The Deinde Concept U-Boot Documentation

Note

This documents the Deinde Concept Tree, an independent, experimental downstream tree for U-Boot maintained by an independent maintainer. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) or the official Das U-Boot project.

The tree is a proving ground for large-scale features and refactoring, run in the open with the aim of feeding proven work back to mainline U-Boot. Pages here may therefore describe behaviour which does not exist in mainline, or which differs from it.

This is the top level of the U-Boot’s documentation tree. U-Boot documentation, like the U-Boot itself, is very much a work in progress; that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the documentation are welcome; join the U-Boot list at https://lists.u-boot-project.org/mailman/listinfo/u-boot if you want to help out.

Contributing Guidelines

Note

To contribute to this tree, open a merge request against concept.deinde.dev/u-boot/u-boot. Patches are not accepted by email here; the tree’s mailing list is for discussion.

The guidelines below describe contributing to mainline U-Boot, which is done by sending patches to the U-Boot mailing list. Since the aim of this tree is to feed proven work back upstream, anything intended for mainline should follow them as well.

General guidelines for contributing to the U-Boot project.

User-oriented documentation

The following manuals are written for users of the U-Boot - those who are trying to get it to work optimally on a given system.

Developer-oriented documentation

The following manuals are written for developers of the U-Boot - those who want to contribute to U-Boot.

U-Boot API documentation

These books get into the details of how specific U-Boot subsystems work from the point of view of a U-Boot developer. Much of the information here is taken directly from the U-Boot source, with supplemental material added as needed (or at least as we managed to add it - probably not all that is needed).

Architecture-specific doc

These books provide programming details about architecture-specific implementation.

Board-specific doc

These books provide details about board-specific information. They are organized in a vendor subdirectory.

Android-specific doc

These books provide information about booting the Android OS from U-Boot, manipulating Android images from U-Boot shell and discusses other Android-specific features available in U-Boot.

Chromium OS-specific doc

Indices and tables