1# 2# (C) Copyright 2000 - 2005 3# Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de. 4# 5# See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this 6# project. 7# 8# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 9# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 10# published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of 11# the License, or (at your option) any later version. 12# 13# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 14# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 15# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 16# GNU General Public License for more details. 17# 18# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 19# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 20# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, 21# MA 02111-1307 USA 22# 23 24Summary: 25======== 26 27This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for 28Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other 29processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to 30initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application 31code. 32 33The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of 34the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some 35header files in common, and special provision has been made to 36support booting of Linux images. 37 38Some attention has been paid to make this software easily 39configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are 40implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to 41add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used 42code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can 43load and run it dynamically. 44 45 46Status: 47======= 48 49In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the 50Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered 51"working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems. 52 53In case of problems see the CHANGELOG and CREDITS files to find out 54who contributed the specific port. 55 56 57Where to get help: 58================== 59 60In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for 61U-Boot you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at 62<u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net>. There is also an archive of 63previous traffic on the mailing list - please search the archive 64before asking FAQ's. Please see 65http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users/ 66 67 68Where we come from: 69=================== 70 71- start from 8xxrom sources 72- create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot) 73- clean up code 74- make it easier to add custom boards 75- make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs 76- extend functions, especially: 77 * Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader 78 * S-Record download 79 * network boot 80 * PCMCIA / CompactFLash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot 81- create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot) 82- add other CPU families (starting with ARM) 83- create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot) 84 85 86Names and Spelling: 87=================== 88 89The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling 90"U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments 91in source files etc.). Example: 92 93 This is the README file for the U-Boot project. 94 95File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples: 96 97 include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h 98 99 #include <asm/u-boot.h> 100 101Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on 102the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example: 103 104 U_BOOT_VERSION u_boot_logo 105 IH_OS_U_BOOT u_boot_hush_start 106 107 108Versioning: 109=========== 110 111U-Boot uses a 3 level version number containing a version, a 112sub-version, and a patchlevel: "U-Boot-2.34.5" means version "2", 113sub-version "34", and patchlevel "4". 114 115The patchlevel is used to indicate certain stages of development 116between released versions, i. e. officially released versions of 117U-Boot will always have a patchlevel of "0". 118 119 120Directory Hierarchy: 121==================== 122 123- board Board dependent files 124- common Misc architecture independent functions 125- cpu CPU specific files 126 - 74xx_7xx Files specific to Freescale MPC74xx and 7xx CPUs 127 - arm720t Files specific to ARM 720 CPUs 128 - arm920t Files specific to ARM 920 CPUs 129 - at91rm9200 Files specific to Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU 130 - imx Files specific to Freescale MC9328 i.MX CPUs 131 - s3c24x0 Files specific to Samsung S3C24X0 CPUs 132 - arm925t Files specific to ARM 925 CPUs 133 - arm926ejs Files specific to ARM 926 CPUs 134 - arm1136 Files specific to ARM 1136 CPUs 135 - i386 Files specific to i386 CPUs 136 - ixp Files specific to Intel XScale IXP CPUs 137 - mcf52x2 Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF52x2 CPUs 138 - mips Files specific to MIPS CPUs 139 - mpc5xx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xx CPUs 140 - mpc5xxx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xxx CPUs 141 - mpc8xx Files specific to Freescale MPC8xx CPUs 142 - mpc8220 Files specific to Freescale MPC8220 CPUs 143 - mpc824x Files specific to Freescale MPC824x CPUs 144 - mpc8260 Files specific to Freescale MPC8260 CPUs 145 - mpc85xx Files specific to Freescale MPC85xx CPUs 146 - nios Files specific to Altera NIOS CPUs 147 - nios2 Files specific to Altera Nios-II CPUs 148 - ppc4xx Files specific to AMCC PowerPC 4xx CPUs 149 - pxa Files specific to Intel XScale PXA CPUs 150 - s3c44b0 Files specific to Samsung S3C44B0 CPUs 151 - sa1100 Files specific to Intel StrongARM SA1100 CPUs 152- disk Code for disk drive partition handling 153- doc Documentation (don't expect too much) 154- drivers Commonly used device drivers 155- dtt Digital Thermometer and Thermostat drivers 156- examples Example code for standalone applications, etc. 157- include Header Files 158- lib_arm Files generic to ARM architecture 159- lib_generic Files generic to all architectures 160- lib_i386 Files generic to i386 architecture 161- lib_m68k Files generic to m68k architecture 162- lib_mips Files generic to MIPS architecture 163- lib_nios Files generic to NIOS architecture 164- lib_ppc Files generic to PowerPC architecture 165- net Networking code 166- post Power On Self Test 167- rtc Real Time Clock drivers 168- tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc. 169 170Software Configuration: 171======================= 172 173Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the 174rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible. 175 176There are two classes of configuration variables: 177 178* Configuration _OPTIONS_: 179 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with 180 "CONFIG_". 181 182* Configuration _SETTINGS_: 183 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if 184 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with 185 "CFG_". 186 187Later we will add a configuration tool - probably similar to or even 188identical to what's used for the Linux kernel. Right now, we have to 189do the configuration by hand, which means creating some symbolic 190links and editing some configuration files. We use the TQM8xxL boards 191as an example here. 192 193 194Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type: 195--------------------------------------------------- 196 197For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default 198configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_config". 199 200Example: For a TQM823L module type: 201 202 cd u-boot 203 make TQM823L_config 204 205For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the cpu type as well; 206e.g. "make cogent_mpc8xx_config". And also configure the cogent 207directory according to the instructions in cogent/README. 208 209 210Configuration Options: 211---------------------- 212 213Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all 214such information is kept in a configuration file 215"include/configs/<board_name>.h". 216 217Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in 218"include/configs/TQM823L.h". 219 220 221Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux 222kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to 223build a config tool - later. 224 225 226The following options need to be configured: 227 228- CPU Type: Define exactly one of 229 230 PowerPC based CPUs: 231 ------------------- 232 CONFIG_MPC823, CONFIG_MPC850, CONFIG_MPC855, CONFIG_MPC860 233 or CONFIG_MPC5xx 234 or CONFIG_MPC8220 235 or CONFIG_MPC824X, CONFIG_MPC8260 236 or CONFIG_MPC85xx 237 or CONFIG_IOP480 238 or CONFIG_405GP 239 or CONFIG_405EP 240 or CONFIG_440 241 or CONFIG_MPC74xx 242 or CONFIG_750FX 243 244 ARM based CPUs: 245 --------------- 246 CONFIG_SA1110 247 CONFIG_ARM7 248 CONFIG_PXA250 249 250 MicroBlaze based CPUs: 251 ---------------------- 252 CONFIG_MICROBLAZE 253 254 Nios-2 based CPUs: 255 ---------------------- 256 CONFIG_NIOS2 257 258 259- Board Type: Define exactly one of 260 261 PowerPC based boards: 262 --------------------- 263 264 CONFIG_ADCIOP CONFIG_GEN860T CONFIG_PCI405 265 CONFIG_ADS860 CONFIG_GENIETV CONFIG_PCIPPC2 266 CONFIG_AMX860 CONFIG_GTH CONFIG_PCIPPC6 267 CONFIG_AR405 CONFIG_gw8260 CONFIG_pcu_e 268 CONFIG_BAB7xx CONFIG_hermes CONFIG_PIP405 269 CONFIG_c2mon CONFIG_hymod CONFIG_PM826 270 CONFIG_CANBT CONFIG_IAD210 CONFIG_ppmc8260 271 CONFIG_CCM CONFIG_ICU862 CONFIG_QS823 272 CONFIG_CMI CONFIG_IP860 CONFIG_QS850 273 CONFIG_cogent_mpc8260 CONFIG_IPHASE4539 CONFIG_QS860T 274 CONFIG_cogent_mpc8xx CONFIG_IVML24 CONFIG_RBC823 275 CONFIG_CPCI405 CONFIG_IVML24_128 CONFIG_RPXClassic 276 CONFIG_CPCI4052 CONFIG_IVML24_256 CONFIG_RPXlite 277 CONFIG_CPCIISER4 CONFIG_IVMS8 CONFIG_RPXsuper 278 CONFIG_CPU86 CONFIG_IVMS8_128 CONFIG_rsdproto 279 CONFIG_CRAYL1 CONFIG_IVMS8_256 CONFIG_sacsng 280 CONFIG_CSB272 CONFIG_JSE CONFIG_Sandpoint8240 281 CONFIG_CU824 CONFIG_LANTEC CONFIG_Sandpoint8245 282 CONFIG_DASA_SIM CONFIG_lwmon CONFIG_sbc8260 283 CONFIG_DB64360 CONFIG_MBX CONFIG_sbc8560 284 CONFIG_DB64460 CONFIG_MBX860T CONFIG_SM850 285 CONFIG_DU405 CONFIG_MHPC CONFIG_SPD823TS 286 CONFIG_DUET_ADS CONFIG_MIP405 CONFIG_STXGP3 287 CONFIG_EBONY CONFIG_MOUSSE CONFIG_SXNI855T 288 CONFIG_ELPPC CONFIG_MPC8260ADS CONFIG_TQM823L 289 CONFIG_ELPT860 CONFIG_MPC8540ADS CONFIG_TQM8260 290 CONFIG_ep8260 CONFIG_MPC8540EVAL CONFIG_TQM850L 291 CONFIG_ERIC CONFIG_MPC8560ADS CONFIG_TQM855L 292 CONFIG_ESTEEM192E CONFIG_MUSENKI CONFIG_TQM860L 293 CONFIG_ETX094 CONFIG_MVS1 CONFIG_TTTech 294 CONFIG_EVB64260 CONFIG_NETPHONE CONFIG_UTX8245 295 CONFIG_FADS823 CONFIG_NETTA CONFIG_V37 296 CONFIG_FADS850SAR CONFIG_NETVIA CONFIG_W7OLMC 297 CONFIG_FADS860T CONFIG_NX823 CONFIG_W7OLMG 298 CONFIG_FLAGADM CONFIG_OCRTC CONFIG_WALNUT 299 CONFIG_FPS850L CONFIG_ORSG CONFIG_ZPC1900 300 CONFIG_FPS860L CONFIG_OXC CONFIG_ZUMA 301 302 ARM based boards: 303 ----------------- 304 305 CONFIG_ARMADILLO, CONFIG_AT91RM9200DK, CONFIG_CERF250, 306 CONFIG_CSB637, CONFIG_DNP1110, CONFIG_EP7312, 307 CONFIG_H2_OMAP1610, CONFIG_HHP_CRADLE, CONFIG_IMPA7, 308 CONFIG_INNOVATOROMAP1510, CONFIG_INNOVATOROMAP1610, CONFIG_KB9202, 309 CONFIG_LART, CONFIG_LPD7A400, CONFIG_LUBBOCK, 310 CONFIG_OSK_OMAP5912, CONFIG_OMAP2420H4, CONFIG_SHANNON, 311 CONFIG_P2_OMAP730, CONFIG_SMDK2400, CONFIG_SMDK2410, 312 CONFIG_TRAB, CONFIG_VCMA9 313 314 MicroBlaze based boards: 315 ------------------------ 316 317 CONFIG_SUZAKU 318 319 Nios-2 based boards: 320 ------------------------ 321 322 CONFIG_PCI5441 CONFIG_PK1C20 323 324 325- CPU Module Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined) 326 Define exactly one of 327 CONFIG_CMA286_60_OLD 328--- FIXME --- not tested yet: 329 CONFIG_CMA286_60, CONFIG_CMA286_21, CONFIG_CMA286_60P, 330 CONFIG_CMA287_23, CONFIG_CMA287_50 331 332- Motherboard Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined) 333 Define exactly one of 334 CONFIG_CMA101, CONFIG_CMA102 335 336- Motherboard I/O Modules: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined) 337 Define one or more of 338 CONFIG_CMA302 339 340- Motherboard Options: (if CONFIG_CMA101 or CONFIG_CMA102 are defined) 341 Define one or more of 342 CONFIG_LCD_HEARTBEAT - update a character position on 343 the lcd display every second with 344 a "rotator" |\-/|\-/ 345 346- Board flavour: (if CONFIG_MPC8260ADS is defined) 347 CONFIG_ADSTYPE 348 Possible values are: 349 CFG_8260ADS - original MPC8260ADS 350 CFG_8266ADS - MPC8266ADS 351 CFG_PQ2FADS - PQ2FADS-ZU or PQ2FADS-VR 352 CFG_8272ADS - MPC8272ADS 353 354- MPC824X Family Member (if CONFIG_MPC824X is defined) 355 Define exactly one of 356 CONFIG_MPC8240, CONFIG_MPC8245 357 358- 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx cpu) 359 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if 360 get_gclk_freq() cannot work 361 e.g. if there is no 32KHz 362 reference PIT/RTC clock 363 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK 364 or XTAL/EXTAL) 365 366- 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU): 367 CFG_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN 368 CFG_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX 369 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT 370 See doc/README.MPC866 371 372 CFG_MEASURE_CPUCLK 373 374 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead 375 of relying on the correctness of the configured 376 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure 377 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note 378 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz 379 RTC clock or CFG_8XX_XIN) 380 381- Linux Kernel Interface: 382 CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ 383 384 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz 385 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux 386 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the 387 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable 388 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot 389 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the 390 Linux kernel. 391 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of 392 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the 393 default environment. 394 395 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only] 396 397 When transfering memsize parameter to linux, some versions 398 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB. 399 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes. 400 401- Serial Ports: 402 CFG_PL010_SERIAL 403 404 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs. 405 406 CFG_PL011_SERIAL 407 408 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs. 409 410 CONFIG_PL011_CLOCK 411 412 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to 413 the clock speed of the UARTs. 414 415 CONFIG_PL01x_PORTS 416 417 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board, 418 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported) 419 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h 420 421 422- Console Interface: 423 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port 424 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2, 425 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial 426 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE 427 428 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial 429 port routines must be defined elsewhere 430 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...) 431 432 CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE 433 Enables console device for a color framebuffer. Needs following 434 defines (cf. smiLynxEM, i8042, board/eltec/bab7xx) 435 VIDEO_FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN graphic memory organisation 436 (default big endian) 437 VIDEO_HW_RECTFILL graphic chip supports 438 rectangle fill 439 (cf. smiLynxEM) 440 VIDEO_HW_BITBLT graphic chip supports 441 bit-blit (cf. smiLynxEM) 442 VIDEO_VISIBLE_COLS visible pixel columns 443 (cols=pitch) 444 VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS visible pixel rows 445 VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE bytes per pixel 446 VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT graphic data format 447 (0-5, cf. cfb_console.c) 448 VIDEO_FB_ADRS framebuffer address 449 VIDEO_KBD_INIT_FCT keyboard int fct 450 (i.e. i8042_kbd_init()) 451 VIDEO_TSTC_FCT test char fct 452 (i.e. i8042_tstc) 453 VIDEO_GETC_FCT get char fct 454 (i.e. i8042_getc) 455 CONFIG_CONSOLE_CURSOR cursor drawing on/off 456 (requires blink timer 457 cf. i8042.c) 458 CFG_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c) 459 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME display time/date info in 460 upper right corner 461 (requires CFG_CMD_DATE) 462 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO display Linux logo in 463 upper left corner 464 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO use bmp_logo.h instead of 465 linux_logo.h for logo. 466 Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO 467 CONFIG_CONSOLE_EXTRA_INFO 468 addional board info beside 469 the logo 470 471 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is 472 default i/o. Serial console can be forced with 473 environment 'console=serial'. 