941- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR
2942 The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The
cc1e98b5 2943 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_xxx macro
f2717b47
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2944 is also specified.
2945
2946- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
2947 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
2948 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
2949 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
2950 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
2951
2952- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
2953 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
2954 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
2955 virtual address in NOR flash.
2956
2957- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
2958 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
2959 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
2960
2961- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
2962 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
2963 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
2964
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2965- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
2966 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
2967 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
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2968 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
2969 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
2970 master's memory space.
f2717b47 2971
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2972Freescale Layerscape Management Complex Firmware Support:
2973---------------------------------------------------------
2974The Freescale Layerscape Management Complex (MC) supports the loading of
2975"firmware".
2976This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
2977are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
2978within that device.
2979
2980- CONFIG_FSL_MC_ENET
2981 Enable the MC driver for Layerscape SoCs.
2982
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2983Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support:
2984-------------------------------------------
2985The Freescale Layerscape Debug Server Support supports the loading of
2986"Debug Server firmware" and triggering SP boot-rom.
2987This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting.
2988
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2989- CONFIG_SYS_MC_RSV_MEM_ALIGN
2990 Define alignment of reserved memory MC requires
5c055089 2991
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2992Reproducible builds
2993-------------------
2994
2995In order to achieve reproducible builds, timestamps used in the U-Boot build
2996process have to be set to a fixed value.
2997
2998This is done using the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable.
2999SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is to be set on the build host's shell, not as a configuration
3000option for U-Boot or an environment variable in U-Boot.
3001
3002SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH should be set to a number of seconds since the epoch, in UTC.
3003
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3004Building the Software:
3005======================
3006
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3007Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
3008and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
3009all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
3010(potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
047f6ec0 3011recommend to use the ELDK (see https://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
218ca724 3012which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
c609719b 3013
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3014If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
3015have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
3016you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
3017Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
3018necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
c609719b 3019
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3020 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
3021 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
c609719b 3022
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3023U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
3024sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
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3025is done by typing:
3026
ab584d67 3027 make NAME_defconfig
c609719b 3028
ab584d67 3029where "NAME_defconfig" is the name of one of the existing configu-
ecb3a0a1 3030rations; see configs/*_defconfig for supported names.
db01a2ea 3031
ecb3a0a1 3032Note: for some boards special configuration names may exist; check if
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3033 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
3034 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
3035 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
11ccc33f 3036 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
2729af9d 3037
ab584d67 3038 make TQM823L_defconfig
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3039 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
3040
ab584d67 3041 make TQM823L_LCD_defconfig
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3042 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
3043
3044 etc.
3045
3046
3047Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
3048images ready for download to / installation on your system:
3049
3050- "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
3051- "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
3052- "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
3053
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3054By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
3055in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
3056this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
3057
30581. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
3059
3060 make O=/tmp/build distclean
ab584d67 3061 make O=/tmp/build NAME_defconfig
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3062 make O=/tmp/build all
3063
adbba996 30642. Set environment variable KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the desired location:
baf31249 3065
adbba996 3066 export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/build
baf31249 3067 make distclean
ab584d67 3068 make NAME_defconfig
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3069 make all
3070
adbba996 3071Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment
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3072variable.
3073
215bb1c1
DS
3074User specific CPPFLAGS, AFLAGS and CFLAGS can be passed to the compiler by
3075setting the according environment variables KCPPFLAGS, KAFLAGS and KCFLAGS.
3076For example to treat all compiler warnings as errors:
3077
3078 make KCFLAGS=-Werror
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3079
3080Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
3081for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
3082native "make".
3083
3084
3085If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
3086to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
3087steps:
3088
3c1496cd 30891. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
2729af9d 3090 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3c1496cd
PS
3091 the "Makefile" and a "<board>.c".
30922. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3093 your board.
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30943. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3095 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
ab584d67 30964. Run "make <board>_defconfig" with your new name.
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30975. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3098 to be installed on your target system.
30996. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3100 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
3101
3102
3103Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3104==============================================================
3105
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3106If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3107or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
2729af9d 3108provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
32f2ca2a 3109the form of a "patch", i.e. a context diff against a certain (latest
218ca724 3110official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
2729af9d 3111
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3112But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3113cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
2729af9d 3114the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
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3115just run the buildman script (tools/buildman/buildman), which will
3116configure and build U-Boot for ALL supported system. Be warned, this
3117will take a while. Please see the buildman README, or run 'buildman -H'
3118for documentation.
