X-Git-Url: https://git.kernelconcepts.de/?p=karo-tx-uboot.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=67dc444bd4d0bbe92d2cefcf45b220d079f98c37;hp=e9d189108f70f2cf526395fd2db06e10e7ec10ab;hb=eeacb73b8e0823b400eda5022e56e9f5a59b37a0;hpb=4b6f394fc41d7aee40467c30807b5ea03e2f6649 diff --git a/README b/README index e9d189108f..67dc444bd4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # -# (C) Copyright 2000 - 2011 +# (C) Copyright 2000 - 2012 # Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de. # # See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this @@ -374,6 +374,12 @@ The following options need to be configured: Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device tree nodes for the given platform. +- Generic CPU options: + CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN + + Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those + values is arch specific. + - Intel Monahans options: CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO @@ -420,6 +426,20 @@ The following options need to be configured: XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to be swapped if a flash programmer is used. +- ARM options: + CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH + + Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not + clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15. + + CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD + + Use this flag to build U-Boot using the Thumb instruction + set for ARM architectures. Thumb instruction set provides + better code density. For ARM architectures that support + Thumb2 this flag will result in Thumb2 code generated by + GCC. + - Linux Kernel Interface: CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ @@ -638,6 +658,15 @@ The following options need to be configured: 'Sane' compilers will generate smaller code if CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ is a power of 2 +- Safe printf() functions + Define CONFIG_SYS_VSNPRINTF to compile in safe versions of + the printf() functions. These are defined in + include/vsprintf.h and include snprintf(), vsnprintf() and + so on. Code size increase is approximately 300-500 bytes. + If this option is not given then these functions will + silently discard their buffer size argument - this means + you are not getting any overflow checking in this case. + - Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds Delay before automatically booting the default image; set to -1 to disable autoboot. @@ -756,6 +785,8 @@ The following options need to be configured: CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support CONFIG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb CONFIG_CMD_LDRINFO ldrinfo (display Blackfin loader) + CONFIG_CMD_LINK_LOCAL * link-local IP address auto-configuration + (169.254.*.*) CONFIG_CMD_LOADB loadb CONFIG_CMD_LOADS loads CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM print md5 message digest @@ -783,6 +814,7 @@ The following options need to be configured: (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C) CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access (4xx only) + CONFIG_CMD_SF * Read/write/erase SPI NOR flash CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM print sha1 memory digest (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY) CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE "source" command Support @@ -792,7 +824,7 @@ The following options need to be configured: CONFIG_CMD_TIME * run command and report execution time CONFIG_CMD_USB * USB support CONFIG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support - CONFIG_CMD_FSL * Microblaze FSL support + CONFIG_CMD_MFSL * Microblaze FSL support EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network @@ -1003,6 +1035,9 @@ The following options need to be configured: If this defined, the driver is quiet. The driver doen't show link status messages. + CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC + Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device + CONFIG_DRIVER_LAN91C96 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips. @@ -1106,6 +1141,9 @@ The following options need to be configured: May be defined to allow interrupt polling instead of using asynchronous interrupts + CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the + txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset. + - USB Device: Define the below if you wish to use the USB console. Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the @@ -1129,6 +1167,14 @@ The following options need to be configured: Define this to have a tty type of device available to talk to the UDC device + CONFIG_USBD_HS + Define this to enable the high speed support for usb + device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine + int is_usbd_high_speed(void) + also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll + whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full + speed. + CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to be set to usbtty. @@ -1168,6 +1214,14 @@ The following options need to be configured: for your device - CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF +- ULPI Layer Support: + The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via + the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY + via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and + the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based + viewport is supported. + To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and + CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file. - MMC Support: The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To @@ -1206,8 +1260,12 @@ The following options need to be configured: - FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem write function support: CONFIG_FAT_WRITE - Support for saving memory data as a file - in FAT formatted partition + + Define this to enable support for saving memory data as a + file in FAT formatted partition. + + This will also enable the command "fatwrite" enabling the + user to write files to FAT. - Keyboard Support: CONFIG_ISA_KEYBOARD @@ -1536,10 +1594,17 @@ The following options need to be configured: CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX + CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip environment variable, not the BOOTP server. + CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found + after the configured retry count, the call will fail + instead of starting over. This can be used to fail over + to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server + is not available. + CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more than one DNS serverip is offered to the client. @@ -1570,6 +1635,14 @@ The following options need to be configured: the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than this delay. + - Link-local IP address negotiation: + Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network + for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration. + This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed + to exist in all environments that the device must operate. + + See doc/README.link-local for more information. + - CDP Options: CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID @@ -2154,6 +2227,25 @@ The following options need to be configured: allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard commands cp, md... +- Serial Flash support + CONFIG_CMD_SF + + Defining this option enables SPI flash commands + 'sf probe/read/write/erase/update'. + + Usage requires an initial 'probe' to define the serial + flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update + commands. + + The following defaults may be provided by the platform + to handle the common case when only a single serial + flash is present on the system. + + CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS Bus identifier + CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS Chip-select + CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE (see include/spi.h) + CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED in Hz + - SystemACE Support: CONFIG_SYSTEMACE @@ -2198,6 +2290,31 @@ The following options need to be configured: example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment, the following checkpoints are implemented: +- Detailed boot stage timing + CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE + Define this option to get detailed timing of each stage + of the boot process. + + CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_USER_COUNT + This is the number of available user bootstage