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3# Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, [email protected].
4#
5# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
6# project.
7#
8# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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22#
23
24Summary:
25========
26
24ee89b9 27This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
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28Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
29processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
30initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
31code.
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32
33The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
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34the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
35header files in common, and special provision has been made to
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36support booting of Linux images.
37
38Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
39configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
40implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
41add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
42code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
43load and run it dynamically.
44
45
46Status:
47=======
48
49In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
24ee89b9 50Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
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51"working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
52
24ee89b9 53In case of problems see the CHANGELOG and CREDITS files to find out
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54who contributed the specific port. The MAINTAINERS file lists board
55maintainers.
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57
58Where to get help:
59==================
60
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61In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
62U-Boot you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
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63<[email protected]>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
64on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
65Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
66http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
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68
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69Where to get source code:
70=========================
71
72The U-Boot source code is maintained in the git repository at
73git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
74http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
75
76The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
11ccc33f 77any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
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78available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
79directory.
80
d4ee711d 81Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
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82ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
83
84
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85Where we come from:
86===================
87
88- start from 8xxrom sources
24ee89b9 89- create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
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90- clean up code
91- make it easier to add custom boards
92- make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
93- extend functions, especially:
94 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
95 * S-Record download
96 * network boot
11ccc33f 97 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
24ee89b9 98- create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
c609719b 99- add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
24ee89b9 100- create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
0d28f34b 101- current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
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102
103
104Names and Spelling:
105===================
106
107The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
108"U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
109in source files etc.). Example:
110
111 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
112
113File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
114
115 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
116
117 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
118
119Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
120the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
121
122 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
123 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
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124
125
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126Versioning:
127===========
128
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129Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
130were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
131into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
132names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
133Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
134releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
135
136Examples:
137 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
138 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
139 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candiate 1 for September 2010 release
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140
141
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142Directory Hierarchy:
143====================
144
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145/arch Architecture specific files
146 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
147 /cpu CPU specific files
148 /arm720t Files specific to ARM 720 CPUs
149 /arm920t Files specific to ARM 920 CPUs
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150 /at91rm9200 Files specific to Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU
151 /imx Files specific to Freescale MC9328 i.MX CPUs
152 /s3c24x0 Files specific to Samsung S3C24X0 CPUs
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153 /arm925t Files specific to ARM 925 CPUs
154 /arm926ejs Files specific to ARM 926 CPUs
155 /arm1136 Files specific to ARM 1136 CPUs
156 /ixp Files specific to Intel XScale IXP CPUs
157 /pxa Files specific to Intel XScale PXA CPUs
158 /s3c44b0 Files specific to Samsung S3C44B0 CPUs
159 /sa1100 Files specific to Intel StrongARM SA1100 CPUs
160 /lib Architecture specific library files
161 /avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture
162 /cpu CPU specific files
163 /lib Architecture specific library files
164 /blackfin Files generic to Analog Devices Blackfin architecture
165 /cpu CPU specific files
166 /lib Architecture specific library files
167 /i386 Files generic to i386 architecture
168 /cpu CPU specific files
169 /lib Architecture specific library files
170 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
171 /cpu CPU specific files
172 /mcf52x2 Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF52x2 CPUs
173 /mcf5227x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5227x CPUs
174 /mcf532x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5329 CPUs
175 /mcf5445x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5445x CPUs
176 /mcf547x_8x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF547x_8x CPUs
177 /lib Architecture specific library files
178 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
179 /cpu CPU specific files
180 /lib Architecture specific library files
181 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
182 /cpu CPU specific files
183 /lib Architecture specific library files
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184 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
185 /cpu CPU specific files
186 /lib Architecture specific library files
a47a12be 187 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
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188 /cpu CPU specific files
189 /74xx_7xx Files specific to Freescale MPC74xx and 7xx CPUs
190 /mpc5xx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xx CPUs
191 /mpc5xxx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xxx CPUs
192 /mpc8xx Files specific to Freescale MPC8xx CPUs
193 /mpc8220 Files specific to Freescale MPC8220 CPUs
194 /mpc824x Files specific to Freescale MPC824x CPUs
195 /mpc8260 Files specific to Freescale MPC8260 CPUs
196 /mpc85xx Files specific to Freescale MPC85xx CPUs
197 /ppc4xx Files specific to AMCC PowerPC 4xx CPUs
198 /lib Architecture specific library files
199 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
200 /cpu CPU specific files
201 /sh2 Files specific to sh2 CPUs
202 /sh3 Files specific to sh3 CPUs
203 /sh4 Files specific to sh4 CPUs
204 /lib Architecture specific library files
205 /sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture
206 /cpu CPU specific files
207 /leon2 Files specific to Gaisler LEON2 SPARC CPU
208 /leon3 Files specific to Gaisler LEON3 SPARC CPU
209 /lib Architecture specific library files
210/api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
211/board Board dependent files
212/common Misc architecture independent functions
213/disk Code for disk drive partition handling
214/doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
215/drivers Commonly used device drivers
216/examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
217/fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
218/include Header Files
219/lib Files generic to all architectures
220 /libfdt Library files to support flattened device trees
221 /lzma Library files to support LZMA decompression
222 /lzo Library files to support LZO decompression
223/net Networking code
224/post Power On Self Test
225/rtc Real Time Clock drivers
226/tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
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228Software Configuration:
229=======================
230
231Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
232rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
233
234There are two classes of configuration variables:
235
236* Configuration _OPTIONS_:
237 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
238 "CONFIG_".
239
240* Configuration _SETTINGS_:
241 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
242 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
6d0f6bcf 243 "CONFIG_SYS_".
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244
245Later we will add a configuration tool - probably similar to or even
246identical to what's used for the Linux kernel. Right now, we have to
247do the configuration by hand, which means creating some symbolic
248links and editing some configuration files. We use the TQM8xxL boards
249as an example here.
250
251
252Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
253---------------------------------------------------
254
255For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
256configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_config".
257
258Example: For a TQM823L module type:
259
260 cd u-boot
261 make TQM823L_config
262
11ccc33f 263For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the CPU type as well;
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264e.g. "make cogent_mpc8xx_config". And also configure the cogent
265directory according to the instructions in cogent/README.
266
267
268Configuration Options:
269----------------------
270
271Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
272such information is kept in a configuration file
273"include/configs/<board_name>.h".
274
275Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
276"include/configs/TQM823L.h".
277
278
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279Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
280kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
281build a config tool - later.
282
283
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284The following options need to be configured:
285
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286- CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
287
288- Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
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290- CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
09ea0de0 291 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
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293- CPU Module Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
294 Define exactly one of
295 CONFIG_CMA286_60_OLD
296--- FIXME --- not tested yet:
297 CONFIG_CMA286_60, CONFIG_CMA286_21, CONFIG_CMA286_60P,
298 CONFIG_CMA287_23, CONFIG_CMA287_50
299
300- Motherboard Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
301 Define exactly one of
302 CONFIG_CMA101, CONFIG_CMA102
303
304- Motherboard I/O Modules: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
305 Define one or more of
306 CONFIG_CMA302
307
308- Motherboard Options: (if CONFIG_CMA101 or CONFIG_CMA102 are defined)
309 Define one or more of
310 CONFIG_LCD_HEARTBEAT - update a character position on
11ccc33f 311 the LCD display every second with
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312 a "rotator" |\-/|\-/
313
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314- Board flavour: (if CONFIG_MPC8260ADS is defined)
315 CONFIG_ADSTYPE
316 Possible values are:
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317 CONFIG_SYS_8260ADS - original MPC8260ADS
318 CONFIG_SYS_8266ADS - MPC8266ADS
319 CONFIG_SYS_PQ2FADS - PQ2FADS-ZU or PQ2FADS-VR
320 CONFIG_SYS_8272ADS - MPC8272ADS
2535d602 321
c609719b 322- MPC824X Family Member (if CONFIG_MPC824X is defined)
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323 Define exactly one of
324 CONFIG_MPC8240, CONFIG_MPC8245
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11ccc33f 326- 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
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327 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
328 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
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329 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
330 reference PIT/RTC clock
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331 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
332 or XTAL/EXTAL)
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66ca92a5 334- 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
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335 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
336 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
66ca92a5 337 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
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338 See doc/README.MPC866
339
6d0f6bcf 340 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
75d1ea7f 341
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342 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
343 of relying on the correctness of the configured
344 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
345 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
346 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
6d0f6bcf 347 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
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350
351 Define this option if you want to enable the
352 ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
353
0b953ffc 354- Intel Monahans options:
6d0f6bcf 355 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO
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357 Defines the Monahans run mode to oscillator
358 ratio. Valid values are 8, 16, 24, 31. The core
359 frequency is this value multiplied by 13 MHz.
360
6d0f6bcf 361 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_TURBO_RUN_MODE_RATIO
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363 Defines the Monahans turbo mode to oscillator
364 ratio. Valid values are 1 (default if undefined) and
cf48eb9a 365 2. The core frequency as calculated above is multiplied
0b953ffc 366 by this value.
cf48eb9a 367
5da627a4 368- Linux Kernel Interface:
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369 CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ
370
371 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
372 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
373 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
374 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
375 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
376 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
377 Linux kernel.
c609719b 378 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
218ca724 379 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
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380 default environment.
381
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382 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
383
11ccc33f 384 When transferring memsize parameter to linux, some versions
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385 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
386 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
387
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389
390 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
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391 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
392 concepts).
393
394 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
395 * New libfdt-based support
396 * Adds the "fdt" command
3bb342fc 397 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
213bf8c8 398
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399 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node (only required for
400 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
401 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node (only required for
402 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
f57f70aa 403 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
c2871f03 404 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
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406 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
407 addresses
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409 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
410
411 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
412 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
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414 CONFIG_OF_BOOT_CPU
415
11ccc33f 416 This define fills in the correct boot CPU in the boot
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417 param header, the default value is zero if undefined.
418
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419 CONFIG_OF_IDE_FIXUP
420
421 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
422 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
423 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
424 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
425 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
426 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
427
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428- vxWorks boot parameters:
429
430 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
431 environments variables: bootfile, ipaddr, serverip, hostname.
432 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
433
434 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_DEVICE - The vxworks device name
435 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_MAC_PTR - Ethernet 6 byte MA -address
436 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_SERVERNAME - Name of the server
437 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_ADDR - Address of boot parameters
438
439 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_ADD_PARAMS
440
441 Add it at the end of the bootline. E.g "u=username pw=secret"
442
443 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
444 the defaults discussed just above.
