(C) Copyright 2000 - 2013

Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.

SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+

Summary:

This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader for Embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to initialize and test the hardware or to download and run application code.

The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux: some parts of the source code originate in the Linux source tree, we have some header files in common, and special provision has been made to support booting of Linux images.

Some attention has been paid to make this software easily configurable and extendable. For instance, all monitor commands are implemented with the same call interface, so that it's very easy to add new commands. Also, instead of permanently adding rarely used code (for instance hardware test utilities) to the monitor, you can load and run it dynamically.

Status:

In general, all boards for which a configuration option exists in the Makefile have been tested to some extent and can be considered "working". In fact, many of them are used in production systems.

In case of problems see the CHANGELOG and CREDITS files to find out who contributed the specific port. The boards.cfg file lists board maintainers.

Note: There is no CHANGELOG file in the actual U-Boot source tree; it can be created dynamically from the Git log using:

make CHANGELOG

Where to get help:

In case you have questions about, problems with or contributions for U-Boot you should send a message to the U-Boot mailing list at u-boot@lists.denx.de. There is also an archive of previous traffic on the mailing list - please search the archive before asking FAQ's. Please see http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot and http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot

Where to get source code:

The U-Boot source code is maintained in the git repository at git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git ; you can browse it online at http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary

The "snapshot" links on this page allow you to download tarballs of any version you might be interested in. Official releases are also available for FTP download from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ directory.

Pre-built (and tested) images are available from ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/images/

Where we come from:

• start from 8xxrom sources
• create PPCBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot)
• clean up code
• make it easier to add custom boards
• make it possible to add other [PowerPC] CPUs
• extend functions, especially:
  • Provide extended interface to Linux boot loader
  • S-Record download
  • network boot
  • PCMCIA / CompactFlash / ATA disk / SCSI ... boot
• create ARMBoot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/armboot)
• add other CPU families (starting with ARM)
• create U-Boot project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot)
• current project page: see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot

Names and Spelling:

The "official" name of this project is "Das U-Boot". The spelling "U-Boot" shall be used in all written text (documentation, comments in source files etc.). Example:

This is the README file for the U-Boot project.

File names etc. shall be based on the string "u-boot". Examples:

include/asm-ppc/u-boot.h

#include <asm/u-boot.h>

Variable names, preprocessor constants etc. shall be either based on the string "u_boot" or on "U_BOOT". Example:

U_BOOT_VERSION		u_boot_logo
IH_OS_U_BOOT		u_boot_hush_start

Versioning:

Starting with the release in October 2008, the names of the releases were changed from numerical release numbers without deeper meaning into a time stamp based numbering. Regular releases are identified by names consisting of the calendar year and month of the release date. Additional fields (if present) indicate release candidates or bug fix releases in "stable" maintenance trees.

Examples: U-Boot v2009.11 - Release November 2009 U-Boot v2009.11.1 - Release 1 in version November 2009 stable tree U-Boot v2010.09-rc1 - Release candiate 1 for September 2010 release

Directory Hierarchy:

/arch Architecture specific files /arc Files generic to ARC architecture /cpu CPU specific files /arc700 Files specific to ARC 700 CPUs /lib Architecture specific library files /arm Files generic to ARM architecture /cpu CPU specific files /arm720t Files specific to ARM 720 CPUs /arm920t Files specific to ARM 920 CPUs /at91 Files specific to Atmel AT91RM9200 CPU /imx Files specific to Freescale MC9328 i.MX CPUs /s3c24x0 Files specific to Samsung S3C24X0 CPUs /arm926ejs Files specific to ARM 926 CPUs /arm1136 Files specific to ARM 1136 CPUs /pxa Files specific to Intel XScale PXA CPUs /sa1100 Files specific to Intel StrongARM SA1100 CPUs /lib Architecture specific library files /avr32 Files generic to AVR32 architecture /cpu CPU specific files /lib Architecture specific library files /blackfin Files generic to Analog Devices Blackfin architecture /cpu CPU specific files /lib Architecture specific library files /m68k Files generic to m68k architecture /cpu CPU specific files /mcf52x2 Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF52x2 CPUs /mcf5227x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5227x CPUs /mcf532x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5329 CPUs /mcf5445x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF5445x CPUs /mcf547x_8x Files specific to Freescale ColdFire MCF547x_8x CPUs /lib Architecture specific library files /microblaze Files generic to microblaze architecture /cpu CPU specific files /lib Architecture specific library files /mips Files generic to MIPS architecture /cpu CPU specific files /mips32 Files specific to MIPS32 CPUs /mips64 Files specific to MIPS64 CPUs /lib Architecture specific library files /nds32 Files generic to NDS32 architecture /cpu CPU specific files /n1213 Files specific to Andes Technology N1213 CPUs /lib Architecture specific library files /nios2 Files generic to Altera NIOS2 architecture /cpu CPU specific files /lib Architecture specific library files /openrisc Files generic to OpenRISC architecture /cpu CPU specific files /lib Architecture specific library files /powerpc Files generic to PowerPC architecture /cpu CPU specific files /74xx_7xx Files specific to Freescale MPC74xx and 7xx CPUs /mpc5xx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xx CPUs /mpc5xxx Files specific to Freescale MPC5xxx CPUs /mpc8xx Files specific to Freescale MPC8xx CPUs /mpc8260 Files specific to Freescale MPC8260 CPUs /mpc85xx Files specific to Freescale MPC85xx CPUs /ppc4xx Files specific to AMCC PowerPC 4xx CPUs /lib Architecture specific library files /sh Files generic to SH architecture /cpu CPU specific files /sh2 Files specific to sh2 CPUs /sh3 Files specific to sh3 CPUs /sh4 Files specific to sh4 CPUs /lib Architecture specific library files /sparc Files generic to SPARC architecture /cpu CPU specific files /leon2 Files specific to Gaisler LEON2 SPARC CPU /leon3 Files specific to Gaisler LEON3 SPARC CPU /lib Architecture specific library files /x86 Files generic to x86 architecture /cpu CPU specific files /lib Architecture specific library files /api Machine/arch independent API for external apps /board Board dependent files /common Misc architecture independent functions /disk Code for disk drive partition handling /doc Documentation (don't expect too much) /drivers Commonly used device drivers /dts Contains Makefile for building internal U-Boot fdt. /examples Example code for standalone applications, etc. /fs Filesystem code (cramfs, ext2, jffs2, etc.) /include Header Files /lib Files generic to all architectures /libfdt Library files to support flattened device trees /lzma Library files to support LZMA decompression /lzo Library files to support LZO decompression /net Networking code /post Power On Self Test /spl Secondary Program Loader framework /tools Tools to build S-Record or U-Boot images, etc.

Software Configuration:

Configuration is usually done using C preprocessor defines; the rationale behind that is to avoid dead code whenever possible.

There are two classes of configuration variables:

• Configuration OPTIONS: These are selectable by the user and have names beginning with "CONFIG_".

• Configuration SETTINGS: These depend on the hardware etc. and should not be meddled with if you don't know what you're doing; they have names beginning with "CONFIG_SYS_".

Later we will add a configuration tool - probably similar to or even identical to what's used for the Linux kernel. Right now, we have to do the configuration by hand, which means creating some symbolic links and editing some configuration files. We use the TQM8xxL boards as an example here.

Selection of Processor Architecture and Board Type:

For all supported boards there are ready-to-use default configurations available; just type "make <board_name>_defconfig".

Example: For a TQM823L module type:

cd u-boot
make TQM823L_defconfig

For the Cogent platform, you need to specify the CPU type as well; e.g. "make cogent_mpc8xx_defconfig". And also configure the cogent directory according to the instructions in cogent/README.

Sandbox Environment:

U-Boot can be built natively to run on a Linux host using the 'sandbox' board. This allows feature development which is not board- or architecture- specific to be undertaken on a native platform. The sandbox is also used to run some of U-Boot's tests.

See board/sandbox/README.sandbox for more details.

Configuration Options:

Configuration depends on the combination of board and CPU type; all such information is kept in a configuration file "include/configs/<board_name>.h".

Example: For a TQM823L module, all configuration settings are in "include/configs/TQM823L.h".

Many of the options are named exactly as the corresponding Linux kernel configuration options. The intention is to make it easier to build a config tool - later.

The following options need to be configured:

• CPU Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC85XX.

• Board Type: Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_MPC8540ADS.

• CPU Daughterboard Type: (if CONFIG_ATSTK1000 is defined) Define exactly one, e.g. CONFIG_ATSTK1002

• CPU Module Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined) Define exactly one of CONFIG_CMA286_60_OLD --- FIXME --- not tested yet: CONFIG_CMA286_60, CONFIG_CMA286_21, CONFIG_CMA286_60P, CONFIG_CMA287_23, CONFIG_CMA287_50

• Motherboard Type: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined) Define exactly one of CONFIG_CMA101, CONFIG_CMA102

• Motherboard I/O Modules: (if CONFIG_COGENT is defined) Define one or more of CONFIG_CMA302

• Motherboard Options: (if CONFIG_CMA101 or CONFIG_CMA102 are defined) Define one or more of CONFIG_LCD_HEARTBEAT - update a character position on the LCD display every second with a "rotator" |-/|-/

• Marvell Family Member CONFIG_SYS_MVFS - define it if you want to enable multiple fs option at one time for marvell soc family

• 8xx CPU Options: (if using an MPC8xx CPU) CONFIG_8xx_GCLK_FREQ - deprecated: CPU clock if get_gclk_freq() cannot work e.g. if there is no 32KHz reference PIT/RTC clock CONFIG_8xx_OSCLK - PLL input clock (either EXTCLK or XTAL/EXTAL)

• 859/866/885 CPU options: (if using a MPC859 or MPC866 or MPC885 CPU): CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MIN CONFIG_SYS_8xx_CPUCLK_MAX CONFIG_8xx_CPUCLK_DEFAULT See doc/README.MPC866

    CONFIG_SYS_MEASURE_CPUCLK
  
    Define this to measure the actual CPU clock instead
    of relying on the correctness of the configured
    values. Mostly useful for board bringup to make sure
    the PLL is locked at the intended frequency. Note
    that this requires a (stable) reference clock (32 kHz
    RTC clock or CONFIG_SYS_8XX_XIN)
  
    CONFIG_SYS_DELAYED_ICACHE
  
    Define this option if you want to enable the
    ICache only when Code runs from RAM.
  

• 85xx CPU Options: CONFIG_SYS_PPC64

    Specifies that the core is a 64-bit PowerPC implementation (implements
    the "64" category of the Power ISA). This is necessary for ePAPR
    compliance, among other possible reasons.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_TBCLK_DIV
  
    Defines the core time base clock divider ratio compared to the
    system clock.  On most PQ3 devices this is 8, on newer QorIQ
    devices it can be 16 or 32.  The ratio varies from SoC to Soc.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PCIE_COMPAT
  
    Defines the string to utilize when trying to match PCIe device
    tree nodes for the given platform.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_PPC_E500_DEBUG_TLB
  
    Enables a temporary TLB entry to be used during boot to work
    around limitations in e500v1 and e500v2 external debugger
    support. This reduces the portions of the boot code where
    breakpoints and single stepping do not work.  The value of this
    symbol should be set to the TLB1 entry to be used for this
    purpose.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510
  
    Enables a workaround for erratum A004510.  If set,
    then CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV and
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY must be set.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510_SVR_REV2 (optional)
  
    Defines one or two SoC revisions (low 8 bits of SVR)
    for which the A004510 workaround should be applied.
  
    The rest of SVR is either not relevant to the decision
    of whether the erratum is present (e.g. p2040 versus
    p2041) or is implied by the build target, which controls
    whether CONFIG_SYS_FSL_ERRATUM_A004510 is set.
  
    See Freescale App Note 4493 for more information about
    this erratum.
  
    CONFIG_A003399_NOR_WORKAROUND
    Enables a workaround for IFC erratum A003399. It is only
    required during NOR boot.
  
    CONFIG_A008044_WORKAROUND
    Enables a workaround for T1040/T1042 erratum A008044. It is only
    required during NAND boot and valid for Rev 1.0 SoC revision
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_CORENET_SNOOPVEC_COREONLY
  
    This is the value to write into CCSR offset 0x18600
    according to the A004510 workaround.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_DDR_ADDR
    This value denotes start offset of DDR memory which is
    connected exclusively to the DSP cores.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M2_RAM_ADDR
    This value denotes start offset of M2 memory
    which is directly connected to the DSP core.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_M3_RAM_ADDR
    This value denotes start offset of M3 memory which is directly
    connected to the DSP core.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DSP_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT
    This value denotes start offset of DSP CCSR space.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SINGLE_SOURCE_CLK
    Single Source Clock is clocking mode present in some of FSL SoC's.
    In this mode, a single differential clock is used to supply
    clocks to the sysclock, ddrclock and usbclock.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_CPC_REINIT_F
    This CONFIG is defined when the CPC is configured as SRAM at the
    time of U-boot entry and is required to be re-initialized.
  
    CONFIG_DEEP_SLEEP
    Indicates this SoC supports deep sleep feature. If deep sleep is
    supported, core will start to execute uboot when wakes up.
  

• Generic CPU options: CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_GLOBAL_DATA Defines global data is initialized in generic board board_init_f(). If this macro is defined, global data is created and cleared in generic board board_init_f(). Without this macro, architecture/board should initialize global data before calling board_init_f().

    CONFIG_SYS_BIG_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SYS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
  
    Defines the endianess of the CPU. Implementation of those
    values is arch specific.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR
    Freescale DDR driver in use. This type of DDR controller is
    found in mpc83xx, mpc85xx, mpc86xx as well as some ARM core
    SoCs.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_ADDR
    Freescale DDR memory-mapped register base.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_EMU
    Specify emulator support for DDR. Some DDR features such as
    deskew training are not available.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN1
    Freescale DDR1 controller.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN2
    Freescale DDR2 controller.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN3
    Freescale DDR3 controller.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_GEN4
    Freescale DDR4 controller.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDRC_ARM_GEN3
    Freescale DDR3 controller for ARM-based SoCs.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR1
    Board config to use DDR1. It can be enabled for SoCs with
    Freescale DDR1 or DDR2 controllers, depending on the board
    implemetation.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR2
    Board config to use DDR2. It can be eanbeld for SoCs with
    Freescale DDR2 or DDR3 controllers, depending on the board
    implementation.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR3
    Board config to use DDR3. It can be enabled for SoCs with
    Freescale DDR3 or DDR3L controllers.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR3L
    Board config to use DDR3L. It can be enabled for SoCs with
    DDR3L controllers.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR4
    Board config to use DDR4. It can be enabled for SoCs with
    DDR4 controllers.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_BE
    Defines the IFC controller register space as Big Endian
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_IFC_LE
    Defines the IFC controller register space as Little Endian
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_PBI
    It enables addition of RCW (Power on reset configuration) in built image.
    Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_PBL_RCW
    It adds PBI(pre-boot instructions) commands in u-boot build image.
    PBI commands can be used to configure SoC before it starts the execution.
    Please refer doc/README.pblimage for more details
  
    CONFIG_SPL_FSL_PBL
    It adds a target to create boot binary having SPL binary in PBI format
    concatenated with u-boot binary.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_BE
    Defines the DDR controller register space as Big Endian
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_LE
    Defines the DDR controller register space as Little Endian
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_SDRAM_BASE_PHY
    Physical address from the view of DDR controllers. It is the
    same as CONFIG_SYS_DDR_SDRAM_BASE for  all Power SoCs. But
    it could be different for ARM SoCs.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_INTLV_256B
    DDR controller interleaving on 256-byte. This is a special
    interleaving mode, handled by Dickens for Freescale layerscape
    SoCs with ARM core.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_DDR_MAIN_NUM_CTRLS
    Number of controllers used as main memory.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_OTHER_DDR_NUM_CTRLS
    Number of controllers used for other than main memory.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_BE
    Defines the SEC controller register space as Big Endian
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FSL_SEC_LE
    Defines the SEC controller register space as Little Endian
  

• Intel Monahans options: CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_RUN_MODE_OSC_RATIO

    Defines the Monahans run mode to oscillator
    ratio. Valid values are 8, 16, 24, 31. The core
    frequency is this value multiplied by 13 MHz.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_MONAHANS_TURBO_RUN_MODE_RATIO
  
    Defines the Monahans turbo mode to oscillator
    ratio. Valid values are 1 (default if undefined) and
    2. The core frequency as calculated above is multiplied
    by this value.
  

• MIPS CPU options: CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_OFFSET

    Offset relative to CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE for initial stack
    pointer. This is needed for the temporary stack before
    relocation.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_MIPS_CACHE_MODE
  
    Cache operation mode for the MIPS CPU.
    See also arch/mips/include/asm/mipsregs.h.
    Possible values are:
    	CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NO_WA
    	CONF_CM_CACHABLE_WA
    	CONF_CM_UNCACHED
    	CONF_CM_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT
    	CONF_CM_CACHABLE_CE
    	CONF_CM_CACHABLE_COW
    	CONF_CM_CACHABLE_CUW
    	CONF_CM_CACHABLE_ACCELERATED
  
    CONFIG_SYS_XWAY_EBU_BOOTCFG
  
    Special option for Lantiq XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash.
    See also arch/mips/cpu/mips32/start.S.
  
    CONFIG_XWAY_SWAP_BYTES
  
    Enable compilation of tools/xway-swap-bytes needed for Lantiq
    XWAY SoCs for booting from NOR flash. The U-Boot image needs to
    be swapped if a flash programmer is used.
  

• ARM options: CONFIG_SYS_EXCEPTION_VECTORS_HIGH

    Select high exception vectors of the ARM core, e.g., do not
    clear the V bit of the c1 register of CP15.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD
  
    Use this flag to build U-Boot using the Thumb instruction
    set for ARM architectures. Thumb instruction set provides
    better code density. For ARM architectures that support
    Thumb2 this flag will result in Thumb2 code generated by
    GCC.
  
    CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_716044
    CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_742230
    CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_743622
    CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_751472
    CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_794072
    CONFIG_ARM_ERRATA_761320
  
    If set, the workarounds for these ARM errata are applied early
    during U-Boot startup. Note that these options force the
    workarounds to be applied; no CPU-type/version detection
    exists, unlike the similar options in the Linux kernel. Do not
    set these options unless they apply!
  

• Driver Model Driver model is a new framework for devices in U-Boot introduced in early 2014. U-Boot is being progressively moved over to this. It offers a consistent device structure, supports grouping devices into classes and has built-in handling of platform data and device tree.

    To enable transition to driver model in a relatively
    painful fashion, each subsystem can be independently
    switched between the legacy/ad-hoc approach and the new
    driver model using the options below. Also, many uclass
    interfaces include compatibility features which may be
    removed once the conversion of that subsystem is complete.
    As a result, the API provided by the subsystem may in fact
    not change with driver model.
  
    See doc/driver-model/README.txt for more information.
  
    CONFIG_DM
  
    Enable driver model. This brings in the core support,
    including scanning of platform data on start-up. If
    CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is enabled, the device tree will be
    scanned also when available.
  
    CONFIG_CMD_DM
  
    Enable driver model test commands. These allow you to print
    out the driver model tree and the uclasses.
  
    CONFIG_DM_DEMO
  
    Enable some demo devices and the 'demo' command. These are
    really only useful for playing around while trying to
    understand driver model in sandbox.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_DM
  
    Enable driver model in SPL. You will need to provide a
    suitable malloc() implementation. If you are not using the
    full malloc() enabled by CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START,
    consider using CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE. In that case you
    must provide CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN to set the size.
    In most cases driver model will only allocate a few uclasses
    and devices in SPL, so 1KB should be enable. See
    CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN for more details on how to enable
    it.
  
    CONFIG_DM_SERIAL
  
    Enable driver model for serial. This replaces
    drivers/serial/serial.c with the serial uclass, which
    implements serial_putc() etc. The uclass interface is
    defined in include/serial.h.
  
    CONFIG_DM_GPIO
  
    Enable driver model for GPIO access. The standard GPIO
    interface (gpio_get_value(), etc.) is then implemented by
    the GPIO uclass. Drivers provide methods to query the
    particular GPIOs that they provide. The uclass interface
    is defined in include/asm-generic/gpio.h.
  
    CONFIG_DM_SPI
  
    Enable driver model for SPI. The SPI slave interface
    (spi_setup_slave(), spi_xfer(), etc.) is then implemented by
    the SPI uclass. Drivers provide methods to access the SPI
    buses that they control. The uclass interface is defined in
    include/spi.h. The existing spi_slave structure is attached
    as 'parent data' to every slave on each bus. Slaves
    typically use driver-private data instead of extending the
    spi_slave structure.
  
    CONFIG_DM_SPI_FLASH
  
    Enable driver model for SPI flash. This SPI flash interface
    (spi_flash_probe(), spi_flash_write(), etc.) is then
    implemented by the SPI flash uclass. There is one standard
    SPI flash driver which knows how to probe most chips
    supported by U-Boot. The uclass interface is defined in
    include/spi_flash.h, but is currently fully compatible
    with the old interface to avoid confusion and duplication
    during the transition parent. SPI and SPI flash must be
    enabled together (it is not possible to use driver model
    for one and not the other).
  
    CONFIG_DM_CROS_EC
  
    Enable driver model for the Chrome OS EC interface. This
    allows the cros_ec SPI driver to operate with CONFIG_DM_SPI
    but otherwise makes few changes. Since cros_ec also supports
    I2C and LPC (which don't support driver model yet), a full
    conversion is not yet possible.
  
  
    ** Code size options: The following options are enabled by
    default except in SPL. Enable them explicitly to get these
    features in SPL.
  
    CONFIG_DM_WARN
  
    Enable the dm_warn() function. This can use up quite a bit
    of space for its strings.
  
    CONFIG_DM_STDIO
  
    Enable registering a serial device with the stdio library.
  
    CONFIG_DM_DEVICE_REMOVE
  
    Enable removing of devices.
  

• Linux Kernel Interface: CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ

    U-Boot stores all clock information in Hz
    internally. For binary compatibility with older Linux
    kernels (which expect the clocks passed in the
    bd_info data to be in MHz) the environment variable
    "clocks_in_mhz" can be defined so that U-Boot
    converts clock data to MHZ before passing it to the
    Linux kernel.
    When CONFIG_CLOCKS_IN_MHZ is defined, a definition of
    "clocks_in_mhz=1" is automatically included in the
    default environment.
  
    CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES		[relevant for MIPS only]
  
    When transferring memsize parameter to Linux, some versions
    expect it to be in bytes, others in MB.
    Define CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES to make it in bytes.
  
    CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
  
    New kernel versions are expecting firmware settings to be
    passed using flattened device trees (based on open firmware
    concepts).
  
    CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT
     * New libfdt-based support
     * Adds the "fdt" command
     * The bootm command automatically updates the fdt
  
    OF_CPU - The proper name of the cpus node (only required for
    	MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
    OF_SOC - The proper name of the soc node (only required for
    	MPC512X and MPC5xxx based boards).
    OF_TBCLK - The timebase frequency.
    OF_STDOUT_PATH - The path to the console device
  
    boards with QUICC Engines require OF_QE to set UCC MAC
    addresses
  
    CONFIG_OF_BOARD_SETUP
  
    Board code has addition modification that it wants to make
    to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel
  
    CONFIG_OF_SYSTEM_SETUP
  
    Other code has addition modification that it wants to make
    to the flat device tree before handing it off to the kernel.
    This causes ft_system_setup() to be called before booting
    the kernel.
  
    CONFIG_OF_BOOT_CPU
  
    This define fills in the correct boot CPU in the boot
    param header, the default value is zero if undefined.
  
    CONFIG_OF_IDE_FIXUP
  
    U-Boot can detect if an IDE device is present or not.
    If not, and this new config option is activated, U-Boot
    removes the ATA node from the DTS before booting Linux,
    so the Linux IDE driver does not probe the device and
    crash. This is needed for buggy hardware (uc101) where
    no pull down resistor is connected to the signal IDE5V_DD7.
  
    CONFIG_MACH_TYPE	[relevant for ARM only][mandatory]
  
    This setting is mandatory for all boards that have only one
    machine type and must be used to specify the machine type
    number as it appears in the ARM machine registry
    (see http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/machines/).
    Only boards that have multiple machine types supported
    in a single configuration file and the machine type is
    runtime discoverable, do not have to use this setting.
  

• vxWorks boot parameters:

    bootvx constructs a valid bootline using the following
    environments variables: bootfile, ipaddr, serverip, hostname.
    It loads the vxWorks image pointed bootfile.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_DEVICE - The vxworks device name
    CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_MAC_PTR - Ethernet 6 byte MA -address
    CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_SERVERNAME - Name of the server
    CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_BOOT_ADDR - Address of boot parameters
  
    CONFIG_SYS_VXWORKS_ADD_PARAMS
  
    Add it at the end of the bootline. E.g "u=username pw=secret"
  
    Note: If a "bootargs" environment is defined, it will overwride
    the defaults discussed just above.
  

• Cache Configuration: CONFIG_SYS_ICACHE_OFF - Do not enable instruction cache in U-Boot CONFIG_SYS_DCACHE_OFF - Do not enable data cache in U-Boot CONFIG_SYS_L2CACHE_OFF- Do not enable L2 cache in U-Boot

• Cache Configuration for ARM: CONFIG_SYS_L2_PL310 - Enable support for ARM PL310 L2 cache controller CONFIG_SYS_PL310_BASE - Physical base address of PL310 controller register space

• Serial Ports: CONFIG_PL010_SERIAL

    Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL010 UARTs.
  
    CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL
  
    Define this if you want support for Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs.
  
    CONFIG_PL011_CLOCK
  
    If you have Amba PrimeCell PL011 UARTs, set this variable to
    the clock speed of the UARTs.
  
    CONFIG_PL01x_PORTS
  
    If you have Amba PrimeCell PL010 or PL011 UARTs on your board,
    define this to a list of base addresses for each (supported)
    port. See e.g. include/configs/versatile.h
  
    CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_RLCR
  
    Some vendor versions of PL011 serial ports (e.g. ST-Ericsson U8500)
    have separate receive and transmit line control registers.  Set
    this variable to initialize the extra register.
  