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3119
3120
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3121See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
3122
3123
3124Monitor Commands - Overview:
3125============================
3126
3127go - start application at address 'addr'
3128run - run commands in an environment variable
3129bootm - boot application image from memory
3130bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
44f074c7 3131bootz - boot zImage from memory
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3132tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3133 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3134 (and eventually "gatewayip")
1fb7cd49 3135tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
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3136rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3137diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3138loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3139loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3140md - memory display
3141mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3142nm - memory modify (constant address)
3143mw - memory write (fill)
bdded201 3144ms - memory search
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3145cp - memory copy
3146cmp - memory compare
3147crc32 - checksum calculation
0f89c54b 3148i2c - I2C sub-system
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3149sspi - SPI utility commands
3150base - print or set address offset
3151printenv- print environment variables
9e9a530a 3152pwm - control pwm channels
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3153setenv - set environment variables
3154saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3155protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3156erase - erase FLASH memory
3157flinfo - print FLASH memory information
10635afa 3158nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
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3159bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3160iminfo - print header information for application image
3161coninfo - print console devices and informations
3162ide - IDE sub-system
3163loop - infinite loop on address range
56523f12 3164loopw - infinite write loop on address range
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3165mtest - simple RAM test
3166icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3167dcache - enable or disable data cache
3168reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3169echo - echo args to console
3170version - print monitor version
3171help - print online help
3172? - alias for 'help'
3173
3174
3175Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3176========================================
3177
3178TODO.
3179
3180For now: just type "help <command>".
3181
3182
3183Environment Variables:
3184======================
3185
3186U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3187can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
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3189Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3190"printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3191without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3192environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3193working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3194environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
c609719b 3195
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3196Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3197
3198List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
c609719b 3199
2729af9d 3200 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
c609719b 3201
2729af9d 3202 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
c609719b 3203
2729af9d 3204 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
4a6fd34b 3205
2729af9d 3206 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
c609719b 3207
2729af9d 3208 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
c609719b 3209
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3210 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3211 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3212 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3213 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3214 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3215 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
c3624e6e
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3216 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
3217 bootm_mapsize.
3218
c0f40859 3219 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
c3624e6e
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3220 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
3221 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
3222 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
3223 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
3224 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
3225 used otherwise.
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3226
3227 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3228 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3229 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3230 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3231 environment variable.
3232
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3233 bootstopkeysha256, bootdelaykey, bootstopkey - See README.autoboot
3234
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3235 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3236 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3237 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3238
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3239 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3240 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3241 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3242 load any image using TFTP
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3244 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3245 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3246 be automatically started (by internally calling
3247 "bootm")
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3249 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3250 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3251 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3252 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3253 data.
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3255 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
3256 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
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3257 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
3258 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
3259 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
3260 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
3261 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
3262 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
3263 access it during the boot procedure.
3264
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3265 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
3266 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
3267 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
3268 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
3269 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
3270 must be accessible by the kernel.
3271
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3272 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
3273 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
3274 defined.
3275
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3276 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3277 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3278 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3279 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3280 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3281
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3282 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3283 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3284 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3285 is usually what you want since it allows for
3286 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3287 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
6d0f6bcf 3288 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
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3289 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3290 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3291 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3292 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
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3294 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3295 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3296 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3297 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3298 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3299 12 MB as well - this can be done with
c609719b 3300
2729af9d 3301 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
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3303 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3304 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3305 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3306 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3307 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3308 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3309 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
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2729af9d 3311 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
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3313 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3314 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
c609719b 3315
2729af9d 3316 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
a3d991bd 3317
2729af9d 3318 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
a3d991bd 3319
2729af9d 3320 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
a3d991bd 3321
2729af9d 3322 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
a3d991bd 3323
2729af9d 3324 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
c609719b 3325
e2a53458 3326 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
c609719b 3327
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3328 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
3329 For example you can do the following
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3331 => setenv ethact FEC
3332 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
3333 => setenv ethact SCC
3334 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
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3336 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3337 available network interfaces.
