bootstage: Store boot timings in device tree

[karo-tx-uboot.git] / README

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@@ -769,8 +769,8 @@ The following options need to be configured:
 - Monitor Functions:
                Monitor commands can be included or excluded
                from the build by using the #include files
-               "config_cmd_all.h" and #undef'ing unwanted
-               commands, or using "config_cmd_default.h"
+               <config_cmd_all.h> and #undef'ing unwanted
+               commands, or using <config_cmd_default.h>
                and augmenting with additional #define's
                for wanted commands.
 
@@ -932,7 +932,8 @@ The following options need to be configured:
                If this variable is defined, an environment variable
                named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot
                version as printed by the "version" command.
-               This variable is readonly.
+               Any change to this variable will be reverted at the
+               next reset.
 
 - Real-Time Clock:
 
@@ -975,13 +976,20 @@ The following options need to be configured:
                commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
                automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
 
-- Partition Support:
-               CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION
-               and/or CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION
+- Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported:
+               Zero or more of the following:
+               CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION   Apple's MacOS partition table.
+               CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION   MS Dos partition table, traditional on the
+                                      Intel architecture, USB sticks, etc.
+               CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION   ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc.
+               CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION   GPT partition table, common when EFI is the
+                                      bootloader.  Note 2TB partition limit; see
+                                      disk/part_efi.c
+               CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS  Memory Technology Device partition table.
 
                If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
                CONFIG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at
-               least one partition type as well.
+               least one non-MTD partition type as well.
 
 - IDE Reset method:
                CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several
@@ -1475,6 +1483,12 @@ The following options need to be configured:
                can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
                bmp command.
 
+- Do compresssing for memory range:
+               CONFIG_CMD_ZIP
+
+               If this option is set, it would use zlib deflate method
+               to compress the specified memory at its best effort.
+
 - Compression support:
                CONFIG_BZIP2
 
@@ -2370,6 +2384,27 @@ The following options need to be configured:
                 29,916,167 26,005,792  bootm_start
                 30,361,327    445,160  start_kernel
 
+               CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_FDT
+               Stash the bootstage information in the FDT. A root 'bootstage'
+               node is created with each bootstage id as a child. Each child
+               has a 'name' property and either 'mark' containing the
+               mark time in microsecond, or 'accum' containing the
+               accumulated time for that bootstage id in microseconds.
+               For example:
+
+               bootstage {
+                       154 {
+                               name = "board_init_f";
+                               mark = <3575678>;
+                       };
+                       170 {
+                               name = "lcd";
+                               accum = <33482>;
+                       };
+               };
+
+               Code in the Linux kernel can find this in /proc/devicetree.
+
 Legacy uImage format:
 
   Arg  Where                   When
@@ -2589,6 +2624,15 @@ FIT uImage format:
                CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
                The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
 
+               CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK
+               Enable the SPL framework under common/.  This framework
+               supports MMC, NAND and YMODEM loading of U-Boot and NAND
+               NAND loading of the Linux Kernel.
+
+               CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
+               For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
+               about the running system.
+
                CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
                Support for common/libcommon.o in SPL binary
 
@@ -2652,6 +2696,9 @@ FIT uImage format:
                CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUPPORT
                Support for drivers/spi/libspi.o in SPL binary
 
+               CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
+               Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
+
                CONFIG_SPL_LIBGENERIC_SUPPORT
                Support for lib/libgeneric.o in SPL binary
 
@@ -3402,6 +3449,13 @@ Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:
                Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not
                required.
 
+- CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY
+               Only scan through and get the devices on the busses.
+               Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or
+               something has already done it, and we don't need to do it
+               a second time.  Useful for platforms that are pre-booted
+               by coreboot or similar.
+
 - CONFIG_SYS_SRIO:
                Chip has SRIO or not