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  1. ======================================================================
  2. Changes since U-Boot 0.3.1:
  3. ======================================================================
  4. * Add zero-copy ramdisk support (requires corresponding kernel support!)
  5. * Patch by Kyle Harris, 20 May 2003:
  6. In preparation for an ixp port, rename cpu/xscale and arch-xscale
  7. into cpu/pxa and arch-pxa.
  8. * Patch by Stefan Roese, 23 May 2003:
  9. - IBM PPC405EP port added.
  10. - CONFIG_UART1_CONSOLE added. If defined internal UART1 (and not
  11. UART0) is used as default U-Boot console. PPC4xx only!
  12. - esd ASH405 board added (PPC405EP based).
  13. - BUBINGA405EP board added (PPC405EP based - IBM Eval Board).
  14. - esd CPCI405AB board added.
  15. - esd PMC405 board added.
  16. - Update of some esd boards.
  17. * Patch by Denis Peter, 19 Mai 2003:
  18. add support for the MIP405-3 board
  19. * Patch by Dave Ellis, 22 May 2003:
  20. Fix problem with only partially cleared .bss segment
  21. * Patch by Rune Torgersen, 12 May 2003:
  22. get PCI to work on a MPC8266ADS board; incorporate change to
  23. cpu/mpc8260/pci.c to enable overrides of PCI memory parameters
  24. * Patch by Nye Liu, 1 May 2003:
  25. minor patches for the FADS8xx
  26. * Patch by Thomas Schäfer, 28 Apr 2003:
  27. Fix SPD handling for 256 ECC DIMM on Walnut
  28. * Add support for arbitrary bitmaps for TRAB's VFD command;
  29. allow to pass boot bitmap addresses in environment variables;
  30. allow for zero boot delay
  31. * Patch by Christian Geißinger, 19 May 2002:
  32. On TRAB: wait until the dummy byte has been completely sent
  33. * Patch by David Updegraff, 22 Apr 2003:
  34. update for CrayL1 board
  35. * Patch by Pantelis Antoniou, 21 Apr 2003:
  36. add boot support for ARTOS (a proprietary OS)
  37. * Patch by Steven Scholz, 11 Apr 2003:
  38. Add support for RTC DS1338
  39. * Patch by Rod Boyce, 24 Jan 2003:
  40. Fix counting of extended partitions in diskboot command
  41. * Patch by Christophe Lindheimer, 20 May 2003:
  42. allow the use of CFG_LOADS when CFG_NO_FLASH is set
  43. * Fix SDRAM timing on Purple board
  44. * Add support for CompactFlash on ATC board
  45. (includes support for Intel 82365 and compatible PC Card controllers,
  46. and Yenta-compatible PCI-to-CardBus controllers)
  47. * Patch by Mathijs Haarman, 08 May 2003:
  48. Add lan91c96 driver (tested on Lubbock and custom PXA250 board only)
  49. * Fix problem with usage of "true" (undefined in current versions of bfd.h)
  50. * Add support for Promess ATC board
  51. * Patch by Keith Outwater, 28 Apr 2003:
  52. - Miscellaneous corrections and additions to GEN860T board specific code.
  53. - Added GEN860_SC variant to GEN860T.
  54. - Miscellaneous corrections to GEN860T documentation.
  55. - Correct duplicate entry in U-Boot CREDITS file.
  56. - Add GEN860T_SC entry in MAINTAINERS file.
  57. - Update CREDITS file with GEN860T_SC info.
