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 - at32ap Files specific to Atmel AVR32 AP CPUs 136 - i386 Files specific to i386 CPUs 137 - ixp Files specific to Intel XScale IXP CPUs 138 - mcf52x2 Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF52x2 CPUs 139 - mips Files specific to MIPS CPUs 140 - mpc5xx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xx CPUs 141 - mpc5xxx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xxx CPUs 142 - mpc8xx Files specific to Freescale MPC8xx CPUs 143 - mpc8220 Files specific to Freescale MPC8220 CPUs 144 - mpc824x Files specific to Freescale MPC824x CPUs 145 - mpc8260 Files specific to Freescale MPC8260 CPUs 146 - mpc85xx Files specific to Freescale MPC85xx CPUs 147 - nios Files specific to Altera NIOS CPUs 148 - nios2 Files specific to Altera Nios-II CPUs 149 - ppc4xx Files specific to AMCC PowerPC 4xx CPUs 150 - pxa Files specific to Intel XScale PXA CPUs 151 - s3c44b0 Files specific to Samsung S3C44B0 CPUs 152 - sa1100 Files specific to Intel StrongARM SA1100 CPUs 153- disk Code for disk drive partition handling 154- doc Documentation (don't expect too much) 155- drivers Commonly used device drivers 156- dtt Digital Thermometer and Thermostat drivers 157- examples Example code for standalone applications, etc. 158- include Header Files 159- lib_arm Files generic to ARM architecture 160- lib_avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture 161- lib_generic Files generic to all architectures 162- lib_i386 Files generic to i386 architecture 163- lib_m68k Files generic to m68k architecture 164- lib_mips Files generic to MIPS architecture 165- lib_nios Files generic to NIOS architecture 166- lib_ppc Files generic to PowerPC architecture 167- net Networking code 168- post Power On Self Test 169- rtc Real Time Clock drivers 170- tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc. 171 172Software Configuration: 173======================= 174 175Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the 176rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible. 177 178There are two classes of configuration variables: 179 180* Configuration _OPTIONS_: 181 These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with 182 "CONFIG_". 183 184* Configuration _SETTINGS_: 185 These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if 186 you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with 187 "CFG_". 188 189Later we will add a configuration tool - probably similar to or even 190identical to what's used for the Linux kernel. Right now, we have to 191do the configuration by hand, which means creating some symbolic 192links and editing some configuration files. We use the TQM8xxL boards 193as an example here. 194 195 196Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type: 197--------------------------------------------------- 198 199For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default 200configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_config". 201 202Example: For a TQM823L module type: 203 204 cd u-boot 205 make TQM823L_config 206 207For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the cpu type as well; 208e.g. "make cogent_mpc8xx_config". And also configure the cogent 209directory according to the instructions in cogent/README. 210 211 212Configuration Options: 213---------------------- 214 215Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all 216such information is kept in a configuration file 217"include/configs/<board_name>.h". 218 219Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in 220"include/configs/TQM823L.h". 221 222 223Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux 224kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to 225build a config tool - later. 226 227 228The following options need to be configured: 229 230- CPU Type: Define exactly one of 231 232 PowerPC based CPUs: 233 ------------------- 234 CONFIG_MPC823, CONFIG_MPC850, CONFIG_MPC855, CONFIG_MPC860 235 or CONFIG_MPC5xx 236 or CONFIG_MPC8220 237 or CONFIG_MPC824X, CONFIG_MPC8260 238 or CONFIG_MPC85xx 239 or CONFIG_IOP480 240 or CONFIG_405GP 241 or CONFIG_405EP 242 or CONFIG_440 243 or CONFIG_MPC74xx 244 or CONFIG_750FX 245 246 ARM based CPUs: 247 --------------- 248 CONFIG_SA1110 249 CONFIG_ARM7 250 CONFIG_PXA250 251 CONFIG_CPU_MONAHANS 252 253 MicroBlaze based CPUs: 254 ---------------------- 255 CONFIG_MICROBLAZE 256 257 Nios-2 based CPUs: 258 ---------------------- 259 CONFIG_NIOS2 260 261 AVR32 based CPUs: 262 ---------------------- 263 CONFIG_AT32AP 264 265- Board Type: Define exactly one of 266 267 PowerPC based boards: 268 --------------------- 269 270 CONFIG_ADCIOP CONFIG_FPS860L CONFIG_OXC 271 CONFIG_ADS860 CONFIG_GEN860T CONFIG_PCI405 272 CONFIG_AMX860 CONFIG_GENIETV CONFIG_PCIPPC2 273 CONFIG_AP1000 CONFIG_GTH CONFIG_PCIPPC6 274 CONFIG_AR405 CONFIG_gw8260 CONFIG_pcu_e 275 CONFIG_BAB7xx CONFIG_hermes CONFIG_PIP405 276 CONFIG_BC3450 CONFIG_hymod CONFIG_PM826 277 CONFIG_c2mon CONFIG_IAD210 CONFIG_ppmc8260 278 CONFIG_CANBT CONFIG_ICU862 CONFIG_QS823 279 CONFIG_CCM CONFIG_IP860 CONFIG_QS850 280 CONFIG_CMI CONFIG_IPHASE4539 CONFIG_QS860T 281 CONFIG_cogent_mpc8260 CONFIG_IVML24 CONFIG_RBC823 282 CONFIG_cogent_mpc8xx CONFIG_IVML24_128 CONFIG_RPXClassic 283 CONFIG_CPCI405 CONFIG_IVML24_256 CONFIG_RPXlite 284 CONFIG_CPCI4052 CONFIG_IVMS8 CONFIG_RPXsuper 285 CONFIG_CPCIISER4 CONFIG_IVMS8_128 CONFIG_rsdproto 286 CONFIG_CPU86 CONFIG_IVMS8_256 CONFIG_sacsng 287 CONFIG_CRAYL1 CONFIG_JSE CONFIG_Sandpoint8240 288 CONFIG_CSB272 CONFIG_LANTEC CONFIG_Sandpoint8245 289 CONFIG_CU824 CONFIG_LITE5200B CONFIG_sbc8260 290 CONFIG_DASA_SIM CONFIG_lwmon CONFIG_sbc8560 291 CONFIG_DB64360 CONFIG_MBX CONFIG_SM850 292 CONFIG_DB64460 CONFIG_MBX860T CONFIG_SPD823TS 293 CONFIG_DU405 CONFIG_MHPC CONFIG_STXGP3 294 CONFIG_DUET_ADS CONFIG_MIP405 CONFIG_SXNI855T 295 CONFIG_EBONY CONFIG_MOUSSE CONFIG_TQM823L 296 CONFIG_ELPPC CONFIG_MPC8260ADS CONFIG_TQM8260 297 CONFIG_ELPT860 CONFIG_MPC8540ADS CONFIG_TQM850L 298 CONFIG_ep8260 CONFIG_MPC8540EVAL CONFIG_TQM855L 299 CONFIG_ERIC CONFIG_MPC8560ADS CONFIG_TQM860L 300 CONFIG_ESTEEM192E CONFIG_MUSENKI CONFIG_TTTech 301 CONFIG_ETX094 CONFIG_MVS1 CONFIG_UTX8245 302 CONFIG_EVB64260 CONFIG_NETPHONE CONFIG_V37 303 CONFIG_FADS823 CONFIG_NETTA CONFIG_W7OLMC 304 CONFIG_FADS850SAR CONFIG_NETVIA CONFIG_W7OLMG 305 CONFIG_FADS860T CONFIG_NX823 CONFIG_WALNUT 306 CONFIG_FLAGADM CONFIG_OCRTC CONFIG_ZPC1900 307 CONFIG_FPS850L CONFIG_ORSG CONFIG_ZUMA 308 309 ARM based boards: 310 ----------------- 311 312 CONFIG_ARMADILLO, CONFIG_AT91RM9200DK, CONFIG_CERF250, 313 CONFIG_CSB637, CONFIG_DELTA, CONFIG_DNP1110, 314 CONFIG_EP7312, CONFIG_H2_OMAP1610, CONFIG_HHP_CRADLE, 315 CONFIG_IMPA7, CONFIG_INNOVATOROMAP1510, CONFIG_INNOVATOROMAP1610, 316 CONFIG_KB9202, CONFIG_LART, CONFIG_LPD7A400, 317 CONFIG_LUBBOCK, CONFIG_OSK_OMAP5912, CONFIG_OMAP2420H4, 318 CONFIG_PLEB2, CONFIG_SHANNON, CONFIG_P2_OMAP730, 319 CONFIG_SMDK2400, CONFIG_SMDK2410, CONFIG_TRAB, 320 CONFIG_VCMA9 321 322 MicroBlaze based boards: 323 ------------------------ 324 325 CONFIG_SUZAKU 326 327 Nios-2 based boards: 328 ------------------------ 329 330 CONFIG_PCI5441 CONFIG_PK1C20 331 CONFIG_EP1C20 CONFIG_EP1S10 CONFIG_EP1S40 332 333 AVR32 based boards: 334 ------------------- 335 336 CONFIG_ATSTK1000 337 338- CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined) 339 Define exactly one of 340 CONFIG_ATSTK1002 341 342 343- CPU Module Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined) 344 Define exactly one of 345 CONFIG_CMA286_60_OLD 346--- FIXME --- not tested yet: 347 CONFIG_CMA286_60, CONFIG_CMA286_21, CONFIG_CMA286_60P, 348 CONFIG_CMA287_23, CONFIG_CMA287_50 349 350- Motherboard Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined) 351 Define exactly one of 352 CONFIG_CMA101, CONFIG_CMA102 353 354- Motherboard I/O Modules: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined) 355 Define one or more of 356 CONFIG_CMA302 357 358- Motherboard Options: (if CONFIG_CMA101 or CONFIG_CMA102 are defined) 359 Define one or more of 360 CONFIG_LCD_HEARTBEAT - update a character position on 361 the lcd display every second with 362 a "rotator" |\-/|\-/ 363 364- Board flavour: (if CONFIG_MPC8260ADS is defined) 365 CONFIG_ADSTYPE 366 Possible values are: 367 CFG_8260ADS - original MPC8260ADS 368 CFG_8266ADS - MPC8266ADS 369 CFG_PQ2FADS - PQ2FADS-ZU or PQ2FADS-VR 370 CFG_8272ADS - MPC8272ADS 371 372- MPC824X Family Member (if CONFIG_MPC824X is defined) 373 Define exactly one of 374 CONFIG_MPC8240, CONFIG_MPC8245 375 376- 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx cpu) 377 CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if 378 get_gclk_freq() cannot work 379 e.g. if there is no 32KHz 380 reference PIT/RTC clock 381 CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK 382 or XTAL/EXTAL) 383 384- 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU): 385 CFG_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN 386 CFG_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX 387 CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT 388 See doc/README.MPC866 389 390 CFG_MEASURE_CPUCLK 391 392 Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead 393 of relying on the correctness of the configured 394 values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure 395 the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note 396 that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz 397 RTC clock or CFG_8XX_XIN) 398 399- Intel Monahans options: 400 CFG_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO 401 402 Defines the Monahans run mode to oscillator 403 ratio. Valid values are 8, 16, 24, 31. The core 404 frequency is this value multiplied by 13 MHz. 405 406 CFG_MONAHANS_TURBO_RUN_MODE_RATIO 407 408 Defines the Monahans turbo mode to oscillator 409 ratio. Valid values are 1 (default if undefined) and 410 2. The core frequency as calculated above is multiplied 411 by this value. 412 413- Linux Kernel Interface: 414 CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ 415 416 U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz 417 internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux 418 kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the 419 bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable 420 "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot 421 converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the 422 Linux kernel. 423 When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of 424 "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the 425 default environment. 426 427 CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES [relevant for MIPS only] 428 429 When transfering memsize parameter to linux, some versions 430 expect it to be in bytes, others in MB. 431 Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes. 432 433 CONFIG_OF_FLAT_TREE 434 435 New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be 436 passed using flat open firmware trees. 437 The environment variable "disable_of", when set, disables this 438 functionality. 439 440 CONFIG_OF_FLAT_TREE_MAX_SIZE 441 442 The maximum size of the constructed OF tree. 443 444 OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node. 445 OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node. 446 OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency. 447 OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device 448 449 CONFIG_OF_HAS_BD_T 450 451 The resulting flat device tree will have a copy of the bd_t. 452 Space should be pre-allocated in the dts for the bd_t. 453 454 CONFIG_OF_HAS_UBOOT_ENV 455 456 The resulting flat device tree will have a copy of u-boot's 457 environment variables 458 459 CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP 460 461 Board code has addition modification that it wants to make 462 to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel 463 464- Serial Ports: 465 CFG_PL010_SERIAL 466 467 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs. 468 469 CFG_PL011_SERIAL 470 471 Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs. 472 473 CONFIG_PL011_CLOCK 474 475 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to 476 the clock speed of the UARTs. 477 478 CONFIG_PL01x_PORTS 479 480 If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board, 481 define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported) 482 port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h 483 484 485- Console Interface: 486 Depending on board, define exactly one serial port 487 (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2, 488 CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial 489 console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE 490 491 Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial 492 port routines must be defined elsewhere 493 (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...) 494 495 CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE 496 Enables console device for a color framebuffer. Needs following 497 defines (cf. smiLynxEM, i8042, board/eltec/bab7xx) 498 VIDEO_FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN graphic memory organisation 499 (default big endian) 500 VIDEO_HW_RECTFILL graphic chip supports 501 rectangle fill 502 (cf. smiLynxEM) 503 VIDEO_HW_BITBLT graphic chip supports 504 bit-blit (cf. smiLynxEM) 505 VIDEO_VISIBLE_COLS visible pixel columns 506 (cols=pitch) 507 VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS visible pixel rows 508 VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE bytes per pixel 509 VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT graphic data format 510 (0-5, cf. cfb_console.c) 511 VIDEO_FB_ADRS framebuffer address 512 VIDEO_KBD_INIT_FCT keyboard int fct 513 (i.e. i8042_kbd_init()) 514 VIDEO_TSTC_FCT test char fct 515 (i.e. i8042_tstc) 516 VIDEO_GETC_FCT get char fct 517 (i.e. i8042_getc) 518 CONFIG_CONSOLE_CURSOR cursor drawing on/off 519 (requires blink timer 520 cf. i8042.c) 521 CFG_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c) 522 CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME display time/date info in 523 upper right corner 524 (requires CFG_CMD_DATE) 525 CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO display Linux logo in 526 upper left corner 527 CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO use bmp_logo.h instead of 528 linux_logo.h for logo. 529 Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO 530 CONFIG_CONSOLE_EXTRA_INFO 531 addional board info beside 532 the logo 533 534 When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is 535 default i/o. Serial console can be forced with 536 environment 'console=serial'. 537 538 When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console 539 messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with 540 the "silent" environment variable. See 541 doc/README.silent for more information. 542 543- Console Baudrate: 544 CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps 545 Select one of the baudrates listed in 546 CFG_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below. 547 CFG_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale 548 549- Interrupt driven serial port input: 550 CONFIG_SERIAL_SOFTWARE_FIFO 551 552 PPC405GP only. 553 Use an interrupt handler for receiving data on the 554 serial port. It also enables using hardware handshake 555 (RTS/CTS) and UART's built-in FIFO. Set the number of 556 bytes the interrupt driven input buffer should have. 557 558 Leave undefined to disable this feature, including 559 disable the buffer and hardware handshake. 560 561- Console UART Number: 562 CONFIG_UART1_CONSOLE 563 564 AMCC PPC4xx only. 565 If defined internal UART1 (and not UART0) is used 566 as default U-Boot console. 567 568- Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds 569 Delay before automatically booting the default image; 570 set to -1 to disable autoboot. 571 572 See doc/README.autoboot for these options that 573 work with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY. None are required. 574 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME 575 CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_MIN 576 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED 577 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT 578 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR 579 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR 580 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2 581 CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR2 582 CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK 583 CONFIG_RESET_TO_RETRY 584 585- Autoboot Command: 586 CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND 587 Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled; 588 define a command string that is automatically executed 589 when no character is read on the console interface 590 within "Boot Delay" after reset. 591 592 CONFIG_BOOTARGS 593 This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm 594 command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the 595 environment value "bootargs". 