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| ====== Das U-Boot ====== | ====== Das U-Boot ====== | ||
| - | [[wp>Das U-Boot]] (the universal bootloader), is arguably the richest, most flexible, and most actively developed FOSS bootloader available. It's released under the GNU GPL and maintained at [[http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/]]. Being a bootloader, uboot is not part of OpenWrt. | + | [[wp>Das U-Boot]] (the universal bootloader), is arguably the richest, most flexible, and most actively developed FOSS [[doc/techref/bootloader|bootloader]] available. It's released under the GNU GPL and maintained at [[http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/]]. |
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| - | However being distributed under the GPLv2, and being quite well maintained, you are free to play around with it. Like OpenWrt is build (cross compiled) with [[about:toolchain|OpenWrt Buildroot]], uboot can be build with help of the Embedded Linux Development Kit. It is quite well documented: [[http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK|ELDK-4]] / [[http://www.denx.de/wiki/ELDK-5/WebHome|ELDK-5]]. | + | |
| + | Uboot can be build with [[about:toolchain|OpenWrt Buildroot]], Embedded Linux Development Kit, and others. For documentation see [[http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/ELDK|ELDK-4]] / [[http://www.denx.de/wiki/ELDK-5/WebHome|ELDK-5]]. | ||
| ===== Compilation ===== | ===== Compilation ===== | ||
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| - use a [[wp>toolchain]] of your choice to build | - use a [[wp>toolchain]] of your choice to build | ||
| ->[[http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootDoesntRunAfterUpgradingMyCompiler]] | ->[[http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootDoesntRunAfterUpgradingMyCompiler]] | ||
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| ===== Configuration ===== | ===== Configuration ===== | ||
| -> [[doc:techref:bootloader:uboot.config]]\\ | -> [[doc:techref:bootloader:uboot.config]]\\ | ||
| -> [[toh/tp-link/tl-wr1043nd/flashlog]] | -> [[toh/tp-link/tl-wr1043nd/flashlog]] | ||
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| - | ===== Available Patches ===== | ||
| - | If somebody writes a patch for the bootloader implementation of a particular device, you will find links to this on the wiki-page for that device. Yet we additionally accumulate all the patches wrote for a particular bootloader on his own page. Hopefully you can get a better comprehension of the functionality of the bootloader by having a look at them: | ||
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| - | * For the Dockstar: [[https://github.com/doozan/uBoot]] by Jeff Doozan | ||
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| ===== Documentation ===== | ===== Documentation ===== | ||
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| * [[http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bootloaders:u-boot:porting|Porting U-Boot for a new Blackfin device]] Blackfin specific, but you can milk this for information | * [[http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bootloaders:u-boot:porting|Porting U-Boot for a new Blackfin device]] Blackfin specific, but you can milk this for information | ||
| * [[http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2011/04/30/u-boot-as-coreboot-payload/|U-Boot as coreboot payload]] just for fun | * [[http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2011/04/30/u-boot-as-coreboot-payload/|U-Boot as coreboot payload]] just for fun | ||
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| + | ===== Das U-Boot Modifications ===== | ||
| + | If somebody writes a patch for the bootloader implementation of a particular device, you will find links to this on the wiki-page for that device. Yet we additionally accumulate all the patches wrote for a particular bootloader on his own page. Hopefully you can get a better comprehension of the functionality of the bootloader by having a look at them: | ||
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| + | * For the Marvell Kirkwood (e.g. [[toh:seagate:dockstar|Seagate Dockstar]]) [[https://github.com/doozan/uBoot]] by Jeff Doozan | ||
| + | * For Qualcomm-Atheros AR9331-SoC (e.g. [[toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n|TP-Link TL-WR703N]]): http://code.google.com/p/wr703n-uboot-with-web-failsafe/ | ||
| + | * [[https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=43237|OpenWrt Forums: U-Boot mod for TP-Link with AR9331]] | ||
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