2 # (C) Copyright 2000 - 2013
3 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
5 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
11 This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for
12 Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other
13 processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to
14 initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application
17 The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of
18 the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some
19 header files in common, and special provision has been made to
20 support booting of Linux images.
22 Some attention has been paid to make this software easily
23 configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are
24 implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to
25 add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used
26 code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can
27 load and run it dynamically.
33 In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the
34 Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered
35 "working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.
37 In case of problems see the CHANGELOG and CREDITS files to find out
38 who contributed the specific port. The MAINTAINERS file lists board
41 Note: There is no CHANGELOG file in the actual U-Boot source tree;
42 it can be created dynamically from the Git log using:
50 In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for
51 U-Boot you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at
52 <u-boot@lists.denx.de>. There is also an archive of previous traffic
53 on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's.
54 Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and
55 http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
58 Where to get source code:
59 =========================
61 The U-Boot source code is maintained in the git repository at
62 git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at
63 http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
65 The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of
66 any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also
67 available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
70 Pre-built (and tested) images are available from
71 ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/
77 - start from 8xxrom sources
78 - create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
80 - make it easier to add custom boards
81 - make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
82 - extend functions, especially:
83 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
86 * PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
87 - create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
88 - add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
89 - create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
90 - current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot
96 The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling
97 "U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments
98 in source files etc.). Example:
100 This is the README file for the U-Boot project.
102 File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:
104 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h
106 #include <asm/u-boot.h>
108 Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on
109 the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:
111 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo
112 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start
118 Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases
119 were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning
120 into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by
121 names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date.
122 Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix
123 releases in "stable" maintenance trees.
126 U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009
127 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree
128 U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candiate 1 for September 2010 release
134 /arch Architecture specific files
135 /arm Files generic to ARM architecture
136 /cpu CPU specific files
137 /arm720t Files specific to ARM 720 CPUs
138 /arm920t Files specific to ARM 920 CPUs
139 /at91 Files specific to Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU
140 /imx Files specific to Freescale MC9328 i.MX CPUs
141 /s3c24x0 Files specific to Samsung S3C24X0 CPUs
142 /arm925t Files specific to ARM 925 CPUs
143 /arm926ejs Files specific to ARM 926 CPUs
144 /arm1136 Files specific to ARM 1136 CPUs
145 /ixp Files specific to Intel XScale IXP CPUs
146 /pxa Files specific to Intel XScale PXA CPUs
147 /s3c44b0 Files specific to Samsung S3C44B0 CPUs
148 /sa1100 Files specific to Intel StrongARM SA1100 CPUs
149 /lib Architecture specific library files
150 /avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture
151 /cpu CPU specific files
152 /lib Architecture specific library files
153 /blackfin Files generic to Analog Devices Blackfin architecture
154 /cpu CPU specific files
155 /lib Architecture specific library files
156 /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture
157 /cpu CPU specific files
158 /lib Architecture specific library files
159 /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture
160 /cpu CPU specific files
161 /mcf52x2 Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF52x2 CPUs
162 /mcf5227x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5227x CPUs
163 /mcf532x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5329 CPUs
164 /mcf5445x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5445x CPUs
165 /mcf547x_8x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF547x_8x CPUs
166 /lib Architecture specific library files
167 /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture
168 /cpu CPU specific files
169 /lib Architecture specific library files
170 /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture
171 /cpu CPU specific files
172 /mips32 Files specific to MIPS32 CPUs
173 /xburst Files specific to Ingenic XBurst CPUs
174 /lib Architecture specific library files
175 /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture
176 /cpu CPU specific files
177 /n1213 Files specific to Andes Technology N1213 CPUs
178 /lib Architecture specific library files
179 /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture
180 /cpu CPU specific files
181 /lib Architecture specific library files
182 /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture
183 /cpu CPU specific files
184 /74xx_7xx Files specific to Freescale MPC74xx and 7xx CPUs
185 /mpc5xx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xx CPUs
186 /mpc5xxx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xxx CPUs
187 /mpc8xx Files specific to Freescale MPC8xx CPUs
188 /mpc824x Files specific to Freescale MPC824x CPUs
189 /mpc8260 Files specific to Freescale MPC8260 CPUs
190 /mpc85xx Files specific to Freescale MPC85xx CPUs
191 /ppc4xx Files specific to AMCC PowerPC 4xx CPUs
192 /lib Architecture specific library files
193 /sh Files generic to SH architecture
194 /cpu CPU specific files
195 /sh2 Files specific to sh2 CPUs
196 /sh3 Files specific to sh3 CPUs
197 /sh4 Files specific to sh4 CPUs
198 /lib Architecture specific library files
199 /sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture
200 /cpu CPU specific files
201 /leon2 Files specific to Gaisler LEON2 SPARC CPU
202 /leon3 Files specific to Gaisler LEON3 SPARC CPU
203 /lib Architecture specific library files
204 /api Machine/arch independent API for external apps
205 /board Board dependent files
206 /common Misc architecture independent functions
207 /disk Code for disk drive partition handling
208 /doc Documentation (don't expect too much)
209 /drivers Commonly used device drivers
210 /examples Example code for standalone applications, etc.
211 /fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.)
212 /include Header Files
213 /lib Files generic to all architectures
214 /libfdt Library files to support flattened device trees
215 /lzma Library files to support LZMA decompression
216 /lzo Library files to support LZO decompression
218 /post Power On Self Test
219 /rtc Real Time Clock drivers
220 /tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.
222 Software Configuration:
223 =======================
225 Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the
226 rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.
228 There are two classes of configuration variables:
230 * Configuration _OPTIONS_:
231 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with
234 * Configuration _SETTINGS_:
235 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if
236 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with
239 Later we will add a configuration tool - probably similar to or even
240 identical to what's used for the Linux kernel. Right now, we have to
241 do the configuration by hand, which means creating some symbolic
242 links and editing some configuration files. We use the TQM8xxL boards
246 Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:
247 ---------------------------------------------------
249 For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default
250 configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_config".
252 Example: For a TQM823L module type:
257 For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the CPU type as well;
258 e.g. "make cogent_mpc8xx_config". And also configure the cogent
259 directory according to the instructions in cogent/README.
262 Configuration Options:
263 ----------------------
265 Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all
266 such information is kept in a configuration file
267 "include/configs/<board_name>.h".
269 Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in
270 "include/configs/TQM823L.h".
273 Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux
274 kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to
275 build a config tool - later.
278 The following options need to be configured:
280 - CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.
282 - Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.
284 - CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined)
285 Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002
287 - CPU Module Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
288 Define exactly one of
290 --- FIXME --- not tested yet:
291 CONFIG_CMA286_60, CONFIG_CMA286_21, CONFIG_CMA286_60P,
292 CONFIG_CMA287_23, CONFIG_CMA287_50
294 - Motherboard Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
295 Define exactly one of
296 CONFIG_CMA101, CONFIG_CMA102
298 - Motherboard I/O Modules: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined)
299 Define one or more of
302 - Motherboard Options: (if CONFIG_CMA101 or CONFIG_CMA102 are defined)
303 Define one or more of
304 CONFIG_LCD_HEARTBEAT - update a character position on
305 the LCD display every second with
308 - Board flavour: (if CONFIG_MPC8260ADS is defined)
311 CONFIG_SYS_8260ADS - original MPC8260ADS
312 CONFIG_SYS_8266ADS - MPC8266ADS
313 CONFIG_SYS_PQ2FADS - PQ2FADS-ZU or PQ2FADS-VR
314 CONFIG_SYS_8272ADS - MPC8272ADS
316 - Marvell Family Member
317 CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable
318 multiple fs option at one time
319 for marvell soc family
321 - MPC824X Family Member (if CONFIG_MPC824X is defined)
322 Define exactly one of
323 CONFIG_MPC8240, CONFIG_MPC8245
325 - 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU)
326 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if
327 get_gclk_freq() cannot work
328 e.g. if there is no 32KHz
329 reference PIT/RTC clock
330 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK
333 - 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU):
334 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN
335 CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX
336 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT
337 See doc/README.MPC866
339 CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
341 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
342 of relying on the correctness of the configured
343 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
344 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
345 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
346 RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
348 CONFIG_SYS_DELAYED_ICACHE
350 Define this option if you want to enable the
351 ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
356 Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
357 the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
358 compliance, among other possible reasons.
360 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
362 Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
363 system clock. On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
364 devices it can be 16 or 32. The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
366 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
368 Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
369 tree nodes for the given platform.
371 CONFIG_SYS_PPC_E500_DEBUG_TLB
373 Enables a temporary TLB entry to be used during boot to work
374 around limitations in e500v1 and e500v2 external debugger
375 support. This reduces the portions of the boot code where
376 breakpoints and single stepping do not work. The value of this
377 symbol should be set to the TLB1 entry to be used for this
380 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
382 Enables a workaround for erratum A004510. If set,
383 then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
384 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
386 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
387 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
389 Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
390 for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
392 The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
393 of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
394 p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
395 whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
397 See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
400 CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
401 Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
402 requred during NOR boot.
404 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
406 This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
407 according to the A004510 workaround.
409 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
410 This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
411 which is directly connected to the DSP core.
413 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
414 This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
416 - Generic CPU options:
417 CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
419 Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
420 values is arch specific.
422 - Intel Monahans options:
423 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO
425 Defines the Monahans run mode to oscillator
426 ratio. Valid values are 8, 16, 24, 31. The core
427 frequency is this value multiplied by 13 MHz.
429 CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_TURBO_RUN_MODE_RATIO
431 Defines the Monahans turbo mode to oscillator
432 ratio. Valid values are 1 (default if undefined) and
433 2. The core frequency as calculated above is multiplied
437 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET
439 Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
440 pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
443 CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
445 Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
446 See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
448 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
451 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
455 CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
457 CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
459 Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
460 See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
462 CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
464 Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
465 XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
466 be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
469 CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH
471 Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
472 clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
474 CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD
476 Use this flag to build U-Boot using the Thumb instruction
477 set for ARM architectures. Thumb instruction set provides
478 better code density. For ARM architectures that support
479 Thumb2 this flag will result in Thumb2 code generated by
482 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_716044
483 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_742230
484 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_743622
485 CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_751472
487 If set, the workarounds for these ARM errata are applied early
488 during U-Boot startup. Note that these options force the
489 workarounds to be applied; no CPU-type/version detection
490 exists, unlike the similar options in the Linux kernel. Do not
491 set these options unless they apply!
496 The frequency of the timer returned by get_timer().
497 get_timer() must operate in milliseconds and this CONFIG
498 option must be set to 1000.
500 - Linux Kernel Interface:
503 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
504 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
505 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
506 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
507 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
508 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
510 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
511 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
514 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only]
516 When transferring memsize parameter to linux, some versions
517 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
518 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
522 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
523 passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
527 * New libfdt-based support
528 * Adds the "fdt" command
529 * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
531 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node (only required for
532 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
533 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node (only required for
534 MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
535 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
536 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
538 boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
541 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
543 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
544 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
548 This define fills in the correct boot CPU in the boot
549 param header, the default value is zero if undefined.
553 U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
554 If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
555 removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
556 so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
557 crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
558 no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
560 CONFIG_MACH_TYPE [relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
562 This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
563 machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
564 number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
565 (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
566 Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
567 in a single configuration file and the machine type is
568 runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
570 - vxWorks boot parameters:
572 bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
573 environments variables: bootfile, ipaddr, serverip, hostname.
574 It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
576 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_DEVICE - The vxworks device name
577 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_MAC_PTR - Ethernet 6 byte MA -address
578 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_SERVERNAME - Name of the server
579 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_ADDR - Address of boot parameters
581 CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_ADD_PARAMS
583 Add it at the end of the bootline. E.g "u=username pw=secret"
585 Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
586 the defaults discussed just above.
588 - Cache Configuration:
589 CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot
590 CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot
591 CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot
593 - Cache Configuration for ARM:
594 CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache
596 CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310
597 controller register space
602 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
606 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
610 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
611 the clock speed of the UARTs.
615 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
616 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
617 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
619 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_RLCR
621 Some vendor versions of PL011 serial ports (e.g. ST-Ericsson U8500)
622 have separate receive and transmit line control registers. Set
623 this variable to initialize the extra register.
625 CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_FLUSH_ON_INIT
627 On some platforms (e.g. U8500) U-Boot is loaded by a second stage
628 boot loader that has already initialized the UART. Define this
629 variable to flush the UART at init time.
