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From: Jerry Van Baren <gerald.vanbaren@smiths-aerospace.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] question
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:51:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44981973.7040709@smiths-aerospace.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e0ff4e280606200816o310f91bfrad0b46af86e9ca7c@mail.gmail.com>

ishaqe ahamed wrote:
> 
> 
> what is the purpose of u-boot?????????????????

To initialize the hardware and run (boot) the operating system of your 
choice.  The board's CPU runs u-boot code from the release of reset 
until the CPU jumps to the OS code (often linux).

The above is only a fraction of what u-boot _can_ do, but is the primary 
(original?) reason for its existence.

Lots more background:
http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/Manual

Best regards,
gvb

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-20 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-20 15:16 [U-Boot-Users] question ishaqe ahamed
2006-06-20 15:51 ` Jerry Van Baren [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-20 15:47 Steven Blakeslee
2006-06-20 15:53 ` Jerry Van Baren
2005-12-25  9:18 Tyler Dillard
2004-08-20 19:56 Helder Filho
2004-08-20 22:10 ` David Farrell
2004-08-22 23:43 ` Wolfgang Denk

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