445
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48d0192f 447 CONFIG_PL010_SERIAL
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449 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
450
48d0192f 451 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL
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453 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
454
455 CONFIG_PL011_CLOCK
456
457 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
458 the clock speed of the UARTs.
459
460 CONFIG_PL01x_PORTS
461
462 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
463 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
464 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
465
466
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468 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port
469 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2,
470 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial
471 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE
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473 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
474 port routines must be defined elsewhere
475 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
476
477 CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE
478 Enables console device for a color framebuffer. Needs following
479 defines (cf. smiLynxEM, i8042, board/eltec/bab7xx)
480 VIDEO_FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN graphic memory organisation
481 (default big endian)
482 VIDEO_HW_RECTFILL graphic chip supports
483 rectangle fill
484 (cf. smiLynxEM)
485 VIDEO_HW_BITBLT graphic chip supports
486 bit-blit (cf. smiLynxEM)
487 VIDEO_VISIBLE_COLS visible pixel columns
488 (cols=pitch)
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489 VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS visible pixel rows
490 VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE bytes per pixel
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491 VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT graphic data format
492 (0-5, cf. cfb_console.c)
ba56f625 493 VIDEO_FB_ADRS framebuffer address
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494 VIDEO_KBD_INIT_FCT keyboard int fct
495 (i.e. i8042_kbd_init())
496 VIDEO_TSTC_FCT test char fct
497 (i.e. i8042_tstc)
498 VIDEO_GETC_FCT get char fct
499 (i.e. i8042_getc)
500 CONFIG_CONSOLE_CURSOR cursor drawing on/off
501 (requires blink timer
502 cf. i8042.c)
6d0f6bcf 503 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c)
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504 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME display time/date info in
505 upper right corner
602ad3b3 506 (requires CONFIG_CMD_DATE)
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507 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO display Linux logo in
508 upper left corner
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509 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO use bmp_logo.h instead of
510 linux_logo.h for logo.
511 Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
c609719b 512 CONFIG_CONSOLE_EXTRA_INFO
11ccc33f 513 additional board info beside
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514 the logo
515
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516 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is
517 default i/o. Serial console can be forced with
518 environment 'console=serial'.
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520 When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console
521 messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with
522 the "silent" environment variable. See
523 doc/README.silent for more information.
a3ad8e26 524
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525- Console Baudrate:
526 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
527 Select one of the baudrates listed in
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528 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
529 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
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532 With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define
533 the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC.
2b3f12c2 534 This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible.
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535 If using CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN also CONFIG_SYS_MAXIDLE
536 must be defined, to setup the maximum idle timeout for
537 the SMC.
538
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539- Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds
540 Delay before automatically booting the default image;
541 set to -1 to disable autoboot.
542
543 See doc/README.autoboot for these options that
544 work with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY. None are required.
545 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
546 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_MIN
547 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
548 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT
549 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
550 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
551 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2
552 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR2
553 CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK
554 CONFIG_RESET_TO_RETRY
555
556- Autoboot Command:
557 CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
558 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
559 define a command string that is automatically executed
560 when no character is read on the console interface
561 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
562
563 CONFIG_BOOTARGS
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564 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
565 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
566 environment value "bootargs".
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567
568 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
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569 The value of these goes into the environment as
570 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
571 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
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574- Pre-Boot Commands:
575 CONFIG_PREBOOT
576
577 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
578 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
579 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
580 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
581 entering interactive mode.
582
583 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
584 automatically generated or modified. For an example
585 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
586 modified when the user holds down a certain
587 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
588 booting the systems
589
590- Serial Download Echo Mode:
591 CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
592 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
593 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
594 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
595 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
596 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
597 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
598
602ad3b3 599- Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
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600 CONFIG_KGDB_BAUDRATE
601 Select one of the baudrates listed in
6d0f6bcf 602 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
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604- Monitor Functions:
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605 Monitor commands can be included or excluded
606 from the build by using the #include files
607 "config_cmd_all.h" and #undef'ing unwanted
608 commands, or using "config_cmd_default.h"
609 and augmenting with additional #define's
610 for wanted commands.
611
612 The default command configuration includes all commands
613 except those marked below with a "*".
614
615 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
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616 CONFIG_CMD_BDI bdinfo
617 CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger
618 CONFIG_CMD_BMP * BMP support
619 CONFIG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands
620 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD bootd
621 CONFIG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache
622 CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo
623 CONFIG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time...
624 CONFIG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support
625 CONFIG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics
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626 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510 * ds4510 I2C gpio commands
627 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO * ds4510 I2C info command
628 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM * ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
629 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST * ds4510 I2C rst command
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630 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
631 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
246c6922 632 CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV edit env variable
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633 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
634 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
bdab39d3 635 CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV saveenv
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636 CONFIG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support
637 CONFIG_CMD_FAT * FAT partition support
638 CONFIG_CMD_FDOS * Dos diskette Support
639 CONFIG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect
640 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support
641 CONFIG_CMD_HWFLOW * RTS/CTS hw flow control
642 CONFIG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support
643 CONFIG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support
644 CONFIG_CMD_IMI iminfo
645 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS List all found images
646 CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support
647 CONFIG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo
648 CONFIG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values
649 CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support
650 CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb
651 CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb
652 CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads
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654 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
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656 loop, loopw, mtest
657 CONFIG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc
658 CONFIG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support
659 CONFIG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands
68d7d651 660 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS * MTD partition support
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661 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
662 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
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663 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X * PCA953x I2C gpio commands
664 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
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665 CONFIG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo
666 CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support
667 CONFIG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
668 host
669 CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O
670 CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump
671 CONFIG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable
672 CONFIG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump
673 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI * SCSI Support
674 CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information
675 (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
676 CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access
677 (4xx only)
c6b1ee66 678 CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM print sha1 memory digest
02c9aa1d 679 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
74de7aef 680 CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support
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681 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
682 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
683 CONFIG_CMD_VFD * VFD support (TRAB)
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684 CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support
685 CONFIG_CMD_FSL * Microblaze FSL support
686
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688 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
689 support you can write:
690
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692 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
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695 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
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697 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
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700 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or
701 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be
702 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other
703 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an
704 initial stack and some data.
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706
707 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
708
709- Watchdog:
710 CONFIG_WATCHDOG
711 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
7152b1d0 712 support. There must be support in the platform specific
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714 SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
715 register.
716
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718 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
719 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
720 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
721 version as printed by the "version" command.
722 This variable is readonly.
723
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725
602ad3b3 726 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
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727 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
728 following options:
729
730 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx
731 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
7ce63709 732 CONFIG_RTC_MC13783 - use MC13783 RTC
c609719b 733 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
1cb8e980 734 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
c609719b 735 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
7f70e853 736 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
3bac3513 737 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
9536dfcc 738 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
4c0d4c3b 739 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
6d0f6bcf 740 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
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743 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
744
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746 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
747 CONFIG_PCA953X_INFO - enable pca953x info command
748
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750 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
751 pins supported by a particular chip.
752
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754 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
755
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757
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758 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
759 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
760 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
602ad3b3 761 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
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763- Partition Support:
764 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION
07f3d789 765 and/or CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION
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768 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at
769 least one partition type as well.
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771- IDE Reset method:
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773 board configurations files but used nowhere!
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775 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
776 be performed by calling the function
777 ide_set_reset(int reset)
778 which has to be defined in a board specific file
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780- ATAPI Support:
781 CONFIG_ATAPI
782
783 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
784
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786 CONFIG_LBA48
787
788 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
4b142feb 789 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
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790 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
791 support disks up to 2.1TB.
792
6d0f6bcf 793 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
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795 Default is 32bit.
796
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798 At the moment only there is only support for the
799 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
800 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
801
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803 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
804 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
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805 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
806 devices.
6d0f6bcf 807 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
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809- NETWORK Support (PCI):
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810 CONFIG_E1000
811 Support for Intel 8254x gigabit chips.
53cf9435 812
ac3315c2 813 CONFIG_E1000_FALLBACK_MAC
11ccc33f 814 default MAC for empty EEPROM after production.
ac3315c2 815
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817 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
11ccc33f 818 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
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819 write routine for first time initialisation.
820
821 CONFIG_TULIP
822 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
823 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
824 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
825
826 CONFIG_NATSEMI
827 Support for National dp83815 chips.
828
829 CONFIG_NS8382X
830 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
831
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833
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834 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
835 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
836
837 CONFIG_RMII
838 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
839
840 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
841 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
842 The driver doen't show link status messages.
843
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845 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
846
847 CONFIG_LAN91C96_BASE
848 Define this to hold the physical address
849 of the LAN91C96's I/O space
850
851 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
852 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
853
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855 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
856
857 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
858 Define this to hold the physical address
859 of the device (I/O space)
860
861 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
862 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
863
864 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
865 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
866 (some hardware wont work with macros)
867
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869 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
870
871 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
872 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
873 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
874 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
875 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
876 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
877 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
878 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
879
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881 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
882
c2fff331 883 CONFIG_SMC911X_BASE
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884 Define this to hold the physical address
885 of the device (I/O space)
886
c2fff331 887 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
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888 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
889
c2fff331 890 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
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891 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
892 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
c2fff331 893 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
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896 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
897
898 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
899 Define the number of ports to be used
900
901 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
902 Define the ETH PHY's address
903
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905 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
906
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908 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
4d13cbad 909 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define
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910 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
911 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
30d56fae 912 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
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913 storage devices.
914 Note:
915 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
916 (TEAC FD-05PUB).
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917 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
918 CONFIG_USB_CLOCK
919 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
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920 CONFIG_PSC3_USB
921 for USB on PSC3
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923 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
924 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
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925 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100
926 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100
6d0f6bcf 927 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
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929 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
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932 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
933 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
934 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
11ccc33f 935 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
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937 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
386eda02 938 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
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939 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
940 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
941 a Linux host by
942 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
943 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
944 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
945 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
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948 Define this to build a UDC device
949
950 CONFIG_USB_TTY
951 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
952 talk to the UDC device
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6d0f6bcf 954 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
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956 be set to usbtty.