596 597 CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT 598 The value of these goes into the environment as 599 "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used 600 as a convenience, when switching between booting from 601 ram and nfs. 602 603- Pre-Boot Commands: 604 CONFIG_PREBOOT 605 606 When this option is #defined, the existence of the 607 environment variable "preboot" will be checked 608 immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY 609 countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp. 610 entering interactive mode. 611 612 This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is 613 automatically generated or modified. For an example 614 see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is 615 modified when the user holds down a certain 616 combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when 617 booting the systems 618 619- Serial Download Echo Mode: 620 CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO 621 If defined to 1, all characters received during a 622 serial download (using the "loads" command) are 623 echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal 624 emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take 625 time on others. This setting #define's the initial 626 value of the "loads_echo" environment variable. 627 628- Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CFG_CMD_KGDB is defined) 629 CONFIG_KGDB_BAUDRATE 630 Select one of the baudrates listed in 631 CFG_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below. 632 633- Monitor Functions: 634 CONFIG_COMMANDS 635 Most monitor functions can be selected (or 636 de-selected) by adjusting the definition of 637 CONFIG_COMMANDS; to select individual functions, 638 #define CONFIG_COMMANDS by "OR"ing any of the 639 following values: 640 641 #define enables commands: 642 ------------------------- 643 CFG_CMD_ASKENV * ask for env variable 644 CFG_CMD_AUTOSCRIPT Autoscript Support 645 CFG_CMD_BDI bdinfo 646 CFG_CMD_BEDBUG * Include BedBug Debugger 647 CFG_CMD_BMP * BMP support 648 CFG_CMD_BSP * Board specific commands 649 CFG_CMD_BOOTD bootd 650 CFG_CMD_CACHE * icache, dcache 651 CFG_CMD_CONSOLE coninfo 652 CFG_CMD_DATE * support for RTC, date/time... 653 CFG_CMD_DHCP * DHCP support 654 CFG_CMD_DIAG * Diagnostics 655 CFG_CMD_DOC * Disk-On-Chip Support 656 CFG_CMD_DTT * Digital Therm and Thermostat 657 CFG_CMD_ECHO echo arguments 658 CFG_CMD_EEPROM * EEPROM read/write support 659 CFG_CMD_ELF * bootelf, bootvx 660 CFG_CMD_ENV saveenv 661 CFG_CMD_FDC * Floppy Disk Support 662 CFG_CMD_FAT * FAT partition support 663 CFG_CMD_FDOS * Dos diskette Support 664 CFG_CMD_FLASH flinfo, erase, protect 665 CFG_CMD_FPGA FPGA device initialization support 666 CFG_CMD_HWFLOW * RTS/CTS hw flow control 667 CFG_CMD_I2C * I2C serial bus support 668 CFG_CMD_IDE * IDE harddisk support 669 CFG_CMD_IMI iminfo 670 CFG_CMD_IMLS List all found images 671 CFG_CMD_IMMAP * IMMR dump support 672 CFG_CMD_IRQ * irqinfo 673 CFG_CMD_ITEST Integer/string test of 2 values 674 CFG_CMD_JFFS2 * JFFS2 Support 675 CFG_CMD_KGDB * kgdb 676 CFG_CMD_LOADB loadb 677 CFG_CMD_LOADS loads 678 CFG_CMD_MEMORY md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base, 679 loop, loopw, mtest 680 CFG_CMD_MISC Misc functions like sleep etc 681 CFG_CMD_MMC * MMC memory mapped support 682 CFG_CMD_MII * MII utility commands 683 CFG_CMD_NAND * NAND support 684 CFG_CMD_NET bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot 685 CFG_CMD_PCI * pciinfo 686 CFG_CMD_PCMCIA * PCMCIA support 687 CFG_CMD_PING * send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network host 688 CFG_CMD_PORTIO * Port I/O 689 CFG_CMD_REGINFO * Register dump 690 CFG_CMD_RUN run command in env variable 691 CFG_CMD_SAVES * save S record dump 692 CFG_CMD_SCSI * SCSI Support 693 CFG_CMD_SDRAM * print SDRAM configuration information 694 (requires CFG_CMD_I2C) 695 CFG_CMD_SETGETDCR Support for DCR Register access (4xx only) 696 CFG_CMD_SPI * SPI serial bus support 697 CFG_CMD_USB * USB support 698 CFG_CMD_VFD * VFD support (TRAB) 699 CFG_CMD_BSP * Board SPecific functions 700 CFG_CMD_CDP * Cisco Discover Protocol support 701 ----------------------------------------------- 702 CFG_CMD_ALL all 703 704 CONFIG_CMD_DFL Default configuration; at the moment 705 this is includes all commands, except 706 the ones marked with "*" in the list 707 above. 708 709 If you don't define CONFIG_COMMANDS it defaults to 710 CONFIG_CMD_DFL in include/cmd_confdefs.h. A board can 711 override the default settings in the respective 712 include file. 713 714 EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network 715 support you can write: 716 717 #define CONFIG_COMMANDS (CFG_CMD_ALL & ~CFG_CMD_NET) 718 719 720 Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands 721 (configuration option CFG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know 722 what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data 723 cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or 724 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be 725 uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other 726 systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an 727 initial stack and some data. 728 729 730 XXX - this list needs to get updated! 731 732- Watchdog: 733 CONFIG_WATCHDOG 734 If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog 735 support. There must be support in the platform specific 736 code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260 CPUs, the 737 SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR 738 register. 739 740- U-Boot Version: 741 CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE 742 If this variable is defined, an environment variable 743 named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot 744 version as printed by the "version" command. 745 This variable is readonly. 746 747- Real-Time Clock: 748 749 When CFG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC 750 has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the 751 following options: 752 753 CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx - use internal RTC of MPC8xx 754 CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563 - use Philips PCF8563 RTC 755 CONFIG_RTC_MC146818 - use MC146818 RTC 756 CONFIG_RTC_DS1307 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC 757 CONFIG_RTC_DS1337 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC 758 CONFIG_RTC_DS1338 - use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC 759 CONFIG_RTC_DS164x - use Dallas DS164x RTC 760 CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900 - use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC 761 762 Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface 763 must also be configured. See I2C Support, below. 764 765- Timestamp Support: 766 767 When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp 768 (date and time) of an image is printed by image 769 commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is 770 automatically enabled when you select CFG_CMD_DATE . 771 772- Partition Support: 773 CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION and/or CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION 774 and/or CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION 775 776 If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CFG_CMD_IDE or 777 CFG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at least 778 one partition type as well. 779 780- IDE Reset method: 781 CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several 782 board configurations files but used nowhere! 783 784 CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will 785 be performed by calling the function 786 ide_set_reset(int reset) 787 which has to be defined in a board specific file 788 789- ATAPI Support: 790 CONFIG_ATAPI 791 792 Set this to enable ATAPI support. 793 794- LBA48 Support 795 CONFIG_LBA48 796 797 Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB 798 Also look at CFG_64BIT_LBA ,CFG_64BIT_VSPRINTF and CFG_64BIT_STRTOUL 799 Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only' 800 support disks up to 2.1TB. 801 802 CFG_64BIT_LBA: 803 When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses. 804 Default is 32bit. 805 806- SCSI Support: 807 At the moment only there is only support for the 808 SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define 809 CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it. 810 811 CFG_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CFG_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and 812 CFG_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CFG_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID * 813 CFG_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the 814 maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target 815 devices. 816 CFG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz) 817 818- NETWORK Support (PCI): 819 CONFIG_E1000 820 Support for Intel 8254x gigabit chips. 821 822 CONFIG_EEPRO100 823 Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips. 824 Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables eeprom 825 write routine for first time initialisation. 826 827 CONFIG_TULIP 828 Support for Digital 2114x chips. 829 Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific 830 modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611). 831 832 CONFIG_NATSEMI 833 Support for National dp83815 chips. 834 835 CONFIG_NS8382X 836 Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips. 837 838- NETWORK Support (other): 839 840 CONFIG_DRIVER_LAN91C96 841 Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips. 842 843 CONFIG_LAN91C96_BASE 844 Define this to hold the physical address 845 of the LAN91C96's I/O space 846 847 CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT 848 Define this to enable 32 bit addressing 849 850 CONFIG_DRIVER_SMC91111 851 Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip 852 853 CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE 854 Define this to hold the physical address 855 of the device (I/O space) 856 857 CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT 858 Define this if data bus is 32 bits 859 860 CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS 861 Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros 862 (some hardware wont work with macros) 863 864- USB Support: 865 At the moment only the UHCI host controller is 866 supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define 867 CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it. 868 define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard 869 and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB 870 storage devices. 871 Note: 872 Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives 873 (TEAC FD-05PUB). 874 MPC5200 USB requires additional defines: 875 CONFIG_USB_CLOCK 876 for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb 877 CONFIG_USB_CONFIG 878 for differential drivers: 0x00001000 879 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000 880 881 882- MMC Support: 883 The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To 884 enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be 885 accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device 886 to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is 887 enabled with CFG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with 888 the FAT fs. This is enabled with CFG_CMD_FAT. 889 890- Journaling Flash filesystem support: 891 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE, 892 CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV 893 Define these for a default partition on a NAND device 894 895 CFG_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR, 896 CFG_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CFG_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS 897 Define these for a default partition on a NOR device 898 899 CFG_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART 900 Define this to create an own partition. You have to provide a 901 function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num) 902 903 If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to 904 #define CFG_JFFS_SINGLE_PART 1 905 to disable the command chpart. This is the default when you 906 have not defined a custom partition 907 908- Keyboard Support: 909 CONFIG_ISA_KEYBOARD 910 911 Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard 912 support 913 914 CONFIG_I8042_KBD 915 Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and 916 GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support. 917 Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc 918 for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking. 919 920- Video support: 921 CONFIG_VIDEO 922 923 Define this to enable video support (for output to 924 video). 925 926 CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000 927 928 Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip 929 930 CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM 931 Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The 932 video output is selected via environment 'videoout' 933 (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is 934 assumed. 935 936 For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is 937 selected via environment 'videomode'. Two diferent ways 938 are possible: 939 - "videomode=num" 'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers. 940 Following standard modes are supported (* is default): 941 942 Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 943 -------------+--------------------------------------------- 944 8 bits | 0x301* 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307 945 15 bits | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319 946 16 bits | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A 947 24 bits | 0x312 0x315 0x318 ? 0x31B 948 -------------+--------------------------------------------- 949 (i.e. setenv videomode 317; saveenv; reset;) 950 951 - "videomode=bootargs" all the video parameters are parsed 952 from the bootargs. (See drivers/videomodes.c) 953 954 955 CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806 956 Enable Epson SED13806 driver. This driver supports 8bpp 957 and 16bpp modes defined by CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_8BPP 958 or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP 959 960- Keyboard Support: 961 CONFIG_KEYBOARD 962 963 Define this to enable a custom keyboard support. 964 This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be 965 defined in your board-specific files. 966 The only board using this so far is RBC823. 967 968- LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD 969 970 Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD 971 display); also select one of the supported displays 972 by defining one of these: 973 974 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33: 975 976 NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan. 977 978 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20 979 980 NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480. 981 Active, color, single scan. 982 983 CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54 984 985 NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480. 986 Active, color, single scan. 987 988 CONFIG_SHARP_16x9 989 990 Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan. 991 It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is. 992 993 CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341 994 995 Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480. 996 Active, color, single scan. 997 998 CONFIG_HLD1045 999 1000 HLD1045 display, 640x480. 1001 Active, color, single scan. 1002 1003 CONFIG_OPTREX_BW 1004 1005 Optrex CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5 1006 or 1007 Hitachi LMG6912RPFC-00T 1008 or 1009 Hitachi SP14Q002 1010 1011 320x240. Black & white. 1012 1013 Normally display is black on white background; define 1014 CFG_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted. 1015 1016- Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN 1017 1018 If this option is set, the environment is checked for 1019 a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display 1020 of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD 1021 is suppressed and the BMP image at the address 1022 specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The 1023 console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This 1024 allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is 1025 loaded very quickly after power-on. 1026 1027- Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP 1028 1029 If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP 1030 images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the 1031 splashscreen support or the bmp command. 1032 1033- Compression support: 1034 CONFIG_BZIP2 1035 1036 If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed 1037 images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip 1038 compressed images are supported. 1039 1040 NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so 1041 the malloc area (as defined by CFG_MALLOC_LEN) should 1042 be at least 4MB. 1043 1044- MII/PHY support: 1045 CONFIG_PHY_ADDR 1046 1047 The address of PHY on MII bus. 1048 1049 CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx) 1050 1051 The clock frequency of the MII bus 1052 1053 CONFIG_PHY_GIGE 1054 1055 If this option is set, support for speed/duplex 1056 detection of Gigabit PHY is included. 