U-boot boot loader and getting ready to ship
Abstract
This chapter introduces u-boot, a very popular open source boot loader for embedded Linux systems. As with the kernel and BusyBox, we look at the process of configuring and building u-boot. U-boot does not support the make xconfig paradigm, so configuration requires manually editing a header file. Techniques are presented for testing the new boot loader.
We also build a YAFFS file system image and load it into flash memory. We explore the notion of flash memory partitions in some detail and at the Flat Device Tree as a mechanism for communicating hardware information from the boot loader to the kernel.
Keywords
U-boot; Supervivi; JTAG; YAFFS; flash partitions; Flat Device Tree
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