To quote the author:
The bootflow feature provide a built-in way for U-Boot to automatically
boot an Operating System without custom scripting and other customisation.
This is called 'standard boot' since it provides a standard way for
U-Boot to boot a distro, without scripting.
It introduces the following concepts:
- bootdev - a device which can hold a distro
- bootmeth - a method to scan a bootdev to find bootflows (owned by
U-Boot)
- bootflow - a description of how to boot (owned by the distro)
This series provides an implementation of these, enabled to scan for
bootflows from MMC, USB and Ethernet. It supports the existing distro
boot as well as the EFI loader flow (bootefi/bootmgr). It works
similiarly to the existing script-based approach, but is native to
U-Boot.
With this we can boot on a Raspberry Pi 3 with just one command:
bootflow scan -lb
which means to scan, listing (-l) each bootflow and trying to boot each
one (-b). The final patch shows this.
With a standard way to identify boot devices, booting become easier. It
also should be possible to support U-Boot scripts, for backwards
compatibility only.
...
The design is described in these two documents:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ggW0KJpUOR__vBkj3l61L2dav4ZkNC12/view?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1kTrflO9vvGlKp-ZH_jlgb9TY3WYG6FF9/view?usp=sharing
A image_size parameter has been added to the bootefi parameter.
Describe all parameters.
Correct how the description of how the device-path in the loaded
image protocol is determined.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
* add link to booti man-page
* correct link description for efidebug command
* correct punctuation
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Drop this text at the end since it already mentions bootp and dhcp.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
This doesn't really make much sense in the documentation. Add a code
comment instead.
Suggested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This adds support for booting entirely from JTAG while using a
hard-coded RCW. With these steps, it is not necessary to program a
"good" RCW using CodeWarrior. The method here can be performed with any
JTAG adapter supported by OpenOCD, including the on-board CMSIS-DAP
(albeit very slowly).
These steps require LS1046A support in OpenOCD, which was added in [1].
[1] 5b70c1f679/
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
[trini: Add reference to doc/board/nxp/ls1046ardb.rst]
This documents how to use semihosting, the new semihosting features, and
how to migrate from smhload.
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
This converts the semihosting readme to rST. I have tried to make only
cosmetic changes, but I did fix up the first link (which was broken).
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
This converts the existing README.plan9 to reST, and puts it under
the doc/usage/os directory.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
At present the doc only mentions Arm, PowerPC and x86. RISC-V support
has been added since VxWorks SR0650 support for a while, and U-Boot
supports loading a RISC-V VxWorks kernel too. Let's document it.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
This converts the existing README.vxworks to reST, and puts it under
the doc/usage/os directory.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Update the extension command title for consistency with other commands.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Currently all shell command docs are put in the doc/usage root.
Let's group them into cmd/ sub-directory.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Provide human readable descriptions of the speed nodes instead of the name
of constants from the code as it is already done for 'mmc rescan'
command in commit 212f078496 ("doc: mmc rescan speed mode").
Signed-off-by: Patrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay@foss.st.com>
Reviewed-by: Aswath Govindraju <a-govindraju@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
The non-driver model video support was removed two years ago. Drop this
driver, which is only used by nokia_rx51.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Fix some typo and wrong information about dfu_alt_info.
- Add the parameter format, decimal only or hexadecimal.
- Use same parameter name for the same kind of parameters.
(e.g. dev -> dev_id)
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu@linaro.org>
doc/usage/index.rst in branch origin/next includes usage/environment twice.
Remove the duplicate entry.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Literally adhering to the docs gave this wrong output:
U-Boot> setenv fdtaddr 0x87f00000
U-Boot> fdtaddr $fdtaddr
Unknown command 'fdtaddr' - try 'help'
Fixes: d80162cfc5 ("doc: Document how to apply fdt overlays")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Dahl <ada@thorsis.com>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
This command is fairly complicated so documentation is useful.
Unfortunately I an not sure how the MTD side of things works and cannot
find information about that.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>
Acked-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
This has different semantics in different places. Go with the bootm method
and put it in a common function so that the behaviour is consistent in
U-Boot. Update the docs.