1057 1058 CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY 1059 1060 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after 1061 reset before any MII register access is possible. 1062 For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay 1063 required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A) 1064 1065 CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx) 1066 1067 Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after 1068 command issued before MII status register can be read 1069 1070- Ethernet address: 1071 CONFIG_ETHADDR 1072 CONFIG_ETH2ADDR 1073 CONFIG_ETH3ADDR 1074 1075 Define a default value for ethernet address to use 1076 for the respective ethernet interface, in case this 1077 is not determined automatically. 1078 1079- IP address: 1080 CONFIG_IPADDR 1081 1082 Define a default value for the IP address to use for 1083 the default ethernet interface, in case this is not 1084 determined through e.g. bootp. 1085 1086- Server IP address: 1087 CONFIG_SERVERIP 1088 1089 Defines a default value for theIP address of a TFTP 1090 server to contact when using the "tftboot" command. 1091 1092- BOOTP Recovery Mode: 1093 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY 1094 1095 If you have many targets in a network that try to 1096 boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all 1097 systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same 1098 moment (which would happen for instance at recovery 1099 from a power failure, when all systems will try to 1100 boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining 1101 CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be 1102 inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The 1103 following delays are insterted then: 1104 1105 1st BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 1 sec 1106 2nd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 2 sec 1107 3rd BOOTP request: delay 0 ... 4 sec 1108 4th and following 1109 BOOTP requests: delay 0 ... 8 sec 1110 1111- DHCP Advanced Options: 1112 CONFIG_BOOTP_MASK 1113 1114 You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by adding 1115 these flags to the CONFIG_BOOTP_MASK define: 1116 1117 CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS 1118 serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more 1119 than one DNS serverip is offered to the client. 1120 If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS 1121 serverip will be stored in the additional environment 1122 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always 1123 stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS 1124 is added to the CONFIG_BOOTP_MASK. 1125 1126 CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable 1127 to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they 1128 need the hostname of the DHCP requester. 1129 If CONFIG_BOOP_SEND_HOSTNAME is added to the 1130 CONFIG_BOOTP_MASK, the content of the "hostname" 1131 environment variable is passed as option 12 to 1132 the DHCP server. 1133 1134 - CDP Options: 1135 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID 1136 1137 The device id used in CDP trigger frames. 1138 1139 CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX 1140 1141 A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address 1142 of the device. 1143 1144 CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID 1145 1146 A printf format string which contains the ascii name of 1147 the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets 1148 eth0 for the first ethernet, eth1 for the second etc. 1149 1150 CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES 1151 1152 A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities; 1153 0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards. 1154 1155 CONFIG_CDP_VERSION 1156 1157 An ascii string containing the version of the software. 1158 1159 CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM 1160 1161 An ascii string containing the name of the platform. 1162 1163 CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER 1164 1165 A 32bit integer sent on the trigger. 1166 1167 CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION 1168 1169 A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the 1170 device in .1 of milliwatts. 1171 1172 CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE 1173 1174 A byte containing the id of the VLAN. 1175 1176- Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED 1177 1178 Several configurations allow to display the current 1179 status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink 1180 fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as 1181 soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and 1182 start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running 1183 (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux 1184 kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this 1185 feature in U-Boot. 1186 1187- CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER 1188 1189 Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support 1190 on those systems that support this (optional) 1191 feature, like the TQM8xxL modules. 1192 1193- I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C | CONFIG_SOFT_I2C 1194 1195 These enable I2C serial bus commands. Defining either of 1196 (but not both of) CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C will 1197 include the appropriate I2C driver for the selected cpu. 1198 1199 This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot 1200 command line (as long as you set CFG_CMD_I2C in 1201 CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime 1202 clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the 1203 command line interface. 1204 1205 CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects the CPM hardware driver for I2C. 1206 1207 CONFIG_SOFT_I2C configures u-boot to use a software (aka 1208 bit-banging) driver instead of CPM or similar hardware 1209 support for I2C. 1210 1211 There are several other quantities that must also be 1212 defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C or CONFIG_SOFT_I2C. 1213 1214 In both cases you will need to define CFG_I2C_SPEED 1215 to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus 1216 to run and CFG_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie 1217 the cpu's i2c node address). 1218 1219 Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx (cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) 1220 sets the cpu up as a master node and so its address should 1221 therefore be cleared to 0 (See, eg, MPC823e User's Manual 1222 p.16-473). So, set CFG_I2C_SLAVE to 0. 1223 1224 That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C. 1225 1226 If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SOFT_I2C) 1227 then the following macros need to be defined (examples are 1228 from include/configs/lwmon.h): 1229 1230 I2C_INIT 1231 1232 (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C 1233 controller or configure ports. 1234 1235 eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SCL) 1236 1237 I2C_PORT 1238 1239 (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code 1240 assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values 1241 are 0..3 for ports A..D. 1242 1243 I2C_ACTIVE 1244 1245 The code necessary to make the I2C data line active 1246 (driven). If the data line is open collector, this 1247 define can be null. 1248 1249 eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |= PB_SDA) 1250 1251 I2C_TRISTATE 1252 1253 The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated 1254 (inactive). If the data line is open collector, this 1255 define can be null. 1256 1257 eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA) 1258 1259 I2C_READ 1260 1261 Code that returns TRUE if the I2C data line is high, 1262 FALSE if it is low. 1263 1264 eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0) 1265 1266 I2C_SDA(bit) 1267 1268 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C data line high. If it 1269 is FALSE, it clears it (low). 1270 1271 eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \ 1272 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SDA; \ 1273 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA 1274 1275 I2C_SCL(bit) 1276 1277 If <bit> is TRUE, sets the I2C clock line high. If it 1278 is FALSE, it clears it (low). 1279 1280 eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \ 1281 if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |= PB_SCL; \ 1282 else immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL 1283 1284 I2C_DELAY 1285 1286 This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this 1287 controls the rate of data transfer. The data rate thus 1288 is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something 1289 like: 1290 1291 #define I2C_DELAY udelay(2) 1292 1293 CFG_I2C_INIT_BOARD 1294 1295 When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer 1296 chips might think that the current transfer is still 1297 in progress. On some boards it is possible to access 1298 the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the 1299 processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin 1300 connected to the bus. If this option is defined a 1301 custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c 1302 is run early in the boot sequence. 1303 1304 CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only) 1305 1306 This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags 1307 in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment 1308 variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast) 1309 1310- SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI 1311 1312 Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with 1313 SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and 1314 D/As on the SACSng board) 1315 1316 CONFIG_SPI_X 1317 1318 Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing. 1319 (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X) 1320 1321 CONFIG_SOFT_SPI 1322 1323 Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than 1324 using hardware support. This is a general purpose 1325 driver that only requires three general I/O port pins 1326 (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is 1327 defined, the board configuration must define several 1328 SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For 1329 an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h. 1330 1331- FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA_COUNT 1332 1333 Specify the number of FPGA devices to support. 1334 1335 CONFIG_FPGA 1336 1337 Used to specify the types of FPGA devices. For example, 1338 #define CONFIG_FPGA CFG_XILINX_VIRTEX2 1339 1340 CFG_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK 1341 1342 Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration. 1343 1344 CFG_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY 1345 1346 Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy 1347 status by the configuration function. This option 1348 will require a board or device specific function to 1349 be written. 1350 1351 CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY 1352 1353 If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA 1354 configuration driver. 1355 1356 CFG_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC 1357 Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration 1358 1359 CFG_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR 1360 1361 Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile 1362 loading. For example, abort during Virtex II 1363 configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which 1364 indicated a CRC error). 1365 1366 CFG_FPGA_WAIT_INIT 1367 1368 Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to deassert 1369 after PROB_B has been deasserted during a Virtex II 1370 FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500 1371 mS. 1372 1373 CFG_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY 1374 1375 Maximum time to wait for BUSY to deassert during 1376 Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 mS. 1377 1378 CFG_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG 1379 1380 Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is 1381 200 mS. 1382 1383- Configuration Management: 1384 CONFIG_IDENT_STRING 1385 1386 If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot 1387 version information (U_BOOT_VERSION) 1388 1389- Vendor Parameter Protection: 1390 1391 U-Boot considers the values of the environment 1392 variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and 1393 "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that 1394 are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and 1395 protects these variables from casual modification by 1396 the user. Once set, these variables are read-only, 1397 and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can 1398 change this behviour: 1399 1400 If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config 1401 file, the write protection for vendor parameters is 1402 completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete 1403 these parameters. 1404 1405 Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR 1406 _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default 1407 ethernet address is installed in the environment, 1408 which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The 1409 serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains 1410 read-only.] 1411 1412- Protected RAM: 1413 CONFIG_PRAM 1414 1415 Define this variable to enable the reservation of 1416 "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten 1417 by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of 1418 kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite 1419 this default value by defining an environment 1420 variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to 1421 reserve. Note that the board info structure will 1422 still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is 1423 reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will 1424 automatically be defined to hold the amount of 1425 remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot 1426 argument to Linux, for instance like that: 1427 1428 setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem} 1429 saveenv 1430 1431 This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory, 1432 either, which results in a memory region that will 1433 not be affected by reboots. 1434 1435 *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic 1436 detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that 1437 this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the 1438 following board configurations are known to be 1439 "pRAM-clean": 1440 1441 ETX094, IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL, 1442 HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON, LANTEC, 1443 PCU_E, FLAGADM, TQM8260 1444 1445- Error Recovery: 1446 CONFIG_PANIC_HANG 1447 1448 Define this variable to stop the system in case of a 1449 fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually. 1450 This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded 1451 system where you want to system to reboot 1452 automatically as fast as possible, but it may be 1453 useful during development since you can try to debug 1454 the conditions that lead to the situation. 1455 1456 CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT 1457 1458 This variable defines the number of retries for 1459 network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP 1460 before giving up the operation. If not defined, a 1461 default value of 5 is used. 1462 1463- Command Interpreter: 1464 CFG_AUTO_COMPLETE 1465 1466 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB. 1467 1468 CFG_HUSH_PARSER 1469 1470 Define this variable to enable the "hush" shell (from 1471 Busybox) as command line interpreter, thus enabling 1472 powerful command line syntax like 1473 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||' 1474 constructs ("shell scripts"). 1475 1476 If undefined, you get the old, much simpler behaviour 1477 with a somewhat smaller memory footprint. 1478 1479 1480 CFG_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2 1481 1482 This defines the secondary prompt string, which is 1483 printed when the command interpreter needs more input 1484 to complete a command. Usually "> ". 1485 1486 Note: 1487 1488 In the current implementation, the local variables 1489 space and global environment variables space are 1490 separated. Local variables are those you define by 1491 simply typing `name=value'. To access a local 1492 variable later on, you have write `$name' or 1493 `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable 1494 directly type `$name' at the command prompt. 1495 1496 Global environment variables are those you use 1497 setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored 1498 in such a variable, you need to use the run command, 1499 and you must not use the '$' sign to access them. 1500 1501 To store commands and special characters in a 1502 variable, please use double quotation marks 1503 surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead 1504 of the backslashes before semicolons and special 1505 symbols. 