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23
24Summary:
25========
26
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000027This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
wdenke86e5a02004-10-17 21:12:06 +000028Embedded 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.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000032
33The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000034the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
35header files in common, and special provision has been made to
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000036support 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
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000050Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000051"working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
52
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000053In case of problems see the CHANGELOG and CREDITS files to find out
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +010054who contributed the specific port. The MAINTAINERS file lists board
55maintainers.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000056
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000057
58Where to get help:
59==================
60
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000061In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
62U-Boot you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
Peter Tyser0c325652008-09-10 09:18:34 -050063<u-boot@lists.denx.de>. 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
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000067
68
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +010069Where 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
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +020077any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +010078available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
79directory.
80
Anatolij Gustschind4ee7112008-03-26 18:13:33 +010081Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +010082ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
83
84
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000085Where we come from:
86===================
87
88- start from 8xxrom sources
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000089- create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000090- 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
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +020097 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +000098- create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +000099- add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +0000100- create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
Magnus Lilja0d28f342008-08-06 19:32:33 +0200101- current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +0000102
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
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000124
125
wdenk93f19cc2002-12-17 17:55:09 +0000126Versioning:
127===========
128
Thomas Weber360d8832010-09-28 08:06:25 +0200129Starting 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.
wdenk93f19cc2002-12-17 17:55:09 +0000135
Thomas Weber360d8832010-09-28 08:06:25 +0200136Examples:
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
wdenk93f19cc2002-12-17 17:55:09 +0000140
141
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000142Directory Hierarchy:
143====================
144
Peter Tyser8d321b82010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500145/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
Wolfgang Denka9046b92010-06-13 17:48:15 +0200150 /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
Peter Tyser8d321b82010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500153 /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
Peter Tyser8d321b82010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500184 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
185 /cpu CPU specific files
186 /lib Architecture specific library files
Stefan Roesea47a12b2010-04-15 16:07:28 +0200187 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
Peter Tyser8d321b82010-04-12 22:28:21 -0500188 /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.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000227
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000228Software 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
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200243 "CONFIG_SYS_".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000244
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
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200263For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the CPU type as well;
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000264e.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
wdenk7f6c2cb2002-11-10 22:06:23 +0000279Many 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
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000284The following options need to be configured:
285
Kim Phillips26281142007-08-10 13:28:25 -0500286- CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000287
Kim Phillips26281142007-08-10 13:28:25 -0500288- Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
Wolfgang Denk6ccec442006-10-24 14:42:37 +0200289
290- CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
Haavard Skinnemoen09ea0de2007-11-01 12:44:20 +0100291 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000292
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
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200311 the LCD display every second with
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000312 a "rotator" |\-/|\-/
313
wdenk2535d602003-07-17 23:16:40 +0000314- Board flavour: (if CONFIG_MPC8260ADS is defined)
315 CONFIG_ADSTYPE
316 Possible values are:
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200317 CONFIG_SYS_8260ADS - original MPC8260ADS
318 CONFIG_SYS_8266ADS - MPC8266ADS
319 CONFIG_SYS_PQ2FADS - PQ2FADS-ZU or PQ2FADS-VR
320 CONFIG_SYS_8272ADS - MPC8272ADS
wdenk2535d602003-07-17 23:16:40 +0000321
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000322- MPC824X Family Member (if CONFIG_MPC824X is defined)
wdenk5da627a2003-10-09 20:09:04 +0000323 Define exactly one of
324 CONFIG_MPC8240, CONFIG_MPC8245
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000325
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200326- 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
wdenk66ca92a2004-09-28 17:59:53 +0000327 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
328 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
wdenk5da627a2003-10-09 20:09:04 +0000329 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
330 reference PIT/RTC clock
wdenk66ca92a2004-09-28 17:59:53 +0000331 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
332 or XTAL/EXTAL)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000333
wdenk66ca92a2004-09-28 17:59:53 +0000334- 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200335 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
336 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
wdenk66ca92a2004-09-28 17:59:53 +0000337 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
wdenk75d1ea72004-01-31 20:06:54 +0000338 See doc/README.MPC866
339
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200340 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
wdenk75d1ea72004-01-31 20:06:54 +0000341
wdenkba56f622004-02-06 23:19:44 +0000342 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
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200347 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
wdenk75d1ea72004-01-31 20:06:54 +0000348
Heiko Schocher506f3912009-03-12 07:37:15 +0100349 CONFIG_SYS_DELAYED_ICACHE
350
351 Define this option if you want to enable the
352 ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
353
Markus Klotzbuecher0b953ff2006-03-24 15:28:02 +0100354- Intel Monahans options:
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200355 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO
Markus Klotzbuecher0b953ff2006-03-24 15:28:02 +0100356
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
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200361 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_TURBO_RUN_MODE_RATIO
Wolfgang Denkcf48eb92006-04-16 10:51:58 +0200362
Markus Klotzbuecher0b953ff2006-03-24 15:28:02 +0100363 Defines the Monahans turbo mode to oscillator
364 ratio. Valid values are 1 (default if undefined) and
Wolfgang Denkcf48eb92006-04-16 10:51:58 +0200365 2. The core frequency as calculated above is multiplied
Markus Klotzbuecher0b953ff2006-03-24 15:28:02 +0100366 by this value.
Wolfgang Denkcf48eb92006-04-16 10:51:58 +0200367
wdenk5da627a2003-10-09 20:09:04 +0000368- Linux Kernel Interface:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000369 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.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000378 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +0100379 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000380 default environment.
381
wdenk5da627a2003-10-09 20:09:04 +0000382 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
383
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200384 When transferring memsize parameter to linux, some versions
wdenk5da627a2003-10-09 20:09:04 +0000385 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
386 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
387
Gerald Van Barenfec6d9e2008-06-03 20:34:45 -0400388 CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
Wolfgang Denkf57f70a2005-10-13 01:45:54 +0200389
390 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
Gerald Van Baren213bf8c2007-03-31 12:23:51 -0400391 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
Kim Phillips3bb342f2007-08-10 14:34:14 -0500397 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
Gerald Van Baren213bf8c2007-03-31 12:23:51 -0400398
Marcel Ziswilerb55ae402009-09-09 21:18:41 +0200399 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).
Wolfgang Denkf57f70a2005-10-13 01:45:54 +0200403 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
Kumar Galac2871f02006-01-11 13:59:02 -0600404 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
Wolfgang Denkf57f70a2005-10-13 01:45:54 +0200405
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200406 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
407 addresses
Kim Phillips3bb342f2007-08-10 14:34:14 -0500408
Kumar Gala4e253132006-01-11 13:54:17 -0600409 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
wdenk6705d812004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000413
Matthew McClintock02677682006-06-28 10:41:37 -0500414 CONFIG_OF_BOOT_CPU
415
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200416 This define fills in the correct boot CPU in the boot
Matthew McClintock02677682006-06-28 10:41:37 -0500417 param header, the default value is zero if undefined.
418
Heiko Schocher3887c3f2009-09-23 07:56:08 +0200419 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
Niklaus Giger0b2f4ec2008-11-03 22:13:47 +0100428- 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
wdenk6705d812004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000446- Serial Ports:
Andreas Engel48d01922008-09-08 14:30:53 +0200447 CONFIG_PL010_SERIAL
wdenk6705d812004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000448
449 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
450
Andreas Engel48d01922008-09-08 14:30:53 +0200451 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL
wdenk6705d812004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000452
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
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000467- Console Interface:
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +0000468 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
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000472
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)
wdenkba56f622004-02-06 23:19:44 +0000489 VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS visible pixel rows
490 VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE bytes per pixel
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000491 VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT graphic data format
492 (0-5, cf. cfb_console.c)
wdenkba56f622004-02-06 23:19:44 +0000493 VIDEO_FB_ADRS framebuffer address
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000494 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)
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200503 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000504 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME display time/date info in
505 upper right corner
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500506 (requires CONFIG_CMD_DATE)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000507 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO display Linux logo in
508 upper left corner
wdenka6c7ad22002-12-03 21:28:10 +0000509 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO use bmp_logo.h instead of
510 linux_logo.h for logo.
511 Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000512 CONFIG_CONSOLE_EXTRA_INFO
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200513 additional board info beside
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000514 the logo
515
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +0000516 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is
517 default i/o. Serial console can be forced with
518 environment 'console=serial'.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000519
wdenkd4ca31c2004-01-02 14:00:00 +0000520 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.
wdenka3ad8e22003-10-19 23:22:11 +0000524
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000525- Console Baudrate:
526 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
527 Select one of the baudrates listed in
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200528 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
529 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000530
Heiko Schocherc92fac92009-01-30 12:55:38 +0100531- Console Rx buffer length
532 With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define
533 the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC.
Heiko Schocher2b3f12c2009-02-10 09:31:47 +0100534 This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible.
Heiko Schocherc92fac92009-01-30 12:55:38 +0100535 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
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000539- 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
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +0000564 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
565 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
566 environment value "bootargs".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000567
568 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +0000569 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
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200572 RAM and NFS.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000573
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
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500599- Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000600 CONFIG_KGDB_BAUDRATE
601 Select one of the baudrates listed in
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200602 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000603
604- Monitor Functions:
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500605 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.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000611
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500612 The default command configuration includes all commands
613 except those marked below with a "*".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000614
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500615 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500616 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
Peter Tysera7c93102008-12-17 16:36:22 -0600626 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
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500630 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
631 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
Peter Tyser246c6922009-10-25 15:12:56 -0500632 CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV edit env variable
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500633 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
634 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
Mike Frysingerbdab39d2009-01-28 19:08:14 -0500635 CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV saveenv
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500636 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
Robin Getz02c9aa12009-07-27 00:07:59 -0400653 CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM print md5 message digest
654 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500655 CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
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
Stefan Roese68d7d652009-03-19 13:30:36 +0100660 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS * MTD partition support
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500661 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
662 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
Peter Tysere92739d2008-12-17 16:36:21 -0600663 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X * PCA953x I2C gpio commands
664 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500665 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)
Robin Getz02c9aa12009-07-27 00:07:59 -0400678 CONFIG_CMD_SHA1 print sha1 memory digest
679 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
Wolfgang Denk74de7ae2009-04-01 23:34:12 +0200680 CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500681 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
682 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
683 CONFIG_CMD_VFD * VFD support (TRAB)
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500684 CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support
685 CONFIG_CMD_FSL * Microblaze FSL support
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000686
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000687
688 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
689 support you can write:
690
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500691 #include "config_cmd_all.h"
692 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000693
Gerald Van Baren213bf8c2007-03-31 12:23:51 -0400694 Other Commands:
695 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000696
697 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500698 (configuration option CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +0000699 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data
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.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000705
706
707 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
708
709- Watchdog:
710 CONFIG_WATCHDOG
711 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
wdenk7152b1d2003-09-05 23:19:14 +0000712 support. There must be support in the platform specific
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000713 code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260 CPUs, the
714 SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
715 register.
716
stroesec1551ea2003-04-04 15:53:41 +0000717- U-Boot Version:
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
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000724- Real-Time Clock:
725
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500726 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000727 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
Guennadi Liakhovetski7ce63702008-04-15 14:15:30 +0200732 CONFIG_RTC_MC13783 - use MC13783 RTC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000733 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
wdenk1cb8e982003-03-06 21:55:29 +0000734 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000735 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
wdenk7f70e852003-05-20 14:25:27 +0000736 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
wdenk3bac3512003-03-12 10:41:04 +0000737 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
Tor Krill9536dfc2008-03-15 15:40:26 +0100738 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
wdenk4c0d4c32004-06-09 17:34:58 +0000739 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200740 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000741
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +0000742 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
743 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
744
Peter Tysere92739d2008-12-17 16:36:21 -0600745- GPIO Support:
746 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
747 CONFIG_PCA953X_INFO - enable pca953x info command
748
Chris Packham5dec49c2010-12-19 10:12:13 +0000749 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
750 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
751 pins supported by a particular chip.
