1 menu "Command line interface"
4 bool "Support U-Boot commands"
7 Enable U-Boot's command-line functions. This provides a means
8 to enter commands into U-Boot for a wide variety of purposes. It
9 also allows scripts (containing commands) to be executed.
10 Various commands and command categorys can be indivdually enabled.
11 Depending on the number of commands enabled, this can add
12 substantially to the size of U-Boot.
18 This option enables the "hush" shell (from Busybox) as command line
19 interpreter, thus enabling powerful command line syntax like
20 if...then...else...fi conditionals or `&&' and '||'
21 constructs ("shell scripts").
23 If disabled, you get the old, much simpler behaviour with a somewhat
24 smaller memory footprint.
26 config CMDLINE_EDITING
27 bool "Enable command line editing"
31 Enable editing and History functions for interactive command line
35 bool "Enable auto complete using TAB"
39 Enable auto completion of commands using TAB.
42 bool "Enable long help messages"
46 Defined when you want long help messages included
47 Do not set this option when short of memory.
53 This string is displayed in the command line to the left of the
57 string "Command execution tracer"
61 This option enables the possiblity to print all commands before
62 executing them and after all variables are evaluated (similar
63 to Bash's xtrace/'set -x' feature).
64 To enable the tracer a variable "xtrace" needs to be defined in
67 menu "Autoboot options"
73 This enables the autoboot. See doc/README.autoboot for detail.
76 bool "Stop autobooting via specific input key / string"
79 This option enables stopping (aborting) of the automatic
80 boot feature only by issuing a specific input key or
81 string. If not enabled, any input key will abort the
82 U-Boot automatic booting process and bring the device
83 to the U-Boot prompt for user input.
85 config AUTOBOOT_PROMPT
86 string "Autoboot stop prompt"
87 depends on AUTOBOOT_KEYED
88 default "Autoboot in %d seconds\\n"
90 This string is displayed before the boot delay selected by
91 CONFIG_BOOTDELAY starts. If it is not defined there is no
92 output indicating that autoboot is in progress.
94 Note that this define is used as the (only) argument to a
95 printf() call, so it may contain '%' format specifications,
96 provided that it also includes, sepearated by commas exactly
97 like in a printf statement, the required arguments. It is
98 the responsibility of the user to select only such arguments
99 that are valid in the given context.
101 config AUTOBOOT_ENCRYPTION
102 bool "Enable encryption in autoboot stopping"
103 depends on AUTOBOOT_KEYED
105 This option allows a string to be entered into U-Boot to stop the
106 autoboot. The string itself is hashed and compared against the hash
107 in the environment variable 'bootstopkeysha256'. If it matches then
108 boot stops and a command-line prompt is presented.
110 This provides a way to ship a secure production device which can also
111 be accessed at the U-Boot command line.
113 config AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
114 string "Delay autobooting via specific input key / string"
115 depends on AUTOBOOT_KEYED && !AUTOBOOT_ENCRYPTION
117 This option delays the automatic boot feature by issuing
118 a specific input key or string. If CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
119 or the environment variable "bootdelaykey" is specified
120 and this string is received from console input before
121 autoboot starts booting, U-Boot gives a command prompt. The
122 U-Boot prompt will time out if CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME is
123 used, otherwise it never times out.
125 config AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR
126 string "Stop autobooting via specific input key / string"
127 depends on AUTOBOOT_KEYED && !AUTOBOOT_ENCRYPTION
129 This option enables stopping (aborting) of the automatic
130 boot feature only by issuing a specific input key or
131 string. If CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR or the environment
132 variable "bootstopkey" is specified and this string is
133 received from console input before autoboot starts booting,
134 U-Boot gives a command prompt. The U-Boot prompt never
135 times out, even if CONFIG_BOOT_RETRY_TIME is used.
137 config AUTOBOOT_KEYED_CTRLC
138 bool "Enable Ctrl-C autoboot interruption"
139 depends on AUTOBOOT_KEYED && !AUTOBOOT_ENCRYPTION
142 This option allows for the boot sequence to be interrupted
143 by ctrl-c, in addition to the "bootdelaykey" and "bootstopkey".
144 Setting this variable provides an escape sequence from the
145 limited "password" strings.
147 config AUTOBOOT_STOP_STR_SHA256
148 string "Stop autobooting via SHA256 encrypted password"
149 depends on AUTOBOOT_KEYED && AUTOBOOT_ENCRYPTION
151 This option adds the feature to only stop the autobooting,
152 and therefore boot into the U-Boot prompt, when the input
153 string / password matches a values that is encypted via
154 a SHA256 hash and saved in the environment.
156 config AUTOBOOT_USE_MENUKEY
157 bool "Allow a specify key to run a menu from the environment"
158 depends on !AUTOBOOT_KEYED
160 If a specific key is pressed to stop autoboot, then the commands in
161 the environment variable 'menucmd' are executed before boot starts.
163 config AUTOBOOT_MENUKEY
164 int "ASCII value of boot key to show a menu"
166 depends on AUTOBOOT_USE_MENUKEY
168 If this key is pressed to stop autoboot, then the commands in the
169 environment variable 'menucmd' will be executed before boot starts.
170 For example, 33 means "!" in ASCII, so pressing ! at boot would take
173 config AUTOBOOT_MENU_SHOW
174 bool "Show a menu on boot"
175 depends on CMD_BOOTMENU
177 This enables the boot menu, controlled by environment variables
178 defined by the board. The menu starts after running the 'preboot'
179 environmnent variable (if enabled) and before handling the boot delay.
180 See README.bootmenu for more details.
202 Print ".config" contents.
204 If this option is enabled, the ".config" file contents are embedded
205 in the U-Boot image and can be printed on the console by the "config"
206 command. This provides information of which options are enabled on
213 Print console devices and information.
218 Print information about available CPUs. This normally shows the
219 number of CPUs, type (e.g. manufacturer, architecture, product or
220 internal name) and clock frequency. Other information may be
221 available depending on the CPU driver.
227 Print GPL license text
243 Run the command stored in the environment "bootcmd", i.e.
244 "bootd" does the same thing as "run bootcmd".