1506 1507- Commandline Editing and History: 1508 CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING 1509 1510 Enable editiong and History functions for interactive 1511 commandline input operations 1512 1513- Default Environment: 1514 CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS 1515 1516 Define this to contain any number of null terminated 1517 strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of 1518 the default environment compiled into the boot image. 1519 1520 For example, place something like this in your 1521 board's config file: 1522 1523 #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \ 1524 "myvar1=value1\0" \ 1525 "myvar2=value2\0" 1526 1527 Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the 1528 internal format how the environment is stored by the 1529 U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported 1530 interface! Although it is unlikely that this format 1531 will change soon, there is no guarantee either. 1532 You better know what you are doing here. 1533 1534 Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is 1535 discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset 1536 the environment like the autoscript function or the 1537 boot command first. 1538 1539- DataFlash Support: 1540 CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH 1541 1542 Defining this option enables DataFlash features and 1543 allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard 1544 commands cp, md... 1545 1546- SystemACE Support: 1547 CONFIG_SYSTEMACE 1548 1549 Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE 1550 chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address 1551 of the chip must alsh be defined in the 1552 CFG_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example: 1553 1554 #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE 1555 #define CFG_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000 1556 1557 When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type 1558 becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls. 1559 1560- TFTP Fixed UDP Port: 1561 CONFIG_TFTP_PORT 1562 1563 If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp 1564 is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value. 1565 If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port 1566 number generator is used. 1567 1568 Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply 1569 the TFTP UDP destination port value. If tftpdstp isn't 1570 defined, the normal port 69 is used. 1571 1572 The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to 1573 blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured 1574 target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of 1575 "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing 1576 the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally. 1577 A better solution is to properly configure the firewall, 1578 but sometimes that is not allowed. 1579 1580- Show boot progress: 1581 CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS 1582 1583 Defining this option allows to add some board- 1584 specific code (calling a user-provided function 1585 "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show 1586 the system's boot progress on some display (for 1587 example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment, 1588 the following checkpoints are implemented: 1589 1590 Arg Where When 1591 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image 1592 -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number 1593 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number 1594 -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum 1595 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum 1596 -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum 1597 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum 1598 -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture 1599 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK 1600 -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi, standalone) 1601 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK 1602 -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error 1603 -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type 1604 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK 1605 -8 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi, standalone) 1606 8 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK 1607 -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX) 1608 9 common/cmd_bootm.c Start initial ramdisk verification 1609 -10 common/cmd_bootm.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number 1610 -11 common/cmd_bootm.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum 1611 10 common/cmd_bootm.c Ramdisk header is OK 1612 -12 common/cmd_bootm.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum 1613 11 common/cmd_bootm.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum 1614 12 common/cmd_bootm.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading 1615 -13 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux Ramdisk) 1616 13 common/cmd_bootm.c Start multifile image verification 1617 14 common/cmd_bootm.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue. 1618 15 common/cmd_bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS 1619 1620 -30 lib_ppc/board.c Fatal error, hang the system 1621 -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog() 1622 -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single() 1623 1624 -1 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command 1625 -1 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device 1626 -1 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device 1627 -1 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device 1628 -1 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number 1629 1630 -1 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command 1631 -1 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device 1632 -1 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown boot device 1633 -1 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table 1634 -1 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type 1635 -1 common/cmd_ide.c Read Error on boot device 1636 -1 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number 1637 1638 -1 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command 1639 -1 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device 1640 -1 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device 1641 -1 common/cmd_nand.c Read Error on boot device 1642 -1 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number 1643 1644 -1 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default 1645 1646 1647Modem Support: 1648-------------- 1649 1650[so far only for SMDK2400 and TRAB boards] 1651 1652- Modem support endable: 1653 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT 1654 1655- RTS/CTS Flow control enable: 1656 CONFIG_HWFLOW 1657 1658- Modem debug support: 1659 CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG 1660 1661 Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg()) 1662 for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000. 1663 1664- Interrupt support (PPC): 1665 1666 There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt() 1667 for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu() 1668 for cpu specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu() 1669 should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If 1670 cpu resets decrementer automatically after interrupt 1671 (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero. 1672 timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for cpu 1673 specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led 1674 / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from 1675 general timer_interrupt(). 1676 1677- General: 1678 1679 In the target system modem support is enabled when a 1680 specific key (key combination) is pressed during 1681 power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally 1682 (autoboot). The key_pressed() fuction is called from 1683 board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy 1684 function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem 1685 initialization. 1686 1687 If there are no modem init strings in the 1688 environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the 1689 previous output (banner, info printfs) will be 1690 supressed, though. 1691 1692 See also: doc/README.Modem 1693 1694 1695Configuration Settings: 1696----------------------- 1697 1698- CFG_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included; 1699 undefine this when you're short of memory. 1700 1701- CFG_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to 1702 prompt for user input. 1703 1704- CFG_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console 1705 1706- CFG_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output 1707 1708- CFG_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands 1709 1710- CFG_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to 1711 the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is 1712 booted 1713 1714- CFG_BAUDRATE_TABLE: 1715 List of legal baudrate settings for this board. 1716 1717- CFG_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET 1718 Suppress display of console information at boot. 1719 1720- CFG_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV 1721 If the board specific function 1722 extern int overwrite_console (void); 1723 returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the 1724 serial port, else the settings in the environment are used. 1725 1726- CFG_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE 1727 Enable the call to overwrite_console(). 1728 1729- CFG_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE 1730 Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings. 1731 1732- CFG_MEMTEST_START, CFG_MEMTEST_END: 1733 Begin and End addresses of the area used by the 1734 simple memory test. 1735 1736- CFG_ALT_MEMTEST: 1737 Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test. 1738 1739- CFG_MEMTEST_SCRATCH: 1740 Scratch address used by the alternate memory test 1741 You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable 1742 1743- CFG_TFTP_LOADADDR: 1744 Default load address for network file downloads 1745 1746- CFG_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE: 1747 Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download 1748 1749- CFG_SDRAM_BASE: 1750 Physical start address of SDRAM. _Must_ be 0 here. 1751 1752- CFG_MBIO_BASE: 1753 Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a 1754 Cogent motherboard) 1755 1756- CFG_FLASH_BASE: 1757 Physical start address of Flash memory. 1758 1759- CFG_MONITOR_BASE: 1760 Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by 1761 make config files to be same as the text base address 1762 (TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as 1763 CFG_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash. 1764 1765- CFG_MONITOR_LEN: 1766 Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to 1767 determine _at_compile_time_ (!) if the environment is 1768 embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate 1769 flash sector. 1770 1771- CFG_MALLOC_LEN: 1772 Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use. 1773 1774- CFG_BOOTM_LEN: 1775 Normally compressed uImages are limited to an 1776 uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough, 1777 you can define CFG_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file 1778 to adjust this setting to your needs. 1779 1780- CFG_BOOTMAPSZ: 1781 Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of 1782 the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by 1783 the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, eventually 1784 initrd image) must be put below this limit. 1785 1786- CFG_MAX_FLASH_BANKS: 1787 Max number of Flash memory banks 1788 1789- CFG_MAX_FLASH_SECT: 1790 Max number of sectors on a Flash chip 1791 1792- CFG_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT: 1793 Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms) 1794 1795- CFG_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT: 1796 Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms) 1797 1798- CFG_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT 1799 Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms) 1800 1801- CFG_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT 1802 Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms) 1803 1804- CFG_FLASH_PROTECTION 1805 If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used 1806 instead of U-Boot software protection. 1807 1808- CFG_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP: 1809 1810 Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory; 1811 without this option such a download has to be 1812 performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2) 1813 copy from RAM to flash. 1814 1815 The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since 1816 you can check if the download worked before you erase 1817 the flash, but in some situations (when sytem RAM is 1818 too limited to allow for a tempory copy of the 1819 downloaded image) this option may be very useful. 1820 1821- CFG_FLASH_CFI: 1822 Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the 1823 common flash structure for storing flash geometry. 1824 1825- CFG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER 1826 This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver 1827 in the drivers directory 1828 1829- CFG_FLASH_QUIET_TEST 1830 If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't 1831 print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This 1832 is useful, if some of the configured banks are only 1833 optionally available. 1834 1835- CFG_RX_ETH_BUFFER: 1836 Defines the number of ethernet receive buffers. On some 1837 ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value 1838 to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all 1839 buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface 1840 on high ethernet traffic. 1841 Defaults to 4 if not defined. 1842 1843The following definitions that deal with the placement and management 1844of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the 1845following configurations: 1846 1847- CFG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH: 1848 1849 Define this if the environment is in flash memory. 1850 1851 a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is 1852 "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This 1853 happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot 1854 sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller 1855 sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a 1856 layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In 1857 such a case you would place the environment in one of the 1858 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With 1859 "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the 1860 environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap 1861 between U-Boot and the environment. 1862 1863 - CFG_ENV_OFFSET: 1864 1865 Offset of environment data (variable area) to the 1866 beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot 1867 type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset 1868 for this sector is given here. 1869 1870 CFG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CFG_FLASH_BASE. 1871 1872 - CFG_ENV_ADDR: 1873 1874 This is just another way to specify the start address of 1875 the flash sector containing the environment (instead of 1876 CFG_ENV_OFFSET). 1877 1878 - CFG_ENV_SECT_SIZE: 1879 1880 Size of the sector containing the environment. 1881 1882 1883 b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors. 1884 In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for 1885 the environment. 1886 1887 - CFG_ENV_SIZE: 1888 1889 If you use this in combination with CFG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH 1890 and CFG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part 1891 of this flash sector for the environment. This saves 1892 memory for the RAM copy of the environment. 1893 1894 It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this 1895 when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code, 1896 since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used 1897 for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is 1898 STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view: 1899 updating the environment in flash makes it always 1900 necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes 1901 wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in 1902 RAM, your target system will be dead. 1903 1904 - CFG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND 1905 CFG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND 1906 1907 These settings describe a second storage area used to hold 1908 a redundand copy of the environment data, so that there is 1909 a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during 1910 a "saveenv" operation. 