Management Processor Monitor: MPC8548 Environment

MPC8548 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

Press the ‘s’ key on the keyboard during reset to force the default monitor environment vari- ables to be loaded during hardware initialization but before diagnostic testing.

Table 9-6:Standard Environment Variables

 

Default

 

Variable:

Value:

Description:

baudrate

115200

Console port baud rate

 

 

Valid rates: 9600, 14400, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200

 

 

 

bmc_wd_timeout

-1

This sets the time-out in seconds for the BMC watchdog

 

 

before booting the OS. If set to -1, then the BMC watchdog

 

 

is disabled before booting the OS.

 

 

Valid options: -1, 1-65535

 

 

 

bootcmd

" "

Command to execute when auto-booting or executing the

 

 

‘bootd’ command

 

 

 

bootdelay

1

Choose the number of seconds the Monitor counts down

 

 

before booting user application code

 

 

Valid options: time in seconds, -1 to disable autoboot

 

 

 

bootfile

" "

Path to boot file on server (used with TFTP)—set this to

 

 

“path/file.bin” to specify filename and location of the file to

 

 

load.

 

 

 

bootretry

-1

Set the number of seconds the Monitor counts down before

 

 

booting user application code (used only with autoboot). If

 

 

the boot commands fails, it will try again after bootretry

 

 

seconds.

 

 

Valid options: time in seconds, -1 to disable bootretry

 

 

 

bootstopkey

h

Press during power-up/reset initialization to terminate the

 

 

monitor autoboot sequence and go to the monitor prompt.

 

 

 

clearmem

on

Select whether to clear unused SDRAM (memory used by

 

 

monitor is excluded) on power-up and reset.

 

 

Valid options: on, off

 

 

 

dcache

on

Enables the processor L1 data cache

 

 

Valid options: on, off

 

 

 

ecc

on

Enable ECC initialization—all of memory is cleared during

 

 

ECC initialization. Valid options: on, off

 

 

 

ecc_1bit_report

off

Select the reporting of single bit, correctable ECC errors to

 

 

the console (errors of 2 or more bits are always reported)

 

 

Valid options: on, off

 

 

 

ethaddr

00:80:F9:

ATCA-9305 board Ethernet address for TSEC_1 port, the last

 

97:00:00-

digits are the board serial number in hex.

 

00:80:F9:

 

 

97:FF:FF

 

 

 

 

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ATCA-9305 specifications

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