To be clear, this changes the way that 'bootelf' and standalone boot
work. Before, if autostart was set to "fred" or "YES", for example, they
would consider that a "yes". This may change behaviour for some boards,
but the only in-tree boards which mention autostart use "no" to disable
it, which will still work.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Make various other updates suggested during review of the rST conversion.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Make various updates suggested during review of the rST conversion.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun@nic.cz>
Suggested-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Add mention of this option since it does a similar thing to the text
environment.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk>
Reviewed-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun@nic.cz>
At present U-Boot environment variables, and thus scripts, are defined
by CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS. It is painful to add large amounts of text
to this file and dealing with quoting and newlines is harder than it
should be. It would be better if we could just type the script into a
text file and have it included by U-Boot.
Add a feature that brings in a .env file associated with the board
config, if present. To use it, create a file in a board/<vendor>
directory, typically called <board>.env and controlled by the
CONFIG_ENV_SOURCE_FILE option.
The environment variables should be of the form "var=value". Values can
extend to multiple lines. See the README under 'Environment Variables:'
for more information and an example.
In many cases environment variables need access to the U-Boot CONFIG
variables to select different options. Enable this so that the environment
scripts can be as useful as the ones currently in the board config files.
This uses the C preprocessor, means that comments can be included in the
environment using /* ... */
Also support += to allow variables to be appended to. This is needed when
using the preprocessor.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun@nic.cz>
Tested-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun@nic.cz>
Move this from the README to rST format.
Drop i2cfast since it is obviously obsolete and breaks the formatting.
Other changes and improvements are in a following patch.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun@nic.cz>
Provide human readable descriptions of the speed nodes instead of the name
of constants from the code.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Add documentation on the usage of "mmc dev" and "mmc rescan" commands to
set user defined speed modes.
Signed-off-by: Aswath Govindraju <a-govindraju@ti.com>
All platforms define CONFIG_SYS_LOAD_ADDR, but only some define
CONFIG_LOADADDR. Very very rarely are these not the same address, and
qemu-ppce500 is one such case. However, based on reading the history of
the code, this mismatched value was simply a copy-paste from other
PowerPC platforms where it is this unused currently. Switch the code to
use CONFIG_SYS_LOAD_ADDR and update the documentation.
Cc: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
U-Boot mostly uses hex for value input, largely because addresses are much
easier to understand in hex.
But in some cases a decimal value is requested, such as where the value is
small or hex does not make sense in the context. In these cases it is
sometimes useful to be able to provide a hex value in any case, if only to
resolve any ambiguity.
Add this functionality, for increased flexibility.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add usage for the setexpr command. It has been added to describe
mainly the new setexpr format string operation.
Signed-off-by: Roland Gaudig <roland.gaudig@weidmueller.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
help file for using askenv cmd is created.
It provides description on the command purpose,
description of arguments,
couple of examples (illustrating command usage),
configuration parameter and
possible return values.
Signed-off-by: Adarsh Babu Kalepalli <opensource.kab@gmail.com>
Add missing entry in doc/usage/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
This patch allows uboot scripts make choices about where to boot from based
on the active mmc boot partition. This allows having two copies of kernel,
filesystems etc, and choosing which to boot from based off of the active
bootloader partition.
Signed-off-by: Reuben Dowle <reuben.dowle@4rf.com>
Reviewed-by: Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@samsung.com>
Provide a man-page for the ums command - USB Mass Storage.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay@foss.st.com>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Provide a man-page for the pinmux command.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay@foss.st.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@foss.st.com>
Reorder alphabetically the command in the index of usage
in U-Boot documentation.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay@foss.st.com>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
'make htmldocs' results in a build warning
checking consistency... doc/usage/extension.rst:
WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
Add the document to the index.
Fixes: 2f84e9cf06 ("cmd: add support for a new "extension" command")
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
This patch adds a new "extension" command, which aims at detecting
extension boards connected to the hardware platform, and apply the
Device Tree overlays that describe the hardware present on those
extension boards.
In order to enable this mechanism, board-specific code must implement
the extension_board_scan() function that fills in a linked list of
"struct extension", each describing one extension board. In addition,
the board-specific code must select the SUPPORT_EXTENSION_SCAN Kconfig
boolean.
Based on this:
- "extension scan" makes the generic code call the board-specific
extension_board_scan() function to retrieve the list of detected
extension boards.
