October 2003 - U-Boot

[U-Boot-Users] mkimage for DOS
by Dave Westwood 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

long shot really, but does anyone have a working executable mkimage for DOS or a dos window in windows (don't flame me for using windows !!)

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[U-Boot-Users] loading linux in FADS860T board through u-boot-1.0.0
by RamanaYV 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

I was trying to load linux-2.4.4 in FADS860T board using u-boot-1.0.0. I have settted environment variables like ipaddr,serverip,ethaddr,bootargs bootfile and saved the environment. Then,i typed tftpboot to download image from server. Then,i typed bootm to start the booting process. System is stucked by showing "Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK" sequence of these events r given below.can u please suggest, what i need to do to come out from this. Thank you. U-Boot 1.0.0 (Mar 17 2004 - 14:06:16) CPU: XPC86xxxZPnnD4 at 40 MHz: 4 kB I-Cache 4 kB D-Cache FEC present Board: FADS with db MPC821, MPC860 / MPC860SAR / MPC860T rev PILOT DRAM: (4 MB SDRAM) 4M 60ns DRAM: 8 MB FLASH: 2 MB In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: FEC ETHERNET =>printenv stdin=serial stdout=serial stderr=serial Environment size: 41/16380 bytes =>setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.115 =>setenv serverip 192.168.1.87 =>setenv ip 192.168.1.115 =>setenv ethaddr 00:30:bf:01:02:d0 =>setenv bootargs "root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.1.87:/opt/eldk/ppc8xx ip=192 .168.1.115:192.168.1.87:192.168.1.115:255.255.255.0:ppc::off" =>setenv bootfile "pImage_fads_fec" =>saveenv Saving Environment to Flash... Un-Protected 1 sectors Erasing Flash... . done Erased 1 sectors Writing to Flash... done Protected 1 sectors =>printenv stdin=serial stdout=serial stderr=serial ipaddr=192.168.1.115 serverip=192.168.1.87 ip=192.168.1.115 ethaddr=00:30:bf:01:02:d0 bootargs="root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.1.87:/opt/eldk/ppc8xx ip=192.168 1.11 5:192.168.1.87:192.168.1.115:255.255.255.0:ppc::off" bootfile="pImage_fads_fec" Environment size: 287/16380 bytes =>tftpboot TFTP from server 192.168.1.87; our IP address is 192.168.1.115 Filename 'pImage_fads_fec'. Load address: 0x100000 Loading: T invalid RARP header #####################################################TX timeout ############ ####################### done Bytes transferred = 448321 (6d741 hex) =>bootm ## Booting image at 00100000 . Image Name: Linux-2.4.4 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 448257 Bytes = 437.8 kB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK

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[U-Boot-Users] FADS860T board
by RamanaYV 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

I was trying to load linux-2.4.4 in FADS860T board using u-boot-1.0.0. i am getting the followin symptom, can anyone suggest to come out from this problem.. U-Boot 1.0.0 (Mar 17 2004 - 14:06:16) CPU: XPC86xxxZPnnD4 at 40 MHz: 4 kB I-Cache 4 kB D-Cache FEC present Board: FADS with db MPC821, MPC860 / MPC860SAR / MPC860T rev PILOT DRAM: (4 MB SDRAM) 4M 60ns DRAM: 8 MB FLASH: 2 MB In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: FEC ETHERNET =>printenv stdin=serial stdout=serial stderr=serial Environment size: 41/16380 bytes =>setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.115 =>setenv serverip 192.168.1.87 =>setenv ip 192.168.1.115 =>setenv ethaddr 00:30:bf:01:02:d0 =>setenv bootargs "root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.1.87:/opt/eldk/ppc8xx ip=192 .168.1.115:192.168.1.87:192.168.1.115:255.255.255.0:ppc::off" =>setenv bootfile "pImage_fads_fec" =>saveenv Saving Environment to Flash... Un-Protected 1 sectors Erasing Flash... . done Erased 1 sectors Writing to Flash... done Protected 1 sectors =>printenv stdin=serial stdout=serial stderr=serial ipaddr=192.168.1.115 serverip=192.168.1.87 ip=192.168.1.115 ethaddr=00:30:bf:01:02:d0 bootargs="root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.1.87:/opt/eldk/ppc8xx ip=192.168.1.11 5:192.168.1.87:192.168.1.115:255.255.255.0:ppc::off" bootfile="pImage_fads_fec" Environment size: 287/16380 bytes =>tftpboot TFTP from server 192.168.1.87; our IP address is 192.168.1.115 Filename 'pImage_fads_fec'. Load address: 0x100000 Loading: T invalid RARP header #####################################################TX timeout ############ ####################### done Bytes transferred = 448321 (6d741 hex) =>bootm ## Booting image at 00100000 ... Image Name: Linux-2.4.4 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 448257 Bytes = 437.8 kB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK Thanks to all.