250 Boot an application image from the memory.
255 Boot the Linux zImage
259 depends on ARM64 || RISCV
262 Boot an AArch64 Linux Kernel image from memory.
266 depends on EFI_LOADER
269 Boot an EFI image from memory.
272 bool "Support booting Linux OS images"
273 depends on CMD_BOOTM || CMD_BOOTZ || CMD_BOOTI
276 Support booting the Linux kernel directly via a command such as bootm
280 bool "Support booting NetBSD (non-EFI) loader images"
284 Support booting NetBSD via the bootm command.
286 config BOOTM_OPENRTOS
287 bool "Support booting OPENRTOS / FreeRTOS images"
290 Support booting OPENRTOS / FreeRTOS via the bootm command.
293 bool "Support booting Enea OSE images"
296 Support booting Enea OSE images via the bootm command.
299 bool "Support booting Plan9 OS images"
303 Support booting Plan9 images via the bootm command.
306 bool "Support booting RTEMS OS images"
310 Support booting RTEMS images via the bootm command.
313 bool "Support booting VxWorks OS images"
317 Support booting VxWorks images via the bootm command.
319 config CMD_BOOTEFI_HELLO_COMPILE
320 bool "Compile a standard EFI hello world binary for testing"
321 depends on CMD_BOOTEFI && !CPU_V7M && !SANDBOX
324 This compiles a standard EFI hello world application with U-Boot so
325 that it can be used with the test/py testing framework. This is useful
326 for testing that EFI is working at a basic level, and for bringing
327 up EFI support on a new architecture.
329 No additional space will be required in the resulting U-Boot binary
330 when this option is enabled.
332 config CMD_BOOTEFI_HELLO
333 bool "Allow booting a standard EFI hello world for testing"
334 depends on CMD_BOOTEFI_HELLO_COMPILE
336 This adds a standard EFI hello world application to U-Boot so that
337 it can be used with the 'bootefi hello' command. This is useful
338 for testing that EFI is working at a basic level, and for bringing
339 up EFI support on a new architecture.
341 source lib/efi_selftest/Kconfig
347 Add an ANSI terminal boot menu command.
352 Android DTB/DTBO image manipulation commands. Read dtb/dtbo files from
353 image into RAM, dump image structure information, etc. Those dtb/dtbo
354 files should be merged in one dtb further, which needs to be passed to
355 the kernel, as part of a boot process.
358 bool "bootelf, bootvx"
361 Boot an ELF/vxWorks image from the memory.
364 bool "Flattened Device Tree utility commands"
368 Do FDT related setup before booting into the Operating System.
374 Start an application at a given address.
380 Run the command in the given environment variable.
386 Print header information for application image.
391 List all images found in flash
397 Extract a part of a multi-image.
400 bool "spl export - Export boot information for Falcon boot"
403 Falcon mode allows booting directly from SPL into an Operating
404 System such as Linux, thus skipping U-Boot proper. See
405 doc/README.falcon for full information about how to use this
408 config CMD_SPL_NAND_OFS
409 hex "Offset of OS args or dtb for Falcon-mode NAND boot"
410 depends on CMD_SPL && (TPL_NAND_SUPPORT || SPL_NAND_SUPPORT)
413 This provides the offset of the command line arguments for Linux
414 when booting from NAND in Falcon mode. See doc/README.falcon
415 for full information about how to use this option (and also see
416 board/gateworks/gw_ventana/README for an example).
418 config CMD_SPL_NOR_OFS
419 hex "Offset of OS args or dtb for Falcon-mode NOR boot"
420 depends on CMD_SPL && SPL_NOR_SUPPORT
423 This provides the offset of the command line arguments or dtb for
424 Linux when booting from NOR in Falcon mode.
426 config CMD_SPL_WRITE_SIZE
427 hex "Size of argument area"
431 This provides the size of the command-line argument area in NAND
432 flash used by Falcon-mode boot. See the documentation until CMD_SPL
436 bool "fitImage update command"
438 Implements the 'fitupd' command, which allows to automatically
439 store software updates present on a TFTP server in NOR Flash
441 config CMD_THOR_DOWNLOAD
442 bool "thor - TIZEN 'thor' download"
444 Implements the 'thor' download protocol. This is a way of
445 downloading a software update over USB from an attached host.
446 There is no documentation about this within the U-Boot source code
447 but you should be able to find something on the interwebs.
450 bool "zboot - x86 boot command"
452 With x86 machines it is common to boot a bzImage file which
453 contains both a kernel and a setup.bin file. The latter includes
454 configuration information from the dark ages which x86 boards still
455 need to pick things out of.
457 Consider using FIT in preference to this since it supports directly
458 booting both 32- and 64-bit kernels, as well as secure boot.
459 Documentation is available in doc/uImage.FIT/x86-fit-boot.txt
463 menu "Environment commands"
466 bool "ask for env variable"
468 Ask for environment variable
486 Edit environment variable.
491 Allow for searching environment variables
497 Save all environment variables into the compiled-in persistent
503 depends on CMD_SAVEENV
505 Erase environment variables from the compiled-in persistent
508 config CMD_ENV_EXISTS
512 Check if a variable is defined in the environment for use in
515 config CMD_ENV_CALLBACK
516 bool "env callbacks - print callbacks and their associated variables"
518 Some environment variable have callbacks defined by
519 U_BOOT_ENV_CALLBACK. These are called when the variable changes.
520 For example changing "baudrate" adjust the serial baud rate. This
521 command lists the currently defined callbacks.
524 bool "env flags -print variables that have non-default flags"
526 Some environment variables have special flags that control their
527 behaviour. For example, serial# can only be written once and cannot
528 be deleted. This command shows the variables that have special
531 config CMD_NVEDIT_EFI
532 bool "env [set|print] -e - set/print UEFI variables"
533 depends on EFI_LOADER
536 UEFI variables are encoded as some form of U-Boot variables.
537 If enabled, we are allowed to set/print UEFI variables using
538 "env" command with "-e" option without knowing details.
540 config CMD_NVEDIT_INFO
541 bool "env info - print or evaluate environment information"
543 Print environment information:
544 - env_valid : is environment valid
545 - env_ready : is environment imported into hash table
546 - env_use_default : is default environment used
548 This command can be optionally used for evaluation in scripts:
549 [-d] : evaluate whether default environment is used
550 [-p] : evaluate whether environment can be persisted
551 The result of multiple evaluations will be combined with AND.
555 menu "Memory commands"
560 Compute binary operations (xor, or, and) of byte arrays of arbitrary
561 size from memory and store the result in memory or the environment.