633 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port
634 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2,
635 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial
636 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE
638 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
639 port routines must be defined elsewhere
640 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
643 Enables console device for a color framebuffer. Needs following
644 defines (cf. smiLynxEM, i8042)
645 VIDEO_FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN graphic memory organisation
647 VIDEO_HW_RECTFILL graphic chip supports
650 VIDEO_HW_BITBLT graphic chip supports
651 bit-blit (cf. smiLynxEM)
652 VIDEO_VISIBLE_COLS visible pixel columns
654 VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS visible pixel rows
655 VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE bytes per pixel
656 VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT graphic data format
657 (0-5, cf. cfb_console.c)
658 VIDEO_FB_ADRS framebuffer address
659 VIDEO_KBD_INIT_FCT keyboard int fct
660 (i.e. i8042_kbd_init())
661 VIDEO_TSTC_FCT test char fct
663 VIDEO_GETC_FCT get char fct
665 CONFIG_CONSOLE_CURSOR cursor drawing on/off
666 (requires blink timer
668 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c)
669 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME display time/date info in
671 (requires CONFIG_CMD_DATE)
672 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO display Linux logo in
674 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO use bmp_logo.h instead of
675 linux_logo.h for logo.
676 Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
677 CONFIG_CONSOLE_EXTRA_INFO
678 additional board info beside
681 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE_ANSI is defined, console will support
682 a limited number of ANSI escape sequences (cursor control,
683 erase functions and limited graphics rendition control).
685 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is
686 default i/o. Serial console can be forced with
687 environment 'console=serial'.
689 When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console
690 messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with
691 the "silent" environment variable. See
692 doc/README.silent for more information.
695 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps
696 Select one of the baudrates listed in
697 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
698 CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale
700 - Console Rx buffer length
701 With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define
702 the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC.
703 This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible.
704 If using CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN also CONFIG_SYS_MAXIDLE
705 must be defined, to setup the maximum idle timeout for
708 - Pre-Console Buffer:
709 Prior to the console being initialised (i.e. serial UART
710 initialised etc) all console output is silently discarded.
711 Defining CONFIG_PRE_CONSOLE_BUFFER will cause U-Boot to
712 buffer any console messages prior to the console being
713 initialised to a buffer of size CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ
714 bytes located at CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR. The buffer is
715 a circular buffer, so if more than CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ
716 bytes are output before the console is initialised, the
717 earlier bytes are discarded.
719 'Sane' compilers will generate smaller code if
720 CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ is a power of 2
722 - Safe printf() functions
723 Define CONFIG_SYS_VSNPRINTF to compile in safe versions of
724 the printf() functions. These are defined in
725 include/vsprintf.h and include snprintf(), vsnprintf() and
726 so on. Code size increase is approximately 300-500 bytes.
727 If this option is not given then these functions will
728 silently discard their buffer size argument - this means
729 you are not getting any overflow checking in this case.
731 - Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds
732 Delay before automatically booting the default image;
733 set to -1 to disable autoboot.
734 set to -2 to autoboot with no delay and not check for abort
735 (even when CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK is defined).
737 See doc/README.autoboot for these options that
738 work with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY. None are required.
739 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
740 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_MIN
741 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
742 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT
743 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
744 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
745 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2
746 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR2
747 CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK
748 CONFIG_RESET_TO_RETRY
752 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled;
753 define a command string that is automatically executed
754 when no character is read on the console interface
755 within "Boot Delay" after reset.
758 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
759 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
760 environment value "bootargs".
762 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
763 The value of these goes into the environment as
764 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
765 as a convenience, when switching between booting from
771 When this option is #defined, the existence of the
772 environment variable "preboot" will be checked
773 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
774 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
775 entering interactive mode.
777 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
778 automatically generated or modified. For an example
779 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
780 modified when the user holds down a certain
781 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
784 - Serial Download Echo Mode:
786 If defined to 1, all characters received during a
787 serial download (using the "loads" command) are
788 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal
789 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take
790 time on others. This setting #define's the initial
791 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.
793 - Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined)
795 Select one of the baudrates listed in
796 CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.
799 Monitor commands can be included or excluded
800 from the build by using the #include files
801 <config_cmd_all.h> and #undef'ing unwanted
802 commands, or using <config_cmd_default.h>
803 and augmenting with additional #define's
806 The default command configuration includes all commands
807 except those marked below with a "*".
809 CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable
810 CONFIG_CMD_BDI bdinfo
811 CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger
812 CONFIG_CMD_BMP * BMP support
813 CONFIG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands
814 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD bootd
815 CONFIG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache
816 CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo
817 CONFIG_CMD_CRC32 * crc32
818 CONFIG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time...
819 CONFIG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support
820 CONFIG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics
821 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510 * ds4510 I2C gpio commands
822 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO * ds4510 I2C info command
823 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM * ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
824 CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST * ds4510 I2C rst command
825 CONFIG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat
826 CONFIG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments
827 CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV edit env variable
828 CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support
829 CONFIG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx
830 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_CALLBACK * display details about env callbacks
831 CONFIG_CMD_ENV_FLAGS * display details about env flags
832 CONFIG_CMD_EXPORTENV * export the environment
833 CONFIG_CMD_EXT2 * ext2 command support
834 CONFIG_CMD_EXT4 * ext4 command support
835 CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV saveenv
836 CONFIG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support
837 CONFIG_CMD_FAT * FAT command support
838 CONFIG_CMD_FDOS * Dos diskette Support
839 CONFIG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect
840 CONFIG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support
841 CONFIG_CMD_FUSE * Device fuse support
842 CONFIG_CMD_GETTIME * Get time since boot
843 CONFIG_CMD_GO * the 'go' command (exec code)
844 CONFIG_CMD_GREPENV * search environment
845 CONFIG_CMD_HASH * calculate hash / digest
846 CONFIG_CMD_HWFLOW * RTS/CTS hw flow control
847 CONFIG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support
848 CONFIG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support
849 CONFIG_CMD_IMI iminfo
850 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS List all images found in NOR flash
851 CONFIG_CMD_IMLS_NAND * List all images found in NAND flash
852 CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support
853 CONFIG_CMD_IMPORTENV * import an environment
854 CONFIG_CMD_INI * import data from an ini file into the env
855 CONFIG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo
856 CONFIG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values
857 CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support
858 CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb
859 CONFIG_CMD_LDRINFO * ldrinfo (display Blackfin loader)
860 CONFIG_CMD_LINK_LOCAL * link-local IP address auto-configuration
862 CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb
863 CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads
864 CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM * print md5 message digest
865 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
866 CONFIG_CMD_MEMINFO * Display detailed memory information
867 CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
869 CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST * mtest
870 CONFIG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc
871 CONFIG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support
872 CONFIG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands
873 CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS * MTD partition support
874 CONFIG_CMD_NAND * NAND support
875 CONFIG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
876 CONFIG_CMD_NFS NFS support
877 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X * PCA953x I2C gpio commands
878 CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
879 CONFIG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo
880 CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support
881 CONFIG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
883 CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O
884 CONFIG_CMD_READ * Read raw data from partition
885 CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump
886 CONFIG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable
887 CONFIG_CMD_SANDBOX * sb command to access sandbox features
888 CONFIG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump
889 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI * SCSI Support
890 CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information
891 (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
892 CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access
894 CONFIG_CMD_SF * Read/write/erase SPI NOR flash
895 CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM * print sha1 memory digest
896 (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
897 CONFIG_CMD_SOFTSWITCH * Soft switch setting command for BF60x
898 CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support
899 CONFIG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support
900 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPSRV * TFTP transfer in server mode
901 CONFIG_CMD_TFTPPUT * TFTP put command (upload)
902 CONFIG_CMD_TIME * run command and report execution time (ARM specific)
903 CONFIG_CMD_TIMER * access to the system tick timer
904 CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support
905 CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support
906 CONFIG_CMD_MFSL * Microblaze FSL support
907 CONFIG_CMD_XIMG Load part of Multi Image
910 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
911 support you can write:
913 #include "config_cmd_all.h"
914 #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
917 fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
919 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
920 (configuration option CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know
921 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data
922 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or
923 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be
924 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other
925 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an
926 initial stack and some data.
929 XXX - this list needs to get updated!
931 - Regular expression support:
933 If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against
934 the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library,
935 which adds regex support to some commands, as for
936 example "env grep" and "setexpr".
940 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree
941 to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically
942 compiled #defines in the board file. This option is
943 experimental and only available on a few boards. The device
944 tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.
946 U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
947 be done using one of the two options below:
950 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
951 binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
952 board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
953 is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
954 the global data structure as gd->blob.
957 If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
958 binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
959 code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
961 cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
963 and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
964 u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
965 still use the individual files if you need something more
970 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog
971 support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC
972 specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260
973 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR
974 register. When supported for a specific SoC is
975 available, then no further board specific code should
979 When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
980 SoC, then define this variable and provide board
981 specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
984 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE
985 If this variable is defined, an environment variable
986 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
987 version as printed by the "version" command.
988 Any change to this variable will be reverted at the
993 When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
994 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
997 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx
998 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC
999 CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX - use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
1000 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC
1001 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
1002 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
1003 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
1004 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC
1005 CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208 - use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
1006 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
1007 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC - Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
1008 CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR - enable trickle charger on
1011 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
1012 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
1015 CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO
1016 CONFIG_PCA953X_INFO - enable pca953x info command
1018 The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
1019 chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
1020 pins supported by a particular chip.
1022 Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
1023 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
1025 - Timestamp Support:
1027 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
1028 (date and time) of an image is printed by image
1029 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
1030 automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
1032 - Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
1033 Zero or more of the following:
1034 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table.
1035 CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION MS Dos partition table, traditional on the
1036 Intel architecture, USB sticks, etc.
1037 CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
1038 CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
1039 bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see
1041 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS Memory Technology Device partition table.
1043 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
1044 CONFIG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at
1045 least one non-MTD partition type as well.
1048 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
1049 board configurations files but used nowhere!
1051 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
1052 be performed by calling the function
1053 ide_set_reset(int reset)
1054 which has to be defined in a board specific file
1059 Set this to enable ATAPI support.
1064 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
1065 Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
1066 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
1067 support disks up to 2.1TB.
1069 CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
1070 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
1074 At the moment only there is only support for the
1075 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define
1076 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.
1078 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
1079 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
1080 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
1081 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
1083 CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
1085 The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
1086 SCSI devices found during the last scan.
1088 - NETWORK Support (PCI):
1090 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.
1093 Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
1094 This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
1095 of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
1097 CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
1098 Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
1099 example with the "sspi" command.
1102 Management command for E1000 devices. When used on devices
1103 with SPI support you can reprogram the EEPROM from U-Boot.
1105 CONFIG_E1000_FALLBACK_MAC
1106 default MAC for empty EEPROM after production.
1109 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
1110 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
1111 write routine for first time initialisation.
1114 Support for Digital 2114x chips.
1115 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
1116 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
1119 Support for National dp83815 chips.
1122 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
1124 - NETWORK Support (other):
1126 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
1127 Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
1130 Define this to use reduced MII inteface
1132 CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
1133 If this defined, the driver is quiet.
1134 The driver doen't show link status messages.
1136 CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
1137 Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
1140 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
1142 CONFIG_LAN91C96_BASE
1143 Define this to hold the physical address
1144 of the LAN91C96's I/O space
1146 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
1147 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
1150 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
1152 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
1153 Define this to hold the physical address
1154 of the device (I/O space)
1156 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
1157 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1159 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
1160 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
1161 (some hardware wont work with macros)
1163 CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
1164 Support for davinci emac
1166 CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
1167 Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
1170 Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
1172 CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
1173 Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
1174 Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
1175 If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
1176 wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
1177 useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
1178 control registers. This behavior won't affect the
1179 correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
1182 Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
1185 Define this to hold the physical address
1186 of the device (I/O space)
1188 CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
1189 Define this if data bus is 32 bits
1191 CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
1192 Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
1193 automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
1194 words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
1197 Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
1199 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
1200 Define the number of ports to be used
1202 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
1203 Define the ETH PHY's address
1205 CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
1206 If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
1210 Support TPM devices.
1213 Support for i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
1214 per system is supported at this time.
1216 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BUS_NUMBER
1217 Define the the i2c bus number for the TPM device
1219 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_SLAVE_ADDRESS
1220 Define the TPM's address on the i2c bus
1222 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
1223 Define the burst count bytes upper limit
1225 CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
1226 Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
1229 Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
1230 per system is supported at this time.