1911 1912BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the 1913source code will make it necessary to adapt <board>/u-boot.lds* 1914accordingly! 1915 1916 1917- CFG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM: 1918 1919 Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device 1920 (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the 1921 environment. 1922 1923 - CFG_ENV_ADDR: 1924 - CFG_ENV_SIZE: 1925 1926 These two #defines are used to determin the memory area you 1927 want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory 1928 can just be read and written to, without any special 1929 provision. 1930 1931BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early 1932in U-Boot initalization (when we try to get the setting of for the 1933console baudrate). You *MUST* have mappend your NVRAM area then, or 1934U-Boot will hang. 1935 1936Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the 1937environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to 1938keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv" 1939to save the current settings. 1940 1941 1942- CFG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM: 1943 1944 Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access 1945 device and a driver for it. 1946 1947 - CFG_ENV_OFFSET: 1948 - CFG_ENV_SIZE: 1949 1950 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the 1951 environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM. 1952 1953 - CFG_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR: 1954 If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device. 1955 The default address is zero. 1956 1957 - CFG_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS: 1958 If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a 1959 single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example 1960 would require six bits. 1961 1962 - CFG_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS: 1963 If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between 1964 page writes. The default is zero milliseconds. 1965 1966 - CFG_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN: 1967 The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note 1968 that this is NOT the chip address length! 1969 1970 - CFG_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW: 1971 EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones 1972 like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of 1973 address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit 1974 slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256 1975 byte chips. 1976 1977 Note that we consider the length of the address field to 1978 still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden 1979 in the chip address. 1980 1981 - CFG_EEPROM_SIZE: 1982 The size in bytes of the EEPROM device. 1983 1984 1985- CFG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH: 1986 1987 Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you 1988 want to use for the environment. 1989 1990 - CFG_ENV_OFFSET: 1991 - CFG_ENV_ADDR: 1992 - CFG_ENV_SIZE: 1993 1994 These three #defines specify the offset and size of the 1995 environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed 1996 at the specified address. 1997 1998- CFG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND: 1999 2000 Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use 2001 for the environment. 2002 2003 - CFG_ENV_OFFSET: 2004 - CFG_ENV_SIZE: 2005 2006 These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment 2007 area within the first NAND device. 2008 2009 - CFG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND 2010 2011 This setting describes a second storage area of CFG_ENV_SIZE 2012 size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, 2013 so that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a 2014 power failure during a "saveenv" operation. 2015 2016 Note: CFG_ENV_OFFSET and CFG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND must be aligned 2017 to a block boundary, and CFG_ENV_SIZE must be a multiple of 2018 the NAND devices block size. 2019 2020- CFG_SPI_INIT_OFFSET 2021 2022 Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The 2023 area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment 2024 is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte 2025 scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization 2026 calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems 2027 to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the 2028 start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer. 2029 2030Please note that the environment is read-only as long as the monitor 2031has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been 2032created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_r() 2033until then to read environment variables. 2034 2035The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor 2036is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working 2037with the compiled-in default environment - *silently*!!! [This is 2038necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the 2039"baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't 2040have any device yet where we could complain.] 2041 2042Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if 2043the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you 2044use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment. 2045 2046- CFG_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN: 2047 Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED. 2048 2049 Note: If this option is active, then CFG_FAULT_MII_ADDR 2050 also needs to be defined. 2051 2052- CFG_FAULT_MII_ADDR: 2053 MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state. 2054 2055- CFG_64BIT_VSPRINTF: 2056 Makes vsprintf (and all *printf functions) support printing 2057 of 64bit values by using the L quantifier 2058 2059- CFG_64BIT_STRTOUL: 2060 Adds simple_strtoull that returns a 64bit value 2061 2062Low Level (hardware related) configuration options: 2063--------------------------------------------------- 2064 2065- CFG_CACHELINE_SIZE: 2066 Cache Line Size of the CPU. 2067 2068- CFG_DEFAULT_IMMR: 2069 Default address of the IMMR after system reset. 2070 2071 Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU, 2072 and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of 2073 the IMMR register after a reset. 2074 2075- Floppy Disk Support: 2076 CFG_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER 2077 2078 the default drive number (default value 0) 2079 2080 CFG_ISA_IO_STRIDE 2081 2082 defines the spacing between fdc chipset registers 2083 (default value 1) 2084 2085 CFG_ISA_IO_OFFSET 2086 2087 defines the offset of register from address. It 2088 depends on which part of the data bus is connected to 2089 the fdc chipset. (default value 0) 2090 2091 If CFG_ISA_IO_STRIDE CFG_ISA_IO_OFFSET and 2092 CFG_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their 2093 default value. 2094 2095 if CFG_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function 2096 fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC 2097 setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board 2098 source code. It is used to make hardware dependant 2099 initializations. 2100 2101- CFG_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory. 2102 DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're 2103 doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only] 2104 2105- CFG_INIT_RAM_ADDR: 2106 2107 Start address of memory area that can be used for 2108 initial data and stack; please note that this must be 2109 writable memory that is working WITHOUT special 2110 initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which 2111 will become available only after programming the 2112 memory controller and running certain initialization 2113 sequences. 2114 2115 U-Boot uses the following memory types: 2116 - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU) 2117 - MPC824X: data cache 2118 - PPC4xx: data cache 2119 2120- CFG_GBL_DATA_OFFSET: 2121 2122 Offset of the initial data structure in the memory 2123 area defined by CFG_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually 2124 CFG_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial 2125 data is located at the end of the available space 2126 (sometimes written as (CFG_INIT_RAM_END - 2127 CFG_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just 2128 below that area (growing from (CFG_INIT_RAM_ADDR + 2129 CFG_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward. 2130 2131 Note: 2132 On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data 2133 cache for initial memory) the address chosen for 2134 CFG_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must 2135 point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between 2136 the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space. 2137 2138- CFG_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6) 2139 2140- CFG_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9) 2141 2142- CFG_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26) 2143 2144- CFG_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31) 2145 2146- CFG_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30) 2147 2148- CFG_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27) 2149 2150- CFG_OR_TIMING_SDRAM: 2151 SDRAM timing 2152 2153- CFG_MAMR_PTA: 2154 periodic timer for refresh 2155 2156- CFG_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47) 2157 2158- FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CFG_REMAP_OR_AM, 2159 CFG_PRELIM_OR_AM, CFG_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CFG_OR0_REMAP, 2160 CFG_OR0_PRELIM, CFG_BR0_PRELIM, CFG_OR1_REMAP, CFG_OR1_PRELIM, 2161 CFG_BR1_PRELIM: 2162 Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH) 2163 2164- SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE, 2165 CFG_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CFG_OR2_PRELIM, CFG_BR2_PRELIM, 2166 CFG_OR3_PRELIM, CFG_BR3_PRELIM: 2167 Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM) 2168 2169- CFG_MAMR_PTA, CFG_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CFG_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CFG_MPTPR_2BK_8K, 2170 CFG_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CFG_MAMR_8COL, CFG_MAMR_9COL: 2171 Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer 2172 Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing) 2173 2174- CFG_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CFG_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]: 2175 enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx); 2176 define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2] 2177 2178- CFG_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CFG_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]: 2179 enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx); 2180 define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4] 2181 2182- CFG_USE_OSCCLK: 2183 Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful, 2184 wrong setting might damage your board. Read 2185 doc/README.MBX before setting this variable! 2186 2187- CFG_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only) 2188 Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post 2189 (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides 2190 #define'd default value in commproc.h resp. 2191 cpm_8260.h. 2192 2193- CFG_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CFG_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CFG_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB, 2194 CFG_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CFG_PCIMSK0_MASK, CFG_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL, 2195 CFG_PCIMSK1_MASK, CFG_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CFG_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS, 2196 CFG_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CFG_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CFG_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB, 2197 CFG_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CFG_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START, 2198 CFG_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CFG_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CFG_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL, 2199 CFG_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CFG_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CFG_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE, 2200 CFG_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only) 2201 Overrides the default PCI memory map in cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set. 2202 2203- CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12] 2204 Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor. 2205 2206- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY 2207 Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds 2208 to the given FEC; i. e. 2209 #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4 2210 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1 2211 2212 When set to -1, means to probe for first available. 2213 2214- CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR 2215 The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only). 2216 (so program the FEC to ignore it). 2217 2218- CONFIG_RMII 2219 Enable RMII mode for all FECs. 2220 Note that this is a global option, we can't 2221 have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode. 2222 2223- CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY 2224 Add a verify option to the crc32 command. 2225 The syntax is: 2226 2227 => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32> 2228 2229 Where address/count indicate a memory area 2230 and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the 2231 area should have. 2232 2233- CONFIG_LOOPW 2234 Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if 2235 the memory commands are activated globally (CFG_CMD_MEM). 2236 2237- CONFIG_MX_CYCLIC 2238 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic 2239 "md/mw" commands. 2240 Examples: 2241 2242 => mdc.b 10 4 500 2243 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms. 2244 2245 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10 2246 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms. 2247 2248 This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated 2249 globally (CFG_CMD_MEM). 2250 2251- CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT 2252- CONFIG_SKIP_RELOCATE_UBOOT 2253 2254 [ARM only] If these variables are defined, then 2255 certain low level initializations (like setting up 2256 the memory controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does 2257 not relocate itself into RAM. 2258 Normally these variables MUST NOT be defined. The 2259 only exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by 2260 some other boot loader or by a debugger which 2261 performs these intializations itself. 2262 2263 2264Building the Software: 2265====================== 2266 2267Building U-Boot has been tested in native PPC environments (on a 2268PowerBook G3 running LinuxPPC 2000) and in cross environments 2269(running RedHat 6.x and 7.x Linux on x86, Solaris 2.6 on a SPARC, and 2270NetBSD 1.5 on x86). 2271 2272If you are not using a native PPC environment, it is assumed that you 2273have the GNU cross compiling tools available in your path and named 2274with a prefix of "powerpc-linux-". If this is not the case, (e.g. if 2275you are using Monta Vista's Hard Hat Linux CDK 1.2) you must change 2276the definition of CROSS_COMPILE in Makefile. For HHL on a 4xx CPU, 2277change it to: 2278 2279 CROSS_COMPILE = ppc_4xx- 2280 2281 2282U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the 2283sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This 2284is done by typing: 2285 2286 make NAME_config 2287 2288where "NAME_config" is the name of one of the existing 2289configurations; the following names are supported: 2290 2291 ADCIOP_config FPS860L_config omap730p2_config 2292 ADS860_config GEN860T_config pcu_e_config 2293 Alaska8220_config 2294 AR405_config GENIETV_config PIP405_config 2295 at91rm9200dk_config GTH_config QS823_config 2296 CANBT_config hermes_config QS850_config 2297 cmi_mpc5xx_config hymod_config QS860T_config 2298 cogent_common_config IP860_config RPXlite_config 2299 cogent_mpc8260_config IVML24_config RPXlite_DW_config 2300 cogent_mpc8xx_config IVMS8_config RPXsuper_config 2301 CPCI405_config JSE_config rsdproto_config 2302 CPCIISER4_config LANTEC_config Sandpoint8240_config 2303 csb272_config lwmon_config sbc8260_config 2304 CU824_config MBX860T_config sbc8560_33_config 2305 DUET_ADS_config MBX_config sbc8560_66_config 2306 EBONY_config MPC8260ADS_config SM850_config 2307 ELPT860_config MPC8540ADS_config SPD823TS_config 2308 ESTEEM192E_config MPC8540EVAL_config stxgp3_config 2309 ETX094_config MPC8560ADS_config SXNI855T_config 2310 FADS823_config NETVIA_config TQM823L_config 2311 FADS850SAR_config omap1510inn_config TQM850L_config 2312 FADS860T_config omap1610h2_config TQM855L_config 2313 FPS850L_config omap1610inn_config TQM860L_config 2314 omap5912osk_config walnut_config 2315 omap2420h4_config Yukon8220_config 2316 ZPC1900_config 2317 2318Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if 2319 additional information is available from the board vendor; for 2320 instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard) 2321 or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features" 2322 when chosing the configuration, i. e. 2323 2324 make TQM823L_config 2325 - will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support 2326 2327 make TQM823L_LCD_config 2328 - will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD 2329 2330 etc. 2331 2332 2333Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot 2334images ready for download to / installation on your system: 2335 2336- "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image 2337- "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format 2338- "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format 2339 2340By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved 2341in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change 2342this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory: 2343 23441. Add O= to the make command line invocations: 2345 2346 make O=/tmp/build distclean 2347 make O=/tmp/build NAME_config 2348 make O=/tmp/build all 2349 23502. Set environment variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location: 2351 2352 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build 2353 make distclean 2354 make NAME_config 2355 make all 2356 2357Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the BUILD_DIR environment 2358variable. 