Barebox is a primary

boot loader A bootloader, also spelled as boot loader or called boot manager and bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer. When a computer is turned off, its softwareincluding operating systems, application code, an ...

used in embedded devices. It is

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under the GPL-2.0-only license. It is available for a number of different

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s, including ARM, x86, MIPS and

RISC-V RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five" where five refers to the number of generations of RISC architecture that were developed at the University of California, Berkeley since 1981) is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on establi ...

History

The Barebox project began in July 2007 as u-boot-v2, as it was derived from

Das U-Boot Das U-Boot (subtitled "the Universal Boot Loader" and often shortened to U-Boot; see ''#History, History'' for more about the name) is an open-source software, open-source, primary Bootloader, boot loader used in Embedded system, embedded device ...

, but with heavier borrowings from Linux like similar utilities and with a more Linux-like coding style.https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2007-July/022591.html

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ELCE2009 slides

ELCE2012 slides
{{Embedded systems Firmware Software related to embedded Linux Free boot loaders

History

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