752
Peter Tysere92739d2008-12-17 16:36:21 -0600753 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
754 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
755
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000756- Timestamp Support:
757
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +0000758 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
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500761 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000762
763- Partition Support:
764 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION
richardretanubun07f3d782008-09-26 11:13:22 -0400765 and/or CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000766
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +0100767 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
768 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at
769 least one partition type as well.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000770
771- IDE Reset method:
wdenk4d13cba2004-03-14 14:09:05 +0000772 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
773 board configurations files but used nowhere!
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000774
wdenk4d13cba2004-03-14 14:09:05 +0000775 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
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000779
780- ATAPI Support:
781 CONFIG_ATAPI
782
783 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
784
wdenkc40b2952004-03-13 23:29:43 +0000785- LBA48 Support
786 CONFIG_LBA48
787
788 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
Heiko Schocher4b142fe2009-12-03 11:21:21 +0100789 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
wdenkc40b2952004-03-13 23:29:43 +0000790 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
791 support disks up to 2.1TB.
792
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200793 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
wdenkc40b2952004-03-13 23:29:43 +0000794 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
795 Default is 32bit.
796
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000797- SCSI Support:
798 At the moment only there is only support for the
799 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
800 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
801
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200802 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
803 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
804 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000805 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
806 devices.
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200807 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000808
809- NETWORK Support (PCI):
wdenk682011f2003-06-03 23:54:09 +0000810 CONFIG_E1000
811 Support for Intel 8254x gigabit chips.
stroese53cf9432003-06-05 15:39:44 +0000812
Andre Schwarzac3315c2008-03-06 16:45:44 +0100813 CONFIG_E1000_FALLBACK_MAC
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200814 default MAC for empty EEPROM after production.
Andre Schwarzac3315c2008-03-06 16:45:44 +0100815
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000816 CONFIG_EEPRO100
817 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200818 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000819 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
wdenk45219c42003-05-12 21:50:16 +0000832- NETWORK Support (other):
833
Jens Scharsigc041e9d2010-01-23 12:03:45 +0100834 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
wdenk45219c42003-05-12 21:50:16 +0000844 CONFIG_DRIVER_LAN91C96
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
wdenkf39748a2004-06-09 13:37:52 +0000854 CONFIG_DRIVER_SMC91111
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
Mike Rapoportc2fff332009-11-11 10:03:03 +0200868 CONFIG_SMC911X
Jens Gehrlein557b3772008-05-05 14:06:11 +0200869 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
870
Mike Rapoportc2fff332009-11-11 10:03:03 +0200871 CONFIG_SMC911X_BASE
Jens Gehrlein557b3772008-05-05 14:06:11 +0200872 Define this to hold the physical address
873 of the device (I/O space)
874
Mike Rapoportc2fff332009-11-11 10:03:03 +0200875 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
Jens Gehrlein557b3772008-05-05 14:06:11 +0200876 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
877
Mike Rapoportc2fff332009-11-11 10:03:03 +0200878 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
Jens Gehrlein557b3772008-05-05 14:06:11 +0200879 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
880 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
Mike Rapoportc2fff332009-11-11 10:03:03 +0200881 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
Jens Gehrlein557b3772008-05-05 14:06:11 +0200882
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000883- USB Support:
884 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
wdenk4d13cba2004-03-14 14:09:05 +0000885 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000886 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
887 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
wdenk30d56fa2004-10-09 22:44:59 +0000888 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000889 storage devices.
890 Note:
891 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
892 (TEAC FD-05PUB).
wdenk4d13cba2004-03-14 14:09:05 +0000893 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
894 CONFIG_USB_CLOCK
895 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
Eric Millbrandt307ecb62009-08-13 08:32:37 -0500896 CONFIG_PSC3_USB
897 for USB on PSC3
wdenk4d13cba2004-03-14 14:09:05 +0000898 CONFIG_USB_CONFIG
899 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
900 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
Eric Millbrandt307ecb62009-08-13 08:32:37 -0500901 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100
902 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200903 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
Zhang Weifdcfaa12007-06-06 10:08:13 +0200904 May be defined to allow interrupt polling
905 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
wdenk4d13cba2004-03-14 14:09:05 +0000906
Wolfgang Denk16c8d5e2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200907- USB Device:
908 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
909 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
910 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +0200911 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
Wolfgang Denk16c8d5e2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200912 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
913 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
Wolfgang Denk386eda02006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200914 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
Wolfgang Denk16c8d5e2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200915 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
916 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
917 a Linux host by
918 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
919 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
920 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
921 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
Wolfgang Denk386eda02006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200922
Wolfgang Denk16c8d5e2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200923 CONFIG_USB_DEVICE
924 Define this to build a UDC device
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000925
Wolfgang Denk16c8d5e2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200926 CONFIG_USB_TTY
927 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
928 talk to the UDC device
Wolfgang Denk386eda02006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200929
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200930 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
Wolfgang Denk16c8d5e2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200931 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
932 be set to usbtty.
933
934 mpc8xx:
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200935 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
Wolfgang Denk16c8d5e2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200936 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200937 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
Wolfgang Denk386eda02006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200938
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200939 CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0xBLAH
Wolfgang Denk16c8d5e2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200940 Derive USB clock from brgclk
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200941 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0x04
Wolfgang Denk16c8d5e2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200942
Wolfgang Denk386eda02006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200943 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
Wolfgang Denk16c8d5e2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200944 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
Wolfgang Denk386eda02006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200945 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
Wolfgang Denk16c8d5e2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200946 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
947 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
948 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
949
950 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
951 Define this string as the name of your company for
952 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
Wolfgang Denk386eda02006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200953
Wolfgang Denk16c8d5e2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200954 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
955 Define this string as the name of your product
956 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
957
958 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
959 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
960 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
961 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
962 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
Wolfgang Denk386eda02006-06-14 18:14:56 +0200963
Wolfgang Denk16c8d5e2006-06-14 17:45:53 +0200964 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
965 Define this as the unique Product ID
966 for your device
967 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000968
969
970- MMC Support:
971 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
972 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
973 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
974 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -0500975 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
976 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000977
wdenk6705d812004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000978- Journaling Flash filesystem support:
979 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE,
980 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV
981 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
982
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200983 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
984 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
wdenk6705d812004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000985 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
986
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200987 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART
wdenk6705d812004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000988 Define this to create an own partition. You have to provide a
989 function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num)
990
991 If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +0200992 #define CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_SINGLE_PART 1
wdenk6705d812004-08-02 23:22:59 +0000993 to disable the command chpart. This is the default when you
994 have not defined a custom partition
995
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +0000996- Keyboard Support:
997 CONFIG_ISA_KEYBOARD
998
999 Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard
1000 support
1001
1002 CONFIG_I8042_KBD
1003 Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and
1004 GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support.
1005 Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc
1006 for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking.
1007
1008- Video support:
1009 CONFIG_VIDEO
1010
1011 Define this to enable video support (for output to
1012 video).
1013
1014 CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000
1015
1016 Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip
1017
1018 CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM
wdenkb79a11c2004-03-25 15:14:43 +00001019 Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The
wdenkeeb1b772004-03-23 22:53:55 +00001020 video output is selected via environment 'videoout'
1021 (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is
1022 assumed.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001023
wdenkb79a11c2004-03-25 15:14:43 +00001024 For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001025 selected via environment 'videomode'. Two different ways
wdenkeeb1b772004-03-23 22:53:55 +00001026 are possible:
1027 - "videomode=num" 'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers.
wdenk6e592382004-04-18 17:39:38 +00001028 Following standard modes are supported (* is default):
wdenkeeb1b772004-03-23 22:53:55 +00001029
1030 Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024
1031 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1032 8 bits | 0x301* 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307
1033 15 bits | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319
1034 16 bits | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A
1035 24 bits | 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B
1036 -------------+---------------------------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001037 (i.e. setenv videomode 317; saveenv; reset;)
1038
wdenkb79a11c2004-03-25 15:14:43 +00001039 - "videomode=bootargs" all the video parameters are parsed
Marcel Ziswiler7817cb22007-12-30 03:30:46 +01001040 from the bootargs. (See drivers/video/videomodes.c)
wdenkeeb1b772004-03-23 22:53:55 +00001041
1042
stroesec1551ea2003-04-04 15:53:41 +00001043 CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001044 Enable Epson SED13806 driver. This driver supports 8bpp
wdenka6c7ad22002-12-03 21:28:10 +00001045 and 16bpp modes defined by CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_8BPP
1046 or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP
1047
wdenk682011f2003-06-03 23:54:09 +00001048- Keyboard Support:
wdenk8bde7f72003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001049 CONFIG_KEYBOARD
wdenk682011f2003-06-03 23:54:09 +00001050
wdenk8bde7f72003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001051 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1052 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1053 defined in your board-specific files.
1054 The only board using this so far is RBC823.
wdenka6c7ad22002-12-03 21:28:10 +00001055
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001056- LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1057
1058 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1059 display); also select one of the supported displays
1060 by defining one of these:
1061
Stelian Pop39cf4802008-05-09 21:57:18 +02001062 CONFIG_ATMEL_LCD:
1063
1064 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1065
wdenkfd3103b2003-11-25 16:55:19 +00001066 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001067
wdenkfd3103b2003-11-25 16:55:19 +00001068 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001069
wdenkfd3103b2003-11-25 16:55:19 +00001070 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001071
wdenkfd3103b2003-11-25 16:55:19 +00001072 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1073 Active, color, single scan.
1074
1075 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1076
1077 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001078 Active, color, single scan.
1079
1080 CONFIG_SHARP_16x9
1081
1082 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1083 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1084
1085 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1086
1087 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1088 Active, color, single scan.
1089
1090 CONFIG_HLD1045
1091
1092 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1093 Active, color, single scan.
1094
1095 CONFIG_OPTREX_BW
1096
1097 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1098 or
1099 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1100 or
1101 Hitachi SP14Q002
1102
1103 320x240. Black & white.
1104
1105 Normally display is black on white background; define
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001106 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001107
wdenk7152b1d2003-09-05 23:19:14 +00001108- Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
wdenkd791b1d2003-04-20 14:04:18 +00001109
wdenk8bde7f72003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001110 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1111 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1112 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
wdenke94d2cd2004-06-30 22:59:18 +00001113 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
wdenk8bde7f72003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001114 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1115 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1116 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1117 loaded very quickly after power-on.
wdenkd791b1d2003-04-20 14:04:18 +00001118
Matthias Weisser1ca298c2009-07-09 16:07:30 +02001119 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1120
1121 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1122 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1123 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1124 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1125 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1126 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1127
1128 Example:
1129 setenv splashpos m,m
1130 => image at center of screen
1131
1132 setenv splashpos 30,20
1133 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1134
1135 setenv splashpos -10,m
1136 => vertically centered image
1137 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1138
Stefan Roese98f4a3d2005-09-22 09:04:17 +02001139- Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1140
1141 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1142 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1143 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1144
Anatolij Gustschind5011762010-03-15 14:50:25 +01001145- Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1146
1147 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1148 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1149 bmp command.
1150
wdenkc29fdfc2003-08-29 20:57:53 +00001151- Compression support:
1152 CONFIG_BZIP2
1153
1154 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1155 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1156 compressed images are supported.
1157
wdenk42d1f032003-10-15 23:53:47 +00001158 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001159 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
wdenk42d1f032003-10-15 23:53:47 +00001160 be at least 4MB.
wdenkd791b1d2003-04-20 14:04:18 +00001161
Luigi 'Comio' Mantellinifc9c1722008-09-08 02:46:13 +02001162 CONFIG_LZMA
1163
1164 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1165 images is included.
1166
1167 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1168 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1169 formula:
1170
1171 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1172
1173 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1174 and Literal pos bits.
1175
1176 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1177 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1178 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1179 a very small buffer.