2359 2360 2361Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so 2362for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of 2363native "make". 2364 2365 2366If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need 2367to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these 2368steps: 2369 23701. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel 2371 "Makefile" and to the "MAKEALL" script, using the existing 2372 entries as examples. Note that here and at many other places 2373 boards and other names are listed in alphabetical sort order. Please 2374 keep this order. 23752. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any 2376 files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least 2377 the "Makefile", a "<board>.c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds". 23783. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/<board>.h" for 2379 your board 23803. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new 2381 directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need. 23824. Run "make <board>_config" with your new name. 23835. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file 2384 to be installed on your target system. 23856. Debug and solve any problems that might arise. 2386 [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.] 2387 2388 2389Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.: 2390============================================================== 2391 2392If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board 2393or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to 2394provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes 2395the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest 2396official or latest in CVS) version of U-Boot sources. 2397 2398But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi- 2399cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that *ALL* of 2400the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so, 2401just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot 2402for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can 2403select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE' 2404environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the cross tools from 2405MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux you can type 2406 2407 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL 2408 2409or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type 2410 2411 CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL 2412 2413When using the MAKEALL script, the default behaviour is to build U-Boot 2414in the source directory. This location can be changed by setting the 2415BUILD_DIR environment variable. Also, for each target built, the MAKEALL 2416script saves two log files (<target>.ERR and <target>.MAKEALL) in the 2417<source dir>/LOG directory. This default location can be changed by 2418setting the MAKEALL_LOGDIR environment variable. For example: 2419 2420 export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build 2421 export MAKEALL_LOGDIR=/tmp/log 2422 CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL 2423 2424With the above settings build objects are saved in the /tmp/build, log 2425files are saved in the /tmp/log and the source tree remains clean during 2426the whole build process. 2427 2428 2429See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below. 2430 2431 2432Monitor Commands - Overview: 2433============================ 2434 2435go - start application at address 'addr' 2436run - run commands in an environment variable 2437bootm - boot application image from memory 2438bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol 2439tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol 2440 and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip" 2441 (and eventually "gatewayip") 2442rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol 2443diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd' 2444loads - load S-Record file over serial line 2445loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode) 2446md - memory display 2447mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing) 2448nm - memory modify (constant address) 2449mw - memory write (fill) 2450cp - memory copy 2451cmp - memory compare 2452crc32 - checksum calculation 2453imd - i2c memory display 2454imm - i2c memory modify (auto-incrementing) 2455inm - i2c memory modify (constant address) 2456imw - i2c memory write (fill) 2457icrc32 - i2c checksum calculation 2458iprobe - probe to discover valid I2C chip addresses 2459iloop - infinite loop on address range 2460isdram - print SDRAM configuration information 2461sspi - SPI utility commands 2462base - print or set address offset 2463printenv- print environment variables 2464setenv - set environment variables 2465saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage 2466protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection 2467erase - erase FLASH memory 2468flinfo - print FLASH memory information 2469bdinfo - print Board Info structure 2470iminfo - print header information for application image 2471coninfo - print console devices and informations 2472ide - IDE sub-system 2473loop - infinite loop on address range 2474loopw - infinite write loop on address range 2475mtest - simple RAM test 2476icache - enable or disable instruction cache 2477dcache - enable or disable data cache 2478reset - Perform RESET of the CPU 2479echo - echo args to console 2480version - print monitor version 2481help - print online help 2482? - alias for 'help' 2483 2484 2485Monitor Commands - Detailed Description: 2486======================================== 2487 2488TODO. 2489 2490For now: just type "help <command>". 2491 2492 2493Environment Variables: 2494====================== 2495 2496U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which 2497can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory. 2498 2499Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using 2500"printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv" 2501without a value can be used to delete a variable from the 2502environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are 2503working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the 2504environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided. 2505 2506Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables: 2507 2508 baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE 2509 2510 bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY 2511 2512 bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND 2513 2514 bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image 2515 2516 bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP 2517 2518 autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'), 2519 "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the 2520 configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to 2521 load any image using TFTP 2522 2523 autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp", 2524 "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will 2525 be automatically started (by internally calling 2526 "bootm") 2527 2528 If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the 2529 "bootm" command will be copied to the load address 2530 (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started. 2531 This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary 2532 data. 2533 2534 i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only) 2535 if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast 2536 mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in 2537 initialization code. So, for changes to be effective 2538 it must be saved and board must be reset. 2539 2540 initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images: 2541 If this variable is not set, initrd images will be 2542 copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this 2543 is usually what you want since it allows for 2544 maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to 2545 make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the 2546 CFG_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment 2547 variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0". 2548 Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper 2549 address to use (U-Boot will still check that it 2550 does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data). 2551 2552 For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB 2553 RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux, 2554 you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of 2555 the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make 2556 sure that the initrd image is placed in the first 2557 12 MB as well - this can be done with 2558 2559 setenv initrd_high 00c00000 2560 2561 If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an 2562 indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal 2563 for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash 2564 memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the 2565 ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the 2566 boot time on your system, but requires that this 2567 feature is supported by your Linux kernel. 2568 2569 ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command 2570 2571 loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp", 2572 "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot" 2573 2574 loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO 2575 2576 serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command 2577 2578 bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME 2579 2580 bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR 2581 2582 bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR 2583 2584 ethprime - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which 2585 interface is used first. 2586 2587 ethact - When CONFIG_NET_MULTI is enabled controls which 2588 interface is currently active. For example you 2589 can do the following 2590 2591 => setenv ethact FEC ETHERNET 2592 => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC ETHERNET 2593 => setenv ethact SCC ETHERNET 2594 => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC ETHERNET 2595 2596 netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will 2597 either succeed or fail without retrying. 2598 When set to "once" the network operation will 2599 fail when all the available network interfaces 2600 are tried once without success. 2601 Useful on scripts which control the retry operation 2602 themselves. 2603 2604 tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's 2605 UDP source port. 2606 2607 tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP 2608 destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69. 2609 2610 vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over 2611 ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q 2612 VLAN tagged frames. 2613 2614The following environment variables may be used and automatically 2615updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"), 2616depending the information provided by your boot server: 2617 2618 bootfile - see above 2619 dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server 2620 dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server 2621 gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use 2622 hostname - Target hostname 2623 ipaddr - see above 2624 netmask - Subnet Mask 2625 rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server 2626 serverip - see above 2627 2628 2629There are two special Environment Variables: 2630 2631 serial# - contains hardware identification information such 2632 as type string and/or serial number 2633 ethaddr - Ethernet address 2634 2635These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of 2636the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables 2637once they have been set once. 2638 2639 2640Further special Environment Variables: 2641 2642 ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed 2643 with the "version" command. This variable is 2644 readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE). 2645 2646 2647Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take 2648only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-). 2649 2650 2651Command Line Parsing: 2652===================== 2653 2654There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot: 2655the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell: 2656 2657Old, simple command line parser: 2658-------------------------------- 2659 2660- supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands) 2661- several commands on one line, separated by ';' 2662- variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax 2663- special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '\', 2664 for example: 2665 setenv bootcmd bootm \${address} 2666- You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example: 2667 setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off' 2668 2669Hush shell: 2670----------- 2671 2672- similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like 2673 if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done, 2674 until...do...done, ... 2675- supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv 2676 commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax 2677 "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run" 2678 command 2679 2680General rules: 2681-------------- 2682 2683(1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run" 2684 command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and 2685 one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be 2686 executed anyway. 2687 2688(2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e. 2689 calling run with a list af variables as arguments), any failing 2690 command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining 2691 variables are not executed. 2692 2693Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces: 2694======================================= 2695 2696Some boards come with redundant ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports 2697such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a 2698"working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows: 2699 2700Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding 2701MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0), 2702"eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ... 2703 2704If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance 2705in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon- 2706ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment 2707variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means: 2708 2709o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the 2710 environment, the SROM's address is used. 2711 2712o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the 2713 environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is 2714 used. 2715 2716o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and 2717 both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used. 2718 2719o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the 2720 addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a 2721 warning is printed. 2722 2723o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error 2724 is raised. 