    CONFIG_PL011_SERIAL_FLUSH_ON_INIT
  
    On some platforms (e.g. U8500) U-Boot is loaded by a second stage
    boot loader that has already initialized the UART.  Define this
    variable to flush the UART at init time.
  
    CONFIG_SERIAL_HW_FLOW_CONTROL
  
    Define this variable to enable hw flow control in serial driver.
    Current user of this option is drivers/serial/nsl16550.c driver
  

• Console Interface: Depending on board, define exactly one serial port (like CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC1, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SMC2, CONFIG_8xx_CONS_SCC1, ...), or switch off the serial console by defining CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE

    Note: if CONFIG_8xx_CONS_NONE is defined, the serial
    port routines must be defined elsewhere
    (i.e. serial_init(), serial_getc(), ...)
  
    CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE
    Enables console device for a color framebuffer. Needs following
    defines (cf. smiLynxEM, i8042)
    	VIDEO_FB_LITTLE_ENDIAN	graphic memory organisation
    				(default big endian)
    	VIDEO_HW_RECTFILL	graphic chip supports
    				rectangle fill
    				(cf. smiLynxEM)
    	VIDEO_HW_BITBLT		graphic chip supports
    				bit-blit (cf. smiLynxEM)
    	VIDEO_VISIBLE_COLS	visible pixel columns
    				(cols=pitch)
    	VIDEO_VISIBLE_ROWS	visible pixel rows
    	VIDEO_PIXEL_SIZE	bytes per pixel
    	VIDEO_DATA_FORMAT	graphic data format
    				(0-5, cf. cfb_console.c)
    	VIDEO_FB_ADRS		framebuffer address
    	VIDEO_KBD_INIT_FCT	keyboard int fct
    				(i.e. i8042_kbd_init())
    	VIDEO_TSTC_FCT		test char fct
    				(i.e. i8042_tstc)
    	VIDEO_GETC_FCT		get char fct
    				(i.e. i8042_getc)
    	CONFIG_CONSOLE_CURSOR	cursor drawing on/off
    				(requires blink timer
    				cf. i8042.c)
    	CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BLINK_COUNT blink interval (cf. i8042.c)
    	CONFIG_CONSOLE_TIME	display time/date info in
    				upper right corner
    				(requires CONFIG_CMD_DATE)
    	CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO	display Linux logo in
    				upper left corner
    	CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO	use bmp_logo.h instead of
    				linux_logo.h for logo.
    				Requires CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
    	CONFIG_CONSOLE_EXTRA_INFO
    				additional board info beside
    				the logo
  
    When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE_ANSI is defined, console will support
    a limited number of ANSI escape sequences (cursor control,
    erase functions and limited graphics rendition control).
  
    When CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE is defined, video console is
    default i/o. Serial console can be forced with
    environment 'console=serial'.
  
    When CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE is defined, all console
    messages (by U-Boot and Linux!) can be silenced with
    the "silent" environment variable. See
    doc/README.silent for more information.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_BG_COL: define the backgroundcolor, default
    	is 0x00.
    CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_FG_COL: define the foregroundcolor, default
    	is 0xa0.
  

• Console Baudrate: CONFIG_BAUDRATE - in bps Select one of the baudrates listed in CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below. CONFIG_SYS_BRGCLK_PRESCALE, baudrate prescale

• Console Rx buffer length With CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN it is possible to define the maximum receive buffer length for the SMC. This option is actual only for 82xx and 8xx possible. If using CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN also CONFIG_SYS_MAXIDLE must be defined, to setup the maximum idle timeout for the SMC.

• Pre-Console Buffer: Prior to the console being initialised (i.e. serial UART initialised etc) all console output is silently discarded. Defining CONFIG_PRE_CONSOLE_BUFFER will cause U-Boot to buffer any console messages prior to the console being initialised to a buffer of size CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ bytes located at CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR. The buffer is a circular buffer, so if more than CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ bytes are output before the console is initialised, the earlier bytes are discarded.

    'Sane' compilers will generate smaller code if
    CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ is a power of 2
  

• Safe printf() functions Define CONFIG_SYS_VSNPRINTF to compile in safe versions of the printf() functions. These are defined in include/vsprintf.h and include snprintf(), vsnprintf() and so on. Code size increase is approximately 300-500 bytes. If this option is not given then these functions will silently discard their buffer size argument - this means you are not getting any overflow checking in this case.

• Boot Delay: CONFIG_BOOTDELAY - in seconds Delay before automatically booting the default image; set to -1 to disable autoboot. set to -2 to autoboot with no delay and not check for abort (even when CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK is defined).

    See doc/README.autoboot for these options that
    work with CONFIG_BOOTDELAY. None are required.
    CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME
    CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_MIN
    CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
    CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT
    CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
    CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
    CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2
    CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR2
    CONFIG_ZERO_BOOTDELAY_CHECK
    CONFIG_RESET_TO_RETRY
  

• Autoboot Command: CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND Only needed when CONFIG_BOOTDELAY is enabled; define a command string that is automatically executed when no character is read on the console interface within "Boot Delay" after reset.

    CONFIG_BOOTARGS
    This can be used to pass arguments to the bootm
    command. The value of CONFIG_BOOTARGS goes into the
    environment value "bootargs".
  
    CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NFSBOOT
    The value of these goes into the environment as
    "ramboot" and "nfsboot" respectively, and can be used
    as a convenience, when switching between booting from
    RAM and NFS.
  

• Bootcount: CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT Implements a mechanism for detecting a repeating reboot cycle, see: http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit

    CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ENV
    If no softreset save registers are found on the hardware
    "bootcount" is stored in the environment. To prevent a
    saveenv on all reboots, the environment variable
    "upgrade_available" is used. If "upgrade_available" is
    0, "bootcount" is always 0, if "upgrade_available" is
    1 "bootcount" is incremented in the environment.
    So the Userspace Applikation must set the "upgrade_available"
    and "bootcount" variable to 0, if a boot was successfully.
  

• Pre-Boot Commands: CONFIG_PREBOOT

    When this option is #defined, the existence of the
    environment variable "preboot" will be checked
    immediately before starting the CONFIG_BOOTDELAY
    countdown and/or running the auto-boot command resp.
    entering interactive mode.
  
    This feature is especially useful when "preboot" is
    automatically generated or modified. For an example
    see the LWMON board specific code: here "preboot" is
    modified when the user holds down a certain
    combination of keys on the (special) keyboard when
    booting the systems
  

• Serial Download Echo Mode: CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO If defined to 1, all characters received during a serial download (using the "loads" command) are echoed back. This might be needed by some terminal emulations (like "cu"), but may as well just take time on others. This setting #define's the initial value of the "loads_echo" environment variable.

• Kgdb Serial Baudrate: (if CONFIG_CMD_KGDB is defined) CONFIG_KGDB_BAUDRATE Select one of the baudrates listed in CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE, see below.

• Monitor Functions: Monitor commands can be included or excluded from the build by using the #include files <config_cmd_all.h> and #undef'ing unwanted commands, or using <config_cmd_default.h> and augmenting with additional #define's for wanted commands.

    The default command configuration includes all commands
    except those marked below with a "*".
  
    CONFIG_CMD_AES		  AES 128 CBC encrypt/decrypt
    CONFIG_CMD_ASKENV	* ask for env variable
    CONFIG_CMD_BDI		  bdinfo
    CONFIG_CMD_BEDBUG	* Include BedBug Debugger
    CONFIG_CMD_BMP		* BMP support
    CONFIG_CMD_BSP		* Board specific commands
    CONFIG_CMD_BOOTD	  bootd
    CONFIG_CMD_BOOTI	* ARM64 Linux kernel Image support
    CONFIG_CMD_CACHE	* icache, dcache
    CONFIG_CMD_CLK   	* clock command support
    CONFIG_CMD_CONSOLE	  coninfo
    CONFIG_CMD_CRC32	* crc32
    CONFIG_CMD_DATE		* support for RTC, date/time...
    CONFIG_CMD_DHCP		* DHCP support
    CONFIG_CMD_DIAG		* Diagnostics
    CONFIG_CMD_DS4510	* ds4510 I2C gpio commands
    CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_INFO	* ds4510 I2C info command
    CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_MEM	* ds4510 I2C eeprom/sram commansd
    CONFIG_CMD_DS4510_RST	* ds4510 I2C rst command
    CONFIG_CMD_DTT		* Digital Therm and Thermostat
    CONFIG_CMD_ECHO		  echo arguments
    CONFIG_CMD_EDITENV	  edit env variable
    CONFIG_CMD_EEPROM	* EEPROM read/write support
    CONFIG_CMD_ELF		* bootelf, bootvx
    CONFIG_CMD_ENV_CALLBACK	* display details about env callbacks
    CONFIG_CMD_ENV_FLAGS	* display details about env flags
    CONFIG_CMD_ENV_EXISTS	* check existence of env variable
    CONFIG_CMD_EXPORTENV	* export the environment
    CONFIG_CMD_EXT2		* ext2 command support
    CONFIG_CMD_EXT4		* ext4 command support
    CONFIG_CMD_FS_GENERIC	* filesystem commands (e.g. load, ls)
    			  that work for multiple fs types
    CONFIG_CMD_FS_UUID	* Look up a filesystem UUID
    CONFIG_CMD_SAVEENV	  saveenv
    CONFIG_CMD_FDC		* Floppy Disk Support
    CONFIG_CMD_FAT		* FAT command support
    CONFIG_CMD_FLASH	  flinfo, erase, protect
    CONFIG_CMD_FPGA		  FPGA device initialization support
    CONFIG_CMD_FUSE		* Device fuse support
    CONFIG_CMD_GETTIME	* Get time since boot
    CONFIG_CMD_GO		* the 'go' command (exec code)
    CONFIG_CMD_GREPENV	* search environment
    CONFIG_CMD_HASH		* calculate hash / digest
    CONFIG_CMD_HWFLOW	* RTS/CTS hw flow control
    CONFIG_CMD_I2C		* I2C serial bus support
    CONFIG_CMD_IDE		* IDE harddisk support
    CONFIG_CMD_IMI		  iminfo
    CONFIG_CMD_IMLS		  List all images found in NOR flash
    CONFIG_CMD_IMLS_NAND	* List all images found in NAND flash
    CONFIG_CMD_IMMAP	* IMMR dump support
    CONFIG_CMD_IOTRACE	* I/O tracing for debugging
    CONFIG_CMD_IMPORTENV	* import an environment
    CONFIG_CMD_INI		* import data from an ini file into the env
    CONFIG_CMD_IRQ		* irqinfo
    CONFIG_CMD_ITEST	  Integer/string test of 2 values
    CONFIG_CMD_JFFS2	* JFFS2 Support
    CONFIG_CMD_KGDB		* kgdb
    CONFIG_CMD_LDRINFO	* ldrinfo (display Blackfin loader)
    CONFIG_CMD_LINK_LOCAL	* link-local IP address auto-configuration
    			  (169.254.*.*)
    CONFIG_CMD_LOADB	  loadb
    CONFIG_CMD_LOADS	  loads
    CONFIG_CMD_MD5SUM	* print md5 message digest
    			  (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY and CONFIG_MD5)
    CONFIG_CMD_MEMINFO	* Display detailed memory information
    CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY	  md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, crc, base,
    			  loop, loopw
    CONFIG_CMD_MEMTEST	* mtest
    CONFIG_CMD_MISC		  Misc functions like sleep etc
    CONFIG_CMD_MMC		* MMC memory mapped support
            CONFIG_CMD_GPT          * GPT command
    CONFIG_CMD_MII		* MII utility commands
    CONFIG_CMD_MTDPARTS	* MTD partition support
    CONFIG_CMD_NAND		* NAND support
    CONFIG_CMD_NET		  bootp, tftpboot, rarpboot
    CONFIG_CMD_NFS		  NFS support
    CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X	* PCA953x I2C gpio commands
    CONFIG_CMD_PCA953X_INFO * PCA953x I2C gpio info command
    CONFIG_CMD_PCI		* pciinfo
    CONFIG_CMD_PCMCIA		* PCMCIA support
    CONFIG_CMD_PING		* send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network
    			  host
    CONFIG_CMD_PORTIO	* Port I/O
    CONFIG_CMD_READ		* Read raw data from partition
    CONFIG_CMD_REGINFO	* Register dump
    CONFIG_CMD_RUN		  run command in env variable
    CONFIG_CMD_SANDBOX	* sb command to access sandbox features
    CONFIG_CMD_SAVES	* save S record dump
    CONFIG_CMD_SCSI		* SCSI Support
    CONFIG_CMD_SDRAM	* print SDRAM configuration information
    			  (requires CONFIG_CMD_I2C)
    CONFIG_CMD_SETGETDCR	  Support for DCR Register access
    			  (4xx only)
    CONFIG_CMD_SF		* Read/write/erase SPI NOR flash
    CONFIG_CMD_SHA1SUM	* print sha1 memory digest
    			  (requires CONFIG_CMD_MEMORY)
    CONFIG_CMD_SOFTSWITCH	* Soft switch setting command for BF60x
    CONFIG_CMD_SOURCE	  "source" command Support
    CONFIG_CMD_SPI		* SPI serial bus support
    CONFIG_CMD_TFTPSRV	* TFTP transfer in server mode
    CONFIG_CMD_TFTPPUT	* TFTP put command (upload)
    CONFIG_CMD_TIME		* run command and report execution time (ARM specific)
    CONFIG_CMD_TIMER	* access to the system tick timer
    CONFIG_CMD_USB		* USB support
    CONFIG_CMD_CDP		* Cisco Discover Protocol support
    CONFIG_CMD_MFSL		* Microblaze FSL support
    CONFIG_CMD_XIMG		  Load part of Multi Image
    CONFIG_CMD_UUID		* Generate random UUID or GUID string
  
    EXAMPLE: If you want all functions except of network
    support you can write:
  
    #include "config_cmd_all.h"
    #undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
  

  Other Commands: fdt (flattened device tree) command: CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT

  Note: Don't enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands (configuration option CONFIG_CMD_CACHE) unless you know what you (and your U-Boot users) are doing. Data cache cannot be enabled on systems like the 8xx or 8260 (where accesses to the IMMR region must be uncached), and it cannot be disabled on all other systems where we (mis-) use the data cache to hold an initial stack and some data.

    XXX - this list needs to get updated!
  

• Regular expression support: CONFIG_REGEX If this variable is defined, U-Boot is linked against the SLRE (Super Light Regular Expression) library, which adds regex support to some commands, as for example "env grep" and "setexpr".

• Device tree: CONFIG_OF_CONTROL If this variable is defined, U-Boot will use a device tree to configure its devices, instead of relying on statically compiled #defines in the board file. This option is experimental and only available on a few boards. The device tree is available in the global data as gd->fdt_blob.

    U-Boot needs to get its device tree from somewhere. This can
    be done using one of the two options below:
  
    CONFIG_OF_EMBED
    If this variable is defined, U-Boot will embed a device tree
    binary in its image. This device tree file should be in the
    board directory and called <soc>-<board>.dts. The binary file
    is then picked up in board_init_f() and made available through
    the global data structure as gd->blob.
  
    CONFIG_OF_SEPARATE
    If this variable is defined, U-Boot will build a device tree
    binary. It will be called u-boot.dtb. Architecture-specific
    code will locate it at run-time. Generally this works by:
  
    	cat u-boot.bin u-boot.dtb >image.bin
  
    and in fact, U-Boot does this for you, creating a file called
    u-boot-dtb.bin which is useful in the common case. You can
    still use the individual files if you need something more
    exotic.
  

• Watchdog: CONFIG_WATCHDOG If this variable is defined, it enables watchdog support for the SoC. There must be support in the SoC specific code for a watchdog. For the 8xx and 8260 CPUs, the SIU Watchdog feature is enabled in the SYPCR register. When supported for a specific SoC is available, then no further board specific code should be needed to use it.

    CONFIG_HW_WATCHDOG
    When using a watchdog circuitry external to the used
    SoC, then define this variable and provide board
    specific code for the "hw_watchdog_reset" function.
  

• U-Boot Version: CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE If this variable is defined, an environment variable named "ver" is created by U-Boot showing the U-Boot version as printed by the "version" command. Any change to this variable will be reverted at the next reset.

• Real-Time Clock:

    When CONFIG_CMD_DATE is selected, the type of the RTC
    has to be selected, too. Define exactly one of the
    following options:
  
    CONFIG_RTC_MPC8xx	- use internal RTC of MPC8xx
    CONFIG_RTC_PCF8563	- use Philips PCF8563 RTC
    CONFIG_RTC_MC13XXX	- use MC13783 or MC13892 RTC
    CONFIG_RTC_MC146818	- use MC146818 RTC
    CONFIG_RTC_DS1307	- use Maxim, Inc. DS1307 RTC
    CONFIG_RTC_DS1337	- use Maxim, Inc. DS1337 RTC
    CONFIG_RTC_DS1338	- use Maxim, Inc. DS1338 RTC
    CONFIG_RTC_DS1339	- use Maxim, Inc. DS1339 RTC
    CONFIG_RTC_DS164x	- use Dallas DS164x RTC
    CONFIG_RTC_ISL1208	- use Intersil ISL1208 RTC
    CONFIG_RTC_MAX6900	- use Maxim, Inc. MAX6900 RTC
    CONFIG_SYS_RTC_DS1337_NOOSC	- Turn off the OSC output for DS1337
    CONFIG_SYS_RV3029_TCR	- enable trickle charger on
    			  RV3029 RTC.
  
    Note that if the RTC uses I2C, then the I2C interface
    must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
  

• GPIO Support: CONFIG_PCA953X - use NXP's PCA953X series I2C GPIO

    The CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PCA953X_WIDTH option specifies a list of
    chip-ngpio pairs that tell the PCA953X driver the number of
    pins supported by a particular chip.
  
    Note that if the GPIO device uses I2C, then the I2C interface
    must also be configured. See I2C Support, below.
  

• I/O tracing: When CONFIG_IO_TRACE is selected, U-Boot intercepts all I/O accesses and can checksum them or write a list of them out to memory. See the 'iotrace' command for details. This is useful for testing device drivers since it can confirm that the driver behaves the same way before and after a code change. Currently this is supported on sandbox and arm. To add support for your architecture, add '#include <iotrace.h>' to the bottom of arch//include/asm/io.h and test.

    Example output from the 'iotrace stats' command is below.
    Note that if the trace buffer is exhausted, the checksum will
    still continue to operate.
  
    	iotrace is enabled
    	Start:  10000000	(buffer start address)
    	Size:   00010000	(buffer size)
    	Offset: 00000120	(current buffer offset)
    	Output: 10000120	(start + offset)
    	Count:  00000018	(number of trace records)
    	CRC32:  9526fb66	(CRC32 of all trace records)
  

• Timestamp Support:

    When CONFIG_TIMESTAMP is selected, the timestamp
    (date and time) of an image is printed by image
    commands like bootm or iminfo. This option is
    automatically enabled when you select CONFIG_CMD_DATE .
  

• Partition Labels (disklabels) Supported: Zero or more of the following: CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION Apple's MacOS partition table. CONFIG_DOS_PARTITION MS Dos partition table, traditional on the Intel architecture, USB sticks, etc. CONFIG_ISO_PARTITION ISO partition table, used on CDROM etc. CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION GPT partition table, common when EFI is the bootloader. Note 2TB partition limit; see disk/part_efi.c CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS Memory Technology Device partition table.

    If IDE or SCSI support is enabled (CONFIG_CMD_IDE or
    CONFIG_CMD_SCSI) you must configure support for at
    least one non-MTD partition type as well.
  

• IDE Reset method: CONFIG_IDE_RESET_ROUTINE - this is defined in several board configurations files but used nowhere!

    CONFIG_IDE_RESET - is this is defined, IDE Reset will
    be performed by calling the function
    	ide_set_reset(int reset)
    which has to be defined in a board specific file
  

• ATAPI Support: CONFIG_ATAPI

    Set this to enable ATAPI support.
  

• LBA48 Support CONFIG_LBA48

    Set this to enable support for disks larger than 137GB
    Also look at CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA.
    Whithout these , LBA48 support uses 32bit variables and will 'only'
    support disks up to 2.1TB.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA:
    	When enabled, makes the IDE subsystem use 64bit sector addresses.
    	Default is 32bit.
  

• SCSI Support: At the moment only there is only support for the SYM53C8XX SCSI controller; define CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX to enable it.

    CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN [8], CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID [7] and
    CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_DEVICE [CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_SCSI_ID *
    CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_MAX_LUN] can be adjusted to define the
    maximum numbers of LUNs, SCSI ID's and target
    devices.
    CONFIG_SYS_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_CCF to fix clock timing (80Mhz)
  
    The environment variable 'scsidevs' is set to the number of
    SCSI devices found during the last scan.
  

• NETWORK Support (PCI): CONFIG_E1000 Support for Intel 8254x/8257x gigabit chips.

    CONFIG_E1000_SPI
    Utility code for direct access to the SPI bus on Intel 8257x.
    This does not do anything useful unless you set at least one
    of CONFIG_CMD_E1000 or CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC.
  
    CONFIG_E1000_SPI_GENERIC
    Allow generic access to the SPI bus on the Intel 8257x, for
    example with the "sspi" command.
  
    CONFIG_CMD_E1000
    Management command for E1000 devices.  When used on devices
    with SPI support you can reprogram the EEPROM from U-Boot.
  
    CONFIG_E1000_FALLBACK_MAC
    default MAC for empty EEPROM after production.
  
    CONFIG_EEPRO100
    Support for Intel 82557/82559/82559ER chips.
    Optional CONFIG_EEPRO100_SROM_WRITE enables EEPROM
    write routine for first time initialisation.
  
    CONFIG_TULIP
    Support for Digital 2114x chips.
    Optional CONFIG_TULIP_SELECT_MEDIA for board specific
    modem chip initialisation (KS8761/QS6611).
  
    CONFIG_NATSEMI
    Support for National dp83815 chips.
  
    CONFIG_NS8382X
    Support for National dp8382[01] gigabit chips.
  

• NETWORK Support (other):

    CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC
    Support for AT91RM9200 EMAC.
  
    	CONFIG_RMII
    	Define this to use reduced MII inteface
  
    	CONFIG_DRIVER_AT91EMAC_QUIET
    	If this defined, the driver is quiet.
    	The driver doen't show link status messages.
  
    CONFIG_CALXEDA_XGMAC
    Support for the Calxeda XGMAC device
  
    CONFIG_LAN91C96
    Support for SMSC's LAN91C96 chips.
  
    	CONFIG_LAN91C96_BASE
    	Define this to hold the physical address
    	of the LAN91C96's I/O space
  
    	CONFIG_LAN91C96_USE_32_BIT
    	Define this to enable 32 bit addressing
  
    CONFIG_SMC91111
    Support for SMSC's LAN91C111 chip
  
    	CONFIG_SMC91111_BASE
    	Define this to hold the physical address
    	of the device (I/O space)
  
    	CONFIG_SMC_USE_32_BIT
    	Define this if data bus is 32 bits
  
    	CONFIG_SMC_USE_IOFUNCS
    	Define this to use i/o functions instead of macros
    	(some hardware wont work with macros)
  
    CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
    Support for davinci emac
  
    	CONFIG_SYS_DAVINCI_EMAC_PHY_COUNT
    	Define this if you have more then 3 PHYs.
  
    CONFIG_FTGMAC100
    Support for Faraday's FTGMAC100 Gigabit SoC Ethernet
  
    	CONFIG_FTGMAC100_EGIGA
    	Define this to use GE link update with gigabit PHY.
    	Define this if FTGMAC100 is connected to gigabit PHY.
    	If your system has 10/100 PHY only, it might not occur
    	wrong behavior. Because PHY usually return timeout or
    	useless data when polling gigabit status and gigabit
    	control registers. This behavior won't affect the
    	correctnessof 10/100 link speed update.
  
    CONFIG_SMC911X
    Support for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x chips
  
    	CONFIG_SMC911X_BASE
    	Define this to hold the physical address
    	of the device (I/O space)
  
    	CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT
    	Define this if data bus is 32 bits
  
    	CONFIG_SMC911X_16_BIT
    	Define this if data bus is 16 bits. If your processor
    	automatically converts one 32 bit word to two 16 bit
    	words you may also try CONFIG_SMC911X_32_BIT.
  
    CONFIG_SH_ETHER
    Support for Renesas on-chip Ethernet controller
  
    	CONFIG_SH_ETHER_USE_PORT
    	Define the number of ports to be used
  
    	CONFIG_SH_ETHER_PHY_ADDR
    	Define the ETH PHY's address
  
    	CONFIG_SH_ETHER_CACHE_WRITEBACK
    	If this option is set, the driver enables cache flush.
  

• PWM Support: CONFIG_PWM_IMX Support for PWM modul on the imx6.

• TPM Support: CONFIG_TPM Support TPM devices.

    CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C
    Support for i2c bus TPM devices. Only one device
    per system is supported at this time.
  
    	CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BUS_NUMBER
    	Define the the i2c bus number for the TPM device
  
    	CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_SLAVE_ADDRESS
    	Define the TPM's address on the i2c bus
  
    	CONFIG_TPM_TIS_I2C_BURST_LIMITATION
    	Define the burst count bytes upper limit
  
    CONFIG_TPM_ATMEL_TWI
    Support for Atmel TWI TPM device. Requires I2C support.
  
    CONFIG_TPM_TIS_LPC
    Support for generic parallel port TPM devices. Only one device
    per system is supported at this time.
  
    	CONFIG_TPM_TIS_BASE_ADDRESS
    	Base address where the generic TPM device is mapped
    	to. Contemporary x86 systems usually map it at
    	0xfed40000.
  
    CONFIG_CMD_TPM
    Add tpm monitor functions.
    Requires CONFIG_TPM. If CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS is set, also
    provides monitor access to authorized functions.
  
    CONFIG_TPM
    Define this to enable the TPM support library which provides
    functional interfaces to some TPM commands.
    Requires support for a TPM device.
  
    CONFIG_TPM_AUTH_SESSIONS
    Define this to enable authorized functions in the TPM library.
    Requires CONFIG_TPM and CONFIG_SHA1.
  

