1.1. Introduction

• The "Universal Bootloader" ("Das U-Boot") is a monitor program.
• Free Software: full source code under GPL
• hosted on SourceForge^?: http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot
• production quality: used as default boot loader by several board vendors
• portable and easy to port and to debug
• many supported architectures: PPC, ARM, MIPS, x86, m68k, NIOS, Microblaze
• more than 216 boards supported by public source tree
• many, many features