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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.
29 Developer-oriented documentation
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32 The following manuals are written for *developers* of the U-Boot - those who
33 want to contribute to U-Boot.
40 Unified Extensible Firmware (UEFI)
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43 U-Boot provides an implementation of the UEFI API allowing to run UEFI
44 compliant software like Linux, GRUB, and iPXE. Furthermore U-Boot itself
45 can be run an UEFI payload.
52 Driver-Model documentation
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55 The following holds information on the U-Boot device driver framework:
56 driver-model, including the design details of itself and several driver
64 U-Boot API documentation
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67 These books get into the details of how specific U-Boot subsystems work
68 from the point of view of a U-Boot developer. Much of the information here
69 is taken directly from the U-Boot source, with supplemental material added
70 as needed (or at least as we managed to add it - probably *not* all that is
78 Architecture-specific doc
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81 These books provide programming details about architecture-specific
92 These books provide details about board-specific information. They are
93 organized in a vendor subdirectory.
103 These books provide information about booting the Android OS from U-Boot,
104 manipulating Android images from U-Boot shell and discusses other
105 Android-specific features available in U-Boot.