Das U-Boot

This article is about the boot loader. For other uses, see Das Boot (disambiguation).
Das U-Boot
Developer(s)DENX Software Engineering
Initial releaseOctober 15, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-10-15)
Stable release
v2024.04 / April 2, 2024; 7 months ago (2024-04-02)[1]
Repository
Written inC, Assembly
Available inEnglish
TypeBoot loader
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later[2]
Websitedocs.u-boot.org/en/latest/ Edit this on Wikidata

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, AArch64, MIPS, Nios II, SuperH, PPC, RISC-V and x86.

  1. ^ Rini, Tom (2 April 2024). "U-Boot v2024.04 released". u-boot (Mailing list). Retrieved 2 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Das U-Boot's licence". git.denx.de. 2013. Retrieved 2018-10-13.