1180
1181 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1182 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001183 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
Luigi 'Comio' Mantellinifc9c1722008-09-08 02:46:13 +02001184
wdenk17ea1172004-06-06 21:51:03 +00001185- MII/PHY support:
1186 CONFIG_PHY_ADDR
1187
1188 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1189
1190 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1191
1192 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1193
1194 CONFIG_PHY_GIGE
1195
1196 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001197 detection of gigabit PHY is included.
wdenk17ea1172004-06-06 21:51:03 +00001198
1199 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1200
1201 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1202 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1203 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1204 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1205
1206 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1207
1208 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1209 command issued before MII status register can be read
1210
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001211- Ethernet address:
1212 CONFIG_ETHADDR
richardretanubunc68a05f2008-09-29 18:28:23 -04001213 CONFIG_ETH1ADDR
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001214 CONFIG_ETH2ADDR
1215 CONFIG_ETH3ADDR
richardretanubunc68a05f2008-09-29 18:28:23 -04001216 CONFIG_ETH4ADDR
1217 CONFIG_ETH5ADDR
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001218
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001219 Define a default value for Ethernet address to use
1220 for the respective Ethernet interface, in case this
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001221 is not determined automatically.
1222
1223- IP address:
1224 CONFIG_IPADDR
1225
1226 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001227 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001228 determined through e.g. bootp.
1229
1230- Server IP address:
1231 CONFIG_SERVERIP
1232
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001233 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001234 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1235
Robin Getz97cfe862009-07-21 12:15:28 -04001236 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1237
1238 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1239 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1240
David Updegraff53a5c422007-06-11 10:41:07 -05001241- Multicast TFTP Mode:
1242 CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP
1243
1244 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1245 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001246 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
David Updegraff53a5c422007-06-11 10:41:07 -05001247 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1248 multicast group.
1249
1250 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001251- BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1252 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1253
1254 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1255 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1256 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1257 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1258 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1259 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1260 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1261 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
Wolfgang Denk6c33c782007-08-06 23:21:05 +02001262 following delays are inserted then:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001263
1264 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1265 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1266 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1267 4th and following
1268 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1269
stroesefe389a82003-08-28 14:17:32 +00001270- DHCP Advanced Options:
Jon Loeliger1fe80d72007-07-09 22:08:34 -05001271 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1272 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
stroesefe389a82003-08-28 14:17:32 +00001273
Jon Loeliger1fe80d72007-07-09 22:08:34 -05001274 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1275 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1276 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1277 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1278 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1279 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1280 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1281 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2
1282 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1283 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1284 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1285 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
stroesefe389a82003-08-28 14:17:32 +00001286
Wilson Callan5d110f02007-07-28 10:56:13 -04001287 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1288 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
stroesefe389a82003-08-28 14:17:32 +00001289
1290 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1291 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1292 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1293 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1294 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1295 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1296 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
Jon Loeliger1fe80d72007-07-09 22:08:34 -05001297 is defined.
stroesefe389a82003-08-28 14:17:32 +00001298
1299 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1300 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1301 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
Wilson Callan5d110f02007-07-28 10:56:13 -04001302 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
Jon Loeliger1fe80d72007-07-09 22:08:34 -05001303 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1304 option 12 to the DHCP server.
stroesefe389a82003-08-28 14:17:32 +00001305
Aras Vaichasd9a2f412008-03-26 09:43:57 +11001306 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1307
1308 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1309 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1310 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1311 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1312 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1313 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1314 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1315 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1316 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1317 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1318 this delay.
1319
wdenka3d991b2004-04-15 21:48:45 +00001320 - CDP Options:
wdenk6e592382004-04-18 17:39:38 +00001321 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
wdenka3d991b2004-04-15 21:48:45 +00001322
1323 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1324
1325 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1326
1327 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1328 of the device.
1329
1330 CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID
1331
1332 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1333 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001334 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
wdenka3d991b2004-04-15 21:48:45 +00001335
1336 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1337
1338 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1339 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1340
1341 CONFIG_CDP_VERSION
1342
1343 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1344
1345 CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM
1346
1347 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1348
1349 CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER
1350
1351 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1352
1353 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1354
1355 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1356 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1357
1358 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1359
1360 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1361
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001362- Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED
1363
1364 Several configurations allow to display the current
1365 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1366 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1367 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1368 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1369 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1370 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this
1371 feature in U-Boot.
1372
1373- CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
1374
1375 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
1376 on those systems that support this (optional)
1377 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
1378
1379- I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C | CONFIG_SOFT_I2C
1380
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001381 These enable I2C serial bus commands. Defining either of
wdenk945af8d2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001382 (but not both of) CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C will
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001383 include the appropriate I2C driver for the selected CPU.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001384
wdenk945af8d2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001385 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -05001386 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001387 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
1388 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001389 command line interface.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001390
Ben Warrenbb99ad62006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001391 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001392
wdenk945af8d2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001393 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C configures u-boot to use a software (aka
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001394 bit-banging) driver instead of CPM or similar hardware
1395 support for I2C.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001396
wdenk945af8d2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001397 There are several other quantities that must also be
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001398 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001399
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001400 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
wdenk945af8d2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001401 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001402 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001403 the CPU's i2c node address).
wdenk945af8d2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001404
Peter Tyser8d321b82010-04-12 22:28:21 -05001405 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
Stefan Roesea47a12b2010-04-15 16:07:28 +02001406 (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
Peter Tyser8d321b82010-04-12 22:28:21 -05001407 and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
1408 eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
1409 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001410
Eric Millbrandt5da71ef2009-09-03 08:09:44 -05001411 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
1412
1413 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1414 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1415 in progress. Reset the slave devices by sending start
1416 commands until the slave device responds.
1417
wdenk945af8d2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001418 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001419
1420 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SOFT_I2C)
1421 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
1422 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001423
1424 I2C_INIT
1425
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001426 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001427 controller or configure ports.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001428
wdenkba56f622004-02-06 23:19:44 +00001429 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001430
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001431 I2C_PORT
1432
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001433 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
1434 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
1435 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001436
1437 I2C_ACTIVE
1438
1439 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
1440 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
1441 define can be null.
1442
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001443 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
1444
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001445 I2C_TRISTATE
1446
1447 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
1448 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
1449 define can be null.
1450
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001451 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
1452
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001453 I2C_READ
1454
1455 Code that returns TRUE if the I2C data line is high,
1456 FALSE if it is low.
1457
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001458 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
1459
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001460 I2C_SDA(bit)
1461
1462 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C data line high. If it
1463 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1464
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001465 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
wdenk2535d602003-07-17 23:16:40 +00001466 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
wdenkba56f622004-02-06 23:19:44 +00001467 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001468
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001469 I2C_SCL(bit)
1470
1471 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
1472 is FALSE, it clears it (low).
1473
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001474 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
wdenk2535d602003-07-17 23:16:40 +00001475 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
wdenkba56f622004-02-06 23:19:44 +00001476 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001477
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001478 I2C_DELAY
1479
1480 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
1481 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001482 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
wdenk945af8d2003-07-16 21:53:01 +00001483 like:
1484
wdenkb37c7e52003-06-30 16:24:52 +00001485 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001486
Mike Frysinger793b5722010-07-21 13:38:02 -04001487 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
1488
1489 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
1490 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
1491 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
1492 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
1493
1494 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
1495 the generic GPIO functions.
1496
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001497 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
wdenk47cd00f2003-03-06 13:39:27 +00001498
wdenk8bde7f72003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001499 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
1500 chips might think that the current transfer is still
1501 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
1502 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
1503 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
1504 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
1505 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
1506 is run early in the boot sequence.
wdenk47cd00f2003-03-06 13:39:27 +00001507
Richard Retanubun26a33502010-04-12 15:08:17 -04001508 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
1509
1510 An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
1511 defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
1512 boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
1513 is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
1514 using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
1515 controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
1516 i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
1517 controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
1518
wdenk17ea1172004-06-06 21:51:03 +00001519 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
1520
1521 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
1522 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
1523 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
1524
Ben Warrenbb99ad62006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001525 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1526
1527 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
1528 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
1529 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
1530 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
1531
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001532 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
Ben Warrenbb99ad62006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001533
1534 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
Peter Tyser0f89c542009-04-18 22:34:03 -05001535 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
1536 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
1537 a 1D array of device addresses
Ben Warrenbb99ad62006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001538
1539 e.g.
1540 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001541 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
Ben Warrenbb99ad62006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001542
1543 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
1544
1545 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001546 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MULTI_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
Ben Warrenbb99ad62006-09-07 16:50:54 -04001547
1548 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
1549
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001550 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
Timur Tabibe5e61812006-11-03 19:15:00 -06001551
1552 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
1553 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
1554
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001555 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
Stefan Roese0dc018e2007-02-20 10:51:26 +01001556
1557 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
1558 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
1559
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001560 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
Stefan Roese0dc018e2007-02-20 10:51:26 +01001561
1562 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
1563 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
1564
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001565 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
Victor Gallardo9ebbb542008-09-09 15:13:29 -07001566
1567 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
1568 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
1569 specified DTT device.
1570
Timur Tabibe5e61812006-11-03 19:15:00 -06001571 CONFIG_FSL_I2C
1572
1573 Define this option if you want to use Freescale's I2C driver in
Marcel Ziswiler7817cb22007-12-30 03:30:46 +01001574 drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c.
Timur Tabibe5e61812006-11-03 19:15:00 -06001575
Heiko Schocher67b23a32008-10-15 09:39:47 +02001576 CONFIG_I2C_MUX
1577
1578 Define this option if you have I2C devices reached over 1 .. n
1579 I2C Muxes like the pca9544a. This option addes a new I2C
1580 Command "i2c bus [muxtype:muxaddr:muxchannel]" which adds a
1581 new I2C Bus to the existing I2C Busses. If you select the
1582 new Bus with "i2c dev", u-bbot sends first the commandos for
1583 the muxes to activate this new "bus".
1584
1585 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS must be also defined, to use this
1586 feature!
1587
1588 Example:
1589 Adding a new I2C Bus reached over 2 pca9544a muxes
1590 The First mux with address 70 and channel 6
1591 The Second mux with address 71 and channel 4
1592
1593 => i2c bus pca9544a:70:6:pca9544a:71:4
1594
1595 Use the "i2c bus" command without parameter, to get a list
1596 of I2C Busses with muxes:
1597
1598 => i2c bus
1599 Busses reached over muxes:
1600 Bus ID: 2
1601 reached over Mux(es):
1602 pca9544a@70 ch: 4
1603 Bus ID: 3
1604 reached over Mux(es):
1605 pca9544a@70 ch: 6
1606 pca9544a@71 ch: 4
1607 =>
1608
1609 If you now switch to the new I2C Bus 3 with "i2c dev 3"
1610 u-boot sends First the Commando to the mux@70 to enable
1611 channel 6, and then the Commando to the mux@71 to enable
1612 the channel 4.
1613
1614 After that, you can use the "normal" i2c commands as
1615 usual, to communicate with your I2C devices behind
1616 the 2 muxes.
1617
1618 This option is actually implemented for the bitbanging
1619 algorithm in common/soft_i2c.c and for the Hardware I2C
1620 Bus on the MPC8260. But it should be not so difficult
1621 to add this option to other architectures.
1622
Andrew Dyer2ac69852008-12-29 17:36:01 -06001623 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
1624
1625 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
1626 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
1627 between writing the address pointer and reading the
1628 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
1629 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
1630 devices can use either method, but some require one or
1631 the other.
Timur Tabibe5e61812006-11-03 19:15:00 -06001632
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001633- SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
1634
1635 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
1636 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
1637 D/As on the SACSng board)
1638
1639 CONFIG_SPI_X
1640
1641 Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing.
1642 (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X)
1643
1644 CONFIG_SOFT_SPI
1645
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001646 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
1647 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
1648 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
1649 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
1650 defined, the board configuration must define several
1651 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
1652 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001653
Ben Warren04a9e112008-01-16 22:37:35 -05001654 CONFIG_HARD_SPI
1655
1656 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
1657 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
1658 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
1659 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
1660 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
1661
Guennadi Liakhovetski38254f42008-04-15 14:14:25 +02001662 CONFIG_MXC_SPI
1663
1664 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
1665 SoCs. Currently only i.MX31 is supported.
1666
Matthias Fuchs01335022007-12-27 17:12:34 +01001667- FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
1668
1669 Enables FPGA subsystem.
1670
1671 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
1672
1673 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
1674 (ALTERA, XILINX)
1675
1676 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
1677
1678 Enables support for FPGA family.
1679 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
1680
1681 CONFIG_FPGA_COUNT
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001682
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001683 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001684
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001685 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001686
wdenk8bde7f72003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001687 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001688
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001689 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001690
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001691 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
1692 status by the configuration function. This option
1693 will require a board or device specific function to
1694 be written.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001695
1696 CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY
1697
1698 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
1699 configuration driver.