474 475 When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console 476 messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with 477 the "silent" environment variable. See 478 doc/README.silent for more information. 479 480- Console Baudrate: 481 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps 482 Select one of the baudrates listed in 483 CFG_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below. 484 CFG_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale 485 486- Interrupt driven serial port input: 487 CONFIG_SERIAL_SOFTWARE_FIFO 488 489 PPC405GP only. 490 Use an interrupt handler for receiving data on the 491 serial port. It also enables using hardware handshake 492 (RTS/CTS) and UART's built-in FIFO. Set the number of 493 bytes the interrupt driven input buffer should have. 494 495 Leave undefined to disable this feature, including 496 disable the buffer and hardware handshake. 497 498- Console UART Number: 499 CONFIG_UART1_CONSOLE 500 501 AMCC PPC4xx only. 502 If defined internal UART1 (and not UART0) is used 503 as default U-Boot console. 504 505- Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds 506 Delay before automatically booting the default image; 507 set to -1 to disable autoboot. 508 509 See doc/README.autoboot for these options that 510 work with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY. None are required. 511 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME 512 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_MIN 513 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED 514 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT 515 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR 516 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR 517 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2 518 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR2 519 CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK 520 CONFIG_RESET_TO_RETRY 521 522- Autoboot Command: 523 CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND 524 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled; 525 define a command string that is automatically executed 526 when no character is read on the console interface 527 within "Boot Delay" after reset. 528 529 CONFIG_BOOTARGS 530 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm 531 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the 532 environment value "bootargs". 533 534 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT 535 The value of these goes into the environment as 536 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used 537 as a convenience, when switching between booting from 538 ram and nfs. 539 540- Pre-Boot Commands: 541 CONFIG_PREBOOT 542 543 When this option is #defined, the existence of the 544 environment variable "preboot" will be checked 545 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY 546 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp. 547 entering interactive mode. 548 549 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is 550 automatically generated or modified. For an example 551 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is 552 modified when the user holds down a certain 553 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when 554 booting the systems 555 556- Serial Download Echo Mode: 557 CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO 558 If defined to 1, all characters received during a 559 serial download (using the "loads" command) are 560 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal 561 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take 562 time on others. This setting #define's the initial 563 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable. 564 565- Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CFG_CMD_KGDB is defined) 566 CONFIG_KGDB_BAUDRATE 567 Select one of the baudrates listed in 568 CFG_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below. 569 570- Monitor Functions: 571 CONFIG_COMMANDS 572 Most monitor functions can be selected (or 573 de-selected) by adjusting the definition of 574 CONFIG_COMMANDS; to select individual functions, 575 #define CONFIG_COMMANDS by "OR"ing any of the 576 following values: 577 578 #define enables commands: 579 ------------------------- 580 CFG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable 581 CFG_CMD_AUTOSCRIPT Autoscript Support 582 CFG_CMD_BDI bdinfo 583 CFG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger 584 CFG_CMD_BMP * BMP support 585 CFG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands 586 CFG_CMD_BOOTD bootd 587 CFG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache 588 CFG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo 589 CFG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time... 590 CFG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support 591 CFG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics 592 CFG_CMD_DOC * Disk-On-Chip Support 593 CFG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat 594 CFG_CMD_ECHO * echo arguments 595 CFG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support 596 CFG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx 597 CFG_CMD_ENV saveenv 598 CFG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support 599 CFG_CMD_FAT * FAT partition support 600 CFG_CMD_FDOS * Dos diskette Support 601 CFG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect 602 CFG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support 603 CFG_CMD_HWFLOW * RTS/CTS hw flow control 604 CFG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support 605 CFG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support 606 CFG_CMD_IMI iminfo 607 CFG_CMD_IMLS List all found images 608 CFG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support 609 CFG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo 610 CFG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values 611 CFG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support 612 CFG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb 613 CFG_CMD_LOADB loadb 614 CFG_CMD_LOADS loads 615 CFG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base, 616 loop, loopw, mtest 617 CFG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc 618 CFG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support 619 CFG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands 620 CFG_CMD_NAND * NAND support 621 CFG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot 622 CFG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo 623 CFG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support 624 CFG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network host 625 CFG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O 626 CFG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump 627 CFG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable 628 CFG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump 629 CFG_CMD_SCSI * SCSI Support 630 CFG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information 631 (requires CFG_CMD_I2C) 632 CFG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access (4xx only) 633 CFG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support 634 CFG_CMD_USB * USB support 635 CFG_CMD_VFD * VFD support (TRAB) 636 CFG_CMD_BSP * Board SPecific functions 637 CFG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support 638 ----------------------------------------------- 639 CFG_CMD_ALL all 640 641 CONFIG_CMD_DFL Default configuration; at the moment 642 this is includes all commands, except 643 the ones marked with "*" in the list 644 above. 645 646 If you don't define CONFIG_COMMANDS it defaults to 647 CONFIG_CMD_DFL in include/cmd_confdefs.h. A board can 648 override the default settings in the respective 649 include file. 650 651 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network 652 support you can write: 653 654 #define CONFIG_COMMANDS (CFG_CMD_ALL & ~CFG_CMD_NET) 655 656 657 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands 658 (configuration option CFG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know 659 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data 660 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or 661 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be 662 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other 663 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an 664 initial stack and some data. 665 666 667 XXX - this list needs to get updated! 668 669- Watchdog: 670 CONFIG_WATCHDOG 671 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog 672 support. There must be support in the platform specific 673 code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260 CPUs, the 674 SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR 675 register. 676 677- U-Boot Version: 678 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE 679 If this variable is defined, an environment variable 680 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot 681 version as printed by the "version" command. 682 This variable is readonly. 683 684- Real-Time Clock: 685 686 When CFG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC 687 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the 688 following options: 689 690 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx 691 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC 692 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC 693 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC 694 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC 695 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC 696 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC 697 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC 698 699 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface 700 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below. 701 702- Timestamp Support: 703 704 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp 705 (date and time) of an image is printed by image 706 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is 707 automatically enabled when you select CFG_CMD_DATE . 708 709- Partition Support: 710 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION 711 and/or CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION 712 713 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CFG_CMD_IDE or 714 CFG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at least 715 one partition type as well. 716 717- IDE Reset method: 718 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several 719 board configurations files but used nowhere! 720 721 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will 722 be performed by calling the function 723 ide_set_reset(int reset) 724 which has to be defined in a board specific file 725 726- ATAPI Support: 727 CONFIG_ATAPI 728 729 Set this to enable ATAPI support. 730 731- LBA48 Support 732 CONFIG_LBA48 733 734 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB 735 Also look at CFG_64BIT_LBA ,CFG_64BIT_VSPRINTF and CFG_64BIT_STRTOUL 736 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only' 737 support disks up to 2.1TB. 738 739 CFG_64BIT_LBA: 740 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses. 741 Default is 32bit. 742 743- SCSI Support: 744 At the moment only there is only support for the 745 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define 746 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it. 747 748 CFG_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CFG_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and 749 CFG_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CFG_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID * 750 CFG_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the 751 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target 752 devices. 753 CFG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz) 754 755- NETWORK Support (PCI): 756 CONFIG_E1000 757 Support for Intel 8254x gigabit chips. 758 759 CONFIG_EEPRO100 760 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips. 761 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables eeprom 762 write routine for first time initialisation. 763 764 CONFIG_TULIP 765 Support for Digital 2114x chips. 766 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific 767 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611). 768 769 CONFIG_NATSEMI 770 Support for National dp83815 chips. 771 772 CONFIG_NS8382X 773 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips. 774 775- NETWORK Support (other): 776 777 CONFIG_DRIVER_LAN91C96 778 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips. 779 780 CONFIG_LAN91C96_BASE 781 Define this to hold the physical address 782 of the LAN91C96's I/O space 783 784 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT 785 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing 786 787 CONFIG_DRIVER_SMC91111 788 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip 789 790 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE 791 Define this to hold the physical address 792 of the device (I/O space) 793 794 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT 795 Define this if data bus is 32 bits 796 797 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS 798 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros 799 (some hardware wont work with macros) 800 801- USB Support: 802 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is 803 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define 804 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it. 805 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard 806 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB 807 storage devices. 808 Note: 809 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives 810 (TEAC FD-05PUB). 811 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines: 812 CONFIG_USB_CLOCK 813 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb 814 CONFIG_USB_CONFIG 815 for differential drivers: 0x00001000 816 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000 817 818 819- MMC Support: 820 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To 821 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be 822 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device 823 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is 824 enabled with CFG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with 825 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CFG_CMD_FAT. 826 827- Journaling Flash filesystem support: 828 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE, 829 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV 830 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device 831 832 CFG_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR, 833 CFG_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CFG_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS 834 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device 835 836 CFG_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART 837 Define this to create an own partition. You have to provide a 838 function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num) 839 840 If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to 841 #define CFG_JFFS_SINGLE_PART 1 842 to disable the command chpart. This is the default when you 843 have not defined a custom partition 844 845- Keyboard Support: 846 CONFIG_ISA_KEYBOARD 847 848 Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard 849 support 850 851 CONFIG_I8042_KBD 852 Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and 853 GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support. 854 Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc 855 for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking. 856 857- Video support: 858 CONFIG_VIDEO 859 860 Define this to enable video support (for output to 861 video). 862 863 CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000 864 865 Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip 866 867 CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM 868 Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The 869 video output is selected via environment 'videoout' 870 (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is 871 assumed. 872 873 For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is 874 selected via environment 'videomode'. Two diferent ways 875 are possible: 876 - "videomode=num" 'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers. 877 Following standard modes are supported (* is default): 878 879 Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 880 -------------+--------------------------------------------- 881 8 bits | 0x301* 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307 882 15 bits | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319 883 16 bits | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A 884 24 bits | 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B 885 -------------+--------------------------------------------- 886 (i.e. setenv videomode 317; saveenv; reset;) 887 888 - "videomode=bootargs" all the video parameters are parsed 889 from the bootargs. (See drivers/videomodes.c) 890 891 892 CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806 893 Enable Epson SED13806 driver. This driver supports 8bpp 894 and 16bpp modes defined by CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_8BPP 895 or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP 896 897- Keyboard Support: 898 CONFIG_KEYBOARD 899 900 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support. 