Barebox

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Barebox
Original authors Sascha Hauer, the barebox community
Initial release24 December 2009;15 years ago (2009-12-24) [1]
Stable release
Monthly release schedule [2] [3]
Repository
Written in C, Assembly language
Platform ARM, x86, MIPS, RISC-V, PowerPC, OpenRISC, Kalray MPPA
Available inEnglish
Type Firmware, Bootloader
License GPL-2.0-only [4]
Website www.barebox.org   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Barebox is a primary boot loader used in embedded devices. It is free software under the GPL-2.0-only license. [4] It is available for a number of different computer architectures, including ARM, x86, MIPS and RISC-V. [5]

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History

The Barebox project began in July 2007 as u-boot-v2, as it was derived from Das U-Boot, but with heavier borrowings from Linux like similar utilities and with a more Linux-like coding style. [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "barebox-2009.12.0 is out".
  2. ↑ "Barebox - barebox master repository".
  3. ↑ "README - barebox - barebox master repository".
  4. 1 2 "README - barebox - barebox master repository".
  5. ↑ "1.2. Barebox — barebox 2021.10.0 documentation".
  6. ↑ "[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot-NG ?". 2 July 2007.
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