1700
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001701 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001702 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
1703
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001704 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001705
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001706 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
1707 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
1708 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
1709 indicated a CRC error).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001710
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001711 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001712
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001713 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert
1714 after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II
1715 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001716 ms.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001717
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001718 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001719
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001720 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001721 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001722
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001723 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001724
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001725 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001726 200 ms.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001727
1728- Configuration Management:
1729 CONFIG_IDENT_STRING
1730
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001731 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
1732 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001733
1734- Vendor Parameter Protection:
1735
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001736 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
1737 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
wdenk7152b1d2003-09-05 23:19:14 +00001738 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001739 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
1740 protects these variables from casual modification by
1741 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
1742 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001743 change this behaviour:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001744
1745 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
1746 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
wdenk47cd00f2003-03-06 13:39:27 +00001747 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001748 these parameters.
1749
1750 Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR
1751 _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001752 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001753 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
1754 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
1755 read-only.]
1756
1757- Protected RAM:
1758 CONFIG_PRAM
1759
1760 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
1761 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
1762 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
1763 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
1764 this default value by defining an environment
1765 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
1766 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
1767 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
1768 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
1769 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
1770 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
1771 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
1772
Wolfgang Denkfe126d82005-11-20 21:40:11 +01001773 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001774 saveenv
1775
1776 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
1777 either, which results in a memory region that will
1778 not be affected by reboots.
1779
1780 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
1781 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
1782 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
1783 following board configurations are known to be
1784 "pRAM-clean":
1785
1786 ETX094, IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
1787 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON, LANTEC,
Wolfgang Denk544d97e2010-10-05 22:54:53 +02001788 FLAGADM, TQM8260
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001789
1790- Error Recovery:
1791 CONFIG_PANIC_HANG
1792
1793 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
1794 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
1795 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001796 system where you want the system to reboot
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001797 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
1798 useful during development since you can try to debug
1799 the conditions that lead to the situation.
1800
1801 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
1802
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001803 This variable defines the number of retries for
1804 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
1805 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
1806 default value of 5 is used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001807
Guennadi Liakhovetski40cb90e2008-04-03 17:04:19 +02001808 CONFIG_ARP_TIMEOUT
1809
1810 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
1811
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001812- Command Interpreter:
Wolfgang Denk8078f1a2006-10-28 02:28:02 +02001813 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
wdenk04a85b32004-04-15 18:22:41 +00001814
1815 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
1816
Wolfgang Denka9398e02006-11-27 15:32:42 +01001817 Note that this feature has NOT been implemented yet
1818 for the "hush" shell.
Wolfgang Denk8078f1a2006-10-28 02:28:02 +02001819
1820
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001821 CONFIG_SYS_HUSH_PARSER
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001822
1823 Define this variable to enable the "hush" shell (from
1824 Busybox) as command line interpreter, thus enabling
1825 powerful command line syntax like
1826 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||'
1827 constructs ("shell scripts").
1828
1829 If undefined, you get the old, much simpler behaviour
1830 with a somewhat smaller memory footprint.
1831
1832
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001833 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001834
1835 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
1836 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
1837 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
1838
1839 Note:
1840
wdenk8bde7f72003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001841 In the current implementation, the local variables
1842 space and global environment variables space are
1843 separated. Local variables are those you define by
1844 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
1845 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
1846 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
1847 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001848
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001849 Global environment variables are those you use
1850 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
1851 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
1852 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001853
1854 To store commands and special characters in a
1855 variable, please use double quotation marks
1856 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
1857 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
1858 symbols.
1859
Wolfgang Denkaa0c71a2006-07-21 11:35:21 +02001860- Commandline Editing and History:
1861 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
1862
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001863 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
Wolfgang Denkb9365a22006-07-21 11:56:05 +02001864 commandline input operations
Wolfgang Denkaa0c71a2006-07-21 11:35:21 +02001865
wdenka8c7c702003-12-06 19:49:23 +00001866- Default Environment:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001867 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
1868
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001869 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
1870 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
wdenk7152b1d2003-09-05 23:19:14 +00001871 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
wdenk2262cfe2002-11-18 00:14:45 +00001872
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001873 For example, place something like this in your
1874 board's config file:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001875
1876 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
1877 "myvar1=value1\0" \
1878 "myvar2=value2\0"
1879
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001880 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
1881 internal format how the environment is stored by the
1882 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
1883 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
wdenk7152b1d2003-09-05 23:19:14 +00001884 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001885 You better know what you are doing here.
1886
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001887 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
1888 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
Wolfgang Denk74de7ae2009-04-01 23:34:12 +02001889 the environment like the "source" command or the
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001890 boot command first.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001891
wdenka8c7c702003-12-06 19:49:23 +00001892- DataFlash Support:
wdenk2abbe072003-06-16 23:50:08 +00001893 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
1894
wdenk8bde7f72003-06-27 21:31:46 +00001895 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
1896 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
1897 commands cp, md...
wdenk2abbe072003-06-16 23:50:08 +00001898
wdenk3f85ce22004-02-23 16:11:30 +00001899- SystemACE Support:
1900 CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
1901
1902 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
1903 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001904 of the chip must also be defined in the
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001905 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
wdenk3f85ce22004-02-23 16:11:30 +00001906
1907 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02001908 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
wdenk3f85ce22004-02-23 16:11:30 +00001909
1910 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
1911 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
1912
Wolfgang Denkecb0ccd2005-09-24 22:37:32 +02001913- TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
1914 CONFIG_TFTP_PORT
1915
Wolfgang Denk28cb9372005-09-24 23:25:46 +02001916 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
Wolfgang Denkecb0ccd2005-09-24 22:37:32 +02001917 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
Wolfgang Denk28cb9372005-09-24 23:25:46 +02001918 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
Wolfgang Denkecb0ccd2005-09-24 22:37:32 +02001919 number generator is used.
1920
Wolfgang Denk28cb9372005-09-24 23:25:46 +02001921 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
1922 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
1923 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
1924
1925 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
Wolfgang Denkecb0ccd2005-09-24 22:37:32 +02001926 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
1927 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
1928 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
1929 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
1930 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
1931 but sometimes that is not allowed.
1932
wdenka8c7c702003-12-06 19:49:23 +00001933- Show boot progress:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001934 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
1935
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00001936 Defining this option allows to add some board-
1937 specific code (calling a user-provided function
1938 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
1939 the system's boot progress on some display (for
1940 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
1941 the following checkpoints are implemented:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001942
Marian Balakowicz1372cce2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01001943Legacy uImage format:
1944
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001945 Arg Where When
1946 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
wdenkba56f622004-02-06 23:19:44 +00001947 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001948 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
wdenkba56f622004-02-06 23:19:44 +00001949 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001950 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
wdenkba56f622004-02-06 23:19:44 +00001951 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001952 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
1953 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
1954 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
Marian Balakowicz1372cce2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01001955 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001956 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
1957 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
1958 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
1959 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
Marian Balakowicz1372cce2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01001960 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001961 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
Marian Balakowicz1372cce2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01001962
1963 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
1964 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
1965 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
1966 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
1967 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
1968 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
1969 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02001970 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
Marian Balakowicz1372cce2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01001971 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
1972 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
1973
Peter Tyserea0364f2010-04-12 22:28:04 -05001974 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00001975
Stefan Roesea47a12b2010-04-15 16:07:28 +02001976 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
wdenk11dadd52004-02-27 00:07:27 +00001977 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
1978 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
wdenk63e73c92004-02-23 22:22:28 +00001979
Heiko Schocher566a4942007-06-22 19:11:54 +02001980 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
1981 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
1982 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
1983 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
1984 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
1985 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
1986 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
1987 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
1988 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
1989 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
1990 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
1991 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
1992 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
1993 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
1994 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
1995 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
1996 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
1997 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
1998 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
1999 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2000 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2001 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2002 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2003 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2004 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2005 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2006 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2007 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2008 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2009 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2010 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2011 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2012 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2013 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2014 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2015 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2016 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2017 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2018 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2019 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2020 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2021 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2022 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2023 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2024 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2025 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2026 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002027
Heiko Schocher566a4942007-06-22 19:11:54 +02002028 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002029
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002030 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
Heiko Schocher566a4942007-06-22 19:11:54 +02002031 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2032 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
wdenk206c60c2003-09-18 10:02:25 +00002033
Heiko Schocher566a4942007-06-22 19:11:54 +02002034 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
2035 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling NetLoop()
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002036 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in NetLoop() occurred
Heiko Schocher566a4942007-06-22 19:11:54 +02002037 81 common/cmd_net.c NetLoop() back without error
2038 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2039 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
Wolfgang Denk74de7ae2009-04-01 23:34:12 +02002040 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2041 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
Heiko Schocher566a4942007-06-22 19:11:54 +02002042 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002043
Marian Balakowicz1372cce2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002044FIT uImage format:
2045
2046 Arg Where When
2047 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2048 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2049 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2050 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2051 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2052 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
Marian Balakowiczf773bea2008-03-12 10:35:46 +01002053 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
Marian Balakowicz1372cce2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002054 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2055 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2056 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2057 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2058 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002059 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2060 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
Marian Balakowicz1372cce2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002061 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2062 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2063 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2064 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2065 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2066 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2067 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2068 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2069
2070 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2071 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2072 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002073 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
Marian Balakowicz1372cce2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002074 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2075 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2076 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2077 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2078 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2079 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2080 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2081 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2082 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2083 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2084 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2085 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2086
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002087 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
Marian Balakowicz1372cce2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002088 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2089
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002090 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
Marian Balakowicz1372cce2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002091 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2092
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002093 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
Marian Balakowicz1372cce2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002094 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2095
Detlev Zundelcccfc2a2009-12-01 17:16:19 +01002096- Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2097 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP
2098 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2099 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2100
2101 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2102 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2103
2104- MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2105 CONFIG_MTD_DEVICE
2106
2107 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
2108 Needed for mtdparts command support.
2109
2110 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2111
2112 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
2113 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
2114
Marian Balakowicz1372cce2008-03-12 10:33:01 +01002115
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002116Modem Support:
2117--------------
2118
wdenk85ec0bc2003-03-31 16:34:49 +00002119[so far only for SMDK2400 and TRAB boards]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002120
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002121- Modem support enable:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002122 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT
2123
2124- RTS/CTS Flow control enable:
2125 CONFIG_HWFLOW
2126
2127- Modem debug support:
2128 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG
2129
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002130 Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg())
2131 for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002132
wdenka8c7c702003-12-06 19:49:23 +00002133- Interrupt support (PPC):
2134
wdenkd4ca31c2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00002135 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
2136 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002137 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
wdenkd4ca31c2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00002138 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002139 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
wdenkd4ca31c2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00002140 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002141 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
wdenkd4ca31c2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00002142 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
2143 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
2144 general timer_interrupt().
wdenka8c7c702003-12-06 19:49:23 +00002145
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002146- General:
2147
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002148 In the target system modem support is enabled when a
2149 specific key (key combination) is pressed during
2150 power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002151 (autoboot). The key_pressed() function is called from
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002152 board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy
2153 function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem
2154 initialization.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002155
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002156 If there are no modem init strings in the
2157 environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the
2158 previous output (banner, info printfs) will be
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002159 suppressed, though.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002160
2161 See also: doc/README.Modem
2162
2163
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002164Configuration Settings:
2165-----------------------
2166
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002167- CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002168 undefine this when you're short of memory.
2169
Peter Tyser2fb26042009-01-27 18:03:12 -06002170- CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
2171 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
2172
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002173- CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002174 prompt for user input.