2725 2726 2727Image Formats: 2728============== 2729 2730The "boot" commands of this monitor operate on "image" files which 2731can be basicly anything, preceeded by a special header; see the 2732definitions in include/image.h for details; basicly, the header 2733defines the following image properties: 2734 2735* Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, 2736 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks, 2737 LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, ARTOS; 2738 Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, ARTOS, LynxOS). 2739* Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, 2740 IA64, MIPS, NIOS, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit; 2741 Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, NIOS, PowerPC). 2742* Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2) 2743* Load Address 2744* Entry Point 2745* Image Name 2746* Image Timestamp 2747 2748The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header 2749and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by 2750CRC32 checksums. 2751 2752 2753Linux Support: 2754============== 2755 2756Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application 2757easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of 2758U-Boot. 2759 2760U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some 2761special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any 2762"initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image; 2763instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation 2764serves several purposes: 2765 2766- the same features can be used for other OS or standalone 2767 applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the 2768 Flash memory footprint) 2769 2770- it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because 2771 lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot 2772 2773- the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd" 2774 images; of course this also means that different kernel images can 2775 be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't 2776 have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just 2777 change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the 2778 software is easier now. 2779 2780 2781Linux HOWTO: 2782============ 2783 2784Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems: 2785--------------------------------------- 2786 2787U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to 2788configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware 2789(no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to 2790Linux :-). 2791 2792But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/ppc/mbxboot). 2793 2794Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance 2795include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board 2796Information structure as we define in include/u-boot.h, and make 2797sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value as your 2798U-Boot configuration in CFG_IMMR. 2799 2800 2801Configuring the Linux kernel: 2802----------------------------- 2803 2804No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root 2805device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system. 2806 2807 2808Building a Linux Image: 2809----------------------- 2810 2811With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are 2812not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target 2813"uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by 2814U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target, 2815which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a 2816100% compatible format. 2817 2818Example: 2819 2820 make TQM850L_config 2821 make oldconfig 2822 make dep 2823 make uImage 2824 2825The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to 2826encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information, 2827CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing: 2828 2829* build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format): 2830 2831* convert the kernel into a raw binary image: 2832 2833 ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary \ 2834 -R .note -R .comment \ 2835 -S vmlinux linux.bin 2836 2837* compress the binary image: 2838 2839 gzip -9 linux.bin 2840 2841* package compressed binary image for U-Boot: 2842 2843 mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip \ 2844 -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" \ 2845 -d linux.bin.gz uImage 2846 2847 2848The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use 2849with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or 2850combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64 2851byte header containing information about target architecture, 2852operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time 2853stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc. 2854 2855"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and 2856print the header information, or to build new images. 2857 2858In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information 2859contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes 2860checksum verification: 2861 2862 tools/mkimage -l image 2863 -l ==> list image header information 2864 2865The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image 2866from a "data file" which is used as image payload: 2867 2868 tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \ 2869 -n name -d data_file image 2870 -A ==> set architecture to 'arch' 2871 -O ==> set operating system to 'os' 2872 -T ==> set image type to 'type' 2873 -C ==> set compression type 'comp' 2874 -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex) 2875 -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex) 2876 -n ==> set image name to 'name' 2877 -d ==> use image data from 'datafile' 2878 2879Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load 2880address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the 2881kernel version: 2882 2883- 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C, 2884- 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000. 2885 2886So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read: 2887 2888 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \ 2889 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \ 2890 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/ppc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \ 2891 > examples/uImage.TQM850L 2892 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L 2893 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000 2894 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) 2895 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB 2896 Load Address: 0x00000000 2897 Entry Point: 0x00000000 2898 2899To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption): 2900 2901 -> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L 2902 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L 2903 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000 2904 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) 2905 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB 2906 Load Address: 0x00000000 2907 Entry Point: 0x00000000 2908 2909NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade 2910speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this 2911needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not 2912need to be uncompressed: 2913 2914 -> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/ppc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz 2915 -> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \ 2916 > -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \ 2917 > -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/ppc/coffboot/vmlinux \ 2918 > examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed 2919 Image Name: 2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L 2920 Created: Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000 2921 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) 2922 Data Size: 792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB 2923 Load Address: 0x00000000 2924 Entry Point: 0x00000000 2925 2926 2927Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file 2928when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk: 2929 2930 -> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \ 2931 > -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \ 2932 > -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd 2933 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image 2934 Created: Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000 2935 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) 2936 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB 2937 Load Address: 0x00000000 2938 Entry Point: 0x00000000 2939 2940 2941Installing a Linux Image: 2942------------------------- 2943 2944To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface, 2945you must convert the image to S-Record format: 2946 2947 objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec 2948 2949The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot 2950image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to 2951address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to 2952specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads' 2953command. 2954 2955Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the 2956TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank): 2957 2958 => erase 40100000 401FFFFF 2959 2960 .......... done 2961 Erased 8 sectors 2962 2963 => loads 40100000 2964 ## Ready for S-Record download ... 2965 ~>examples/image.srec 2966 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ... 2967 ... 2968 15989 15990 15991 15992 2969 [file transfer complete] 2970 [connected] 2971 ## Start Addr = 0x00000000 2972 2973 2974You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command; 2975this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data 2976corruption happened: 2977 2978 => imi 40100000 2979 2980 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ... 2981 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L 2982 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) 2983 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB 2984 Load Address: 00000000 2985 Entry Point: 0000000c 2986 Verifying Checksum ... OK 2987 2988 2989Boot Linux: 2990----------- 2991 2992The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in 2993memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents 2994of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as 2995parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the 2996"printenv" and "setenv" commands: 2997 2998 2999 => printenv bootargs 3000 bootargs=root=/dev/ram 3001 3002 => setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2 3003 3004 => printenv bootargs 3005 bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2 3006 3007 => bootm 40020000 3008 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ... 3009 Image Name: 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L 3010 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) 3011 Data Size: 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB 3012 Load Address: 00000000 3013 Entry Point: 0000000c 3014 Verifying Checksum ... OK 3015 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK 3016 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 3017 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2 3018 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60 3019 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS 3020 Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000] 3021 ... 3022 3023If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial ram disk, you pass 3024the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT 3025format!) to the "bootm" command: 3026 3027 => imi 40100000 40200000 3028 3029 ## Checking Image at 40100000 ... 3030 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L 3031 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) 3032 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB 3033 Load Address: 00000000 3034 Entry Point: 0000000c 3035 Verifying Checksum ... OK 3036 3037 ## Checking Image at 40200000 ... 3038 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image 3039 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) 3040 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB 3041 Load Address: 00000000 3042 Entry Point: 00000000 3043 Verifying Checksum ... OK 3044 3045 => bootm 40100000 40200000 3046 ## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ... 3047 Image Name: 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L 3048 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) 3049 Data Size: 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB 3050 Load Address: 00000000 3051 Entry Point: 0000000c 3052 Verifying Checksum ... OK 3053 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK 3054 ## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ... 3055 Image Name: Simple Ramdisk Image 3056 Image Type: PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) 3057 Data Size: 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB 3058 Load Address: 00000000 3059 Entry Point: 00000000 3060 Verifying Checksum ... OK 3061 Loading Ramdisk ... OK 3062 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 3063 Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram 3064 time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60 3065 Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS 3066 ... 3067 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 3068 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). 3069 3070 bash# 3071 3072More About U-Boot Image Types: 3073------------------------------ 3074 3075U-Boot supports the following image types: 3076 3077 "Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment 3078 provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave 3079 well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from 3080 the Standalone Program. 3081 "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which 3082 will take over control completely. Usually these programs 3083 will install their own set of exception handlers, device 3084 drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot 3085 expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU. 3086 "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their 3087 parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is 3088 being started. 3089 "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS 3090 (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like 3091 RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want 3092 to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot 3093 server provides just a single image file, but you want to get 3094 for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image. 3095 3096 "Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each 3097 image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network 3098 byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0". 3099 Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by 3100 one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to 3101 a multiple of 4 bytes). 3102 3103 "Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like 3104 U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to 3105 flash memory. 3106 3107 "Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by 3108 U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially 3109 useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush) 3110 as command interpreter. 3111 3112 3113Standalone HOWTO: 3114================= 3115 3116One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and 3117run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of 3118U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services. 3119 3120Two simple examples are included with the sources: 3121 3122"Hello World" Demo: 3123------------------- 3124 3125'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo 3126application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot. 3127It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it 3128like that: 3129 3130 => loads 3131 ## Ready for S-Record download ... 3132 ~>examples/hello_world.srec 3133 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ... 3134 [file transfer complete] 3135 [connected] 3136 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004 3137 3138 => go 40004 Hello World! This is a test. 3139 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ... 3140 Hello World 3141 argc = 7 3142 argv[0] = "40004" 3143 argv[1] = "Hello" 3144 argv[2] = "World!" 3145 argv[3] = "This" 3146 argv[4] = "is" 3147 argv[5] = "a" 3148 argv[6] = "test." 3149 argv[7] = "<NULL>" 3150 Hit any key to exit ... 3151 3152 ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0 3153 3154Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt 3155handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'. 3156Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second. 3157The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.' 3158character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be 3159controlled by the following keys: 3160 3161 ? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers 3162 b - enable interrupts and start timer 3163 e - stop timer and disable interrupts 3164 q - quit application 3165 3166 => loads 3167 ## Ready for S-Record download ... 