957
958 mpc8xx:
6d0f6bcf 959 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
16c8d5e7 960 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
6d0f6bcf 961 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
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6d0f6bcf 963 CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0xBLAH
16c8d5e7 964 Derive USB clock from brgclk
6d0f6bcf 965 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0x04
16c8d5e7 966
386eda02 967 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
16c8d5e7 968 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
386eda02 969 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
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971 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
972 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
973
974 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
975 Define this string as the name of your company for
976 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
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978 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
979 Define this string as the name of your product
980 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
981
982 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
983 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
984 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
985 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
986 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
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988 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
989 Define this as the unique Product ID
990 for your device
991 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
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995 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
996 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
997 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
71f95118 998 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
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1000 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
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1002- Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1003 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE,
1004 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV
1005 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1006
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1008 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
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1009 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1010
6d0f6bcf 1011 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART
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1013 function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num)
1014
1015 If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to
6d0f6bcf 1016 #define CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_SINGLE_PART 1
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1018 have not defined a custom partition
1019
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1020- Keyboard Support:
1021 CONFIG_ISA_KEYBOARD
1022
1023 Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard
1024 support
1025
1026 CONFIG_I8042_KBD
1027 Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and
1028 GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support.
1029 Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc
1030 for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking.
1031
1032- Video support:
1033 CONFIG_VIDEO
1034
1035 Define this to enable video support (for output to
1036 video).
1037
1038 CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000
1039
1040 Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip
1041
1042 CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM
b79a11cc 1043 Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The
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1044 video output is selected via environment 'videoout'
1045 (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is
1046 assumed.
1047
b79a11cc 1048 For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is
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1051 - "videomode=num" 'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers.
6e592385 1052 Following standard modes are supported (* is default):
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1054 Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024
1055 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1056 8 bits | 0x301* 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307
1057 15 bits | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319
1058 16 bits | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A
1059 24 bits | 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B
1060 -------------+---------------------------------------------
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1062
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7817cb20 1064 from the bootargs. (See drivers/video/videomodes.c)
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1066
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1070 or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP
1071
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8bde7f77 1073 CONFIG_KEYBOARD
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1075 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1076 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1077 defined in your board-specific files.
1078 The only board using this so far is RBC823.
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1081
1082 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1083 display); also select one of the supported displays
1084 by defining one of these:
1085
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1087
1088 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1089
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fd3103bb 1092 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
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1097 Active, color, single scan.
1098
1099 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1100
1101 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
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1102 Active, color, single scan.
1103
1104 CONFIG_SHARP_16x9
1105
1106 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1107 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1108
1109 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1110
1111 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1112 Active, color, single scan.
1113
1114 CONFIG_HLD1045
1115
1116 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1117 Active, color, single scan.
1118
1119 CONFIG_OPTREX_BW
1120
1121 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1122 or
1123 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1124 or
1125 Hitachi SP14Q002
1126
1127 320x240. Black & white.
1128
1129 Normally display is black on white background; define
6d0f6bcf 1130 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
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7152b1d0 1132- Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
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1134 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1135 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1136 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
e94d2cd9 1137 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
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1138 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1139 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1140 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1141 loaded very quickly after power-on.
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1143 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1144
1145 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1146 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1147 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1148 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1149 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1150 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1151
1152 Example:
1153 setenv splashpos m,m
1154 => image at center of screen
1155
1156 setenv splashpos 30,20
1157 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1158
1159 setenv splashpos -10,m
1160 => vertically centered image
1161 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1162
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1164
1165 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1166 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1167 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1168
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1170
1171 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1172 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1173 bmp command.
1174
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1175- Compression support:
1176 CONFIG_BZIP2
1177
1178 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1179 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1180 compressed images are supported.
1181
42d1f039 1182 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
6d0f6bcf 1183 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
42d1f039 1184 be at least 4MB.
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1186 CONFIG_LZMA
1187
1188 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1189 images is included.
1190
1191 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1192 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1193 formula:
1194
1195 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1196
1197 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1198 and Literal pos bits.
1199
1200 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1201 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1202 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1203 a very small buffer.
1204
1205 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1206 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
6d0f6bcf 1207 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
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1209- MII/PHY support:
1210 CONFIG_PHY_ADDR
1211
1212 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1213
1214 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1215
1216 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1217
1218 CONFIG_PHY_GIGE
1219
1220 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
11ccc33f 1221 detection of gigabit PHY is included.
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1222
1223 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1224
1225 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1226 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1227 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1228 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1229
1230 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1231
1232 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1233 command issued before MII status register can be read
1234
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1235- Ethernet address:
1236 CONFIG_ETHADDR
c68a05fe 1237 CONFIG_ETH1ADDR
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1238 CONFIG_ETH2ADDR
1239 CONFIG_ETH3ADDR
c68a05fe 1240 CONFIG_ETH4ADDR
1241 CONFIG_ETH5ADDR
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1244 for the respective Ethernet interface, in case this
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1245 is not determined automatically.
1246
1247- IP address:
1248 CONFIG_IPADDR
1249
1250 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
11ccc33f 1251 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
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1253
1254- Server IP address:
1255 CONFIG_SERVERIP
1256
11ccc33f 1257 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
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1258 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1259
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1260 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1261
1262 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1263 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1264
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1265- Multicast TFTP Mode:
1266 CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP
1267
1268 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1269 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
11ccc33f 1270 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
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1271 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1272 multicast group.
1273
1274 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
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1275- BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1276 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1277
1278 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1279 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1280 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1281 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1282 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1283 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1284 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1285 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
6c33c785 1286 following delays are inserted then:
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1287
1288 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1289 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1290 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1291 4th and following
1292 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1293
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1295 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1296 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1297
1298 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1299 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1300 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1301 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1302 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1303 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1304 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1305 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2
1306 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1307 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1308 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1309 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
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1311 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1312 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
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1313
1314 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1315 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1316 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1317 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1318 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1319 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1320 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1fe80d79 1321 is defined.
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1322
1323 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1324 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1325 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
5d110f0a 1326 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
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1327 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1328 option 12 to the DHCP server.
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1330 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1331
1332 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1333 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1334 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1335 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1336 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1337 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1338 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1339 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1340 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1341 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1342 this delay.
1343
a3d991bd 1344 - CDP Options:
6e592385 1345 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
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1346
1347 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1348
1349 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1350
1351 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1352 of the device.
1353
1354 CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID
1355
1356 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1357 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
11ccc33f 1358 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
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1359
1360 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1361
1362 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1363 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1364
1365 CONFIG_CDP_VERSION
1366
1367 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1368
1369 CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM
1370
1371 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1372
1373 CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER
1374
1375 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1376
1377 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1378
1379 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1380 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1381
1382 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1383
1384 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1385
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1386- Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED
1387
1388 Several configurations allow to display the current
1389 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1390 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1391 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1392 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1393 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1394 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this
1395 feature in U-Boot.
1396
1397- CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
1398
1399 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
1400 on those systems that support this (optional)
1401 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
1402
1403- I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C | CONFIG_SOFT_I2C
1404
b37c7e5e 1405 These enable I2C serial bus commands. Defining either of
945af8d7 1406 (but not both of) CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C will
11ccc33f 1407 include the appropriate I2C driver for the selected CPU.
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945af8d7 1409 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
602ad3b3 1410 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
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1411 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
1412 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
43d9616c 1413 command line interface.
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bb99ad6d 1415 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
b37c7e5e 1416
945af8d7 1417 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C configures u-boot to use a software (aka
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1418 bit-banging) driver instead of CPM or similar hardware
1419 support for I2C.
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945af8d7 1421 There are several other quantities that must also be
b37c7e5e 1422 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C.
c609719b 1423
6d0f6bcf 1424 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
945af8d7 1425 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
6d0f6bcf 1426 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
11ccc33f 1427 the CPU's i2c node address).
945af8d7 1428
8d321b81 1429 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
a47a12be 1430 (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
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1431 and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
1432 eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
1433 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
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1435 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
1436
1437 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1438 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1439 in progress. Reset the slave devices by sending start
1440 commands until the slave device responds.
1441
945af8d7 1442 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
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1444 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SOFT_I2C)
1445 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1446 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
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1447
1448 I2C_INIT
1449
b37c7e5e 1450 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
43d9616c 1451 controller or configure ports.
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ba56f625 1453 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
b37c7e5e 1454
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1455 I2C_PORT
1456
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1457 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
1458 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
1459 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
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1460
1461 I2C_ACTIVE
1462
1463 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1464 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1465 define can be null.
1466
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1467 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1468
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1469 I2C_TRISTATE
1470
1471 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1472 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1473 define can be null.
1474
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1475 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1476
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1477 I2C_READ
1478
1479 Code that returns TRUE if the I2C data line is high,
1480 FALSE if it is low.
1481
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1482 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1483
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1484 I2C_SDA(bit)
1485
1486 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1487 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1488
b37c7e5e 1489 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
2535d602 1490 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
ba56f625 1491 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
b37c7e5e 1492
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1493 I2C_SCL(bit)
1494
1495 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1496 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1497
b37c7e5e 1498 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
2535d602 1499 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
ba56f625 1500 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
b37c7e5e 1501
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1502 I2C_DELAY
1503
1504 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1505 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
b37c7e5e 1506 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
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1507 like:
1508
b37c7e5e 1509 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
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1511 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1512
1513 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1514 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1515 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1516 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1517
1518 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1519 the generic GPIO functions.
1520
6d0f6bcf 1521 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
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1523 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1524 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1525 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1526 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1527 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1528 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1529 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1530 is run early in the boot sequence.
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1532 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
1533
1534 An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
1535 defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
1536 boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
1537 is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
1538 using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
1539 controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
1540 i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
1541 controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
1542
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1543 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
1544
1545 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
1546 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
1547 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
1548
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1549 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1550
1551 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
1552 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1553 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
1554 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1555
6d0f6bcf 1556 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
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1557
1558 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
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1559 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1560 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1561 a 1D array of device addresses
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1562
1563 e.g.
1564 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
6d0f6bcf 1565 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
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1566
1567 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1568
1569 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
6d0f6bcf 1570 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MULTI_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
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1571
1572 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1573
6d0f6bcf 1574 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
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1575
1576 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1577 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1578
6d0f6bcf 1579 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
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1580
1581 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1582 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1583
6d0f6bcf 1584 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
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1585
1586 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
1587 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
1588
6d0f6bcf 1589 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
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1590
1591 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
1592 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
1593 specified DTT device.