2175
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002176- CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002177
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002178- CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002179
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002180- CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002181
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002182- CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002183 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
2184 booted
2185
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002186- CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002187 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
2188
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002189- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET
wdenk8bde7f72003-06-27 21:31:46 +00002190 Suppress display of console information at boot.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002191
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002192- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
wdenk8bde7f72003-06-27 21:31:46 +00002193 If the board specific function
2194 extern int overwrite_console (void);
2195 returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002196 serial port, else the settings in the environment are used.
2197
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002198- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE
wdenk8bde7f72003-06-27 21:31:46 +00002199 Enable the call to overwrite_console().
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002200
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002201- CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002202 Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings.
2203
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002204- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002205 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
2206 simple memory test.
2207
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002208- CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
wdenk8bde7f72003-06-27 21:31:46 +00002209 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002210
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002211- CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
wdenk5f535fe2003-09-18 09:21:33 +00002212 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
2213 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
2214
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002215- CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE (PPC only):
2216 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
Stefan Roese14f73ca2008-03-26 10:14:11 +01002217 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002218 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
Stefan Roese14f73ca2008-03-26 10:14:11 +01002219 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
2220 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
2221 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
Stefan Roese5e12e752008-03-28 11:02:53 +01002222 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
Stefan Roese14f73ca2008-03-26 10:14:11 +01002223 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
Stefan Roese5e12e752008-03-28 11:02:53 +01002224 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
Stefan Roese14f73ca2008-03-26 10:14:11 +01002225
2226 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
2227 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
2228 be touched.
2229
2230 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
2231 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
2232 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
2233 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
2234 problems.
2235
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002236- CONFIG_SYS_TFTP_LOADADDR:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002237 Default load address for network file downloads
2238
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002239- CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002240 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
2241
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002242- CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002243 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
2244
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002245- CONFIG_SYS_MBIO_BASE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002246 Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a
2247 Cogent motherboard)
2248
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002249- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002250 Physical start address of Flash memory.
2251
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002252- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002253 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
2254 make config files to be same as the text base address
Wolfgang Denk14d0a022010-10-07 21:51:12 +02002255 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002256 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002257
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002258- CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
wdenk8bde7f72003-06-27 21:31:46 +00002259 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
2260 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
2261 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
2262 flash sector.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002263
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002264- CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002265 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
2266
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002267- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
Stefan Roese15940c92006-03-13 11:16:36 +01002268 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
2269 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002270 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
Stefan Roese15940c92006-03-13 11:16:36 +01002271 to adjust this setting to your needs.
2272
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002273- CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002274 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
2275 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
Bartlomiej Sieka7d721e32008-04-14 15:44:16 +02002276 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
2277 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
2278 enviroment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
2279 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002280 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002281
John Rigbyfca43cc2010-10-13 13:57:35 -06002282- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
2283 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
2284 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
2285 is enabled.
2286
2287- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
2288 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
2289 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2290
2291- CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
2292 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
2293 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
2294
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002295- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002296 Max number of Flash memory banks
2297
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002298- CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002299 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
2300
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002301- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002302 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
2303
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002304- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002305 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
2306
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002307- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
wdenk8564acf2003-07-14 22:13:32 +00002308 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
2309
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002310- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
wdenk8564acf2003-07-14 22:13:32 +00002311 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
2312
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002313- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
wdenk8564acf2003-07-14 22:13:32 +00002314 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
2315 instead of U-Boot software protection.
2316
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002317- CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002318
2319 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
2320 without this option such a download has to be
2321 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
2322 copy from RAM to flash.
2323
2324 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
2325 you can check if the download worked before you erase
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002326 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
2327 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002328 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
2329
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002330- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002331 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
wdenk5653fc32004-02-08 22:55:38 +00002332 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
2333
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD00b18832008-08-13 01:40:42 +02002334- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
wdenk5653fc32004-02-08 22:55:38 +00002335 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
2336 in the drivers directory
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002337
Piotr Ziecik91809ed2008-11-17 15:57:58 +01002338- CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
2339 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
2340 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
2341 to the MTD layer.
2342
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002343- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
Guennadi Liakhovetski96ef8312008-04-03 13:36:02 +02002344 Use buffered writes to flash.
2345
2346- CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
2347 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
2348 write commands.
2349
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002350- CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
Stefan Roese5568e612005-11-22 13:20:42 +01002351 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
2352 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
2353 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
2354 optionally available.
2355
Jerry Van Baren9a042e92008-03-08 13:48:01 -05002356- CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
2357 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
2358 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
2359 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
2360
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002361- CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002362 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
2363 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
stroese53cf9432003-06-05 15:39:44 +00002364 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
2365 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002366 on high Ethernet traffic.
stroese53cf9432003-06-05 15:39:44 +00002367 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
2368
Wolfgang Denkea882ba2010-06-20 23:33:59 +02002369- CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
2370
Wolfgang Denk071bc922010-10-27 22:48:30 +02002371 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
2372 internally to store the environment settings. The default
2373 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
2374 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
2375 lib/hashtable.c for details.
Wolfgang Denkea882ba2010-06-20 23:33:59 +02002376
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002377The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
2378of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
2379following configurations:
2380
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD5a1aceb2008-09-10 22:48:04 +02002381- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002382
2383 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
2384
2385 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
2386 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
2387 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
2388 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
2389 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
2390 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
2391 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
2392 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
2393 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
2394 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
2395 between U-Boot and the environment.
2396
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD0e8d1582008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002397 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002398
2399 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
2400 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
2401 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
2402 for this sector is given here.
2403
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002404 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002405
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD0e8d1582008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002406 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002407
2408 This is just another way to specify the start address of
2409 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD0e8d1582008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002410 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002411
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD0e8d1582008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002412 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002413
2414 Size of the sector containing the environment.
2415
2416
2417 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
2418 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
2419 the environment.
2420
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD0e8d1582008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002421 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002422
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD5a1aceb2008-09-10 22:48:04 +02002423 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD0e8d1582008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002424 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002425 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
2426 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
2427
2428 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
2429 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
2430 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
2431 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
2432 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
2433 updating the environment in flash makes it always
2434 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
2435 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
2436 RAM, your target system will be dead.
2437
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD0e8d1582008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002438 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
2439 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002440
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002441 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002442 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
wdenk3e386912003-04-05 00:53:31 +00002443 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002444 a "saveenv" operation.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002445
2446BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
2447source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
2448accordingly!
2449
2450
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD9314cee2008-09-10 22:47:59 +02002451- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002452
2453 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
2454 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
2455 environment.
2456
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD0e8d1582008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002457 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
2458 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002459
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002460 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002461 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
2462 can just be read and written to, without any special
2463 provision.
2464
2465BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
2466in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002467console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002468U-Boot will hang.
2469
2470Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
2471environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
2472keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
2473to save the current settings.
2474
2475
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARDbb1f8b42008-09-05 09:19:30 +02002476- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002477
2478 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
2479 device and a driver for it.
2480
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD0e8d1582008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002481 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2482 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002483
2484 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
2485 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
2486
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002487 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002488 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
2489 The default address is zero.
2490
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002491 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002492 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
2493 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
2494 would require six bits.
2495
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002496 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002497 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
wdenkba56f622004-02-06 23:19:44 +00002498 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002499
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002500 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002501 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
2502 that this is NOT the chip address length!
2503
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002504 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
wdenk5cf91d62004-04-23 20:32:05 +00002505 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
2506 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
2507 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
2508 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
2509 byte chips.
2510
2511 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
2512 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
2513 in the chip address.
2514
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002515 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002516 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
2517
Heiko Schocher548738b2010-01-07 08:55:40 +01002518 - CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C
2519 define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your
2520 EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.
2521
2522 - CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS
2523 if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over
2524 I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this
2525 EEPROM. For example:
2526
Wolfgang Denka9046b92010-06-13 17:48:15 +02002527 #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS "pca9547:70:d\0"
Heiko Schocher548738b2010-01-07 08:55:40 +01002528
2529 EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over
2530 a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002531
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD057c8492008-09-10 22:47:58 +02002532- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
wdenk5779d8d2003-12-06 23:55:10 +00002533
wdenkd4ca31c2004-01-02 14:00:00 +00002534 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
wdenk5779d8d2003-12-06 23:55:10 +00002535 want to use for the environment.
2536
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD0e8d1582008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002537 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2538 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:
2539 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
wdenk5779d8d2003-12-06 23:55:10 +00002540
2541 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
2542 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
2543 at the specified address.
2544
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD51bfee12008-09-10 22:47:58 +02002545- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
wdenk13a56952004-06-09 14:58:14 +00002546
2547 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
2548 for the environment.
2549
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD0e8d1582008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002550 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
2551 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:
wdenk13a56952004-06-09 14:58:14 +00002552
2553 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
Scott Woodfdd813d2010-09-17 14:38:37 -05002554 area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
2555 aligned to an erase block boundary.
wdenk5779d8d2003-12-06 23:55:10 +00002556
Scott Woodfdd813d2010-09-17 14:38:37 -05002557 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
Markus Klotzbuechere443c942006-03-20 18:02:44 +01002558
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD0e8d1582008-09-10 22:48:06 +02002559 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
Scott Woodfdd813d2010-09-17 14:38:37 -05002560 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
2561 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
2562 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_RENDUND must be
2563 aligned to an erase block boundary.
Markus Klotzbuechere443c942006-03-20 18:02:44 +01002564
Scott Woodfdd813d2010-09-17 14:38:37 -05002565 - CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):
2566
2567 Specifies the length of the region in which the environment
2568 can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's
2569 block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than
2570 are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within
2571 the range to be avoided.
2572
2573 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):
2574
2575 Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the
2576 environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The
2577 "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset.
2578 Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when
2579 using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.
Markus Klotzbuechere443c942006-03-20 18:02:44 +01002580
Guennadi Liakhovetskib74ab732009-05-18 16:07:22 +02002581- CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
2582
2583 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
2584 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
2585 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
2586
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002587- CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002588
2589 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
2590 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
2591 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
2592 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
2593 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
2594 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
2595 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
2596
Bruce Adlere881cb52007-11-02 13:15:42 -07002597Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002598has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
Wolfgang Denkcdb74972010-07-24 21:55:43 +02002599created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f()
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002600until then to read environment variables.
2601
wdenk85ec0bc2003-03-31 16:34:49 +00002602The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
2603is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
2604with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
2605necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
2606"baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
2607have any device yet where we could complain.]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002608
2609Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
2610the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
wdenk85ec0bc2003-03-31 16:34:49 +00002611use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002612
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002613- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
wdenk42d1f032003-10-15 23:53:47 +00002614 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
wdenkfc3e2162003-10-08 22:33:00 +00002615
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002616 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
wdenkfc3e2162003-10-08 22:33:00 +00002617 also needs to be defined.
2618
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002619- CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
wdenk42d1f032003-10-15 23:53:47 +00002620 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002621
Ron Madridf5675aa2009-02-18 14:30:44 -08002622- CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
2623 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
2624 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
2625 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
2626 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
2627 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
2628
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002629Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
wdenkdc7c9a12003-03-26 06:55:25 +00002630---------------------------------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002631
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002632- CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002633 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
2634
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002635- CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002636 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
wdenk2535d602003-07-17 23:16:40 +00002637
wdenk42d1f032003-10-15 23:53:47 +00002638 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
2639 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
2640 the IMMR register after a reset.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002641
wdenk7f6c2cb2002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002642- Floppy Disk Support:
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002643 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
wdenk7f6c2cb2002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002644
2645 the default drive number (default value 0)
2646
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002647 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
wdenk7f6c2cb2002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002648
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002649 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
wdenk7f6c2cb2002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002650 (default value 1)
2651
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002652 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
wdenk7f6c2cb2002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002653
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002654 defines the offset of register from address. It
2655 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002656 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
wdenk7f6c2cb2002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002657
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002658 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
2659 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002660 default value.
wdenk7f6c2cb2002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002661
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002662 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002663 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
2664 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
2665 source code. It is used to make hardware dependant
2666 initializations.
wdenk7f6c2cb2002-11-10 22:06:23 +00002667
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002668- CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
wdenkefe2a4d2004-12-16 21:44:03 +00002669 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
wdenk25d67122004-12-10 11:40:40 +00002670 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002671
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002672- CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002673
wdenk7152b1d2003-09-05 23:19:14 +00002674 Start address of memory area that can be used for
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002675 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
2676 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
2677 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
2678 will become available only after programming the
2679 memory controller and running certain initialization
2680 sequences.