574 Add -v option to verify data against a crc32 checksum.
577 bool "eeprom - EEPROM subsystem"
579 (deprecated, needs conversion to driver model)
580 Provides commands to read and write EEPROM (Electrically Erasable
581 Programmable Read Only Memory) chips that are connected over an
584 config CMD_EEPROM_LAYOUT
585 bool "Enable layout-aware eeprom commands"
586 depends on CMD_EEPROM
588 (deprecated, needs conversion to driver model)
589 When enabled, additional eeprom sub-commands become available.
591 eeprom print - prints the contents of the eeprom in a human-readable
592 way (eeprom layout fields, and data formatted to be fit for human
595 eeprom update - allows user to update eeprom fields by specifying
596 the field name, and providing the new data in a human readable format
597 (same format as displayed by the eeprom print command).
599 Both commands can either auto detect the layout, or be told which
603 __weak int parse_layout_version(char *str)
604 - override to provide your own layout name parsing
605 __weak void __eeprom_layout_assign(struct eeprom_layout *layout,
607 - override to setup the layout metadata based on the version
608 __weak int eeprom_layout_detect(unsigned char *data)
609 - override to provide your own algorithm for detecting layout
612 - contains various printing and updating functions for common
613 types of eeprom fields. Can be used for defining
616 config EEPROM_LAYOUT_HELP_STRING
617 string "Tells user what layout names are supported"
618 depends on CMD_EEPROM_LAYOUT
619 default "<not defined>"
621 Help printed with the LAYOUT VERSIONS part of the 'eeprom'
627 Infinite write loop on address range
634 Compute MD5 checksum.
639 depends on CMD_MD5SUM
641 Add -v option to verify data against an MD5 checksum.
646 Display memory information.
649 bool "md, mm, nm, mw, cp, cmp, base, loop"
654 mm - memory modify (auto-incrementing address)
655 nm - memory modify (constant address)
656 mw - memory write (fill)
659 base - print or set address offset
660 loop - initialize loop on address range
663 bool "Enable cyclic md/mw commands"
664 depends on CMD_MEMORY
666 Add the "mdc" and "mwc" memory commands. These are cyclic
671 This command will print 4 bytes (10,11,12,13) each 500 ms.
673 => mwc.l 100 12345678 10
674 This command will write 12345678 to address 100 all 10 ms.
679 depends on CMD_MEMORY && (LIB_RAND || LIB_HW_RAND)
681 random - fill memory with random data
686 Simple RAM read/write test.
690 config SYS_ALT_MEMTEST
691 bool "Alternative test"
693 Use a more complete alternative memory test.
700 mdc - memory display cyclic
701 mwc - memory write cyclic
707 Compute SHA1 checksum.
709 config SHA1SUM_VERIFY
711 depends on CMD_SHA1SUM
713 Add -v option to verify data against a SHA1 checksum.
716 bool "strings - display strings in memory"
718 This works similarly to the Unix 'strings' command except that it
719 works with a memory range. String of printable characters found
720 within the range are displayed. The minimum number of characters
721 for a sequence to be considered a string can be provided.
725 menu "Compression commands"
729 default y if CMD_BOOTI
732 Support decompressing an LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm)
737 default y if CMD_BOOTI
739 Uncompress a zip-compressed memory region.
744 Compress a memory region with zlib deflate method.
748 menu "Device access commands"
751 #depends on FLASH_CFI_DRIVER
754 ARM Ltd reference designs flash partition access
757 bool "adc - Access Analog to Digital Converters info and data"
761 Shows ADC device info and permit printing one-shot analog converted
762 data from a named Analog to Digital Converter.
767 depends on PARTITIONS
769 Read/modify/write the fields of Bootloader Control Block, usually
770 stored on the flash "misc" partition with its structure defined in:
771 https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bootable/recovery/+/master/
772 bootloader_message/include/bootloader_message/bootloader_message.h
774 Some real-life use-cases include (but are not limited to):
775 - Determine the "boot reason" (and act accordingly):
776 https://source.android.com/devices/bootloader/boot-reason
777 - Get/pass a list of commands from/to recovery:
778 https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bootable/recovery
779 - Inspect/dump the contents of the BCB fields
782 bool "bind/unbind - Bind or unbind a device to/from a driver"
785 Bind or unbind a device to/from a driver from the command line.
786 This is useful in situations where a device may be handled by several
787 drivers. For example, this can be used to bind a UDC to the usb ether
788 gadget driver from the command line.
791 bool "clk - Show clock frequencies"
794 Shows clock frequences by calling a sock_clk_dump() hook function.
795 This is depreated in favour of using the CLK uclass and accessing
796 clock values from associated drivers. However currently no command
800 bool "demo - Demonstration commands for driver model"
803 Provides a 'demo' command which can be used to play around with
804 driver model. To use this properly you will need to enable one or
805 both of the demo devices (DM_DEMO_SHAPE and DM_DEMO_SIMPLE).
806 Otherwise you will always get an empty list of devices. The demo
807 devices are defined in the sandbox device tree, so the easiest
808 option is to use sandbox and pass the -d point to sandbox's
815 Enables the command "dfu" which is used to have U-Boot create a DFU
816 class device via USB. This command requires that the "dfu_alt_info"
817 environment variable be set and define the alt settings to expose to
821 bool "dm - Access to driver model information"
824 Provides access to driver model data structures and information,
825 such as a list of devices, list of uclasses and the state of each
826 device (e.g. activated). This is not required for operation, but
827 can be useful to see the state of driver model for debugging or
831 bool "fastboot - Android fastboot support"
834 This enables the command "fastboot" which enables the Android
835 fastboot mode for the platform. Fastboot is a protocol for
836 downloading images, flashing and device control used on
837 Android devices. Fastboot requires either the network stack
838 enabled or support for acting as a USB device.