3338 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3339
c96f86ee 3340 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
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3341 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3342 When set to "once" the network operation will
3343 fail when all the available network interfaces
3344 are tried once without success.
3345 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3346 themselves.
c609719b 3347
b4e2f89d 3348 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
a1cf027a 3349
b445bbb4 3350 silent_linux - If set then Linux will be told to boot silently, by
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3351 changing the console to be empty. If "yes" it will be
3352 made silent. If "no" it will not be made silent. If
3353 unset, then it will be made silent if the U-Boot console
3354 is silent.
3355
f5fb7346 3356 tftpsrcp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
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3357 UDP source port.
3358
f5fb7346 3359 tftpdstp - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
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3360 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
3361
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3362 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
3363 we use the TFTP server's default block size
3364
3365 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
3366 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
3367 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
3368 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
3369 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
3370 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
3371 with unreliable TFTP servers.
3372
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3373 tftptimeoutcountmax - maximum count of TFTP timeouts (no
3374 unit, minimum value = 0). Defines how many timeouts
3375 can happen during a single file transfer before that
3376 transfer is aborted. The default is 10, and 0 means
3377 'no timeouts allowed'. Increasing this value may help
3378 downloads succeed with high packet loss rates, or with
3379 unreliable TFTP servers or client hardware.
3380
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3381 tftpwindowsize - if this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
3382 window size as described by RFC 7440.
3383 This means the count of blocks we can receive before
3384 sending ack to server.
3385
c96f86ee 3386 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
11ccc33f 3387 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
2729af9d 3388 VLAN tagged frames.
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3390 bootpretryperiod - Period during which BOOTP/DHCP sends retries.
3391 Unsigned value, in milliseconds. If not set, the period will
3392 be either the default (28000), or a value based on
3393 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT, if defined. This value has
3394 precedence over the valu based on CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT.
3395
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3396 memmatches - Number of matches found by the last 'ms' command, in hex
3397
3398 memaddr - Address of the last match found by the 'ms' command, in hex,
3399 or 0 if none
3400
3401 mempos - Index position of the last match found by the 'ms' command,
3402 in units of the size (.b, .w, .l) of the search
3403
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3404 zbootbase - (x86 only) Base address of the bzImage 'setup' block
3405
3406 zbootaddr - (x86 only) Address of the loaded bzImage, typically
3407 BZIMAGE_LOAD_ADDR which is 0x100000
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3409The following image location variables contain the location of images
3410used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
3411not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
3412variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
3413server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
3414loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
3415flash or offset in NAND flash.
3416
3417*Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
aed9fed9 3418boards currently use other variables for these purposes, and some
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3419boards use these variables for other purposes.
3420
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3421Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
3422----- --------- ----------- --------------
3423u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
3424Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
3425device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
3426ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
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3428The following environment variables may be used and automatically
3429updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
3430depending the information provided by your boot server:
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3432 bootfile - see above
3433 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
3434 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
3435 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
3436 hostname - Target hostname
3437 ipaddr - see above
3438 netmask - Subnet Mask
3439 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
3440 serverip - see above
c1551ea8 3441
c1551ea8 3442
2729af9d 3443There are two special Environment Variables:
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3445 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
3446 as type string and/or serial number
3447 ethaddr - Ethernet address
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3449These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
3450the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
3451once they have been set once.
c609719b 3452
f07771cc 3453
2729af9d 3454Further special Environment Variables:
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3456 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
3457 with the "version" command. This variable is
3458 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
f07771cc 3459
f07771cc 3460
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3461Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
3462only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
f07771cc 3463
f07771cc 3464
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3465Callback functions for environment variables:
3466---------------------------------------------
3467
3468For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change
b445bbb4 3469when their values are changed. This functionality allows functions to
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3470be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or
3471deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side
3472effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.
3473
3474The callbacks are named and associated with a function using the
3475U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK macro in your board or driver code.
3476
3477These callbacks are associated with variables in one of two ways. The
3478static list can be added to by defining CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC
3479in the board configuration to a string that defines a list of
3480associations. The list must be in the following format:
3481
3482 entry = variable_name[:callback_name]
3483 list = entry[,list]
3484
3485If the callback name is not specified, then the callback is deleted.
