From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerry Van Baren Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:51:15 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <44981973.7040709@smiths-aerospace.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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