840 See doc/android/fastboot.txt for more information.
843 bool "fdcboot - Boot from floppy device"
845 The 'fdtboot' command allows booting an image from a floppy disk.
848 bool "flinfo, erase, protect"
852 flinfo - print FLASH memory information
854 protect - enable or disable FLASH write protection
863 config CMD_FPGA_LOADBP
864 bool "fpga loadbp - load partial bitstream (Xilinx only)"
867 Supports loading an FPGA device from a bitstream buffer containing
870 config CMD_FPGA_LOADFS
871 bool "fpga loadfs - load bitstream from FAT filesystem (Xilinx only)"
874 Supports loading an FPGA device from a FAT filesystem.
876 config CMD_FPGA_LOADMK
877 bool "fpga loadmk - load bitstream from image"
880 Supports loading an FPGA device from a image generated by mkimage.
882 config CMD_FPGA_LOADP
883 bool "fpga loadp - load partial bitstream"
886 Supports loading an FPGA device from a bitstream buffer containing
889 config CMD_FPGA_LOAD_SECURE
890 bool "fpga loads - loads secure bitstreams (Xilinx only)"
893 Enables the fpga loads command which is used to load secure
894 (authenticated or encrypted or both) bitstreams on to FPGA.
897 bool "fpgad - dump FPGA registers"
899 (legacy, needs conversion to driver model)
900 Provides a way to dump FPGA registers by calling the board-specific
901 fpga_get_reg() function. This functions similarly to the 'md'
905 bool "fuse - support for the fuse subssystem"
907 (deprecated - needs conversion to driver model)
908 This allows reading, sensing, programming or overriding fuses
909 which control the behaviour of the device. The command uses the
918 bool "GPT (GUID Partition Table) command"
920 select HAVE_BLOCK_DEVICE
921 select PARTITION_UUIDS
924 Enable the 'gpt' command to ready and write GPT style partition
928 bool "GPT Random UUID generation"
931 Enable the generation of partitions with random UUIDs if none
934 config CMD_GPT_RENAME
935 bool "GPT partition renaming commands"
938 Enables the 'gpt' command to interchange names on two GPT
939 partitions via the 'gpt swap' command or to rename single
940 partitions via the 'rename' command.
943 bool "ide - Support for IDE drivers"
946 Provides an 'ide' command which allows accessing the IDE drive,
947 reseting the IDE interface, printing the partition table and
948 geting device info. It also enables the 'diskboot' command which
949 permits booting from an IDE drive.
952 bool "io - Support for performing I/O accesses"
954 Provides an 'iod' command to display I/O space and an 'iow' command
955 to write values to the I/O space. This can be useful for manually
956 checking the state of devices during boot when debugging device
960 bool "iotrace - Support for tracing I/O activity"
962 Provides an 'iotrace' command which supports recording I/O reads and
963 writes in a trace buffer in memory . It also maintains a checksum
964 of the trace records (even if space is exhausted) so that the
965 sequence of I/O accesses can be verified.
967 When debugging drivers it is useful to see what I/O accesses were
968 done and in what order.
970 Even if the individual accesses are of little interest it can be
971 useful to verify that the access pattern is consistent each time
972 an operation is performed. In this case a checksum can be used to
973 characterise the operation of a driver. The checksum can be compared
974 across different runs of the operation to verify that the driver is
977 In particular, when performing major refactoring of the driver, where
978 the access pattern should not change, the checksum provides assurance
979 that the refactoring work has not broken the driver.
981 This works by sneaking into the io.h heder for an architecture and
982 redirecting I/O accesses through iotrace's tracing mechanism.
984 For now no commands are provided to examine the trace buffer. The
985 format is fairly simple, so 'md' is a reasonable substitute.
987 Note: The checksum feature is only useful for I/O regions where the
988 contents do not change outside of software control. Where this is not
989 suitable you can fall back to manually comparing the addresses. It
990 might be useful to enhance tracing to only checksum the accesses and
991 not the data read/written.
1001 bool "w1 - Support for Dallas 1-Wire protocol"
1003 Dallas 1-wire protocol support
1009 Load a binary file over serial line.
1015 Load an S-Record file over serial line
1020 MMC memory mapped support.
1023 bool "Enable support for RPMB in the mmc command"
1026 Enable the commands for reading, writing and programming the
1027 key for the Replay Protection Memory Block partition in eMMC.
1029 config CMD_MMC_SWRITE
1031 depends on CMD_MMC && MMC_WRITE
1034 Enable support for the "mmc swrite" command to write Android sparse
1039 select MTD_PARTITIONS
1041 MTD commands support.
1045 default y if NAND_SUNXI
1050 config CMD_NAND_TRIMFFS
1051 bool "nand write.trimffs"
1052 default y if ARCH_SUNXI
1054 Allows one to skip empty pages when flashing something on a NAND.
1056 config CMD_NAND_LOCK_UNLOCK
1057 bool "nand lock/unlock"
1059 NAND locking support.
1061 config CMD_NAND_TORTURE
1064 NAND torture support.
1073 NVM Express device support
1076 bool "onenand - access to onenand device"
1078 OneNAND is a brand of NAND ('Not AND' gate) flash which provides
1079 various useful features. This command allows reading, writing,
1080 and erasing blocks. It allso provides a way to show and change
1081 bad blocks, and test the device.
1086 Enable the 'osd' command which allows to query information from and
1087 write text data to a on-screen display (OSD) device; a virtual device
1088 associated with a display capable of displaying a text overlay on the
1089 display it's associated with..
1093 select HAVE_BLOCK_DEVICE
1094 select PARTITION_UUIDS
1096 Read and display information about the partition table on
1100 bool "pci - Access PCI devices"
1102 Provide access to PCI (Peripheral Interconnect Bus), a type of bus
1103 used on some devices to allow the CPU to communicate with its
1104 peripherals. Sub-commands allow bus enumeration, displaying and
1105 changing configuration space and a few other features.
1108 bool "pinmux - show pins muxing"
1109 default y if PINCTRL
1111 Parse all available pin-controllers and show pins muxing. This
1112 is useful for debug purpoer to check the pin muxing and to know if
1113 a pin is configured as a GPIO or as an alternate function.