3486Spaces are also allowed anywhere in the list.
3487
3488Callbacks can also be associated by defining the ".callbacks" variable
3489with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will
3490override any association in the static list. You can define
3491CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
b445bbb4 3492".callbacks" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.
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3494If CONFIG_REGEX is defined, the variable_name above is evaluated as a
3495regular expression. This allows multiple variables to be connected to
3496the same callback without explicitly listing them all out.
3497
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3498The signature of the callback functions is:
3499
3500 int callback(const char *name, const char *value, enum env_op op, int flags)
3501
3502* name - changed environment variable
3503* value - new value of the environment variable
3504* op - operation (create, overwrite, or delete)
3505* flags - attributes of the environment variable change, see flags H_* in
3506 include/search.h
3507
3508The return value is 0 if the variable change is accepted and 1 otherwise.
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3510Command Line Parsing:
3511=====================
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3513There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
3514the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
c609719b 3515
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3516Old, simple command line parser:
3517--------------------------------
c609719b 3518
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3519- supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
3520- several commands on one line, separated by ';'
fe126d8b 3521- variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
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3522- special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
3523 for example:
fe126d8b 3524 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
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3525- You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
3526 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
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3528Hush shell:
3529-----------
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3531- similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
3532 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
3533 until...do...done, ...
3534- supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
3535 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
3536 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
3537 command
3538
3539General rules:
3540--------------
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3542(1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
3543 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
3544 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
3545 executed anyway.
c609719b 3546
2729af9d 3547(2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
11ccc33f 3548 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
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3549 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
3550 variables are not executed.
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3552Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
3553=======================================
c609719b 3554
11ccc33f 3555Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
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3556such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
3557"working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
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3559Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
3560MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
3561"eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
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3563If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
3564in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
3565ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
3566variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
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3568o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
3569 environment, the SROM's address is used.
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3571o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
3572 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
3573 used.
c609719b 3574
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3575o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
3576 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
c609719b 3577
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3578o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
3579 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
3580 warning is printed.
c609719b 3581
2729af9d 3582o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
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3583 is raised. If CONFIG_NET_RANDOM_ETHADDR is defined, then in this case
3584 a random, locally-assigned MAC is used.
c609719b 3585
ecee9324 3586If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
c0f40859 3587will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
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3588may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
3589The naming convention is as follows:
3590"ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
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3592Image Formats:
3593==============
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3595U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
3596images in two formats:
3597
3598New uImage format (FIT)
3599-----------------------
3600
3601Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
3602to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
3603components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
3604SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
3605
3606
3607Old uImage format
3608-----------------
3609
3610Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
3611preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
3612details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
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3614* Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
3615 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
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3616 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
3617 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
3618 INTEGRITY).
daab59ac 3619* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, Intel x86,
afc1ce82 3620 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
daab59ac 3621 Currently supported: ARM, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
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3622* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
3623* Load Address
3624* Entry Point
3625* Image Name
3626* Image Timestamp
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3628The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
3629and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
3630CRC32 checksums.
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3631
3632
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3633Linux Support:
3634==============
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3636Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
3637easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
3638U-Boot.
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3640U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
3641special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
3642"initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
3643instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
3644serves several purposes:
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3646- the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
3647 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
3648 Flash memory footprint)
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3650- it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
3651 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
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3653- the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
3654 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
3655 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
3656 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
3657 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
3658 software is easier now.
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3661Linux HOWTO:
3662============
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3664Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
3665---------------------------------------
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3667U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
3668configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
3669(no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
3670Linux :-).
c609719b 3671
a47a12be 3672But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
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3674Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
3675include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
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3676Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
3677and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
6d0f6bcf 3678as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
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3680Note that U-Boot now has a driver model, a unified model for drivers.
3681If you are adding a new driver, plumb it into driver model. If there
3682is no uclass available, you are encouraged to create one. See
3683doc/driver-model.
3684
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3686Configuring the Linux kernel:
3687-----------------------------
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3689No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
3690device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
3691
3692
3693Building a Linux Image:
3694-----------------------
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3696With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
3697not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
3698"uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
3699U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
3700which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
3701100% compatible format.