  58. * Update Smiths Aerospace addresses in MAINTAINERS file
  59. * Fix error handling in hush's version of "run" command
  60. * LWMON extensions:
  61. - Splashscreen support
  62. - modem support
  63. - sysmon support
  64. - temperature dependend enabling of LCD
  65. * Allow booting from old "PPCBoot" disk partitions
  66. * Add support for TQM8255 Board / MPC8255 CPU
  67. ======================================================================
  68. Changes for U-Boot 0.3.1:
  69. ======================================================================
  70. * Make sure Block Lock Bits get cleared in R360MPI flash driver
  71. * MPC823 LCD driver: Fill color map backwards, to allow for steady
  72. display when Linux takes over
  73. * Patch by Erwin Rol, 27 Feb 2003:
  74. Add support for RTEMS (this time for real).
  75. * Add support for "bmp info" and "bmp display" commands to load
  76. bitmap images; this can be used (for example in a "preboot"
  77. command) to display a splash screen very quickly after poweron.
  78. * Add support for 133 MHz clock on INCA-IP board
  79. * Patch by Lutz Dennig, 10 Apr 2003:
  80. Update for R360MPI board
  81. * Add new meaning to "autostart" environment variable:
  82. If set to "no", a standalone image passed to the
  83. "bootm" command will be copied to the load address
  84. (and eventually uncompressed), but NOT be started.
  85. This can be used to load and uncompress arbitrary
  86. data.
  87. * Patch by Stefan Roese, 10 Apr 2003:
  88. Changed DHCP client to use IP address from server option field #54
  89. from the OFFER packet in the server option field #54 in the REQUEST
  90. packet. This fixes a problem using a Windows 2000 DHCP server,
  91. where the DHCP-server is not the TFTP-server.
  92. * Set max brightness for MN11236 displays on TRAB board
  93. * Add support for TQM862L modules
  94. ======================================================================
  95. Changes for U-Boot 0.3.0:
  96. ======================================================================
  97. * Patch by Arun Dharankar, 4 Apr 2003:
  98. Add IDMA example code (tested on 8260 only)
  99. * Add support for Purple Board (MIPS64 5Kc)
  100. * Add support for MIPS64 5Kc CPUs
  101. * Fix missing setting of "loadaddr" and "bootfile" on ARM and MIPS
  102. * Patch by Denis Peter, 04 Apr 2003:
  103. - update MIP405-4 board
  104. * Patch by Stefan Roese, 4 Apr 2003:
  105. - U-Boot version environment variable "ver" added
  106. (CONFIG_VERSION_VARIABLE).
  107. - Changed PPC405GPr version from A to B.
  108. - Changed CPCI405 to use CTS instead of DSR on PPC405 UART1.
  109. * Patches by Denis Peter, 03 April 2003:
  110. - fix PCI IRQs on MPL boards
  111. - fix two more un-relocated pointer problems
  112. * Fix behaviour of "run" command:
  113. - print error message iv variable does not exist
  114. - terminate processing of arguments in case of error
  115. * Patches by Peter Figuli, 10 Mar 2003
  116. - Add support for BTUART on PXA platform
  117. - Add support for WEP EP250 (PXA) board
  118. * Fix flash problems on INCA-IP; add tool to allow bruning images to
  119. flash using a BDI2000
  120. * Implement fix for I2C Edge Conditions problem for all boards that
  121. use the bit-banging driver (common/soft_i2c.c)
  122. * Patch by Martin Winistoerfer, 23 Mar 2003
  123. - Add port to MPC555/556 microcontrollers
  124. - Add support for cmi customer board with
  125. Intel 28F128J3A, 28F320J3A or 28F640J3A flash.
  126. * Patch by Rick Bronson, 28 Mar 2003:
  127. - fix common/cmd_nand.c
  128. * Patch by Arun Dharankar, 24 Mar 2003:
  129. - add threads / scheduler example code
  130. * Add patches by Robert Schwebel, 31 Mar 2003:
  131. - add ctrl-c support for kermit download
  132. - align bdinfo output on ARM
  133. - csb226 board: bring in sync with innokom/memsetup.S
  134. - csb226 board: fix MDREFR handling
  135. - misc doc fixes / extensions
  136. - innokom board: cleanup, MDREFR fix in memsetup.S, config update
  137. - add BOOT_PROGRESS to armlinux.c
  138. * Add CPU ID, version, and clock speed for INCA-IP
  139. * Patches by Dave Ellis, 18 Mar 2003 for SXNI855T board:
  140. - fix SRAM and SDRAM memory sizing
  141. - add status LED support
  142. - add MAC address for second (SCC1) ethernet port
  143. * Update default environment for TQM8260 board
  144. * Patch by Rick Bronson, 16 Mar 2003:
  145. - Add NAND flash support for reading, writing, and erasing NAND
  146. flash (certain forms of which are called SmartMedia).
