U-Boot

Most embedded operating systems use U-Boot also called Das U-Boot from a pun based on the classic 1981 movie Das Boot set on a German submarine as their booloader. Web U-Boot subtitled the Universal Boot Loader and often shortened to U-Boot started by Wolfgang Denx more than 20 years agohas become a de-facto standard for Embedded Linux Device and not only.

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. Booting OpenEmbedded using EDK. U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany particularly in the First and Second World WarsThe term is an anglicised version of the German word U-Boot a shortening of Unterseeboot under-sea boat though the German term refers to any submarine. U-Boot is the Universal Boot Loader project and is used to boot the Linux kernel in the Arm Reference Platforms deliverables on our supported platforms.

Some parts of the source code originate in the Linux source tree we have some header files in common and special provision has been made to support booting of Linux images. Written primarily in C and Assembly U-Boot is an open-source project developed by Magnus Damm considered to this day to be the richest most flexible and. Web 32 What is U-Boot.

Web U-995 a typical VIIC41 U-boat on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial. Web Standard boot is a generalisation of distro boot. Web Das U-Boot subtitled the Universal Boot Loader and often shortened to U-Boot.

Some attention has been paid to make this software easily configurable and extendable. It is available for a large number of different computer architectures including 68k ARM Blackfin MicroBlaze MIPS Nios SuperH PPC. See History for more about the name is an open-source boot loader used in embedded devices to perform various low-level hardware initialization tasks.

Web The development of U-Boot is closely related to Linux. Web Elixir Cross Referencer - Explore source code in your browser - Particularly useful for the Linux kernel and other low-level projects in CC bootloaders C libraries. It provides a more built-in way to boot with U-Boot.

The feature is extensible to different Operating Systems such as Chromium OS and devices beyond just block and network devices. The following manuals are written for users of the U-Boot - those who are trying to get it to work optimally on a given system. U-Boot is an open-source cross-platform boot loader that provides out-of-box support for hundreds of embedded boards and many CPUs including PowerPC ARM XScale MIPS Coldfire NIOS Microblaze and x86.

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