3702
3703Example:
3704
ab584d67 3705 make TQM850L_defconfig
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3706 make oldconfig
3707 make dep
3708 make uImage
3709
3710The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
3711encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
3712CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
3713
3714* build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
3715
3716* convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
3717
3718 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
3719 -R .note -R .comment \
3720 -S vmlinux linux.bin
3721
3722* compress the binary image:
3723
3724 gzip -9 linux.bin
3725
3726* package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
3727
3728 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
3729 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
3730 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
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3733The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
3734with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
3735combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
3736byte header containing information about target architecture,
3737operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
3738stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
3739
3740"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
3741print the header information, or to build new images.
3742
3743In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
3744contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
3745checksum verification:
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3747 tools/mkimage -l image
3748 -l ==> list image header information
3749
3750The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
3751from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
3752
3753 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
3754 -n name -d data_file image
3755 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
3756 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
3757 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
3758 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
3759 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
3760 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
3761 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
3762 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
3763
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3764Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
3765address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
3766kernel version:
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3767
3768- 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
3769- 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
3770
3771So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
3772
3773 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3774 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
a47a12be 3775 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
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3776 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
3777 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3778 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3779 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3780 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3781 Load Address: 0x00000000
3782 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3783
3784To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
3785
3786 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
3787 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3788 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3789 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3790 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3791 Load Address: 0x00000000
3792 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3793
3794NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
3795speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
3796needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
3797need to be uncompressed:
3798
a47a12be 3799 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
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3800 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3801 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
a47a12be 3802 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
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3803 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
3804 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3805 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3806 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
3807 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
3808 Load Address: 0x00000000
3809 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3810
3811
3812Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
3813when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
3814
3815 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
3816 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
3817 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
3818 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3819 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
3820 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3821 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
3822 Load Address: 0x00000000
3823 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3824
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3825The "dumpimage" tool can be used to disassemble or list the contents of images
3826built by mkimage. See dumpimage's help output (-h) for details.
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3827
3828Installing a Linux Image:
3829-------------------------
3830
3831To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
3832you must convert the image to S-Record format:
3833
3834 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
3835
3836The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
3837image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
3838address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
3839specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
3840command.
3841
3842Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
3843TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
3844
3845 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
3846
3847 .......... done
3848 Erased 8 sectors
3849
3850 => loads 40100000
3851 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3852 ~>examples/image.srec
3853 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
3854 ...
3855 15989 15990 15991 15992
3856 [file transfer complete]
3857 [connected]
3858 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
3859
3860
3861You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
218ca724 3862this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
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3863corruption happened:
3864
3865 => imi 40100000
3866
3867 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3868 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3869 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3870 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3871 Load Address: 00000000
3872 Entry Point: 0000000c
3873 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3874
3875
3876Boot Linux:
3877-----------
3878
3879The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
3880memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
3881of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
3882parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
3883"printenv" and "setenv" commands:
3884
3885
3886 => printenv bootargs
3887 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
3888
3889 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3890
3891 => printenv bootargs
3892 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3893
3894 => bootm 40020000
3895 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
3896 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
3897 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3898 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
3899 Load Address: 00000000
3900 Entry Point: 0000000c
3901 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3902 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3903 Linux version 2.2.13 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Jul 19 02:35:17 MEST 2000
3904 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3905 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3906 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3907 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
3908 ...
3909
11ccc33f 3910If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
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3911the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
3912format!) to the "bootm" command:
3913
3914 => imi 40100000 40200000
3915
3916 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3917 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3918 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3919 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3920 Load Address: 00000000
3921 Entry Point: 0000000c
3922 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3923
3924 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
3925 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3926 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3927 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3928 Load Address: 00000000
3929 Entry Point: 00000000
3930 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3931
3932 => bootm 40100000 40200000
3933 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
3934 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3935 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3936 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3937 Load Address: 00000000
3938 Entry Point: 0000000c
3939 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3940 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3941 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
3942 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3943 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3944 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3945 Load Address: 00000000
3946 Entry Point: 00000000
3947 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3948 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
3949 Linux version 2.2.13 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Jul 19 02:32:08 MEST 2000
3950 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
3951 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3952 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3953 ...