1594
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1595 CONFIG_FSL_I2C
1596
1597 Define this option if you want to use Freescale's I2C driver in
7817cb20 1598 drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c.
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1600 CONFIG_I2C_MUX
1601
1602 Define this option if you have I2C devices reached over 1 .. n
1603 I2C Muxes like the pca9544a. This option addes a new I2C
1604 Command "i2c bus [muxtype:muxaddr:muxchannel]" which adds a
1605 new I2C Bus to the existing I2C Busses. If you select the
1606 new Bus with "i2c dev", u-bbot sends first the commandos for
1607 the muxes to activate this new "bus".
1608
1609 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS must be also defined, to use this
1610 feature!
1611
1612 Example:
1613 Adding a new I2C Bus reached over 2 pca9544a muxes
1614 The First mux with address 70 and channel 6
1615 The Second mux with address 71 and channel 4
1616
1617 => i2c bus pca9544a:70:6:pca9544a:71:4
1618
1619 Use the "i2c bus" command without parameter, to get a list
1620 of I2C Busses with muxes:
1621
1622 => i2c bus
1623 Busses reached over muxes:
1624 Bus ID: 2
1625 reached over Mux(es):
1626 pca9544a@70 ch: 4
1627 Bus ID: 3
1628 reached over Mux(es):
1629 pca9544a@70 ch: 6
1630 pca9544a@71 ch: 4
1631 =>
1632
1633 If you now switch to the new I2C Bus 3 with "i2c dev 3"
1634 u-boot sends First the Commando to the mux@70 to enable
1635 channel 6, and then the Commando to the mux@71 to enable
1636 the channel 4.
1637
1638 After that, you can use the "normal" i2c commands as
1639 usual, to communicate with your I2C devices behind
1640 the 2 muxes.
1641
1642 This option is actually implemented for the bitbanging
1643 algorithm in common/soft_i2c.c and for the Hardware I2C
1644 Bus on the MPC8260. But it should be not so difficult
1645 to add this option to other architectures.
1646
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1647 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1648
1649 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1650 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1651 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1652 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1653 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1654 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1655 the other.
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1658
1659 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1660 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1661 D/As on the SACSng board)
1662
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1663 CONFIG_SH_SPI
1664
1665 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
1666 only SH7757 is supported.
1667
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1668 CONFIG_SPI_X
1669
1670 Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing.
1671 (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X)
1672
1673 CONFIG_SOFT_SPI
1674
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1675 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
1676 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
1677 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
1678 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
1679 defined, the board configuration must define several
1680 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
1681 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
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1683 CONFIG_HARD_SPI
1684
1685 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
1686 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
1687 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
1688 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
1689 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
1690
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1691 CONFIG_MXC_SPI
1692
1693 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
1694 SoCs. Currently only i.MX31 is supported.
1695
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1698 Enables FPGA subsystem.
1699
1700 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
1701
1702 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
1703 (ALTERA, XILINX)
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0133502e 1705 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
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1707 Enables support for FPGA family.
1708 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
1709
1710 CONFIG_FPGA_COUNT
1711
1712 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
c609719b 1713
6d0f6bcf 1714 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
c609719b 1715
8bde7f77 1716 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
c609719b 1717
6d0f6bcf 1718 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
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1720 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
1721 status by the configuration function. This option
1722 will require a board or device specific function to
1723 be written.
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1724
1725 CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY
1726
1727 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
1728 configuration driver.
1729
6d0f6bcf 1730 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
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1731 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
1732
6d0f6bcf 1733 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
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1735 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
1736 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
1737 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
1738 indicated a CRC error).
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6d0f6bcf 1740 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
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1742 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert
1743 after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II
1744 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
11ccc33f 1745 ms.
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6d0f6bcf 1747 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
c609719b 1748
43d9616c 1749 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during
11ccc33f 1750 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
c609719b 1751
6d0f6bcf 1752 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
c609719b 1753
43d9616c 1754 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
11ccc33f 1755 200 ms.
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1756
1757- Configuration Management:
1758 CONFIG_IDENT_STRING
1759
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1760 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
1761 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
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1762
1763- Vendor Parameter Protection:
1764
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1765 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
1766 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
7152b1d0 1767 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
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1768 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
1769 protects these variables from casual modification by
1770 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
1771 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
11ccc33f 1772 change this behaviour:
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1773
1774 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
1775 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
47cd00fa 1776 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
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1777 these parameters.
1778
1779 Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR
1780 _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
11ccc33f 1781 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
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1782 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
1783 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
1784 read-only.]
1785
1786- Protected RAM:
1787 CONFIG_PRAM
1788
1789 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
1790 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
1791 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
1792 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
1793 this default value by defining an environment
1794 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
1795 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
1796 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
1797 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
1798 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
1799 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
1800 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
1801
fe126d8b 1802 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
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1804
1805 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
1806 either, which results in a memory region that will
1807 not be affected by reboots.
1808
1809 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
1810 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
1811 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
1812 following board configurations are known to be
1813 "pRAM-clean":
1814
1815 ETX094, IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
1816 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON, LANTEC,
544d97e9 1817 FLAGADM, TQM8260
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1819- Error Recovery:
1820 CONFIG_PANIC_HANG
1821
1822 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
1823 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
1824 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
11ccc33f 1825 system where you want the system to reboot
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1826 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
1827 useful during development since you can try to debug
1828 the conditions that lead to the situation.
1829
1830 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
1831
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1832 This variable defines the number of retries for
1833 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
1834 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
1835 default value of 5 is used.
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1838
1839 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
1840
c609719b 1841- Command Interpreter:
8078f1a5 1842 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
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1844 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
1845
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1846 Note that this feature has NOT been implemented yet
1847 for the "hush" shell.
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1848
1849
6d0f6bcf 1850 CONFIG_SYS_HUSH_PARSER
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1851
1852 Define this variable to enable the "hush" shell (from
1853 Busybox) as command line interpreter, thus enabling
1854 powerful command line syntax like
1855 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||'
1856 constructs ("shell scripts").
1857
1858 If undefined, you get the old, much simpler behaviour
1859 with a somewhat smaller memory footprint.
1860
1861
6d0f6bcf 1862 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
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1864 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
1865 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
1866 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
1867
1868 Note:
1869
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1870 In the current implementation, the local variables
1871 space and global environment variables space are
1872 separated. Local variables are those you define by
1873 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
1874 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
1875 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
1876 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
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1878 Global environment variables are those you use
1879 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
1880 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
1881 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
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1882
1883 To store commands and special characters in a
1884 variable, please use double quotation marks
1885 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
1886 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
1887 symbols.
1888
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1889- Commandline Editing and History:
1890 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
1891
11ccc33f 1892 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
b9365a26 1893 commandline input operations
aa0c71ac 1894
a8c7c708 1895- Default Environment:
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1896 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
1897
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1898 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
1899 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
7152b1d0 1900 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2262cfee 1901
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1902 For example, place something like this in your
1903 board's config file:
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1904
1905 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
1906 "myvar1=value1\0" \
1907 "myvar2=value2\0"
1908
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1909 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
1910 internal format how the environment is stored by the
1911 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
1912 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
7152b1d0 1913 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
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1914 You better know what you are doing here.
1915
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1916 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
1917 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
74de7aef 1918 the environment like the "source" command or the
43d9616c 1919 boot command first.
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a8c7c708 1921- DataFlash Support:
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1922 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
1923
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1924 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
1925 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
1926 commands cp, md...
2abbe075 1927
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1928- SystemACE Support:
1929 CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
1930
1931 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
1932 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
11ccc33f 1933 of the chip must also be defined in the
6d0f6bcf 1934 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
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1935
1936 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
6d0f6bcf 1937 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
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1938
1939 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
1940 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
1941
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1943 CONFIG_TFTP_PORT
1944
28cb9375 1945 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
ecb0ccd9 1946 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
28cb9375 1947 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
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1948 number generator is used.
1949
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1950 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
1951 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
1952 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
1953
1954 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
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1955 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
1956 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
1957 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
1958 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
1959 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
1960 but sometimes that is not allowed.
1961
a8c7c708 1962- Show boot progress:
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1963 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
1964
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1965 Defining this option allows to add some board-
1966 specific code (calling a user-provided function
1967 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
1968 the system's boot progress on some display (for
1969 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
1970 the following checkpoints are implemented:
c609719b 1971
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1972Legacy uImage format:
1973
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1974 Arg Where When
1975 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
ba56f625 1976 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
c609719b 1977 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
ba56f625 1978 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
c609719b 1979 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
ba56f625 1980 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
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1981 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
1982 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
1983 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
1372cce2 1984 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
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1985 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
1986 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
1987 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
1988 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
1372cce2 1989 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
c609719b 1990 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
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1991
1992 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
1993 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
1994 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
1995 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
1996 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
1997 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
1998 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
11ccc33f 1999 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
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2000 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2001 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2002
ea0364f1 2003 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
c609719b 2004
a47a12be 2005 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
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2006 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2007 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
63e73c9a 2008
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2009 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2010 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2011 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2012 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2013 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2014 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2015 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2016 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2017 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2018 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2019 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2020 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2021 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2022 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2023 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2024 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2025 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2026 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2027 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2028 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2029 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2030 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2031 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2032 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2033 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2034 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2035 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2036 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2037 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2038 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2039 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2040 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2041 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2042 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2043 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2044 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2045 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2046 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2047 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2048 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2049 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2050 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2051 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2052 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2053 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2054 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2055 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
2056
2057 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
2058
11ccc33f 2059 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
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2060 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2061 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
2062
2063 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
2064 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling NetLoop()
11ccc33f 2065 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in NetLoop() occurred
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2066 81 common/cmd_net.c NetLoop() back without error
2067 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2068 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
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2069 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2070 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
566a494f 2071 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
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2073FIT uImage format:
2074
2075 Arg Where When
2076 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2077 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2078 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2079 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2080 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2081 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
f773bea8 2082 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
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2083 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2084 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2085 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2086 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2087 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
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2088 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2089 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
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2090 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2091 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2092 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2093 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2094 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2095 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2096 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2097 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2098
2099 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2100 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2101 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
11ccc33f 2102 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
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2103 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2104 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2105 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2106 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2107 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2108 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2109 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2110 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2111 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2112 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2113 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2114 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2115
11ccc33f 2116 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
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2117 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2118
11ccc33f 2119 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
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2120 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2121
11ccc33f 2122 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
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2123 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2124
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2125- Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2126 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP
2127 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2128 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2129
2130 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2131 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2132
2133- MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2134 CONFIG_MTD_DEVICE
2135
2136 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
2137 Needed for mtdparts command support.
2138
2139 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2140
2141 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
2142 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
2143
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2145Modem Support:
2146--------------
2147
85ec0bcc 2148[so far only for SMDK2400 and TRAB boards]
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11ccc33f 2150- Modem support enable:
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2151 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT
2152
2153- RTS/CTS Flow control enable:
2154 CONFIG_HWFLOW
2155
2156- Modem debug support:
2157 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG
2158
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2159 Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg())
2160 for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000.
