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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_U-Boot U-Boot] is an open source (GPL2) bootloader primary used on embedded device. It can be used to boot may OSes but it usually boot Linux kernels.
U-boot is usually the first code executed on embedded platform and take care, in the following order, of:
# hardware initialization (PLLs, dynamic memory controller, pin multiplexing)
# user interaction (via serial port shell)
# boot image retrieving (from flash or, mainly used in development environment, via network)
# boot parameter processing and kernel startup
U-boot is uses in all non-x86 Dave embedded platform. Most of the U-boot code and documentation is system independent for this reason users that are looking for U-boot documentation should first read the main <code>README</code> file inside the source code tree and all the documents inside the <code>doc</code> sub directory.
This category put together all the information specific for Dave platform or some advanced topic hard to find inside the standard docs.