3954 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
3955 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
3956
3957 bash#
3958
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3959Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
3960-----------
3961
3962First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
3963titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
3964following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
3965flat device tree:
3966
3967=> print oftaddr
3968oftaddr=0x300000
3969=> print oft
3970oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
3971=> tftp $oftaddr $oft
3972Speed: 1000, full duplex
3973Using TSEC0 device
3974TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
3975Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
3976Load address: 0x300000
3977Loading: #
3978done
3979Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
3980=> tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
3981Speed: 1000, full duplex
3982Using TSEC0 device
3983TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
3984Filename 'uImage'.
3985Load address: 0x200000
3986Loading:############
3987done
3988Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
3989=> print loadaddr
3990loadaddr=200000
3991=> print oftaddr
3992oftaddr=0x300000
3993=> bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
3994## Booting image at 00200000 ...
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3995 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
3996 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3997 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
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a9398e01 3999 Entry Point: 00000000
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4000 Verifying Checksum ... OK
4001 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
4002Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
4003Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
4004Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
4005[snip]
4006
4007
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4008More About U-Boot Image Types:
4009------------------------------
4010
4011U-Boot supports the following image types:
4012
4013 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
4014 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
4015 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
4016 the Standalone Program.
4017 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
4018 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
4019 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
4020 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
4021 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
4022 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
4023 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
4024 being started.
4025 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
4026 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
4027 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
4028 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
4029 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
4030 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
4031
4032 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
4033 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
4034 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
4035 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
4036 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
4037 a multiple of 4 bytes).
4038
4039 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
4040 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
4041 flash memory.
4042
4043 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
4044 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
4045 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
4046 as command interpreter.
4047
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4048Booting the Linux zImage:
4049-------------------------
4050
4051On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
4052using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
4053as the syntax of "bootm" command.
4054
8ac28563 4055Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
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4056kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
4057address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
4058format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
4059
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4060
4061Standalone HOWTO:
4062=================
4063
4064One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
4065run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
4066U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
4067
4068Two simple examples are included with the sources:
4069
4070"Hello World" Demo:
4071-------------------
4072
4073'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
4074application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
4075It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
4076like that:
4077
4078 => loads
4079 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4080 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
4081 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4082 [file transfer complete]
4083 [connected]
4084 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4085
4086 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
4087 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4088 Hello World
4089 argc = 7
4090 argv[0] = "40004"
4091 argv[1] = "Hello"
4092 argv[2] = "World!"
4093 argv[3] = "This"
4094 argv[4] = "is"
4095 argv[5] = "a"
4096 argv[6] = "test."
4097 argv[7] = "<NULL>"
4098 Hit any key to exit ...
4099
4100 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4101
4102Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
4103handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
4104Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
4105The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
4106character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
4107controlled by the following keys:
4108
4109 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
4110 b - enable interrupts and start timer
4111 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
4112 q - quit application
4113
4114 => loads
4115 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
4116 ~>examples/timer.srec
4117 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
4118 [file transfer complete]
4119 [connected]
4120 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
4121
4122 => go 40004
4123 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
4124 TIMERS=0xfff00980
4125 Using timer 1
4126 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
4127
4128Hit 'b':
4129 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
4130 Enabling timer
4131Hit '?':
4132 [q, b, e, ?] ........
4133 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
4134Hit '?':
4135 [q, b, e, ?] .
4136 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
4137Hit '?':
4138 [q, b, e, ?] .
4139 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
4140Hit '?':
4141 [q, b, e, ?] .
4142 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
4143Hit 'e':
4144 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
4145Hit 'q':
4146 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
4147
4148
4149Minicom warning:
4150================
4151
4152Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
4153"minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
4154consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
4155Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
4156especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
e53515a2 4157use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
047f6ec0 4158https://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
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4159for help with kermit.
4160
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4162Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
4163configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
4164
4165 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
4166 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
4167 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
4168
4169
4170NetBSD Notes:
4171=============
4172
4173Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
4174(build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
4175
4176Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
4177NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
4178need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
4179Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
4180attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
4181missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
4182
4183 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
4184 # mkdir powerpc
4185 # ln -s powerpc machine
4186 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
4187 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
4188
4189Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
4190and U-Boot include files.
4191
4192Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
4193stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
4194proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
4195tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
2a8af187 4196meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
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4197
4198
4199Implementation Internals:
4200=========================
4201
4202The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
4203implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
4204inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
4205hardware.