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2162- Interrupt support (PPC):
2163
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2164 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2165 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
11ccc33f 2166 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
d4ca31c4 2167 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
11ccc33f 2168 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
d4ca31c4 2169 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
11ccc33f 2170 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
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2171 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2172 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2173 general timer_interrupt().
a8c7c708 2174
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2175- General:
2176
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2177 In the target system modem support is enabled when a
2178 specific key (key combination) is pressed during
2179 power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally
11ccc33f 2180 (autoboot). The key_pressed() function is called from
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2181 board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy
2182 function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem
2183 initialization.
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2185 If there are no modem init strings in the
2186 environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the
2187 previous output (banner, info printfs) will be
11ccc33f 2188 suppressed, though.
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2190 See also: doc/README.Modem
2191
2192
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2193Configuration Settings:
2194-----------------------
2195
6d0f6bcf 2196- CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
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2198
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2199- CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2200 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2201
6d0f6bcf 2202- CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
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2203 prompt for user input.
2204
6d0f6bcf 2205- CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
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6d0f6bcf 2207- CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
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6d0f6bcf 2209- CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
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6d0f6bcf 2211- CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
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2212 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2213 booted
2214
6d0f6bcf 2215- CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
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2216 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2217
6d0f6bcf 2218- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET
8bde7f77 2219 Suppress display of console information at boot.
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6d0f6bcf 2221- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
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2222 If the board specific function
2223 extern int overwrite_console (void);
2224 returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the
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2226
6d0f6bcf 2227- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE
8bde7f77 2228 Enable the call to overwrite_console().
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6d0f6bcf 2230- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE
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2231 Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings.
2232
6d0f6bcf 2233- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
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2234 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2235 simple memory test.
2236
6d0f6bcf 2237- CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
8bde7f77 2238 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
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6d0f6bcf 2240- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
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2241 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2242 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2243
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2244- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE (PPC only):
2245 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
14f73ca6 2246 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
11ccc33f 2247 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
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2248 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2249 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2250 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
5e12e75d 2251 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
14f73ca6 2252 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
5e12e75d 2253 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
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2254
2255 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2256 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2257 be touched.
2258
2259 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2260 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2261 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2262 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2263 problems.
2264
6d0f6bcf 2265- CONFIG_SYS_TFTP_LOADADDR:
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2266 Default load address for network file downloads
2267
6d0f6bcf 2268- CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
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2269 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2270
6d0f6bcf 2271- CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
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2272 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2273
6d0f6bcf 2274- CONFIG_SYS_MBIO_BASE:
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2275 Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a
2276 Cogent motherboard)
2277
6d0f6bcf 2278- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
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2279 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2280
6d0f6bcf 2281- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
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2282 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2283 make config files to be same as the text base address
14d0a02a 2284 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
6d0f6bcf 2285 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
c609719b 2286
6d0f6bcf 2287- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
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2288 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2289 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2290 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2291 flash sector.
c609719b 2292
6d0f6bcf 2293- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
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2294 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2295
6d0f6bcf 2296- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
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2297 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
2298 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
6d0f6bcf 2299 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
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2300 to adjust this setting to your needs.
2301
6d0f6bcf 2302- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
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2303 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
2304 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
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2305 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
2306 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
2307 enviroment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
2308 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
6d0f6bcf 2309 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ.
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2311- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
2312 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
2313 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
2314 is enabled.
2315
2316- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
2317 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
2318 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2319
2320- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
2321 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
2322 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2323
6d0f6bcf 2324- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
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2325 Max number of Flash memory banks
2326
6d0f6bcf 2327- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
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2328 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
2329
6d0f6bcf 2330- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
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2331 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
2332
6d0f6bcf 2333- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
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2334 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
2335
6d0f6bcf 2336- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
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2337 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
2338
6d0f6bcf 2339- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
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2340 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
2341
6d0f6bcf 2342- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
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2343 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
2344 instead of U-Boot software protection.
2345
6d0f6bcf 2346- CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
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2347
2348 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
2349 without this option such a download has to be
2350 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
2351 copy from RAM to flash.
2352
2353 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
2354 you can check if the download worked before you erase
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2355 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
2356 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
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2357 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
2358
6d0f6bcf 2359- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
43d9616c 2360 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
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2361 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
2362
00b1883a 2363- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
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2364 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
2365 in the drivers directory
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2367- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
2368 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
2369 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
2370 to the MTD layer.
2371
6d0f6bcf 2372- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
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2373 Use buffered writes to flash.
2374
2375- CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
2376 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
2377 write commands.
2378
6d0f6bcf 2379- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
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2380 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
2381 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
2382 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
2383 optionally available.
2384
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2385- CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
2386 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
2387 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
2388 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
2389
6d0f6bcf 2390- CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
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2391 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
2392 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
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2393 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
2394 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
11ccc33f 2395 on high Ethernet traffic.
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2396 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
2397
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2398- CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
2399
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2400 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
2401 internally to store the environment settings. The default
2402 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
2403 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
2404 lib/hashtable.c for details.
ea882baf 2405
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2406The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
2407of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
2408following configurations:
2409
5a1aceb0 2410- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
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2411
2412 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
2413
2414 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
2415 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
2416 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
2417 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
2418 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
2419 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
2420 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
2421 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
2422 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
2423 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
2424 between U-Boot and the environment.
2425
0e8d1586 2426 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
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2427
2428 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
2429 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
2430 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
2431 for this sector is given here.
2432
6d0f6bcf 2433 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
c609719b 2434
0e8d1586 2435 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
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2436
2437 This is just another way to specify the start address of
2438 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
0e8d1586 2439 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET).
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0e8d1586 2441 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
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2442
2443 Size of the sector containing the environment.
2444
2445
2446 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
2447 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
2448 the environment.
2449
0e8d1586 2450 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
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5a1aceb0 2452 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
0e8d1586 2453 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
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2454 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
2455 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
2456
2457 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
2458 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
2459 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
2460 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
2461 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
2462 updating the environment in flash makes it always
2463 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
2464 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
2465 RAM, your target system will be dead.
2466
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2467 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
2468 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
c609719b 2469
43d9616c 2470 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
11ccc33f 2471 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
3e38691e 2472 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
43d9616c 2473 a "saveenv" operation.
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2474
2475BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
2476source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
2477accordingly!
2478
2479
9314cee6 2480- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
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2481
2482 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
2483 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
2484 environment.
2485
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2486 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
2487 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
c609719b 2488
11ccc33f 2489 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
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2490 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
2491 can just be read and written to, without any special
2492 provision.
2493
2494BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
2495in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the
11ccc33f 2496console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
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2497U-Boot will hang.
2498
2499Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
2500environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
2501keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
2502to save the current settings.
2503
2504
bb1f8b4f 2505- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
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2506
2507 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
2508 device and a driver for it.
2509
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2510 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2511 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
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2512
2513 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
2514 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
2515
6d0f6bcf 2516 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
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2517 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
2518 The default address is zero.
2519
6d0f6bcf 2520 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
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2521 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
2522 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
2523 would require six bits.
2524
6d0f6bcf 2525 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
c609719b 2526 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
ba56f625 2527 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
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6d0f6bcf 2529 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
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2530 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
2531 that this is NOT the chip address length!
2532
6d0f6bcf 2533 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
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2534 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
2535 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
2536 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
2537 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
2538 byte chips.
2539
2540 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
2541 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
2542 in the chip address.
2543
6d0f6bcf 2544 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
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2545 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
2546
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2547 - CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C
2548 define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your
2549 EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.
2550
2551 - CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS
2552 if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over
2553 I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this
2554 EEPROM. For example:
2555
a9046b9e 2556 #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS "pca9547:70:d\0"
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2557
2558 EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over
2559 a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.
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057c849c 2561- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
5779d8d9 2562
d4ca31c4 2563 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
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2564 want to use for the environment.
2565
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2566 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2567 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
2568 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
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2569
2570 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
2571 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
2572 at the specified address.
2573
51bfee19 2574- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
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2575
2576 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
2577 for the environment.
2578
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2579 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2580 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
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2581
2582 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
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2583 area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
2584 aligned to an erase block boundary.
5779d8d9 2585
fdd813de 2586 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
e443c944 2587
0e8d1586 2588 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
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2589 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
2590 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
2591 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_RENDUND must be
2592 aligned to an erase block boundary.
2593
2594 - CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):
2595
2596 Specifies the length of the region in which the environment
2597 can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's
2598 block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than
2599 are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within
2600 the range to be avoided.
2601
2602 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):
2603
2604 Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the
2605 environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The
2606 "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset.
2607 Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when
2608 using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.
e443c944 2609
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2610- CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
2611
2612 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
2613 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
2614 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
2615
6d0f6bcf 2616- CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
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2617
2618 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
2619 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
2620 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
2621 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
2622 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
2623 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
2624 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
2625
e881cb56 2626Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
c609719b 2627has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
cdb74977 2628created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f()
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2629until then to read environment variables.
2630
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2631The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
2632is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
2633with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
2634necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
2635"baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
2636have any device yet where we could complain.]
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2637
2638Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
2639the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
85ec0bcc 2640use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
c609719b 2641
6d0f6bcf 2642- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
42d1f039 2643 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
fc3e2165 2644
6d0f6bcf 2645 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
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2646 also needs to be defined.