  147. - Add support for Atmel AT91RM9200DK ARM920T based development kit.
  148. * Patches by Robert Schwebel, 19 Mar 2003:
  149. - use arm-linux-gcc as default compiler for ARM
  150. - fix i2c fixup code
  151. - fix missing baudrate setting
  152. - added $loadaddr / CFG_LOAD_ADDR support to loadb
  153. - moved "ignoring trailing characters" _before_ u-boot wants to
  154. print out diagnostics messages; removes bogus characters at the
  155. end of transmission
  156. * Patch by John Zhan, 18 Mar 2003:
  157. Add support for SinoVee Microsystems SC8xx boards
  158. * Patch by Rolf Offermanns, 21 Mar 2003:
  159. ported the dnp1110 related changes from the current armboot cvs to
  160. current u-boot cvs. smc91111 does not work. problem marked in
  161. smc91111.c, grep for "FIXME".
  162. * Patch by Brian Auld, 25 Mar 2003:
  163. Add support for STM flash chips on ebony board
  164. * Add PCI support for MPC8250 Boards (PM825 module)
  165. * Patch by Stefan Roese, 25 Mar 2003:
  166. - PCI405 update.
  167. * Patch by Stefan Roese, 20 Mar 2003:
  168. - CPCI4052 update (support for revision 3).
  169. - Set edge conditioning circuitry on PPC405GPr for compatibility
  170. to existing PPC405GP designs.
  171. - Clip udiv to 5 bits on PPC405 (serial.c).
  172. * Extend INCAIP board support:
  173. - add automatic RAM size detection
  174. - add "bdinfo" command
  175. - pass flash address and size to Linux kernel
  176. - switch to 150 MHz clock
  177. * Avoid flicker on the TRAB's VFD by synchronizing the enable with
  178. the HSYNC/VSYNC. Requires new CPLD code (Version 101 for Rev. 100
  179. boards, version 153 for Rev. 200 boards).
  180. * Patch by Vladimir Gurevich, 12 Mar 2003:
  181. Fix relocation problem of statically initialized string pointers
  182. in common/cmd_pci.c
  183. * Patch by Kai-Uwe Blöm, 12 Mar 2003:
  184. Cleanup & bug fixes for JFFS2 code:
  185. - the memory mangement was broken. It caused havoc on malloc by
  186. writing beyond the block boundaries.
  187. - the length calculation for files was wrong, sometimes resulting
  188. in short file reads.
  189. - data copying now optionally takes fragment version numbers into
  190. account, to avoid copying from older data.