4206
4207
4208Initial Stack, Global Data:
4209---------------------------
4210
4211The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
4212starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
4213system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
4214This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
4215is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
4216at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
4217options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
4218models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
4219MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
4220locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
4221
218ca724 4222 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
0668236b 4223 U-Boot mailing list:
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4225 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4226 From: "Chris Hallinan" <[email protected]>
4227 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4228 ...
4229
4230 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4231 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4232 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4233 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4234 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
11ccc33f 4235 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
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4236 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4237 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
4238
4239 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4240 is another option for the system designer to use as an
11ccc33f 4241 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
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4242 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4243 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4244 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4245 used.
4246
6d0f6bcf 4247 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
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4248 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4249 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
8a316c9b 4250 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
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4251 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4252 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4253 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4254 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4255 you get the config right.
4256
4257 -Chris Hallinan
4258 DS4.COM, Inc.
4259
4260It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4261code for the initialization procedures:
4262
4263* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4264 to write it.
4265
b445bbb4 4266* Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized
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4267 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4268 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
4269
4270* Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4271 that.
4272
4273Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
b445bbb4 4274normal global data to share information between the code. But it
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4275turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4276simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4277functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4278functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4279the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4280place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4281reserve for this purpose.
4282
4283When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4284relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4285GCC's implementation.
4286
4287For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4288 R1: stack pointer
e7670f6c 4289 R2: reserved for system use
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4290 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4291 R5-R10: parameter passing
4292 R13: small data area pointer
4293 R30: GOT pointer
4294 R31: frame pointer
4295
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4296 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4297 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4298 going back and forth between asm and C)
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e7670f6c 4300 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
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4301
4302 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4303 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4304 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4305 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4306 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4307 624 text + 127 data).
4308
4309On ARM, the following registers are used:
4310
4311 R0: function argument word/integer result
4312 R1-R3: function argument word
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4313 R9: platform specific
4314 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
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4315 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4316 R12: temporary workspace
4317 R13: stack pointer
4318 R14: link register
4319 R15: program counter
4320
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4321 ==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data
4322
4323 Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.
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0df01fd3 4325On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
047f6ec0 4326 https://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
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4327
4328 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4329
4330 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4331 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4332
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4333On NDS32, the following registers are used:
4334
4335 R0-R1: argument/return
4336 R2-R5: argument
4337 R15: temporary register for assembler
4338 R16: trampoline register
4339 R28: frame pointer (FP)
4340 R29: global pointer (GP)
4341 R30: link register (LP)
4342 R31: stack pointer (SP)
4343 PC: program counter (PC)
4344
4345 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
4346
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4347NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4348or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
2729af9d 4349
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4350On RISC-V, the following registers are used:
4351
4352 x0: hard-wired zero (zero)
4353 x1: return address (ra)
4354 x2: stack pointer (sp)
4355 x3: global pointer (gp)
4356 x4: thread pointer (tp)
4357 x5: link register (t0)
4358 x8: frame pointer (fp)
4359 x10-x11: arguments/return values (a0-1)
4360 x12-x17: arguments (a2-7)
4361 x28-31: temporaries (t3-6)
4362 pc: program counter (pc)
4363
4364 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4365
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4366Memory Management:
4367------------------
4368
4369U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4370MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
4371
4372The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4373controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4374memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4375physical memory banks.
4376
4377U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4378TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4379booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4380to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
6d0f6bcf 4381memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
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4382configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4383Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
4384
4385Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4386of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
4387
4388So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
4389this:
4390
4391 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
4392 :
4393 0x0000 1FFF
4394 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
4395 :
4396 :
4397
4398 :
4399 :
4400 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
4401 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
4402 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
4403 :
4404 0x00FD FFFF
4405 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
4406 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
4407 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
4408 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
4409
4410
4411System Initialization:
4412----------------------
c609719b 4413
2729af9d 4414In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
11ccc33f 4415(on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
b445bbb4 4416configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory.
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4417To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
4418To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
4419initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
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4420which provide such a feature like), or in a locked part of the data
4421cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core, the caches and
4422the SIU.
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4423
4424Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
4425preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
4426(multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
4427on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
4428programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
4429simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
4430banks.