901 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be 902 defined in your board-specific files. 903 The only board using this so far is RBC823. 904 905- LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD 906 907 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD 908 display); also select one of the supported displays 909 by defining one of these: 910 911 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33: 912 913 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan. 914 915 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20 916 917 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480. 918 Active, color, single scan. 919 920 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54 921 922 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480. 923 Active, color, single scan. 924 925 CONFIG_SHARP_16x9 926 927 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan. 928 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is. 929 930 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341 931 932 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480. 933 Active, color, single scan. 934 935 CONFIG_HLD1045 936 937 HLD1045 display, 640x480. 938 Active, color, single scan. 939 940 CONFIG_OPTREX_BW 941 942 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5 943 or 944 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T 945 or 946 Hitachi SP14Q002 947 948 320x240. Black & white. 949 950 Normally display is black on white background; define 951 CFG_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted. 952 953- Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN 954 955 If this option is set, the environment is checked for 956 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display 957 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD 958 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address 959 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The 960 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This 961 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is 962 loaded very quickly after power-on. 963 964- Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP 965 966 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP 967 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the 968 splashscreen support or the bmp command. 969 970- Compression support: 971 CONFIG_BZIP2 972 973 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed 974 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip 975 compressed images are supported. 976 977 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so 978 the malloc area (as defined by CFG_MALLOC_LEN) should 979 be at least 4MB. 980 981- MII/PHY support: 982 CONFIG_PHY_ADDR 983 984 The address of PHY on MII bus. 985 986 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx) 987 988 The clock frequency of the MII bus 989 990 CONFIG_PHY_GIGE 991 992 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex 993 detection of Gigabit PHY is included. 994 995 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY 996 997 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after 998 reset before any MII register access is possible. 999 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay 1000 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A) 1001 1002 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx) 1003 1004 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after 1005 command issued before MII status register can be read 1006 1007- Ethernet address: 1008 CONFIG_ETHADDR 1009 CONFIG_ETH2ADDR 1010 CONFIG_ETH3ADDR 1011 1012 Define a default value for ethernet address to use 1013 for the respective ethernet interface, in case this 1014 is not determined automatically. 1015 1016- IP address: 1017 CONFIG_IPADDR 1018 1019 Define a default value for the IP address to use for 1020 the default ethernet interface, in case this is not 1021 determined through e.g. bootp. 1022 1023- Server IP address: 1024 CONFIG_SERVERIP 1025 1026 Defines a default value for theIP address of a TFTP 1027 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command. 1028 1029- BOOTP Recovery Mode: 1030 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY 1031 1032 If you have many targets in a network that try to 1033 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all 1034 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same 1035 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery 1036 from a power failure, when all systems will try to 1037 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining 1038 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be 1039 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The 1040 following delays are insterted then: 1041 1042 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec 1043 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec 1044 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec 1045 4th and following 1046 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec 1047 1048- DHCP Advanced Options: 1049 CONFIG_BOOTP_MASK 1050 1051 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by adding 1052 these flags to the CONFIG_BOOTP_MASK define: 1053 1054 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS 1055 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more 1056 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client. 1057 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS 1058 serverip will be stored in the additional environment 1059 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always 1060 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS 1061 is added to the CONFIG_BOOTP_MASK. 1062 1063 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable 1064 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they 1065 need the hostname of the DHCP requester. 1066 If CONFIG_BOOP_SEND_HOSTNAME is added to the 1067 CONFIG_BOOTP_MASK, the content of the "hostname" 1068 environment variable is passed as option 12 to 1069 the DHCP server. 1070 1071 - CDP Options: 1072 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID 1073 1074 The device id used in CDP trigger frames. 1075 1076 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX 1077 1078 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address 1079 of the device. 1080 1081 CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID 1082 1083 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of 1084 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets 1085 eth0 for the first ethernet, eth1 for the second etc. 1086 1087 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES 1088 1089 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities; 1090 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards. 1091 1092 CONFIG_CDP_VERSION 1093 1094 An ascii string containing the version of the software. 1095 1096 CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM 1097 1098 An ascii string containing the name of the platform. 1099 1100 CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER 1101 1102 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger. 1103 1104 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION 1105 1106 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the 1107 device in .1 of milliwatts. 1108 1109 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE 1110 1111 A byte containing the id of the VLAN. 1112 1113- Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED 1114 1115 Several configurations allow to display the current 1116 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink 1117 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as 1118 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and 1119 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running 1120 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux 1121 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this 1122 feature in U-Boot. 1123 1124- CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER 1125 1126 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support 1127 on those systems that support this (optional) 1128 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules. 1129 1130- I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C | CONFIG_SOFT_I2C 1131 1132 These enable I2C serial bus commands. Defining either of 1133 (but not both of) CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C will 1134 include the appropriate I2C driver for the selected cpu. 1135 1136 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot 1137 command line (as long as you set CFG_CMD_I2C in 1138 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime 1139 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the 1140 command line interface. 1141 1142 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects the CPM hardware driver for I2C. 1143 1144 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C configures u-boot to use a software (aka 1145 bit-banging) driver instead of CPM or similar hardware 1146 support for I2C. 1147 1148 There are several other quantities that must also be 1149 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C. 1150 1151 In both cases you will need to define CFG_I2C_SPEED 1152 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus 1153 to run and CFG_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie 1154 the cpu's i2c node address). 1155 1156 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx (cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) 1157 sets the cpu up as a master node and so its address should 1158 therefore be cleared to 0 (See, eg, MPC823e User's Manual 1159 p.16-473). So, set CFG_I2C_SLAVE to 0. 1160 1161 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C. 1162 1163 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SOFT_I2C) 1164 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are 1165 from include/configs/lwmon.h): 1166 1167 I2C_INIT 1168 1169 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C 1170 controller or configure ports. 1171 1172 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL) 1173 1174 I2C_PORT 1175 1176 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code 1177 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values 1178 are 0..3 for ports A..D. 1179 1180 I2C_ACTIVE 1181 1182 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active 1183 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this 1184 define can be null. 1185 1186 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA) 1187 1188 I2C_TRISTATE 1189 1190 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated 1191 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this 1192 define can be null. 1193 1194 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA) 1195 1196 I2C_READ 1197 1198 Code that returns TRUE if the I2C data line is high, 1199 FALSE if it is low. 1200 1201 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0) 1202 1203 I2C_SDA(bit) 1204 1205 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C data line high. If it 1206 is FALSE, it clears it (low). 1207 1208 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \ 1209 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \ 1210 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA 1211 1212 I2C_SCL(bit) 1213 1214 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C clock line high. If it 1215 is FALSE, it clears it (low). 1216 1217 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \ 1218 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \ 1219 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL 1220 1221 I2C_DELAY 1222 1223 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this 1224 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus 1225 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something 1226 like: 1227 1228 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2) 1229 1230 CFG_I2C_INIT_BOARD 1231 1232 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer 1233 chips might think that the current transfer is still 1234 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access 1235 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the 1236 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin 1237 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a 1238 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c 1239 is run early in the boot sequence. 1240 1241 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only) 1242 1243 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags 1244 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment 1245 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast) 1246 1247- SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI 1248 1249 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with 1250 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and 1251 D/As on the SACSng board) 1252 1253 CONFIG_SPI_X 1254 1255 Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing. 1256 (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X) 1257 1258 CONFIG_SOFT_SPI 1259 1260 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than 1261 using hardware support. This is a general purpose 1262 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins 1263 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is 1264 defined, the board configuration must define several 1265 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For 1266 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h. 1267 1268- FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA_COUNT 1269 1270 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support. 1271 1272 CONFIG_FPGA 1273 1274 Used to specify the types of FPGA devices. For example, 1275 #define CONFIG_FPGA CFG_XILINX_VIRTEX2 1276 1277 CFG_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK 1278 1279 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration. 1280 1281 CFG_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY 1282 1283 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy 1284 status by the configuration function. This option 1285 will require a board or device specific function to 1286 be written. 1287 1288 CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY 1289 1290 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA 1291 configuration driver. 1292 1293 CFG_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC 1294 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration 1295 1296 CFG_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR 1297 1298 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile 1299 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II 1300 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which 1301 indicated a CRC error). 1302 1303 CFG_FPGA_WAIT_INIT 1304 1305 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert 1306 after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II 1307 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500 1308 mS. 1309 1310 CFG_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY 1311 1312 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during 1313 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 mS. 1314 1315 CFG_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG 1316 1317 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is 1318 200 mS. 1319 1320- Configuration Management: 1321 CONFIG_IDENT_STRING 1322 1323 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot 1324 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION) 1325 1326- Vendor Parameter Protection: 1327 1328 U-Boot considers the values of the environment 1329 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and 1330 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that 1331 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and 1332 protects these variables from casual modification by 1333 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only, 1334 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can 1335 change this behviour: 1336 1337 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config 1338 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is 1339 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete 1340 these parameters. 