September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
989 pages
24h 10m
English
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Choosing a bootloader
Bootloaders come in all shapes and sizes. The kind of characteristics you want from a bootloader are that they be simple and customizable with lots of sample configurations for common development boards and devices. The following table shows a number of them that are in general use:
|
Name |
Architectures |
|---|---|
|
Das U-Boot |
ARM, Blackfin, MIPS, PowerPC, SH |
|
Barebox |
ARM, Blackfin, MIPS, PowerPC |
|
GRUB 2 |
X86, X86_64 |
|
RedBoot |
ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, SH |
|
CFE |
Broadcom MIPS |
|
YAMON |
MIPS |
We are going to focus on U-Boot because it supports a good number of processor architectures and a large number of individual boards and devices. It has been around for a long time and has a good community for support.
It may be that you received a bootloader ...
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