1118 Poweroff/Shutdown the system
1121 bool "read - Read binary data from a partition"
1123 Provides low-level access to the data in a partition.
1125 config CMD_REMOTEPROC
1127 depends on REMOTEPROC
1129 Support for Remote Processor control
1132 bool "sata - Access SATA subsystem"
1135 SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is a serial bus
1136 standard for connecting to hard drives and other storage devices.
1137 This command provides information about attached devices and allows
1138 reading, writing and other operations.
1140 SATA replaces PATA (originally just ATA), which stands for Parallel AT
1141 Attachment, where AT refers to an IBM AT (Advanced Technology)
1142 computer released in 1984.
1145 bool "saves - Save a file over serial in S-Record format"
1147 Provides a way to save a binary file using the Motorola S-Record
1148 format over the serial line.
1151 bool "scsi - Access to SCSI devices"
1154 This provides a 'scsi' command which provides access to SCSI (Small
1155 Computer System Interface) devices. The command provides a way to
1156 scan the bus, reset the bus, read and write data and get information
1160 bool "sdram - Print SDRAM configuration information"
1162 Provides information about attached SDRAM. This assumed that the
1163 SDRAM has an EEPROM with information that can be read using the
1164 I2C bus. This is only available on some boards.
1168 depends on DM_SPI_FLASH || SPI_FLASH
1173 bool "sf test - Allow testing of SPI flash"
1176 Provides a way to test that SPI flash is working correctly. The
1177 test is destructive, in that an area of SPI flash must be provided
1178 for the test to use. Performance information is also provided,
1179 measuring the performance of reading, writing and erasing in
1180 Mbps (Million Bits Per Second). This value should approximately
1181 equal the SPI bus speed for a single-bit-wide SPI bus, assuming
1182 everything is working properly.
1185 bool "sspi - Command to access spi device"
1188 SPI utility command.
1190 config DEFAULT_SPI_BUS
1191 int "default spi bus used by sspi command"
1195 config DEFAULT_SPI_MODE
1196 hex "default spi mode used by sspi command (see include/spi.h)"
1201 bool "tsi148 - Command to access tsi148 device"
1203 This provides various sub-commands to initialise and configure the
1204 Turndra tsi148 device. See the command help for full details.
1207 bool "universe - Command to set up the Turndra Universe controller"
1209 This allows setting up the VMEbus provided by this controller.
1210 See the command help for full details.
1214 select HAVE_BLOCK_DEVICE
1220 select USB_FUNCTION_SDP
1222 Enables the command "sdp" which is used to have U-Boot emulating the
1223 Serial Download Protocol (SDP) via USB.
1227 depends on USB_FUNCTION_ROCKUSB
1229 Rockusb protocol is widely used by Rockchip SoC based devices. It can
1230 read/write info, image to/from devices. This enable rockusb command
1231 support to communication with rockusb device. for more detail about
1232 this command, please read doc/README.rockusb.
1234 config CMD_USB_MASS_STORAGE
1235 bool "UMS usb mass storage"
1236 select USB_FUNCTION_MASS_STORAGE
1238 USB mass storage support
1245 VirtIO block device support
1251 This provides commands to control the watchdog timer devices.
1257 Enable the command "axi" for accessing AXI (Advanced eXtensible
1258 Interface) busses, a on-chip interconnect specification for managing
1259 functional blocks in SoC designs, which is also often used in designs
1260 involving FPGAs (e.g. communication with IP cores in Xilinx FPGAs).
1264 menu "Shell scripting commands"
1270 Echo args to console
1276 Return true/false on integer compare.
1282 Run script from memory
1288 Evaluate boolean and math expressions and store the result in an env
1290 Also supports loading the value at a memory location into a variable.
1291 If CONFIG_REGEX is enabled, setexpr also supports a gsub function.
1295 menu "Android support commands"
1297 config CMD_AB_SELECT
1300 depends on ANDROID_AB
1302 On Android devices with more than one boot slot (multiple copies of
1303 the kernel and system images) this provides a command to select which
1304 slot should be used to boot from and register the boot attempt. This
1305 is used by the new A/B update model where one slot is updated in the
1306 background while running from the other slot.
1313 bool "Network commands"
1323 bootp - boot image via network using BOOTP/TFTP protocol
1327 depends on CMD_BOOTP
1329 Boot image via network using DHCP/TFTP protocol
1331 config BOOTP_BOOTPATH
1332 bool "Request & store 'rootpath' from BOOTP/DHCP server"
1334 depends on CMD_BOOTP
1336 Even though the config is called BOOTP_BOOTPATH, it stores the
1337 path in the variable 'rootpath'.
1340 bool "Request & store 'dnsip' from BOOTP/DHCP server"
1342 depends on CMD_BOOTP
1344 The primary DNS server is stored as 'dnsip'. If two servers are
1345 returned, you must set BOOTP_DNS2 to store that second server IP
1349 bool "Store 'dnsip2' from BOOTP/DHCP server"
1350 depends on BOOTP_DNS
1352 If a DHCP client requests the DNS server IP from a DHCP server,
1353 it is possible that more than one DNS serverip is offered to the
1354 client. If CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2 is enabled, the secondary DNS
1355 server IP will be stored in the additional environment
1356 variable "dnsip2". The first DNS serverip is always
1357 stored in the variable "dnsip", when BOOTP_DNS is defined.
1359 config BOOTP_GATEWAY
1360 bool "Request & store 'gatewayip' from BOOTP/DHCP server"
1362 depends on CMD_BOOTP
1364 config BOOTP_HOSTNAME
1365 bool "Request & store 'hostname' from BOOTP/DHCP server"
1367 depends on CMD_BOOTP
1369 The name may or may not be qualified with the local domain name.
1371 config BOOTP_PREFER_SERVERIP
1372 bool "serverip variable takes precedent over DHCP server IP."
1373 depends on CMD_BOOTP
1375 By default a BOOTP/DHCP reply will overwrite the 'serverip' variable.
1377 With this option enabled, the 'serverip' variable in the environment
1378 takes precedence over DHCP server IP and will only be set by the DHCP
1379 server if not already set in the environment.
1381 config BOOTP_SUBNETMASK
1382 bool "Request & store 'netmask' from BOOTP/DHCP server"
1384 depends on CMD_BOOTP
1386 config BOOTP_NTPSERVER
1387 bool "Request & store 'ntpserverip' from BOOTP/DHCP server"
1388 depends on CMD_BOOTP
1393 Selecting this will allow capturing all Ethernet packets and store
1394 them in physical memory in a PCAP formated file,
1395 later to be analyzed by PCAP reader application (IE. WireShark).