• USB Support: At the moment only the UHCI host controller is supported (PIP405, MIP405, MPC5200); define CONFIG_USB_UHCI to enable it. define CONFIG_USB_KEYBOARD to enable the USB Keyboard and define CONFIG_USB_STORAGE to enable the USB storage devices. Note: Supported are USB Keyboards and USB Floppy drives (TEAC FD-05PUB). MPC5200 USB requires additional defines: CONFIG_USB_CLOCK for 528 MHz Clock: 0x0001bbbb CONFIG_PSC3_USB for USB on PSC3 CONFIG_USB_CONFIG for differential drivers: 0x00001000 for single ended drivers: 0x00005000 for differential drivers on PSC3: 0x00000100 for single ended drivers on PSC3: 0x00004100 CONFIG_SYS_USB_EVENT_POLL May be defined to allow interrupt polling instead of using asynchronous interrupts

    CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TXFIFO_THRESH enables setting of the
    txfilltuning field in the EHCI controller on reset.
  
    CONFIG_USB_DWC2_REG_ADDR the physical CPU address of the DWC2
    HW module registers.
  

• USB Device: Define the below if you wish to use the USB console. Once firmware is rebuilt from a serial console issue the command "setenv stdin usbtty; setenv stdout usbtty" and attach your USB cable. The Unix command "dmesg" should print it has found a new device. The environment variable usbtty can be set to gserial or cdc_acm to enable your device to appear to a USB host as a Linux gserial device or a Common Device Class Abstract Control Model serial device. If you select usbtty = gserial you should be able to enumerate a Linux host by # modprobe usbserial vendor=0xVendorID product=0xProductID else if using cdc_acm, simply setting the environment variable usbtty to be cdc_acm should suffice. The following might be defined in YourBoardName.h

    	CONFIG_USB_DEVICE
    	Define this to build a UDC device
  
    	CONFIG_USB_TTY
    	Define this to have a tty type of device available to
    	talk to the UDC device
  
    	CONFIG_USBD_HS
    	Define this to enable the high speed support for usb
    	device and usbtty. If this feature is enabled, a routine
    	int is_usbd_high_speed(void)
    	also needs to be defined by the driver to dynamically poll
    	whether the enumeration has succeded at high speed or full
    	speed.
  
    	CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV
    	Define this if you want stdin, stdout &/or stderr to
    	be set to usbtty.
  
    	mpc8xx:
    		CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0xBLAH
    		Derive USB clock from external clock "blah"
    		- CONFIG_SYS_USB_EXTC_CLK 0x02
  
    		CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0xBLAH
    		Derive USB clock from brgclk
    		- CONFIG_SYS_USB_BRG_CLK 0x04
  
    If you have a USB-IF assigned VendorID then you may wish to
    define your own vendor specific values either in BoardName.h
    or directly in usbd_vendor_info.h. If you don't define
    CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER, CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME,
    CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID and CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID, then U-Boot
    should pretend to be a Linux device to it's target host.
  
    	CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER
    	Define this string as the name of your company for
    	- CONFIG_USBD_MANUFACTURER "my company"
  
    	CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME
    	Define this string as the name of your product
    	- CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCT_NAME "acme usb device"
  
    	CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID
    	Define this as your assigned Vendor ID from the USB
    	Implementors Forum. This *must* be a genuine Vendor ID
    	to avoid polluting the USB namespace.
    	- CONFIG_USBD_VENDORID 0xFFFF
  
    	CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID
    	Define this as the unique Product ID
    	for your device
    	- CONFIG_USBD_PRODUCTID 0xFFFF
  

• ULPI Layer Support: The ULPI (UTMI Low Pin (count) Interface) PHYs are supported via the generic ULPI layer. The generic layer accesses the ULPI PHY via the platform viewport, so you need both the genric layer and the viewport enabled. Currently only Chipidea/ARC based viewport is supported. To enable the ULPI layer support, define CONFIG_USB_ULPI and CONFIG_USB_ULPI_VIEWPORT in your board configuration file. If your ULPI phy needs a different reference clock than the standard 24 MHz then you have to define CONFIG_ULPI_REF_CLK to the appropriate value in Hz.

• MMC Support: The MMC controller on the Intel PXA is supported. To enable this define CONFIG_MMC. The MMC can be accessed from the boot prompt by mapping the device to physical memory similar to flash. Command line is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_MMC. The MMC driver also works with the FAT fs. This is enabled with CONFIG_CMD_FAT.

    CONFIG_SH_MMCIF
    Support for Renesas on-chip MMCIF controller
  
    	CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_ADDR
    	Define the base address of MMCIF registers
  
    	CONFIG_SH_MMCIF_CLK
    	Define the clock frequency for MMCIF
  
    CONFIG_GENERIC_MMC
    Enable the generic MMC driver
  
    CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_BOOT
    Enable some additional features of the eMMC boot partitions.
  
    CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_RPMB
    Enable the commands for reading, writing and programming the
    key for the Replay Protection Memory Block partition in eMMC.
  

• USB Device Firmware Update (DFU) class support: CONFIG_DFU_FUNCTION This enables the USB portion of the DFU USB class

    CONFIG_CMD_DFU
    This enables the command "dfu" which is used to have
    U-Boot create a DFU class device via USB.  This command
    requires that the "dfu_alt_info" environment variable be
    set and define the alt settings to expose to the host.
  
    CONFIG_DFU_MMC
    This enables support for exposing (e)MMC devices via DFU.
  
    CONFIG_DFU_NAND
    This enables support for exposing NAND devices via DFU.
  
    CONFIG_DFU_RAM
    This enables support for exposing RAM via DFU.
    Note: DFU spec refer to non-volatile memory usage, but
    allow usages beyond the scope of spec - here RAM usage,
    one that would help mostly the developer.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_DFU_DATA_BUF_SIZE
    Dfu transfer uses a buffer before writing data to the
    raw storage device. Make the size (in bytes) of this buffer
    configurable. The size of this buffer is also configurable
    through the "dfu_bufsiz" environment variable.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_DFU_MAX_FILE_SIZE
    When updating files rather than the raw storage device,
    we use a static buffer to copy the file into and then write
    the buffer once we've been given the whole file.  Define
    this to the maximum filesize (in bytes) for the buffer.
    Default is 4 MiB if undefined.
  
    DFU_DEFAULT_POLL_TIMEOUT
    Poll timeout [ms], is the timeout a device can send to the
    host. The host must wait for this timeout before sending
    a subsequent DFU_GET_STATUS request to the device.
  
    DFU_MANIFEST_POLL_TIMEOUT
    Poll timeout [ms], which the device sends to the host when
    entering dfuMANIFEST state. Host waits this timeout, before
    sending again an USB request to the device.
  

• USB Device Android Fastboot support: CONFIG_CMD_FASTBOOT This enables the command "fastboot" which enables the Android fastboot mode for the platform's USB device. Fastboot is a USB protocol for downloading images, flashing and device control used on Android devices. See doc/README.android-fastboot for more information.

    CONFIG_ANDROID_BOOT_IMAGE
    This enables support for booting images which use the Android
    image format header.
  
    CONFIG_USB_FASTBOOT_BUF_ADDR
    The fastboot protocol requires a large memory buffer for
    downloads. Define this to the starting RAM address to use for
    downloaded images.
  
    CONFIG_USB_FASTBOOT_BUF_SIZE
    The fastboot protocol requires a large memory buffer for
    downloads. This buffer should be as large as possible for a
    platform. Define this to the size available RAM for fastboot.
  
    CONFIG_FASTBOOT_FLASH
    The fastboot protocol includes a "flash" command for writing
    the downloaded image to a non-volatile storage device. Define
    this to enable the "fastboot flash" command.
  
    CONFIG_FASTBOOT_FLASH_MMC_DEV
    The fastboot "flash" command requires additional information
    regarding the non-volatile storage device. Define this to
    the eMMC device that fastboot should use to store the image.
  
    CONFIG_FASTBOOT_GPT_NAME
    The fastboot "flash" command supports writing the downloaded
    image to the Protective MBR and the Primary GUID Partition
    Table. (Additionally, this downloaded image is post-processed
    to generate and write the Backup GUID Partition Table.)
    This occurs when the specified "partition name" on the
    "fastboot flash" command line matches this value.
    Default is GPT_ENTRY_NAME (currently "gpt") if undefined.
  

• Journaling Flash filesystem support: CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_OFF, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_SIZE, CONFIG_JFFS2_NAND_DEV Define these for a default partition on a NAND device

    CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_SECTOR,
    CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_FIRST_BANK, CONFIG_SYS_JFFS2_NUM_BANKS
    Define these for a default partition on a NOR device
  
    CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_CUSTOM_PART
    Define this to create an own partition. You have to provide a
    function struct part_info* jffs2_part_info(int part_num)
  
    If you define only one JFFS2 partition you may also want to
    #define CONFIG_SYS_JFFS_SINGLE_PART	1
    to disable the command chpart. This is the default when you
    have not defined a custom partition
  

• FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem write function support: CONFIG_FAT_WRITE

    Define this to enable support for saving memory data as a
    file in FAT formatted partition.
  
    This will also enable the command "fatwrite" enabling the
    user to write files to FAT.
  

CBFS (Coreboot Filesystem) support CONFIG_CMD_CBFS

	Define this to enable support for reading from a Coreboot
	filesystem. Available commands are cbfsinit, cbfsinfo, cbfsls
	and cbfsload.

• FAT(File Allocation Table) filesystem cluster size: CONFIG_FS_FAT_MAX_CLUSTSIZE

    Define the max cluster size for fat operations else
    a default value of 65536 will be defined.
  

• Keyboard Support: CONFIG_ISA_KEYBOARD

    Define this to enable standard (PC-Style) keyboard
    support
  
    CONFIG_I8042_KBD
    Standard PC keyboard driver with US (is default) and
    GERMAN key layout (switch via environment 'keymap=de') support.
    Export function i8042_kbd_init, i8042_tstc and i8042_getc
    for cfb_console. Supports cursor blinking.
  
    CONFIG_CROS_EC_KEYB
    Enables a Chrome OS keyboard using the CROS_EC interface.
    This uses CROS_EC to communicate with a second microcontroller
    which provides key scans on request.
  

• Video support: CONFIG_VIDEO

    Define this to enable video support (for output to
    video).
  
    CONFIG_VIDEO_CT69000
  
    Enable Chips & Technologies 69000 Video chip
  
    CONFIG_VIDEO_SMI_LYNXEM
    Enable Silicon Motion SMI 712/710/810 Video chip. The
    video output is selected via environment 'videoout'
    (1 = LCD and 2 = CRT). If videoout is undefined, CRT is
    assumed.
  
    For the CT69000 and SMI_LYNXEM drivers, videomode is
    selected via environment 'videomode'. Two different ways
    are possible:
    - "videomode=num"   'num' is a standard LiLo mode numbers.
    Following standard modes are supported	(* is default):
  
          Colors	640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024
    -------------+---------------------------------------------
          8 bits |	0x301*	0x303	 0x305	  0x161	    0x307
         15 bits |	0x310	0x313	 0x316	  0x162	    0x319
         16 bits |	0x311	0x314	 0x317	  0x163	    0x31A
         24 bits |	0x312	0x315	 0x318	    ?	    0x31B
    -------------+---------------------------------------------
    (i.e. setenv videomode 317; saveenv; reset;)
  
    - "videomode=bootargs" all the video parameters are parsed
    from the bootargs. (See drivers/video/videomodes.c)
  
  
    CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806
    Enable Epson SED13806 driver. This driver supports 8bpp
    and 16bpp modes defined by CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_8BPP
    or CONFIG_VIDEO_SED13806_16BPP
  
    CONFIG_FSL_DIU_FB
    Enable the Freescale DIU video driver.	Reference boards for
    SOCs that have a DIU should define this macro to enable DIU
    support, and should also define these other macros:
  
    	CONFIG_SYS_DIU_ADDR
    	CONFIG_VIDEO
    	CONFIG_CMD_BMP
    	CONFIG_CFB_CONSOLE
    	CONFIG_VIDEO_SW_CURSOR
    	CONFIG_VGA_AS_SINGLE_DEVICE
    	CONFIG_VIDEO_LOGO
    	CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_LOGO
  
    The DIU driver will look for the 'video-mode' environment
    variable, and if defined, enable the DIU as a console during
    boot.  See the documentation file README.video for a
    description of this variable.
  
    CONFIG_VIDEO_VGA
  
    Enable the VGA video / BIOS for x86. The alternative if you
    are using coreboot is to use the coreboot frame buffer
    driver.
  

• Keyboard Support: CONFIG_KEYBOARD

    Define this to enable a custom keyboard support.
    This simply calls drv_keyboard_init() which must be
    defined in your board-specific files.
    The only board using this so far is RBC823.
  

• LCD Support: CONFIG_LCD

    Define this to enable LCD support (for output to LCD
    display); also select one of the supported displays
    by defining one of these:
  
    CONFIG_ATMEL_LCD:
  
    	HITACHI TX09D70VM1CCA, 3.5", 240x320.
  
    CONFIG_NEC_NL6448AC33:
  
    	NEC NL6448AC33-18. Active, color, single scan.
  
    CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC20
  
    	NEC NL6448BC20-08. 6.5", 640x480.
    	Active, color, single scan.
  
    CONFIG_NEC_NL6448BC33_54
  
    	NEC NL6448BC33-54. 10.4", 640x480.
    	Active, color, single scan.
  
    CONFIG_SHARP_16x9
  
    	Sharp 320x240. Active, color, single scan.
    	It isn't 16x9, and I am not sure what it is.
  
    CONFIG_SHARP_LQ64D341
  
    	Sharp LQ64D341 display, 640x480.
    	Active, color, single scan.
  
    CONFIG_HLD1045
  
    	HLD1045 display, 640x480.
    	Active, color, single scan.
  
    CONFIG_OPTREX_BW
  
    	Optrex	 CBL50840-2 NF-FW 99 22 M5
    	or
    	Hitachi	 LMG6912RPFC-00T
    	or
    	Hitachi	 SP14Q002
  
    	320x240. Black & white.
  
    Normally display is black on white background; define
    CONFIG_SYS_WHITE_ON_BLACK to get it inverted.
  
    CONFIG_LCD_ALIGNMENT
  
    Normally the LCD is page-aligned (typically 4KB). If this is
    defined then the LCD will be aligned to this value instead.
    For ARM it is sometimes useful to use MMU_SECTION_SIZE
    here, since it is cheaper to change data cache settings on
    a per-section basis.
  
    CONFIG_CONSOLE_SCROLL_LINES
  
    When the console need to be scrolled, this is the number of
    lines to scroll by. It defaults to 1. Increasing this makes
    the console jump but can help speed up operation when scrolling
    is slow.
  
    CONFIG_LCD_BMP_RLE8
  
    Support drawing of RLE8-compressed bitmaps on the LCD.
  
    CONFIG_I2C_EDID
  
    Enables an 'i2c edid' command which can read EDID
    information over I2C from an attached LCD display.
  

• Splash Screen Support: CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN

    If this option is set, the environment is checked for
    a variable "splashimage". If found, the usual display
    of logo, copyright and system information on the LCD
    is suppressed and the BMP image at the address
    specified in "splashimage" is loaded instead. The
    console is redirected to the "nulldev", too. This
    allows for a "silent" boot where a splash screen is
    loaded very quickly after power-on.
  
    CONFIG_SPLASHIMAGE_GUARD
  
    If this option is set, then U-Boot will prevent the environment
    variable "splashimage" from being set to a problematic address
    (see README.displaying-bmps).
    This option is useful for targets where, due to alignment
    restrictions, an improperly aligned BMP image will cause a data
    abort. If you think you will not have problems with unaligned
    accesses (for example because your toolchain prevents them)
    there is no need to set this option.
  
    CONFIG_SPLASH_SCREEN_ALIGN
  
    If this option is set the splash image can be freely positioned
    on the screen. Environment variable "splashpos" specifies the
    position as "x,y". If a positive number is given it is used as
    number of pixel from left/top. If a negative number is given it
    is used as number of pixel from right/bottom. You can also
    specify 'm' for centering the image.
  
    Example:
    setenv splashpos m,m
    	=> image at center of screen
  
    setenv splashpos 30,20
    	=> image at x = 30 and y = 20
  
    setenv splashpos -10,m
    	=> vertically centered image
    	   at x = dspWidth - bmpWidth - 9
  

• Gzip compressed BMP image support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_GZIP

    If this option is set, additionally to standard BMP
    images, gzipped BMP images can be displayed via the
    splashscreen support or the bmp command.
  

• Run length encoded BMP image (RLE8) support: CONFIG_VIDEO_BMP_RLE8

    If this option is set, 8-bit RLE compressed BMP images
    can be displayed via the splashscreen support or the
    bmp command.
  

• Do compressing for memory range: CONFIG_CMD_ZIP

    If this option is set, it would use zlib deflate method
    to compress the specified memory at its best effort.
  

• Compression support: CONFIG_GZIP

    Enabled by default to support gzip compressed images.
  
    CONFIG_BZIP2
  
    If this option is set, support for bzip2 compressed
    images is included. If not, only uncompressed and gzip
    compressed images are supported.
  
    NOTE: the bzip2 algorithm requires a lot of RAM, so
    the malloc area (as defined by CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN) should
    be at least 4MB.
  
    CONFIG_LZMA
  
    If this option is set, support for lzma compressed
    images is included.
  
    Note: The LZMA algorithm adds between 2 and 4KB of code and it
    requires an amount of dynamic memory that is given by the
    formula:
  
    	(1846 + 768 << (lc + lp)) * sizeof(uint16)
  
    Where lc and lp stand for, respectively, Literal context bits
    and Literal pos bits.
  
    This value is upper-bounded by 14MB in the worst case. Anyway,
    for a ~4MB large kernel image, we have lc=3 and lp=0 for a
    total amount of (1846 + 768 << (3 + 0)) * 2 = ~41KB... that is
    a very small buffer.
  
    Use the lzmainfo tool to determinate the lc and lp values and
    then calculate the amount of needed dynamic memory (ensuring
    the appropriate CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN value).
  
    CONFIG_LZO
  
    If this option is set, support for LZO compressed images
    is included.
  

• MII/PHY support: CONFIG_PHY_ADDR

    The address of PHY on MII bus.
  
    CONFIG_PHY_CLOCK_FREQ (ppc4xx)
  
    The clock frequency of the MII bus
  
    CONFIG_PHY_GIGE
  
    If this option is set, support for speed/duplex
    detection of gigabit PHY is included.
  
    CONFIG_PHY_RESET_DELAY
  
    Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
    reset before any MII register access is possible.
    For such PHY, set this option to the usec delay
    required. (minimum 300usec for LXT971A)
  
    CONFIG_PHY_CMD_DELAY (ppc4xx)
  
    Some PHY like Intel LXT971A need extra delay after
    command issued before MII status register can be read
  

• Ethernet address: CONFIG_ETHADDR CONFIG_ETH1ADDR CONFIG_ETH2ADDR CONFIG_ETH3ADDR CONFIG_ETH4ADDR CONFIG_ETH5ADDR

    Define a default value for Ethernet address to use
    for the respective Ethernet interface, in case this
    is not determined automatically.
  

• IP address: CONFIG_IPADDR

    Define a default value for the IP address to use for
    the default Ethernet interface, in case this is not
    determined through e.g. bootp.
    (Environment variable "ipaddr")
  

• Server IP address: CONFIG_SERVERIP

    Defines a default value for the IP address of a TFTP
    server to contact when using the "tftboot" command.
    (Environment variable "serverip")
  
    CONFIG_KEEP_SERVERADDR
  
    Keeps the server's MAC address, in the env 'serveraddr'
    for passing to bootargs (like Linux's netconsole option)
  

• Gateway IP address: CONFIG_GATEWAYIP

    Defines a default value for the IP address of the
    default router where packets to other networks are
    sent to.
    (Environment variable "gatewayip")
  

• Subnet mask: CONFIG_NETMASK

    Defines a default value for the subnet mask (or
    routing prefix) which is used to determine if an IP
    address belongs to the local subnet or needs to be
    forwarded through a router.
    (Environment variable "netmask")
  

• Multicast TFTP Mode: CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP

    Defines whether you want to support multicast TFTP as per
    rfc-2090; for example to work with atftp.  Lets lots of targets
    tftp down the same boot image concurrently.  Note: the Ethernet
    driver in use must provide a function: mcast() to join/leave a
    multicast group.
  

• BOOTP Recovery Mode: CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY

    If you have many targets in a network that try to
    boot using BOOTP, you may want to avoid that all
    systems send out BOOTP requests at precisely the same
    moment (which would happen for instance at recovery
    from a power failure, when all systems will try to
    boot, thus flooding the BOOTP server. Defining
    CONFIG_BOOTP_RANDOM_DELAY causes a random delay to be
    inserted before sending out BOOTP requests. The
    following delays are inserted then:
  
    1st BOOTP request:	delay 0 ... 1 sec
    2nd BOOTP request:	delay 0 ... 2 sec
    3rd BOOTP request:	delay 0 ... 4 sec
    4th and following
    BOOTP requests:		delay 0 ... 8 sec
  
    CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE
  
    BOOTP packets are uniquely identified using a 32-bit ID. The
    server will copy the ID from client requests to responses and
    U-Boot will use this to determine if it is the destination of
    an incoming response. Some servers will check that addresses
    aren't in use before handing them out (usually using an ARP
    ping) and therefore take up to a few hundred milliseconds to
    respond. Network congestion may also influence the time it
    takes for a response to make it back to the client. If that
    time is too long, U-Boot will retransmit requests. In order
    to allow earlier responses to still be accepted after these
    retransmissions, U-Boot's BOOTP client keeps a small cache of
    IDs. The CONFIG_BOOTP_ID_CACHE_SIZE controls the size of this
    cache. The default is to keep IDs for up to four outstanding
    requests. Increasing this will allow U-Boot to accept offers
    from a BOOTP client in networks with unusually high latency.
  

• DHCP Advanced Options: You can fine tune the DHCP functionality by defining CONFIG_BOOTP_* symbols:

    CONFIG_BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
    CONFIG_BOOTP_GATEWAY
    CONFIG_BOOTP_HOSTNAME
    CONFIG_BOOTP_NISDOMAIN
    CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTPATH
    CONFIG_BOOTP_BOOTFILESIZE
    CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
    CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2
    CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
    CONFIG_BOOTP_NTPSERVER
    CONFIG_BOOTP_TIMEOFFSET
    CONFIG_BOOTP_VENDOREX
    CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL
  
    CONFIG_BOOTP_SERVERIP - TFTP server will be the serverip
    environment variable, not the BOOTP server.
  
    CONFIG_BOOTP_MAY_FAIL - If the DHCP server is not found
    after the configured retry count, the call will fail
    instead of starting over.  This can be used to fail over
    to Link-local IP address configuration if the DHCP server
    is not available.
  
    CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 - If a DHCP client requests the DNS
    serverip from a DHCP server, it is possible that more
    than one DNS serverip is offered to the client.
    If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
    serverip will be stored in the additional environment
    variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
    stored in the variable "dnsip", when CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
    is defined.
  
    CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME - Some DHCP servers are capable
    to do a dynamic update of a DNS server. To do this, they
    need the hostname of the DHCP requester.
    If CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME is defined, the content
    of the "hostname" environment variable is passed as
    option 12 to the DHCP server.
  
    CONFIG_BOOTP_DHCP_REQUEST_DELAY
  
    A 32bit value in microseconds for a delay between
    receiving a "DHCP Offer" and sending the "DHCP Request".
    This fixes a problem with certain DHCP servers that don't
    respond 100% of the time to a "DHCP request". E.g. On an
    AT91RM9200 processor running at 180MHz, this delay needed
    to be *at least* 15,000 usec before a Windows Server 2003
    DHCP server would reply 100% of the time. I recommend at
    least 50,000 usec to be safe. The alternative is to hope
    that one of the retries will be successful but note that
    the DHCP timeout and retry process takes a longer than
    this delay.
  

• Link-local IP address negotiation: Negotiate with other link-local clients on the local network for an address that doesn't require explicit configuration. This is especially useful if a DHCP server cannot be guaranteed to exist in all environments that the device must operate.

   See doc/README.link-local for more information.
  

• CDP Options: CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID

   The device id used in CDP trigger frames.
  
   CONFIG_CDP_DEVICE_ID_PREFIX
  
   A two character string which is prefixed to the MAC address
   of the device.
  
   CONFIG_CDP_PORT_ID
  
   A printf format string which contains the ascii name of
   the port. Normally is set to "eth%d" which sets
   eth0 for the first Ethernet, eth1 for the second etc.
  
   CONFIG_CDP_CAPABILITIES
  
   A 32bit integer which indicates the device capabilities;
   0x00000010 for a normal host which does not forwards.
  
   CONFIG_CDP_VERSION
  
   An ascii string containing the version of the software.
  
   CONFIG_CDP_PLATFORM
  
   An ascii string containing the name of the platform.
  
   CONFIG_CDP_TRIGGER
  
   A 32bit integer sent on the trigger.
  
   CONFIG_CDP_POWER_CONSUMPTION
  
   A 16bit integer containing the power consumption of the
   device in .1 of milliwatts.
  
   CONFIG_CDP_APPLIANCE_VLAN_TYPE
  
   A byte containing the id of the VLAN.
  

• Status LED: CONFIG_STATUS_LED

    Several configurations allow to display the current
    status using a LED. For instance, the LED will blink
    fast while running U-Boot code, stop blinking as
    soon as a reply to a BOOTP request was received, and
    start blinking slow once the Linux kernel is running
    (supported by a status LED driver in the Linux
    kernel). Defining CONFIG_STATUS_LED enables this
    feature in U-Boot.
  
    Additional options:
  
    CONFIG_GPIO_LED
    The status LED can be connected to a GPIO pin.
    In such cases, the gpio_led driver can be used as a
    status LED backend implementation. Define CONFIG_GPIO_LED
    to include the gpio_led driver in the U-Boot binary.
  
    CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE
    Some GPIO connected LEDs may have inverted polarity in which
    case the GPIO high value corresponds to LED off state and
    GPIO low value corresponds to LED on state.
    In such cases CONFIG_GPIO_LED_INVERTED_TABLE may be defined
    with a list of GPIO LEDs that have inverted polarity.
  

• CAN Support: CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER

    Defining CONFIG_CAN_DRIVER enables CAN driver support
    on those systems that support this (optional)
    feature, like the TQM8xxL modules.
  

