Difference between revisions of "U-Boot"

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U-Boot is a universal boot loader for embedded boards based on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and several other processors, which can be installed in a boot ROM and used to initialize and test the hardware or to download and run OS and application code.

Sample features are:

• serial console support
• integrated shell alike setup interface
• optional password protectection and timeout for acces to setup interface on boot
• editable configuration space
• downloads software trough tftp servers
• flash routines for EEPROMS of misc technology including NANDs
• runs test applications directly
• boots Linux

Sample distributions that do use U-boot:

• DENX ELDK
• emlix

Web resources

The presentation at [1] gives an overview about history and main features.

A detailed manual can be found at [2].