1232 CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
1233 Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
1234 to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
1238 Add tpm monitor functions.
1239 Requires CONFIG_TPM. If CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS is set, also
1240 provides monitor access to authorized functions.
1243 Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
1244 functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
1245 Requires support for a TPM device.
1247 CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
1248 Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
1249 Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
1252 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is
1253 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define
1254 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it.
1255 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard
1256 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB
1259 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives
1261 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines:
1263 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb
1267 for differential drivers: 0x00001000
1268 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000
1269 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100
1270 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100
1271 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL
1272 May be defined to allow interrupt polling
1273 instead of using asynchronous interrupts
1275 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
1276 txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
1278 CONFIG_USB_HUB_MIN_POWER_ON_DELAY defines the minimum
1279 interval for usb hub power-on delay.(minimum 100msec)
1282 Define the below if you wish to use the USB console.
1283 Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the
1284 command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and
1285 attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print
1286 it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty
1287 can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to
1288 appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a
1289 Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device.
1290 If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate
1292 # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID
1293 else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment
1294 variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following
1295 might be defined in YourBoardName.h
1298 Define this to build a UDC device
1301 Define this to have a tty type of device available to
1302 talk to the UDC device
1305 Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
1306 device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
1307 int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
1308 also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
1309 whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
1312 CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
1313 Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
1317 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
1318 Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
1319 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
1321 CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0xBLAH
1322 Derive USB clock from brgclk
1323 - CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0x04
1325 If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
1326 define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
1327 or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
1328 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
1329 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
1330 should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
1332 CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
1333 Define this string as the name of your company for
1334 - CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
1336 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
1337 Define this string as the name of your product
1338 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
1340 CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
1341 Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
1342 Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
1343 to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
1344 - CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
1346 CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
1347 Define this as the unique Product ID
1349 - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
1351 - ULPI Layer Support:
1352 The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via
1353 the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY
1354 via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and
1355 the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based
1356 viewport is supported.
1357 To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and
1358 CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file.
1359 If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the
1360 standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to
1361 the appropriate value in Hz.
1364 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To
1365 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be
1366 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device
1367 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is
1368 enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with
1369 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.
1372 Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
1374 CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
1375 Define the base address of MMCIF registers
1378 Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
1380 - USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support:
1382 This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class
1385 This enables the command "dfu" which is used to have
1386 U-Boot create a DFU class device via USB. This command
1387 requires that the "dfu_alt_info" environment variable be
1388 set and define the alt settings to expose to the host.
1391 This enables support for exposing (e)MMC devices via DFU.
1394 This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
1396 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
1397 Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
1398 raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
1399 configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
1400 through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
1402 CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
1403 When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
1404 we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
1405 the buffer once we've been given the whole file. Define
1406 this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
1407 Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
1409 - Journaling Flash filesystem support:
1410 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE,
1411 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV
1412 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device
1414 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
1415 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
1416 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
1418 CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART
1419 Define this to create an own partition. You have to provide a
1420 function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num)
1422 If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to
1423 #define CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_SINGLE_PART 1
1424 to disable the command chpart. This is the default when you
1425 have not defined a custom partition
1427 - FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem write function support:
1430 Define this to enable support for saving memory data as a
1431 file in FAT formatted partition.
1433 This will also enable the command "fatwrite" enabling the
1434 user to write files to FAT.
1436 CBFS (Coreboot Filesystem) support
1439 Define this to enable support for reading from a Coreboot
1440 filesystem. Available commands are cbfsinit, cbfsinfo, cbfsls
1446 Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard
1450 Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and
1451 GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support.
1452 Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc
1453 for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking.
1456 Enables a Chrome OS keyboard using the CROS_EC interface.
1457 This uses CROS_EC to communicate with a second microcontroller
1458 which provides key scans on request.
1463 Define this to enable video support (for output to
1466 CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000
1468 Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip
1470 CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM
1471 Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The
1472 video output is selected via environment 'videoout'
1473 (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is
1476 For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is
1477 selected via environment 'videomode'. Two different ways
1479 - "videomode=num" 'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers.
1480 Following standard modes are supported (* is default):
1482 Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024
1483 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1484 8 bits | 0x301* 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307
1485 15 bits | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319
1486 16 bits | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A
1487 24 bits | 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B
1488 -------------+---------------------------------------------
1489 (i.e. setenv videomode 317; saveenv; reset;)
1491 - "videomode=bootargs" all the video parameters are parsed
1492 from the bootargs. (See drivers/video/videomodes.c)
1495 CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806
1496 Enable Epson SED13806 driver. This driver supports 8bpp
1497 and 16bpp modes defined by CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_8BPP
1498 or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP
1501 Enable the Freescale DIU video driver. Reference boards for
1502 SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
1503 support, and should also define these other macros:
1509 CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
1510 CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
1512 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
1514 The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
1515 variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
1516 boot. See the documentation file README.video for a
1517 description of this variable.
1521 Enable the VGA video / BIOS for x86. The alternative if you
1522 are using coreboot is to use the coreboot frame buffer
1529 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
1530 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
1531 defined in your board-specific files.
1532 The only board using this so far is RBC823.
1534 - LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD
1536 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
1537 display); also select one of the supported displays
1538 by defining one of these:
1542 HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
1544 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
1546 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
1548 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
1550 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
1551 Active, color, single scan.
1553 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
1555 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
1556 Active, color, single scan.
1560 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
1561 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
1563 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
1565 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
1566 Active, color, single scan.
1570 HLD1045 display, 640x480.
1571 Active, color, single scan.
1575 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
1577 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T
1581 320x240. Black & white.
1583 Normally display is black on white background; define
1584 CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
1586 CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
1588 Normally the LCD is page-aligned (tyically 4KB). If this is
1589 defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
1590 For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
1591 here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
1592 a per-section basis.
1594 CONFIG_CONSOLE_SCROLL_LINES
1596 When the console need to be scrolled, this is the number of
1597 lines to scroll by. It defaults to 1. Increasing this makes
1598 the console jump but can help speed up operation when scrolling
1603 Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
1607 Enables an 'i2c edid' command which can read EDID
1608 information over I2C from an attached LCD display.
1610 - Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN
1612 If this option is set, the environment is checked for
1613 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
1614 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
1615 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
1616 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
1617 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
1618 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
1619 loaded very quickly after power-on.
1621 CONFIG_SPLASHIMAGE_GUARD
1623 If this option is set, then U-Boot will prevent the environment
1624 variable "splashimage" from being set to a problematic address
1625 (see README.displaying-bmps and README.arm-unaligned-accesses).
1626 This option is useful for targets where, due to alignment
1627 restrictions, an improperly aligned BMP image will cause a data
1628 abort. If you think you will not have problems with unaligned
1629 accesses (for example because your toolchain prevents them)
1630 there is no need to set this option.
1632 CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
1634 If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
1635 on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
1636 position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
1637 number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
1638 is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
1639 specify 'm' for centering the image.
1642 setenv splashpos m,m
1643 => image at center of screen
1645 setenv splashpos 30,20
1646 => image at x = 30 and y = 20
1648 setenv splashpos -10,m
1649 => vertically centered image
1650 at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
1652 - Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP
1654 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
1655 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
1656 splashscreen support or the bmp command.
1658 - Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8
1660 If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
1661 can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
1664 - Do compresssing for memory range:
1667 If this option is set, it would use zlib deflate method
1668 to compress the specified memory at its best effort.
1670 - Compression support:
1673 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
1674 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
1675 compressed images are supported.
1677 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
1678 the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
1683 If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
1686 Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
1687 requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
1690 (1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
1692 Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
1693 and Literal pos bits.
1695 This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
1696 for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
1697 total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
1698 a very small buffer.
1700 Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
1701 then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
1702 the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
1707 The address of PHY on MII bus.
1709 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
1711 The clock frequency of the MII bus
1715 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
1716 detection of gigabit PHY is included.
1718 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
1720 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1721 reset before any MII register access is possible.
1722 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
1723 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
1725 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
1727 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
1728 command issued before MII status register can be read
1738 Define a default value for Ethernet address to use
1739 for the respective Ethernet interface, in case this
1740 is not determined automatically.
1745 Define a default value for the IP address to use for
1746 the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
1747 determined through e.g. bootp.
1748 (Environment variable "ipaddr")
1750 - Server IP address:
1753 Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
1754 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
1755 (Environment variable "serverip")
1757 CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
1759 Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
1760 for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
1762 - Gateway IP address:
1765 Defines a default value for the IP address of the
1766 default router where packets to other networks are
1768 (Environment variable "gatewayip")
1773 Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
1774 routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
1775 address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
1776 forwarded through a router.
1777 (Environment variable "netmask")
1779 - Multicast TFTP Mode:
1782 Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
1783 rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp. Lets lots of targets
1784 tftp down the same boot image concurrently. Note: the Ethernet
1785 driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
1788 - BOOTP Recovery Mode:
1789 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY
1791 If you have many targets in a network that try to
1792 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
1793 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
1794 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
1795 from a power failure, when all systems will try to
1796 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
1797 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
1798 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
1799 following delays are inserted then:
1801 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec
1802 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec
1803 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec
1805 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec
1807 - BOOTP Random transaction ID:
1808 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_ID
1810 The standard algorithm to generate a DHCP/BOOTP transaction ID
1811 by using the MAC address and the current time stamp may not
1812 quite unlikely produce duplicate transaction IDs from different
1813 clients in the same network. This option creates a transaction
1814 ID using the rand() function. Provided that the RNG has been
1815 seeded well, this should guarantee unique transaction IDs
1818 - DHCP Advanced Options:
1819 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining
1820 CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:
1822 CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1823 CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
1824 CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1825 CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
1826 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1827 CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
1830 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
1831 CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1832 CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
1833 CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
1834 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
1836 CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
1837 environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
1839 CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
1840 after the configured retry count, the call will fail
1841 instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over
1842 to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
1845 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
1846 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
1847 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
1848 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1849 serverip will be stored in the additional environment
1850 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1851 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
1854 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
1855 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
1856 need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
1857 If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
1858 of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
1859 option 12 to the DHCP server.
1861 CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
1863 A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
1864 receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
1865 This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
1866 respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
1867 AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
1868 to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
1869 DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
1870 least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
1871 that one of the retries will be successful but note that
1872 the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
1875 - Link-local IP address negotiation:
1876 Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network
1877 for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration.
1878 This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed
1879 to exist in all environments that the device must operate.
1881 See doc/README.link-local for more information.
1884 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID
1886 The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
1888 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
1890 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
1895 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
1896 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
1897 eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
1899 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
1901 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
1902 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
1906 An ascii string containing the version of the software.
1910 An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
1914 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
1916 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
1918 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
1919 device in .1 of milliwatts.
1921 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
1923 A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
1925 - Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED
1927 Several configurations allow to display the current
1928 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
1929 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
1930 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
1931 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
1932 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
1933 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this
1936 - CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER
1938 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
1939 on those systems that support this (optional)
1940 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
1942 - I2C Support: CONFIG_SYS_I2C
1944 This enable the NEW i2c subsystem, and will allow you to use
1945 i2c commands at the u-boot command line (as long as you set
1946 CONFIG_CMD_I2C in CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c
1947 based realtime clock chips or other i2c devices. See
1948 common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the command line
1951 ported i2c driver to the new framework:
1952 - drivers/i2c/soft_i2c.c:
1953 - activate first bus with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT define
1954 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE
1955 for defining speed and slave address
1956 - activate second bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS2 define
1957 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_2 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_2
1958 for defining speed and slave address
1959 - activate third bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS3 define
1960 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_3 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_3
1961 for defining speed and slave address
1962 - activate fourth bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS4 define
1963 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_4 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_4
1964 for defining speed and slave address
1966 - drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c:
1967 - activate i2c driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_FSL
1968 define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_OFFSET for setting the register
1969 offset CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SPEED for the i2c speed and
1970 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SLAVE for the slave addr of the first
1972 - If your board supports a second fsl i2c bus, define
1973 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_OFFSET for the register offset
1974 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SPEED for the speed and
1975 CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SLAVE for the slave address of the
1978 - drivers/i2c/tegra_i2c.c:
1979 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_TEGRA
1980 - This driver adds 4 i2c buses with a fix speed from
1981 100000 and the slave addr 0!
