UBoot
U-Boot is an open-source bootloader for embedded devices, originally Das U-Boot, developed by Wolfgang Denk and contributors starting in the late 1990s. It is designed to initialize hardware, provide a minimal runtime environment, and load an operating system kernel or other payload.
U-Boot runs on many architectures, including ARM, x86, MIPS, PowerPC, and RISC-V, and supports a wide range
The boot process typically reads its environment from persistent storage, resolves boot targets, loads the kernel
U-Boot uses the mkimage tool to create image formats such as uImage or FIT images. It supports
U-Boot is released under the GPL-2.0 license with additional permissions. It is maintained by the community