The signing part is build into mkimage regardless of this
                option.
 
+- bootcount support:
+               CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_LIMIT
+
+               This enables the bootcounter support, see:
+               http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootBootCountLimit
+
+               CONFIG_AT91SAM9XE
+               enable special bootcounter support on at91sam9xe based boards.
+               CONFIG_BLACKFIN
+               enable special bootcounter support on blackfin based boards.
+               CONFIG_SOC_DA8XX
+               enable special bootcounter support on da850 based boards.
+               CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_RAM
+               enable support for the bootcounter in RAM
+               CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_I2C
+               enable support for the bootcounter on an i2c (like RTC) device.
+                       CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RTC_ADDR = i2c chip address
+                       CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR = i2c addr which is used for
+                                                   the bootcounter.
+                       CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ALEN = address len
 
 - Show boot progress:
                CONFIG_SHOW_BOOT_PROGRESS
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_AM33XX) += bootcount_davinci.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_RAM)    += bootcount_ram.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ENV)    += bootcount_env.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_I2C)    += bootcount_i2c.o
 
--- /dev/null
+/*
+ * (C) Copyright 2013
+ * Heiko Schocher, DENX Software Engineering, hs@denx.de.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier:    GPL-2.0+
+ */
+
+#include <bootcount.h>
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <i2c.h>
+
+#define BC_MAGIC       0xbc
+
+void bootcount_store(ulong a)
+{
+       unsigned char buf[3];
+       int ret;
+
+       buf[0] = BC_MAGIC;
+       buf[1] = (a & 0xff);
+       ret = i2c_write(CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RTC_ADDR, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR,
+                 CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ALEN, buf, 2);
+       if (ret != 0)
+               puts("Error writing bootcount\n");
+}
+
+ulong bootcount_load(void)
+{
+       unsigned char buf[3];
+       int ret;
+
+       ret = i2c_read(CONFIG_SYS_I2C_RTC_ADDR, CONFIG_SYS_BOOTCOUNT_ADDR,
+                      CONFIG_BOOTCOUNT_ALEN, buf, 2);
+       if (ret != 0) {
+               puts("Error loading bootcount\n");
+               return 0;
+       }
+       if (buf[0] == BC_MAGIC)
+               return buf[1];
+
+       bootcount_store(0);
+
+       return 0;
+}