1983 - drivers/i2c/ppc4xx_i2c.c
1984 - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX
1985 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
1986 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
1990 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
1991 Hold the number of i2c busses you want to use. If you
1992 don't use/have i2c muxes on your i2c bus, this
1993 is equal to CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_ADAPTERS, and you can
1996 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
1997 define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
1998 if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
2001 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
2002 define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
2003 on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
2006 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
2007 hold a list of busses you want to use, only used if
2008 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
2009 a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
2010 CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
2012 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES {{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
2013 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
2014 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
2015 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
2016 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
2017 {0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
2018 {1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
2019 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
2020 {1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
2024 bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
2025 bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
2026 bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
2027 bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
2028 bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
2029 bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
2030 bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
2031 bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
2032 bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
2034 If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
2036 - Legacy I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C
2038 NOTE: It is intended to move drivers to CONFIG_SYS_I2C which
2039 provides the following compelling advantages:
2041 - more than one i2c adapter is usable
2042 - approved multibus support
2043 - better i2c mux support
2045 ** Please consider updating your I2C driver now. **
2047 These enable legacy I2C serial bus commands. Defining
2048 CONFIG_HARD_I2C will include the appropriate I2C driver
2049 for the selected CPU.
2051 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
2052 command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
2053 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
2054 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
2055 command line interface.
2057 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
2059 There are several other quantities that must also be
2060 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
2062 In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
2063 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
2064 to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
2065 the CPU's i2c node address).
2067 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
2068 (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
2069 and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
2070 eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
2071 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
2073 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
2075 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
2076 chips might think that the current transfer is still
2077 in progress. Reset the slave devices by sending start
2078 commands until the slave device responds.
2080 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
2082 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
2083 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
2084 from include/configs/lwmon.h):
2088 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
2089 controller or configure ports.
2091 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL)
2095 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
2096 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
2097 are 0..3 for ports A..D.
2101 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
2102 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this
2105 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA)
2109 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
2110 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this
2113 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
2117 Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
2120 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
2124 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
2125 is false, it clears it (low).
2127 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
2128 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \
2129 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
2133 If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
2134 is false, it clears it (low).
2136 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
2137 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \
2138 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
2142 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
2143 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus
2144 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
2147 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2)
2149 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
2151 If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
2152 then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
2153 used as SCL / SDA. Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
2154 have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
2156 You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
2157 the generic GPIO functions.
2159 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
2161 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
2162 chips might think that the current transfer is still
2163 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
2164 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
2165 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
2166 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
2167 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
2168 is run early in the boot sequence.
2170 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
2172 An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
2173 defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
2174 boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
2175 is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
2176 using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
2177 controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
2178 i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
2179 controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
2181 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
2183 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
2184 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
2185 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
2187 CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2189 This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
2190 must have a controller. At any point in time, only one bus is
2191 active. To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
2192 Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
2194 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
2196 This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
2197 when the 'i2c probe' command is issued. If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2198 is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs. Otherwise, specify
2199 a 1D array of device addresses
2202 #undef CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2203 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
2205 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
2207 #define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
2208 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MULTI_NOPROBES {{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
2210 will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
2212 CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
2214 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
2215 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
2217 CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
2219 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
2220 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
2222 CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
2224 If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
2225 If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
2227 CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
2229 If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
2230 If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
2231 specified DTT device.
2233 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
2235 defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
2236 the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
2237 between writing the address pointer and reading the
2238 data. If this define is omitted the default behaviour
2239 of doing a stop-start sequence will be used. Most I2C
2240 devices can use either method, but some require one or
2243 - SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI
2245 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
2246 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
2247 D/As on the SACSng board)
2251 Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
2252 only SH7757 is supported.
2256 Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing.
2257 (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X)
2261 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
2262 using hardware support. This is a general purpose
2263 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
2264 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
2265 defined, the board configuration must define several
2266 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
2267 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
2271 Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
2272 and writes. As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
2273 must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
2274 Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors. For an
2275 example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
2279 Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
2280 SoCs. Currently i.MX31/35/51 are supported.
2282 - FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA
2284 Enables FPGA subsystem.
2286 CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
2288 Enables support for specific chip vendors.
2291 CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
2293 Enables support for FPGA family.
2294 (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
2298 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
2300 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
2302 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
2304 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
2306 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
2307 status by the configuration function. This option
2308 will require a board or device specific function to
2313 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
2314 configuration driver.
2316 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
2317 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
2319 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
2321 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
2322 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
2323 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
2324 indicated a CRC error).
2326 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
2328 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert
2329 after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II
2330 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
2333 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
2335 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during
2336 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
2338 CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
2340 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
2343 - Configuration Management:
2346 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
2347 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
2349 - Vendor Parameter Protection:
2351 U-Boot considers the values of the environment
2352 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
2353 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
2354 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
2355 protects these variables from casual modification by
2356 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
2357 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
2358 change this behaviour:
2360 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
2361 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
2362 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
2365 Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR
2366 _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
2367 Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
2368 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
2369 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
2372 The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
2373 for any variable by configuring the type of access
2374 to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
2375 or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
2380 Define this variable to enable the reservation of
2381 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
2382 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
2383 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
2384 this default value by defining an environment
2385 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
2386 reserve. Note that the board info structure will
2387 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
2388 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
2389 automatically be defined to hold the amount of
2390 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
2391 argument to Linux, for instance like that:
2393 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
2396 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
2397 either, which results in a memory region that will
2398 not be affected by reboots.
2400 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
2401 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
2402 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
2403 following board configurations are known to be
2406 IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
2407 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
2410 - Access to physical memory region (> 4GB)
2411 Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not
2412 normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures
2413 support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit
2414 machines using physical address extension or similar.
2415 Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which
2416 currently only supports clearing the memory.
2421 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
2422 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
2423 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
2424 system where you want the system to reboot
2425 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
2426 useful during development since you can try to debug
2427 the conditions that lead to the situation.
2429 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
2431 This variable defines the number of retries for
2432 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
2433 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
2434 default value of 5 is used.
2438 Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
2442 Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
2443 If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
2444 try longer timeout such as
2445 #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
2447 - Command Interpreter:
2448 CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
2450 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
2452 Note that this feature has NOT been implemented yet
2453 for the "hush" shell.
2456 CONFIG_SYS_HUSH_PARSER
2458 Define this variable to enable the "hush" shell (from
2459 Busybox) as command line interpreter, thus enabling
2460 powerful command line syntax like
2461 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||'
2462 constructs ("shell scripts").
2464 If undefined, you get the old, much simpler behaviour
2465 with a somewhat smaller memory footprint.
2468 CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
2470 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
2471 printed when the command interpreter needs more input
2472 to complete a command. Usually "> ".
2476 In the current implementation, the local variables
2477 space and global environment variables space are
2478 separated. Local variables are those you define by
2479 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
2480 variable later on, you have write `$name' or
2481 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
2482 directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
2484 Global environment variables are those you use
2485 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
2486 in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
2487 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
2489 To store commands and special characters in a
2490 variable, please use double quotation marks
2491 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
2492 of the backslashes before semicolons and special
2495 - Commandline Editing and History:
2496 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING
2498 Enable editing and History functions for interactive
2499 commandline input operations
2501 - Default Environment:
2502 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS
2504 Define this to contain any number of null terminated
2505 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
2506 the default environment compiled into the boot image.
2508 For example, place something like this in your
2509 board's config file:
2511 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
2515 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
2516 internal format how the environment is stored by the
2517 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
2518 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
2519 will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
2520 You better know what you are doing here.
2522 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
2523 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
2524 the environment like the "source" command or the
2527 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_CONFIG
2529 Define this in order to add variables describing the
2530 U-Boot build configuration to the default environment.
2531 These will be named arch, cpu, board, vendor, and soc.
2533 Enabling this option will cause the following to be defined:
2541 CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG
2543 Define this in order to add variables describing certain
2544 run-time determined information about the hardware to the
2545 environment. These will be named board_name, board_rev.
2547 CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
2549 Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
2550 intialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
2551 that so that the environment is not available until
2552 explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
2553 this is instead controlled by the value of
2554 /config/load-environment.
2556 - DataFlash Support:
2557 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH
2559 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
2560 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
2563 - Serial Flash support
2566 Defining this option enables SPI flash commands
2567 'sf probe/read/write/erase/update'.
2569 Usage requires an initial 'probe' to define the serial
2570 flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
2573 The following defaults may be provided by the platform
2574 to handle the common case when only a single serial
2575 flash is present on the system.
2577 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier
2578 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select
2579 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h)
2580 CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz
2584 Define this option to include a destructive SPI flash
2587 CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_BAR Ban/Extended Addr Reg
2589 Define this option to use the Bank addr/Extended addr
2590 support on SPI flashes which has size > 16Mbytes.
2592 - SystemACE Support:
2595 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
2596 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
2597 of the chip must also be defined in the
2598 CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
2600 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
2601 #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
2603 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
2604 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
2606 - TFTP Fixed UDP Port:
2609 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
2610 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
2611 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
2612 number generator is used.
2614 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
2615 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't
2616 defined, the normal port 69 is used.
2618 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
2619 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
2620 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
2621 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
2622 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
2623 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
2624 but sometimes that is not allowed.
2629 This enables a generic 'hash' command which can produce
2630 hashes / digests from a few algorithms (e.g. SHA1, SHA256).
2634 Enable the hash verify command (hash -v). This adds to code
2637 CONFIG_SHA1 - support SHA1 hashing
2638 CONFIG_SHA256 - support SHA256 hashing
2640 Note: There is also a sha1sum command, which should perhaps
2641 be deprecated in favour of 'hash sha1'.
2646 This enables the RSA algorithm used for FIT image verification
2647 in U-Boot. See doc/uImage/signature for more information.
2649 The signing part is build into mkimage regardless of this
2653 - Show boot progress:
2654 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
2656 Defining this option allows to add some board-
2657 specific code (calling a user-provided function
2658 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
2659 the system's boot progress on some display (for
2660 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
2661 the following checkpoints are implemented:
2663 - Detailed boot stage timing
2665 Define this option to get detailed timing of each stage
2666 of the boot process.
2668 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_USER_COUNT
2669 This is the number of available user bootstage records.
2670 Each time you call bootstage_mark(BOOTSTAGE_ID_ALLOC, ...)
2671 a new ID will be allocated from this stash. If you exceed
2672 the limit, recording will stop.
2674 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_REPORT
2675 Define this to print a report before boot, similar to this:
2677 Timer summary in microseconds:
2680 3,575,678 3,575,678 board_init_f start
2681 3,575,695 17 arch_cpu_init A9
2682 3,575,777 82 arch_cpu_init done
2683 3,659,598 83,821 board_init_r start
2684 3,910,375 250,777 main_loop
2685 29,916,167 26,005,792 bootm_start
2686 30,361,327 445,160 start_kernel
2688 CONFIG_CMD_BOOTSTAGE
2689 Add a 'bootstage' command which supports printing a report
2690 and un/stashing of bootstage data.
2692 CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_FDT
2693 Stash the bootstage information in the FDT. A root 'bootstage'
2694 node is created with each bootstage id as a child. Each child
2695 has a 'name' property and either 'mark' containing the
2696 mark time in microsecond, or 'accum' containing the
2697 accumulated time for that bootstage id in microseconds.
2702 name = "board_init_f";
2711 Code in the Linux kernel can find this in /proc/devicetree.
2713 Legacy uImage format:
2716 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image
2717 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number
2718 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number
2719 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum
2720 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum
2721 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum
2722 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum
2723 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture
2724 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2725 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi)
2726 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK
2727 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error
2728 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type
2729 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK
2730 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error
2731 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)
2733 9 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2734 -10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number
2735 -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum
2736 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK
2737 -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum
2738 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum
2739 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading
2740 -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk)
2741 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification
2742 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.
2744 15 arch/<arch>/lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS
2746 -30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system
2747 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog()
2748 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()
2750 34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device
2751 -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command
2752 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command
2753 -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device
2754 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device
2755 -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2756 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available
2757 -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device
2758 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK
2759 -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number
2760 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2761 -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device
2762 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number
2763 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device
2764 -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command
2765 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command
2766 -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device
2767 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found
2768 -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available
2769 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available
2770 -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected
2771 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected
2772 -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table
2773 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found
2774 -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type
2775 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type
2776 -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2777 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK
2778 -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number
2779 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number
2780 -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum
2781 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum
2782 -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device
2783 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK
2784 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device
2785 -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command
2786 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command
2787 -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device
2788 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found
2789 -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device
2790 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available
2791 -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device
2792 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK
2793 -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number
2794 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number
2795 -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device
2796 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK
2798 -60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default
2800 64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration.