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[U-Boot-Users] watchdog reset in mpc824x timer interrupt.
by gleb＠nbase.co.il 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

Hello, Attached patch makes timer_interrupt to perform watchdog reset on all boards that support watchdog and not only for OXC. CHANGELOG: perform watchdog reset in mpc824x timer interrupt on all boards that have watchdog. -- Gleb.

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[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH][CFT] bring ARM memory layout in line with the documented behaviour
by Anders Larsen 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

Hi, here's a fairly lengthy patch against 0.4.8 that brings the memory layout of all supported ARM CPUs in line with the documentation. This has the positive side-effect of allowing U-Boot to actually run on PXA CPUs (the stock PXA implementation didn't set the start-address of the malloc pool at all!) The memory layout now more or less conforms to the standard as defined in the README (the absolute addresses are board-specific, of course). Since the stack and malloc-heap are now located below the U-Boot code, the TEXT_BASE of the supported ARM boards can be increased accordingly (for most (but not all) boards, the patch already does this). Memory layout example based on my PXA255 (TEXT_BASE = 0xA07E0000): 0xA079FF74 Monitor Stack (growing downwards) 0xA079FF80 Board Info Data and permanent copy of Global Data 0xA07A0000 Malloc Arena 0xA07E0000 RAM copy of Monitor Code ... optional: Frame Buffer 0xA07FFFFF [End of RAM] Since I only have access to PXA-based HW, I was only able to verify that U-Boot still *builds* for all supported ARMs; I have to rely on your help to see if it also *runs* correctly. CHANGELOG: Bring ARM memory layout in line with the documentation. Wolfgang: Please don't apply this patch until we have some feedback from the ARM maintainers. Robert: When/if this patch is eventually applied, you can probably push most of your PXA -ptx stuff without having it break things. Cheers Anders

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[U-Boot-Users] Fix for MII utils
by Steven Scholz 06 Dec '03

06 Dec '03

Hi there, the attached patch addresses two MII related issues: a) mii info <addr> ignored <addr> and always showed info for 32 PHYs b) The "Trick" mentioned in miiphy_info(): " * Trick: we are reading two 16 registers into a 32 bit variable * so we do a 16 read into the high order bits of the variable (big * endian, you know), shift it down 16 bits, and the read the rest." does obviously not work on little endian machines. * Patch by Steven Scholz, 20 Oct 2003 - "mii info <addr>" now only shows the info for PHY "addr" as the help message already suggests - Endian fix for miiphy_info() Thanks, Steven

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[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot hang
by Leon KUKOVEC 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

Hi everybody, I'm in the process of writting PCMCIA support for WEPEP250 (boards/wepep250). Everything seems to be going smooth except one thing: When I add a debug function and then execute U-Boot command "pinit on" or "ide reset" U-boot hangs on me. I sometimes get "data abort", sometimes "invalid instruction" and sometimes nothing. Is there any limits with regards to U-Boot's size and by me putting too much inside U-boot's .text section and hitting some marker/border ? The situation: ident_cpy() function used in ide_ident() copies firmware, version, ident string from iop structure to dev_desc structure. Since CompactFlash firmware string and model number string are in big endian byte order I wanted to write ident_swap_cpy, but as I wrote the function, re-compiled U-boot, downloaded it and issued "ide reset" I got a hang. I also tried to put just two printf's inside ident_copy() - a hang again. ident_swap_cpy() worked fine when I compiled and ran it in my examples/ide.c file. Thanks, -- Best Regards, Leon.

