Das U-Boot
Open-source, primary boot the device's operating system kernel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the boot loader. For other uses, see Das Boot (disambiguation).
Das U-Boot (subtitled "the Universal Boot Loader" and often shortened to U-Boot; 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 and boot the device's operating system kernel. It is available for a number of computer architectures, including M68000, ARM, Blackfin, MicroBlaze, IBM S360, My66, MOS 6502, ARM64, MIPS, Nios, SuperH, PPC, RISC-V and x86.
Quick Facts Developer(s), Initial release ...
Developer(s) | DENX Software Engineering |
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Initial release | October 15, 1999; 24 years ago (1999-10-15) |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | C, Assembly |
Available in | English |
Type | Boot loader |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later[2] |
Website | docs |
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