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Mastering Embedded Linux Development
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We are going to focus on U-Boot exclusively because it supports a good number of processor architectures and most individual boards and devices. U-Boot, or to give its full name, Das U-Boot, began life as an open source bootloader for embedded PowerPC boards. Then, it was ported to Arm-based boards and later to other architectures, including Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages (MIPS) and SuperH (SH).
U-Boot has been around for a long time and has a good community. The project is hosted and maintained by DENX Software Engineering. There is plenty of information available on it, and a good place to start is https://u-boot.readthedocs.io. There is also a mailing list at [email protected] that you can subscribe to by filling out and submitting the form provided at https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot.
Begin by getting the source code. As with most projects, the recommended way is to clone the Git repository and check out the tag you...