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[U-Boot-Users] what is wrong when calloc return bogus?
by Holger Schurig 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

I recently updated from u-boot 0.3.2 to CVS (0.4.5). Now blob stopped working. I tracked this down from device_init() to ListCreate() or NewHandle(). My debug output is: U-Boot 0.4.5 (Aug 15 2003 - 18:26:38) U-Boot code: A3000000 -> A300D4E0 BSS: -> A3024000 DRAM Configuration: Bank #0: a0000000 128 MB Flash: 32 MB 1 2 4 6 7 9 10 d1 d3 l1 n1 n2 memPtr=0badc0e8 n3 hanPtr=0badc108 n4 l2 l3 0badc108 list_t ListCreate (int elementSize) { list_t list; printf("l1\n"); list = (list_t) (NewHandle (sizeof (ListStruct))); /* create empty list */ printf("l2\n"); if (list) { printf("l3 %08x\n", list); (*list)->signature = LIST_SIGNATURE; (*list)->numItems = 0; (*list)->listSize = 0; (*list)->itemSize = elementSize; (*list)->percentIncrease = kDefaultAllocationPercentIncrease; (*list)->minNumItemsIncrease = kDefaultAllocationminNumItemsIncrease; } printf("l4\n"); return list; } Target is an Intel PXA255

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[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot-1.0.0 released
by Wolfgang Denk 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