2647
6d0f6bcf 2648- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
42d1f039 2649 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
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2651- CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
2652 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
2653 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
2654 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
2655 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
2656 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
2657
c609719b 2658Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
dc7c9a1a 2659---------------------------------------------------
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6d0f6bcf 2661- CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
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2662 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
2663
6d0f6bcf 2664- CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
c609719b 2665 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
2535d602 2666
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2667 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
2668 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
2669 the IMMR register after a reset.
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7f6c2cbc 2671- Floppy Disk Support:
6d0f6bcf 2672 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
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2673
2674 the default drive number (default value 0)
2675
6d0f6bcf 2676 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
7f6c2cbc 2677
11ccc33f 2678 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
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2679 (default value 1)
2680
6d0f6bcf 2681 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
7f6c2cbc 2682
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2683 defines the offset of register from address. It
2684 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
11ccc33f 2685 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
7f6c2cbc 2686
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2687 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
2688 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
43d9616c 2689 default value.
7f6c2cbc 2690
6d0f6bcf 2691 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
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2692 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
2693 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
2694 source code. It is used to make hardware dependant
2695 initializations.
7f6c2cbc 2696
6d0f6bcf 2697- CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
efe2a4d5 2698 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
25d6712a 2699 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
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6d0f6bcf 2701- CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
c609719b 2702
7152b1d0 2703 Start address of memory area that can be used for
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2704 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
2705 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
2706 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
2707 will become available only after programming the
2708 memory controller and running certain initialization
2709 sequences.
2710
2711 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
2712 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
2713 - MPC824X: data cache
2714 - PPC4xx: data cache
2715
6d0f6bcf 2716- CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
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2717
2718 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
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2719 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
2720 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
c609719b 2721 data is located at the end of the available space
553f0982 2722 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
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2723 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
2724 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
2725 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
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2726
2727 Note:
2728 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
2729 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
6d0f6bcf 2730 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
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2731 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
2732 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
2733
6d0f6bcf 2734- CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
c609719b 2735
6d0f6bcf 2736- CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
c609719b 2737
6d0f6bcf 2738- CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
c609719b 2739
6d0f6bcf 2740- CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
c609719b 2741
6d0f6bcf 2742- CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
c609719b 2743
6d0f6bcf 2744- CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
c609719b 2745
6d0f6bcf 2746- CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
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2747 SDRAM timing
2748
6d0f6bcf 2749- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
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2750 periodic timer for refresh
2751
6d0f6bcf 2752- CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
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2754- FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
2755 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
2756 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
2757 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
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2758 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
2759
2760- SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
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2761 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
2762 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
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2763 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
2764
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2765- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
2766 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
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2767 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
2768 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
2769
6d0f6bcf 2770- CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
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2771 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2772 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
2773
6d0f6bcf 2774- CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
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2775 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2776 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
2777
6d0f6bcf 2778- CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
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2779 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2780 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
2781
6d0f6bcf 2782- CONFIG_SYS_USE_OSCCLK:
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2783 Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful,
2784 wrong setting might damage your board. Read
2785 doc/README.MBX before setting this variable!
2786
6d0f6bcf 2787- CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
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2788 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
2789 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
2790 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
2791 cpm_8260.h.
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2793- CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
2794 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
2795 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
2796 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
2797 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
2798 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
2799 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
2800 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
a47a12be 2801 Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
5d232d0e 2802
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2803- CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE:
2804 Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
2805 required.
2806
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2807- CONFIG_SYS_SRIO:
2808 Chip has SRIO or not
2809
2810- CONFIG_SRIO1:
2811 Board has SRIO 1 port available
2812
2813- CONFIG_SRIO2:
2814 Board has SRIO 2 port available
2815
2816- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
2817 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2818
2819- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
2820 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2821
2822- CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
2823 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
2824
bb99ad6d 2825- CONFIG_SPD_EEPROM
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2826 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
2827 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
2828
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2829 SPD_EEPROM_ADDRESS
2830 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
2831
6d0f6bcf 2832- CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
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2833 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
2834 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
2835 to something your driver can deal with.
bb99ad6d 2836
6d0f6bcf 2837- CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
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2838 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
2839 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
2ad6b513 2840
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2841- CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
2842 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
2843
2844- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
2845 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
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2846 to the given FEC; i. e.
2847 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
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2848 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
2849
2850 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
2851
2852- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
2853 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
2854 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
2855
2856- CONFIG_RMII
2857 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
2858 Note that this is a global option, we can't
2859 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
2860
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2861- CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
2862 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
2863 The syntax is:
2864
2865 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
2866
2867 Where address/count indicate a memory area
2868 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
2869 area should have.
2870
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2871- CONFIG_LOOPW
2872 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
602ad3b3 2873 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
56523f12 2874
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2875- CONFIG_MX_CYCLIC
2876 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
2877 "md/mw" commands.
2878 Examples:
2879
efe2a4d5 2880 => mdc.b 10 4 500
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2881 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
2882
efe2a4d5 2883 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
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2884 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
2885
efe2a4d5 2886 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
602ad3b3 2887 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
7b466641 2888
8aa1a2d1 2889- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
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2890 [ARM only] If this variable is defined, then certain
2891 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
2892 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
2893 relocate itself into RAM.
2894
2895 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
2896 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
2897 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
2898 these initializations itself.
8aa1a2d1 2899
df81238b 2900- CONFIG_PRELOADER
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2901 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
2902 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
2903 compiling a NAND SPL.
400558b5 2904
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2905Building the Software:
2906======================
2907
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2908Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
2909and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
2910all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
2911(potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
2912recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
2913which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
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2915If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
2916have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
2917you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
2918Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
2919necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
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2921 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
2922 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
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2924Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
2925 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
2926 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
2927 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
2928
2929 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
2930
2931 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
2932 be executed on computers running Windows.
2933
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2934U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
2935sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
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2936is done by typing:
2937
2938 make NAME_config
2939
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2940where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing configu-
2941rations; see the main Makefile for supported names.
db01a2ea 2942
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2943Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
2944 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
2945 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
2946 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
11ccc33f 2947 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
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2948
2949 make TQM823L_config
2950 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
2951
2952 make TQM823L_LCD_config
2953 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
2954
2955 etc.
2956
2957
2958Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
2959images ready for download to / installation on your system:
2960
2961- "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
2962- "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
2963- "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
2964
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2965By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
2966in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
2967this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
2968
29691. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
2970
2971 make O=/tmp/build distclean
2972 make O=/tmp/build NAME_config
2973 make O=/tmp/build all
2974
29752. Set environment variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location:
2976
2977 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
2978 make distclean
2979 make NAME_config
2980 make all
2981
2982Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the BUILD_DIR environment
2983variable.
2984
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2985
2986Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
2987for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
2988native "make".
2989
2990
2991If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
2992to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
2993steps:
2994
29951. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel
2996 "Makefile" and to the "MAKEALL" script, using the existing
2997 entries as examples. Note that here and at many other places
2998 boards and other names are listed in alphabetical sort order. Please
2999 keep this order.
30002. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
3001 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
3002 the "Makefile", a "<board>.c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds".
30033. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
3004 your board
30053. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
3006 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
30074. Run "make <board>_config" with your new name.
30085. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
3009 to be installed on your target system.
30106. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
3011 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
3012
3013
3014Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
3015==============================================================
3016
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3017If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
3018or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
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3019provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
3020the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
218ca724 3021official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
2729af9d 3022
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3023But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
3024cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
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3025the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
3026just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot
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3027for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can
3028select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE'
3029environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the ELDK cross tools
3030you can type
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3031
3032 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3033
3034or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type
3035
3036 CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL
3037
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3038When using the MAKEALL script, the default behaviour is to build
3039U-Boot in the source directory. This location can be changed by
3040setting the BUILD_DIR environment variable. Also, for each target
3041built, the MAKEALL script saves two log files (<target>.ERR and
3042<target>.MAKEALL) in the <source dir>/LOG directory. This default
3043location can be changed by setting the MAKEALL_LOGDIR environment
3044variable. For example:
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3045
3046 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3047 export MAKEALL_LOGDIR=/tmp/log
3048 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3049
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3050With the above settings build objects are saved in the /tmp/build,
3051log files are saved in the /tmp/log and the source tree remains clean
3052during the whole build process.
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3053
3054
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3055See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
3056
3057
3058Monitor Commands - Overview:
3059============================
3060
3061go - start application at address 'addr'
3062run - run commands in an environment variable
3063bootm - boot application image from memory
3064bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
3065tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3066 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3067 (and eventually "gatewayip")
3068rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3069diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3070loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3071loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3072md - memory display
3073mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3074nm - memory modify (constant address)
3075mw - memory write (fill)
3076cp - memory copy
3077cmp - memory compare
3078crc32 - checksum calculation
0f89c54b 3079i2c - I2C sub-system
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3080sspi - SPI utility commands
3081base - print or set address offset
3082printenv- print environment variables
3083setenv - set environment variables
3084saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3085protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3086erase - erase FLASH memory
3087flinfo - print FLASH memory information
3088bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3089iminfo - print header information for application image
3090coninfo - print console devices and informations
3091ide - IDE sub-system
3092loop - infinite loop on address range
56523f12 3093loopw - infinite write loop on address range
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3094mtest - simple RAM test
3095icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3096dcache - enable or disable data cache
3097reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3098echo - echo args to console
3099version - print monitor version
3100help - print online help
3101? - alias for 'help'
3102
3103
3104Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3105========================================
3106
3107TODO.
3108
3109For now: just type "help <command>".
3110
3111
3112Environment Variables:
3113======================
3114
3115U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3116can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
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3118Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3119"printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3120without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3121environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3122working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3123environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
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3125Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3126
3127List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
c609719b 3128
2729af9d 3129 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
c609719b 3130
2729af9d 3131 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
c609719b 3132
2729af9d 3133 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
4a6fd34b 3134
2729af9d 3135 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
c609719b 3136
2729af9d 3137 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
c609719b 3138
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3139 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3140 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3141 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3142 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3143 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3144 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
6d0f6bcf 3145 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ.
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3146
3147 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3148 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3149 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3150 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3151 environment variable.
3152
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3153 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3154 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3155 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3156
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3157 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3158 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3159 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3160 load any image using TFTP
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3162 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3163 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3164 be automatically started (by internally calling
3165 "bootm")
38b99261 3166
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3167 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3168 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3169 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3170 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3171 data.