• I2C Support: CONFIG_SYS_I2C

    This enable the NEW i2c subsystem, and will allow you to use
    i2c commands at the u-boot command line (as long as you set
    CONFIG_CMD_I2C in CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c
    based realtime clock chips or other i2c devices. See
    common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the command line
    interface.
  
    ported i2c driver to the new framework:
    - drivers/i2c/soft_i2c.c:
      - activate first bus with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT define
        CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE
        for defining speed and slave address
      - activate second bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS2 define
        CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_2 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_2
        for defining speed and slave address
      - activate third bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS3 define
        CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_3 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_3
        for defining speed and slave address
      - activate fourth bus with I2C_SOFT_DECLARATIONS4 define
        CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SPEED_4 and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT_SLAVE_4
        for defining speed and slave address
  
    - drivers/i2c/fsl_i2c.c:
      - activate i2c driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_FSL
        define CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_OFFSET for setting the register
        offset CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SPEED for the i2c speed and
        CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C_SLAVE for the slave addr of the first
        bus.
      - If your board supports a second fsl i2c bus, define
        CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_OFFSET for the register offset
        CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SPEED for the speed and
        CONFIG_SYS_FSL_I2C2_SLAVE for the slave address of the
        second bus.
  
    - drivers/i2c/tegra_i2c.c:
      - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_TEGRA
      - This driver adds 4 i2c buses with a fix speed from
        100000 and the slave addr 0!
  
    - drivers/i2c/ppc4xx_i2c.c
      - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_PPC4XX_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
  
    - drivers/i2c/i2c_mxc.c
      - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MXC
      - define speed for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SPEED
      - define slave for bus 1 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C1_SLAVE
      - define speed for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SPEED
      - define slave for bus 2 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C2_SLAVE
      - define speed for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SPEED
      - define slave for bus 3 with CONFIG_SYS_MXC_I2C3_SLAVE
    If those defines are not set, default value is 100000
    for speed, and 0 for slave.
  
    - drivers/i2c/rcar_i2c.c:
      - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RCAR
      - This driver adds 4 i2c buses
  
      - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_BASE for setting the register channel 0
      - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C0_SPEED for for the speed channel 0
      - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_BASE for setting the register channel 1
      - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C1_SPEED for for the speed channel 1
      - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_BASE for setting the register channel 2
      - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C2_SPEED for for the speed channel 2
      - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_BASE for setting the register channel 3
      - CONFIG_SYS_RCAR_I2C3_SPEED for for the speed channel 3
      - CONFIF_SYS_RCAR_I2C_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
  
    - drivers/i2c/sh_i2c.c:
      - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH
      - This driver adds from 2 to 5 i2c buses
  
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE0 for setting the register channel 0
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED0 for for the speed channel 0
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE1 for setting the register channel 1
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED1 for for the speed channel 1
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE2 for setting the register channel 2
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED2 for for the speed channel 2
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE3 for setting the register channel 3
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED3 for for the speed channel 3
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE4 for setting the register channel 4
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED4 for for the speed channel 4
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_BASE5 for setting the register channel 5
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_SPEED5 for for the speed channel 5
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SH_NUM_CONTROLLERS for number of i2c buses
  
    - drivers/i2c/omap24xx_i2c.c
      - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_OMAP24XX
      - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED speed channel 0
      - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE slave addr channel 0
      - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED1 speed channel 1
      - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE1 slave addr channel 1
      - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED2 speed channel 2
      - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE2 slave addr channel 2
      - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED3 speed channel 3
      - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE3 slave addr channel 3
      - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SPEED4 speed channel 4
      - CONFIG_SYS_OMAP24_I2C_SLAVE4 slave addr channel 4
  
    - drivers/i2c/zynq_i2c.c
      - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ
      - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SPEED for speed setting
      - set CONFIG_SYS_I2C_ZYNQ_SLAVE for slave addr
  
    - drivers/i2c/s3c24x0_i2c.c:
      - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_S3C24X0
      - This driver adds i2c buses (11 for Exynos5250, Exynos5420
        9 i2c buses for Exynos4 and 1 for S3C24X0 SoCs from Samsung)
        with a fix speed from 100000 and the slave addr 0!
  
    - drivers/i2c/ihs_i2c.c
      - activate this driver with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH0 activate hardware channel 0
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_0 speed channel 0
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_0 slave addr channel 0
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH1 activate hardware channel 1
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_1 speed channel 1
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_1 slave addr channel 1
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH2 activate hardware channel 2
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_2 speed channel 2
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_2 slave addr channel 2
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_CH3 activate hardware channel 3
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SPEED_3 speed channel 3
      - CONFIG_SYS_I2C_IHS_SLAVE_3 slave addr channel 3
  
    additional defines:
  
    CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES
    Hold the number of i2c buses you want to use. If you
    don't use/have i2c muxes on your i2c bus, this
    is equal to CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_ADAPTERS, and you can
    omit this define.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS
    define this, if you don't use i2c muxes on your hardware.
    if CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS is not defined or == 0 you can
    omit this define.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS
    define how many muxes are maximal consecutively connected
    on one i2c bus. If you not use i2c muxes, omit this
    define.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES
    hold a list of buses you want to use, only used if
    CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DIRECT_BUS is not defined, for example
    a board with CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MAX_HOPS = 1 and
    CONFIG_SYS_NUM_I2C_BUSES = 9:
  
     CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BUSES	{{0, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
    			{0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 1}}}, \
    			{0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 2}}}, \
    			{0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 3}}}, \
    			{0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 4}}}, \
    			{0, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9547, 0x70, 5}}}, \
    			{1, {I2C_NULL_HOP}}, \
    			{1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 1}}}, \
    			{1, {{I2C_MUX_PCA9544, 0x72, 2}}}, \
    			}
  
    which defines
    	bus 0 on adapter 0 without a mux
    	bus 1 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 1
    	bus 2 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 2
    	bus 3 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 3
    	bus 4 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 4
    	bus 5 on adapter 0 with a PCA9547 on address 0x70 port 5
    	bus 6 on adapter 1 without a mux
    	bus 7 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 1
    	bus 8 on adapter 1 with a PCA9544 on address 0x72 port 2
  
    If you do not have i2c muxes on your board, omit this define.
  

• Legacy I2C Support: CONFIG_HARD_I2C

    NOTE: It is intended to move drivers to CONFIG_SYS_I2C which
    provides the following compelling advantages:
  
    - more than one i2c adapter is usable
    - approved multibus support
    - better i2c mux support
  
    ** Please consider updating your I2C driver now. **
  
    These enable legacy I2C serial bus commands. Defining
    CONFIG_HARD_I2C will include the appropriate I2C driver
    for the selected CPU.
  
    This will allow you to use i2c commands at the u-boot
    command line (as long as you set CONFIG_CMD_I2C in
    CONFIG_COMMANDS) and communicate with i2c based realtime
    clock chips. See common/cmd_i2c.c for a description of the
    command line interface.
  
    CONFIG_HARD_I2C selects a hardware I2C controller.
  
    There are several other quantities that must also be
    defined when you define CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
  
    In both cases you will need to define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED
    to be the frequency (in Hz) at which you wish your i2c bus
    to run and CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to be the address of this node (ie
    the CPU's i2c node address).
  
    Now, the u-boot i2c code for the mpc8xx
    (arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/i2c.c) sets the CPU up as a master node
    and so its address should therefore be cleared to 0 (See,
    eg, MPC823e User's Manual p.16-473). So, set
    CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE to 0.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_MPC5XXX
  
    When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
    chips might think that the current transfer is still
    in progress.  Reset the slave devices by sending start
    commands until the slave device responds.
  
    That's all that's required for CONFIG_HARD_I2C.
  
    If you use the software i2c interface (CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SOFT)
    then the following macros need to be defined (examples are
    from include/configs/lwmon.h):
  
    I2C_INIT
  
    (Optional). Any commands necessary to enable the I2C
    controller or configure ports.
  
    eg: #define I2C_INIT (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |=	PB_SCL)
  
    I2C_PORT
  
    (Only for MPC8260 CPU). The I/O port to use (the code
    assumes both bits are on the same port). Valid values
    are 0..3 for ports A..D.
  
    I2C_ACTIVE
  
    The code necessary to make the I2C data line active
    (driven).  If the data line is open collector, this
    define can be null.
  
    eg: #define I2C_ACTIVE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir |=  PB_SDA)
  
    I2C_TRISTATE
  
    The code necessary to make the I2C data line tri-stated
    (inactive).  If the data line is open collector, this
    define can be null.
  
    eg: #define I2C_TRISTATE (immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdir &= ~PB_SDA)
  
    I2C_READ
  
    Code that returns true if the I2C data line is high,
    false if it is low.
  
    eg: #define I2C_READ ((immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat & PB_SDA) != 0)
  
    I2C_SDA(bit)
  
    If <bit> is true, sets the I2C data line high. If it
    is false, it clears it (low).
  
    eg: #define I2C_SDA(bit) \
    	if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |=  PB_SDA; \
    	else	immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SDA
  
    I2C_SCL(bit)
  
    If <bit> is true, sets the I2C clock line high. If it
    is false, it clears it (low).
  
    eg: #define I2C_SCL(bit) \
    	if(bit) immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat |=  PB_SCL; \
    	else	immr->im_cpm.cp_pbdat &= ~PB_SCL
  
    I2C_DELAY
  
    This delay is invoked four times per clock cycle so this
    controls the rate of data transfer.  The data rate thus
    is 1 / (I2C_DELAY * 4). Often defined to be something
    like:
  
    #define I2C_DELAY  udelay(2)
  
    CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SCL / CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_GPIO_SDA
  
    If your arch supports the generic GPIO framework (asm/gpio.h),
    then you may alternatively define the two GPIOs that are to be
    used as SCL / SDA.  Any of the previous I2C_xxx macros will
    have GPIO-based defaults assigned to them as appropriate.
  
    You should define these to the GPIO value as given directly to
    the generic GPIO functions.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD
  
    When a board is reset during an i2c bus transfer
    chips might think that the current transfer is still
    in progress. On some boards it is possible to access
    the i2c SCLK line directly, either by using the
    processor pin as a GPIO or by having a second pin
    connected to the bus. If this option is defined a
    custom i2c_init_board() routine in boards/xxx/board.c
    is run early in the boot sequence.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_I2C_BOARD_LATE_INIT
  
    An alternative to CONFIG_SYS_I2C_INIT_BOARD. If this option is
    defined a custom i2c_board_late_init() routine in
    boards/xxx/board.c is run AFTER the operations in i2c_init()
    is completed. This callpoint can be used to unreset i2c bus
    using CPU i2c controller register accesses for CPUs whose i2c
    controller provide such a method. It is called at the end of
    i2c_init() to allow i2c_init operations to setup the i2c bus
    controller on the CPU (e.g. setting bus speed & slave address).
  
    CONFIG_I2CFAST (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only)
  
    This option enables configuration of bi_iic_fast[] flags
    in u-boot bd_info structure based on u-boot environment
    variable "i2cfast". (see also i2cfast)
  
    CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
  
    This option allows the use of multiple I2C buses, each of which
    must have a controller.	 At any point in time, only one bus is
    active.	 To switch to a different bus, use the 'i2c dev' command.
    Note that bus numbering is zero-based.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES
  
    This option specifies a list of I2C devices that will be skipped
    when the 'i2c probe' command is issued.	 If CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
    is set, specify a list of bus-device pairs.  Otherwise, specify
    a 1D array of device addresses
  
    e.g.
    	#undef	CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
    	#define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_NOPROBES {0x50,0x68}
  
    will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on a board with one I2C bus
  
    	#define CONFIG_I2C_MULTI_BUS
    	#define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MULTI_NOPROBES	{{0,0x50},{0,0x68},{1,0x54}}
  
    will skip addresses 0x50 and 0x68 on bus 0 and address 0x54 on bus 1
  
    CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM
  
    If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for DDR SPD.
    If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that SPD is on I2C bus 0.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_RTC_BUS_NUM
  
    If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the RTC.
    If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that RTC is on I2C bus 0.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_DTT_BUS_NUM
  
    If defined, then this indicates the I2C bus number for the DTT.
    If not defined, then U-Boot assumes that DTT is on I2C bus 0.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DTT_ADDR:
  
    If defined, specifies the I2C address of the DTT device.
    If not defined, then U-Boot uses predefined value for
    specified DTT device.
  
    CONFIG_SOFT_I2C_READ_REPEATED_START
  
    defining this will force the i2c_read() function in
    the soft_i2c driver to perform an I2C repeated start
    between writing the address pointer and reading the
    data.  If this define is omitted the default behaviour
    of doing a stop-start sequence will be used.  Most I2C
    devices can use either method, but some require one or
    the other.
  

• SPI Support: CONFIG_SPI

    Enables SPI driver (so far only tested with
    SPI EEPROM, also an instance works with Crystal A/D and
    D/As on the SACSng board)
  
    CONFIG_SH_SPI
  
    Enables the driver for SPI controller on SuperH. Currently
    only SH7757 is supported.
  
    CONFIG_SPI_X
  
    Enables extended (16-bit) SPI EEPROM addressing.
    (symmetrical to CONFIG_I2C_X)
  
    CONFIG_SOFT_SPI
  
    Enables a software (bit-bang) SPI driver rather than
    using hardware support. This is a general purpose
    driver that only requires three general I/O port pins
    (two outputs, one input) to function. If this is
    defined, the board configuration must define several
    SPI configuration items (port pins to use, etc). For
    an example, see include/configs/sacsng.h.
  
    CONFIG_HARD_SPI
  
    Enables a hardware SPI driver for general-purpose reads
    and writes.  As with CONFIG_SOFT_SPI, the board configuration
    must define a list of chip-select function pointers.
    Currently supported on some MPC8xxx processors.	 For an
    example, see include/configs/mpc8349emds.h.
  
    CONFIG_MXC_SPI
  
    Enables the driver for the SPI controllers on i.MX and MXC
    SoCs. Currently i.MX31/35/51 are supported.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_SPI_MXC_WAIT
    Timeout for waiting until spi transfer completed.
    default: (CONFIG_SYS_HZ/100)     /* 10 ms */
  

• FPGA Support: CONFIG_FPGA

    Enables FPGA subsystem.
  
    CONFIG_FPGA_<vendor>
  
    Enables support for specific chip vendors.
    (ALTERA, XILINX)
  
    CONFIG_FPGA_<family>
  
    Enables support for FPGA family.
    (SPARTAN2, SPARTAN3, VIRTEX2, CYCLONE2, ACEX1K, ACEX)
  
    CONFIG_FPGA_COUNT
  
    Specify the number of FPGA devices to support.
  
    CONFIG_CMD_FPGA_LOADMK
  
    Enable support for fpga loadmk command
  
    CONFIG_CMD_FPGA_LOADP
  
    Enable support for fpga loadp command - load partial bitstream
  
    CONFIG_CMD_FPGA_LOADBP
  
    Enable support for fpga loadbp command - load partial bitstream
    (Xilinx only)
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_PROG_FEEDBACK
  
    Enable printing of hash marks during FPGA configuration.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_BUSY
  
    Enable checks on FPGA configuration interface busy
    status by the configuration function. This option
    will require a board or device specific function to
    be written.
  
    CONFIG_FPGA_DELAY
  
    If defined, a function that provides delays in the FPGA
    configuration driver.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_CTRLC
    Allow Control-C to interrupt FPGA configuration
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_CHECK_ERROR
  
    Check for configuration errors during FPGA bitfile
    loading. For example, abort during Virtex II
    configuration if the INIT_B line goes low (which
    indicated a CRC error).
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_INIT
  
    Maximum time to wait for the INIT_B line to de-assert
    after PROB_B has been de-asserted during a Virtex II
    FPGA configuration sequence. The default time is 500
    ms.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_BUSY
  
    Maximum time to wait for BUSY to de-assert during
    Virtex II FPGA configuration. The default is 5 ms.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_FPGA_WAIT_CONFIG
  
    Time to wait after FPGA configuration. The default is
    200 ms.
  

• Configuration Management: CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET

    Some SoCs need special image types (e.g. U-Boot binary
    with a special header) as build targets. By defining
    CONFIG_BUILD_TARGET in the SoC / board header, this
    special image will be automatically built upon calling
    make / MAKEALL.
  
    CONFIG_IDENT_STRING
  
    If defined, this string will be added to the U-Boot
    version information (U_BOOT_VERSION)
  

• Vendor Parameter Protection:

    U-Boot considers the values of the environment
    variables "serial#" (Board Serial Number) and
    "ethaddr" (Ethernet Address) to be parameters that
    are set once by the board vendor / manufacturer, and
    protects these variables from casual modification by
    the user. Once set, these variables are read-only,
    and write or delete attempts are rejected. You can
    change this behaviour:
  
    If CONFIG_ENV_OVERWRITE is #defined in your config
    file, the write protection for vendor parameters is
    completely disabled. Anybody can change or delete
    these parameters.
  
    Alternatively, if you #define _both_ CONFIG_ETHADDR
    _and_ CONFIG_OVERWRITE_ETHADDR_ONCE, a default
    Ethernet address is installed in the environment,
    which can be changed exactly ONCE by the user. [The
    serial# is unaffected by this, i. e. it remains
    read-only.]
  
    The same can be accomplished in a more flexible way
    for any variable by configuring the type of access
    to allow for those variables in the ".flags" variable
    or define CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC.
  

• Protected RAM: CONFIG_PRAM

    Define this variable to enable the reservation of
    "protected RAM", i. e. RAM which is not overwritten
    by U-Boot. Define CONFIG_PRAM to hold the number of
    kB you want to reserve for pRAM. You can overwrite
    this default value by defining an environment
    variable "pram" to the number of kB you want to
    reserve. Note that the board info structure will
    still show the full amount of RAM. If pRAM is
    reserved, a new environment variable "mem" will
    automatically be defined to hold the amount of
    remaining RAM in a form that can be passed as boot
    argument to Linux, for instance like that:
  
    	setenv bootargs ... mem=\${mem}
    	saveenv
  
    This way you can tell Linux not to use this memory,
    either, which results in a memory region that will
    not be affected by reboots.
  
    *WARNING* If your board configuration uses automatic
    detection of the RAM size, you must make sure that
    this memory test is non-destructive. So far, the
    following board configurations are known to be
    "pRAM-clean":
  
    	IVMS8, IVML24, SPD8xx, TQM8xxL,
    	HERMES, IP860, RPXlite, LWMON,
    	FLAGADM, TQM8260
  

• Access to physical memory region (> 4GB) Some basic support is provided for operations on memory not normally accessible to U-Boot - e.g. some architectures support access to more than 4GB of memory on 32-bit machines using physical address extension or similar. Define CONFIG_PHYSMEM to access this basic support, which currently only supports clearing the memory.

• Error Recovery: CONFIG_PANIC_HANG

    Define this variable to stop the system in case of a
    fatal error, so that you have to reset it manually.
    This is probably NOT a good idea for an embedded
    system where you want the system to reboot
    automatically as fast as possible, but it may be
    useful during development since you can try to debug
    the conditions that lead to the situation.
  
    CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT
  
    This variable defines the number of retries for
    network operations like ARP, RARP, TFTP, or BOOTP
    before giving up the operation. If not defined, a
    default value of 5 is used.
  
    CONFIG_ARP_TIMEOUT
  
    Timeout waiting for an ARP reply in milliseconds.
  
    CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT
  
    Timeout in milliseconds used in NFS protocol.
    If you encounter "ERROR: Cannot umount" in nfs command,
    try longer timeout such as
    #define CONFIG_NFS_TIMEOUT 10000UL
  

• Command Interpreter: CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE

    Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT_HUSH_PS2
  
    This defines the secondary prompt string, which is
    printed when the command interpreter needs more input
    to complete a command. Usually "> ".
  

  Note:

    In the current implementation, the local variables
    space and global environment variables space are
    separated. Local variables are those you define by
    simply typing `name=value'. To access a local
    variable later on, you have write `$name' or
    `${name}'; to execute the contents of a variable
    directly type `$name' at the command prompt.
  
    Global environment variables are those you use
    setenv/printenv to work with. To run a command stored
    in such a variable, you need to use the run command,
    and you must not use the '$' sign to access them.
  
    To store commands and special characters in a
    variable, please use double quotation marks
    surrounding the whole text of the variable, instead
    of the backslashes before semicolons and special
    symbols.
  

• Command Line Editing and History: CONFIG_CMDLINE_EDITING

    Enable editing and History functions for interactive
    command line input operations
  

• Default Environment: CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS

    Define this to contain any number of null terminated
    strings (variable = value pairs) that will be part of
    the default environment compiled into the boot image.
  
    For example, place something like this in your
    board's config file:
  
    #define CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS \
    	"myvar1=value1\0" \
    	"myvar2=value2\0"
  
    Warning: This method is based on knowledge about the
    internal format how the environment is stored by the
    U-Boot code. This is NOT an official, exported
    interface! Although it is unlikely that this format
    will change soon, there is no guarantee either.
    You better know what you are doing here.
  
    Note: overly (ab)use of the default environment is
    discouraged. Make sure to check other ways to preset
    the environment like the "source" command or the
    boot command first.
  
    CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_CONFIG
  
    Define this in order to add variables describing the
    U-Boot build configuration to the default environment.
    These will be named arch, cpu, board, vendor, and soc.
  
    Enabling this option will cause the following to be defined:
  
    - CONFIG_SYS_ARCH
    - CONFIG_SYS_CPU
    - CONFIG_SYS_BOARD
    - CONFIG_SYS_VENDOR
    - CONFIG_SYS_SOC
  
    CONFIG_ENV_VARS_UBOOT_RUNTIME_CONFIG
  
    Define this in order to add variables describing certain
    run-time determined information about the hardware to the
    environment.  These will be named board_name, board_rev.
  
    CONFIG_DELAY_ENVIRONMENT
  
    Normally the environment is loaded when the board is
    initialised so that it is available to U-Boot. This inhibits
    that so that the environment is not available until
    explicitly loaded later by U-Boot code. With CONFIG_OF_CONTROL
    this is instead controlled by the value of
    /config/load-environment.
  

• DataFlash Support: CONFIG_HAS_DATAFLASH

    Defining this option enables DataFlash features and
    allows to read/write in Dataflash via the standard
    commands cp, md...
  

• Serial Flash support CONFIG_CMD_SF

    Defining this option enables SPI flash commands
    'sf probe/read/write/erase/update'.
  
    Usage requires an initial 'probe' to define the serial
    flash parameters, followed by read/write/erase/update
    commands.
  
    The following defaults may be provided by the platform
    to handle the common case when only a single serial
    flash is present on the system.
  
    CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_BUS		Bus identifier
    CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_CS		Chip-select
    CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_MODE 		(see include/spi.h)
    CONFIG_SF_DEFAULT_SPEED		in Hz
  
    CONFIG_CMD_SF_TEST
  
    Define this option to include a destructive SPI flash
    test ('sf test').
  
    CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_BAR		Ban/Extended Addr Reg
  
    Define this option to use the Bank addr/Extended addr
    support on SPI flashes which has size > 16Mbytes.
  
    CONFIG_SF_DUAL_FLASH		Dual flash memories
  
    Define this option to use dual flash support where two flash
    memories can be connected with a given cs line.
    Currently Xilinx Zynq qspi supports these type of connections.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_SPI_ST_ENABLE_WP_PIN
    enable the W#/Vpp signal to disable writing to the status
    register on ST MICRON flashes like the N25Q128.
    The status register write enable/disable bit, combined with
    the W#/VPP signal provides hardware data protection for the
    device as follows: When the enable/disable bit is set to 1,
    and the W#/VPP signal is driven LOW, the status register
    nonvolatile bits become read-only and the WRITE STATUS REGISTER
    operation will not execute. The only way to exit this
    hardware-protected mode is to drive W#/VPP HIGH.
  

• SystemACE Support: CONFIG_SYSTEMACE

    Adding this option adds support for Xilinx SystemACE
    chips attached via some sort of local bus. The address
    of the chip must also be defined in the
    CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE macro. For example:
  
    #define CONFIG_SYSTEMACE
    #define CONFIG_SYS_SYSTEMACE_BASE 0xf0000000
  
    When SystemACE support is added, the "ace" device type
    becomes available to the fat commands, i.e. fatls.
  

• TFTP Fixed UDP Port: CONFIG_TFTP_PORT

    If this is defined, the environment variable tftpsrcp
    is used to supply the TFTP UDP source port value.
    If tftpsrcp isn't defined, the normal pseudo-random port
    number generator is used.
  
    Also, the environment variable tftpdstp is used to supply
    the TFTP UDP destination port value.  If tftpdstp isn't
    defined, the normal port 69 is used.
  
    The purpose for tftpsrcp is to allow a TFTP server to
    blindly start the TFTP transfer using the pre-configured
    target IP address and UDP port. This has the effect of
    "punching through" the (Windows XP) firewall, allowing
    the remainder of the TFTP transfer to proceed normally.
    A better solution is to properly configure the firewall,
    but sometimes that is not allowed.
  

• Hashing support: CONFIG_CMD_HASH

    This enables a generic 'hash' command which can produce
    hashes / digests from a few algorithms (e.g. SHA1, SHA256).
  
    CONFIG_HASH_VERIFY
  
    Enable the hash verify command (hash -v). This adds to code
    size a little.
  
    CONFIG_SHA1 - support SHA1 hashing
    CONFIG_SHA256 - support SHA256 hashing
  
    Note: There is also a sha1sum command, which should perhaps
    be deprecated in favour of 'hash sha1'.
  

• Freescale i.MX specific commands: CONFIG_CMD_HDMIDETECT This enables 'hdmidet' command which returns true if an HDMI monitor is detected. This command is i.MX 6 specific.

    CONFIG_CMD_BMODE
    This enables the 'bmode' (bootmode) command for forcing
    a boot from specific media.
  
    This is useful for forcing the ROM's usb downloader to
    activate upon a watchdog reset which is nice when iterating
    on U-Boot.  Using the reset button or running bmode normal
    will set it back to normal.  This command currently
    supports i.MX53 and i.MX6.
  

• Signing support: CONFIG_RSA

    This enables the RSA algorithm used for FIT image verification
    in U-Boot. See doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt for more information.
  
    The signing part is build into mkimage regardless of this
    option.
  

