Allow redirection of console output prior to console initialisation to a
temporary buffer.
To enable this functionality, the board (or arch) must define:
- CONFIG_PRE_CONSOLE_BUFFER - Enable pre-console buffer
- CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_ADDR - Base address of pre-console buffer
- CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ - Size of pre-console buffer (in bytes)
The pre-console buffer will buffer the last CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ bytes
Any earlier characters are silently dropped.
Motivation:
* Old environment code used a pessimizing implementation:
- variable lookup used linear search => slow
- changed/added variables were added at the end, i. e. most
frequently used variables had the slowest access times => slow
- each setenv() would calculate the CRC32 checksum over the whole
environment block => slow
* "redundant" envrionment was locked down to two copies
* No easy way to implement features like "reset to factory defaults",
or to select one out of several pre-defined (previously saved) sets
of environment settings ("profiles")
* No easy way to import or export environment settings
======================================================================
API Changes:
- Variable names starting with '#' are no longer allowed
I didn't find any such variable names being used; it is highly
recommended to follow standard conventions and start variable names
with an alphanumeric character
- "printenv" will now print a backslash at the end of all but the last
lines of a multi-line variable value.
Multi-line variables have never been formally defined, allthough
there is no reason not to use them. Now we define rules how to deal
with them, allowing for import and export.
- Function forceenv() and the related code in saveenv() was removed.
At the moment this is causing build problems for the only user of
this code (schmoogie - which has no entry in MAINTAINERS); may be
fixed later by implementing the "env set -f" feature.
Inconsistencies:
- "printenv" will '\\'-escape the '\n' in multi-line variables, while
"printenv var" will not do that.
======================================================================
Advantages:
- "printenv" output much better readable (sorted)
- faster!
- extendable (additional variable properties can be added)
- new, powerful features like "factory reset" or easy switching
between several different environment settings ("profiles")
Disadvantages:
- Image size grows by typically 5...7 KiB (might shrink a bit again on
systems with redundant environment with a following patch series)
======================================================================
Implemented:
- env command with subcommands:
- env print [arg ...]
same as "printenv": print environment
- env set [-f] name [arg ...]
same as "setenv": set (and delete) environment variables
["-f" - force setting even for read-only variables - not
implemented yet.]
- end delete [-f] name
not implemented yet
["-f" - force delete even for read-only variables]
- env save
same as "saveenv": save environment
- env export [-t | -b | -c] addr [size]
export internal representation (hash table) in formats usable for
persistent storage or processing:
-t: export as text format; if size is given, data will be
padded with '\0' bytes; if not, one terminating '\0'
will be added (which is included in the "filesize"
setting so you can for exmple copy this to flash and
keep the termination).
-b: export as binary format (name=value pairs separated by
'\0', list end marked by double "\0\0")
-c: export as checksum protected environment format as
used for example by "saveenv" command
addr: memory address where environment gets stored
size: size of output buffer
With "-c" and size is NOT given, then the export command will
format the data as currently used for the persistent storage,
i. e. it will use CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE as output block size and
prepend a valid CRC32 checksum and, in case of resundant
environment, a "current" redundancy flag. If size is given, this
value will be used instead of CONFIG_ENV_SECT_SIZE; again, CRC32
checksum and redundancy flag will be inserted.
With "-b" and "-t", always only the real data (including a
terminating '\0' byte) will be written; here the optional size
argument will be used to make sure not to overflow the user
provided buffer; the command will abort if the size is not
sufficient. Any remainign space will be '\0' padded.
On successful return, the variable "filesize" will be set.
Note that filesize includes the trailing/terminating '\0'
byte(s).
Usage szenario: create a text snapshot/backup of the current
settings:
=> env export -t 100000
=> era ${backup_addr} +${filesize}
=> cp.b 100000 ${backup_addr} ${filesize}
Re-import this snapshot, deleting all other settings:
=> env import -d -t ${backup_addr}
- env import [-d] [-t | -b | -c] addr [size]
import external format (text or binary) into hash table,
optionally deleting existing values:
-d: delete existing environment before importing;
otherwise overwrite / append to existion definitions
-t: assume text format; either "size" must be given or the
text data must be '\0' terminated
-b: assume binary format ('\0' separated, "\0\0" terminated)
-c: assume checksum protected environment format
addr: memory address to read from
size: length of input data; if missing, proper '\0'
termination is mandatory
- env default -f
reset default environment: drop all environment settings and load
default environment
- env ask name [message] [size]
same as "askenv": ask for environment variable
- env edit name
same as "editenv": edit environment variable
- env run
same as "run": run commands in an environment variable
======================================================================
TODO:
- drop default env as implemented now; provide a text file based
initialization instead (eventually using several text files to
incrementally build it from common blocks) and a tool to convert it
into a binary blob / object file.