  191. See doc/README.JFFS2 for details.
  192. * Patch by Josef Wagner, 12 Mar 2003:
  193. - 16/32 MB and 50/80 MHz support with auto-detection for IP860
  194. - ETH05 and BEDBUG support for CU824
  195. - added support for MicroSys CPC45
  196. - new BOOTROM/FLASH0 and DOC base for PM826
  197. * Patch by Robert Schwebel, 12 Mar 2003:
  198. Fix the chpart command on innokom board
  199. * Name cleanup:
  200. mv include/asm-i386/ppcboot-i386.h include/asm-i386/u-boot-i386.h
  201. s/PPCBoot/U-Boot/ in some files
  202. s/pImage/uImage/ in some files
  203. * Patch by Detlev Zundel, 15 Jan 2003:
  204. Fix '' command line quoting
  205. * Patch by The LEOX team, 19 Jan 2003:
  206. - add support for the ELPT860 board
  207. - add support for Dallas ds164x RTC
  208. * Patches by David Müller, 31 Jan 2003:
  209. - minimal setup for CardBus bridges
  210. - add EEPROM read/write support in the CS8900 driver
  211. - add support for the builtin I2C controller in the Samsung s3c24x0 chips
  212. - add support for MPL's VCMA9 (Samsung s3c2410 based) board
  213. * Patch by Steven Scholz, 04 Feb 2003:
  214. add support for RTC DS1307
  215. * Patch by Reinhard Meyer, 5 Feb 2003:
  216. fix PLPRCR/SCCR init sequence on 8xx to allow for
  217. changes of EBDF by software
  218. * Patch by Vladimir Gurevich, 07 Feb 2003:
  219. "API-compatibility patch" for 4xx I2C driver
  220. * TRAB fixes / extensions:
  221. - Restore VFD brightness as saved in environment
  222. - add support for FGujitsu flashes
  223. - make sure both buzzers are turned off (drive low level)
  224. * Patches by Robert Schwebel, 06 Mar 2003:
  225. - fix bug in BOOTP code (must use NetCopyIP)
  226. - update of CSB226 port
  227. - clear BSS segment on XScale
  228. - added support for i2c_init_board() function
  229. - update to the Innokom plattform
  230. * Extend support for redundand environments for configurations where
  231. environment size < sector size
  232. * Patch by Rune Torgersen, 13 Feb 2003:
  233. Add support for Motorola MPC8266ADS board
  234. * Patch by Kyle Harris, 19 Feb 2003:
  235. patches for the Intel lubbock board:
  236. memsetup.S - general cleanup (based on Robert's csb226 code)
  237. flash.c - overhaul, actually works now
  238. lubbock.c - fix init funcs to return proper value
  239. * Patch by Kenneth Johansson, 26 Feb 2003:
  240. - Fixed off by one in RFTA calculation.
  241. - No need to abort when LDF is lower than we can program it's only
  242. minimum timing so clamp it to what we can do.
  243. - Takes function pointer to function for reading the spd_nvram. Usefull
  244. for faking data or hardcode a module without the nvram.
  245. - fix other user for above change
  246. - fix some comments.
  247. * Patches by Brian Waite, 26 Feb 2003:
  248. - fix port for evb64260 board
  249. - fix PCI for evb64260 board
  250. - fix PCI scan
  251. * Patch by Reinhard Meyer, 1 Mar 2003:
  252. Add support for EMK TOP860 Module
  253. * Patch by Yuli Barcohen, 02 Mar 2003:
  254. Add SPD EEPROM support for MPC8260ADS board
  255. * Patch by Robert Schwebel, 21 Jan 2003:
  256. - Add support for Innokom board
  257. - Don't complain if "install" fails
  258. - README cleanup (remove duplicated lines)
  259. - Update PXA header files
  260. * Add documentation for existing POST code (doc/README.POST)
  261. * Patch by Laudney Ren, 15 Jan 2003:
  262. Fix handling of redundand environment in "tools/envcrc.c"
  263. * Patch by Detlev Zundel, 28 Feb 2003:
  264. Add bedbug support for 824x systems
  265. * Add support for 16 MB flash configuration of TRAB board
  266. * Patch by Erwin Rol, 27 Feb 2003:
  267. Add support for RTEMS
  268. * Add image information to README
  269. * Patch by Stefan Roese, 18 Feb 2003:
  270. CPCIISER4 configuration updated.
  271. * Patch by Stefan Roese, 17 Feb 2003:
  272. Fixed bug in ext. serial clock setup on PPC405 (since PPC440 port).
  273. * Patch by Stefan Roese, 13 Feb 2003:
  274. Add "pcidelay" environment variable (in ms, enabled via
  275. CONFIG_PCI_BOOTDELAY).
  276. PCI spec 2.2 defines, that a pci target has 2^25 pci clocks after
  277. RST# to respond to configuration cycles (33MHz -> 1s).
  278. * Fix dual PCMCIA slot support (when running with just one
  279. slot populated)
  280. * Add VFD type detection to trab board
  281. * extend drivers/cs8900.c driver to synchronize ethaddr environment
  282. variable with value in the EEPROM
  283. * Patch by Stefan Roese, 10 Feb 2003:
  284. Add support for 4MB and 128MB onboard SDRAM (cpu/ppc4xx/sdram.c)
  285. * Add support for MIPS32 4Kc CPUs
  286. * Add support for INCA-IP Board
  287. ======================================================================
  288. Changes for U-Boot 0.2.2:
  289. ======================================================================
  290. * Add dual ethernet support on PM826
  291. * Add support for LXT971 PHY on PM826
  292. * Patch by Tord Andersson, 16 Jan 2003:
  293. Fix flash sector count for TQM8xxL
  294. * Fix I2C EEPROM problem on ICU862 board (would only write the first
  295. 16 bytes out of each 32 byte block)
  296. ======================================================================
  297. Changes for U-Boot 0.2.1:
  298. ======================================================================
  299. * Add support for V37 board
  300. (patch by Jón Benediktsson, 11 Dec 2002)
  301. * Update baudrate in bd_info when it gets changed
  302. * Add watchdog trigger points while waiting for serial port
  303. (so far only 8xx -- needed on LWMON with 100ms watchdog)
  304. * Improve command line tool to access the U-Boot's environment
  305. (figuration of the utility, using a config file)
  306. * Add single quote support for (old) command line parser
  307. * Switch LWMON board default config from FRAM to EEPROM;
  308. in POST, EEPROM shows up on 8 addresses
  309. ======================================================================
  310. Changes for U-Boot 0.2.0:
  311. ======================================================================
  312. * Use 1-byte-read instead of -write for iprobe() function
  313. Add i2c commands to PM826 config
  314. * extend I2C POST code: check for list on known addresses
  315. * Improve log buffer code; use "loglevel" to decide which messages
  316. to log on the console, too (like in Linux); get rid of "logstart"
  317. * Add command line tool to access the U-Boot's environment
  318. (board-specific for TRAB now, to be fixed later)
  319. * Patch by Hans-Joerg Frieden, 06 Dec 2002
  320. Fix misc problems with AmigaOne support
  321. * Patch by Chris Hallinan, 3 Dec 2002:
  322. minor cleanup to the MPC8245 EPIC driver
  323. * Patch by Pierre Aubert , 28 Nov 2002
  324. Add support for external (SIU) interrupts on MPC8xx
  325. * Patch by Pierre Aubert , 28 Nov 2002
  326. Fix nested syscalls bug in standalone applications
  327. * Patch by David Müller, 27 Nov 2002:
  328. fix output of "pciinfo" command for CardBus bridge devices.
  329. * Fix bug in TQM8260 board detection - boards got stuck when board ID
  330. was not readable
  331. * Add LED indication for IDE activity on KUP4K board
  332. * Fix startup problems with VFD display on TRAB
  333. * Patch by Pierre Aubert, 20 Nov 2002
  334. Add driver for Epson SED13806 graphic controller.
  335. Add support for BMP logos in cfb_console driver.
  336. * Added support for both PCMCIA slots (at the same time!) on MPC8xx
  337. * Patch by Rod Boyce, 21 Nov 2002:
  338. fix PCMCIA on MBX8xx board
  339. * Patch by Pierre Aubert , 21 Nov 2002
  340. Add CFG_CPM_POST_WORD_ADDR to make the offset of the
  341. bootmode word in DPRAM configurable
  342. * Patch by Daniel Engström, 18 Nov 2002:
  343. Fixes for x86 port (mostly strings issues)
  344. * Patch by Ken Chou, 18 Nov 2002:
  345. Fix for natsemi NIC cards (DP83815)
  346. * Patch by Pierre Aubert, 19 Nov 2002:
  347. fix a bug for the MII configuration, and some warnings
  348. * Patch by Thomas Frieden, 13 Nov 2002:
  349. Add code for AmigaOne board
  350. (preliminary merge to U-Boot, still WIP)
  351. * Patch by Jon Diekema, 12 Nov 2002:
  352. - Adding URL for IEEE OUI lookup
  353. - Making the autoboot #defines dependent on CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
  354. being defined.