2801 -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found.
2802 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.
2804 -80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong
2805 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling NetLoop()
2806 -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in NetLoop() occurred
2807 81 common/cmd_net.c NetLoop() back without error
2808 -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded)
2809 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot
2810 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command
2811 -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command
2812 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors
2817 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format
2818 -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format
2819 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration
2820 -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage
2821 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified
2822 -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset
2823 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node
2824 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset
2825 -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed
2826 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK
2827 -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture
2828 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK
2829 -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type
2830 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK
2831 -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size
2832 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size
2833 -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT)
2834 -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type
2835 -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp
2836 -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os
2837 -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address
2838 -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error
2840 120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification
2841 -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format
2842 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format
2843 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration
2844 -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage
2845 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified
2846 -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset
2847 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset
2848 -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed
2849 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK
2850 -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture
2851 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK
2852 -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size
2853 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size
2854 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address
2855 -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address
2857 -130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format
2858 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK
2860 -140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format
2861 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK
2863 -150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format
2864 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK
2866 - FIT image support:
2868 Enable support for the FIT uImage format.
2870 CONFIG_FIT_BEST_MATCH
2871 When no configuration is explicitly selected, default to the
2872 one whose fdt's compatibility field best matches that of
2873 U-Boot itself. A match is considered "best" if it matches the
2874 most specific compatibility entry of U-Boot's fdt's root node.
2875 The order of entries in the configuration's fdt is ignored.
2877 CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE
2878 This option enables signature verification of FIT uImages,
2879 using a hash signed and verified using RSA. See
2880 doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt for more details.
2882 - Standalone program support:
2883 CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR
2885 This option defines a board specific value for the
2886 address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
2887 overwriting the architecture dependent default
2890 - Frame Buffer Address:
2893 Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
2894 address for frame buffer. This is typically the case
2895 when using a graphics controller has separate video
2896 memory. U-Boot will then place the frame buffer at
2897 the given address instead of dynamically reserving it
2898 in system RAM by calling lcd_setmem(), which grabs
2899 the memory for the frame buffer depending on the
2900 configured panel size.
2902 Please see board_init_f function.
2904 - Automatic software updates via TFTP server
2906 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX
2907 CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
2909 These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
2910 for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
2912 - MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support)
2915 Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
2916 Needed for mtdparts command support.
2918 CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
2920 Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
2921 kernel. Needed for UBI support.
2926 Adds commands for interacting with MTD partitions formatted
2927 with the UBI flash translation layer
2929 Requires also defining CONFIG_RBTREE
2931 CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
2933 Make the verbose messages from UBI stop printing. This leaves
2934 warnings and errors enabled.
2939 Adds commands for interacting with UBI volumes formatted as
2940 UBIFS. UBIFS is read-only in u-boot.
2942 Requires UBI support as well as CONFIG_LZO
2944 CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
2946 Make the verbose messages from UBIFS stop printing. This leaves
2947 warnings and errors enabled.
2951 Enable building of SPL globally.
2954 LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
2956 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT
2957 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL, BSS included.
2958 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory
2959 used by SPL from _start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
2960 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2961 must not be both defined at the same time.
2964 Maximum size of the SPL image (text, data, rodata, and
2965 linker lists sections), BSS excluded.
2966 When defined, the linker checks that the actual size does
2969 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
2970 TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
2972 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
2973 Address to relocate to. If unspecified, this is equal to
2974 CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
2976 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
2977 Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
2979 CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2980 Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL BSS.
2981 When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory used
2982 by SPL from __bss_start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
2983 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
2984 must not be both defined at the same time.
2987 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
2989 CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
2990 Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
2991 relocation. If unspecified, this is equal to
2994 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
2995 Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
2997 CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
2998 The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
3000 CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK
3001 Enable the SPL framework under common/. This framework
3002 supports MMC, NAND and YMODEM loading of U-Boot and NAND
3003 NAND loading of the Linux Kernel.
3005 CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
3006 For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
3007 about the running system.
3009 CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
3010 Arch init code should be built for a very small image
3012 CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
3013 Support for common/libcommon.o in SPL binary
3015 CONFIG_SPL_LIBDISK_SUPPORT
3016 Support for disk/libdisk.o in SPL binary
3018 CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT
3019 Support for drivers/i2c/libi2c.o in SPL binary
3021 CONFIG_SPL_GPIO_SUPPORT
3022 Support for drivers/gpio/libgpio.o in SPL binary
3024 CONFIG_SPL_MMC_SUPPORT
3025 Support for drivers/mmc/libmmc.o in SPL binary
3027 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR,
3028 CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_MAX_SIZE_SECTORS,
3029 CONFIG_SYS_MMC_SD_FAT_BOOT_PARTITION
3030 Address, size and partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from
3031 when the MMC is being used in raw mode.
3033 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_KERNEL_SECTOR
3034 Sector to load kernel uImage from when MMC is being
3035 used in raw mode (for Falcon mode)
3037 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTOR,
3038 CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTORS
3039 Sector and number of sectors to load kernel argument
3040 parameters from when MMC is being used in raw mode
3043 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT
3044 Support for fs/fat/libfat.o in SPL binary
3046 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
3047 Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from FAT
3049 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_LOAD_KERNEL_NAME
3050 Filename to read to load kernel uImage when reading
3051 from FAT (for Falcon mode)
3053 CONFIG_SPL_FAT_LOAD_ARGS_NAME
3054 Filename to read to load kernel argument parameters
3055 when reading from FAT (for Falcon mode)
3057 CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
3058 Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
3059 start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
3060 continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
3061 loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
3063 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE
3064 Include nand_base.c in the SPL. Requires
3065 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS.
3067 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS
3068 SPL uses normal NAND drivers, not minimal drivers.
3071 Include standard software ECC in the SPL
3073 CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
3074 Support for NAND boot using simple NAND drivers that
3075 expose the cmd_ctrl() interface.
3077 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
3078 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
3079 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
3080 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
3081 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
3082 Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
3085 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
3086 Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
3088 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
3089 Location in memory to load U-Boot to
3091 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
3092 Size of image to load
3094 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
3095 Entry point in loaded image to jump to
3097 CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
3098 Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
3099 data. This is used for example on davinci plattforms.
3101 CONFIG_SPL_OMAP3_ID_NAND
3102 Support for an OMAP3-specific set of functions to return the
3103 ID and MFR of the first attached NAND chip, if present.
3105 CONFIG_SPL_SERIAL_SUPPORT
3106 Support for drivers/serial/libserial.o in SPL binary
3108 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_FLASH_SUPPORT
3109 Support for drivers/mtd/spi/libspi_flash.o in SPL binary
3111 CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUPPORT
3112 Support for drivers/spi/libspi.o in SPL binary
3114 CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
3115 Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
3117 CONFIG_SPL_LIBGENERIC_SUPPORT
3118 Support for lib/libgeneric.o in SPL binary
3120 CONFIG_SPL_ENV_SUPPORT
3121 Support for the environment operating in SPL binary
3123 CONFIG_SPL_NET_SUPPORT
3124 Support for the net/libnet.o in SPL binary.
3125 It conflicts with SPL env from storage medium specified by
3126 CONFIG_ENV_IS_xxx but CONFIG_ENV_IS_NOWHERE
3129 Image offset to which the SPL should be padded before appending
3130 the SPL payload. By default, this is defined as
3131 CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
3132 CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
3133 payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
3136 Final target image containing SPL and payload. Some SPLs
3137 use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
3138 example if more than one image needs to be produced.
3140 CONFIG_FIT_SPL_PRINT
3141 Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
3142 code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
3143 option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
3144 bootm command when booting a FIT image.
3149 [so far only for SMDK2400 boards]
3151 - Modem support enable:
3152 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT
3154 - RTS/CTS Flow control enable:
3157 - Modem debug support:
3158 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG
3160 Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg())
3161 for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000.
3163 - Interrupt support (PPC):
3165 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
3166 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
3167 for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
3168 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
3169 CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
3170 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
3171 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
3172 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
3173 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
3174 general timer_interrupt().
3178 In the target system modem support is enabled when a
3179 specific key (key combination) is pressed during
3180 power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally
3181 (autoboot). The key_pressed() function is called from
3182 board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy
3183 function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem
3186 If there are no modem init strings in the
3187 environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the
3188 previous output (banner, info printfs) will be
3191 See also: doc/README.Modem
3193 Board initialization settings:
3194 ------------------------------
3196 During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions
3197 to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup
3198 before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the
3199 following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is
3200 architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c
3201 typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().
3203 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
3204 - CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
3205 - CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
3206 - CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()
3208 Configuration Settings:
3209 -----------------------
3211 - CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included;
3212 undefine this when you're short of memory.
3214 - CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default
3215 width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.
3217 - CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to
3218 prompt for user input.
3220 - CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console
3222 - CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output
3224 - CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands
3226 - CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to
3227 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is
3230 - CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE:
3231 List of legal baudrate settings for this board.
3233 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET
3234 Suppress display of console information at boot.
3236 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
3237 If the board specific function
3238 extern int overwrite_console (void);
3239 returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the
3240 serial port, else the settings in the environment are used.
3242 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE
3243 Enable the call to overwrite_console().
3245 - CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE
3246 Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings.
3248 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END:
3249 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the
3252 - CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST:
3253 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.
3255 - CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH:
3256 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test
3257 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable
3259 - CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE (PPC only):
3260 If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header,
3261 this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top
3262 (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By
3263 fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed
3264 the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either.
3265 This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux
3266 board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that
3267 recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup
3268 will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.
3270 This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
3271 CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
3274 WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
3275 the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
3276 then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
3277 non page size aligned address and this could cause major
3280 - CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE:
3281 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download
3283 - CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE:
3284 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here.
3286 - CONFIG_SYS_MBIO_BASE:
3287 Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a
3290 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE:
3291 Physical start address of Flash memory.
3293 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE:
3294 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by
3295 make config files to be same as the text base address
3296 (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as
3297 CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.
3299 - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN:
3300 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to
3301 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is
3302 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate
3305 - CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN:
3306 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.
3308 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
3309 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
3310 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
3311 you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file
3312 to adjust this setting to your needs.
3314 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ:
3315 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of
3316 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by
3317 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if
3318 used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low"
3319 enviroment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case
3320 all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low"
3321 and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment
3322 variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of
3323 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined,
3324 then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.
3326 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH:
3327 Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the
3328 initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand
3331 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE:
3332 Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between
3333 "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3335 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD:
3336 Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in
3337 space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.
3339 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS:
3340 Max number of Flash memory banks
3342 - CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT:
3343 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip
3345 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT:
3346 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)
3348 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT:
3349 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)
3351 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT
3352 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)
3354 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT
3355 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)
3357 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION
3358 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used
3359 instead of U-Boot software protection.
3361 - CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:
3363 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
3364 without this option such a download has to be
3365 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
3366 copy from RAM to flash.
3368 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
3369 you can check if the download worked before you erase
3370 the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
3371 too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
3372 downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
3374 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI:
3375 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the
3376 common flash structure for storing flash geometry.
3378 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
3379 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver
3380 in the drivers directory
3382 - CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD
3383 This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver
3384 in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash
3387 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE
3388 Use buffered writes to flash.
3390 - CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N
3391 s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered
3394 - CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST
3395 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't
3396 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This
3397 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only
3398 optionally available.
3400 - CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS
3401 If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown
3402 digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80
3403 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.
3405 - CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY
3406 If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared
3407 against the source after the write operation. An error message
3408 will be printed when the contents are not identical.
3409 Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases,
3410 since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier
3411 while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable
3412 this option if you really know what you are doing.
3414 - CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER:
3415 Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some
3416 Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value
3417 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all
3418 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface
3419 on high Ethernet traffic.
3420 Defaults to 4 if not defined.
3422 - CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES
3424 Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used
3425 internally to store the environment settings. The default
3426 setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most
3427 cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see
3428 lib/hashtable.c for details.
3430 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3431 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3432 Enable validation of the values given to enviroment variables when
3433 calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal,
3434 hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined,
3435 the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.
3437 The format of the list is:
3438 type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m]
3439 access_atribute = [a|r|o|c]
3440 attributes = type_attribute[access_atribute]
3441 entry = variable_name[:attributes]
3444 The type attributes are:
3445 s - String (default)
3448 b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF])
3452 The access attributes are:
3458 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT
3459 Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags"
3460 envirnoment variable in the default or embedded environment.