1341 1342 Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR 1343 _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default 1344 ethernet address is installed in the environment, 1345 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The 1346 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains 1347 read-only.] 1348 1349- Protected RAM: 1350 CONFIG_PRAM 1351 1352 Define this variable to enable the reservation of 1353 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten 1354 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of 1355 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite 1356 this default value by defining an environment 1357 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to 1358 reserve. Note that the board info structure will 1359 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is 1360 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will 1361 automatically be defined to hold the amount of 1362 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot 1363 argument to Linux, for instance like that: 1364 1365 setenv bootargs ... mem=\$(mem) 1366 saveenv 1367 1368 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory, 1369 either, which results in a memory region that will 1370 not be affected by reboots. 1371 1372 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic 1373 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that 1374 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the 1375 following board configurations are known to be 1376 "pRAM-clean": 1377 1378 ETX094, IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL, 1379 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON, LANTEC, 1380 PCU_E, FLAGADM, TQM8260 1381 1382- Error Recovery: 1383 CONFIG_PANIC_HANG 1384 1385 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a 1386 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually. 1387 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded 1388 system where you want to system to reboot 1389 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be 1390 useful during development since you can try to debug 1391 the conditions that lead to the situation. 1392 1393 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT 1394 1395 This variable defines the number of retries for 1396 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP 1397 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a 1398 default value of 5 is used. 1399 1400- Command Interpreter: 1401 CFG_AUTO_COMPLETE 1402 1403 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB. 1404 1405 CFG_HUSH_PARSER 1406 1407 Define this variable to enable the "hush" shell (from 1408 Busybox) as command line interpreter, thus enabling 1409 powerful command line syntax like 1410 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||' 1411 constructs ("shell scripts"). 1412 1413 If undefined, you get the old, much simpler behaviour 1414 with a somewhat smaller memory footprint. 1415 1416 1417 CFG_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2 1418 1419 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is 1420 printed when the command interpreter needs more input 1421 to complete a command. Usually "> ". 1422 1423 Note: 1424 1425 In the current implementation, the local variables 1426 space and global environment variables space are 1427 separated. Local variables are those you define by 1428 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local 1429 variable later on, you have write `$name' or 1430 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable 1431 directly type `$name' at the command prompt. 1432 1433 Global environment variables are those you use 1434 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored 1435 in such a variable, you need to use the run command, 1436 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them. 1437 1438 To store commands and special characters in a 1439 variable, please use double quotation marks 1440 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead 1441 of the backslashes before semicolons and special 1442 symbols. 1443 1444- Default Environment: 1445 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS 1446 1447 Define this to contain any number of null terminated 1448 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of 1449 the default environment compiled into the boot image. 1450 1451 For example, place something like this in your 1452 board's config file: 1453 1454 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \ 1455 "myvar1=value1\0" \ 1456 "myvar2=value2\0" 1457 1458 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the 1459 internal format how the environment is stored by the 1460 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported 1461 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format 1462 will change soon, there is no guarantee either. 1463 You better know what you are doing here. 1464 1465 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is 1466 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset 1467 the environment like the autoscript function or the 1468 boot command first. 1469 1470- DataFlash Support: 1471 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH 1472 1473 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and 1474 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard 1475 commands cp, md... 1476 1477- SystemACE Support: 1478 CONFIG_SYSTEMACE 1479 1480 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE 1481 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address 1482 of the chip must alsh be defined in the 1483 CFG_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example: 1484 1485 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE 1486 #define CFG_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000 1487 1488 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type 1489 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls. 1490 1491- TFTP Fixed UDP Port: 1492 CONFIG_TFTP_PORT 1493 1494 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp 1495 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value. 1496 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port 1497 number generator is used. 1498 1499 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply 1500 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't 1501 defined, the normal port 69 is used. 1502 1503 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to 1504 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured 1505 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of 1506 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing 1507 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally. 1508 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall, 1509 but sometimes that is not allowed. 1510 1511- Show boot progress: 1512 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS 1513 1514 Defining this option allows to add some board- 1515 specific code (calling a user-provided function 1516 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show 1517 the system's boot progress on some display (for 1518 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment, 1519 the following checkpoints are implemented: 1520 1521 Arg Where When 1522 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image 1523 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number 1524 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number 1525 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum 1526 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum 1527 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum 1528 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum 1529 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture 1530 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK 1531 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi, standalone) 1532 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK 1533 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error 1534 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type 1535 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK 1536 -8 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi, standalone) 1537 8 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK 1538 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX) 1539 9 common/cmd_bootm.c Start initial ramdisk verification 1540 -10 common/cmd_bootm.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number 1541 -11 common/cmd_bootm.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum 1542 10 common/cmd_bootm.c Ramdisk header is OK 1543 -12 common/cmd_bootm.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum 1544 11 common/cmd_bootm.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum 1545 12 common/cmd_bootm.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading 1546 -13 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux Ramdisk) 1547 13 common/cmd_bootm.c Start multifile image verification 1548 14 common/cmd_bootm.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue. 1549 15 common/cmd_bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS 1550 1551 -30 lib_ppc/board.c Fatal error, hang the system 1552 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog() 1553 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single() 1554 1555 -1 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command 1556 -1 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device 1557 -1 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device 1558 -1 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device 1559 -1 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number 1560 1561 -1 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command 1562 -1 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device 1563 -1 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown boot device 1564 -1 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table 1565 -1 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type 1566 -1 common/cmd_ide.c Read Error on boot device 1567 -1 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number 1568 1569 -1 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command 1570 -1 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device 1571 -1 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device 1572 -1 common/cmd_nand.c Read Error on boot device 1573 -1 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number 1574 1575 -1 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default 1576 1577 1578Modem Support: 1579-------------- 1580 1581[so far only for SMDK2400 and TRAB boards] 1582 1583- Modem support endable: 1584 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT 1585 1586- RTS/CTS Flow control enable: 1587 CONFIG_HWFLOW 1588 1589- Modem debug support: 1590 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG 1591 1592 Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg()) 1593 for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000. 1594 1595- Interrupt support (PPC): 1596 1597 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt() 1598 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu() 1599 for cpu specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu() 1600 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If 1601 cpu resets decrementer automatically after interrupt 1602 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero. 1603 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for cpu 1604 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led 1605 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from 1606 general timer_interrupt(). 1607 1608- General: 1609 1610 In the target system modem support is enabled when a 1611 specific key (key combination) is pressed during 1612 power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally 1613 (autoboot). The key_pressed() fuction is called from 1614 board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy 1615 function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem 1616 initialization. 1617 1618 If there are no modem init strings in the 1619 environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the 1620 previous output (banner, info printfs) will be 1621 supressed, though. 1622 1623 See also: doc/README.Modem 1624 1625 1626Configuration Settings: 1627----------------------- 1628 1629- CFG_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included; 1630 undefine this when you're short of memory. 1631 1632- CFG_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to 1633 prompt for user input. 1634 1635- CFG_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console 1636 1637- CFG_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output 1638 1639- CFG_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands 1640 1641- CFG_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to 1642 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is 1643 booted 1644 1645- CFG_BAUDRATE_TABLE: 1646 List of legal baudrate settings for this board. 1647 1648- CFG_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET 1649 Suppress display of console information at boot. 1650 1651- CFG_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV 1652 If the board specific function 1653 extern int overwrite_console (void); 1654 returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the 1655 serial port, else the settings in the environment are used. 1656 1657- CFG_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE 1658 Enable the call to overwrite_console(). 1659 1660- CFG_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE 1661 Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings. 1662 1663- CFG_MEMTEST_START, CFG_MEMTEST_END: 1664 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the 1665 simple memory test. 1666 1667- CFG_ALT_MEMTEST: 1668 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test. 1669 1670- CFG_MEMTEST_SCRATCH: 1671 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test 1672 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable 1673 1674- CFG_TFTP_LOADADDR: 1675 Default load address for network file downloads 1676 1677- CFG_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE: 1678 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download 1679 1680- CFG_SDRAM_BASE: 1681 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here. 1682 1683- CFG_MBIO_BASE: 1684 Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a 1685 Cogent motherboard) 1686 1687- CFG_FLASH_BASE: 1688 Physical start address of Flash memory. 1689 1690- CFG_MONITOR_BASE: 1691 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by 1692 make config files to be same as the text base address 1693 (TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as 1694 CFG_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash. 1695 1696- CFG_MONITOR_LEN: 1697 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to 1698 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is 1699 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate 1700 flash sector. 1701 1702- CFG_MALLOC_LEN: 1703 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use. 1704 1705- CFG_BOOTMAPSZ: 1706 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of 1707 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by 1708 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, eventually 1709 initrd image) must be put below this limit. 1710 1711- CFG_MAX_FLASH_BANKS: 1712 Max number of Flash memory banks 1713 1714- CFG_MAX_FLASH_SECT: 1715 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip 1716 1717- CFG_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT: 1718 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms) 1719 1720- CFG_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT: 1721 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms) 1722 1723- CFG_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT 1724 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms) 1725 1726- CFG_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT 1727 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms) 1728 1729- CFG_FLASH_PROTECTION 1730 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used 1731 instead of U-Boot software protection. 1732 1733- CFG_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP: 1734 1735 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory; 1736 without this option such a download has to be 1737 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2) 1738 copy from RAM to flash. 1739 1740 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since 1741 you can check if the download worked before you erase 1742 the flash, but in some situations (when sytem RAM is 1743 too limited to allow for a tempory copy of the 1744 downloaded image) this option may be very useful. 1745 1746- CFG_FLASH_CFI: 1747 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the 1748 common flash structure for storing flash geometry. 1749 1750- CFG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER 1751 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver 1752 in the drivers directory 1753 1754- CFG_RX_ETH_BUFFER: 1755 Defines the number of ethernet receive buffers. On some 1756 ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value 1757 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all 1758 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface 1759 on high ethernet traffic. 1760 Defaults to 4 if not defined. 1761 1762The following definitions that deal with the placement and management 1763of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the 1764following configurations: 1765 1766- CFG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH: 1767 1768 Define this if the environment is in flash memory. 