- It would be nice if we could add wildcard support for environment
variables; this is needed for variable name auto-completion,
but it would also be nice to be able to say "printenv ip*" or
"printenv *addr*"
- Some boards don't link any more due to the grown code size:
DU405, canyonlands, sequoia, socrates.
=> cc: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>,
Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>,
Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
- Dropping forceenv() causes build problems on schmoogie
=> cc: Sergey Kubushyn <ksi@koi8.net>
- Build tested on PPC and ARM only; runtime tested with NOR and NAND
flash only => needs testing!!
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>,
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>,
Cc: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
Cc: Sergey Kubushyn <ksi@koi8.net>
So far, getenv() would work before relocation is most cases, even
though it was not intended to be used that way. When switching to a
hash table based implementation, this would break a number of boards.
For convenience, we make getenv() check if it's running before
relocation and, if so, use getenv_f() internally.
Note that this is limited to simple cases, as we use a small static
buffer (32 bytes) in the global data for this purpose.
For this reason, it is also not a good idea to convert all current
uses of getenv_f() into getenv() - some of the existing use cases need
to be able to deal with longer variable values, so getenv_f() is still
needed and recommended for use before relocation.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
This helps to clean up the include/ directory so that it only contains
non-architecture-specific headers and also matches Linux's directory
layout which many U-Boot developers are already familiar with.
Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
These architectures don't need relocation fixups, so reduce their
codesize a bit by defining CONFIG_RELOC_FIXUP_WORKS.
Also remove the reloc_off field from their global data structures
as it is no longer needed.
Note that the location of the standalone application jump table pointer
in the global data structure is affected by this change, breaking
execution of standalone applications compiled for previous versions of
U-Boot. We will therefore increment XF_VERSION in the next commit,
which also touches this area.
Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Added new CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE define and GD_FLG_DISABLE_CONSOLE.
When CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE is defined, setting
GD_FLG_DISABLE_CONSOLE disables all console input and output.
Signed-off-by: Mark Jackson <mpfj@mimc.co.uk>
Currently, both are defined as an unsigned long, but
should be phys_size_t. This should result in no real change,
since phys_size_t is currently an unsigned long for all the
default configs. Also add print_lnum to cmd_bdinfo to deal
with the potentially wider memsize.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>
This way we become able to utilize the full post_log_word for POST
activities (overwise, POST ECC, which has 0x8000 ID, could be
erroneously treated as started in post_output_backlog() even if there
was actually no POST ECC run (because of OCM POST failure, for
example).
Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
Don't run futher tests in case of a test fails that is marked as
POST_STOP.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
marked as POST_CRITICAL fails then the alternative, post_critical,
boot-command is used. If this command is not defined then U-Boot
enters into interactive mode.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Rakhchev <rda@emcraft.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
- update board/emk tree; use common flash driver
- Corrected tested bits in machine check exception in cpu/mpc5xxx/traps.c
[adapted for other PPC CPUs -- wd]
- Added support for the M48T08 on the EVAL5200 board in rtc/mk48t59.c
* Patch by Jon Diekema, 13 Feb 2004:
Call show_boot_progress() whenever POST "FAILED" is printed.
* Patch by Nishant Kamat, 13 Feb 2004:
Add support for TI OMAP1610 H2 Board
Fixes for cpu/arm926ejs/interrupt.c
(based on Richard Woodruff's patch for arm925, 16 Oct 03)
Fix for a timer bug in OMAP1610 Innovator
Add support for CS0 (ROM)/CS3 (Flash) boot in OMAP1610 Innovator and H2
* Patches by Stephan Linz, 12 Feb 2004:
- add support for NIOS timer with variable period preload counter value
- prepare POST framework support for NIOS targets
* Patch by Denis Peter, 11 Feb 2004:
add POST support for the MIP405 board
- 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
applications: instead of using (PPC-specific) system calls we now
use a jump table; please see doc/README.standalone for details
* Patch by Dave Westwood, 24 Jul 2003:
added support for Unity OS (a proprietary OS)
Add support for i386 architecture and AMD SC520 board
* Patch by Pierre Aubert, 12 Nov 2002:
Add support for DOS filesystem and booting from DOS floppy disk
Graeme Russ
Wolfgang Denk
Peter Tyser
Mark Jackson
Becky Bruce
Yuri Tikhonov
Yuri Tikhonov
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
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