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3173 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3174 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3175 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3176 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3177 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3178
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3179 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3180 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3181 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3182 is usually what you want since it allows for
3183 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3184 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
6d0f6bcf 3185 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
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3186 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3187 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3188 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3189 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
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3191 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3192 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3193 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3194 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3195 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3196 12 MB as well - this can be done with
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2729af9d 3198 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
c609719b 3199
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3200 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3201 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3202 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3203 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3204 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3205 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3206 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
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2729af9d 3208 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
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3210 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3211 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
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2729af9d 3213 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
a3d991bd 3214
2729af9d 3215 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
a3d991bd 3216
2729af9d 3217 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
a3d991bd 3218
2729af9d 3219 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
a3d991bd 3220
2729af9d 3221 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
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3223 ethprime - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which
3224 interface is used first.
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3226 ethact - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which
3227 interface is currently active. For example you
3228 can do the following
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3230 => setenv ethact FEC
3231 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
3232 => setenv ethact SCC
3233 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
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3235 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3236 available network interfaces.
3237 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3238
c96f86ee 3239 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
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3240 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3241 When set to "once" the network operation will
3242 fail when all the available network interfaces
3243 are tried once without success.
3244 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3245 themselves.
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b4e2f89d 3247 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
a1cf027a 3248
28cb9375 3249 tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
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3250 UDP source port.
3251
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3252 tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
3253 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
3254
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3255 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
3256 we use the TFTP server's default block size
3257
3258 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
3259 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
3260 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
3261 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
3262 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
3263 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
3264 with unreliable TFTP servers.
3265
3266 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
11ccc33f 3267 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
2729af9d 3268 VLAN tagged frames.
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3270The following environment variables may be used and automatically
3271updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
3272depending the information provided by your boot server:
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3274 bootfile - see above
3275 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
3276 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
3277 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
3278 hostname - Target hostname
3279 ipaddr - see above
3280 netmask - Subnet Mask
3281 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
3282 serverip - see above
c1551ea8 3283
c1551ea8 3284
2729af9d 3285There are two special Environment Variables:
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3287 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
3288 as type string and/or serial number
3289 ethaddr - Ethernet address
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3291These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
3292the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
3293once they have been set once.
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2729af9d 3296Further special Environment Variables:
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3298 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
3299 with the "version" command. This variable is
3300 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
f07771cc 3301
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3303Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
3304only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
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3307Command Line Parsing:
3308=====================
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3310There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
3311the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
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3313Old, simple command line parser:
3314--------------------------------
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3316- supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
3317- several commands on one line, separated by ';'
fe126d8b 3318- variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
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3319- special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
3320 for example:
fe126d8b 3321 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
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3322- You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
3323 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
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3325Hush shell:
3326-----------
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3328- similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
3329 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
3330 until...do...done, ...
3331- supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
3332 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
3333 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
3334 command
3335
3336General rules:
3337--------------
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3339(1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
3340 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
3341 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
3342 executed anyway.
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2729af9d 3344(2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
11ccc33f 3345 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
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3346 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
3347 variables are not executed.
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3349Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
3350=======================================
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11ccc33f 3352Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
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3353such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
3354"working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
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3356Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
3357MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
3358"eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
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3360If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
3361in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
3362ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
3363variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
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3365o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
3366 environment, the SROM's address is used.
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3368o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
3369 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
3370 used.
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3372o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
3373 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
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3375o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
3376 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
3377 warning is printed.
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3379o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
3380 is raised.
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3382If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
3383will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
3384may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
3385The naming convention is as follows:
3386"ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
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3388Image Formats:
3389==============
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3310c549
MB
3391U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
3392images in two formats:
3393
3394New uImage format (FIT)
3395-----------------------
3396
3397Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
3398to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
3399components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
3400SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
3401
3402
3403Old uImage format
3404-----------------
3405
3406Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
3407preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
3408details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
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3410* Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
3411 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
f5ed9e39
PT
3412 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
3413 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
3414 INTEGRITY).
7b64fef3 3415* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
1117cbf2
TC
3416 IA64, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
3417 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC).
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3418* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
3419* Load Address
3420* Entry Point
3421* Image Name
3422* Image Timestamp
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3424The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
3425and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
3426CRC32 checksums.
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3427
3428
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3429Linux Support:
3430==============
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3432Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
3433easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
3434U-Boot.
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3436U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
3437special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
3438"initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
3439instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
3440serves several purposes:
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3442- the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
3443 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
3444 Flash memory footprint)
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3446- it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
3447 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
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3449- the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
3450 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
3451 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
3452 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
3453 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
3454 software is easier now.
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3457Linux HOWTO:
3458============
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3460Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
3461---------------------------------------
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3463U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
3464configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
3465(no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
3466Linux :-).
c609719b 3467
a47a12be 3468But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
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3470Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
3471include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
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3472Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
3473and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
6d0f6bcf 3474as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
24ee89b9 3475
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3477Configuring the Linux kernel:
3478-----------------------------
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3480No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
3481device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
3482
3483
3484Building a Linux Image:
3485-----------------------
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3487With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
3488not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
3489"uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
3490U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
3491which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
3492100% compatible format.
3493
3494Example:
3495
3496 make TQM850L_config
3497 make oldconfig
3498 make dep
3499 make uImage
3500
3501The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
3502encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
3503CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
3504
3505* build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
3506
3507* convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
3508
3509 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
3510 -R .note -R .comment \
3511 -S vmlinux linux.bin
3512
3513* compress the binary image:
3514
3515 gzip -9 linux.bin
3516
3517* package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
3518
3519 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
3520 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
3521 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
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3524The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
3525with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
3526combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
3527byte header containing information about target architecture,
3528operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
3529stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
3530
3531"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
3532print the header information, or to build new images.
3533
3534In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
3535contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
3536checksum verification:
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3538 tools/mkimage -l image
3539 -l ==> list image header information
3540
3541The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
3542from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
3543
3544 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
3545 -n name -d data_file image
3546 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
3547 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
3548 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
3549 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
3550 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
3551 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
3552 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
3553 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
3554
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3555Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
3556address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
3557kernel version:
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3558
3559- 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
3560- 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
3561
3562So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
3563
3564 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3565 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
a47a12be 3566 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
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3567 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
3568 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3569 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3570 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3571 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3572 Load Address: 0x00000000
3573 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3574
3575To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
3576
3577 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
3578 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3579 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3580 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3581 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3582 Load Address: 0x00000000
3583 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3584
3585NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
3586speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
3587needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
3588need to be uncompressed:
3589
a47a12be 3590 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
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3591 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3592 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
a47a12be 3593 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
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3594 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
3595 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3596 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3597 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
3598 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
3599 Load Address: 0x00000000
3600 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3601
3602
3603Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
3604when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
3605
3606 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
3607 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
3608 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
3609 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3610 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
3611 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3612 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
3613 Load Address: 0x00000000
3614 Entry Point: 0x00000000
3615
3616
3617Installing a Linux Image:
3618-------------------------
3619
3620To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
3621you must convert the image to S-Record format:
3622
3623 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
3624
3625The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
3626image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
3627address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
3628specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
3629command.
3630
3631Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
3632TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
3633
3634 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
3635
3636 .......... done
3637 Erased 8 sectors
3638
3639 => loads 40100000
3640 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3641 ~>examples/image.srec
3642 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
3643 ...
3644 15989 15990 15991 15992
3645 [file transfer complete]
3646 [connected]
3647 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
3648
3649
3650You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
218ca724 3651this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
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3652corruption happened:
3653
3654 => imi 40100000
3655
3656 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3657 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3658 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3659 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3660 Load Address: 00000000
3661 Entry Point: 0000000c
3662 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3663
3664
3665Boot Linux:
3666-----------
3667
3668The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
3669memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
3670of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
3671parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
3672"printenv" and "setenv" commands:
3673
3674
3675 => printenv bootargs
3676 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
3677
3678 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3679
3680 => printenv bootargs
3681 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3682
3683 => bootm 40020000
3684 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
3685 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
3686 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3687 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
3688 Load Address: 00000000
3689 Entry Point: 0000000c
3690 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3691 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3692 Linux version 2.2.13 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Jul 19 02:35:17 MEST 2000
3693 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3694 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3695 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3696 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
3697 ...
3698
11ccc33f 3699If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
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3700the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
3701format!) to the "bootm" command:
3702
3703 => imi 40100000 40200000
3704
3705 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3706 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3707 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3708 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3709 Load Address: 00000000
3710 Entry Point: 0000000c
3711 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3712
3713 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
3714 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3715 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3716 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3717 Load Address: 00000000
3718 Entry Point: 00000000
3719 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3720
3721 => bootm 40100000 40200000
3722 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
3723 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3724 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3725 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3726 Load Address: 00000000
3727 Entry Point: 0000000c
3728 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3729 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3730 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
3731 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3732 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3733 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3734 Load Address: 00000000
3735 Entry Point: 00000000
3736 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3737 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
3738 Linux version 2.2.13 ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Jul 19 02:32:08 MEST 2000
3739 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
3740 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3741 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3742 ...
3743 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
3744 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
3745
3746 bash#
3747
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3748Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
3749-----------
3750
3751First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
3752titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
3753following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
3754flat device tree:
3755
3756=> print oftaddr
3757oftaddr=0x300000
3758=> print oft
3759oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
3760=> tftp $oftaddr $oft
3761Speed: 1000, full duplex
3762Using TSEC0 device
3763TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
3764Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
3765Load address: 0x300000
3766Loading: #
3767done
3768Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
3769=> tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
3770Speed: 1000, full duplex
3771Using TSEC0 device
3772TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
3773Filename 'uImage'.
3774Load address: 0x200000
3775Loading:############
3776done
3777Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
3778=> print loadaddr
3779loadaddr=200000
3780=> print oftaddr
3781oftaddr=0x300000
3782=> bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
3783## Booting image at 00200000 ...
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3784 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
3785 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3786 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
0267768e 3787 Load Address: 00000000
a9398e01 3788 Entry Point: 00000000
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MM
3789 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3790 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3791Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
3792Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
3793Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
3794[snip]
3795
3796
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3797More About U-Boot Image Types:
3798------------------------------
3799
3800U-Boot supports the following image types:
3801
3802 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
3803 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
3804 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
3805 the Standalone Program.