1769 1770 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is 1771 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This 1772 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot 1773 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller 1774 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a 1775 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In 1776 such a case you would place the environment in one of the 1777 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With 1778 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the 1779 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap 1780 between U-Boot and the environment. 1781 1782 - CFG_ENV_OFFSET: 1783 1784 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the 1785 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot 1786 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset 1787 for this sector is given here. 1788 1789 CFG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CFG_FLASH_BASE. 1790 1791 - CFG_ENV_ADDR: 1792 1793 This is just another way to specify the start address of 1794 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of 1795 CFG_ENV_OFFSET). 1796 1797 - CFG_ENV_SECT_SIZE: 1798 1799 Size of the sector containing the environment. 1800 1801 1802 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors. 1803 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for 1804 the environment. 1805 1806 - CFG_ENV_SIZE: 1807 1808 If you use this in combination with CFG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH 1809 and CFG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part 1810 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves 1811 memory for the RAM copy of the environment. 1812 1813 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this 1814 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code, 1815 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used 1816 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is 1817 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view: 1818 updating the environment in flash makes it always 1819 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes 1820 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in 1821 RAM, your target system will be dead. 1822 1823 - CFG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND 1824 CFG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND 1825 1826 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold 1827 a redundand copy of the environment data, so that there is 1828 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during 1829 a "saveenv" operation. 1830 1831BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the 1832source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds* 1833accordingly! 1834 1835 1836- CFG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM: 1837 1838 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device 1839 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the 1840 environment. 1841 1842 - CFG_ENV_ADDR: 1843 - CFG_ENV_SIZE: 1844 1845 These two #defines are used to determin the memory area you 1846 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory 1847 can just be read and written to, without any special 1848 provision. 1849 1850BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early 1851in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the 1852console baudrate). You *MUST* have mappend your NVRAM area then, or 1853U-Boot will hang. 1854 1855Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the 1856environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to 1857keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv" 1858to save the current settings. 1859 1860 1861- CFG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM: 1862 1863 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access 1864 device and a driver for it. 1865 1866 - CFG_ENV_OFFSET: 1867 - CFG_ENV_SIZE: 1868 1869 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the 1870 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM. 1871 1872 - CFG_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR: 1873 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device. 1874 The default address is zero. 1875 1876 - CFG_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS: 1877 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a 1878 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example 1879 would require six bits. 1880 1881 - CFG_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS: 1882 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between 1883 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds. 1884 1885 - CFG_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN: 1886 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note 1887 that this is NOT the chip address length! 1888 1889 - CFG_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW: 1890 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones 1891 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of 1892 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit 1893 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256 1894 byte chips. 1895 1896 Note that we consider the length of the address field to 1897 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden 1898 in the chip address. 1899 1900 - CFG_EEPROM_SIZE: 1901 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device. 1902 1903 1904- CFG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH: 1905 1906 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you 1907 want to use for the environment. 1908 1909 - CFG_ENV_OFFSET: 1910 - CFG_ENV_ADDR: 1911 - CFG_ENV_SIZE: 1912 1913 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the 1914 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed 1915 at the specified address. 1916 1917- CFG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND: 1918 1919 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use 1920 for the environment. 1921 1922 - CFG_ENV_OFFSET: 1923 - CFG_ENV_SIZE: 1924 1925 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment 1926 area within the first NAND device. 1927 1928- CFG_SPI_INIT_OFFSET 1929 1930 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The 1931 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment 1932 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte 1933 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization 1934 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems 1935 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the 1936 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer. 1937 1938Please note that the environment is read-only as long as the monitor 1939has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been 1940created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_r() 1941until then to read environment variables. 1942 1943The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor 1944is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working 1945with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is 1946necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the 1947"baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't 1948have any device yet where we could complain.] 1949 1950Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if 1951the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you 1952use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment. 1953 1954- CFG_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN: 1955 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED. 1956 1957 Note: If this option is active, then CFG_FAULT_MII_ADDR 1958 also needs to be defined. 1959 1960- CFG_FAULT_MII_ADDR: 1961 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state. 1962 1963- CFG_64BIT_VSPRINTF: 1964 Makes vsprintf (and all *printf functions) support printing 1965 of 64bit values by using the L quantifier 1966 1967- CFG_64BIT_STRTOUL: 1968 Adds simple_strtoull that returns a 64bit value 1969 1970Low Level (hardware related) configuration options: 1971--------------------------------------------------- 1972 1973- CFG_CACHELINE_SIZE: 1974 Cache Line Size of the CPU. 1975 1976- CFG_DEFAULT_IMMR: 1977 Default address of the IMMR after system reset. 1978 1979 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU, 1980 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of 1981 the IMMR register after a reset. 1982 1983- Floppy Disk Support: 1984 CFG_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER 1985 1986 the default drive number (default value 0) 1987 1988 CFG_ISA_IO_STRIDE 1989 1990 defines the spacing between fdc chipset registers 1991 (default value 1) 1992 1993 CFG_ISA_IO_OFFSET 1994 1995 defines the offset of register from address. It 1996 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to 1997 the fdc chipset. (default value 0) 1998 1999 If CFG_ISA_IO_STRIDE CFG_ISA_IO_OFFSET and 2000 CFG_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their 2001 default value. 2002 2003 if CFG_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function 2004 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC 2005 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board 2006 source code. It is used to make hardware dependant 2007 initializations. 2008 2009- CFG_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory. 2010 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're 2011 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only] 2012 2013- CFG_INIT_RAM_ADDR: 2014 2015 Start address of memory area that can be used for 2016 initial data and stack; please note that this must be 2017 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special 2018 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which 2019 will become available only after programming the 2020 memory controller and running certain initialization 2021 sequences. 2022 2023 U-Boot uses the following memory types: 2024 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU) 2025 - MPC824X: data cache 2026 - PPC4xx: data cache 2027 2028- CFG_GBL_DATA_OFFSET: 2029 2030 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory 2031 area defined by CFG_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually 2032 CFG_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial 2033 data is located at the end of the available space 2034 (sometimes written as (CFG_INIT_RAM_END - 2035 CFG_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just 2036 below that area (growing from (CFG_INIT_RAM_ADDR + 2037 CFG_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward. 2038 2039 Note: 2040 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data 2041 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for 2042 CFG_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must 2043 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between 2044 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space. 2045 2046- CFG_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6) 2047 2048- CFG_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9) 2049 2050- CFG_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26) 2051 2052- CFG_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31) 2053 2054- CFG_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30) 2055 2056- CFG_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27) 2057 2058- CFG_OR_TIMING_SDRAM: 2059 SDRAM timing 2060 2061- CFG_MAMR_PTA: 2062 periodic timer for refresh 2063 2064- CFG_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47) 2065 2066- FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CFG_REMAP_OR_AM, 2067 CFG_PRELIM_OR_AM, CFG_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CFG_OR0_REMAP, 2068 CFG_OR0_PRELIM, CFG_BR0_PRELIM, CFG_OR1_REMAP, CFG_OR1_PRELIM, 2069 CFG_BR1_PRELIM: 2070 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH) 2071 2072- SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE, 2073 CFG_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CFG_OR2_PRELIM, CFG_BR2_PRELIM, 2074 CFG_OR3_PRELIM, CFG_BR3_PRELIM: 2075 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM) 2076 2077- CFG_MAMR_PTA, CFG_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CFG_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CFG_MPTPR_2BK_8K, 2078 CFG_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CFG_MAMR_8COL, CFG_MAMR_9COL: 2079 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer 2080 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing) 2081 2082- CFG_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CFG_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]: 2083 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx); 2084 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2] 2085 2086- CFG_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CFG_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]: 2087 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx); 2088 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4] 2089 2090- CFG_USE_OSCCLK: 2091 Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful, 2092 wrong setting might damage your board. Read 2093 doc/README.MBX before setting this variable! 2094 2095- CFG_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only) 2096 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post 2097 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides 2098 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp. 2099 cpm_8260.h. 2100 2101- CFG_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CFG_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CFG_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB, 2102 CFG_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CFG_PCIMSK0_MASK, CFG_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL, 2103 CFG_PCIMSK1_MASK, CFG_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CFG_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS, 2104 CFG_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CFG_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CFG_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB, 2105 CFG_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CFG_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START, 2106 CFG_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CFG_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CFG_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL, 2107 CFG_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CFG_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CFG_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE, 2108 CFG_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only) 2109 Overrides the default PCI memory map in cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set. 2110 2111- CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12] 2112 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor. 2113 2114- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY 2115 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds 2116 to the given FEC; i. e. 2117 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4 2118 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1 2119 2120 When set to -1, means to probe for first available. 2121 2122- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR 2123 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only). 2124 (so program the FEC to ignore it). 2125 2126- CONFIG_RMII 2127 Enable RMII mode for all FECs. 2128 Note that this is a global option, we can't 2129 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode. 2130 2131- CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY 2132 Add a verify option to the crc32 command. 2133 The syntax is: 2134 2135 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32> 2136 2137 Where address/count indicate a memory area 2138 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the 2139 area should have. 2140 2141- CONFIG_LOOPW 2142 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if 2143 the memory commands are activated globally (CFG_CMD_MEM). 2144 2145- CONFIG_MX_CYCLIC 2146 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic 2147 "md/mw" commands. 2148 Examples: 2149 2150 => mdc.b 10 4 500 2151 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms. 2152 2153 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10 2154 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms. 2155 2156 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated 2157 globally (CFG_CMD_MEM). 2158 2159- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT 2160- CONFIG_SKIP_RELOCATE_UBOOT 2161 2162 [ARM only] If these variables are defined, then 2163 certain low level initializations (like setting up 2164 the memory controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does 2165 not relocate itself into RAM. 2166 Normally these variables MUST NOT be defined. The 2167 only exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by 2168 some other boot loader or by a debugger which 2169 performs these intializations itself. 