3462 - CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC
3463 Define this to a list (string) to define validation that
3464 should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags"
3465 environment variable. To override a setting in the static
3466 list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the
3469 - CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE
3470 If defined, don't allow the -f switch to env set override variable
3473 - CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD
3474 This selects the architecture-generic board system instead of the
3475 architecture-specific board files. It is intended to move boards
3476 to this new framework over time. Defining this will disable the
3477 arch/foo/lib/board.c file and use common/board_f.c and
3478 common/board_r.c instead. To use this option your architecture
3479 must support it (i.e. must define __HAVE_ARCH_GENERIC_BOARD in
3480 its config.mk file). If you find problems enabling this option on
3481 your board please report the problem and send patches!
3483 - CONFIG_SYS_SYM_OFFSETS
3484 This is set by architectures that use offsets for link symbols
3485 instead of absolute values. So bss_start is obtained using an
3486 offset _bss_start_ofs from CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE, rather than
3487 directly. You should not need to touch this setting.
3489 - CONFIG_OMAP_PLATFORM_RESET_TIME_MAX_USEC (OMAP only)
3490 This is set by OMAP boards for the max time that reset should
3491 be asserted. See doc/README.omap-reset-time for details on how
3492 the value can be calulated on a given board.
3494 The following definitions that deal with the placement and management
3495 of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the
3496 following configurations:
3498 - CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:
3500 Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils
3501 may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.
3503 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:
3505 Define this if the environment is in flash memory.
3507 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is
3508 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This
3509 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot
3510 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller
3511 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a
3512 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In
3513 such a case you would place the environment in one of the
3514 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With
3515 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the
3516 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap
3517 between U-Boot and the environment.
3519 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3521 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the
3522 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot
3523 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset
3524 for this sector is given here.
3526 CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.
3530 This is just another way to specify the start address of
3531 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of
3534 - CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:
3536 Size of the sector containing the environment.
3539 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors.
3540 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for
3545 If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH
3546 and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part
3547 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves
3548 memory for the RAM copy of the environment.
3550 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this
3551 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code,
3552 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used
3553 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is
3554 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view:
3555 updating the environment in flash makes it always
3556 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes
3557 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in
3558 RAM, your target system will be dead.
3560 - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND
3561 CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND
3563 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold
3564 a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is
3565 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during
3566 a "saveenv" operation.
3568 BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the
3569 source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds*
3573 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:
3575 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device
3576 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the
3582 These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you
3583 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory
3584 can just be read and written to, without any special
3587 BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early
3588 in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the
3589 console baudrate). You *MUST* have mapped your NVRAM area then, or
3592 Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the
3593 environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to
3594 keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv"
3595 to save the current settings.
3598 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:
3600 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access
3601 device and a driver for it.
3603 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3606 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the
3607 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.
3609 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR:
3610 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device.
3611 The default address is zero.
3613 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS:
3614 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a
3615 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example
3616 would require six bits.
3618 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS:
3619 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between
3620 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.
3622 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN:
3623 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note
3624 that this is NOT the chip address length!
3626 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW:
3627 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones
3628 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of
3629 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit
3630 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256
3633 Note that we consider the length of the address field to
3634 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden
3635 in the chip address.
3637 - CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE:
3638 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.
3640 - CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C
3641 define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your
3642 EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.
3644 - CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS
3645 if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over
3646 I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this
3647 EEPROM. For example:
3649 #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS 1
3651 EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over
3652 a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.
3654 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:
3656 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you
3657 want to use for the environment.
3659 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3663 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the
3664 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed
3665 at the specified address.
3667 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_REMOTE:
3669 Define this if you have a remote memory space which you
3670 want to use for the local device's environment.
3675 These two #defines specify the address and size of the
3676 environment area within the remote memory space. The
3677 local device can get the environment from remote memory
3678 space by SRIO or PCIE links.
3680 BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use
3681 "saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the
3682 environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link,
3683 but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.
3685 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:
3687 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use
3688 for the environment.
3690 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3693 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
3694 area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be
3695 aligned to an erase block boundary.
3697 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
3699 This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE
3700 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so
3701 that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure
3702 during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_RENDUND must be
3703 aligned to an erase block boundary.
3705 - CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):
3707 Specifies the length of the region in which the environment
3708 can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's
3709 block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than
3710 are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within
3711 the range to be avoided.
3713 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):
3715 Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the
3716 environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The
3717 "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset.
3718 Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when
3719 using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.
3721 - CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST
3723 Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the
3724 environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to
3725 CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.
3727 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_UBI:
3729 Define this if you have an UBI volume that you want to use for the
3730 environment. This has the benefit of wear-leveling the environment
3731 accesses, which is important on NAND.
3733 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_PART:
3735 Define this to a string that is the mtd partition containing the UBI.
3737 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_VOLUME:
3739 Define this to the name of the volume that you want to store the
3742 - CONFIG_ENV_UBI_VOLUME_REDUND:
3744 Define this to the name of another volume to store a second copy of
3745 the environment in. This will enable redundant environments in UBI.
3746 It is assumed that both volumes are in the same MTD partition.
3748 - CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
3749 - CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
3751 You will probably want to define these to avoid a really noisy system
3752 when storing the env in UBI.
3754 - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC:
3756 Define this if you have an MMC device which you want to use for the
3759 - CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV:
3761 Specifies which MMC device the environment is stored in.
3763 - CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_PART (optional):
3765 Specifies which MMC partition the environment is stored in. If not
3766 set, defaults to partition 0, the user area. Common values might be
3767 1 (first MMC boot partition), 2 (second MMC boot partition).
3769 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:
3772 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment
3773 area within the specified MMC device.
3775 If offset is positive (the usual case), it is treated as relative to
3776 the start of the MMC partition. If offset is negative, it is treated
3777 as relative to the end of the MMC partition. This can be useful if
3778 your board may be fitted with different MMC devices, which have
3779 different sizes for the MMC partitions, and you always want the
3780 environment placed at the very end of the partition, to leave the
3781 maximum possible space before it, to store other data.
3783 These two values are in units of bytes, but must be aligned to an
3784 MMC sector boundary.
3786 - CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):
3788 Specifies a second storage area, of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE size, used to
3789 hold a redundant copy of the environment data. This provides a
3790 valid backup copy in case the other copy is corrupted, e.g. due
3791 to a power failure during a "saveenv" operation.
3793 This value may also be positive or negative; this is handled in the
3794 same way as CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET.
3796 This value is also in units of bytes, but must also be aligned to
3797 an MMC sector boundary.
3799 - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND (optional):
3801 This value need not be set, even when CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is
3802 set. If this value is set, it must be set to the same value as
3805 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET
3807 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The
3808 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment
3809 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte
3810 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization
3811 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems
3812 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the
3813 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.
3815 Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor
3816 has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been
3817 created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f()
3818 until then to read environment variables.
3820 The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor
3821 is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working
3822 with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is
3823 necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the
3824 "baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't
3825 have any device yet where we could complain.]
3827 Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if
3828 the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you
3829 use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.
3831 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN:
3832 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.
3834 Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
3835 also needs to be defined.
3837 - CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR:
3838 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.
3840 - CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS:
3841 Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init
3842 and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at
3843 drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving
3844 space for already greatly restricted images, including but not
3845 limited to NAND_SPL configurations.
3847 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO
3848 Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on
3849 when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called
3852 - CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE
3853 Similar to the previous option, but display this information
3854 later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if
3857 Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
3858 ---------------------------------------------------
3860 - CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE:
3861 Cache Line Size of the CPU.
3863 - CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR:
3864 Default address of the IMMR after system reset.
3866 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
3867 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
3868 the IMMR register after a reset.
3870 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT:
3871 Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale
3874 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR:
3875 Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically
3876 the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.
3878 CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR must also be set to this value,
3879 for cross-platform code that uses that macro instead.
3881 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS:
3882 Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new
3883 physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should
3884 be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the
3885 same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR
3886 is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended
3887 that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:
3889 #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
3890 * 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
3892 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH:
3893 Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically
3894 either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is
3895 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3896 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3898 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW:
3899 Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is
3900 used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or
3901 integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").
3903 - CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE:
3904 If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be
3905 forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.
3907 - Floppy Disk Support:
3908 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER
3910 the default drive number (default value 0)
3912 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
3914 defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
3917 CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
3919 defines the offset of register from address. It
3920 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
3921 the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
3923 If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
3924 CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
3927 if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
3928 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
3929 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
3930 source code. It is used to make hardware dependant
3934 Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI
3935 interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface.
3936 When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to
3937 IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional
3938 registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller
3941 - CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory.
3942 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're
3943 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]
3945 - CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:
3947 Start address of memory area that can be used for
3948 initial data and stack; please note that this must be
3949 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
3950 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
3951 will become available only after programming the
3952 memory controller and running certain initialization
3955 U-Boot uses the following memory types:
3956 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
3957 - MPC824X: data cache
3958 - PPC4xx: data cache
3960 - CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:
3962 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
3963 area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
3964 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
3965 data is located at the end of the available space
3966 (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
3967 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
3968 below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
3969 CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
3972 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data
3973 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for
3974 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must
3975 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between
3976 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.
3978 - CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)
3980 - CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)
3982 - CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)
3984 - CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)
3986 - CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)
3988 - CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)
3990 - CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM:
3993 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA:
3994 periodic timer for refresh
3996 - CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)
3998 - FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM,
3999 CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP,
4000 CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM,
4001 CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM:
4002 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)
4004 - SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE,
4005 CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM,
4006 CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM:
4007 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)
4009 - CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K,
4010 CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL:
4011 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer
4012 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)
4014 - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4015 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4016 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]
4018 - CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4019 enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4020 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]
4022 - CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]:
4023 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx);
4024 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]
4026 - CONFIG_SYS_USE_OSCCLK:
4027 Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful,
4028 wrong setting might damage your board. Read
4029 doc/README.MBX before setting this variable!
4031 - CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only)
4032 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post
4033 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides
4034 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp.
4037 - CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
4038 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL,
4039 CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS,
4040 CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB,
4041 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START,
4042 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL,
4043 CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE,
4044 CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only)
4045 Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.
4047 - CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE:
4048 Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
4051 - CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
4052 Only scan through and get the devices on the busses.
4053 Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
4054 something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
4055 a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
4056 by coreboot or similar.
4058 - CONFIG_PCI_INDIRECT_BRIDGE:
4059 Enable support for indirect PCI bridges.
4062 Chip has SRIO or not
4065 Board has SRIO 1 port available
4068 Board has SRIO 2 port available
4070 - CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER
4071 Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE
4073 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT:
4074 Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4076 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS:
4077 Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4079 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE:
4080 Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region
4082 - CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT
4083 Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using
4085 Not all NAND drivers use this symbol.
4086 Example of drivers that use it:
4087 - drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c
4088 - drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c
4090 - CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG
4091 Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined
4092 a default value will be used.
4095 Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common
4096 with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs
4099 I2C address of the SPD EEPROM
4101 - CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
4102 If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first
4103 one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve
4104 to something your driver can deal with.
4106 - CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING
4107 Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with
4108 soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing
4109 parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into
4110 header files or board specific files.
4112 - CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE
4113 Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.
4115 - CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0
4116 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should
4117 be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.
4119 - CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12]
4120 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.
4122 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY
4123 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds
4124 to the given FEC; i. e.
4125 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4
4126 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1
4128 When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
4130 - CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR
4131 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only).
4132 (so program the FEC to ignore it).
4135 Enable RMII mode for all FECs.
4136 Note that this is a global option, we can't
4137 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.
4139 - CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY
4140 Add a verify option to the crc32 command.
4143 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
4145 Where address/count indicate a memory area
4146 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
4150 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if
4151 the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
4154 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
4159 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
4161 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
4162 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
4164 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
4165 globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
4167 - CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT
4168 [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain
4169 low level initializations (like setting up the memory
4170 controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not
4171 relocate itself into RAM.
4173 Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
4174 exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
4175 other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
4176 these initializations itself.
4179 Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader
4180 that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when
4181 compiling a NAND SPL.
4183 - CONFIG_SYS_MPC85XX_NO_RESETVEC
4184 Only for 85xx systems. If this variable is specified, the section
4185 .resetvec is not kept and the section .bootpg is placed in the
4186 previous 4k of the .text section.