• bootcount support: CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT

    This enables the bootcounter support, see:
    http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
  
    CONFIG_AT91SAM9XE
    enable special bootcounter support on at91sam9xe based boards.
    CONFIG_BLACKFIN
    enable special bootcounter support on blackfin based boards.
    CONFIG_SOC_DA8XX
    enable special bootcounter support on da850 based boards.
    CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_RAM
    enable support for the bootcounter in RAM
    CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_I2C
    enable support for the bootcounter on an i2c (like RTC) device.
    	CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RTC_ADDR = i2c chip address
    	CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR = i2c addr which is used for
    				    the bootcounter.
    	CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ALEN = address len
  

• Show boot progress: CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS

    Defining this option allows to add some board-
    specific code (calling a user-provided function
    "show_boot_progress(int)") that enables you to show
    the system's boot progress on some display (for
    example, some LED's) on your board. At the moment,
    the following checkpoints are implemented:
  

• Detailed boot stage timing CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE Define this option to get detailed timing of each stage of the boot process.

    CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_USER_COUNT
    This is the number of available user bootstage records.
    Each time you call bootstage_mark(BOOTSTAGE_ID_ALLOC, ...)
    a new ID will be allocated from this stash. If you exceed
    the limit, recording will stop.
  
    CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_REPORT
    Define this to print a report before boot, similar to this:
  
    Timer summary in microseconds:
           Mark    Elapsed  Stage
    	  0          0  reset
      3,575,678  3,575,678  board_init_f start
      3,575,695         17  arch_cpu_init A9
      3,575,777         82  arch_cpu_init done
      3,659,598     83,821  board_init_r start
      3,910,375    250,777  main_loop
     29,916,167 26,005,792  bootm_start
     30,361,327    445,160  start_kernel
  
    CONFIG_CMD_BOOTSTAGE
    Add a 'bootstage' command which supports printing a report
    and un/stashing of bootstage data.
  
    CONFIG_BOOTSTAGE_FDT
    Stash the bootstage information in the FDT. A root 'bootstage'
    node is created with each bootstage id as a child. Each child
    has a 'name' property and either 'mark' containing the
    mark time in microsecond, or 'accum' containing the
    accumulated time for that bootstage id in microseconds.
    For example:
  
    bootstage {
    	154 {
    		name = "board_init_f";
    		mark = <3575678>;
    	};
    	170 {
    		name = "lcd";
    		accum = <33482>;
    	};
    };
  
    Code in the Linux kernel can find this in /proc/devicetree.
  

Legacy uImage format:

Arg Where When 1 common/cmd_bootm.c before attempting to boot an image -1 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad magic number 2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct magic number -2 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has bad checksum 3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image header has correct checksum -3 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has bad checksum 4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image data has correct checksum -4 common/cmd_bootm.c Image is for unsupported architecture 5 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK -5 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong Image Type (not kernel, multi) 6 common/cmd_bootm.c Image Type check OK -6 common/cmd_bootm.c gunzip uncompression error -7 common/cmd_bootm.c Unimplemented compression type 7 common/cmd_bootm.c Uncompression OK 8 common/cmd_bootm.c No uncompress/copy overwrite error -9 common/cmd_bootm.c Unsupported OS (not Linux, BSD, VxWorks, QNX)

9	common/image.c		Start initial ramdisk verification

-10 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad magic number -11 common/image.c Ramdisk header has bad checksum 10 common/image.c Ramdisk header is OK -12 common/image.c Ramdisk data has bad checksum 11 common/image.c Ramdisk data has correct checksum 12 common/image.c Ramdisk verification complete, start loading -13 common/image.c Wrong Image Type (not PPC Linux ramdisk) 13 common/image.c Start multifile image verification 14 common/image.c No initial ramdisk, no multifile, continue.

15 arch//lib/bootm.c All preparation done, transferring control to OS

-30 arch/powerpc/lib/board.c Fatal error, hang the system -31 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_output_backlog() -32 post/post.c POST test failed, detected by post_run_single()

34 common/cmd_doc.c before loading a Image from a DOC device -35 common/cmd_doc.c Bad usage of "doc" command 35 common/cmd_doc.c correct usage of "doc" command -36 common/cmd_doc.c No boot device 36 common/cmd_doc.c correct boot device -37 common/cmd_doc.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device 37 common/cmd_doc.c correct chip ID found, device available -38 common/cmd_doc.c Read Error on boot device 38 common/cmd_doc.c reading Image header from DOC device OK -39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has bad magic number 39 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number -40 common/cmd_doc.c Error reading Image from DOC device 40 common/cmd_doc.c Image header has correct magic number 41 common/cmd_ide.c before loading a Image from a IDE device -42 common/cmd_ide.c Bad usage of "ide" command 42 common/cmd_ide.c correct usage of "ide" command -43 common/cmd_ide.c No boot device 43 common/cmd_ide.c boot device found -44 common/cmd_ide.c Device not available 44 common/cmd_ide.c Device available -45 common/cmd_ide.c wrong partition selected 45 common/cmd_ide.c partition selected -46 common/cmd_ide.c Unknown partition table 46 common/cmd_ide.c valid partition table found -47 common/cmd_ide.c Invalid partition type 47 common/cmd_ide.c correct partition type -48 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image Header on boot device 48 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image Header from IDE device OK -49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad magic number 49 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct magic number -50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has bad checksum 50 common/cmd_ide.c Image header has correct checksum -51 common/cmd_ide.c Error reading Image from IDE device 51 common/cmd_ide.c reading Image from IDE device OK 52 common/cmd_nand.c before loading a Image from a NAND device -53 common/cmd_nand.c Bad usage of "nand" command 53 common/cmd_nand.c correct usage of "nand" command -54 common/cmd_nand.c No boot device 54 common/cmd_nand.c boot device found -55 common/cmd_nand.c Unknown Chip ID on boot device 55 common/cmd_nand.c correct chip ID found, device available -56 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image Header on boot device 56 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image Header from NAND device OK -57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has bad magic number 57 common/cmd_nand.c Image header has correct magic number -58 common/cmd_nand.c Error reading Image from NAND device 58 common/cmd_nand.c reading Image from NAND device OK

-60 common/env_common.c Environment has a bad CRC, using default

64 net/eth.c starting with Ethernet configuration. -64 net/eth.c no Ethernet found. 65 net/eth.c Ethernet found.

-80 common/cmd_net.c usage wrong 80 common/cmd_net.c before calling NetLoop() -81 common/cmd_net.c some error in NetLoop() occurred 81 common/cmd_net.c NetLoop() back without error -82 common/cmd_net.c size == 0 (File with size 0 loaded) 82 common/cmd_net.c trying automatic boot 83 common/cmd_net.c running "source" command -83 common/cmd_net.c some error in automatic boot or "source" command 84 common/cmd_net.c end without errors

FIT uImage format:

Arg Where When 100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has correct format -100 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel FIT Image has incorrect format 101 common/cmd_bootm.c No Kernel subimage unit name, using configuration -101 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get configuration for kernel subimage 102 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel unit name specified -103 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage node offset 103 common/cmd_bootm.c Found configuration node 104 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage node offset -104 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification failed 105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage hash verification OK -105 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage is for unsupported architecture 106 common/cmd_bootm.c Architecture check OK -106 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage has wrong type 107 common/cmd_bootm.c Kernel subimage type OK -107 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage data/size 108 common/cmd_bootm.c Got kernel subimage data/size -108 common/cmd_bootm.c Wrong image type (not legacy, FIT) -109 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage type -110 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage comp -111 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage os -112 common/cmd_bootm.c Can't get kernel subimage load address -113 common/cmd_bootm.c Image uncompress/copy overwrite error

120 common/image.c Start initial ramdisk verification -120 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has incorrect format 121 common/image.c Ramdisk FIT image has correct format 122 common/image.c No ramdisk subimage unit name, using configuration -122 common/image.c Can't get configuration for ramdisk subimage 123 common/image.c Ramdisk unit name specified -124 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage node offset 125 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage node offset -125 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification failed 126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage hash verification OK -126 common/image.c Ramdisk subimage for unsupported architecture 127 common/image.c Architecture check OK -127 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk subimage data/size 128 common/image.c Got ramdisk subimage data/size 129 common/image.c Can't get ramdisk load address -129 common/image.c Got ramdisk load address

-130 common/cmd_doc.c Incorrect FIT image format 131 common/cmd_doc.c FIT image format OK

-140 common/cmd_ide.c Incorrect FIT image format 141 common/cmd_ide.c FIT image format OK

-150 common/cmd_nand.c Incorrect FIT image format 151 common/cmd_nand.c FIT image format OK

• legacy image format: CONFIG_IMAGE_FORMAT_LEGACY enables the legacy image format support in U-Boot.

    Default:
    enabled if CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE is not defined.
  
    CONFIG_DISABLE_IMAGE_LEGACY
    disable the legacy image format
  
    This define is introduced, as the legacy image format is
    enabled per default for backward compatibility.
  

• FIT image support: CONFIG_FIT Enable support for the FIT uImage format.

    CONFIG_FIT_BEST_MATCH
    When no configuration is explicitly selected, default to the
    one whose fdt's compatibility field best matches that of
    U-Boot itself. A match is considered "best" if it matches the
    most specific compatibility entry of U-Boot's fdt's root node.
    The order of entries in the configuration's fdt is ignored.
  
    CONFIG_FIT_SIGNATURE
    This option enables signature verification of FIT uImages,
    using a hash signed and verified using RSA. See
    doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt for more details.
  
    WARNING: When relying on signed FIT images with required
    signature check the legacy image format is default
    disabled. If a board need legacy image format support
    enable this through CONFIG_IMAGE_FORMAT_LEGACY
  
    CONFIG_FIT_DISABLE_SHA256
    Supporting SHA256 hashes has quite an impact on binary size.
    For constrained systems sha256 hash support can be disabled
    with this option.
  

• Standalone program support: CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR

    This option defines a board specific value for the
    address where standalone program gets loaded, thus
    overwriting the architecture dependent default
    settings.
  

• Frame Buffer Address: CONFIG_FB_ADDR

    Define CONFIG_FB_ADDR if you want to use specific
    address for frame buffer.  This is typically the case
    when using a graphics controller has separate video
    memory.  U-Boot will then place the frame buffer at
    the given address instead of dynamically reserving it
    in system RAM by calling lcd_setmem(), which grabs
    the memory for the frame buffer depending on the
    configured panel size.
  
    Please see board_init_f function.
  

• Automatic software updates via TFTP server CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_CNT_MAX CONFIG_UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX

    These options enable and control the auto-update feature;
    for a more detailed description refer to doc/README.update.
  

• MTD Support (mtdparts command, UBI support) CONFIG_MTD_DEVICE

    Adds the MTD device infrastructure from the Linux kernel.
    Needed for mtdparts command support.
  
    CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS
  
    Adds the MTD partitioning infrastructure from the Linux
    kernel. Needed for UBI support.
  
    CONFIG_MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE
    verify if the written data is correct reread.
  

• UBI support CONFIG_CMD_UBI

    Adds commands for interacting with MTD partitions formatted
    with the UBI flash translation layer
  
    Requires also defining CONFIG_RBTREE
  
    CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG
  
    Make the verbose messages from UBI stop printing.  This leaves
    warnings and errors enabled.
  
  
    CONFIG_MTD_UBI_WL_THRESHOLD
    This parameter defines the maximum difference between the highest
    erase counter value and the lowest erase counter value of eraseblocks
    of UBI devices. When this threshold is exceeded, UBI starts performing
    wear leveling by means of moving data from eraseblock with low erase
    counter to eraseblocks with high erase counter.
  
    The default value should be OK for SLC NAND flashes, NOR flashes and
    other flashes which have eraseblock life-cycle 100000 or more.
    However, in case of MLC NAND flashes which typically have eraseblock
    life-cycle less than 10000, the threshold should be lessened (e.g.,
    to 128 or 256, although it does not have to be power of 2).
  
    default: 4096
  
    CONFIG_MTD_UBI_BEB_LIMIT
    This option specifies the maximum bad physical eraseblocks UBI
    expects on the MTD device (per 1024 eraseblocks). If the
    underlying flash does not admit of bad eraseblocks (e.g. NOR
    flash), this value is ignored.
  
    NAND datasheets often specify the minimum and maximum NVM
    (Number of Valid Blocks) for the flashes' endurance lifetime.
    The maximum expected bad eraseblocks per 1024 eraseblocks
    then can be calculated as "1024 * (1 - MinNVB / MaxNVB)",
    which gives 20 for most NANDs (MaxNVB is basically the total
    count of eraseblocks on the chip).
  
    To put it differently, if this value is 20, UBI will try to
    reserve about 1.9% of physical eraseblocks for bad blocks
    handling. And that will be 1.9% of eraseblocks on the entire
    NAND chip, not just the MTD partition UBI attaches. This means
    that if you have, say, a NAND flash chip admits maximum 40 bad
    eraseblocks, and it is split on two MTD partitions of the same
    size, UBI will reserve 40 eraseblocks when attaching a
    partition.
  
    default: 20
  
    CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP
    Fastmap is a mechanism which allows attaching an UBI device
    in nearly constant time. Instead of scanning the whole MTD device it
    only has to locate a checkpoint (called fastmap) on the device.
    The on-flash fastmap contains all information needed to attach
    the device. Using fastmap makes only sense on large devices where
    attaching by scanning takes long. UBI will not automatically install
    a fastmap on old images, but you can set the UBI parameter
    CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT to 1 if you want so. Please note
    that fastmap-enabled images are still usable with UBI implementations
    without	fastmap support. On typical flash devices the whole fastmap
    fits into one PEB. UBI will reserve PEBs to hold two fastmaps.
  
    CONFIG_MTD_UBI_FASTMAP_AUTOCONVERT
    Set this parameter to enable fastmap automatically on images
    without a fastmap.
    default: 0
  

• UBIFS support CONFIG_CMD_UBIFS

    Adds commands for interacting with UBI volumes formatted as
    UBIFS.  UBIFS is read-only in u-boot.
  
    Requires UBI support as well as CONFIG_LZO
  
    CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG
  
    Make the verbose messages from UBIFS stop printing.  This leaves
    warnings and errors enabled.
  

• SPL framework CONFIG_SPL Enable building of SPL globally.

    CONFIG_SPL_LDSCRIPT
    LDSCRIPT for linking the SPL binary.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT
    Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL, BSS included.
    When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory
    used by SPL from _start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
    CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
    must not be both defined at the same time.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE
    Maximum size of the SPL image (text, data, rodata, and
    linker lists sections), BSS excluded.
    When defined, the linker checks that the actual size does
    not exceed it.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE
    TEXT_BASE for linking the SPL binary.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_TEXT_BASE
    Address to relocate to.  If unspecified, this is equal to
    CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE (i.e. no relocation is done).
  
    CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR
    Link address for the BSS within the SPL binary.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
    Maximum size in memory allocated to the SPL BSS.
    When defined, the linker checks that the actual memory used
    by SPL from __bss_start to __bss_end does not exceed it.
    CONFIG_SPL_MAX_FOOTPRINT and CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE
    must not be both defined at the same time.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_STACK
    Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use
  
    CONFIG_SPL_RELOC_STACK
    Adress of the start of the stack SPL will use after
    relocation.  If unspecified, this is equal to
    CONFIG_SPL_STACK.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START
    Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE
    The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_FRAMEWORK
    Enable the SPL framework under common/.  This framework
    supports MMC, NAND and YMODEM loading of U-Boot and NAND
    NAND loading of the Linux Kernel.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_OS_BOOT
    Enable booting directly to an OS from SPL.
    See also: doc/README.falcon
  
    CONFIG_SPL_DISPLAY_PRINT
    For ARM, enable an optional function to print more information
    about the running system.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_INIT_MINIMAL
    Arch init code should be built for a very small image
  
    CONFIG_SPL_LIBCOMMON_SUPPORT
    Support for common/libcommon.o in SPL binary
  
    CONFIG_SPL_LIBDISK_SUPPORT
    Support for disk/libdisk.o in SPL binary
  
    CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT
    Support for drivers/i2c/libi2c.o in SPL binary
  
    CONFIG_SPL_GPIO_SUPPORT
    Support for drivers/gpio/libgpio.o in SPL binary
  
    CONFIG_SPL_MMC_SUPPORT
    Support for drivers/mmc/libmmc.o in SPL binary
  
    CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR,
    CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_MAX_SIZE_SECTORS,
    Address and partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from
    when the MMC is being used in raw mode.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION
    Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
    used in raw mode
  
    CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_KERNEL_SECTOR
    Sector to load kernel uImage from when MMC is being
    used in raw mode (for Falcon mode)
  
    CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTOR,
    CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_ARGS_SECTORS
    Sector and number of sectors to load kernel argument
    parameters from when MMC is being used in raw mode
    (for falcon mode)
  
    CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_FS_BOOT_PARTITION
    Partition on the MMC to load U-Boot from when the MMC is being
    used in fs mode
  
    CONFIG_SPL_FAT_SUPPORT
    Support for fs/fat/libfat.o in SPL binary
  
    CONFIG_SPL_EXT_SUPPORT
    Support for EXT filesystem in SPL binary
  
    CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_PAYLOAD_NAME
    Filename to read to load U-Boot when reading from filesystem
  
    CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_KERNEL_NAME
    Filename to read to load kernel uImage when reading
    from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
  
    CONFIG_SPL_FS_LOAD_ARGS_NAME
    Filename to read to load kernel argument parameters
    when reading from filesystem (for Falcon mode)
  
    CONFIG_SPL_MPC83XX_WAIT_FOR_NAND
    Set this for NAND SPL on PPC mpc83xx targets, so that
    start.S waits for the rest of the SPL to load before
    continuing (the hardware starts execution after just
    loading the first page rather than the full 4K).
  
    CONFIG_SPL_SKIP_RELOCATE
    Avoid SPL relocation
  
    CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BASE
    Include nand_base.c in the SPL.  Requires
    CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_NAND_DRIVERS
    SPL uses normal NAND drivers, not minimal drivers.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_NAND_ECC
    Include standard software ECC in the SPL
  
    CONFIG_SPL_NAND_SIMPLE
    Support for NAND boot using simple NAND drivers that
    expose the cmd_ctrl() interface.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_MTD_SUPPORT
    Support for the MTD subsystem within SPL.  Useful for
    environment on NAND support within SPL.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_NAND_RAW_ONLY
    Support to boot only raw u-boot.bin images. Use this only
    if you need to save space.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_MPC8XXX_INIT_DDR_SUPPORT
    Set for the SPL on PPC mpc8xxx targets, support for
    drivers/ddr/fsl/libddr.o in SPL binary.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_COMMON_INIT_DDR
    Set for common ddr init with serial presence detect in
    SPL binary.
  
    CONFIG_SYS_NAND_5_ADDR_CYCLE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_COUNT,
    CONFIG_SYS_NAND_PAGE_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_OOBSIZE,
    CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BLOCK_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BAD_BLOCK_POS,
    CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCPOS, CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCSIZE,
    CONFIG_SYS_NAND_ECCBYTES
    Defines the size and behavior of the NAND that SPL uses
    to read U-Boot
  
    CONFIG_SPL_NAND_BOOT
    Add support NAND boot
  
    CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_OFFS
    Location in NAND to read U-Boot from
  
    CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_DST
    Location in memory to load U-Boot to
  
    CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_SIZE
    Size of image to load
  
    CONFIG_SYS_NAND_U_BOOT_START
    Entry point in loaded image to jump to
  
    CONFIG_SYS_NAND_HW_ECC_OOBFIRST
    Define this if you need to first read the OOB and then the
    data. This is used, for example, on davinci platforms.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_OMAP3_ID_NAND
    Support for an OMAP3-specific set of functions to return the
    ID and MFR of the first attached NAND chip, if present.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_SERIAL_SUPPORT
    Support for drivers/serial/libserial.o in SPL binary
  
    CONFIG_SPL_SPI_FLASH_SUPPORT
    Support for drivers/mtd/spi/libspi_flash.o in SPL binary
  
    CONFIG_SPL_SPI_SUPPORT
    Support for drivers/spi/libspi.o in SPL binary
  
    CONFIG_SPL_RAM_DEVICE
    Support for running image already present in ram, in SPL binary
  
    CONFIG_SPL_LIBGENERIC_SUPPORT
    Support for lib/libgeneric.o in SPL binary
  
    CONFIG_SPL_ENV_SUPPORT
    Support for the environment operating in SPL binary
  
    CONFIG_SPL_NET_SUPPORT
    Support for the net/libnet.o in SPL binary.
    It conflicts with SPL env from storage medium specified by
    CONFIG_ENV_IS_xxx but CONFIG_ENV_IS_NOWHERE
  
    CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO
    Image offset to which the SPL should be padded before appending
    the SPL payload. By default, this is defined as
    CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
    CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
    payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
  
    CONFIG_SPL_TARGET
    Final target image containing SPL and payload.  Some SPLs
    use an arch-specific makefile fragment instead, for
    example if more than one image needs to be produced.
  
    CONFIG_FIT_SPL_PRINT
    Printing information about a FIT image adds quite a bit of
    code to SPL. So this is normally disabled in SPL. Use this
    option to re-enable it. This will affect the output of the
    bootm command when booting a FIT image.
  

• TPL framework CONFIG_TPL Enable building of TPL globally.

    CONFIG_TPL_PAD_TO
    Image offset to which the TPL should be padded before appending
    the TPL payload. By default, this is defined as
    CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE, or 0 if CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE is undefined.
    CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO must be either 0, meaning to append the SPL
    payload without any padding, or >= CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE.
  

Modem Support:

[so far only for SMDK2400 boards]

• Modem support enable: CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT

• RTS/CTS Flow control enable: CONFIG_HWFLOW

• Modem debug support: CONFIG_MODEM_SUPPORT_DEBUG

    Enables debugging stuff (char screen[1024], dbg())
    for modem support. Useful only with BDI2000.
  

• Interrupt support (PPC):

    There are common interrupt_init() and timer_interrupt()
    for all PPC archs. interrupt_init() calls interrupt_init_cpu()
    for CPU specific initialization. interrupt_init_cpu()
    should set decrementer_count to appropriate value. If
    CPU resets decrementer automatically after interrupt
    (ppc4xx) it should set decrementer_count to zero.
    timer_interrupt() calls timer_interrupt_cpu() for CPU
    specific handling. If board has watchdog / status_led
    / other_activity_monitor it works automatically from
    general timer_interrupt().
  

• General:

    In the target system modem support is enabled when a
    specific key (key combination) is pressed during
    power-on. Otherwise U-Boot will boot normally
    (autoboot). The key_pressed() function is called from
    board_init(). Currently key_pressed() is a dummy
    function, returning 1 and thus enabling modem
    initialization.
  
    If there are no modem init strings in the
    environment, U-Boot proceed to autoboot; the
    previous output (banner, info printfs) will be
    suppressed, though.
  
    See also: doc/README.Modem
  

Board initialization settings:

During Initialization u-boot calls a number of board specific functions to allow the preparation of board specific prerequisites, e.g. pin setup before drivers are initialized. To enable these callbacks the following configuration macros have to be defined. Currently this is architecture specific, so please check arch/your_architecture/lib/board.c typically in board_init_f() and board_init_r().

• CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F: Call board_early_init_f()
• CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_R: Call board_early_init_r()
• CONFIG_BOARD_LATE_INIT: Call board_late_init()
• CONFIG_BOARD_POSTCLK_INIT: Call board_postclk_init()

Configuration Settings:

• CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORT_64BIT_DATA: Defined automatically if compiled as 64-bit. Optionally it can be defined to support 64-bit memory commands.

• CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP: Defined when you want long help messages included; undefine this when you're short of memory.

• CONFIG_SYS_HELP_CMD_WIDTH: Defined when you want to override the default width of the commands listed in the 'help' command output.

• CONFIG_SYS_PROMPT: This is what U-Boot prints on the console to prompt for user input.

• CONFIG_SYS_CBSIZE: Buffer size for input from the Console

• CONFIG_SYS_PBSIZE: Buffer size for Console output

• CONFIG_SYS_MAXARGS: max. Number of arguments accepted for monitor commands

• CONFIG_SYS_BARGSIZE: Buffer size for Boot Arguments which are passed to the application (usually a Linux kernel) when it is booted

• CONFIG_SYS_BAUDRATE_TABLE: List of legal baudrate settings for this board.

• CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_INFO_QUIET Suppress display of console information at boot.

• CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_IS_IN_ENV If the board specific function extern int overwrite_console (void); returns 1, the stdin, stderr and stdout are switched to the serial port, else the settings in the environment are used.

• CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_OVERWRITE_ROUTINE Enable the call to overwrite_console().

• CONFIG_SYS_CONSOLE_ENV_OVERWRITE Enable overwrite of previous console environment settings.

• CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_START, CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_END: Begin and End addresses of the area used by the simple memory test.

• CONFIG_SYS_ALT_MEMTEST: Enable an alternate, more extensive memory test.

• CONFIG_SYS_MEMTEST_SCRATCH: Scratch address used by the alternate memory test You only need to set this if address zero isn't writeable

• CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE (PPC only): If CONFIG_SYS_MEM_TOP_HIDE is defined in the board config header, this specified memory area will get subtracted from the top (end) of RAM and won't get "touched" at all by U-Boot. By fixing up gd->ram_size the Linux kernel should gets passed the now "corrected" memory size and won't touch it either. This should work for arch/ppc and arch/powerpc. Only Linux board ports in arch/powerpc with bootwrapper support that recalculate the memory size from the SDRAM controller setup will have to get fixed in Linux additionally.

    This option can be used as a workaround for the 440EPx/GRx
    CHIP 11 errata where the last 256 bytes in SDRAM shouldn't
    be touched.
  
    WARNING: Please make sure that this value is a multiple of
    the Linux page size (normally 4k). If this is not the case,
    then the end address of the Linux memory will be located at a
    non page size aligned address and this could cause major
    problems.
  

• CONFIG_SYS_LOADS_BAUD_CHANGE: Enable temporary baudrate change while serial download

• CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE: Physical start address of SDRAM. Must be 0 here.

• CONFIG_SYS_MBIO_BASE: Physical start address of Motherboard I/O (if using a Cogent motherboard)

• CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE: Physical start address of Flash memory.

• CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE: Physical start address of boot monitor code (set by make config files to be same as the text base address (CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) used when linking) - same as CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE when booting from flash.

• CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN: Size of memory reserved for monitor code, used to determine at_compile_time (!) if the environment is embedded within the U-Boot image, or in a separate flash sector.

• CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN: Size of DRAM reserved for malloc() use.

• CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN Size of the malloc() pool for use before relocation. If this is defined, then a very simple malloc() implementation will become available before relocation. The address is just below the global data, and the stack is moved down to make space.

    This feature allocates regions with increasing addresses
    within the region. calloc() is supported, but realloc()
    is not available. free() is supported but does nothing.
    The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotten) when
    U-Boot relocates itself.
  
    Pre-relocation malloc() is only supported on ARM and sandbox
    at present but is fairly easy to enable for other archs.
  

• CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE Provides a simple and small malloc() and calloc() for those boards which do not use the full malloc in SPL (which is enabled with CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START).

• CONFIG_SYS_NONCACHED_MEMORY: Size of non-cached memory area. This area of memory will be typically located right below the malloc() area and mapped uncached in the MMU. This is useful for drivers that would otherwise require a lot of explicit cache maintenance. For some drivers it's also impossible to properly maintain the cache. For example if the regions that need to be flushed are not a multiple of the cache-line size, and padding cannot be allocated between the regions to align them (i.e. if the HW requires a contiguous array of regions, and the size of each region is not cache-aligned), then a flush of one region may result in overwriting data that hardware has written to another region in the same cache-line. This can happen for example in network drivers where descriptors for buffers are typically smaller than the CPU cache-line (e.g. 16 bytes vs. 32 or 64 bytes).

    Non-cached memory is only supported on 32-bit ARM at present.
  

• CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN: Normally compressed uImages are limited to an uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough, you can define CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN in your board config file to adjust this setting to your needs.

• CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ: Maximum size of memory mapped by the startup code of the Linux kernel; all data that must be processed by the Linux kernel (bd_info, boot arguments, FDT blob if used) must be put below this limit, unless "bootm_low" environment variable is defined and non-zero. In such case all data for the Linux kernel must be between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. The environment variable "bootm_mapsize" will override the value of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ. If CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is undefined, then the value in "bootm_size" will be used instead.

• CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_RAMDISK_HIGH: Enable initrd_high functionality. If defined then the initrd_high feature is enabled and the bootm ramdisk subcommand is enabled.

• CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_CMDLINE: Enables allocating and saving kernel cmdline in space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.

• CONFIG_SYS_BOOT_GET_KBD: Enables allocating and saving a kernel copy of the bd_info in space between "bootm_low" and "bootm_low" + BOOTMAPSZ.

• CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_BANKS: Max number of Flash memory banks

• CONFIG_SYS_MAX_FLASH_SECT: Max number of sectors on a Flash chip

• CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_ERASE_TOUT: Timeout for Flash erase operations (in ms)

• CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_WRITE_TOUT: Timeout for Flash write operations (in ms)

• CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_LOCK_TOUT Timeout for Flash set sector lock bit operation (in ms)

• CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_UNLOCK_TOUT Timeout for Flash clear lock bits operation (in ms)

• CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_PROTECTION If defined, hardware flash sectors protection is used instead of U-Boot software protection.

• CONFIG_SYS_DIRECT_FLASH_TFTP:

    Enable TFTP transfers directly to flash memory;
    without this option such a download has to be
    performed in two steps: (1) download to RAM, and (2)
    copy from RAM to flash.
  
    The two-step approach is usually more reliable, since
    you can check if the download worked before you erase
    the flash, but in some situations (when system RAM is
    too limited to allow for a temporary copy of the
    downloaded image) this option may be very useful.
  

• CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_CFI: Define if the flash driver uses extra elements in the common flash structure for storing flash geometry.

• CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_DRIVER This option also enables the building of the cfi_flash driver in the drivers directory

• CONFIG_FLASH_CFI_MTD This option enables the building of the cfi_mtd driver in the drivers directory. The driver exports CFI flash to the MTD layer.

• CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_USE_BUFFER_WRITE Use buffered writes to flash.

• CONFIG_FLASH_SPANSION_S29WS_N s29ws-n MirrorBit flash has non-standard addresses for buffered write commands.

• CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_QUIET_TEST If this option is defined, the common CFI flash doesn't print it's warning upon not recognized FLASH banks. This is useful, if some of the configured banks are only optionally available.

• CONFIG_FLASH_SHOW_PROGRESS If defined (must be an integer), print out countdown digits and dots. Recommended value: 45 (9..1) for 80 column displays, 15 (3..1) for 40 column displays.

• CONFIG_FLASH_VERIFY If defined, the content of the flash (destination) is compared against the source after the write operation. An error message will be printed when the contents are not identical. Please note that this option is useless in nearly all cases, since such flash programming errors usually are detected earlier while unprotecting/erasing/programming. Please only enable this option if you really know what you are doing.

• CONFIG_SYS_RX_ETH_BUFFER: Defines the number of Ethernet receive buffers. On some Ethernet controllers it is recommended to set this value to 8 or even higher (EEPRO100 or 405 EMAC), since all buffers can be full shortly after enabling the interface on high Ethernet traffic. Defaults to 4 if not defined.

• CONFIG_ENV_MAX_ENTRIES

  Maximum number of entries in the hash table that is used internally to store the environment settings. The default setting is supposed to be generous and should work in most cases. This setting can be used to tune behaviour; see lib/hashtable.c for details.

• CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT

• CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC Enable validation of the values given to environment variables when calling env set. Variables can be restricted to only decimal, hexadecimal, or boolean. If CONFIG_CMD_NET is also defined, the variables can also be restricted to IP address or MAC address.

  The format of the list is: type_attribute = [s|d|x|b|i|m] access_attribute = [a|r|o|c] attributes = type_attribute[access_attribute] entry = variable_name[:attributes] list = entry[,list]

  The type attributes are: s - String (default) d - Decimal x - Hexadecimal b - Boolean ([1yYtT|0nNfF]) i - IP address m - MAC address

  The access attributes are: a - Any (default) r - Read-only o - Write-once c - Change-default

  • CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_DEFAULT Define this to a list (string) to define the ".flags" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.

  • CONFIG_ENV_FLAGS_LIST_STATIC Define this to a list (string) to define validation that should be done if an entry is not found in the ".flags" environment variable. To override a setting in the static list, simply add an entry for the same variable name to the ".flags" variable.

• CONFIG_ENV_ACCESS_IGNORE_FORCE If defined, don't allow the -f switch to env set override variable access flags.

• CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD This selects the architecture-generic board system instead of the architecture-specific board files. It is intended to move boards to this new framework over time. Defining this will disable the arch/foo/lib/board.c file and use common/board_f.c and common/board_r.c instead. To use this option your architecture must support it (i.e. must define __HAVE_ARCH_GENERIC_BOARD in its config.mk file). If you find problems enabling this option on your board please report the problem and send patches!

• CONFIG_OMAP_PLATFORM_RESET_TIME_MAX_USEC (OMAP only) This is set by OMAP boards for the max time that reset should be asserted. See doc/README.omap-reset-time for details on how the value can be calculated on a given board.

• CONFIG_USE_STDINT If stdint.h is available with your toolchain you can define this option to enable it. You can provide option 'USE_STDINT=1' when building U-Boot to enable this.

The following definitions that deal with the placement and management of environment data (variable area); in general, we support the following configurations:

• CONFIG_BUILD_ENVCRC:

  Builds up envcrc with the target environment so that external utils may easily extract it and embed it in final U-Boot images.

• CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH:

  Define this if the environment is in flash memory.

  a) The environment occupies one whole flash sector, which is "embedded" in the text segment with the U-Boot code. This happens usually with "bottom boot sector" or "top boot sector" type flash chips, which have several smaller sectors at the start or the end. For instance, such a layout can have sector sizes of 8, 2x4, 16, Nx32 kB. In such a case you would place the environment in one of the 4 kB sectors - with U-Boot code before and after it. With "top boot sector" type flash chips, you would put the environment in one of the last sectors, leaving a gap between U-Boot and the environment.

  • CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:

    Offset of environment data (variable area) to the beginning of flash memory; for instance, with bottom boot type flash chips the second sector can be used: the offset for this sector is given here.

    CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET is used relative to CONFIG_SYS_FLASH_BASE.

  • CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:

    This is just another way to specify the start address of the flash sector containing the environment (instead of CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET).

  • CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:

    Size of the sector containing the environment.

  b) Sometimes flash chips have few, equal sized, BIG sectors. In such a case you don't want to spend a whole sector for the environment.

  • CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:

    If you use this in combination with CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FLASH and CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE, you can specify to use only a part of this flash sector for the environment. This saves memory for the RAM copy of the environment.

    It may also save flash memory if you decide to use this when your environment is "embedded" within U-Boot code, since then the remainder of the flash sector could be used for U-Boot code. It should be pointed out that this is STRONGLY DISCOURAGED from a robustness point of view: updating the environment in flash makes it always necessary to erase the WHOLE sector. If something goes wrong before the contents has been restored from a copy in RAM, your target system will be dead.

  • CONFIG_ENV_ADDR_REDUND CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND

    These settings describe a second storage area used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during a "saveenv" operation.

BE CAREFUL! Any changes to the flash layout, and some changes to the source code will make it necessary to adapt /u-boot.lds* accordingly!

• CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NVRAM:

  Define this if you have some non-volatile memory device (NVRAM, battery buffered SRAM) which you want to use for the environment.

  • CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:

  • CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:

    These two #defines are used to determine the memory area you want to use for environment. It is assumed that this memory can just be read and written to, without any special provision.

BE CAREFUL! The first access to the environment happens quite early in U-Boot initialization (when we try to get the setting of for the console baudrate). You MUST have mapped your NVRAM area then, or U-Boot will hang.

Please note that even with NVRAM we still use a copy of the environment in RAM: we could work on NVRAM directly, but we want to keep settings there always unmodified except somebody uses "saveenv" to save the current settings.

• CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_EEPROM:

  Use this if you have an EEPROM or similar serial access device and a driver for it.

  • CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:

  • CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:

    These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment area within the total memory of your EEPROM.

  • CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR: If defined, specified the chip address of the EEPROM device. The default address is zero.

  • CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_BITS: If defined, the number of bits used to address bytes in a single page in the EEPROM device. A 64 byte page, for example would require six bits.

  • CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_PAGE_WRITE_DELAY_MS: If defined, the number of milliseconds to delay between page writes. The default is zero milliseconds.

  • CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_LEN: The length in bytes of the EEPROM memory array address. Note that this is NOT the chip address length!

  • CONFIG_SYS_I2C_EEPROM_ADDR_OVERFLOW: EEPROM chips that implement "address overflow" are ones like Catalyst 24WC04/08/16 which has 9/10/11 bits of address and the extra bits end up in the "chip address" bit slots. This makes a 24WC08 (1Kbyte) chip look like four 256 byte chips.

    Note that we consider the length of the address field to still be one byte because the extra address bits are hidden in the chip address.

  • CONFIG_SYS_EEPROM_SIZE: The size in bytes of the EEPROM device.

  • CONFIG_ENV_EEPROM_IS_ON_I2C define this, if you have I2C and SPI activated, and your EEPROM, which holds the environment, is on the I2C bus.

  • CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS if you have an Environment on an EEPROM reached over I2C muxes, you can define here, how to reach this EEPROM. For example:

    #define CONFIG_I2C_ENV_EEPROM_BUS 1

    EEPROM which holds the environment, is reached over a pca9547 i2c mux with address 0x70, channel 3.

• CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_DATAFLASH:

  Define this if you have a DataFlash memory device which you want to use for the environment.

  • CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:

  • CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:

  • CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:

    These three #defines specify the offset and size of the environment area within the total memory of your DataFlash placed at the specified address.

• CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_SPI_FLASH:

  Define this if you have a SPI Flash memory device which you want to use for the environment.

  • CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:

  • CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:

    These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment area within the SPI Flash. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be aligned to an erase sector boundary.

  • CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE:

    Define the SPI flash's sector size.

  • CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):

    This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_RENDUND must be aligned to an erase sector boundary.

  • CONFIG_ENV_SPI_BUS (optional):

  • CONFIG_ENV_SPI_CS (optional):

    Define the SPI bus and chip select. If not defined they will be 0.

  • CONFIG_ENV_SPI_MAX_HZ (optional):

    Define the SPI max work clock. If not defined then use 1MHz.

  • CONFIG_ENV_SPI_MODE (optional):

    Define the SPI work mode. If not defined then use SPI_MODE_3.

• CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_REMOTE:

  Define this if you have a remote memory space which you want to use for the local device's environment.

  • CONFIG_ENV_ADDR:

  • CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:

    These two #defines specify the address and size of the environment area within the remote memory space. The local device can get the environment from remote memory space by SRIO or PCIE links.

BE CAREFUL! For some special cases, the local device can not use "saveenv" command. For example, the local device will get the environment stored in a remote NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE link, but it can not erase, write this NOR flash by SRIO or PCIE interface.

• CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND:

  Define this if you have a NAND device which you want to use for the environment.

  • CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:

  • CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:

    These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment area within the first NAND device. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET must be aligned to an erase block boundary.

  • CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):

    This setting describes a second storage area of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE size used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data, so that there is a valid backup copy in case there is a power failure during a "saveenv" operation. CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_RENDUND must be aligned to an erase block boundary.

  • CONFIG_ENV_RANGE (optional):

    Specifies the length of the region in which the environment can be written. This should be a multiple of the NAND device's block size. Specifying a range with more erase blocks than are needed to hold CONFIG_ENV_SIZE allows bad blocks within the range to be avoided.

  • CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB (optional):

    Enables support for dynamically retrieving the offset of the environment from block zero's out-of-band data. The "nand env.oob" command can be used to record this offset. Currently, CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is not supported when using CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_OOB.

• CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST

  Defines address in RAM to which the nand_spl code should copy the environment. If redundant environment is used, it will be copied to CONFIG_NAND_ENV_DST + CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.

• CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_UBI:

  Define this if you have an UBI volume that you want to use for the environment. This has the benefit of wear-leveling the environment accesses, which is important on NAND.

  • CONFIG_ENV_UBI_PART:

    Define this to a string that is the mtd partition containing the UBI.

  • CONFIG_ENV_UBI_VOLUME:

    Define this to the name of the volume that you want to store the environment in.

  • CONFIG_ENV_UBI_VOLUME_REDUND:

    Define this to the name of another volume to store a second copy of the environment in. This will enable redundant environments in UBI. It is assumed that both volumes are in the same MTD partition.

  • CONFIG_UBI_SILENCE_MSG

  • CONFIG_UBIFS_SILENCE_MSG

    You will probably want to define these to avoid a really noisy system when storing the env in UBI.

• CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_FAT: Define this if you want to use the FAT file system for the environment.

   - FAT_ENV_INTERFACE:
  
     Define this to a string that is the name of the block device.
  
   - FAT_ENV_DEV_AND_PART:
  
     Define this to a string to specify the partition of the device. It can
     be as following:
  
       "D:P", "D:0", "D", "D:" or "D:auto" (D, P are integers. And P >= 1)
           - "D:P": device D partition P. Error occurs if device D has no
                    partition table.
           - "D:0": device D.
           - "D" or "D:": device D partition 1 if device D has partition
                          table, or the whole device D if has no partition
                          table.
           - "D:auto": first partition in device D with bootable flag set.
                       If none, first valid partition in device D. If no
                       partition table then means device D.
  
   - FAT_ENV_FILE:
  
     It's a string of the FAT file name. This file use to store the
     environment.
  
   - CONFIG_FAT_WRITE:
     This should be defined. Otherwise it cannot save the environment file.
  

• CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_MMC:

  Define this if you have an MMC device which you want to use for the environment.

  • CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_DEV:

    Specifies which MMC device the environment is stored in.

  • CONFIG_SYS_MMC_ENV_PART (optional):

    Specifies which MMC partition the environment is stored in. If not set, defaults to partition 0, the user area. Common values might be 1 (first MMC boot partition), 2 (second MMC boot partition).

  • CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET:

  • CONFIG_ENV_SIZE:

    These two #defines specify the offset and size of the environment area within the specified MMC device.

    If offset is positive (the usual case), it is treated as relative to the start of the MMC partition. If offset is negative, it is treated as relative to the end of the MMC partition. This can be useful if your board may be fitted with different MMC devices, which have different sizes for the MMC partitions, and you always want the environment placed at the very end of the partition, to leave the maximum possible space before it, to store other data.

    These two values are in units of bytes, but must be aligned to an MMC sector boundary.

  • CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND (optional):

    Specifies a second storage area, of CONFIG_ENV_SIZE size, used to hold a redundant copy of the environment data. This provides a valid backup copy in case the other copy is corrupted, e.g. due to a power failure during a "saveenv" operation.

    This value may also be positive or negative; this is handled in the same way as CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET.

    This value is also in units of bytes, but must also be aligned to an MMC sector boundary.

  • CONFIG_ENV_SIZE_REDUND (optional):

    This value need not be set, even when CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET_REDUND is set. If this value is set, it must be set to the same value as CONFIG_ENV_SIZE.

• CONFIG_SYS_SPI_INIT_OFFSET

  Defines offset to the initial SPI buffer area in DPRAM. The area is used at an early stage (ROM part) if the environment is configured to reside in the SPI EEPROM: We need a 520 byte scratch DPRAM area. It is used between the two initialization calls (spi_init_f() and spi_init_r()). A value of 0xB00 seems to be a good choice since it makes it far enough from the start of the data area as well as from the stack pointer.

Please note that the environment is read-only until the monitor has been relocated to RAM and a RAM copy of the environment has been created; also, when using EEPROM you will have to use getenv_f() until then to read environment variables.

The environment is protected by a CRC32 checksum. Before the monitor is relocated into RAM, as a result of a bad CRC you will be working with the compiled-in default environment - silently!!! [This is necessary, because the first environment variable we need is the "baudrate" setting for the console - if we have a bad CRC, we don't have any device yet where we could complain.]

Note: once the monitor has been relocated, then it will complain if the default environment is used; a new CRC is computed as soon as you use the "saveenv" command to store a valid environment.

• CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN: Echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED.

    Note: If this option is active, then CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR
          also needs to be defined.
  

• CONFIG_SYS_FAULT_MII_ADDR: MII address of the PHY to check for the Ethernet link state.

• CONFIG_NS16550_MIN_FUNCTIONS: Define this if you desire to only have use of the NS16550_init and NS16550_putc functions for the serial driver located at drivers/serial/ns16550.c. This option is useful for saving space for already greatly restricted images, including but not limited to NAND_SPL configurations.

• CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO Display information about the board that U-Boot is running on when U-Boot starts up. The board function checkboard() is called to do this.

• CONFIG_DISPLAY_BOARDINFO_LATE Similar to the previous option, but display this information later, once stdio is running and output goes to the LCD, if present.

• CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT: Maximum size of the U-Boot image. When defined, the build system checks that the actual size does not exceed it.

Low Level (hardware related) configuration options:

• CONFIG_SYS_CACHELINE_SIZE: Cache Line Size of the CPU.

• CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR: Default address of the IMMR after system reset.

    Needed on some 8260 systems (MPC8260ADS, PQ2FADS-ZU,
    and RPXsuper) to be able to adjust the position of
    the IMMR register after a reset.
  

• CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT: Default (power-on reset) physical address of CCSR on Freescale PowerPC SOCs.

• CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR: Virtual address of CCSR. On a 32-bit build, this is typically the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT.

    CONFIG_SYS_DEFAULT_IMMR must also be set to this value,
    for cross-platform code that uses that macro instead.
  

• CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS: Physical address of CCSR. CCSR can be relocated to a new physical address, if desired. In this case, this macro should be set to that address. Otherwise, it should be set to the same value as CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_DEFAULT. For example, CCSR is typically relocated on 36-bit builds. It is recommended that this macro be defined via the _HIGH and _LOW macros:

    #define CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS ((CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH
    	* 1ull) << 32 | CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW)
  

• CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_HIGH: Bits 33-36 of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This value is typically either 0 (32-bit build) or 0xF (36-bit build). This macro is used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").

• CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS_LOW: Lower 32-bits of CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS. This macro is used in assembly code, so it must not contain typecasts or integer size suffixes (e.g. "ULL").

• CONFIG_SYS_CCSR_DO_NOT_RELOCATE: If this macro is defined, then CONFIG_SYS_CCSRBAR_PHYS will be forced to a value that ensures that CCSR is not relocated.

• Floppy Disk Support: CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER

    the default drive number (default value 0)
  
    CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE
  
    defines the spacing between FDC chipset registers
    (default value 1)
  
    CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET
  
    defines the offset of register from address. It
    depends on which part of the data bus is connected to
    the FDC chipset. (default value 0)
  
    If CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_STRIDE CONFIG_SYS_ISA_IO_OFFSET and
    CONFIG_SYS_FDC_DRIVE_NUMBER are undefined, they take their
    default value.
  
    if CONFIG_SYS_FDC_HW_INIT is defined, then the function
    fdc_hw_init() is called at the beginning of the FDC
    setup. fdc_hw_init() must be provided by the board
    source code. It is used to make hardware-dependent
    initializations.
  

• CONFIG_IDE_AHB: Most IDE controllers were designed to be connected with PCI interface. Only few of them were designed for AHB interface. When software is doing ATA command and data transfer to IDE devices through IDE-AHB controller, some additional registers accessing to these kind of IDE-AHB controller is required.

• CONFIG_SYS_IMMR: Physical address of the Internal Memory. DO NOT CHANGE unless you know exactly what you're doing! (11-4) [MPC8xx/82xx systems only]

• CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR:

    Start address of memory area that can be used for
    initial data and stack; please note that this must be
    writable memory that is working WITHOUT special
    initialization, i. e. you CANNOT use normal RAM which
    will become available only after programming the
    memory controller and running certain initialization
    sequences.
  
    U-Boot uses the following memory types:
    - MPC8xx and MPC8260: IMMR (internal memory of the CPU)
    - MPC824X: data cache
    - PPC4xx:  data cache
  

• CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET:

    Offset of the initial data structure in the memory
    area defined by CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR. Usually
    CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET is chosen such that the initial
    data is located at the end of the available space
    (sometimes written as (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE -
    CONFIG_SYS_INIT_DATA_SIZE), and the initial stack is just
    below that area (growing from (CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR +
    CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_OFFSET) downward.
  

  Note: On the MPC824X (or other systems that use the data cache for initial memory) the address chosen for CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR is basically arbitrary - it must point to an otherwise UNUSED address space between the top of RAM and the start of the PCI space.

• CONFIG_SYS_SIUMCR: SIU Module Configuration (11-6)

• CONFIG_SYS_SYPCR: System Protection Control (11-9)

• CONFIG_SYS_TBSCR: Time Base Status and Control (11-26)

• CONFIG_SYS_PISCR: Periodic Interrupt Status and Control (11-31)

• CONFIG_SYS_PLPRCR: PLL, Low-Power, and Reset Control Register (15-30)

• CONFIG_SYS_SCCR: System Clock and reset Control Register (15-27)

• CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM: SDRAM timing

• CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA: periodic timer for refresh

• CONFIG_SYS_DER: Debug Event Register (37-47)

• FLASH_BASE0_PRELIM, FLASH_BASE1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_REMAP_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_PRELIM_OR_AM, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_FLASH, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR0_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_REMAP, CONFIG_SYS_OR1_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR1_PRELIM: Memory Controller Definitions: BR0/1 and OR0/1 (FLASH)

• SDRAM_BASE2_PRELIM, SDRAM_BASE3_PRELIM, SDRAM_MAX_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_OR_TIMING_SDRAM, CONFIG_SYS_OR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR2_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_OR3_PRELIM, CONFIG_SYS_BR3_PRELIM: Memory Controller Definitions: BR2/3 and OR2/3 (SDRAM)

• CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_PTA, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_4K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_2BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MPTPR_1BK_8K, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_8COL, CONFIG_SYS_MAMR_9COL: Machine Mode Register and Memory Periodic Timer Prescaler definitions (SDRAM timing)

• CONFIG_SYS_I2C_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_I2C_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]: enable I2C microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx); define relocation offset in DPRAM [DSP2]

• CONFIG_SYS_SMC_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SMC_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]: enable SMC microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx); define relocation offset in DPRAM [SMC1]

• CONFIG_SYS_SPI_UCODE_PATCH, CONFIG_SYS_SPI_DPMEM_OFFSET [0x1FC0]: enable SPI microcode relocation patch (MPC8xx); define relocation offset in DPRAM [SCC4]

• CONFIG_SYS_USE_OSCCLK: Use OSCM clock mode on MBX8xx board. Be careful, wrong setting might damage your board. Read doc/README.MBX before setting this variable!

• CONFIG_SYS_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR: (MPC8xx, MPC8260 only) Offset of the bootmode word in DPRAM used by post (Power On Self Tests). This definition overrides #define'd default value in commproc.h resp. cpm_8260.h.

• CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_SLV_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_PICMR0_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR0_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK0_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR1_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCIMSK1_MASK, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_MEM_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEM_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR0_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_BUS, CPU_PCI_MEMIO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_MEMIO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR1_MASK_ATTRIB, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_LOCAL, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_BUS, CONFIG_SYS_CPU_PCI_IO_START, CONFIG_SYS_PCI_MSTR_IO_SIZE, CONFIG_SYS_POCMR2_MASK_ATTRIB: (MPC826x only) Overrides the default PCI memory map in arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8260/pci.c if set.

• CONFIG_PCI_DISABLE_PCIE: Disable PCI-Express on systems where it is supported but not required.

• CONFIG_PCI_ENUM_ONLY Only scan through and get the devices on the buses. Don't do any setup work, presumably because someone or something has already done it, and we don't need to do it a second time. Useful for platforms that are pre-booted by coreboot or similar.

• CONFIG_PCI_INDIRECT_BRIDGE: Enable support for indirect PCI bridges.