2681
2682 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
2683 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
2684 - MPC824X: data cache
2685 - PPC4xx: data cache
2686
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002687- CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002688
2689 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002690 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
2691 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002692 data is located at the end of the available space
Wolfgang Denk553f0982010-10-26 13:32:32 +02002693 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002694 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
2695 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
2696 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002697
2698 Note:
2699 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
2700 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002701 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002702 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
2703 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
2704
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002705- CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002706
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002707- CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002708
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002709- CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002710
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002711- CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002712
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002713- CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002714
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002715- CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002716
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002717- CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002718 SDRAM timing
2719
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002720- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002721 periodic timer for refresh
2722
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002723- CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002724
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002725- FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
2726 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
2727 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
2728 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002729 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
2730
2731- SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002732 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
2733 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002734 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
2735
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002736- CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
2737 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002738 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
2739 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
2740
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002741- CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002742 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2743 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
2744
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002745- CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
Heiko Schocherb423d052008-01-11 01:12:07 +01002746 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2747 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
2748
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002749- CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002750 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
2751 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
2752
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002753- CONFIG_SYS_USE_OSCCLK:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002754 Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful,
2755 wrong setting might damage your board. Read
2756 doc/README.MBX before setting this variable!
2757
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002758- CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00002759 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
2760 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
2761 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
2762 cpm_8260.h.
wdenkea909b72002-11-21 23:11:29 +00002763
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002764- CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
2765 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
2766 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
2767 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
2768 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
2769 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
2770 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
2771 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
Stefan Roesea47a12b2010-04-15 16:07:28 +02002772 Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
wdenk5d232d02003-05-22 22:52:13 +00002773
Dirk Eibach9cacf4f2009-02-09 08:18:34 +01002774- CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE:
2775 Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
2776 required.
2777
Ben Warrenbb99ad62006-09-07 16:50:54 -04002778- CONFIG_SPD_EEPROM
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002779 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
2780 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
2781
Ben Warrenbb99ad62006-09-07 16:50:54 -04002782 SPD_EEPROM_ADDRESS
2783 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
2784
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002785- CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002786 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
2787 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
2788 to something your driver can deal with.
Ben Warrenbb99ad62006-09-07 16:50:54 -04002789
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02002790- CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002791 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
2792 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
Timur Tabi2ad6b512006-10-31 18:44:42 -06002793
wdenkc26e4542004-04-18 10:13:26 +00002794- CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
2795 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
2796
2797- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
2798 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
wdenk6e592382004-04-18 17:39:38 +00002799 to the given FEC; i. e.
2800 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
wdenkc26e4542004-04-18 10:13:26 +00002801 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
2802
2803 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
2804
2805- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
2806 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
2807 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
2808
2809- CONFIG_RMII
2810 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
2811 Note that this is a global option, we can't
2812 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
2813
wdenk5cf91d62004-04-23 20:32:05 +00002814- CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
2815 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
2816 The syntax is:
2817
2818 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
2819
2820 Where address/count indicate a memory area
2821 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
2822 area should have.
2823
wdenk56523f12004-07-11 17:40:54 +00002824- CONFIG_LOOPW
2825 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -05002826 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
wdenk56523f12004-07-11 17:40:54 +00002827
stroese7b466642004-12-16 18:46:55 +00002828- CONFIG_MX_CYCLIC
2829 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
2830 "md/mw" commands.
2831 Examples:
2832
wdenkefe2a4d2004-12-16 21:44:03 +00002833 => mdc.b 10 4 500
stroese7b466642004-12-16 18:46:55 +00002834 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
2835
wdenkefe2a4d2004-12-16 21:44:03 +00002836 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
stroese7b466642004-12-16 18:46:55 +00002837 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
2838
wdenkefe2a4d2004-12-16 21:44:03 +00002839 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
Jon Loeliger602ad3b2007-06-11 19:03:39 -05002840 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
stroese7b466642004-12-16 18:46:55 +00002841
wdenk8aa1a2d2005-04-04 12:44:11 +00002842- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
Wolfgang Denk844f07d2010-11-27 23:30:56 +01002843 [ARM only] If this variable is defined, then certain
2844 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
2845 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
2846 relocate itself into RAM.
wdenk8aa1a2d2005-04-04 12:44:11 +00002847
Wolfgang Denk844f07d2010-11-27 23:30:56 +01002848 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
2849 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
2850 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
2851 these initializations itself.
wdenk8aa1a2d2005-04-04 12:44:11 +00002852
Magnus Liljadf812382009-06-13 20:50:00 +02002853- CONFIG_PRELOADER
Magnus Liljadf812382009-06-13 20:50:00 +02002854 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
2855 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
2856 compiling a NAND SPL.
wdenk400558b2005-04-02 23:52:25 +00002857
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002858Building the Software:
2859======================
2860
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002861Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
2862and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
2863all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
2864(potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
2865recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
2866which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002867
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002868If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
2869have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
2870you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
2871Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
2872necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002873
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002874 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
2875 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002876
Peter Tyser2f8d3962009-03-13 18:54:51 -05002877Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
2878 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
2879 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
2880 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
2881
2882 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
2883
2884 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
2885 be executed on computers running Windows.
2886
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002887U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
2888sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002889is done by typing:
2890
2891 make NAME_config
2892
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002893where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing configu-
2894rations; see the main Makefile for supported names.
wdenk54387ac2003-10-08 22:45:44 +00002895
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002896Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
2897 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
2898 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
2899 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02002900 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002901
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002902 make TQM823L_config
2903 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002904
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002905 make TQM823L_LCD_config
2906 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002907
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002908 etc.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002909
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002910
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002911Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
2912images ready for download to / installation on your system:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002913
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002914- "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
2915- "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
2916- "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002917
Marian Balakowiczbaf31242006-09-07 17:25:40 +02002918By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
2919in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
2920this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
2921
29221. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
2923
2924 make O=/tmp/build distclean
2925 make O=/tmp/build NAME_config
2926 make O=/tmp/build all
2927
29282. Set environment variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location:
2929
2930 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
2931 make distclean
2932 make NAME_config
2933 make all
2934
2935Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the BUILD_DIR environment
2936variable.
2937
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002938
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002939Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
2940for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
2941native "make".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002942
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002943
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002944If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
2945to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
2946steps:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002947
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +000029481. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel
2949 "Makefile" and to the "MAKEALL" script, using the existing
2950 entries as examples. Note that here and at many other places
2951 boards and other names are listed in alphabetical sort order. Please
2952 keep this order.
29532. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
2954 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
2955 the "Makefile", a "<board>.c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds".
29563. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
2957 your board
29583. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
2959 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
29604. Run "make <board>_config" with your new name.
29615. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
2962 to be installed on your target system.
29636. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
2964 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002965
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002966
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002967Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
2968==============================================================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002969
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002970If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
2971or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002972provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
2973the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002974official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002975
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002976But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
2977cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002978the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
2979just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002980for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can
2981select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE'
2982environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the ELDK cross tools
2983you can type
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002984
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002985 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002986
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002987or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002988
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00002989 CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00002990
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01002991When using the MAKEALL script, the default behaviour is to build
2992U-Boot in the source directory. This location can be changed by
2993setting the BUILD_DIR environment variable. Also, for each target
2994built, the MAKEALL script saves two log files (<target>.ERR and
2995<target>.MAKEALL) in the <source dir>/LOG directory. This default
2996location can be changed by setting the MAKEALL_LOGDIR environment
2997variable. For example:
Marian Balakowiczbaf31242006-09-07 17:25:40 +02002998
2999 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
3000 export MAKEALL_LOGDIR=/tmp/log
3001 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
3002
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003003With the above settings build objects are saved in the /tmp/build,
3004log files are saved in the /tmp/log and the source tree remains clean
3005during the whole build process.
Marian Balakowiczbaf31242006-09-07 17:25:40 +02003006
3007
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003008See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003009
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003010
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003011Monitor Commands - Overview:
3012============================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003013
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003014go - start application at address 'addr'
3015run - run commands in an environment variable
3016bootm - boot application image from memory
3017bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
3018tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
3019 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
3020 (and eventually "gatewayip")
3021rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
3022diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
3023loads - load S-Record file over serial line
3024loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
3025md - memory display
3026mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
3027nm - memory modify (constant address)
3028mw - memory write (fill)
3029cp - memory copy
3030cmp - memory compare
3031crc32 - checksum calculation
Peter Tyser0f89c542009-04-18 22:34:03 -05003032i2c - I2C sub-system
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003033sspi - SPI utility commands
3034base - print or set address offset
3035printenv- print environment variables
3036setenv - set environment variables
3037saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
3038protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
3039erase - erase FLASH memory
3040flinfo - print FLASH memory information
3041bdinfo - print Board Info structure
3042iminfo - print header information for application image
3043coninfo - print console devices and informations
3044ide - IDE sub-system
3045loop - infinite loop on address range
wdenk56523f12004-07-11 17:40:54 +00003046loopw - infinite write loop on address range
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003047mtest - simple RAM test
3048icache - enable or disable instruction cache
3049dcache - enable or disable data cache
3050reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
3051echo - echo args to console
3052version - print monitor version
3053help - print online help
3054? - alias for 'help'
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003055
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003056
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003057Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
3058========================================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003059
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003060TODO.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003061
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003062For now: just type "help <command>".
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003063
3064
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003065Environment Variables:
3066======================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003067
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003068U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
3069can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003070
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003071Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
3072"printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
3073without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
3074environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
3075working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
3076environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003077
Wolfgang Denkc96f86e2010-01-17 23:55:53 +01003078Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
3079
3080List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003081
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003082 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003083
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003084 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003085
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003086 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003087
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003088 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003089
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003090 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003091
Bartlomiej Sieka7d721e32008-04-14 15:44:16 +02003092 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3093 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3094 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
3095 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
3096 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
3097 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02003098 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ.
Bartlomiej Sieka7d721e32008-04-14 15:44:16 +02003099
3100 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
3101 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
3102 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
3103 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
3104 environment variable.
3105
Bartlomiej Sieka4bae9092008-10-01 15:26:31 +02003106 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
3107 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
3108 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
3109
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003110 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
3111 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
3112 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
3113 load any image using TFTP
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003114
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003115 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
3116 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
3117 be automatically started (by internally calling
3118 "bootm")
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003119
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003120 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
3121 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
3122 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
3123 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
3124 data.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003125
wdenk17ea1172004-06-06 21:51:03 +00003126 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
3127 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
3128 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
3129 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
3130 it must be saved and board must be reset.
3131
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003132 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
3133 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
3134 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
3135 is usually what you want since it allows for
3136 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
3137 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02003138 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003139 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
3140 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
3141 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
3142 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003143
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003144 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
3145 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
3146 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
3147 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
3148 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
3149 12 MB as well - this can be done with
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003150
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003151 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003152
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003153 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
3154 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
3155 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
3156 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
3157 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
3158 boot time on your system, but requires that this
3159 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
wdenk4a6fd342003-04-12 23:38:12 +00003160
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003161 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003162
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003163 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
3164 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003165
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003166 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003167
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003168 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
wdenk38b99262003-05-23 23:18:21 +00003169
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003170 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003171
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003172 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003173
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003174 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003175
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003176 ethprime - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which
3177 interface is used first.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003178
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003179 ethact - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which
3180 interface is currently active. For example you
3181 can do the following
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003182
Heiko Schocher48690d82010-07-20 17:45:02 +02003183 => setenv ethact FEC
3184 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
3185 => setenv ethact SCC
3186 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003187
Matthias Fuchse1692572008-01-17 07:45:05 +01003188 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
3189 available network interfaces.