1398 bool "Send PXE client arch to BOOTP/DHCP server"
1400 depends on CMD_BOOTP && CMD_PXE
1402 Supported for ARM, ARM64, and x86 for now.
1404 config BOOTP_PXE_CLIENTARCH
1406 depends on BOOTP_PXE
1407 default 0x16 if ARM64
1411 config BOOTP_VCI_STRING
1413 depends on CMD_BOOTP
1414 default "U-Boot.armv7" if CPU_V7A || CPU_V7M || CPU_V7R
1415 default "U-Boot.armv8" if ARM64
1416 default "U-Boot.arm" if ARM
1423 tftpboot - boot image via network using TFTP protocol
1427 depends on CMD_TFTPBOOT
1429 TFTP put command, for uploading files to a server
1433 depends on CMD_TFTPBOOT
1435 Act as a TFTP server and boot the first received file
1437 config NET_TFTP_VARS
1438 bool "Control TFTP timeout and count through environment"
1439 depends on CMD_TFTPBOOT
1442 If set, allows controlling the TFTP timeout through the
1443 environment variable tftptimeout, and the TFTP maximum
1444 timeout count through the variable tftptimeoutcountmax.
1445 If unset, timeout and maximum are hard-defined as 1 second
1446 and 10 timouts per TFTP transfer.
1451 Boot image via network using RARP/TFTP protocol
1457 Boot image via network using NFS protocol.
1462 Enable MII utility commands.
1467 Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network host
1472 Perform CDP network configuration
1477 Synchronize RTC via network
1482 Lookup the IP of a hostname
1484 config CMD_LINK_LOCAL
1488 Acquire a network IP address using the link-local protocol
1495 Allow control of L2 Ethernet switch commands. These are supported
1496 by the vsc9953 Ethernet driver at present. Sub-commands allow
1497 operations such as enabling / disabling a port and
1498 viewing/maintaining the filtering database (FDB)
1504 Boot image via network using PXE protocol
1509 Wait for wake-on-lan Magic Packet
1513 menu "Misc commands"
1516 bool "Enable 'bmp' command"
1517 depends on LCD || DM_VIDEO || VIDEO
1519 This provides a way to obtain information about a BMP-format image
1520 and to display it. BMP (which presumably stands for BitMaP) is a
1521 file format defined by Microsoft which supports images of various
1522 depths, formats and compression methods. Headers on the file
1523 determine the formats used. This command can be used by first loading
1524 the image into RAM, then using this command to look at it or display
1527 config CMD_BOOTCOUNT
1529 depends on BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
1531 Enable the bootcount command, which allows interrogation and
1532 reset of the bootcounter.
1535 bool "Enable board-specific commands"
1537 (deprecated: instead, please define a Kconfig option for each command)
1539 Some boards have board-specific commands which are only enabled
1540 during developemnt and need to be turned off for production. This
1541 option provides a way to control this. The commands that are enabled
1542 vary depending on the board.
1544 config CMD_BKOPS_ENABLE
1545 bool "mmc bkops enable"
1549 Enable command for setting manual background operations handshake
1550 on a eMMC device. The feature is optionally available on eMMC devices
1551 conforming to standard >= 4.41.
1553 config CMD_BLOCK_CACHE
1554 bool "blkcache - control and stats for block cache"
1555 depends on BLOCK_CACHE
1556 default y if BLOCK_CACHE
1558 Enable the blkcache command, which can be used to control the
1559 operation of the cache functions.
1560 This is most useful when fine-tuning the operation of the cache
1561 during development, but also allows the cache to be disabled when
1562 it might hurt performance (e.g. when using the ums command).
1565 bool "icache or dcache"
1567 Enable the "icache" and "dcache" commands
1569 config CMD_CONITRACE
1570 bool "conitrace - trace console input codes"
1572 Enable the 'conitrace' command which displays the codes received
1573 from the console input as hexadecimal numbers.
1576 bool "Enable clear screen command 'cls'"
1577 depends on CFB_CONSOLE || DM_VIDEO || LCD || VIDEO
1580 Enable the 'cls' command which clears the screen contents
1581 on video frame buffer.
1584 bool "efidebug - display/configure UEFI environment"
1585 depends on EFI_LOADER
1586 select EFI_DEVICE_PATH_TO_TEXT
1589 Enable the 'efidebug' command which provides a subset of UEFI
1590 shell utility with simplified functionality. It will be useful
1591 particularly for managing boot parameters as well as examining
1592 various EFI status for debugging.
1594 config CMD_EXCEPTION
1595 bool "exception - raise exception"
1596 depends on ARM || RISCV || X86
1598 Enable the 'exception' command which allows to raise an exception.
1605 Enable the 'led' command which allows for control of LEDs supported
1606 by the board. The LEDs can be listed with 'led list' and controlled
1607 with led on/off/togle/blink. Any LED drivers can be controlled with
1608 this command, e.g. led_gpio.
1614 Enable the 'date' command for getting/setting the time/date in RTC
1620 Run commands and summarize execution time.
1623 bool "gettime - read elapsed time"
1625 Enable the 'gettime' command which reads the elapsed time since
1626 U-Boot started running. This shows the time in seconds and
1627 milliseconds. See also the 'bootstage' command which provides more
1628 flexibility for boot timing.
1630 # TODO: rename to CMD_SLEEP
1635 Delay execution for some time
1638 bool "support for multiprocessor"
1640 This provides an option to brinup
1641 different processors in multiprocessor
1647 Access the system timer.
1653 This provides basic access to the U-Boot's sound support. The main
1654 feature is to play a beep.
1656 sound init - set up sound system
1657 sound play - play a sound
1663 This provides access to the QEMU firmware interface. The main
1664 feature is to allow easy loading of files passed to qemu-system
1665 via -kernel / -initrd
1667 source "cmd/mvebu/Kconfig"
1670 bool "terminal - provides a way to attach a serial terminal"
1672 Provides a 'cu'-like serial terminal command. This can be used to
1673 access other serial ports from the system console. The terminal
1674 is very simple with no special processing of characters. As with
1675 cu, you can press ~. (tilde followed by period) to exit.