2170 2171 2172Building the Software: 2173====================== 2174 2175Building U-Boot has been tested in native PPC environments (on a 2176PowerBook G3 running LinuxPPC 2000) and in cross environments 2177(running RedHat 6.x and 7.x Linux on x86, Solaris 2.6 on a SPARC, and 2178NetBSD 1.5 on x86). 2179 2180If you are not using a native PPC environment, it is assumed that you 2181have the GNU cross compiling tools available in your path and named 2182with a prefix of "powerpc-linux-". If this is not the case, (e.g. if 2183you are using Monta Vista's Hard Hat Linux CDK 1.2) you must change 2184the definition of CROSS_COMPILE in Makefile. For HHL on a 4xx CPU, 2185change it to: 2186 2187 CROSS_COMPILE = ppc_4xx- 2188 2189 2190U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the 2191sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This 2192is done by typing: 2193 2194 make NAME_config 2195 2196where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing 2197configurations; the following names are supported: 2198 2199 ADCIOP_config FPS860L_config omap730p2_config 2200 ADS860_config GEN860T_config pcu_e_config 2201 Alaska8220_config 2202 AR405_config GENIETV_config PIP405_config 2203 at91rm9200dk_config GTH_config QS823_config 2204 CANBT_config hermes_config QS850_config 2205 cmi_mpc5xx_config hymod_config QS860T_config 2206 cogent_common_config IP860_config RPXlite_config 2207 cogent_mpc8260_config IVML24_config RPXlite_DW_config 2208 cogent_mpc8xx_config IVMS8_config RPXsuper_config 2209 CPCI405_config JSE_config rsdproto_config 2210 CPCIISER4_config LANTEC_config Sandpoint8240_config 2211 csb272_config lwmon_config sbc8260_config 2212 CU824_config MBX860T_config sbc8560_33_config 2213 DUET_ADS_config MBX_config sbc8560_66_config 2214 EBONY_config MPC8260ADS_config SM850_config 2215 ELPT860_config MPC8540ADS_config SPD823TS_config 2216 ESTEEM192E_config MPC8540EVAL_config stxgp3_config 2217 ETX094_config MPC8560ADS_config SXNI855T_config 2218 FADS823_config NETVIA_config TQM823L_config 2219 FADS850SAR_config omap1510inn_config TQM850L_config 2220 FADS860T_config omap1610h2_config TQM855L_config 2221 FPS850L_config omap1610inn_config TQM860L_config 2222 omap5912osk_config walnut_config 2223 omap2420h4_config Yukon8220_config 2224 ZPC1900_config 2225 2226Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if 2227 additional information is available from the board vendor; for 2228 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard) 2229 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features" 2230 when chosing the configuration, i. e. 2231 2232 make TQM823L_config 2233 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support 2234 2235 make TQM823L_LCD_config 2236 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD 2237 2238 etc. 2239 2240 2241Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot 2242images ready for download to / installation on your system: 2243 2244- "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image 2245- "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format 2246- "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format 2247 2248 2249Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so 2250for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of 2251native "make". 2252 2253 2254If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need 2255to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these 2256steps: 2257 22581. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel 2259 "Makefile" and to the "MAKEALL" script, using the existing 2260 entries as examples. Note that here and at many other places 2261 boards and other names are listed in alphabetical sort order. Please 2262 keep this order. 22632. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any 2264 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least 2265 the "Makefile", a "<board>.c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds". 22663. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for 2267 your board 22683. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new 2269 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need. 22704. Run "make <board>_config" with your new name. 22715. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file 2272 to be installed on your target system. 22736. Debug and solve any problems that might arise. 2274 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.] 2275 2276 2277Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.: 2278============================================================== 2279 2280If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board 2281or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to 2282provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes 2283the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest 2284official or latest in CVS) version of U-Boot sources. 2285 2286But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi- 2287cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of 2288the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so, 2289just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot 2290for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can 2291select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE' 2292environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the cross tools from 2293MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux you can type 2294 2295 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL 2296 2297or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type 2298 2299 CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL 2300 2301See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below. 2302 2303 2304Monitor Commands - Overview: 2305============================ 2306 2307go - start application at address 'addr' 2308run - run commands in an environment variable 2309bootm - boot application image from memory 2310bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol 2311tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol 2312 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip" 2313 (and eventually "gatewayip") 2314rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol 2315diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd' 2316loads - load S-Record file over serial line 2317loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode) 2318md - memory display 2319mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing) 2320nm - memory modify (constant address) 2321mw - memory write (fill) 2322cp - memory copy 2323cmp - memory compare 2324crc32 - checksum calculation 2325imd - i2c memory display 2326imm - i2c memory modify (auto-incrementing) 2327inm - i2c memory modify (constant address) 2328imw - i2c memory write (fill) 2329icrc32 - i2c checksum calculation 2330iprobe - probe to discover valid I2C chip addresses 2331iloop - infinite loop on address range 2332isdram - print SDRAM configuration information 2333sspi - SPI utility commands 2334base - print or set address offset 2335printenv- print environment variables 2336setenv - set environment variables 2337saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage 2338protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection 2339erase - erase FLASH memory 2340flinfo - print FLASH memory information 2341bdinfo - print Board Info structure 2342iminfo - print header information for application image 2343coninfo - print console devices and informations 2344ide - IDE sub-system 2345loop - infinite loop on address range 2346loopw - infinite write loop on address range 2347mtest - simple RAM test 2348icache - enable or disable instruction cache 2349dcache - enable or disable data cache 2350reset - Perform RESET of the CPU 2351echo - echo args to console 2352version - print monitor version 2353help - print online help 2354? - alias for 'help' 2355 2356 2357Monitor Commands - Detailed Description: 2358======================================== 2359 2360TODO. 2361 2362For now: just type "help <command>". 2363 2364 2365Environment Variables: 2366====================== 2367 2368U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which 2369can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory. 2370 2371Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using 2372"printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv" 2373without a value can be used to delete a variable from the 2374environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are 2375working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the 2376environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided. 2377 2378Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables: 2379 2380 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE 2381 2382 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY 2383 2384 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND 2385 2386 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image 2387 2388 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP 2389 2390 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'), 2391 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the 2392 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to 2393 load any image using TFTP 2394 2395 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp", 2396 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will 2397 be automatically started (by internally calling 2398 "bootm") 2399 2400 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the 2401 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address 2402 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started. 2403 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary 2404 data. 2405 2406 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only) 2407 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast 2408 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in 2409 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective 2410 it must be saved and board must be reset. 2411 2412 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images: 2413 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be 2414 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this 2415 is usually what you want since it allows for 2416 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to 2417 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the 2418 CFG_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment 2419 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0". 2420 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper 2421 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it 2422 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data). 2423 2424 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB 2425 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux, 2426 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of 2427 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make 2428 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first 2429 12 MB as well - this can be done with 2430 2431 setenv initrd_high 00c00000 2432 2433 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an 2434 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal 2435 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash 2436 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the 2437 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the 2438 boot time on your system, but requires that this 2439 feature is supported by your Linux kernel. 2440 2441 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command 2442 2443 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp", 2444 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot" 2445 2446 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO 2447 2448 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command 2449 2450 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME 2451 2452 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR 2453 2454 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR 2455 2456 ethprime - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which 2457 interface is used first. 2458 2459 ethact - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which 2460 interface is currently active. For example you 2461 can do the following 2462 2463 => setenv ethact FEC ETHERNET 2464 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC ETHERNET 2465 => setenv ethact SCC ETHERNET 2466 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC ETHERNET 2467 2468 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will 2469 either succeed or fail without retrying. 2470 When set to "once" the network operation will 2471 fail when all the available network interfaces 2472 are tried once without success. 2473 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation 2474 themselves. 2475 2476 tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's 2477 UDP source port. 2478 2479 tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP 2480 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69. 2481 2482 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over 2483 ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q 2484 VLAN tagged frames. 2485 2486The following environment variables may be used and automatically 2487updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"), 2488depending the information provided by your boot server: 2489 2490 bootfile - see above 2491 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server 2492 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server 2493 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use 2494 hostname - Target hostname 2495 ipaddr - see above 2496 netmask - Subnet Mask 2497 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server 2498 serverip - see above 2499 2500 2501There are two special Environment Variables: 2502 2503 serial# - contains hardware identification information such 2504 as type string and/or serial number 2505 ethaddr - Ethernet address 2506 2507These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of 2508the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables 2509once they have been set once. 2510 2511 2512Further special Environment Variables: 2513 2514 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed 2515 with the "version" command. This variable is 2516 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE). 2517 2518 2519Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take 2520only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-). 2521 2522 2523Command Line Parsing: 2524===================== 2525 2526There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot: 2527the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell: 2528 2529Old, simple command line parser: 2530-------------------------------- 2531 2532- supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands) 2533- several commands on one line, separated by ';' 2534- variable substitution using "... $(name) ..." syntax 2535- special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\', 2536 for example: 2537 setenv bootcmd bootm \$(address) 2538- You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example: 2539 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off' 2540 2541Hush shell: 2542----------- 2543 2544- similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like 2545 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done, 2546 until...do...done, ... 2547- supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv 2548 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax 2549 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run" 2550 command 2551 2552General rules: 2553-------------- 2554 2555(1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run" 2556 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and 2557 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be 2558 executed anyway. 2559 2560(2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e. 2561 calling run with a list af variables as arguments), any failing 2562 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining 2563 variables are not executed. 2564 2565Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces: 2566======================================= 2567 2568Some boards come with redundant ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports 2569such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a 2570"working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows: 2571 2572Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding 2573MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0), 2574"eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ... 2575 2576If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance 2577in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon- 2578ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment 2579variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means: 2580 2581o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the 2582 environment, the SROM's address is used. 2583 2584o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the 2585 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is 2586 used. 2587 2588o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and 2589 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used. 2590 2591o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the 2592 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a 2593 warning is printed. 