3190 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
3191
Wolfgang Denkc96f86e2010-01-17 23:55:53 +01003192 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003193 either succeed or fail without retrying.
3194 When set to "once" the network operation will
3195 fail when all the available network interfaces
3196 are tried once without success.
3197 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
3198 themselves.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003199
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARDb4e2f892009-01-31 09:53:39 +01003200 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARDa1cf0272008-01-07 08:41:34 +01003201
Wolfgang Denk28cb9372005-09-24 23:25:46 +02003202 tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
Wolfgang Denkecb0ccd2005-09-24 22:37:32 +02003203 UDP source port.
3204
Wolfgang Denk28cb9372005-09-24 23:25:46 +02003205 tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
3206 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
3207
Wolfgang Denkc96f86e2010-01-17 23:55:53 +01003208 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
3209 we use the TFTP server's default block size
3210
3211 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
3212 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
3213 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
3214 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
3215 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
3216 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
3217 with unreliable TFTP servers.
3218
3219 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003220 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003221 VLAN tagged frames.
wdenka3d991b2004-04-15 21:48:45 +00003222
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003223The following environment variables may be used and automatically
3224updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
3225depending the information provided by your boot server:
wdenka3d991b2004-04-15 21:48:45 +00003226
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003227 bootfile - see above
3228 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
3229 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
3230 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
3231 hostname - Target hostname
3232 ipaddr - see above
3233 netmask - Subnet Mask
3234 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
3235 serverip - see above
wdenka3d991b2004-04-15 21:48:45 +00003236
wdenka3d991b2004-04-15 21:48:45 +00003237
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003238There are two special Environment Variables:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003239
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003240 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
3241 as type string and/or serial number
3242 ethaddr - Ethernet address
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003243
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003244These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
3245the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
3246once they have been set once.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003247
3248
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003249Further special Environment Variables:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003250
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003251 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
3252 with the "version" command. This variable is
3253 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003254
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003255
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003256Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
3257only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003258
stroesec1551ea2003-04-04 15:53:41 +00003259
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003260Command Line Parsing:
3261=====================
stroesec1551ea2003-04-04 15:53:41 +00003262
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003263There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
3264the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
stroesec1551ea2003-04-04 15:53:41 +00003265
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003266Old, simple command line parser:
3267--------------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003268
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003269- supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
3270- several commands on one line, separated by ';'
Wolfgang Denkfe126d82005-11-20 21:40:11 +01003271- variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003272- special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
3273 for example:
Wolfgang Denkfe126d82005-11-20 21:40:11 +01003274 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003275- You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
3276 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003277
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003278Hush shell:
3279-----------
wdenkf07771c2003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003280
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003281- similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
3282 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
3283 until...do...done, ...
3284- supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
3285 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
3286 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
3287 command
wdenkf07771c2003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003288
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003289General rules:
3290--------------
wdenkf07771c2003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003291
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003292(1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
3293 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
3294 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
3295 executed anyway.
wdenkf07771c2003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003296
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003297(2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003298 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003299 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
3300 variables are not executed.
wdenkf07771c2003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003301
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003302Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
3303=======================================
wdenkf07771c2003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003304
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003305Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003306such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
3307"working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
wdenkf07771c2003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003308
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003309Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
3310MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
3311"eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
wdenkf07771c2003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003312
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003313If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
3314in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
3315ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
3316variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
wdenkf07771c2003-05-28 08:06:31 +00003317
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003318o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
3319 environment, the SROM's address is used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003320
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003321o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
3322 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
3323 used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003324
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003325o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
3326 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003327
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003328o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
3329 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
3330 warning is printed.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003331
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003332o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
3333 is raised.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003334
Ben Warrenecee9322010-04-26 11:11:46 -07003335If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
3336will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
3337may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
3338The naming convention is as follows:
3339"ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003340
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003341Image Formats:
3342==============
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003343
Marian Balakowicz3310c542008-03-12 12:13:13 +01003344U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
3345images in two formats:
3346
3347New uImage format (FIT)
3348-----------------------
3349
3350Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
3351to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
3352components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
3353SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
3354
3355
3356Old uImage format
3357-----------------
3358
3359Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
3360preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
3361details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003362
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003363* Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
3364 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
Peter Tyserf5ed9e32008-09-08 14:56:49 -05003365 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
3366 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
3367 INTEGRITY).
Wolfgang Denk7b64fef2006-10-24 14:21:16 +02003368* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
Thomas Chou1117cbf2010-05-28 10:56:50 +08003369 IA64, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
3370 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, Nios II, PowerPC).
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003371* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
3372* Load Address
3373* Entry Point
3374* Image Name
3375* Image Timestamp
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003376
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003377The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
3378and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
3379CRC32 checksums.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003380
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003381
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003382Linux Support:
3383==============
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003384
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003385Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
3386easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
3387U-Boot.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003388
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003389U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
3390special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
3391"initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
3392instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
3393serves several purposes:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003394
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003395- the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
3396 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
3397 Flash memory footprint)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003398
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003399- it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
3400 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003401
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003402- the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
3403 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
3404 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
3405 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
3406 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
3407 software is easier now.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003408
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003409
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003410Linux HOWTO:
3411============
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003412
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003413Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
3414---------------------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003415
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003416U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
3417configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
3418(no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
3419Linux :-).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003420
Stefan Roesea47a12b2010-04-15 16:07:28 +02003421But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003422
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003423Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
3424include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
Markus Heidelberg1dc30692008-09-07 20:18:27 +02003425Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
3426and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02003427as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003428
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003429
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003430Configuring the Linux kernel:
3431-----------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003432
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003433No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
3434device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003435
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003436
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003437Building a Linux Image:
3438-----------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003439
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003440With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
3441not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
3442"uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
3443U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
3444which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
3445100% compatible format.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003446
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003447Example:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003448
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003449 make TQM850L_config
3450 make oldconfig
3451 make dep
3452 make uImage
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003453
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003454The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
3455encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
3456CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003457
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003458* build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003459
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003460* convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003461
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003462 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
3463 -R .note -R .comment \
3464 -S vmlinux linux.bin
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003465
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003466* compress the binary image:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003467
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003468 gzip -9 linux.bin
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003469
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003470* package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003471
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003472 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
3473 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
3474 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003475
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003476
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003477The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
3478with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
3479combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
3480byte header containing information about target architecture,
3481operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
3482stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003483
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003484"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
3485print the header information, or to build new images.
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003486
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003487In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
3488contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
3489checksum verification:
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003490
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003491 tools/mkimage -l image
3492 -l ==> list image header information
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003493
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003494The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
3495from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003496
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003497 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
3498 -n name -d data_file image
3499 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
3500 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
3501 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
3502 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
3503 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
3504 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
3505 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
3506 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
wdenk24ee89b2002-11-03 17:56:27 +00003507
wdenk69459792004-05-29 16:53:29 +00003508Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
3509address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
3510kernel version:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003511
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003512- 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
3513- 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003514
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003515So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003516
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003517 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3518 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
Stefan Roesea47a12b2010-04-15 16:07:28 +02003519 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003520 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
3521 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3522 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3523 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3524 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3525 Load Address: 0x00000000
3526 Entry Point: 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003527
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003528To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003529
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003530 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
3531 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3532 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3533 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3534 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
3535 Load Address: 0x00000000
3536 Entry Point: 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003537
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003538NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
3539speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
3540needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
3541need to be uncompressed:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003542
Stefan Roesea47a12b2010-04-15 16:07:28 +02003543 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003544 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
3545 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
Stefan Roesea47a12b2010-04-15 16:07:28 +02003546 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003547 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
3548 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
3549 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
3550 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
3551 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
3552 Load Address: 0x00000000
3553 Entry Point: 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003554
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003555
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003556Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
3557when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
wdenkdb01a2e2004-04-15 23:14:49 +00003558
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003559 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
3560 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
3561 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
3562 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3563 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
3564 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3565 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
3566 Load Address: 0x00000000
3567 Entry Point: 0x00000000
wdenkdb01a2e2004-04-15 23:14:49 +00003568
wdenkdb01a2e2004-04-15 23:14:49 +00003569
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003570Installing a Linux Image:
3571-------------------------
wdenkdb01a2e2004-04-15 23:14:49 +00003572
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003573To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
3574you must convert the image to S-Record format:
wdenkdb01a2e2004-04-15 23:14:49 +00003575
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003576 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
wdenkdb01a2e2004-04-15 23:14:49 +00003577
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003578The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
3579image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
3580address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
3581specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
3582command.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003583
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003584Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
3585TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003586
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003587 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003588
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003589 .......... done
3590 Erased 8 sectors
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003591
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003592 => loads 40100000
3593 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3594 ~>examples/image.srec
3595 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
3596 ...
3597 15989 15990 15991 15992
3598 [file transfer complete]
3599 [connected]
3600 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003601
3602
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003603You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003604this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003605corruption happened:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003606
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003607 => imi 40100000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003608
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003609 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3610 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3611 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3612 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3613 Load Address: 00000000
3614 Entry Point: 0000000c
3615 Verifying Checksum ... OK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003616
3617
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003618Boot Linux:
3619-----------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003620
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003621The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
3622memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
3623of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
3624parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
3625"printenv" and "setenv" commands:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003626
3627
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003628 => printenv bootargs
3629 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003630
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003631 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003632
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003633 => printenv bootargs
3634 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003635
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003636 => bootm 40020000
3637 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
3638 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
3639 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3640 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
3641 Load Address: 00000000
3642 Entry Point: 0000000c
3643 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3644 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3645 Linux version 2.2.13 (wd@denx.local.net) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Jul 19 02:35:17 MEST 2000
3646 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
3647 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3648 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3649 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
3650 ...
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003651
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003652If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003653the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
3654format!) to the "bootm" command:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003655
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003656 => imi 40100000 40200000
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003657
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003658 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
3659 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3660 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3661 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3662 Load Address: 00000000
3663 Entry Point: 0000000c
3664 Verifying Checksum ... OK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003665
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003666 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
3667 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3668 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3669 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3670 Load Address: 00000000
3671 Entry Point: 00000000
3672 Verifying Checksum ... OK
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003673
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003674 => bootm 40100000 40200000
3675 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
3676 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
3677 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3678 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
3679 Load Address: 00000000
3680 Entry Point: 0000000c
3681 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3682 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3683 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
3684 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
3685 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
3686 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
3687 Load Address: 00000000
3688 Entry Point: 00000000
3689 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3690 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
3691 Linux version 2.2.13 (wd@denx.local.net) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Jul 19 02:32:08 MEST 2000
3692 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
3693 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
3694 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
3695 ...
3696 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
3697 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003698
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003699 bash#
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003700
Matthew McClintock02677682006-06-28 10:41:37 -05003701Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
3702-----------
3703
3704First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
3705titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
3706following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
3707flat device tree:
3708
3709=> print oftaddr
3710oftaddr=0x300000
3711=> print oft
3712oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
3713=> tftp $oftaddr $oft
3714Speed: 1000, full duplex
3715Using TSEC0 device
3716TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
3717Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
3718Load address: 0x300000
3719Loading: #
3720done
3721Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
3722=> tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
3723Speed: 1000, full duplex
3724Using TSEC0 device
3725TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
3726Filename 'uImage'.
3727Load address: 0x200000
3728Loading:############
3729done
3730Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
3731=> print loadaddr
3732loadaddr=200000
3733=> print oftaddr
3734oftaddr=0x300000
3735=> bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
3736## Booting image at 00200000 ...
Wolfgang Denka9398e02006-11-27 15:32:42 +01003737 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
3738 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
3739 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
Matthew McClintock02677682006-06-28 10:41:37 -05003740 Load Address: 00000000
Wolfgang Denka9398e02006-11-27 15:32:42 +01003741 Entry Point: 00000000
Matthew McClintock02677682006-06-28 10:41:37 -05003742 Verifying Checksum ... OK
3743 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
3744Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
3745Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
3746Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
3747[snip]
3748
3749
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003750More About U-Boot Image Types:
3751------------------------------
wdenk6069ff22003-02-28 00:49:47 +00003752
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003753U-Boot supports the following image types:
wdenk6069ff22003-02-28 00:49:47 +00003754
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003755 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
3756 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
3757 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
3758 the Standalone Program.