1678 bool "uuid, guid - generation of unique IDs"
1681 This enables two commands:
1683 uuid - generate random Universally Unique Identifier
1684 guid - generate Globally Unique Identifier based on random UUID
1686 The two commands are very similar except for the endianness of the
1691 source "cmd/ti/Kconfig"
1693 config CMD_BOOTSTAGE
1694 bool "Enable the 'bootstage' command"
1695 depends on BOOTSTAGE
1697 Add a 'bootstage' command which supports printing a report
1698 and un/stashing of bootstage data.
1700 menu "Power commands"
1702 bool "Enable Driver Model PMIC command"
1705 This is the pmic command, based on a driver model pmic's API.
1706 Command features are unchanged:
1707 - list - list pmic devices
1708 - pmic dev <id> - show or [set] operating pmic device (NEW)
1709 - pmic dump - dump registers
1710 - pmic read address - read byte of register at address
1711 - pmic write address - write byte to register at address
1712 The only one change for this command is 'dev' subcommand.
1714 config CMD_REGULATOR
1715 bool "Enable Driver Model REGULATOR command"
1716 depends on DM_REGULATOR
1718 This command is based on driver model regulator's API.
1719 User interface features:
1720 - list - list regulator devices
1721 - regulator dev <id> - show or [set] operating regulator device
1722 - regulator info - print constraints info
1723 - regulator status - print operating status
1724 - regulator value <val] <-f> - print/[set] voltage value [uV]
1725 - regulator current <val> - print/[set] current value [uA]
1726 - regulator mode <id> - print/[set] operating mode id
1727 - regulator enable - enable the regulator output
1728 - regulator disable - disable the regulator output
1730 The '-f' (force) option can be used for set the value which exceeds
1731 the limits, which are found in device-tree and are kept in regulator's
1732 uclass platdata structure.
1736 menu "Security commands"
1738 bool "Enable the 'aes' command"
1741 This provides a means to encrypt and decrypt data using the AES
1742 (Advanced Encryption Standard). This algorithm uses a symetric key
1743 and is widely used as a streaming cipher. Different key lengths are
1744 supported by the algorithm but this command only supports 128 bits
1748 bool "Enable the 'blob' command"
1750 This is used with the Freescale secure boot mechanism.
1752 Freescale's SEC block has built-in Blob Protocol which provides
1753 a method for protecting user-defined data across system power
1754 cycles. SEC block protects data in a data structure called a Blob,
1755 which provides both confidentiality and integrity protection.
1757 Encapsulating data as a blob
1758 Each time that the Blob Protocol is used to protect data, a
1759 different randomly generated key is used to encrypt the data.
1760 This random key is itself encrypted using a key which is derived
1761 from SoC's non-volatile secret key and a 16 bit Key identifier.
1762 The resulting encrypted key along with encrypted data is called a
1763 blob. The non-volatile secure key is available for use only during
1766 During decapsulation, the reverse process is performed to get back
1770 blob enc - encapsulating data as a cryptgraphic blob
1771 blob dec - decapsulating cryptgraphic blob to get the data
1775 blob enc src dst len km
1777 Encapsulate and create blob of data $len bytes long
1778 at address $src and store the result at address $dst.
1779 $km is the 16 byte key modifier is also required for
1780 generation/use as key for cryptographic operation. Key
1781 modifier should be 16 byte long.
1783 blob dec src dst len km
1785 Decapsulate the blob of data at address $src and
1786 store result of $len byte at addr $dst.
1787 $km is the 16 byte key modifier is also required for
1788 generation/use as key for cryptographic operation. Key
1789 modifier should be 16 byte long.
1792 bool "Support 'hash' command"
1795 This provides a way to hash data in memory using various supported
1796 algorithms (such as SHA1, MD5, CRC32). The computed digest can be
1797 saved to memory or to an environment variable. It is also possible
1798 to verify a hash against data in memory.
1801 bool "Support the 'hvc' command"
1802 depends on ARM_SMCCC
1804 Allows issuing Hypervisor Calls (HVCs). Mostly useful for
1805 development and testing.
1808 bool "Support the 'smc' command"
1809 depends on ARM_SMCCC
1811 Allows issuing Secure Monitor Calls (SMCs). Mostly useful for
1812 development and testing.
1818 Add -v option to verify data against a hash.
1828 bool "Enable the 'tpm' command"
1829 depends on TPM_V1 || TPM_V2
1830 select CMD_TPM_V1 if TPM_V1
1831 select CMD_TPM_V2 if TPM_V2
1833 This provides a means to talk to a TPM from the command line. A wide
1834 range of commands if provided - see 'tpm help' for details. The
1835 command requires a suitable TPM on your board and the correct driver
1841 bool "Enable the 'tpm test' command"
1844 This provides a a series of tests to confirm that the TPMv1.x is
1845 working correctly. The tests cover initialisation, non-volatile RAM,
1846 extend, global lock and checking that timing is within expectations.
1847 The tests pass correctly on Infineon TPMs but may need to be adjusted
1854 menu "Firmware commands"
1856 bool "Enable crosec command"
1860 Enable command-line access to the Chrome OS EC (Embedded
1861 Controller). This provides the 'crosec' command which has
1862 a number of sub-commands for performing EC tasks such as
1863 updating its flash, accessing a small saved context area
1864 and talking to the I2C bus behind the EC (if there is one).
1867 menu "Filesystem commands"
1869 bool "Enable the 'btrsubvol' command"
1872 This enables the 'btrsubvol' command to list subvolumes
1873 of a BTRFS filesystem. There are no special commands for
1874 listing BTRFS directories or loading BTRFS files - this
1875 can be done by the generic 'fs' commands (see CMD_FS_GENERIC)
1876 when BTRFS is enabled (see FS_BTRFS).
1879 bool "Enable the 'cbfs' command"
1882 Define this to enable support for reading from a Coreboot
1883 filesystem. This is a ROM-based filesystem used for accessing files
1884 on systems that use coreboot as the first boot-loader and then load
1885 U-Boot to actually boot the Operating System. Available commands are
1886 cbfsinit, cbfsinfo, cbfsls and cbfsload.