- "extension list" allows to list the detected extension boards.
- "extension apply <number>|all" allows to apply the Device Tree
overlay(s) corresponding to one, or all, extension boards
The latter requires two environment variables to exist and set one variable
to run:
- extension_overlay_addr: the RAM address where to load the Device
Tree overlays
- extension_overlay_cmd: the U-Boot command to load one overlay.
Indeed, the location and mechanism to load DT overlays is very setup
specific.
- extension_overlay_name: set by the command: the name of the DT which
will be load during the execution.
When calling the command described in the extension_overlay_cmd
variable, the variable extension_overlay_name will be defined. So a
typical extension_overlay_cmd will look like this:
extension_overlay_cmd=load mmc 0:1 $extension_overlay_addr /boot/$extension_overlay_name
Here is an example on how to use it:
=> run loadfdt
=> fdt addr $fdtaddr
=> setenv extension_overlay_addr 0x1000
=> setenv extension_overlay_cmd 'load mmc 0:1 ${extension_overlay_addr} /boot/${extension_overlay_name}'
=> extension scan
Found 1 extension board(s).
=> extension apply 0
519 bytes read in 3 ms (168.9 KiB/s)
Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
The ebreak instruction should generate a breakpoint exception.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rick Chen <rick@andestech.com>
Provide a man-page for the fatinfo command.
The .rst file was lost in patch 15d9694600 ("doc: fatinfo man-page").
Fixes: 15d9694600 ("doc: fatinfo man-page")
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
This information is interesting to look at and can be important for
debugging and inspection. Add a command to display it in a helpful
format.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add a link to binman's documentation and adjust the files so that it is
accessible. Use the name README.rst so it is easy to discover when binman
is installed without U-Boot.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Move README.dfu to doc/usage/dfu.rst and convert to reStructured text.
In the long run this page should be split into two. One for the overview
and one for the dfu command. UEFI capsule updates and dfutftp should be
integrated into the overview page.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
The Secure Channel Protocol 03 command sends control requests
(enable/provision) to the TEE implementing the protocol between the
processor and the secure element.
Signed-off-by: Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge@foundries.io>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This adds a new command 'addrmap' to display the address map for
non-identity virtual-physical memory mappings.
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Priyanka Jain <priyanka.jain@nxp.com>
Comparing a hex dump on the U-Boot command line with the contents of a
file on the host system is fairly easy and convenient to do manually if
it is small. But the format used hexdump by default differs from that
shown by U-Boot. Add a note about how to make them the same.
(For large dumps, writing the data to the network with tftpput, or to a
USB stick with ext4save is easiest.)
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This documents the way U-Boot understands partitions specifications.
This also updates the fastboot documentation for the changes in the
previous commit.
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
If the exception cannot be raised, the command returns.
Currently the return values are not all the same.
Remove the sub-chapter 'Return value'
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Add a 'mbr' command to let users create or verify MBR partition layout
based on the provided text description. The partition layout is
alternatively read from the 'mbr_parts' environment variable. This can be
used in scripts to help system image flashing tools to ensure proper
partition layout.
The syntax of the text description of the partition list is similar to
the one used by the 'gpt' command. Supported parameters are: name
(currently ignored), start (partition start offset in bytes), size (in
bytes or '-' to expand it to the whole free area), bootable (boolean
flag) and id (MBR partition type). If one wants to create more than 4
partitions, an 'Extended' primary partition (with 0x05 ID) has to be
explicitely provided as a one of the first 4 entries.
Here is an example how to create a 6 partitions (3 on the 'extended
volume'), some of the predefined sizes:
> setenv mbr_parts 'name=boot,start=4M,size=128M,bootable,id=0x0e;
name=rootfs,size=3072M,id=0x83;
name=system-data,size=512M,id=0x83;
name=[ext],size=-,id=0x05;
name=user,size=-,id=0x83;
name=modules,size=100M,id=0x83;
name=ramdisk,size=8M,id=0x83'
> mbr write mmc 0
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Convert README.bootmenu to reStructured text and move it to
usage/bootmenu.rst.
Adjust the text concerning configuration settings as these now are managed
via Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
Convert README.NetConsole to reStructured text and move it to
doc/usage/netconsole.rst.
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