4188 - CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM
4189 Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses
4190 effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard
4191 U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated
4192 to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since
4193 it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all
4194 addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses
4195 to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().
4197 - CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMCPY
4198 CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET
4199 If these options are used a optimized version of memcpy/memset will
4200 be used if available. These functions may be faster under some
4201 conditions but may increase the binary size.
4203 - CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR
4204 If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not
4205 needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.
4208 Defines the MPU clock speed (in MHz).
4210 NOTE : currently only supported on AM335x platforms.
4212 Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:
4213 -----------------------------------
4215 The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the
4216 loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format.
4217 This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros
4218 are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address
4221 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_ADDR
4222 The address in the storage device where the firmware is located. The
4223 meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro
4226 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH
4227 The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format
4228 has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it
4229 might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some
4230 local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.
4232 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR
4233 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as
4234 normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the
4235 virtual address in NOR flash.
4237 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND
4238 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash.
4239 CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.
4241 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC
4242 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC
4243 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
4245 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_SPIFLASH
4246 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SPI
4247 device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.
4249 - CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE
4250 Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master)
4251 memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which
4252 can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound
4253 window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in
4254 master's memory space.
4256 Building the Software:
4257 ======================
4259 Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments
4260 and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support
4261 all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all
4262 (potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we
4263 recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK)
4264 which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.
4266 If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you
4267 have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case,
4268 you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell.
4269 Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are
4270 necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:
4272 $ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
4273 $ export CROSS_COMPILE
4275 Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in
4276 the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain
4277 (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW
4278 toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:
4280 $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools
4282 Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
4283 be executed on computers running Windows.
4285 U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the
4286 sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This
4291 where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing configu-
4292 rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.
4294 Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if
4295 additional information is available from the board vendor; for
4296 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard)
4297 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features"
4298 when choosing the configuration, i. e.
4301 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support
4303 make TQM823L_LCD_config
4304 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD
4309 Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot
4310 images ready for download to / installation on your system:
4312 - "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
4313 - "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
4314 - "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format
4316 By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved
4317 in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change
4318 this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:
4320 1. Add O= to the make command line invocations:
4322 make O=/tmp/build distclean
4323 make O=/tmp/build NAME_config
4324 make O=/tmp/build all
4326 2. Set environment variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location:
4328 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
4333 Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the BUILD_DIR environment
4337 Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so
4338 for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of
4342 If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need
4343 to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these
4346 1. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel
4347 "boards.cfg" file, using the existing entries as examples.
4348 Follow the instructions there to keep the boards in order.
4349 2. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any
4350 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least
4351 the "Makefile", a "<board>.c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds".
4352 3. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for
4354 3. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new
4355 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
4356 4. Run "make <board>_config" with your new name.
4357 5. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file
4358 to be installed on your target system.
4359 6. Debug and solve any problems that might arise.
4360 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]
4363 Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:
4364 ==============================================================
4366 If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board
4367 or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to
4368 provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes
4369 the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest
4370 official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.
4372 But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi-
4373 cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of
4374 the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so,
4375 just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot
4376 for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can
4377 select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE'
4378 environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the ELDK cross tools
4381 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
4383 or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type
4385 CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL
4387 When using the MAKEALL script, the default behaviour is to build
4388 U-Boot in the source directory. This location can be changed by
4389 setting the BUILD_DIR environment variable. Also, for each target
4390 built, the MAKEALL script saves two log files (<target>.ERR and
4391 <target>.MAKEALL) in the <source dir>/LOG directory. This default
4392 location can be changed by setting the MAKEALL_LOGDIR environment
4393 variable. For example:
4395 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
4396 export MAKEALL_LOGDIR=/tmp/log
4397 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL
4399 With the above settings build objects are saved in the /tmp/build,
4400 log files are saved in the /tmp/log and the source tree remains clean
4401 during the whole build process.
4404 See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.
4407 Monitor Commands - Overview:
4408 ============================
4410 go - start application at address 'addr'
4411 run - run commands in an environment variable
4412 bootm - boot application image from memory
4413 bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol
4414 bootz - boot zImage from memory
4415 tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol
4416 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip"
4417 (and eventually "gatewayip")
4418 tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol
4419 rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
4420 diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd'
4421 loads - load S-Record file over serial line
4422 loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode)
4424 mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing)
4425 nm - memory modify (constant address)
4426 mw - memory write (fill)
4428 cmp - memory compare
4429 crc32 - checksum calculation
4430 i2c - I2C sub-system
4431 sspi - SPI utility commands
4432 base - print or set address offset
4433 printenv- print environment variables
4434 setenv - set environment variables
4435 saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage
4436 protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
4437 erase - erase FLASH memory
4438 flinfo - print FLASH memory information
4439 nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand)
4440 bdinfo - print Board Info structure
4441 iminfo - print header information for application image
4442 coninfo - print console devices and informations
4443 ide - IDE sub-system
4444 loop - infinite loop on address range
4445 loopw - infinite write loop on address range
4446 mtest - simple RAM test
4447 icache - enable or disable instruction cache
4448 dcache - enable or disable data cache
4449 reset - Perform RESET of the CPU
4450 echo - echo args to console
4451 version - print monitor version
4452 help - print online help
4453 ? - alias for 'help'
4456 Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:
4457 ========================================
4461 For now: just type "help <command>".
4464 Environment Variables:
4465 ======================
4467 U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which
4468 can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.
4470 Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using
4471 "printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv"
4472 without a value can be used to delete a variable from the
4473 environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are
4474 working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the
4475 environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.
4477 Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.
4479 List of environment variables (most likely not complete):
4481 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE
4483 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
4485 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND
4487 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image
4489 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP
4491 bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
4492 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
4493 a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed
4494 for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size"
4495 environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is
4496 also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux
4497 kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and
4500 bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel.
4501 This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it
4502 defines the size of the memory region starting at base
4503 address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel
4504 during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used
4505 as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is
4508 bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm
4509 command can be restricted. This variable is given as
4510 a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region
4511 allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low"
4512 environment variable.
4514 updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used
4515 by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to
4516 documentation in doc/README.update for more details.
4518 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'),
4519 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the
4520 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to
4521 load any image using TFTP
4523 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp",
4524 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will
4525 be automatically started (by internally calling
4528 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
4529 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
4530 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
4531 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
4534 fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the
4535 flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot.
4536 For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory
4537 at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel
4538 only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you
4539 may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the
4540 device tree blob be copied to the maximum address
4541 of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can
4542 access it during the boot procedure.
4544 If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
4545 the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this
4546 to work it must reside in writable memory, have
4547 sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
4548 add the information it needs into it, and the memory
4549 must be accessible by the kernel.
4551 fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened
4552 device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is
4555 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
4556 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast
4557 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in
4558 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective
4559 it must be saved and board must be reset.
4561 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images:
4562 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be
4563 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this
4564 is usually what you want since it allows for
4565 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to
4566 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the
4567 CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment
4568 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0".
4569 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper
4570 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it
4571 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).
4573 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
4574 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
4575 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
4576 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
4577 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
4578 12 MB as well - this can be done with
4580 setenv initrd_high 00c00000
4582 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
4583 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
4584 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
4585 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
4586 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
4587 boot time on your system, but requires that this
4588 feature is supported by your Linux kernel.
4590 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command
4592 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp",
4593 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"
4595 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO
4597 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command
4599 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
4601 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
4603 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
4605 ethprime - controls which interface is used first.
4607 ethact - controls which interface is currently active.
4608 For example you can do the following
4610 => setenv ethact FEC
4611 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
4612 => setenv ethact SCC
4613 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC
4615 ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all
4616 available network interfaces.
4617 It just stays at the currently selected interface.
4619 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will
4620 either succeed or fail without retrying.
4621 When set to "once" the network operation will
4622 fail when all the available network interfaces
4623 are tried once without success.
4624 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation
4627 npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode
4629 tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's
4632 tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP
4633 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.
4635 tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set,
4636 we use the TFTP server's default block size
4638 tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli-
4639 seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines
4640 when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to
4641 be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds.
4642 Lowering this value may make downloads succeed
4643 faster in networks with high packet loss rates or
4644 with unreliable TFTP servers.
4646 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over
4647 Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q
4650 The following image location variables contain the location of images
4651 used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is
4652 not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment
4653 variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP
4654 server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be
4655 loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR
4656 flash or offset in NAND flash.
4658 *Note* - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some
4659 boards currenlty use other variables for these purposes, and some
4660 boards use these variables for other purposes.
4662 Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location
4663 ----- --------- ----------- --------------
4664 u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr
4665 Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr
4666 device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr
4667 ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr
4669 The following environment variables may be used and automatically
4670 updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"),
4671 depending the information provided by your boot server:
4673 bootfile - see above
4674 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server
4675 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server
4676 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use
4677 hostname - Target hostname
4679 netmask - Subnet Mask
4680 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server
4681 serverip - see above
4684 There are two special Environment Variables:
4686 serial# - contains hardware identification information such
4687 as type string and/or serial number
4688 ethaddr - Ethernet address
4690 These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of
4691 the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables
4692 once they have been set once.
4695 Further special Environment Variables:
4697 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed
4698 with the "version" command. This variable is
4699 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
4702 Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take
4703 only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).
4706 Callback functions for environment variables:
4707 ---------------------------------------------
4709 For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change
4710 when their values are changed. This functionailty allows functions to
4711 be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or
4712 deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side
4713 effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.
4715 The callbacks are named and associated with a function using the
4716 U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK macro in your board or driver code.
4718 These callbacks are associated with variables in one of two ways. The
4719 static list can be added to by defining CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC
4720 in the board configuration to a string that defines a list of
4721 associations. The list must be in the following format:
4723 entry = variable_name[:callback_name]
4726 If the callback name is not specified, then the callback is deleted.
4727 Spaces are also allowed anywhere in the list.
4729 Callbacks can also be associated by defining the ".callbacks" variable
4730 with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will
4731 override any association in the static list. You can define
4732 CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the
4733 ".callbacks" envirnoment variable in the default or embedded environment.
4736 Command Line Parsing:
4737 =====================
4739 There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot:
4740 the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:
4742 Old, simple command line parser:
4743 --------------------------------
4745 - supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
4746 - several commands on one line, separated by ';'
4747 - variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
4748 - special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\',
4750 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address}
4751 - You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example:
4752 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'
4757 - similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like
4758 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done,
4759 until...do...done, ...
4760 - supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv
4761 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax
4762 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run"
4768 (1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run"
4769 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and
4770 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be
4773 (2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e.
4774 calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing
4775 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining
4776 variables are not executed.
4778 Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:
4779 =======================================
4781 Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports
4782 such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a
4783 "working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:
4785 Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding
4786 MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0),
4787 "eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...
4789 If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance
4790 in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon-
4791 ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment
4792 variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:
4794 o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the
4795 environment, the SROM's address is used.
4797 o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the
4798 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is
4801 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and
4802 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.
4804 o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the
4805 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a
4808 o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error
4811 If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses
4812 will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This
4813 may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable.
4814 The naming convention is as follows:
4815 "ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.
4820 U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on)
4821 images in two formats:
4823 New uImage format (FIT)
4824 -----------------------
4826 Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar
4827 to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple
4828 components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by
4829 SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.
4835 Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything,
4836 preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for
4837 details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:
4839 * Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
4840 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks,
4841 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY;
4842 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS,
4844 * Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86,
4845 IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit;
4846 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
4847 * Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
4853 The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header
4854 and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by
4861 Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application
4862 easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of
4865 U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some
4866 special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any
4867 "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image;
4868 instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation
4869 serves several purposes:
4871 - the same features can be used for other OS or standalone
4872 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the
4873 Flash memory footprint)
4875 - it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because
4876 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot
4878 - the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd"
4879 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can
4880 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't
4881 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just
4882 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the
4883 software is easier now.
4889 Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:
4890 ---------------------------------------
4892 U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to
4893 configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware
4894 (no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to
4897 But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).
4899 Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance
4900 include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board
4901 Information structure as we define in include/asm-<arch>/u-boot.h,
4902 and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value
4903 as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.
4906 Configuring the Linux kernel:
4907 -----------------------------
4909 No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root
4910 device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.
4913 Building a Linux Image:
4914 -----------------------
4916 With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are
4917 not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target
4918 "uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by
4919 U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target,
4920 which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a
4921 100% compatible format.