records. + Each time you call bootstage_mark(BOOTSTAGE_ID_ALLOC, ...) + a new ID will be allocated from this stash. If you exceed + the limit, recording will stop. + + CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_REPORT + Define this to print a report before boot, similar to this: + + Timer summary in microseconds: + Mark Elapsed Stage + 0 0 reset + 3,575,678 3,575,678 board_init_f start + 3,575,695 17 arch_cpu_init A9 + 3,575,777 82 arch_cpu_init done + 3,659,598 83,821 board_init_r start + 3,910,375 250,777 main_loop + 29,916,167 26,005,792 bootm_start + 30,361,327 445,160 start_kernel + Legacy uImage format: Arg Where When @@ -2393,11 +2510,29 @@ FIT uImage format: CONFIG_SPL Enable building of SPL globally. + CONFIG_SPL_LDSCRIPT + LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary. + + CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE + Maximum binary size (text, data and rodata) of the SPL binary. + CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary. - CONFIG_SPL_LDSCRIPT - LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary. + CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR + Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary. + + CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE + Maximum binary size of the BSS section of the SPL binary. + + CONFIG_SPL_STACK + Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use + + CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START + Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL. + + CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE + The size of the malloc pool used in SPL. CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT Support for common/libcommon.o in SPL binary @@ -2414,6 +2549,45 @@ FIT uImage format: CONFIG_SPL_MMC_SUPPORT Support for drivers/mmc/libmmc.o in SPL binary + CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR, + CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_MAX_SIZE_SECTORS, + CONFIG_SYS_MMC_SD_FAT_BOOT_PARTITION + Address, size and partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from + when the MMC is being used in raw mode. + + CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT + Support for fs/fat/libfat.o in SPL binary + + CONFIG_SPL_FAT_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME + Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from FAT + + CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE + Support for drivers/mtd/nand/libnand.o in SPL binary + + CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT, + CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE, + CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS, + CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE, + CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES + Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses + to read U-Boot with CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE + + CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS + Location in NAND for CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE to read U-Boot + from. + + CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START + Location in memory for CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE to load U-Boot + to. + + CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST + Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the + data. This is used for example on davinci plattforms. + + CONFIG_SPL_OMAP3_ID_NAND + Support for an OMAP3-specific set of functions to return the + ID and MFR of the first attached NAND chip, if present. + CONFIG_SPL_SERIAL_SUPPORT Support for drivers/serial/libserial.o in SPL binary @@ -2423,9 +2597,6 @@ FIT uImage format: CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUPPORT Support for drivers/spi/libspi.o in SPL binary - CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT - Support for fs/fat/libfat.o in SPL binary - CONFIG_SPL_LIBGENERIC_SUPPORT Support for lib/libgeneric.o in SPL binary @@ -2880,6 +3051,24 @@ to save the current settings. environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed at the specified address. +- CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_REMOTE: + + Define this if you have a remote memory space which you + want to use for the local device's environment. + + - CONFIG_ENV_ADDR: + - CONFIG_ENV_SIZE: + + These two #defines specify the address and size of the + environment area within the remote memory space. The + local device can get the environment from remote memory + space by SRIO or other links. + +BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use +"saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the +environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO link, but it can +not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO interface. + - CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND: Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use @@ -3273,11 +3462,6 @@ Low Level (hardware related) configuration options: that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when compiling a NAND SPL. -- CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST - define this, if you want to read first the oob data - and then the data. This is used for example on - davinci plattforms. - - CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMCPY CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET If these options are used a optimized version of memcpy/memset will @@ -3321,6 +3505,12 @@ within that device. Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SPI device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device. +- CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE + Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master) + memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which + can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO outbound window + ->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in master's + NOR flash. Building the Software: ====================== @@ -3358,7 +3548,7 @@ is done by typing: make NAME_config where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing configu- -rations; see the main Makefile for supported names. +rations; see boards.cfg for supported names. Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if additional information is available from the board vendor; for @@ -3413,10 +3603,8 @@ to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these steps: 1. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel - "Makefile" and to the "MAKEALL" script, using the existing - entries as examples. Note that here and at many other places - boards and other names are listed in alphabetical sort order. Please - keep this order. + "boards.cfg" file, using the existing entries as examples. + Follow the instructions there to keep the boards in order. 2. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least the "Makefile", a ".c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds". @@ -3482,6 +3670,7 @@ go - start application at address 'addr' run - run commands in an environment variable bootm - boot application image from memory bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol +bootz - boot zImage from memory tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip" (and eventually "gatewayip") @@ -3602,6 +3791,14 @@ List of environment variables (most likely not complete): fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot. + For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory + at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel + only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you + may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the + device tree blob be copied to the maximum address + of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can + access it during the boot procedure. + If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then the fdt will not be copied at all on boot. For this to work it must reside in writable memory, have @@ -4294,6 +4491,18 @@ U-Boot supports the following image types: useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush) as command interpreter. +Booting the Linux zImage: +------------------------- + +On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done +using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same +as the syntax of "bootm" command. + +Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_INITRD_RAW allows user to supply +kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the +address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following +format: ":". + Standalone HOWTO: =================