U-Boot

U-Boot is a Universal Bootloader project that provides firmware with full source code under GPL.

Many CPU architectures are supported: PowerPC(MPC5xx, MPC8xx, MPC82xx, MPC7xx, MPC74xx, 4xx), ARM(ARM7, ARM9, StrongARM, Xscale), MIPS(4Kc,5Kc), x86.

What is new in this release:

• Support for new CPUs:
• AMCC 440SP
• ARM 946E
• NetSilicon NS7520
• Support for new boards:
• AMCC Luan 440SP
• AMD Pb1x00
• AP1000
• Armadillo HT1070
• Barco SCN
• Barco SVC
• Cogent csb637
• esd CMS700
• esd CPCI2DP
• esd cpci5200
• esd pf5200
• IFM o2dnt
• KwikByte KB920x
• MP2USB
• Sandburst Karef
• Sandburst Metrobox
• Silicon Turnkey eXpress XTc
• TQ Components TQM834x
• TQ Components TQM8541
• TQ Components TQM8555
• Vibren PXA255 IDP
• Support for GCC-4.x
• Support for multiple PHYs
• Support for passing Open Firmware flat trees to the Linux kernel
• Generic 4xx_enet.c driver for all 4xx CPUs
• Uniform support for all AMCC eval boards
• Xilinx Spartan3 family FPGA support
• Major cleanup ARM Integrator boards
• Changed all '$(...)' variable references into '${...}'