4930 The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to
4931 encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information,
4932 CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:
4934 * build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):
4936 * convert the kernel into a raw binary image:
4938 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \
4939 -R .note -R .comment \
4940 -S vmlinux linux.bin
4942 * compress the binary image:
4946 * package compressed binary image for U-Boot:
4948 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \
4949 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \
4950 -d linux.bin.gz uImage
4953 The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use
4954 with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or
4955 combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64
4956 byte header containing information about target architecture,
4957 operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time
4958 stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.
4960 "mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and
4961 print the header information, or to build new images.
4963 In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information
4964 contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes
4965 checksum verification:
4967 tools/mkimage -l image
4968 -l ==> list image header information
4970 The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image
4971 from a "data file" which is used as image payload:
4973 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
4974 -n name -d data_file image
4975 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
4976 -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
4977 -T ==> set image type to 'type'
4978 -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
4979 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
4980 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
4981 -n ==> set image name to 'name'
4982 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'
4984 Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load
4985 address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the
4988 - 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
4989 - 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.
4991 So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:
4993 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
4994 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
4995 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
4996 > examples/uImage.TQM850L
4997 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
4998 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
4999 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5000 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
5001 Load Address: 0x00000000
5002 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5004 To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):
5006 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
5007 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5008 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5009 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5010 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
5011 Load Address: 0x00000000
5012 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5014 NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade
5015 speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this
5016 needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not
5017 need to be uncompressed:
5019 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
5020 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
5021 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
5022 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
5023 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
5024 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
5025 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
5026 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
5027 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
5028 Load Address: 0x00000000
5029 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5032 Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file
5033 when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:
5035 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
5036 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
5037 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
5038 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5039 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
5040 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5041 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
5042 Load Address: 0x00000000
5043 Entry Point: 0x00000000
5046 Installing a Linux Image:
5047 -------------------------
5049 To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface,
5050 you must convert the image to S-Record format:
5052 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec
5054 The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot
5055 image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to
5056 address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to
5057 specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads'
5060 Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the
5061 TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):
5063 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF
5069 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5070 ~>examples/image.srec
5071 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
5073 15989 15990 15991 15992
5074 [file transfer complete]
5076 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000
5079 You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command;
5080 this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data
5081 corruption happened:
5085 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
5086 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5087 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5088 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5089 Load Address: 00000000
5090 Entry Point: 0000000c
5091 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5097 The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in
5098 memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents
5099 of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as
5100 parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the
5101 "printenv" and "setenv" commands:
5104 => printenv bootargs
5105 bootargs=root=/dev/ram
5107 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5109 => printenv bootargs
5110 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5113 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
5114 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
5115 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5116 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
5117 Load Address: 00000000
5118 Entry Point: 0000000c
5119 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5120 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5121 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
5122 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
5123 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
5124 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
5125 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
5128 If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass
5129 the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT
5130 format!) to the "bootm" command:
5132 => imi 40100000 40200000
5134 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
5135 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5136 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5137 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5138 Load Address: 00000000
5139 Entry Point: 0000000c
5140 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5142 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
5143 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5144 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5145 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
5146 Load Address: 00000000
5147 Entry Point: 00000000
5148 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5150 => bootm 40100000 40200000
5151 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
5152 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
5153 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5154 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
5155 Load Address: 00000000
5156 Entry Point: 0000000c
5157 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5158 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5159 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
5160 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image
5161 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
5162 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
5163 Load Address: 00000000
5164 Entry Point: 00000000
5165 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5166 Loading Ramdisk ... OK
5167 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
5168 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
5169 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
5170 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
5172 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
5173 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
5177 Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:
5180 First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section
5181 titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The
5182 following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated
5188 oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb
5189 => tftp $oftaddr $oft
5190 Speed: 1000, full duplex
5192 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101
5193 Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'.
5194 Load address: 0x300000
5197 Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex)
5198 => tftp $loadaddr $bootfile
5199 Speed: 1000, full duplex
5201 TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2
5203 Load address: 0x200000
5204 Loading:############
5206 Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex)
5211 => bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr
5212 ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
5213 Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty
5214 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
5215 Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB
5216 Load Address: 00000000
5217 Entry Point: 00000000
5218 Verifying Checksum ... OK
5219 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
5220 Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000
5221 Using MPC85xx ADS machine description
5222 Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb
5226 More About U-Boot Image Types:
5227 ------------------------------
5229 U-Boot supports the following image types:
5231 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment
5232 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave
5233 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from
5234 the Standalone Program.
5235 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which
5236 will take over control completely. Usually these programs
5237 will install their own set of exception handlers, device
5238 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot
5239 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU.
5240 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their
5241 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is
5243 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS
5244 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like
5245 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want
5246 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot
5247 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get
5248 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.
5250 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
5251 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
5252 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
5253 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
5254 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
5255 a multiple of 4 bytes).
5257 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like
5258 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to
5261 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by
5262 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially
5263 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush)
5264 as command interpreter.
5266 Booting the Linux zImage:
5267 -------------------------
5269 On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done
5270 using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same
5271 as the syntax of "bootm" command.
5273 Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply
5274 kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the
5275 address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following
5276 format: "<initrd addres>:<initrd size>".
5282 One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and
5283 run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of
5284 U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.
5286 Two simple examples are included with the sources:
5291 'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo
5292 application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot.
5293 It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it
5297 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5298 ~>examples/hello_world.srec
5299 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
5300 [file transfer complete]
5302 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
5304 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
5305 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
5316 Hit any key to exit ...
5318 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
5320 Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt
5321 handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'.
5322 Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second.
5323 The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.'
5324 character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be
5325 controlled by the following keys:
5327 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
5328 b - enable interrupts and start timer
5329 e - stop timer and disable interrupts
5330 q - quit application
5333 ## Ready for S-Record download ...
5334 ~>examples/timer.srec
5335 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
5336 [file transfer complete]
5338 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004
5341 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
5344 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0
5347 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us
5350 [q, b, e, ?] ........
5351 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0
5354 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0
5357 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0
5360 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0
5362 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer
5364 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0
5370 Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the
5371 "minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd)
5372 consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under
5373 Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and
5374 especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and
5375 use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See
5376 http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3.
5377 for help with kermit.
5380 Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this
5381 configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:
5383 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
5384 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N
5385 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N
5391 Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host
5392 (build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).
5394 Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on
5395 NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also
5396 need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make).
5397 Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files;
5398 attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is
5399 missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:
5401 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
5403 # ln -s powerpc machine
5404 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
5405 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST
5407 Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native
5408 and U-Boot include files.
5410 Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a
5411 stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel
5412 proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source
5413 tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the
5414 meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz
5417 Implementation Internals:
5418 =========================
5420 The following is not intended to be a complete description of every
5421 implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the
5422 inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom
5426 Initial Stack, Global Data:
5427 ---------------------------
5429 The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot
5430 starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to
5431 system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet).
5432 This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS
5433 is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working
5434 at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation
5435 options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU
5436 models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and
5437 MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be
5438 locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.
5440 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
5441 U-Boot mailing list:
5443 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
5444 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
5445 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
5448 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
5449 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
5450 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
5451 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
5452 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
5453 beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
5454 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
5455 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.
5457 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
5458 is another option for the system designer to use as an
5459 initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
5460 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
5461 board designers haven't used it for something that would
5462 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
5465 CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
5466 with your processor/board/system design. The default value
5467 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
5468 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
5469 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
5470 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
5471 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
5472 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
5473 you get the config right.
5478 It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C
5479 code for the initialization procedures:
5481 * Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt
5484 * Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitely initialized
5485 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali-
5486 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).
5488 * Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like
5491 Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use
5492 normal global data to share information beween the code. But it
5493 turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly
5494 simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all
5495 functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_
5496 functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of
5497 the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we
5498 place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we
5499 reserve for this purpose.
5501 When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the
5502 relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by
5503 GCC's implementation.
5505 For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use:
5507 R2: reserved for system use
5508 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values
5509 R5-R10: parameter passing
5510 R13: small data area pointer
5514 (U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
5515 is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
5516 going back and forth between asm and C)
5518 ==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data
5520 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
5521 address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
5522 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
5523 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
5524 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
5525 624 text + 127 data).
5527 On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here:
5528 http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface
5530 ==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data
5532 On ARM, the following registers are used:
5534 R0: function argument word/integer result
5535 R1-R3: function argument word
5537 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking if enabled)
5538 R11: argument (frame) pointer
5539 R12: temporary workspace
5542 R15: program counter
5544 ==> U-Boot will use R8 to hold a pointer to the global data
5546 On Nios II, the ABI is documented here:
5547 http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf
5549 ==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data
5551 Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
5552 to access small data sections, so gp is free.
5554 On NDS32, the following registers are used:
5556 R0-R1: argument/return
5558 R15: temporary register for assembler
5559 R16: trampoline register
5560 R28: frame pointer (FP)
5561 R29: global pointer (GP)
5562 R30: link register (LP)
5563 R31: stack pointer (SP)
5564 PC: program counter (PC)
5566 ==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data
5568 NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope,
5569 or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.
5574 U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the
5575 MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.
5577 The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory
5578 controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each
5579 memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several
5580 physical memory banks.
5582 U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on
5583 TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After
5584 booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself
5585 to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some
5586 memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN
5587 configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board
5588 Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).
5590 Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB
5591 of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).
5593 So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like
5596 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code
5599 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use
5605 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
5606 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
5607 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena
5610 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code
5611 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
5612 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
5613 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM]
5616 System Initialization:
5617 ----------------------
5619 In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point
5620 (on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset
5621 configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory.
5622 To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address.
5623 To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!)
5624 initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs
5625 which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked
5626 part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core,
5627 the caches and the SIU.
5629 Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a
5630 preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries
5631 (multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash
5632 on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is
5633 programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a
5634 simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM
5637 When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of
5638 different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first
5639 bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address
5640 0x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create
5641 contiguous memory starting from 0.
5643 Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area
5644 and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board
5645 Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM
5646 pages, and the final stack is set up.
5648 Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment;
5649 until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are
5650 running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a
5654 U-Boot Porting Guide:
5655 ----------------------
5657 [Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing
5661 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
5663 sighandler_t no_more_time;
5665 signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
5666 alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));
5668 if (available_money > available_manpower) {
5669 Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
5673 Download latest U-Boot source;
5675 Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;
5678 email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");
5681 Read the README file in the top level directory;
5682 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
5683 Read applicable doc/*.README;
5684 Read the source, Luke;
5685 /* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
5688 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
5691 Add a lot of aggravation and time;
5693 if (a similar board exists) { /* hopefully... */
5694 cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
5695 cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
5697 Create your own board support subdirectory;
5698 Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
5700 Edit new board/<myboard> files
5701 Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h
5706 Add / modify source code;
5710 email("Hi, I am having problems...");
5712 Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
5713 if (reasonable critiques)
5714 Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
5716 Defend code as written;
5722 void no_more_time (int sig)
5731 All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel
5732 coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script
5733 "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.
5735 Source files originating from a different project (for example the
5736 MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not
5737 reformated to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those
5740 Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
5741 Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//)
5744 Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
5745 - remove any trailing white space
5746 - use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
5747 - make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
5748 - do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
5749 - do not add trailing empty lines to source files
5751 Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned
5752 with a request to reformat the changes.
5758 Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to
5759 establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules
5760 may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.
5762 Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.
5764 Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list <u-boot@lists.denx.de>;
5765 see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
5767 When you send a patch, please include the following information with
5770 * For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes
5771 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the
5772 patch actually fixes something.
5774 * For new features: a description of the feature and your
5777 * A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)
5779 * For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file
5781 * When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add this
5782 board to the MAINTAINERS file, too.
5784 * If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to
5785 document these in the README file.
5787 * The patch itself. If you are using git (which is *strongly*
5788 recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the
5789 "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to
5790 the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems
5791 with some other mail clients.
5793 If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of
5794 diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of
5797 The current directory when running this command shall be the parent
5798 directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that
5799 your patch includes sufficient directory information for the
5802 We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged,
5803 and compressed attachments must not be used.
5805 * If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several
5806 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.
5808 * Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be
5809 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.
5814 * Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched
5815 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported
5816 for any of the boards.
5818 * Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch
5819 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be
5820 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.
5822 * If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not
5823 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful!
5824 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only
5825 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature
5826 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your
5829 * Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the
5830 u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are
5831 reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches
5832 bigger than the size limit should be avoided.
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