A new version of U-Boot has been released. It is named U-Boot-1.0.0 and tagged as "U-Boot-1_0_0" on the CVS server. A tarball is available at ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/u-boot-1.0.0.tar.bz2 Most important changes since last minor release (0.4.8): New Processor Support: Motorola MPC8540/8560 Intel IXP425 CPU Altera Nios-32 New Board Support: MPC8540ADS (MPC8540) MPC8560ADS (MPC8560) IXDP425 (IXP425) dbau1x00 (MIPS32) debris (MPC8245) DK-1C20 (Nios-32) ZPC.1900 (MPC8260) Other Important New Features: support for Altera FPGA ACEX1K auto-update code using USB memory sticks Remember that the User's Manual can be found at http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/Manual (Contributions welcome). ====================================================================== Changes for U-Boot 1.0.0: ====================================================================== * Fix parameter passing to standalone images with bootm command * Patch by Kyle Harris, 30 Oct 2003: Fix build errors for ixdp425 board * Patch by David M. Horn, 29 Oct 2003: Fixes to build under CYGWIN * Get IceCube MGT5100 working (again) * Fix problems in memory test on some boards (which was not non-destructive as intended) * Patch by Gary Jennejohn, 28 Oct 2003: Change fs/fat/fat.c to put I/O buffers in BSS instead on the stack to prevent stack overflow on ARM systems * Patch by Stephan Linz, 28 Oct 2003: fix init sequence error for NIOS port * Allow lowercase spelling for IceCube_5200; support MPC5200LITE name * Add CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE to TRAB configuration * Patch by Xiao Xianghua, 23 Oct 2003: small patch for mpc85xx * Fix small problem in MPC5200 I2C driver * Fix FCC3 support on ATC board * Correct header printing for multi-image files in do_bootm() * Make CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE work with CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED * Fix PCI problems on PPChameleon board * Patch by Steven Scholz, 18 Oct 2003: Fix AT91RM9200 ethernet driver * Patch by Nye Liu, 17 Oct 2003: Fix typo in include/mpc8xx.h * Patch by Richard Woodruff, 16 Oct 03: Fixes for cpu/arm925/interrupt.c - Initialize timestamp & lastdec vars. - fix timestamp overflows. - fix lastdec overflow. - smarter normalization to allow udelay() below 1ms to work. * Patch by Scott McNutt, 16 Oct add networking support for the Altera Nios Development Kit, Cyclone Edition (DK-1C20) * Patch by Jon Diekema, 14 Oct 2003: add hint about doc/README.silent to README file * Add CompactFlash support for NSCU * Fix PCI problems on PPChameleonEVB * TRAB auto-update: Base decision if we have to strip the image header on image type as encoded in the header (include image type patch by Martin Krause, 17 Oct 2003) * Patches by Xianghua Xiao, 15 Oct 2003: - Added Motorola CPU 8540/8560 support (cpu/85xx) - Added Motorola MPC8540ADS board support (board/mpc8540ads) - Added Motorola MPC8560ADS board support (board/mpc8560ads) * Fix flash timings on TRAB board * Make sure HUSH is initialized for running auto-update scripts * Make 5200 reset command _really_ reset the board, without running any other code after it * Fix errors with flash erase when range spans across banks that are mapped in reverse order * Fix flash mapping and display on P3G4 board * Patch by Kyle Harris, 15 Jul 2003: - add support for Intel IXP425 CPU - add support for IXDP425 eval board * Added config option CONFIG_SILENT_CONSOLE. See doc/README.silent for more information * Patch by Steven Scholz, 10 Oct 2003 - Add support for Altera FPGA ACEX1K * Patches by Thomas Lange, 09 Oct 2003: - fix cmd_ide.c for non ppc boards (read/write functions did not add ATA base address) - fix for shannon board - #ifdef CONFIG_IDE_8xx_DIRECT some otherwise unused code - Endian swap ATA identity for all big endian CPUs, not just PPC - MIPS only: New option CONFIG_MEMSIZE_IN_BYTES for passing memsize args to linux - add support for dbau1x00 board (MIPS32) * Patch by Sangmoon Kim, 07 Oct 2003: add support for debris board * Patch by Martin Krause, 09 Oct 2003: Fixes for TRAB board - /board/trab/rs485.c: correct baudrate - /board/trab/cmd_trab.c: bug fix for problem with timer overflow in udelay(); fix some timing problems with adc controller - /board/trab/trab_fkt.c: add new commands: gain, eeprom and power; modify commands: touch and buzzer * Disable CONFIG_SUPPORT_VFAT when used with CONFIG_AUTO_UPDATE (quick & dirty workaround for rogue pointer problem in get_vfatname()); Use direct function calls for auto_update instead of hush commands * Patch by Scott McNutt, 04 Oct 2003: - add support for Altera Nios-32 CPU - add support for Nios Cyclone Development Kit (DK-1C20) * Patch by Steven Scholz, 29 Sep 2003: - A second parameter for bootm overwrites the load address for "Standalone Application" images. - bootm sets environment variable "filesize" to the resulting (uncompressed) data length for "Standalone Application" images when autostart is set to "no". Now you can do something like if bootm $fpgadata $some_free_ram ; then fpga load 0 $some_free_ram $filesize fi * Patch by Denis Peter, 25 Sept 2003: add support for the MIP405 Rev. C board * Patch by Yuli Barcohen, 25 Sep 2003: add support for Zephyr Engineering ZPC.1900 board * Patch by Anders Larsen, 23 Sep 2003: add CMD_PORTIO to CFG_CMD_NONSTD (commands in question are only implemented for the x86 architecture) * Patch by Sangmoon Kim, 23 Sep 2003: fix pll_pci_to_mem_multiplier table for MPC8245 * Patch by Anders