2594 2595o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error 2596 is raised. 2597 2598 2599Image Formats: 2600============== 2601 2602The "boot" commands of this monitor operate on "image" files which 2603can be basicly anything, preceeded by a special header; see the 2604definitions in include/image.h for details; basicly, the header 2605defines the following image properties: 2606 2607* Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, 2608 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks, 2609 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, ARTOS; 2610 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, ARTOS, LynxOS). 2611* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, Intel x86, 2612 IA64, MIPS, NIOS, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit; 2613 Currently supported: ARM, Intel x86, MIPS, NIOS, PowerPC). 2614* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2) 2615* Load Address 2616* Entry Point 2617* Image Name 2618* Image Timestamp 2619 2620The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header 2621and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by 2622CRC32 checksums. 2623 2624 2625Linux Support: 2626============== 2627 2628Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application 2629easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of 2630U-Boot. 2631 2632U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some 2633special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any 2634"initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image; 2635instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation 2636serves several purposes: 2637 2638- the same features can be used for other OS or standalone 2639 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the 2640 Flash memory footprint) 2641 2642- it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because 2643 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot 2644 2645- the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd" 2646 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can 2647 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't 2648 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just 2649 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the 2650 software is easier now. 2651 2652 2653Linux HOWTO: 2654============ 2655 2656Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems: 2657--------------------------------------- 2658 2659U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to 2660configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware 2661(no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to 2662Linux :-). 2663 2664But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/ppc/mbxboot). 2665 2666Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance 2667include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board 2668Information structure as we define in include/u-boot.h, and make 2669sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value as your 2670U-Boot configuration in CFG_IMMR. 2671 2672 2673Configuring the Linux kernel: 2674----------------------------- 2675 2676No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root 2677device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system. 2678 2679 2680Building a Linux Image: 2681----------------------- 2682 2683With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are 2684not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target 2685"uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by 2686U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target, 2687which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a 2688100% compatible format. 2689 2690Example: 2691 2692 make TQM850L_config 2693 make oldconfig 2694 make dep 2695 make uImage 2696 2697The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to 2698encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information, 2699CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing: 2700 2701* build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format): 2702 2703* convert the kernel into a raw binary image: 2704 2705 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \ 2706 -R .note -R .comment \ 2707 -S vmlinux linux.bin 2708 2709* compress the binary image: 2710 2711 gzip -9 linux.bin 2712 2713* package compressed binary image for U-Boot: 2714 2715 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \ 2716 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \ 2717 -d linux.bin.gz uImage 2718 2719 2720The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use 2721with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or 2722combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64 2723byte header containing information about target architecture, 2724operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time 2725stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc. 2726 2727"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and 2728print the header information, or to build new images. 2729 2730In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information 2731contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes 2732checksum verification: 2733 2734 tools/mkimage -l image 2735 -l ==> list image header information 2736 2737The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image 2738from a "data file" which is used as image payload: 2739 2740 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \ 2741 -n name -d data_file image 2742 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch' 2743 -O ==> set operating system to 'os' 2744 -T ==> set image type to 'type' 2745 -C ==> set compression type 'comp' 2746 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex) 2747 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex) 2748 -n ==> set image name to 'name' 2749 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile' 2750 2751Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load 2752address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the 2753kernel version: 2754 2755- 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C, 2756- 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000. 2757 2758So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read: 2759 2760 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \ 2761 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \ 2762 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/ppc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \ 2763 > examples/uImage.TQM850L 2764 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L 2765 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000 2766 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) 2767 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB 2768 Load Address: 0x00000000 2769 Entry Point: 0x00000000 2770 2771To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption): 2772 2773 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L 2774 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L 2775 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000 2776 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) 2777 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB 2778 Load Address: 0x00000000 2779 Entry Point: 0x00000000 2780 2781NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade 2782speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this 2783needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not 2784need to be uncompressed: 2785 2786 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/ppc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz 2787 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \ 2788 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \ 2789 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/ppc/coffboot/vmlinux \ 2790 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed 2791 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L 2792 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000 2793 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) 2794 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB 2795 Load Address: 0x00000000 2796 Entry Point: 0x00000000 2797 2798 2799Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file 2800when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk: 2801 2802 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \ 2803 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \ 2804 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd 2805 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image 2806 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000 2807 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) 2808 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB 2809 Load Address: 0x00000000 2810 Entry Point: 0x00000000 2811 2812 2813Installing a Linux Image: 2814------------------------- 2815 2816To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface, 2817you must convert the image to S-Record format: 2818 2819 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec 2820 2821The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot 2822image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to 2823address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to 2824specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads' 2825command. 2826 2827Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the 2828TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank): 2829 2830 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF 2831 2832 .......... done 2833 Erased 8 sectors 2834 2835 => loads 40100000 2836 ## Ready for S-Record download ... 2837 ~>examples/image.srec 2838 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ... 2839 ... 2840 15989 15990 15991 15992 2841 [file transfer complete] 2842 [connected] 2843 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000 2844 2845 2846You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command; 2847this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data 2848corruption happened: 2849 2850 => imi 40100000 2851 2852 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ... 2853 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L 2854 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) 2855 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB 2856 Load Address: 00000000 2857 Entry Point: 0000000c 2858 Verifying Checksum ... OK 2859 2860 2861Boot Linux: 2862----------- 2863 2864The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in 2865memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents 2866of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as 2867parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the 2868"printenv" and "setenv" commands: 2869 2870 2871 => printenv bootargs 2872 bootargs=root=/dev/ram 2873 2874 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2 2875 2876 => printenv bootargs 2877 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2 2878 2879 => bootm 40020000 2880 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ... 2881 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L 2882 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) 2883 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB 2884 Load Address: 00000000 2885 Entry Point: 0000000c 2886 Verifying Checksum ... OK 2887 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK 2888 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 2889 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2 2890 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60 2891 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS 2892 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000] 2893 ... 2894 2895If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial ram disk, you pass 2896the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT 2897format!) to the "bootm" command: 2898 2899 => imi 40100000 40200000 2900 2901 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ... 2902 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L 2903 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) 2904 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB 2905 Load Address: 00000000 2906 Entry Point: 0000000c 2907 Verifying Checksum ... OK 2908 2909 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ... 2910 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image 2911 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) 2912 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB 2913 Load Address: 00000000 2914 Entry Point: 00000000 2915 Verifying Checksum ... OK 2916 2917 => bootm 40100000 40200000 2918 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ... 2919 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L 2920 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) 2921 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB 2922 Load Address: 00000000 2923 Entry Point: 0000000c 2924 Verifying Checksum ... OK 2925 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK 2926 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ... 2927 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image 2928 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) 2929 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB 2930 Load Address: 00000000 2931 Entry Point: 00000000 2932 Verifying Checksum ... OK 2933 Loading Ramdisk ... OK 2934 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 2935 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram 2936 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60 2937 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS 2938 ... 2939 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 2940 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). 2941 2942 bash# 2943 2944More About U-Boot Image Types: 2945------------------------------ 2946 2947U-Boot supports the following image types: 2948 2949 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment 2950 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave 2951 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from 2952 the Standalone Program. 2953 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which 2954 will take over control completely. Usually these programs 2955 will install their own set of exception handlers, device 2956 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot 2957 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU. 2958 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their 2959 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is 2960 being started. 2961 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS 2962 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like 2963 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want 2964 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot 2965 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get 2966 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image. 2967 2968 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each 2969 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network 2970 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0". 2971 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by 2972 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to 2973 a multiple of 4 bytes). 2974 2975 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like 2976 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to 2977 flash memory. 2978 2979 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by 2980 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially 2981 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush) 2982 as command interpreter. 2983 2984 2985Standalone HOWTO: 2986================= 2987 2988One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and 2989run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of 2990U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services. 2991 2992Two simple examples are included with the sources: 2993 2994"Hello World" Demo: 2995------------------- 2996 2997'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo 2998application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot. 2999It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it 3000like that: 3001 3002 => loads 3003 ## Ready for S-Record download ... 3004 ~>examples/hello_world.srec 3005 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ... 3006 [file transfer complete] 3007 [connected] 3008 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004 3009 3010 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test. 3011 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ... 3012 Hello World 3013 argc = 7 3014 argv[0] = "40004" 3015 argv[1] = "Hello" 3016 argv[2] = "World!" 3017 argv[3] = "This" 3018 argv[4] = "is" 3019 argv[5] = "a" 3020 argv[6] = "test." 3021 argv[7] = "<NULL>" 3022 Hit any key to exit ... 3023 3024 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0 3025 3026Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt 3027handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'. 