3759 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
3760 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
3761 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
3762 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
3763 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
3764 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
3765 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
3766 being started.
3767 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
3768 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
3769 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
3770 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
3771 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
3772 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
stroesec1551ea2003-04-04 15:53:41 +00003773
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003774 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
3775 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
3776 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
3777 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
3778 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
3779 a multiple of 4 bytes).
stroesec1551ea2003-04-04 15:53:41 +00003780
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003781 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
3782 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
3783 flash memory.
stroesec1551ea2003-04-04 15:53:41 +00003784
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003785 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
3786 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
3787 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
3788 as command interpreter.
wdenk6069ff22003-02-28 00:49:47 +00003789
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003790
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003791Standalone HOWTO:
3792=================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003793
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003794One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
3795run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
3796U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003797
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003798Two simple examples are included with the sources:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003799
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003800"Hello World" Demo:
3801-------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003802
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003803'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
3804application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
3805It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
3806like that:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003807
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003808 => loads
3809 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3810 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
3811 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
3812 [file transfer complete]
3813 [connected]
3814 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003815
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003816 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
3817 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
3818 Hello World
3819 argc = 7
3820 argv[0] = "40004"
3821 argv[1] = "Hello"
3822 argv[2] = "World!"
3823 argv[3] = "This"
3824 argv[4] = "is"
3825 argv[5] = "a"
3826 argv[6] = "test."
3827 argv[7] = "<NULL>"
3828 Hit any key to exit ...
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003829
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003830 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003831
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003832Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
3833handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
3834Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
3835The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
3836character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
3837controlled by the following keys:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003838
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003839 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
3840 b - enable interrupts and start timer
3841 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
3842 q - quit application
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003843
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003844 => loads
3845 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
3846 ~>examples/timer.srec
3847 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
3848 [file transfer complete]
3849 [connected]
3850 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003851
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003852 => go 40004
3853 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
3854 TIMERS=0xfff00980
3855 Using timer 1
3856 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003857
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003858Hit 'b':
3859 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
3860 Enabling timer
3861Hit '?':
3862 [q, b, e, ?] ........
3863 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
3864Hit '?':
3865 [q, b, e, ?] .
3866 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
3867Hit '?':
3868 [q, b, e, ?] .
3869 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
3870Hit '?':
3871 [q, b, e, ?] .
3872 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
3873Hit 'e':
3874 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
3875Hit 'q':
3876 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003877
3878
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003879Minicom warning:
3880================
wdenk85ec0bc2003-03-31 16:34:49 +00003881
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003882Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
3883"minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
3884consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
3885Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
3886especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
3887use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command).
wdenk85ec0bc2003-03-31 16:34:49 +00003888
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003889Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
3890configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
wdenk52f52c12003-06-19 23:04:19 +00003891
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003892 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
3893 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
3894 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
wdenk52f52c12003-06-19 23:04:19 +00003895
3896
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003897NetBSD Notes:
3898=============
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003899
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003900Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
3901(build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003902
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003903Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
3904NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
3905need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
3906Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
3907attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
3908missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003909
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003910 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
3911 # mkdir powerpc
3912 # ln -s powerpc machine
3913 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
3914 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003915
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003916Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
3917and U-Boot include files.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003918
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003919Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
3920stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
3921proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
3922tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
wdenk2a8af182005-04-13 10:02:42 +00003923meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003924
3925
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003926Implementation Internals:
3927=========================
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003928
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003929The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
3930implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
3931inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
3932hardware.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003933
3934
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003935Initial Stack, Global Data:
3936---------------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003937
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003938The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
3939starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
3940system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
3941This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
3942is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
3943at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
3944options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
3945models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
3946MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
3947locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003948
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01003949 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
Wolfgang Denk06682362008-12-30 22:56:11 +01003950 U-Boot mailing list:
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00003951
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003952 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
3953 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
3954 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
3955 ...
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00003956
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003957 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
3958 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
3959 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
3960 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
3961 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003962 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003963 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
3964 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00003965
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003966 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
3967 is another option for the system designer to use as an
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003968 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003969 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
3970 board designers haven't used it for something that would
3971 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
3972 used.
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00003973
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02003974 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003975 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
3976 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
Stefan Roese8a316c92005-08-01 16:49:12 +02003977 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003978 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
3979 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
3980 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
3981 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
3982 you get the config right.
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00003983
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003984 -Chris Hallinan
3985 DS4.COM, Inc.
wdenk43d96162003-03-06 00:02:04 +00003986
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003987It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
3988code for the initialization procedures:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003989
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003990* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
3991 to write it.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003992
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02003993* Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitely initialized
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003994 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
3995 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003996
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00003997* Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
3998 that.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00003999
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004000Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
4001normal global data to share information beween the code. But it
4002turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
4003simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
4004functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
4005functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
4006the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
4007place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
4008reserve for this purpose.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004009
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004010When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
4011relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
4012GCC's implementation.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004013
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004014For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
4015 R1: stack pointer
Wolfgang Denke7670f62008-02-14 22:43:22 +01004016 R2: reserved for system use
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004017 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
4018 R5-R10: parameter passing
4019 R13: small data area pointer
4020 R30: GOT pointer
4021 R31: frame pointer
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004022
Joakim Tjernlunde6bee802010-01-19 14:41:58 +01004023 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
4024 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
4025 going back and forth between asm and C)
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004026
Wolfgang Denke7670f62008-02-14 22:43:22 +01004027 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004028
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004029 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
4030 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
4031 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
4032 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
4033 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
4034 624 text + 127 data).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004035
Robin Getzc4db3352009-08-17 15:23:02 +00004036On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here:
Mike Frysinger4c58eb52008-02-04 19:26:54 -05004037 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
4038
Robin Getzc4db3352009-08-17 15:23:02 +00004039 ==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data
Mike Frysinger4c58eb52008-02-04 19:26:54 -05004040
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004041On ARM, the following registers are used:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004042
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004043 R0: function argument word/integer result
4044 R1-R3: function argument word
4045 R9: GOT pointer
4046 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking if enabled)
4047 R11: argument (frame) pointer
4048 R12: temporary workspace
4049 R13: stack pointer
4050 R14: link register
4051 R15: program counter
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004052
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004053 ==> U-Boot will use R8 to hold a pointer to the global data
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004054
Thomas Chou0df01fd2010-05-21 11:08:03 +08004055On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
4056 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
4057
4058 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
4059
4060 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
4061 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
4062
Wolfgang Denkd87080b2006-03-31 18:32:53 +02004063NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
4064or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004065
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004066Memory Management:
4067------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004068
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004069U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
4070MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004071
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004072The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
4073controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
4074memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
4075physical memory banks.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004076
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004077U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
4078TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
4079booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
4080to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD6d0f6bc2008-10-16 15:01:15 +02004081memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004082configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
4083Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004084
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004085Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
4086of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004087
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004088So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
4089this:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004090
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004091 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
4092 :
4093 0x0000 1FFF
4094 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
4095 :
4096 :
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004097
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004098 :
4099 :
4100 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
4101 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
4102 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
4103 :
4104 0x00FD FFFF
4105 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
4106 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
4107 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
4108 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004109
4110
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004111System Initialization:
4112----------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004113
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004114In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
Marcel Ziswiler11ccc332008-07-09 08:17:15 +02004115(on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004116configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory.
4117To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
4118To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
4119initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
4120which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
4121part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
4122the caches and the SIU.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004123
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004124Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
4125preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
4126(multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
4127on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
4128programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
4129simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
4130banks.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004131
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004132When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
4133different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
4134bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
41350x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
4136contiguous memory starting from 0.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004137
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004138Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
4139and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
4140Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
4141pages, and the final stack is set up.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004142
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004143Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
4144until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
4145running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
4146new address in RAM.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004147
4148
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004149U-Boot Porting Guide:
4150----------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004151
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004152[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
4153list, October 2002]
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004154
4155
Jerry Van Baren6c3fef22009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004156int main(int argc, char *argv[])
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004157{
4158 sighandler_t no_more_time;
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004159
Jerry Van Baren6c3fef22009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004160 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
4161 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004162
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004163 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
Jerry Van Baren6c3fef22009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004164 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004165 return 0;
4166 }
4167
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004168 Download latest U-Boot source;
4169
Wolfgang Denk06682362008-12-30 22:56:11 +01004170 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004171
Jerry Van Baren6c3fef22009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004172 if (clueless)
4173 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004174
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004175 while (learning) {
4176 Read the README file in the top level directory;
Jerry Van Baren6c3fef22009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004177 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
4178 Read applicable doc/*.README;
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004179 Read the source, Luke;
Jerry Van Baren6c3fef22009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004180 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004181 }
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004182
Jerry Van Baren6c3fef22009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004183 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
4184 Buy a BDI3000;
4185 else
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004186 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
Jerry Van Baren6c3fef22009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004187
4188 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
4189 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
4190 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
4191 } else {
4192 Create your own board support subdirectory;
4193 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004194 }
Jerry Van Baren6c3fef22009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004195 Edit new board/<myboard> files
4196 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004197
Jerry Van Baren6c3fef22009-07-15 20:42:59 -04004198 while (!accepted) {
4199 while (!running) {
4200 do {
4201 Add / modify source code;
4202 } until (compiles);
4203 Debug;
4204 if (clueless)
4205 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
4206 }
4207 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
4208 if (reasonable critiques)
4209 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
4210 else
4211 Defend code as written;
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004212 }
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004213
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004214 return 0;
4215}
4216
4217void no_more_time (int sig)
4218{
4219 hire_a_guru();
4220}
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004221
4222
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004223Coding Standards:
4224-----------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004225
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004226All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
Detlev Zundel2c051652006-09-01 15:39:02 +02004227coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
4228"scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory. In sources
4229originating from U-Boot a style corresponding to "Lindent -pcs" (adding
4230spaces before parameters to function calls) is actually used.
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004231
Detlev Zundel2c051652006-09-01 15:39:02 +02004232Source files originating from a different project (for example the
4233MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
4234reformated to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
4235sources.
4236
4237Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
4238Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
4239in your code.
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004240
4241Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
4242- remove any trailing white space
4243- use TAB characters for indentation, not spaces
4244- make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
4245- do not add more than 2 empty lines to source files
4246- do not add trailing empty lines to source files
4247
4248Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
4249with a request to reformat the changes.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004250
4251
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004252Submitting Patches:
4253-------------------
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004254
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004255Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
4256establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
4257may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004258
Magnus Lilja0d28f342008-08-06 19:32:33 +02004259Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01004260
Wolfgang Denk06682362008-12-30 22:56:11 +01004261Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
4262see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
4263
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004264When you send a patch, please include the following information with
4265it:
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004266
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004267* For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
4268 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
4269 patch actually fixes something.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004270
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004271* For new features: a description of the feature and your
4272 implementation.
wdenkc6097192002-11-03 00:24:07 +00004273
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004274* A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
4275
4276* For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file
4277
4278* When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add this
4279 board to the MAKEALL script, too.
4280
4281* If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
4282 document these in the README file.
4283
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01004284* The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
4285 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
4286 "git-format-patch". If you then use "git-send-email" to send it to
4287 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
4288 with some other mail clients.
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004289
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01004290 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
4291 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
4292 GNU diff.
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004293
Wolfgang Denk218ca722008-03-26 10:40:12 +01004294 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
4295 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
4296 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
4297 affected files).
4298
4299 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
4300 and compressed attachments must not be used.
wdenk2729af92004-05-03 20:45:30 +00004301
4302* If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
4303 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
4304
4305* Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
4306 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
4307
4308
4309Notes:
4310
4311* Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched
4312 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
4313 for any of the boards.
4314
4315* Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
4316 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
4317 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
4318
4319* If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
4320 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
4321 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
4322 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
4323 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
4324 modification.
wdenk90dc6702005-05-03 14:12:25 +00004325
Wolfgang Denk06682362008-12-30 22:56:11 +01004326* Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
4327 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
4328 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
4329 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.