Larsen, 22 Sep 2003: enable timed autoboot on PXA * Patch by David Müller, 22 Sep 2003: - add $(CFLAGS) to "-print-libgcc-filename" so compiler driver returns correct libgcc file path - "latency" reduction of busy-loop waiting to improve "U-Boot" boot time on s3c24x0 systems * Patch by Jon Diekema, 19 Sep 2003: - Add CFG_FAULT_ECHO_LINK_DOWN option to echo the inverted Ethernet link state to the fault LED. - In NetLoop, make the Fault LED reflect the link status. The link status gets updated on entry, and on timeouts. * Patch by Anders Larsen, 18 Sep 2003: allow mkimage to build and run on Cygwin-hosted systems * Patch by Frank Müller, 18 Sep 2003: use bi_intfreq instead of bi_busfreq to compute fec_mii_speed in cpu/mpc8xx/fec.c * Patch by Pantelis Antoniou, 16 Sep 2003: add tool to compute fileds in the PLPRCR register for MPC86x * Use IH_TYPE_FILESYSTEM for TRAB "disk" images. * Fix build problems under FreeBSD * Add generic filesystem image type * Make fatload set filesize environment variable * enable basic / medium / high-end configurations for PPChameleonEVB board; fix NAND code * enable TFTP client code to specify to the server the desired timeout value (see RFC-2349) * Improve SDRAM setup for TRAB board * Suppress all output with splashscreen configured only if "splashimage" is set * Fix problems with I2C support for mpc5200 * Adapt TRAB configuration and auto_update to new memory layout * Add configuration for wtk board * Add support for the Sharp LQ065T9DR51U LCD display * Patch by Rune Torgersen, 17 Sep 2003: - Fixes for MPC8266 default config - Allow eth_loopback_test() on 8260 to use a subset of the FCC's * Patches by Jon Diekema, 17 Sep 2003: - update README (SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS values for cmd_nand.c and env_common.c) - sbc8260 tweaks - adjust "help" output * Patches by Anders Larsen, 17 Sep 2003: - fix spelling errors - set GD_FLG_DEVINIT flag only after device function pointers are valid - Allow CFG_ALT_MEMTEST on systems where address zero isn't writeable - enable 3.rd UART (ST-UART) on PXA(XScale) CPUs - trigger watchdog while waiting in serial driver * Add auto-update code for TRAB board using USB memory sticks, support new configuration with more memory * disable MPC5200 bus pipelining as workaround for bus contention * Modify XLB arbiter priorities on MPC5200 so all devices use same priority; configure critical interrupts to be handled like external interrupts * Make IPB clock on MGT5100/MPC5200 configurable in board config file; go back to 66 MHz for stability * Patches by Jon Diekema, 15 Sep 2003: - add description for missing CFG_CMD_* entries in the README file - sacsng tweaks * Patch by Gleb Natapov, 14 Sep 2003: enable watchdog support for all MPC824x boards that have a watchdog * On MPC5200, restrict FEC to a maximum of 10 Mbps to work around the "Non-octet Aligned Frame" errors we see at 100 Mbps * Patch by Sharad Gupta, 14 Sep 2003: fix SPR numbers for upper BAT register ([ID]BAT[4-7][UL]) * Patch by llandre, 11 Sep 2003: update configuration for PPChameleonEVB board * Patch by David Müller, 13 Sep 2003: various changes to VCMA9 board specific files * Add I2C support for MGT5100 / MPC5200 * Patch by Rune Torgersen, 11 Sep 2003: Changed default memory option on MPC8266ADS to NOT be Page Based Interleave, since this doesn't work very well with the standard 16MB DIMM * Patch by George G. Davis, 12 Sep 2003: fix Makefile settings for sk98 driver * Patch by Stefan Roese, 12 Sep 2003: - new boards added: DP405, HUB405, PLU405, VOH405 - some esd boards updated - cpu/ppc4xx/sdram.c: disable memory controller before setting first values - cpu/ppc4xx/405_pci.c: set vendor id on PPC405EP systems * Patch by Martin Krause, 11 Sep 2003: add burn-in tests for TRAB board * Enable instruction cache on MPC5200 board * Patch by Denis Peter, 11 Sep 2003: - fix USB data pointer assignment for bulk only transfer. - prevent to display erased directories in FAT filesystem. * Change output format for NAND flash - make it look like for other memory, too ====================================================================== Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd(a)denx.de The software required `Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux.

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[U-Boot-Users] Help with u-boot 0.4.0 and IBM ASH board
by Wetterlind, Eric 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Good afternoon... I have an IBM ASH (NPe405h) board that I am trying to get U-Boot 0.4.0 running on. Ultimately, I'll port this over to our custom board that is very similar to the ASH, but I figured it would be better to start on a known platform. I downloaded the new 0.4.0 U-Boot and ran these two commands (after modifying the Makefile to run 'ppc_405-' instead of 'ppc_8xx'): make ASH405_config make all It flew through compile and link to produce the nice u-boot.srec. I put that in my tftpboot directory, telnet'd over to the abatron 2000, erased ASH flash and programmed this new image in there. The result is an immediate SystemError LED illumination. I then switched from Flash to SRAM (one of the dips on the ASH board) and reloaded. Running from SRAM produces a program exception and jump to 0x700 almost right off the bat. I am running out of ideas on how to get U-boot and my ash board to cooperate. Has anyone else that has tried this had the same problems? Regards, Eric (eric.wetterlind(a)goodrich.com)

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