• CONFIG_SYS_SRIO: Chip has SRIO or not

• CONFIG_SRIO1: Board has SRIO 1 port available

• CONFIG_SRIO2: Board has SRIO 2 port available

• CONFIG_SRIO_PCIE_BOOT_MASTER Board can support master function for Boot from SRIO and PCIE

• CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_VIRT: Virtual Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region

• CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_PHYS: Physical Address of SRIO port 'n' memory region

• CONFIG_SYS_SRIOn_MEM_SIZE: Size of SRIO port 'n' memory region

• CONFIG_SYS_NAND_BUSWIDTH_16BIT Defined to tell the NAND controller that the NAND chip is using a 16 bit bus. Not all NAND drivers use this symbol. Example of drivers that use it: - drivers/mtd/nand/ndfc.c - drivers/mtd/nand/mxc_nand.c

• CONFIG_SYS_NDFC_EBC0_CFG Sets the EBC0_CFG register for the NDFC. If not defined a default value will be used.

• CONFIG_SPD_EEPROM Get DDR timing information from an I2C EEPROM. Common with pluggable memory modules such as SODIMMs

  SPD_EEPROM_ADDRESS I2C address of the SPD EEPROM

• CONFIG_SYS_SPD_BUS_NUM If SPD EEPROM is on an I2C bus other than the first one, specify here. Note that the value must resolve to something your driver can deal with.

• CONFIG_SYS_DDR_RAW_TIMING Get DDR timing information from other than SPD. Common with soldered DDR chips onboard without SPD. DDR raw timing parameters are extracted from datasheet and hard-coded into header files or board specific files.

• CONFIG_FSL_DDR_INTERACTIVE Enable interactive DDR debugging. See doc/README.fsl-ddr.

• CONFIG_SYS_83XX_DDR_USES_CS0 Only for 83xx systems. If specified, then DDR should be configured using CS0 and CS1 instead of CS2 and CS3.

• CONFIG_ETHER_ON_FEC[12] Define to enable FEC[12] on a 8xx series processor.

• CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY Define to the hardcoded PHY address which corresponds to the given FEC; i. e. #define CONFIG_FEC1_PHY 4 means that the PHY with address 4 is connected to FEC1

    When set to -1, means to probe for first available.
  

• CONFIG_FEC[12]_PHY_NORXERR The PHY does not have a RXERR line (RMII only). (so program the FEC to ignore it).

• CONFIG_RMII Enable RMII mode for all FECs. Note that this is a global option, we can't have one FEC in standard MII mode and another in RMII mode.

• CONFIG_CRC32_VERIFY Add a verify option to the crc32 command. The syntax is:

    => crc32 -v <address> <count> <crc32>
  
    Where address/count indicate a memory area
    and crc32 is the correct crc32 which the
    area should have.
  

• CONFIG_LOOPW Add the "loopw" memory command. This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).

• CONFIG_MX_CYCLIC Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic "md/mw" commands. Examples:

    => mdc.b 10 4 500
    This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
  
    => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
    This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
  
    This only takes effect if the memory commands are activated
    globally (CONFIG_CMD_MEM).
  

• CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT [ARM, NDS32, MIPS only] If this variable is defined, then certain low level initializations (like setting up the memory controller) are omitted and/or U-Boot does not relocate itself into RAM.

    Normally this variable MUST NOT be defined. The only
    exception is when U-Boot is loaded (to RAM) by some
    other boot loader or by a debugger which performs
    these initializations itself.
  

• CONFIG_SPL_BUILD Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader that is executed before the actual U-Boot. E.g. when compiling a NAND SPL.

• CONFIG_TPL_BUILD Modifies the behaviour of start.S when compiling a loader that is executed after the SPL and before the actual U-Boot. It is loaded by the SPL.

• CONFIG_SYS_MPC85XX_NO_RESETVEC Only for 85xx systems. If this variable is specified, the section .resetvec is not kept and the section .bootpg is placed in the previous 4k of the .text section.

• CONFIG_ARCH_MAP_SYSMEM Generally U-Boot (and in particular the md command) uses effective address. It is therefore not necessary to regard U-Boot address as virtual addresses that need to be translated to physical addresses. However, sandbox requires this, since it maintains its own little RAM buffer which contains all addressable memory. This option causes some memory accesses to be mapped through map_sysmem() / unmap_sysmem().

• CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMCPY CONFIG_USE_ARCH_MEMSET If these options are used a optimized version of memcpy/memset will be used if available. These functions may be faster under some conditions but may increase the binary size.

• CONFIG_X86_RESET_VECTOR If defined, the x86 reset vector code is included. This is not needed when U-Boot is running from Coreboot.

• CONFIG_SYS_MPUCLK Defines the MPU clock speed (in MHz).

    NOTE : currently only supported on AM335x platforms.
  

• CONFIG_SPL_AM33XX_ENABLE_RTC32K_OSC: Enables the RTC32K OSC on AM33xx based plattforms

• CONFIG_SYS_NAND_NO_SUBPAGE_WRITE Option to disable subpage write in NAND driver driver that uses this: drivers/mtd/nand/davinci_nand.c

Freescale QE/FMAN Firmware Support:

The Freescale QUICCEngine (QE) and Frame Manager (FMAN) both support the loading of "firmware", which is encoded in the QE firmware binary format. This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address within that device.

• CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR The address in the storage device where the FMAN microcode is located. The meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro is also specified.

• CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_ADDR The address in the storage device where the QE microcode is located. The meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_QE_FW_IN_xxx macro is also specified.

• CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_LENGTH The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.

• CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NOR Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the virtual address in NOR flash.

• CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_NAND Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in NAND flash. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the offset within NAND flash.

• CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_MMC Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SD/MMC device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.

• CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_SPIFLASH Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located on the primary SPI device. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is the byte offset on that device.

• CONFIG_SYS_QE_FMAN_FW_IN_REMOTE Specifies that QE/FMAN firmware is located in the remote (master) memory space. CONFIG_SYS_FMAN_FW_ADDR is a virtual address which can be mapped from slave TLB->slave LAW->slave SRIO or PCIE outbound window->master inbound window->master LAW->the ucode address in master's memory space.

Freescale Layerscape Management Complex Firmware Support:

The Freescale Layerscape Management Complex (MC) supports the loading of "firmware". This firmware often needs to be loaded during U-Boot booting, so macros are used to identify the storage device (NOR flash, SPI, etc) and the address within that device.

• CONFIG_FSL_MC_ENET Enable the MC driver for Layerscape SoCs.

• CONFIG_SYS_LS_MC_FW_ADDR The address in the storage device where the firmware is located. The meaning of this address depends on which CONFIG_SYS_LS_MC_FW_IN_xxx macro is also specified.

• CONFIG_SYS_LS_MC_FW_LENGTH The maximum possible size of the firmware. The firmware binary format has a field that specifies the actual size of the firmware, but it might not be possible to read any part of the firmware unless some local storage is allocated to hold the entire firmware first.

• CONFIG_SYS_LS_MC_FW_IN_NOR Specifies that MC firmware is located in NOR flash, mapped as normal addressable memory via the LBC. CONFIG_SYS_LS_MC_FW_ADDR is the virtual address in NOR flash.

Building the Software:

Building U-Boot has been tested in several native build environments and in many different cross environments. Of course we cannot support all possibly existing versions of cross development tools in all (potentially obsolete) versions. In case of tool chain problems we recommend to use the ELDK (see http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK) which is extensively used to build and test U-Boot.

If you are not using a native environment, it is assumed that you have GNU cross compiling tools available in your path. In this case, you must set the environment variable CROSS_COMPILE in your shell. Note that no changes to the Makefile or any other source files are necessary. For example using the ELDK on a 4xx CPU, please enter:

$ CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
$ export CROSS_COMPILE

Note: If you wish to generate Windows versions of the utilities in the tools directory you can use the MinGW toolchain (http://www.mingw.org). Set your HOST tools to the MinGW toolchain and execute 'make tools'. For example:

   $ make HOSTCC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc HOSTSTRIP=i586-mingw32msvc-strip tools

  Binaries such as tools/mkimage.exe will be created which can
  be executed on computers running Windows.

U-Boot is intended to be simple to build. After installing the sources you must configure U-Boot for one specific board type. This is done by typing:

make NAME_defconfig

where "NAME_defconfig" is the name of one of the existing configu- rations; see boards.cfg for supported names.

Note: for some board special configuration names may exist; check if additional information is available from the board vendor; for instance, the TQM823L systems are available without (standard) or with LCD support. You can select such additional "features" when choosing the configuration, i. e.

  make TQM823L_defconfig
- will configure for a plain TQM823L, i. e. no LCD support

  make TQM823L_LCD_defconfig
- will configure for a TQM823L with U-Boot console on LCD

  etc.

Finally, type "make all", and you should get some working U-Boot images ready for download to / installation on your system:

• "u-boot.bin" is a raw binary image
• "u-boot" is an image in ELF binary format
• "u-boot.srec" is in Motorola S-Record format

By default the build is performed locally and the objects are saved in the source directory. One of the two methods can be used to change this behavior and build U-Boot to some external directory:

1. Add O= to the make command line invocations:

   make O=/tmp/build distclean make O=/tmp/build NAME_defconfig make O=/tmp/build all

2. Set environment variable KBUILD_OUTPUT to point to the desired location:

   export KBUILD_OUTPUT=/tmp/build make distclean make NAME_defconfig make all

Note that the command line "O=" setting overrides the KBUILD_OUTPUT environment variable.

Please be aware that the Makefiles assume you are using GNU make, so for instance on NetBSD you might need to use "gmake" instead of native "make".

If the system board that you have is not listed, then you will need to port U-Boot to your hardware platform. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Add a new configuration option for your board to the toplevel "boards.cfg" file, using the existing entries as examples. Follow the instructions there to keep the boards in order.
2. Create a new directory to hold your board specific code. Add any files you need. In your board directory, you will need at least the "Makefile", a ".c", "flash.c" and "u-boot.lds".
3. Create a new configuration file "include/configs/.h" for your board
4. If you're porting U-Boot to a new CPU, then also create a new directory to hold your CPU specific code. Add any files you need.
5. Run "make _defconfig" with your new name.
6. Type "make", and you should get a working "u-boot.srec" file to be installed on your target system.
7. Debug and solve any problems that might arise. [Of course, this last step is much harder than it sounds.]

Testing of U-Boot Modifications, Ports to New Hardware, etc.:

If you have modified U-Boot sources (for instance added a new board or support for new devices, a new CPU, etc.) you are expected to provide feedback to the other developers. The feedback normally takes the form of a "patch", i. e. a context diff against a certain (latest official or latest in the git repository) version of U-Boot sources.

But before you submit such a patch, please verify that your modifi- cation did not break existing code. At least make sure that ALL of the supported boards compile WITHOUT ANY compiler warnings. To do so, just run the "MAKEALL" script, which will configure and build U-Boot for ALL supported system. Be warned, this will take a while. You can select which (cross) compiler to use by passing a `CROSS_COMPILE' environment variable to the script, i. e. to use the ELDK cross tools you can type

CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL

or to build on a native PowerPC system you can type

CROSS_COMPILE=' ' MAKEALL

When using the MAKEALL script, the default behaviour is to build U-Boot in the source directory. This location can be changed by setting the BUILD_DIR environment variable. Also, for each target built, the MAKEALL script saves two log files (.ERR and .MAKEALL) in the /LOG directory. This default location can be changed by setting the MAKEALL_LOGDIR environment variable. For example:

export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build
export MAKEALL_LOGDIR=/tmp/log
CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_8xx- MAKEALL

With the above settings build objects are saved in the /tmp/build, log files are saved in the /tmp/log and the source tree remains clean during the whole build process.

See also "U-Boot Porting Guide" below.

Monitor Commands - Overview:

go - start application at address 'addr' run - run commands in an environment variable bootm - boot application image from memory bootp - boot image via network using BootP/TFTP protocol bootz - boot zImage from memory tftpboot- boot image via network using TFTP protocol and env variables "ipaddr" and "serverip" (and eventually "gatewayip") tftpput - upload a file via network using TFTP protocol rarpboot- boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol diskboot- boot from IDE devicebootd - boot default, i.e., run 'bootcmd' loads - load S-Record file over serial line loadb - load binary file over serial line (kermit mode) md - memory display mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing) nm - memory modify (constant address) mw - memory write (fill) cp - memory copy cmp - memory compare crc32 - checksum calculation i2c - I2C sub-system sspi - SPI utility commands base - print or set address offset printenv- print environment variables setenv - set environment variables saveenv - save environment variables to persistent storage protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection erase - erase FLASH memory flinfo - print FLASH memory information nand - NAND memory operations (see doc/README.nand) bdinfo - print Board Info structure iminfo - print header information for application image coninfo - print console devices and informations ide - IDE sub-system loop - infinite loop on address range loopw - infinite write loop on address range mtest - simple RAM test icache - enable or disable instruction cache dcache - enable or disable data cache reset - Perform RESET of the CPU echo - echo args to console version - print monitor version help - print online help ? - alias for 'help'

Monitor Commands - Detailed Description:

TODO.

For now: just type "help ".

Environment Variables:

U-Boot supports user configuration using Environment Variables which can be made persistent by saving to Flash memory.

Environment Variables are set using "setenv", printed using "printenv", and saved to Flash using "saveenv". Using "setenv" without a value can be used to delete a variable from the environment. As long as you don't save the environment you are working with an in-memory copy. In case the Flash area containing the environment is erased by accident, a default environment is provided.

Some configuration options can be set using Environment Variables.

List of environment variables (most likely not complete):

baudrate - see CONFIG_BAUDRATE

bootdelay - see CONFIG_BOOTDELAY

bootcmd - see CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND

bootargs - Boot arguments when booting an RTOS image

bootfile - Name of the image to load with TFTP

bootm_low - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm command can be restricted. This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and defines lowest address allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_size" environment variable. Address defined by "bootm_low" is also the base of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel -- see the description of CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ and bootm_mapsize.

bootm_mapsize - Size of the initial memory mapping for the Linux kernel. This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and it defines the size of the memory region starting at base address bootm_low that is accessible by the Linux kernel during early boot. If unset, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ is used as the default value if it is defined, and bootm_size is used otherwise.

bootm_size - Memory range available for image processing in the bootm command can be restricted. This variable is given as a hexadecimal number and defines the size of the region allowed for use by the bootm command. See also "bootm_low" environment variable.

updatefile - Location of the software update file on a TFTP server, used by the automatic software update feature. Please refer to documentation in doc/README.update for more details.

autoload - if set to "no" (any string beginning with 'n'), "bootp" will just load perform a lookup of the configuration from the BOOTP server, but not try to load any image using TFTP

autostart - if set to "yes", an image loaded using the "bootp", "rarpboot", "tftpboot" or "diskboot" commands will be automatically started (by internally calling "bootm")

	  If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
	  "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
	  (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
	  This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
	  data.

fdt_high - if set this restricts the maximum address that the flattened device tree will be copied into upon boot. For example, if you have a system with 1 GB memory at physical address 0x10000000, while Linux kernel only recognizes the first 704 MB as low memory, you may need to set fdt_high as 0x3C000000 to have the device tree blob be copied to the maximum address of the 704 MB low memory, so that Linux kernel can access it during the boot procedure.

	  If this is set to the special value 0xFFFFFFFF then
	  the fdt will not be copied at all on boot.  For this
	  to work it must reside in writable memory, have
	  sufficient padding on the end of it for u-boot to
	  add the information it needs into it, and the memory
	  must be accessible by the kernel.

fdtcontroladdr- if set this is the address of the control flattened device tree used by U-Boot when CONFIG_OF_CONTROL is defined.

i2cfast - (PPC405GP|PPC405EP only) if set to 'y' configures Linux I2C driver for fast mode (400kHZ). This environment variable is used in initialization code. So, for changes to be effective it must be saved and board must be reset.

initrd_high - restrict positioning of initrd images: If this variable is not set, initrd images will be copied to the highest possible address in RAM; this is usually what you want since it allows for maximum initrd size. If for some reason you want to make sure that the initrd image is loaded below the CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ limit, you can set this environment variable to a value of "no" or "off" or "0". Alternatively, you can set it to a maximum upper address to use (U-Boot will still check that it does not overwrite the U-Boot stack and data).

	  For instance, when you have a system with 16 MB
	  RAM, and want to reserve 4 MB from use by Linux,
	  you can do this by adding "mem=12M" to the value of
	  the "bootargs" variable. However, now you must make
	  sure that the initrd image is placed in the first
	  12 MB as well - this can be done with

	  setenv initrd_high 00c00000

	  If you set initrd_high to 0xFFFFFFFF, this is an
	  indication to U-Boot that all addresses are legal
	  for the Linux kernel, including addresses in flash
	  memory. In this case U-Boot will NOT COPY the
	  ramdisk at all. This may be useful to reduce the
	  boot time on your system, but requires that this
	  feature is supported by your Linux kernel.

ipaddr - IP address; needed for tftpboot command

loadaddr - Default load address for commands like "bootp", "rarpboot", "tftpboot", "loadb" or "diskboot"

loads_echo - see CONFIG_LOADS_ECHO

serverip - TFTP server IP address; needed for tftpboot command

bootretry - see CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME

bootdelaykey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR

bootstopkey - see CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR

ethprime - controls which interface is used first.

ethact - controls which interface is currently active. For example you can do the following

	  => setenv ethact FEC
	  => ping 192.168.0.1 # traffic sent on FEC
	  => setenv ethact SCC
	  => ping 10.0.0.1 # traffic sent on SCC

ethrotate - When set to "no" U-Boot does not go through all available network interfaces. It just stays at the currently selected interface.

netretry - When set to "no" each network operation will either succeed or fail without retrying. When set to "once" the network operation will fail when all the available network interfaces are tried once without success. Useful on scripts which control the retry operation themselves.

npe_ucode - set load address for the NPE microcode

silent_linux - If set then Linux will be told to boot silently, by changing the console to be empty. If "yes" it will be made silent. If "no" it will not be made silent. If unset, then it will be made silent if the U-Boot console is silent.

tftpsrcport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP source port.

tftpdstport - If this is set, the value is used for TFTP's UDP destination port instead of the Well Know Port 69.

tftpblocksize - Block size to use for TFTP transfers; if not set, we use the TFTP server's default block size

tftptimeout - Retransmission timeout for TFTP packets (in milli- seconds, minimum value is 1000 = 1 second). Defines when a packet is considered to be lost so it has to be retransmitted. The default is 5000 = 5 seconds. Lowering this value may make downloads succeed faster in networks with high packet loss rates or with unreliable TFTP servers.

vlan - When set to a value < 4095 the traffic over Ethernet is encapsulated/received over 802.1q VLAN tagged frames.

The following image location variables contain the location of images used in booting. The "Image" column gives the role of the image and is not an environment variable name. The other columns are environment variable names. "File Name" gives the name of the file on a TFTP server, "RAM Address" gives the location in RAM the image will be loaded to, and "Flash Location" gives the image's address in NOR flash or offset in NAND flash.

Note - these variables don't have to be defined for all boards, some boards currenlty use other variables for these purposes, and some boards use these variables for other purposes.

Image File Name RAM Address Flash Location

---

u-boot u-boot u-boot_addr_r u-boot_addr Linux kernel bootfile kernel_addr_r kernel_addr device tree blob fdtfile fdt_addr_r fdt_addr ramdisk ramdiskfile ramdisk_addr_r ramdisk_addr

The following environment variables may be used and automatically updated by the network boot commands ("bootp" and "rarpboot"), depending the information provided by your boot server:

bootfile - see above dnsip - IP address of your Domain Name Server dnsip2 - IP address of your secondary Domain Name Server gatewayip - IP address of the Gateway (Router) to use hostname - Target hostname ipaddr - see above netmask - Subnet Mask rootpath - Pathname of the root filesystem on the NFS server serverip - see above

There are two special Environment Variables:

serial# - contains hardware identification information such as type string and/or serial number ethaddr - Ethernet address

These variables can be set only once (usually during manufacturing of the board). U-Boot refuses to delete or overwrite these variables once they have been set once.

Further special Environment Variables:

ver - Contains the U-Boot version string as printed with the "version" command. This variable is readonly (see CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).

Please note that changes to some configuration parameters may take only effect after the next boot (yes, that's just like Windoze :-).

Callback functions for environment variables:

For some environment variables, the behavior of u-boot needs to change when their values are changed. This functionality allows functions to be associated with arbitrary variables. On creation, overwrite, or deletion, the callback will provide the opportunity for some side effect to happen or for the change to be rejected.

The callbacks are named and associated with a function using the U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK macro in your board or driver code.

These callbacks are associated with variables in one of two ways. The static list can be added to by defining CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_STATIC in the board configuration to a string that defines a list of associations. The list must be in the following format:

entry = variable_name[:callback_name]
list = entry[,list]

If the callback name is not specified, then the callback is deleted. Spaces are also allowed anywhere in the list.

Callbacks can also be associated by defining the ".callbacks" variable with the same list format above. Any association in ".callbacks" will override any association in the static list. You can define CONFIG_ENV_CALLBACK_LIST_DEFAULT to a list (string) to define the ".callbacks" environment variable in the default or embedded environment.

Command Line Parsing:

There are two different command line parsers available with U-Boot: the old "simple" one, and the much more powerful "hush" shell:

Old, simple command line parser:

• supports environment variables (through setenv / saveenv commands)
• several commands on one line, separated by ';'
• variable substitution using "... ${name} ..." syntax
• special characters ('$', ';') can be escaped by prefixing with '', for example: setenv bootcmd bootm ${address}
• You can also escape text by enclosing in single apostrophes, for example: setenv addip 'setenv bootargs $bootargs ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayip:$netmask:$hostname::off'

Hush shell:

• similar to Bourne shell, with control structures like if...then...else...fi, for...do...done; while...do...done, until...do...done, ...
• supports environment ("global") variables (through setenv / saveenv commands) and local shell variables (through standard shell syntax "name=value"); only environment variables can be used with "run" command

General rules:

(1) If a command line (or an environment variable executed by a "run" command) contains several commands separated by semicolon, and one of these commands fails, then the remaining commands will be executed anyway.

(2) If you execute several variables with one call to run (i. e. calling run with a list of variables as arguments), any failing command will cause "run" to terminate, i. e. the remaining variables are not executed.

Note for Redundant Ethernet Interfaces:

Some boards come with redundant Ethernet interfaces; U-Boot supports such configurations and is capable of automatic selection of a "working" interface when needed. MAC assignment works as follows:

Network interfaces are numbered eth0, eth1, eth2, ... Corresponding MAC addresses can be stored in the environment as "ethaddr" (=>eth0), "eth1addr" (=>eth1), "eth2addr", ...

If the network interface stores some valid MAC address (for instance in SROM), this is used as default address if there is NO correspon- ding setting in the environment; if the corresponding environment variable is set, this overrides the settings in the card; that means:

o If the SROM has a valid MAC address, and there is no address in the environment, the SROM's address is used.

o If there is no valid address in the SROM, and a definition in the environment exists, then the value from the environment variable is used.

o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and both addresses are the same, this MAC address is used.

o If both the SROM and the environment contain a MAC address, and the addresses differ, the value from the environment is used and a warning is printed.

o If neither SROM nor the environment contain a MAC address, an error is raised.

If Ethernet drivers implement the 'write_hwaddr' function, valid MAC addresses will be programmed into hardware as part of the initialization process. This may be skipped by setting the appropriate 'ethmacskip' environment variable. The naming convention is as follows: "ethmacskip" (=>eth0), "eth1macskip" (=>eth1) etc.

Image Formats:

U-Boot is capable of booting (and performing other auxiliary operations on) images in two formats:

New uImage format (FIT)

Flexible and powerful format based on Flattened Image Tree -- FIT (similar to Flattened Device Tree). It allows the use of images with multiple components (several kernels, ramdisks, etc.), with contents protected by SHA1, MD5 or CRC32. More details are found in the doc/uImage.FIT directory.

Old uImage format

Old image format is based on binary files which can be basically anything, preceded by a special header; see the definitions in include/image.h for details; basically, the header defines the following image properties:

• Target Operating System (Provisions for OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, 4.4BSD, Linux, SVR4, Esix, Solaris, Irix, SCO, Dell, NCR, VxWorks, LynxOS, pSOS, QNX, RTEMS, INTEGRITY; Currently supported: Linux, NetBSD, VxWorks, QNX, RTEMS, LynxOS, INTEGRITY).
• Target CPU Architecture (Provisions for Alpha, ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, IA64, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC, IBM S390, SuperH, Sparc, Sparc 64 Bit; Currently supported: ARM, AVR32, Intel x86, MIPS, NDS32, Nios II, PowerPC).
• Compression Type (uncompressed, gzip, bzip2)
• Load Address
• Entry Point
• Image Name
• Image Timestamp

The header is marked by a special Magic Number, and both the header and the data portions of the image are secured against corruption by CRC32 checksums.

Linux Support:

Although U-Boot should support any OS or standalone application easily, the main focus has always been on Linux during the design of U-Boot.

U-Boot includes many features that so far have been part of some special "boot loader" code within the Linux kernel. Also, any "initrd" images to be used are no longer part of one big Linux image; instead, kernel and "initrd" are separate images. This implementation serves several purposes:

• the same features can be used for other OS or standalone applications (for instance: using compressed images to reduce the Flash memory footprint)

• it becomes much easier to port new Linux kernel versions because lots of low-level, hardware dependent stuff are done by U-Boot

• the same Linux kernel image can now be used with different "initrd" images; of course this also means that different kernel images can be run with the same "initrd". This makes testing easier (you don't have to build a new "zImage.initrd" Linux image when you just change a file in your "initrd"). Also, a field-upgrade of the software is easier now.

Linux HOWTO:

Porting Linux to U-Boot based systems:

U-Boot cannot save you from doing all the necessary modifications to configure the Linux device drivers for use with your target hardware (no, we don't intend to provide a full virtual machine interface to Linux :-).

But now you can ignore ALL boot loader code (in arch/powerpc/mbxboot).

Just make sure your machine specific header file (for instance include/asm-ppc/tqm8xx.h) includes the same definition of the Board Information structure as we define in include/asm-/u-boot.h, and make sure that your definition of IMAP_ADDR uses the same value as your U-Boot configuration in CONFIG_SYS_IMMR.

Note that U-Boot now has a driver model, a unified model for drivers. If you are adding a new driver, plumb it into driver model. If there is no uclass available, you are encouraged to create one. See doc/driver-model.

Configuring the Linux kernel:

No specific requirements for U-Boot. Make sure you have some root device (initial ramdisk, NFS) for your target system.