3168 ~>examples/timer.srec 3169 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ... 3170 [file transfer complete] 3171 [connected] 3172 ## Start Addr = 0x00040004 3173 3174 => go 40004 3175 ## Starting application at 0x00040004 ... 3176 TIMERS=0xfff00980 3177 Using timer 1 3178 tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0 3179 3180Hit 'b': 3181 [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us 3182 Enabling timer 3183Hit '?': 3184 [q, b, e, ?] ........ 3185 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0 3186Hit '?': 3187 [q, b, e, ?] . 3188 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0 3189Hit '?': 3190 [q, b, e, ?] . 3191 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0 3192Hit '?': 3193 [q, b, e, ?] . 3194 tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0 3195Hit 'e': 3196 [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer 3197Hit 'q': 3198 [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0 3199 3200 3201Minicom warning: 3202================ 3203 3204Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the 3205"minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd) 3206consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under 3207Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and 3208especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and 3209use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). 3210 3211Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this 3212configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section: 3213 3214 Name Program Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi 3215 X kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s Y U Y N N 3216 Y kermit /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r N D Y N N 3217 3218 3219NetBSD Notes: 3220============= 3221 3222Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host 3223(build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx). 3224 3225Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on 3226NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also 3227need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make). 3228Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files; 3229attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is 3230missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually: 3231 3232 # cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include 3233 # mkdir powerpc 3234 # ln -s powerpc machine 3235 # cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h 3236 # ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h ## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST 3237 3238Native builds *don't* work due to incompatibilities between native 3239and U-Boot include files. 3240 3241Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a 3242stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel 3243proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source 3244tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the 3245meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz 3246 3247 3248Implementation Internals: 3249========================= 3250 3251The following is not intended to be a complete description of every 3252implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the 3253inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom 3254hardware. 3255 3256 3257Initial Stack, Global Data: 3258--------------------------- 3259 3260The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot 3261starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to 3262system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet). 3263This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS 3264is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working 3265at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation 3266options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU 3267models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and 3268MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be 3269locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc. 3270 3271 Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the 3272 u-boot-users mailing list: 3273 3274 Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)? 3275 From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com> 3276 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET) 3277 ... 3278 3279 Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it 3280 is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not 3281 require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness 3282 is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of 3283 necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's 3284 beyond the scope of this list to expain the details, but you 3285 can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and 3286 operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals. 3287 3288 OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It 3289 is another option for the system designer to use as an 3290 initial stack/ram area prior to SDRAM being available. Either 3291 option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your 3292 board designers haven't used it for something that would 3293 cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not 3294 used. 3295 3296 CFG_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere 3297 with your processor/board/system design. The default value 3298 you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in 3299 walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger 3300 than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set 3301 it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources 3302 that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in 3303 start.S has been around a while and should work as is when 3304 you get the config right. 3305 3306 -Chris Hallinan 3307 DS4.COM, Inc. 3308 3309It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C 3310code for the initialization procedures: 3311 3312* Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt 3313 to write it. 3314 3315* Do not use any unitialized global data (or implicitely initialized 3316 as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali- 3317 zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM). 3318 3319* Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like 3320 that. 3321 3322Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use 3323normal global data to share information beween the code. But it 3324turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly 3325simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all 3326functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to _all_ 3327functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of 3328the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we 3329place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we 3330reserve for this purpose. 3331 3332When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the 3333relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by 3334GCC's implementation. 3335 3336For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use: 3337 R1: stack pointer 3338 R2: TOC pointer 3339 R3-R4: parameter passing and return values 3340 R5-R10: parameter passing 3341 R13: small data area pointer 3342 R30: GOT pointer 3343 R31: frame pointer 3344 3345 (U-Boot also uses R14 as internal GOT pointer.) 3346 3347 ==> U-Boot will use R29 to hold a pointer to the global data 3348 3349 Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the 3350 address of the global data structure is known at compile time), 3351 but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat 3352 smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on 3353 average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image, 3354 624 text + 127 data). 3355 3356On ARM, the following registers are used: 3357 3358 R0: function argument word/integer result 3359 R1-R3: function argument word 3360 R9: GOT pointer 3361 R10: stack limit (used only if stack checking if enabled) 3362 R11: argument (frame) pointer 3363 R12: temporary workspace 3364 R13: stack pointer 3365 R14: link register 3366 R15: program counter 3367 3368 ==> U-Boot will use R8 to hold a pointer to the global data 3369 3370NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope, 3371or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much. 3372 3373Memory Management: 3374------------------ 3375 3376U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the 3377MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection. 3378 3379The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory 3380controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each 3381memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several 3382physical memory banks. 3383 3384U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on 3385TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After 3386booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself 3387to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some 3388memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CFG_MALLOC_LEN 3389configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board 3390Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward). 3391 3392Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB 3393of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF). 3394 3395So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like 3396this: 3397 3398 0x0000 0000 Exception Vector code 3399 : 3400 0x0000 1FFF 3401 0x0000 2000 Free for Application Use 3402 : 3403 : 3404 3405 : 3406 : 3407 0x00FB FF20 Monitor Stack (Growing downward) 3408 0x00FB FFAC Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data 3409 0x00FC 0000 Malloc Arena 3410 : 3411 0x00FD FFFF 3412 0x00FE 0000 RAM Copy of Monitor Code 3413 ... eventually: LCD or video framebuffer 3414 ... eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset) 3415 0x00FF FFFF [End of RAM] 3416 3417 3418System Initialization: 3419---------------------- 3420 3421In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point 3422(on most PowerPC systens at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset 3423configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the onboard Flash memory. 3424To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address. 3425To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!) 3426initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs 3427which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked 3428part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core, 3429the caches and the SIU. 3430 3431Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a 3432preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries 3433(multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash 3434on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is 3435programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a 3436simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM 3437banks. 3438 3439When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of 3440different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first 3441bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address 34420x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create 3443contiguous memory starting from 0. 3444 3445Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area 3446and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board 3447Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM 3448pages, and the final stack is set up. 3449 3450Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment; 3451until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are 3452running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a 3453new address in RAM. 3454 3455 3456U-Boot Porting Guide: 3457---------------------- 3458 3459[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing 3460list, October 2002] 3461 3462 3463int main (int argc, char *argv[]) 3464{ 3465 sighandler_t no_more_time; 3466 3467 signal (SIGALRM, no_more_time); 3468 alarm (PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK)); 3469 3470 if (available_money > available_manpower) { 3471 pay consultant to port U-Boot; 3472 return 0; 3473 } 3474 3475 Download latest U-Boot source; 3476 3477 Subscribe to u-boot-users mailing list; 3478 3479 if (clueless) { 3480 email ("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?"); 3481 } 3482 3483 while (learning) { 3484 Read the README file in the top level directory; 3485 Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual ; 3486 Read the source, Luke; 3487 } 3488 3489 if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500)) { 3490 Buy a BDI2000; 3491 } else { 3492 Add a lot of aggravation and time; 3493 } 3494 3495 Create your own board support subdirectory; 3496 3497 Create your own board config file; 3498 3499 while (!running) { 3500 do { 3501 Add / modify source code; 3502 } until (compiles); 3503 Debug; 3504 if (clueless) 3505 email ("Hi, I am having problems..."); 3506 } 3507 Send patch file to Wolfgang; 3508 3509 return 0; 3510} 3511 3512void no_more_time (int sig) 3513{ 3514 hire_a_guru(); 3515} 3516 3517 3518Coding Standards: 3519----------------- 3520 3521All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel 3522coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script 3523"scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory. In sources 3524originating from U-Boot a style corresponding to "Lindent -pcs" (adding 3525spaces before parameters to function calls) is actually used. 3526 3527Source files originating from a different project (for example the 3528MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not 3529reformated to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those 3530sources. 3531 3532Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in 3533Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//) 3534in your code. 3535 3536Please also stick to the following formatting rules: 3537- remove any trailing white space 3538- use TAB characters for indentation, not spaces 3539- make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds 3540- do not add more than 2 empty lines to source files 3541- do not add trailing empty lines to source files 3542 3543Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned 3544with a request to reformat the changes. 3545 3546 3547Submitting Patches: 3548------------------- 3549 3550Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to 3551establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules 3552may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff. 3553 3554Patches shall be sent to the u-boot-users mailing list. 3555 3556When you send a patch, please include the following information with 3557it: 3558 3559* For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes 3560 this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the 3561 patch actually fixes something. 3562 3563* For new features: a description of the feature and your 3564 implementation. 3565 3566* A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch) 3567 3568* For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file 3569 3570* When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add this 3571 board to the MAKEALL script, too. 3572 3573* If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to 3574 document these in the README file. 3575 3576* The patch itself. If you are accessing the CVS repository use "cvs 3577 update; cvs diff -puRN"; else, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your 3578 version of diff does not support these options, then get the latest 3579 version of GNU diff. 3580 3581 The current directory when running this command shall be the top 3582 level directory of the U-Boot source tree, or it's parent directory 3583 (i. e. please make sure that your patch includes sufficient 3584 directory information for the affected files). 3585 3586 We accept patches as plain text, MIME attachments or as uuencoded 3587 gzipped text. 3588 3589* If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several 3590 files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file. 3591 3592* Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be 3593 submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset. 3594 3595 3596Notes: 3597 3598* Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched 3599 source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported 3600 for any of the boards. 3601 3602* Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch 3603 containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be 3604 returned with a request to re-formatting / split it. 3605 3606* If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not 3607 add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful! 3608 When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only 3609 (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature 3610 disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your 3611 modification. 3612 3613* Remember that there is a size limit of 40 kB per message on the 3614 u-boot-users mailing list. Compression may help. 3615