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5 The U-Boot Documentation
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8 This is the top level of the U-Boot's documentation tree. U-Boot
9 documentation, like the U-Boot itself, is very much a work in progress;
10 that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered
11 documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the
12 documentation are welcome; join the U-Boot list at http://lists.denx.de
13 if you want to help out.
18 User-oriented documentation
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21 The following manuals are written for *users* of the U-Boot - those who are
22 trying to get it to work optimally on a given system.
30 Developer-oriented documentation
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33 The following manuals are written for *developers* of the U-Boot - those who
34 want to contribute to U-Boot.
42 U-Boot API documentation
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45 These books get into the details of how specific U-Boot subsystems work
46 from the point of view of a U-Boot developer. Much of the information here
47 is taken directly from the U-Boot source, with supplemental material added
48 as needed (or at least as we managed to add it - probably *not* all that is
56 Architecture-specific doc
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59 These books provide programming details about architecture-specific
70 These books provide details about board-specific information. They are
71 organized in a vendor subdirectory.
81 These books provide information about booting the Android OS from U-Boot,
82 manipulating Android images from U-Boot shell and discusses other
83 Android-specific features available in U-Boot.
90 Chromium OS-specific doc
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