Building a Linux Image:

With U-Boot, "normal" build targets like "zImage" or "bzImage" are not used. If you use recent kernel source, a new build target "uImage" will exist which automatically builds an image usable by U-Boot. Most older kernels also have support for a "pImage" target, which was introduced for our predecessor project PPCBoot and uses a 100% compatible format.

Example:

make TQM850L_defconfig
make oldconfig
make dep
make uImage

The "uImage" build target uses a special tool (in 'tools/mkimage') to encapsulate a compressed Linux kernel image with header information, CRC32 checksum etc. for use with U-Boot. This is what we are doing:

• build a standard "vmlinux" kernel image (in ELF binary format):

• convert the kernel into a raw binary image:

  ${CROSS_COMPILE}-objcopy -O binary
  -R .note -R .comment
  -S vmlinux linux.bin

• compress the binary image:

  gzip -9 linux.bin

• package compressed binary image for U-Boot:

  mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip
  -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image"
  -d linux.bin.gz uImage

The "mkimage" tool can also be used to create ramdisk images for use with U-Boot, either separated from the Linux kernel image, or combined into one file. "mkimage" encapsulates the images with a 64 byte header containing information about target architecture, operating system, image type, compression method, entry points, time stamp, CRC32 checksums, etc.

"mkimage" can be called in two ways: to verify existing images and print the header information, or to build new images.

In the first form (with "-l" option) mkimage lists the information contained in the header of an existing U-Boot image; this includes checksum verification:

tools/mkimage -l image
  -l ==> list image header information

The second form (with "-d" option) is used to build a U-Boot image from a "data file" which is used as image payload:

tools/mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep \
	      -n name -d data_file image
  -A ==> set architecture to 'arch'
  -O ==> set operating system to 'os'
  -T ==> set image type to 'type'
  -C ==> set compression type 'comp'
  -a ==> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
  -e ==> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
  -n ==> set image name to 'name'
  -d ==> use image data from 'datafile'

Right now, all Linux kernels for PowerPC systems use the same load address (0x00000000), but the entry point address depends on the kernel version:

• 2.2.x kernels have the entry point at 0x0000000C,
• 2.3.x and later kernels have the entry point at 0x00000000.

So a typical call to build a U-Boot image would read:

-> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
> -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0 -e 0 \
> -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz \
> examples/uImage.TQM850L
Image Name:   2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
Created:      Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size:    335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
Load Address: 0x00000000
Entry Point:  0x00000000

To verify the contents of the image (or check for corruption):

-> tools/mkimage -l examples/uImage.TQM850L
Image Name:   2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
Created:      Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size:    335725 Bytes = 327.86 kB = 0.32 MB
Load Address: 0x00000000
Entry Point:  0x00000000

NOTE: for embedded systems where boot time is critical you can trade speed for memory and install an UNCOMPRESSED image instead: this needs more space in Flash, but boots much faster since it does not need to be uncompressed:

-> gunzip /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux.gz
-> tools/mkimage -n '2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L' \
> -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0 -e 0 \
> -d /opt/elsk/ppc_8xx/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/arch/powerpc/coffboot/vmlinux \
> examples/uImage.TQM850L-uncompressed
Image Name:   2.4.4 kernel for TQM850L
Created:      Wed Jul 19 02:34:59 2000
Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size:    792160 Bytes = 773.59 kB = 0.76 MB
Load Address: 0x00000000
Entry Point:  0x00000000

Similar you can build U-Boot images from a 'ramdisk.image.gz' file when your kernel is intended to use an initial ramdisk:

-> tools/mkimage -n 'Simple Ramdisk Image' \
> -A ppc -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip \
> -d /LinuxPPC/images/SIMPLE-ramdisk.image.gz examples/simple-initrd
Image Name:   Simple Ramdisk Image
Created:      Wed Jan 12 14:01:50 2000
Image Type:   PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size:    566530 Bytes = 553.25 kB = 0.54 MB
Load Address: 0x00000000
Entry Point:  0x00000000

The "dumpimage" is a tool to disassemble images built by mkimage. Its "-i" option performs the converse operation of the mkimage's second form (the "-d" option). Given an image built by mkimage, the dumpimage extracts a "data file" from the image:

tools/dumpimage -i image -p position data_file
  -i ==> extract from the 'image' a specific 'data_file', \
   indexed by 'position'

Installing a Linux Image:

To downloading a U-Boot image over the serial (console) interface, you must convert the image to S-Record format:

objcopy -I binary -O srec examples/image examples/image.srec

The 'objcopy' does not understand the information in the U-Boot image header, so the resulting S-Record file will be relative to address 0x00000000. To load it to a given address, you need to specify the target address as 'offset' parameter with the 'loads' command.

Example: install the image to address 0x40100000 (which on the TQM8xxL is in the first Flash bank):

=> erase 40100000 401FFFFF

.......... done
Erased 8 sectors

=> loads 40100000
## Ready for S-Record download ...
~>examples/image.srec
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...
...
15989 15990 15991 15992
[file transfer complete]
[connected]
## Start Addr = 0x00000000

You can check the success of the download using the 'iminfo' command; this includes a checksum verification so you can be sure no data corruption happened:

=> imi 40100000

## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
   Image Name:	 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
   Image Type:	 PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:	 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:	 0000000c
   Verifying Checksum ... OK

Boot Linux:

The "bootm" command is used to boot an application that is stored in memory (RAM or Flash). In case of a Linux kernel image, the contents of the "bootargs" environment variable is passed to the kernel as parameters. You can check and modify this variable using the "printenv" and "setenv" commands:

=> printenv bootargs
bootargs=root=/dev/ram

=> setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2

=> printenv bootargs
bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2

=> bootm 40020000
## Booting Linux kernel at 40020000 ...
   Image Name:	 2.2.13 for NFS on TQM850L
   Image Type:	 PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:	 381681 Bytes = 372 kB = 0 MB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:	 0000000c
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
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
Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.2:/LinuxPPC nfsaddrs=10.0.0.99:10.0.0.2
time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15208k available (700k kernel code, 444k data, 32k init) [c0000000,c1000000]
...

If you want to boot a Linux kernel with initial RAM disk, you pass the memory addresses of both the kernel and the initrd image (PPBCOOT format!) to the "bootm" command:

=> imi 40100000 40200000

## Checking Image at 40100000 ...
   Image Name:	 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
   Image Type:	 PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:	 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:	 0000000c
   Verifying Checksum ... OK

## Checking Image at 40200000 ...
   Image Name:	 Simple Ramdisk Image
   Image Type:	 PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:	 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:	 00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK

=> bootm 40100000 40200000
## Booting Linux kernel at 40100000 ...
   Image Name:	 2.2.13 for initrd on TQM850L
   Image Type:	 PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:	 335725 Bytes = 327 kB = 0 MB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:	 0000000c
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
## Loading RAMDisk Image at 40200000 ...
   Image Name:	 Simple Ramdisk Image
   Image Type:	 PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:	 566530 Bytes = 553 kB = 0 MB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:	 00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Loading Ramdisk ... OK
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
Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
Calibrating delay loop... 49.77 BogoMIPS
...
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).

bash#

Boot Linux and pass a flat device tree:

First, U-Boot must be compiled with the appropriate defines. See the section titled "Linux Kernel Interface" above for a more in depth explanation. The following is an example of how to start a kernel and pass an updated flat device tree:

=> print oftaddr oftaddr=0x300000 => print oft oft=oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb => tftp $oftaddr $oft Speed: 1000, full duplex Using TSEC0 device TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.101 Filename 'oftrees/mpc8540ads.dtb'. Load address: 0x300000 Loading: # done Bytes transferred = 4106 (100a hex) => tftp $loadaddr $bootfile Speed: 1000, full duplex Using TSEC0 device TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.2 Filename 'uImage'. Load address: 0x200000 Loading:############ done Bytes transferred = 1029407 (fb51f hex) => print loadaddr loadaddr=200000 => print oftaddr oftaddr=0x300000 => bootm $loadaddr - $oftaddr

Booting image at 00200000 ...

Image Name: Linux-2.6.17-dirty Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 1029343 Bytes = 1005.2 kB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK Booting using flat device tree at 0x300000 Using MPC85xx ADS machine description Memory CAM mapping: CAM0=256Mb, CAM1=256Mb, CAM2=0Mb residual: 0Mb [snip]

More About U-Boot Image Types:

U-Boot supports the following image types:

"Standalone Programs" are directly runnable in the environment provided by U-Boot; it is expected that (if they behave well) you can continue to work in U-Boot after return from the Standalone Program. "OS Kernel Images" are usually images of some Embedded OS which will take over control completely. Usually these programs will install their own set of exception handlers, device drivers, set up the MMU, etc. - this means, that you cannot expect to re-enter U-Boot except by resetting the CPU. "RAMDisk Images" are more or less just data blocks, and their parameters (address, size) are passed to an OS kernel that is being started. "Multi-File Images" contain several images, typically an OS (Linux) kernel image and one or more data images like RAMDisks. This construct is useful for instance when you want to boot over the network using BOOTP etc., where the boot server provides just a single image file, but you want to get for instance an OS kernel and a RAMDisk image.

"Multi-File Images" start with a list of image sizes, each
image size (in bytes) specified by an "uint32_t" in network
byte order. This list is terminated by an "(uint32_t)0".
Immediately after the terminating 0 follow the images, one by
one, all aligned on "uint32_t" boundaries (size rounded up to
a multiple of 4 bytes).

"Firmware Images" are binary images containing firmware (like U-Boot or FPGA images) which usually will be programmed to flash memory.

"Script files" are command sequences that will be executed by U-Boot's command interpreter; this feature is especially useful when you configure U-Boot to use a real shell (hush) as command interpreter.

Booting the Linux zImage:

On some platforms, it's possible to boot Linux zImage. This is done using the "bootz" command. The syntax of "bootz" command is the same as the syntax of "bootm" command.

Note, defining the CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD allows user to supply kernel with raw initrd images. The syntax is slightly different, the address of the initrd must be augmented by it's size, in the following format: ":".

Standalone HOWTO:

One of the features of U-Boot is that you can dynamically load and run "standalone" applications, which can use some resources of U-Boot like console I/O functions or interrupt services.

Two simple examples are included with the sources:

"Hello World" Demo:

'examples/hello_world.c' contains a small "Hello World" Demo application; it is automatically compiled when you build U-Boot. It's configured to run at address 0x00040004, so you can play with it like that:

=> loads
## Ready for S-Record download ...
~>examples/hello_world.srec
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
[file transfer complete]
[connected]
## Start Addr = 0x00040004

=> go 40004 Hello World! This is a test.
## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
Hello World
argc = 7
argv[0] = "40004"
argv[1] = "Hello"
argv[2] = "World!"
argv[3] = "This"
argv[4] = "is"
argv[5] = "a"
argv[6] = "test."
argv[7] = "<NULL>"
Hit any key to exit ...

## Application terminated, rc = 0x0

Another example, which demonstrates how to register a CPM interrupt handler with the U-Boot code, can be found in 'examples/timer.c'. Here, a CPM timer is set up to generate an interrupt every second. The interrupt service routine is trivial, just printing a '.' character, but this is just a demo program. The application can be controlled by the following keys:

? - print current values og the CPM Timer registers
b - enable interrupts and start timer
e - stop timer and disable interrupts
q - quit application

=> loads
## Ready for S-Record download ...
~>examples/timer.srec
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
[file transfer complete]
[connected]
## Start Addr = 0x00040004

=> go 40004
## Starting application at 0x00040004 ...
TIMERS=0xfff00980
Using timer 1
  tgcr @ 0xfff00980, tmr @ 0xfff00990, trr @ 0xfff00994, tcr @ 0xfff00998, tcn @ 0xfff0099c, ter @ 0xfff009b0

Hit 'b': [q, b, e, ?] Set interval 1000000 us Enabling timer Hit '?': [q, b, e, ?] ........ tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0xef6, ter=0x0 Hit '?': [q, b, e, ?] . tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x2ad4, ter=0x0 Hit '?': [q, b, e, ?] . tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x1efc, ter=0x0 Hit '?': [q, b, e, ?] . tgcr=0x1, tmr=0xff1c, trr=0x3d09, tcr=0x0, tcn=0x169d, ter=0x0 Hit 'e': [q, b, e, ?] ...Stopping timer Hit 'q': [q, b, e, ?] ## Application terminated, rc = 0x0

Minicom warning:

Over time, many people have reported problems when trying to use the "minicom" terminal emulation program for serial download. I (wd) consider minicom to be broken, and recommend not to use it. Under Unix, I recommend to use C-Kermit for general purpose use (and especially for kermit binary protocol download ("loadb" command), and use "cu" for S-Record download ("loads" command). See http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/SystemSetup#Section_4.3. for help with kermit.

Nevertheless, if you absolutely want to use it try adding this configuration to your "File transfer protocols" section:

   Name	   Program			Name U/D FullScr IO-Red. Multi
X  kermit  /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -s	 Y    U	   Y	   N	  N
Y  kermit  /usr/bin/kermit -i -l %l -r	 N    D	   Y	   N	  N

NetBSD Notes:

Starting at version 0.9.2, U-Boot supports NetBSD both as host (build U-Boot) and target system (boots NetBSD/mpc8xx).

Building requires a cross environment; it is known to work on NetBSD/i386 with the cross-powerpc-netbsd-1.3 package (you will also need gmake since the Makefiles are not compatible with BSD make). Note that the cross-powerpc package does not install include files; attempting to build U-Boot will fail because <machine/ansi.h> is missing. This file has to be installed and patched manually:

# cd /usr/pkg/cross/powerpc-netbsd/include
# mkdir powerpc
# ln -s powerpc machine
# cp /usr/src/sys/arch/powerpc/include/ansi.h powerpc/ansi.h
# ${EDIT} powerpc/ansi.h	## must remove __va_list, _BSD_VA_LIST

Native builds don't work due to incompatibilities between native and U-Boot include files.

Booting assumes that (the first part of) the image booted is a stage-2 loader which in turn loads and then invokes the kernel proper. Loader sources will eventually appear in the NetBSD source tree (probably in sys/arc/mpc8xx/stand/u-boot_stage2/); in the meantime, see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ppcboot_stage2.tar.gz

Implementation Internals:

The following is not intended to be a complete description of every implementation detail. However, it should help to understand the inner workings of U-Boot and make it easier to port it to custom hardware.

Initial Stack, Global Data:

The implementation of U-Boot is complicated by the fact that U-Boot starts running out of ROM (flash memory), usually without access to system RAM (because the memory controller is not initialized yet). This means that we don't have writable Data or BSS segments, and BSS is not initialized as zero. To be able to get a C environment working at all, we have to allocate at least a minimal stack. Implementation options for this are defined and restricted by the CPU used: Some CPU models provide on-chip memory (like the IMMR area on MPC8xx and MPC826x processors), on others (parts of) the data cache can be locked as (mis-) used as memory, etc.

Chris Hallinan posted a good summary of these issues to the
U-Boot mailing list:

Subject: RE: [U-Boot-Users] RE: More On Memory Bank x (nothingness)?
From: "Chris Hallinan" <clh@net1plus.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:43:46 -0500 (22:43 MET)
...

Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but the way I understand it
is this: Using DCACHE as initial RAM for Stack, etc, does not
require any physical RAM backing up the cache. The cleverness
is that the cache is being used as a temporary supply of
necessary storage before the SDRAM controller is setup. It's
beyond the scope of this list to explain the details, but you
can see how this works by studying the cache architecture and
operation in the architecture and processor-specific manuals.

OCM is On Chip Memory, which I believe the 405GP has 4K. It
is another option for the system designer to use as an
initial stack/RAM area prior to SDRAM being available. Either
option should work for you. Using CS 4 should be fine if your
board designers haven't used it for something that would
cause you grief during the initial boot! It is frequently not
used.

CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR should be somewhere that won't interfere
with your processor/board/system design. The default value
you will find in any recent u-boot distribution in
walnut.h should work for you. I'd set it to a value larger
than your SDRAM module. If you have a 64MB SDRAM module, set
it above 400_0000. Just make sure your board has no resources
that are supposed to respond to that address! That code in
start.S has been around a while and should work as is when
you get the config right.

-Chris Hallinan
DS4.COM, Inc.

It is essential to remember this, since it has some impact on the C code for the initialization procedures:

• Initialized global data (data segment) is read-only. Do not attempt to write it.

• Do not use any uninitialized global data (or implicitly initialized as zero data - BSS segment) at all - this is undefined, initiali- zation is performed later (when relocating to RAM).

• Stack space is very limited. Avoid big data buffers or things like that.

Having only the stack as writable memory limits means we cannot use normal global data to share information between the code. But it turned out that the implementation of U-Boot can be greatly simplified by making a global data structure (gd_t) available to all functions. We could pass a pointer to this data as argument to all functions, but this would bloat the code. Instead we use a feature of the GCC compiler (Global Register Variables) to share the data: we place a pointer (gd) to the global data into a register which we reserve for this purpose.

When choosing a register for such a purpose we are restricted by the relevant (E)ABI specifications for the current architecture, and by GCC's implementation.

For PowerPC, the following registers have specific use: R1: stack pointer R2: reserved for system use R3-R4: parameter passing and return values R5-R10: parameter passing R13: small data area pointer R30: GOT pointer R31: frame pointer

(U-Boot also uses R12 as internal GOT pointer. r12
is a volatile register so r12 needs to be reset when
going back and forth between asm and C)

==> U-Boot will use R2 to hold a pointer to the global data

Note: on PPC, we could use a static initializer (since the
address of the global data structure is known at compile time),
but it turned out that reserving a register results in somewhat
smaller code - although the code savings are not that big (on
average for all boards 752 bytes for the whole U-Boot image,
624 text + 127 data).

On Blackfin, the normal C ABI (except for P3) is followed as documented here: http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=application_binary_interface

==> U-Boot will use P3 to hold a pointer to the global data

On ARM, the following registers are used:

R0:	function argument word/integer result
R1-R3:	function argument word
R9:	platform specific
R10:	stack limit (used only if stack checking is enabled)
R11:	argument (frame) pointer
R12:	temporary workspace
R13:	stack pointer
R14:	link register
R15:	program counter

==> U-Boot will use R9 to hold a pointer to the global data

Note: on ARM, only R_ARM_RELATIVE relocations are supported.

On Nios II, the ABI is documented here: http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2cpu_nii51016.pdf

==> U-Boot will use gp to hold a pointer to the global data

Note: on Nios II, we give "-G0" option to gcc and don't use gp
to access small data sections, so gp is free.

On NDS32, the following registers are used:

R0-R1:	argument/return
R2-R5:	argument
R15:	temporary register for assembler
R16:	trampoline register
R28:	frame pointer (FP)
R29:	global pointer (GP)
R30:	link register (LP)
R31:	stack pointer (SP)
PC:	program counter (PC)

==> U-Boot will use R10 to hold a pointer to the global data

NOTE: DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR must be used with file-global scope, or current versions of GCC may "optimize" the code too much.

Memory Management:

U-Boot runs in system state and uses physical addresses, i.e. the MMU is not used either for address mapping nor for memory protection.

The available memory is mapped to fixed addresses using the memory controller. In this process, a contiguous block is formed for each memory type (Flash, SDRAM, SRAM), even when it consists of several physical memory banks.

U-Boot is installed in the first 128 kB of the first Flash bank (on TQM8xxL modules this is the range 0x40000000 ... 0x4001FFFF). After booting and sizing and initializing DRAM, the code relocates itself to the upper end of DRAM. Immediately below the U-Boot code some memory is reserved for use by malloc() [see CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN configuration setting]. Below that, a structure with global Board Info data is placed, followed by the stack (growing downward).

Additionally, some exception handler code is copied to the low 8 kB of DRAM (0x00000000 ... 0x00001FFF).

So a typical memory configuration with 16 MB of DRAM could look like this:

0x0000 0000	Exception Vector code
      :
0x0000 1FFF
0x0000 2000	Free for Application Use
      :
      :

      :
      :
0x00FB FF20	Monitor Stack (Growing downward)
0x00FB FFAC	Board Info Data and permanent copy of global data
0x00FC 0000	Malloc Arena
      :
0x00FD FFFF
0x00FE 0000	RAM Copy of Monitor Code
...		eventually: LCD or video framebuffer
...		eventually: pRAM (Protected RAM - unchanged by reset)
0x00FF FFFF	[End of RAM]

System Initialization:

In the reset configuration, U-Boot starts at the reset entry point (on most PowerPC systems at address 0x00000100). Because of the reset configuration for CS0# this is a mirror of the on board Flash memory. To be able to re-map memory U-Boot then jumps to its link address. To be able to implement the initialization code in C, a (small!) initial stack is set up in the internal Dual Ported RAM (in case CPUs which provide such a feature like MPC8xx or MPC8260), or in a locked part of the data cache. After that, U-Boot initializes the CPU core, the caches and the SIU.

Next, all (potentially) available memory banks are mapped using a preliminary mapping. For example, we put them on 512 MB boundaries (multiples of 0x20000000: SDRAM on 0x00000000 and 0x20000000, Flash on 0x40000000 and 0x60000000, SRAM on 0x80000000). Then UPM A is programmed for SDRAM access. Using the temporary configuration, a simple memory test is run that determines the size of the SDRAM banks.

When there is more than one SDRAM bank, and the banks are of different size, the largest is mapped first. For equal size, the first bank (CS2#) is mapped first. The first mapping is always for address 0x00000000, with any additional banks following immediately to create contiguous memory starting from 0.

Then, the monitor installs itself at the upper end of the SDRAM area and allocates memory for use by malloc() and for the global Board Info data; also, the exception vector code is copied to the low RAM pages, and the final stack is set up.

Only after this relocation will you have a "normal" C environment; until that you are restricted in several ways, mostly because you are running from ROM, and because the code will have to be relocated to a new address in RAM.

U-Boot Porting Guide:

[Based on messages by Jerry Van Baren in the U-Boot-Users mailing list, October 2002]

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { sighandler_t no_more_time;

signal(SIGALRM, no_more_time);
alarm(PROJECT_DEADLINE - toSec (3 * WEEK));

if (available_money > available_manpower) {
	Pay consultant to port U-Boot;
	return 0;
}

Download latest U-Boot source;

Subscribe to u-boot mailing list;

if (clueless)
	email("Hi, I am new to U-Boot, how do I get started?");

while (learning) {
	Read the README file in the top level directory;
	Read http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual;
	Read applicable doc/*.README;
	Read the source, Luke;
	/* find . -name "*.[chS]" | xargs grep -i <keyword> */
}

if (available_money > toLocalCurrency ($2500))
	Buy a BDI3000;
else
	Add a lot of aggravation and time;

if (a similar board exists) {	/* hopefully... */
	cp -a board/<similar> board/<myboard>
	cp include/configs/<similar>.h include/configs/<myboard>.h
} else {
	Create your own board support subdirectory;
	Create your own board include/configs/<myboard>.h file;
}
Edit new board/<myboard> files
Edit new include/configs/<myboard>.h

while (!accepted) {
	while (!running) {
		do {
			Add / modify source code;
		} until (compiles);
		Debug;
		if (clueless)
			email("Hi, I am having problems...");
	}
	Send patch file to the U-Boot email list;
	if (reasonable critiques)
		Incorporate improvements from email list code review;
	else
		Defend code as written;
}

return 0;

}

void no_more_time (int sig) { hire_a_guru(); }

Coding Standards:

All contributions to U-Boot should conform to the Linux kernel coding style; see the file "Documentation/CodingStyle" and the script "scripts/Lindent" in your Linux kernel source directory.

Source files originating from a different project (for example the MTD subsystem) are generally exempt from these guidelines and are not reformatted to ease subsequent migration to newer versions of those sources.

Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//) in your code.

Please also stick to the following formatting rules:

• remove any trailing white space
• use TAB characters for indentation and vertical alignment, not spaces
• make sure NOT to use DOS '\r\n' line feeds
• do not add more than 2 consecutive empty lines to source files
• do not add trailing empty lines to source files

Submissions which do not conform to the standards may be returned with a request to reformat the changes.

Submitting Patches:

Since the number of patches for U-Boot is growing, we need to establish some rules. Submissions which do not conform to these rules may be rejected, even when they contain important and valuable stuff.

Please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches for details.

Patches shall be sent to the u-boot mailing list u-boot@lists.denx.de; see http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot

When you send a patch, please include the following information with it:

• For bug fixes: a description of the bug and how your patch fixes this bug. Please try to include a way of demonstrating that the patch actually fixes something.

• For new features: a description of the feature and your implementation.

• A CHANGELOG entry as plaintext (separate from the patch)

• For major contributions, your entry to the CREDITS file

• When you add support for a new board, don't forget to add a maintainer e-mail address to the boards.cfg file, too.

• If your patch adds new configuration options, don't forget to document these in the README file.

• The patch itself. If you are using git (which is strongly recommended) you can easily generate the patch using the "git format-patch". If you then use "git send-email" to send it to the U-Boot mailing list, you will avoid most of the common problems with some other mail clients.

  If you cannot use git, use "diff -purN OLD NEW". If your version of diff does not support these options, then get the latest version of GNU diff.

  The current directory when running this command shall be the parent directory of the U-Boot source tree (i. e. please make sure that your patch includes sufficient directory information for the affected files).

  We prefer patches as plain text. MIME attachments are discouraged, and compressed attachments must not be used.

• If one logical set of modifications affects or creates several files, all these changes shall be submitted in a SINGLE patch file.

• Changesets that contain different, unrelated modifications shall be submitted as SEPARATE patches, one patch per changeset.

Notes:

• Before sending the patch, run the MAKEALL script on your patched source tree and make sure that no errors or warnings are reported for any of the boards.

• Keep your modifications to the necessary minimum: A patch containing several unrelated changes or arbitrary reformats will be returned with a request to re-formatting / split it.

• If you modify existing code, make sure that your new code does not add to the memory footprint of the code ;-) Small is beautiful! When adding new features, these should compile conditionally only (using #ifdef), and the resulting code with the new feature disabled must not need more memory than the old code without your modification.

• Remember that there is a size limit of 100 kB per message on the u-boot mailing list. Bigger patches will be moderated. If they are reasonable and not too big, they will be acknowledged. But patches bigger than the size limit should be avoided.