Barebox

I will complete this chapter with a look at another bootloader that has the same roots as U-Boot but takes a new approach to bootloaders. It is derived from U-Boot and was actually called U-Boot v2 in the early days. The Barebox developers aimed to combine the best parts of U-Boot and Linux, including a POSIX-like API and mountable filesystems.

The Barebox project website is www.barebox.org and the developer mailing list is .

Getting Barebox

To get Barebox, clone the git repository and check out the version you want to use:

$ git clone git://git.pengutronix.de/git/barebox.git
$ cd barebox
$ git checkout v2014.12.0

The layout of the code is similar to U-Boot:

  • arch: Contains code specific to each supported architecture, ...

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