  355. - In the CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS #define, the root-on-initrd and
  356. root-on-nfs macros are designed to switch how the default boot
  357. method gets defined.
  358. * Patch by Daniel Engström, 13 Nov 2002:
  359. Add support for i386 architecture and AMD SC520 board
  360. * Patch by Pierre Aubert, 12 Nov 2002:
  361. Add support for DOS filesystem and booting from DOS floppy disk
  362. * Patch by Jim Sandoz, 07 Nov 2002:
  363. Increase number of network RX buffers (PKTBUFSRX in
  364. "include/net.h") for EEPRO100 based boards (especially SP8240)
  365. which showed "Receiver is not ready" errors when U-Boot was
  366. processing the receive buffers slower than the network controller
  367. was filling them.
  368. * Patch by Andreas Oberritter, 09 Nov 2002:
  369. Change behaviour of NetLoop(): return -1 for errors, filesize
  370. otherwise; return code 0 is valid an means no file loaded - in this
  371. case the environment still gets updated!
  372. * Patches by Jon Diekema, 9 Nov 2002:
  373. - improve ADC/DAC clocking on the SACSng board to align
  374. the failing edges of LRCLK and SCLK
  375. - sbc8260 configuration tweaks
  376. - add status LED support for 82xx systems
  377. - wire sspi/sspo commands into command handler; improved error
  378. handlering
  379. - add timestamp support and alternate memory test to the
  380. SACSng configuration
  381. * Patch by Vince Husovsky, 7 Nov 2002:
  382. Add "-n" to linker options to get rid of "Not enough room for
  383. program headers" problem
  384. * Patch by David Müller, 05 Nov 2002
  385. Rename CONFIG_PLL_INPUT_FREQ to CONFIG_SYS_CLK_FREQ
  386. so we can use an already existing name
  387. * Patch by Pierre Aubert, 05 Nov 2002
  388. Hardware relatied improvments in FDC boot code
  389. * Patch by Holger Schurig, 5 Nov 2002:
  390. Make the PXA really change it's frequency
  391. * Patch by Pierre Aubert, 05 Nov 2002
  392. Add support for slave serial Spartan 2 FPGAs
  393. * Fix uninitialized memory (MAC address) in 8xx SCC/FEC ethernet
  394. drivers
  395. * Add support for log buffer which can be passed to Linux kernel's
  396. syslog mechanism; used especially for POST results.
  397. * Patch by Klaus Heydeck, 31 Oct 2002:
  398. Add initial support for kup4k board
  399. * Patch by Robert Schwebel, 04 Nov 2002:
  400. - use watchdog to reset PXA250 systems
  401. - added progress callbacks to (some of the) ARM code
  402. - update for Cogent CSB226 board
  403. * Add support for FPS860 board
  404. * Patch by Guillaume Alexandre,, 04 Nov 2002:
  405. Improve PCI access on 32-bits Compact PCI bus
  406. * Fix mdelay() on TRAB - this was still the debugging version with
  407. seconds instead of ms.
  408. * Patch by Robert Schwebel, 1 Nov 2002:
  409. XScale related cleanup (affects all ARM boards)
  410. * Cleanup of names and README.
  411. ======================================================================
  412. Notes for U-Boot 0.1.0:
  413. ======================================================================
  414. This is the initial version of "Das U-Boot", the Universal Boot Loader.
  415. It is based on version 2.0.0 (the "Halloween Release") of PPCBoot.
  416. For information about the history of the project please see the
  417. PPCBoot project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ppcboot
  418. ======================================================================