U-Boot
Introduction
U-Boot is an open source bootloader targeted for embedded system platform across multiple architectures including ARM, PPC, M68K, MIPS and MicroBlaze. The U-Boot project is maintained by DENX Software Engineering and is hosted at Sourceforge. U-Boot bootloader supports a wide range of tools and facilities targetted for embedded systems. Hence, the usage and configuration of U-Boot is a big topic and are widely discussed and documented on the Internet.
This chapter will only cover topics related to U-Boot in PetaLinux. Refer to the U-Boot Manual for more information on U-Boot.
Scope and Background
The reader of this chapter should be familure with the following topics:
- Using U-Boot
- Working with PetaLinux
Resources
