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10 years ago

what is u-boot?

Hello All, What is Altera U-boot? Searched the web, found how to do, but not what is it... Could someone give a short description what is u-boot or refer me to a good resource, which explains ...
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10 years ago

U-Boot is a open source universal boot loader. Here's a wiki on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/das_u-boot

It is very popular in the embedded space, and is used as the primary bootloader kind of like "GRUB" PC linux world.

It has Ethernet capabilities, so it can also boot the hardware over the network via tftp etc.

Pete