3806 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
3807 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
3808 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
3809 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
3810 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
3811 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
3812 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
3813 being started.
3814 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
3815 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
3816 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
3817 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
3818 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
3819 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
3820
3821 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
3822 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
3823 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
3824 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
3825 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
3826 a multiple of 4 bytes).
3827
3828 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
3829 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
3830 flash memory.
3831
3832 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
3833 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
3834 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
3835 as command interpreter.
3836
3837
3838Standalone HOWTO:
3839=================
3840
3841One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
3842run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
3843U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
3844
3845Two simple examples are included with the sources:
3846
3847"Hello World" Demo:
3848-------------------
3849
3850'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
3851application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
3852It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
3853like that:
3854
3855 => loads
3856 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3857 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
3858 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
3859 [file transfer complete]
3860 [connected]
3861 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
3862
3863 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
3864 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
3865 Hello World
3866 argc = 7
3867 argv[0] = "40004"
3868 argv[1] = "Hello"
3869 argv[2] = "World!"
3870 argv[3] = "This"
3871 argv[4] = "is"
3872 argv[5] = "a"
3873 argv[6] = "test."
3874 argv[7] = "<NULL>"
3875 Hit any key to exit ...
3876
3877 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
3878
3879Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
3880handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
3881Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
3882The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
3883character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
3884controlled by the following keys:
3885
3886 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
3887 b - enable interrupts and start timer
3888 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
3889 q - quit application
3890
3891 => loads
3892 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3893 ~>examples/timer.srec
3894 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
3895 [file transfer complete]
3896 [connected]
3897 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
3898
3899 => go 40004
3900 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
3901 TIMERS=0xfff00980
3902 Using timer 1
3903 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
3904
3905Hit 'b':
3906 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
3907 Enabling timer
3908Hit '?':
3909 [q, b, e, ?] ........
3910 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
3911Hit '?':
3912 [q, b, e, ?] .
3913 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
3914Hit '?':
3915 [q, b, e, ?] .
3916 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
3917Hit '?':
3918 [q, b, e, ?] .
3919 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
3920Hit 'e':
3921 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
3922Hit 'q':
3923 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
3924
3925
3926Minicom warning:
3927================
3928
3929Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
3930"minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
3931consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
3932Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
3933especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
3934use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command).
3935
3936Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
3937configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
3938
3939 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
3940 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
3941 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
3942
3943
3944NetBSD Notes:
3945=============
3946
3947Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
3948(build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
3949
3950Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
3951NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
3952need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
3953Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
3954attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
3955missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
3956
3957 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
3958 # mkdir powerpc
3959 # ln -s powerpc machine
3960 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
3961 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
3962
3963Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
3964and U-Boot include files.
3965
3966Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
3967stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
3968proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
3969tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
2a8af187 3970meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
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3971
3972
3973Implementation Internals:
3974=========================
3975
3976The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
3977implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
3978inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
3979hardware.
3980
3981
3982Initial Stack, Global Data:
3983---------------------------
3984
3985The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
3986starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
3987system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
3988This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
3989is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
3990at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
3991options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
3992models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
3993MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
3994locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
3995
218ca724 3996 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
0668236b 3997 U-Boot mailing list:
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3998
3999 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
4000 From: "Chris Hallinan" <[email protected]>
4001 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
4002 ...
4003
4004 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
4005 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
4006 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
4007 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
4008 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
11ccc33f 4009 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
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4010 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
4011 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
4012
4013 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
4014 is another option for the system designer to use as an
11ccc33f 4015 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
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4016 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
4017 board designers haven't used it for something that would
4018 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
4019 used.
4020
6d0f6bcf 4021 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
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4022 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
4023 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
8a316c9b 4024 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
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4025 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
4026 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
4027 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
4028 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
4029 you get the config right.
4030
4031 -Chris Hallinan
4032 DS4.COM, Inc.
4033
4034It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
4035code for the initialization procedures:
4036
4037* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
4038 to write it.
4039
11ccc33f 4040* Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitely initialized
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4041 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
4042 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
4043
4044* Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
4045 that.
4046
4047Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
4048normal global data to share information beween the code. But it
4049turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4050simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4051functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4052functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4053the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4054place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4055reserve for this purpose.
4056
4057When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4058relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4059GCC's implementation.
4060
4061For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4062 R1: stack pointer
e7670f6c 4063 R2: reserved for system use
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4064 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4065 R5-R10: parameter passing
4066 R13: small data area pointer
4067 R30: GOT pointer
4068 R31: frame pointer
4069
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4070 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4071 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4072 going back and forth between asm and C)
2729af9d 4073
e7670f6c 4074 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
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4075
4076 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4077 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4078 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4079 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4080 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4081 624 text + 127 data).
4082
c4db335c 4083On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here:
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4084 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
4085
c4db335c 4086 ==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data
4c58eb55 4087
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4088On ARM, the following registers are used:
4089
4090 R0: function argument word/integer result
4091 R1-R3: function argument word
4092 R9: GOT pointer
4093 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking if enabled)
4094 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4095 R12: temporary workspace
4096 R13: stack pointer
4097 R14: link register
4098 R15: program counter
4099
4100 ==> U-Boot will use R8 to hold a pointer to the global data
4101
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TC
4102On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
4103 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
4104
4105 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4106
4107 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4108 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4109
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4110NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4111or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
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4112
4113Memory Management:
4114------------------
4115
4116U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4117MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
4118
4119The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4120controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4121memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4122physical memory banks.
4123
4124U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4125TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4126booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4127to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
6d0f6bcf 4128memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
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4129configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4130Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
4131
4132Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4133of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
4134
4135So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
4136this:
4137
4138 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
4139 :
4140 0x0000 1FFF
4141 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
4142 :
4143 :
4144
4145 :
4146 :
4147 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
4148 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
4149 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
4150 :
4151 0x00FD FFFF
4152 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
4153 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
4154 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
4155 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
4156
4157
4158System Initialization:
4159----------------------
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2729af9d 4161In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
11ccc33f 4162(on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
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4163configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory.
4164To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
4165To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
4166initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
4167which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
4168part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
4169the caches and the SIU.
4170
4171Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
4172preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
4173(multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
4174on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
4175programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
4176simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
4177banks.
4178
4179When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
4180different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
4181bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
41820x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
4183contiguous memory starting from 0.
4184
4185Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
4186and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
4187Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
4188pages, and the final stack is set up.
4189
4190Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
4191until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
4192running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
4193new address in RAM.
4194
4195
4196U-Boot Porting Guide:
4197----------------------
c609719b 4198
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4199[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
4200list, October 2002]
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4201
4202
6c3fef28 4203int main(int argc, char *argv[])
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4204{
4205 sighandler_t no_more_time;
c609719b 4206
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4207 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
4208 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
c609719b 4209
2729af9d 4210 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
6c3fef28 4211 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
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4212 return 0;
4213 }
4214
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4215 Download latest U-Boot source;
4216
0668236b 4217 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
2729af9d 4218
6c3fef28
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4219 if (clueless)
4220 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
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4221
4222 while (learning) {
4223 Read the README file in the top level directory;
6c3fef28
JVB
4224 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
4225 Read applicable doc/*.README;
2729af9d 4226 Read the source, Luke;
6c3fef28 4227 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
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4228 }
4229
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4230 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
4231 Buy a BDI3000;
4232 else
2729af9d 4233 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
2729af9d 4234
6c3fef28
JVB
4235 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
4236 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
4237 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
4238 } else {
4239 Create your own board support subdirectory;
4240 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
4241 }
4242 Edit new board/<myboard> files
4243 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
4244
4245 while (!accepted) {
4246 while (!running) {
4247 do {
4248 Add / modify source code;
4249 } until (compiles);
4250 Debug;
4251 if (clueless)
4252 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
4253 }
4254 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
4255 if (reasonable critiques)
4256 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
4257 else
4258 Defend code as written;
2729af9d 4259 }
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4260
4261 return 0;
4262}
4263
4264void no_more_time (int sig)
4265{
4266 hire_a_guru();
4267}
4268
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4270Coding Standards:
4271-----------------
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2729af9d 4273All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
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4274coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
4275"scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory. In sources
4276originating from U-Boot a style corresponding to "Lindent -pcs" (adding
4277spaces before parameters to function calls) is actually used.
4278
4279Source files originating from a different project (for example the
4280MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
4281reformated to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
4282sources.
4283
4284Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
4285Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
4286in your code.
c609719b 4287
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4288Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
4289- remove any trailing white space
4290- use TAB characters for indentation, not spaces
4291- make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
4292- do not add more than 2 empty lines to source files
4293- do not add trailing empty lines to source files
180d3f74 4294
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4295Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
4296with a request to reformat the changes.
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4297
4298
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4299Submitting Patches:
4300-------------------
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4302Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
4303establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
4304may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
c609719b 4305
0d28f34b 4306Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
218ca724 4307
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4308Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <[email protected]>;
4309see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
4310
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4311When you send a patch, please include the following information with
4312it:
c609719b 4313
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4314* For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
4315 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
4316 patch actually fixes something.
c609719b 4317
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4318* For new features: a description of the feature and your
4319 implementation.
c609719b 4320
2729af9d 4321* A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
c609719b 4322
2729af9d 4323* For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file
c609719b 4324
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4325* When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add this
4326 board to the MAKEALL script, too.
c609719b 4327
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4328* If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
4329 document these in the README file.
c609719b 4330
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4331* The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
4332 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
4333 "git-format-patch". If you then use "git-send-email" to send it to
4334 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
4335 with some other mail clients.
4336
4337 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
4338 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
4339 GNU diff.
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4341 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
4342 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
4343 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
4344 affected files).
6dff5529 4345
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4346 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
4347 and compressed attachments must not be used.
c609719b 4348
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4349* If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
4350 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
52f52c14 4351
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4352* Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
4353 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
8bde7f77 4354
52f52c14 4355
2729af9d 4356Notes:
c609719b 4357
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4358* Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched
4359 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
4360 for any of the boards.
c609719b 4361
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4362* Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
4363 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
4364 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
c609719b 4365
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4366* If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
4367 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
4368 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
4369 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
4370 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
4371 modification.
90dc6704 4372
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4373* Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
4374 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
4375 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
4376 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.
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