4431
4432When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
4433different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
4434bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
44350x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
4436contiguous memory starting from 0.
4437
4438Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
4439and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
4440Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
4441pages, and the final stack is set up.
4442
4443Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
4444until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
4445running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
4446new address in RAM.
4447
4448
4449U-Boot Porting Guide:
4450----------------------
c609719b 4451
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4452[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
4453list, October 2002]
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4454
4455
6c3fef28 4456int main(int argc, char *argv[])
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4457{
4458 sighandler_t no_more_time;
c609719b 4459
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4460 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
4461 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
c609719b 4462
2729af9d 4463 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
6c3fef28 4464 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
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4465 return 0;
4466 }
4467
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4468 Download latest U-Boot source;
4469
0668236b 4470 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
2729af9d 4471
6c3fef28
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4472 if (clueless)
4473 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
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4474
4475 while (learning) {
4476 Read the README file in the top level directory;
047f6ec0 4477 Read https://www.denx.de/wiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
24bcaec7 4478 Read applicable doc/README.*;
2729af9d 4479 Read the source, Luke;
6c3fef28 4480 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
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4481 }
4482
6c3fef28
JVB
4483 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
4484 Buy a BDI3000;
4485 else
2729af9d 4486 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
2729af9d 4487
6c3fef28
JVB
4488 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
4489 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
4490 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
4491 } else {
4492 Create your own board support subdirectory;
4493 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
4494 }
4495 Edit new board/<myboard> files
4496 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
4497
4498 while (!accepted) {
4499 while (!running) {
4500 do {
4501 Add / modify source code;
4502 } until (compiles);
4503 Debug;
4504 if (clueless)
4505 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
4506 }
4507 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
4508 if (reasonable critiques)
4509 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
4510 else
4511 Defend code as written;
2729af9d 4512 }
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4513
4514 return 0;
4515}
4516
4517void no_more_time (int sig)
4518{
4519 hire_a_guru();
4520}
4521
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4523Coding Standards:
4524-----------------
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2729af9d 4526All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
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4527coding style; see the kernel coding style guide at
4528https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html, and the
4529script "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
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4530
4531Source files originating from a different project (for example the
4532MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
b445bbb4 4533reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
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4534sources.
4535
4536Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
4537Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
4538in your code.
c609719b 4539
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4540Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
4541- remove any trailing white space
7ca9296e 4542- use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
2729af9d 4543- make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
7ca9296e 4544- do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
2729af9d 4545- do not add trailing empty lines to source files
180d3f74 4546
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4547Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
4548with a request to reformat the changes.
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4549
4550
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4551Submitting Patches:
4552-------------------
c609719b 4553
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4554Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
4555establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
4556may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
c609719b 4557
047f6ec0 4558Please see https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
218ca724 4559
0668236b 4560Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <[email protected]>;
1dade18e 4561see https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
0668236b 4562
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4563When you send a patch, please include the following information with
4564it:
c609719b 4565
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4566* For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
4567 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
4568 patch actually fixes something.
c609719b 4569
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4570* For new features: a description of the feature and your
4571 implementation.
c609719b 4572
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4573* For major contributions, add a MAINTAINERS file with your
4574 information and associated file and directory references.
c609719b 4575
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4576* When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a
4577 maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.
c609719b 4578
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4579* If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
4580 document these in the README file.
c609719b 4581
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4582* The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
4583 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
7ca9296e 4584 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
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4585 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
4586 with some other mail clients.
4587
4588 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
4589 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
4590 GNU diff.
c609719b 4591
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4592 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
4593 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
4594 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
4595 affected files).
6dff5529 4596
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4597 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
4598 and compressed attachments must not be used.
c609719b 4599
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4600* If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
4601 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
52f52c14 4602
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4603* Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
4604 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
8bde7f77 4605
52f52c14 4606
2729af9d 4607Notes:
c609719b 4608
6de80f21 4609* Before sending the patch, run the buildman script on your patched
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4610 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
4611 for any of the boards.
c609719b 4612
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4613* Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
4614 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
4615 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
c609719b 4616
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4617* If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
4618 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
4619 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
4620 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
4621 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
4622 modification.
90dc6704 4623
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4624* Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
4625 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
4626 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
4627 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.
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