Introduction: Das U-Boot: The Universal Boot Loader

Das U-Boot is a GPL'ed cross-platform boot loader shepherded by project leader Wolfgang Denk and backed by an active developer and user community. U-Boot provides out-of-the-box support for hundreds of embedded boards and a wide variety of CPUs including PowerPC, ARM, XScale, MIPS, Coldfire, NIOS, Microblaze and x86. You can easily configure U-Boot to strike the right balance between a rich feature set and a small binary footprint.