3028Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second. 3029The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.' 3030character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be 3031controlled by the following keys: 3032 3033 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers 3034 b - enable interrupts and start timer 3035 e - stop timer and disable interrupts 3036 q - quit application 3037 3038 => loads 3039 ## Ready for S-Record download ... 3040 ~>examples/timer.srec 3041 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ... 3042 [file transfer complete] 3043 [connected] 3044 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004 3045 3046 => go 40004 3047 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ... 3048 TIMERS=0xfff00980 3049 Using timer 1 3050 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0 3051 3052Hit 'b': 3053 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us 3054 Enabling timer 3055Hit '?': 3056 [q, b, e, ?] ........ 3057 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0 3058Hit '?': 3059 [q, b, e, ?] . 3060 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0 3061Hit '?': 3062 [q, b, e, ?] . 3063 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0 3064Hit '?': 3065 [q, b, e, ?] . 3066 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0 3067Hit 'e': 3068 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer 3069Hit 'q': 3070 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0 3071 3072 3073Minicom warning: 3074================ 3075 3076Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the 3077"minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd) 3078consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under 3079Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and 3080especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and 3081use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). 3082 3083Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this 3084configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section: 3085 3086 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi 3087 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N 3088 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N 3089 3090 3091NetBSD Notes: 3092============= 3093 3094Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host 3095(build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx). 3096 3097Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on 3098NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also 3099need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make). 3100Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files; 3101attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is 3102missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually: 3103 3104 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include 3105 # mkdir powerpc 3106 # ln -s powerpc machine 3107 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h 3108 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST 3109 3110Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native 3111and U-Boot include files. 3112 3113Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a 3114stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel 3115proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source 3116tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the 3117meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz 3118 3119 3120Implementation Internals: 3121========================= 3122 3123The following is not intended to be a complete description of every 3124implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the 3125inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom 3126hardware. 3127 3128 3129Initial Stack, Global Data: 3130--------------------------- 3131 3132The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot 3133starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to 3134system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet). 3135This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS 3136is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working 3137at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation 3138options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU 3139models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and 3140MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be 3141locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc. 3142 3143 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the 3144 u-boot-users mailing list: 3145 3146 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)? 3147 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com> 3148 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET) 3149 ... 3150 3151 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it 3152 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not 3153 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness 3154 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of 3155 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's 3156 beyond the scope of this list to expain the details, but you 3157 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and 3158 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals. 3159 3160 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It 3161 is another option for the system designer to use as an 3162 initial stack/ram area prior to SDRAM being available. Either 3163 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your 3164 board designers haven't used it for something that would 3165 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not 3166 used. 3167 3168 CFG_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere 3169 with your processor/board/system design. The default value 3170 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in 3171 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger 3172 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set 3173 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources 3174 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in 3175 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when 3176 you get the config right. 3177 3178 -Chris Hallinan 3179 DS4.COM, Inc. 3180 3181It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C 3182code for the initialization procedures: 3183 3184* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt 3185 to write it. 3186 3187* Do not use any unitialized global data (or implicitely initialized 3188 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali- 3189 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM). 3190 3191* Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like 3192 that. 3193 3194Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use 3195normal global data to share information beween the code. But it 3196turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly 3197simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all 3198functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_ 3199functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of 3200the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we 3201place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we 3202reserve for this purpose. 3203 3204When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the 3205relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by 3206GCC's implementation. 3207 3208For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use: 3209 R1: stack pointer 3210 R2: TOC pointer 3211 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values 3212 R5-R10: parameter passing 3213 R13: small data area pointer 3214 R30: GOT pointer 3215 R31: frame pointer 3216 3217 (U-Boot also uses R14 as internal GOT pointer.) 3218 3219 ==> U-Boot will use R29 to hold a pointer to the global data 3220 3221 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the 3222 address of the global data structure is known at compile time), 3223 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat 3224 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on 3225 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image, 3226 624 text + 127 data). 3227 3228On ARM, the following registers are used: 3229 3230 R0: function argument word/integer result 3231 R1-R3: function argument word 3232 R9: GOT pointer 3233 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking if enabled) 3234 R11: argument (frame) pointer 3235 R12: temporary workspace 3236 R13: stack pointer 3237 R14: link register 3238 R15: program counter 3239 3240 ==> U-Boot will use R8 to hold a pointer to the global data 3241 3242 3243Memory Management: 3244------------------ 3245 3246U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the 3247MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection. 3248 3249The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory 3250controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each 3251memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several 3252physical memory banks. 3253 3254U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on 3255TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After 3256booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself 3257to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some 3258memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CFG_MALLOC_LEN 3259configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board 3260Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward). 3261 3262Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB 3263of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF). 3264 3265So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like 3266this: 3267 3268 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code 3269 : 3270 0x0000 1FFF 3271 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use 3272 : 3273 : 3274 3275 : 3276 : 3277 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward) 3278 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data 3279 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena 3280 : 3281 0x00FD FFFF 3282 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code 3283 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer 3284 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset) 3285 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM] 3286 3287 3288System Initialization: 3289---------------------- 3290 3291In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point 3292(on most PowerPC systens at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset 3293configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory. 3294To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address. 3295To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!) 3296initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs 3297which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked 3298part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core, 3299the caches and the SIU. 3300 3301Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a 3302preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries 3303(multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash 3304on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is 3305programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a 3306simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM 3307banks. 3308 3309When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of 3310different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first 3311bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address 33120x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create 3313contiguous memory starting from 0. 3314 3315Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area 3316and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board 3317Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM 3318pages, and the final stack is set up. 3319 3320Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment; 3321until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are 3322running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a 3323new address in RAM. 3324 3325 3326U-Boot Porting Guide: 3327---------------------- 3328 3329[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing 3330list, October 2002] 3331 3332 3333int main (int argc, char *argv[]) 3334{ 3335 sighandler_t no_more_time; 3336 3337 signal (SIGALRM, no_more_time); 3338 alarm (PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK)); 3339 3340 if (available_money > available_manpower) { 3341 pay consultant to port U-Boot; 3342 return 0; 3343 } 3344 3345 Download latest U-Boot source; 3346 3347 Subscribe to u-boot-users mailing list; 3348 3349 if (clueless) { 3350 email ("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?"); 3351 } 3352 3353 while (learning) { 3354 Read the README file in the top level directory; 3355 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual ; 3356 Read the source, Luke; 3357 } 3358 3359 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500)) { 3360 Buy a BDI2000; 3361 } else { 3362 Add a lot of aggravation and time; 3363 } 3364 3365 Create your own board support subdirectory; 3366 3367 Create your own board config file; 3368 3369 while (!running) { 3370 do { 3371 Add / modify source code; 3372 } until (compiles); 3373 Debug; 3374 if (clueless) 3375 email ("Hi, I am having problems..."); 3376 } 3377 Send patch file to Wolfgang; 3378 3379 return 0; 3380} 3381 3382void no_more_time (int sig) 3383{ 3384 hire_a_guru(); 3385} 3386 3387 3388Coding Standards: 3389----------------- 3390 3391All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel 3392coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" in your Linux 3393kernel source directory. 3394 3395Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts 3396in Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style 3397comments (//) in your code. 3398 3399Please also stick to the following formatting rules: 3400- remove any trailing white space 3401- use TAB characters for indentation, not spaces 3402- make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds 3403- do not add more than 2 empty lines to source files 3404- do not add trailing empty lines to source files 3405 3406Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned 3407with a request to reformat the changes. 3408 3409 3410Submitting Patches: 3411------------------- 3412 3413Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to 3414establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules 3415may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff. 3416 3417Patches shall be sent to the u-boot-users mailing list. 3418 3419When you send a patch, please include the following information with 3420it: 3421 3422* For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes 3423 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the 3424 patch actually fixes something. 3425 3426* For new features: a description of the feature and your 3427 implementation. 3428 3429* A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch) 3430 3431* For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file 3432 3433* When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add this 3434 board to the MAKEALL script, too. 3435 3436* If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to 3437 document these in the README file. 3438 3439* The patch itself. If you are accessing the CVS repository use "cvs 3440 update; cvs diff -puRN"; else, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your 3441 version of diff does not support these options, then get the latest 3442 version of GNU diff. 3443 3444 The current directory when running this command shall be the top 3445 level directory of the U-Boot source tree, or it's parent directory 3446 (i. e. please make sure that your patch includes sufficient 3447 directory information for the affected files). 3448 3449 We accept patches as plain text, MIME attachments or as uuencoded 3450 gzipped text. 3451 3452* If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several 3453 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file. 3454 3455* Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be 3456 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset. 3457 3458 3459Notes: 3460 3461* Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched 3462 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported 3463 for any of the boards. 3464 3465* Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch 3466 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be 3467 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it. 3468 3469* If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not 3470 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful! 3471 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only 3472 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature 3473 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your 3474 modification. 3475 3476* Remember that there is a size limit of 40 kB per message on the 3477 u-boot-users mailing list. Compression may help. 3478