1889 bool "Enable the 'cramfs' command"
1890 depends on FS_CRAMFS
1892 This provides commands for dealing with CRAMFS (Compressed ROM
1893 filesystem). CRAMFS is useful when space is tight since files are
1894 compressed. Two commands are provided:
1896 cramfsls - lists files in a cramfs image
1897 cramfsload - loads a file from a cramfs image
1900 bool "ext2 command support"
1903 Enables EXT2 FS command
1906 bool "ext4 command support"
1909 Enables EXT4 FS command
1911 config CMD_EXT4_WRITE
1913 bool "ext4 write command support"
1916 Enables EXT4 FS write command
1919 bool "FAT command support"
1922 Support for the FAT fs
1924 config CMD_FS_GENERIC
1925 bool "filesystem commands"
1927 Enables filesystem commands (e.g. load, ls) that work for multiple
1931 bool "fsuuid command"
1933 Enables fsuuid command for filesystem UUID.
1936 bool "jffs2 command"
1939 Enables commands to support the JFFS2 (Journalling Flash File System
1940 version 2) filesystem. This enables fsload, ls and fsinfo which
1941 provide the ability to load files, list directories and obtain
1942 filesystem information.
1945 bool "MTD partition support"
1946 select MTD_DEVICE if (CMD_NAND || NAND)
1948 MTD partitioning tool support.
1949 It is strongly encouraged to avoid using this command
1950 anymore along with 'sf', 'nand', 'onenand'. One can still
1951 declare the partitions in the mtdparts environment variable
1952 but better use the MTD stack and the 'mtd' command instead.
1954 config MTDIDS_DEFAULT
1955 string "Default MTD IDs"
1956 depends on MTD_PARTITIONS || CMD_MTDPARTS || CMD_NAND || CMD_FLASH
1958 Defines a default MTD IDs list for use with MTD partitions in the
1959 Linux MTD command line partitions format.
1961 config MTDPARTS_DEFAULT
1962 string "Default MTD partition scheme"
1963 depends on MTD_PARTITIONS || CMD_MTDPARTS || CMD_NAND || CMD_FLASH
1965 Defines a default MTD partitioning scheme in the Linux MTD command
1966 line partitions format
1968 config CMD_MTDPARTS_SPREAD
1969 bool "Padd partition size to take account of bad blocks"
1970 depends on CMD_MTDPARTS
1972 This enables the 'spread' sub-command of the mtdparts command.
1973 This command will modify the existing mtdparts variable by increasing
1974 the size of the partitions such that 1) each partition's net size is
1975 at least as large as the size specified in the mtdparts variable and
1976 2) each partition starts on a good block.
1979 bool "reiser - Access to reiserfs filesystems"
1981 This provides two commands which operate on a resierfs filesystem,
1982 commonly used some years ago:
1984 reiserls - list files
1985 reiserload - load a file
1988 bool "yaffs2 - Access of YAFFS2 filesystem"
1992 This provides commands for accessing a YAFFS2 filesystem. Yet
1993 Another Flash Filesystem 2 is a filesystem designed specifically
1994 for NAND flash. It incorporates bad-block management and ensures
1995 that device writes are sequential regardless of filesystem
1999 bool "zfs - Access of ZFS filesystem"
2001 This provides commands to accessing a ZFS filesystem, commonly used
2002 on Solaris systems. Two sub-commands are provided:
2004 zfsls - list files in a directory
2005 zfsload - load a file
2007 See doc/README.zfs for more details.
2011 menu "Debug commands"
2016 The bedbug (emBEDded deBUGger) command provides debugging features
2017 for some PowerPC processors. For details please see the
2018 docuemntation in doc/README.beddbug
2021 bool "diag - Board diagnostics"
2023 This command provides access to board diagnostic tests. These are
2024 called Power-on Self Tests (POST). The command allows listing of
2025 available tests and running either all the tests, or specific tests
2029 bool "irq - Show information about interrupts"
2030 depends on !ARM && !MIPS && !SH
2032 This enables two commands:
2034 interrupts - enable or disable interrupts
2035 irqinfo - print device-specific interrupt information
2038 bool "kgdb - Allow debugging of U-Boot with gdb"
2041 This enables a 'kgdb' command which allows gdb to connect to U-Boot
2042 over a serial link for debugging purposes. This allows
2043 single-stepping, inspecting variables, etc. This is supported only
2044 on PowerPC at present.
2047 bool "log - Generation, control and access to logging"
2050 This provides access to logging features. It allows the output of
2051 log data to be controlled to a limited extent (setting up the default
2052 maximum log level for emitting of records). It also provides access
2053 to a command used for testing the log system.
2056 bool "trace - Support tracing of function calls and timing"
2058 Enables a command to control using of function tracing within
2059 U-Boot. This allows recording of call traces including timing
2060 information. The command can write data to memory for exporting
2061 for analysis (e.g. using bootchart). See doc/README.trace for full
2065 bool "avb - Android Verified Boot 2.0 operations"
2066 depends on AVB_VERIFY
2069 Enables a "avb" command to perform verification of partitions using
2070 Android Verified Boot 2.0 functionality. It includes such subcommands:
2071 avb init - initialize avb2 subsystem
2072 avb read_rb - read rollback index
2073 avb write_rb - write rollback index
2074 avb is_unlocked - check device lock state
2075 avb get_uuid - read and print uuid of a partition
2076 avb read_part - read data from partition
2077 avb read_part_hex - read data from partition and output to stdout
2078 avb write_part - write data to partition
2079 avb verify - run full verification chain
2083 tristate "Enable UBI - Unsorted block images commands"
2086 UBI is a software layer above MTD layer which admits use of LVM-like
2087 logical volumes on top of MTD devices, hides some complexities of
2088 flash chips like wear and bad blocks and provides some other useful
2089 capabilities. Please, consult the MTD web site for more details
2090 (www.linux-mtd.infradead.org). Activate this option if you want
2091 to use U-Boot UBI commands.
2092 It is also strongly encouraged to also enable CONFIG_MTD to get full
2096 tristate "Enable UBIFS - Unsorted block images filesystem commands"
2098 default y if CMD_UBI
2101 UBIFS is a file system for flash devices which works on top of UBI.