Q：什么是 U-Boot？它在嵌入式系统中的作用是什么？ U-Boot 定义：Universal Bootloader（通用引导加载程序），开源、跨架构（ARM/x86/MIPS 等）的嵌入式 Bootloader，由德国 DENX 团队维护，是嵌入式领域事实标准。 核心作用： 硬件初始化：上电完成 DDR、时钟、串口、存储 ...

本文基于 armv8 架构来对 u-boot 进行启动流程分析，u-boot版本为2022-01。 首先引用wiki上的简介：u-boot 是一个主要用于嵌入式系统的引导加载程序，可以支持多种不同的计算机系统结构。 u-boot最先是由德国DENX软件中心团队开发，后续众多有志于开放源码bootloader移植 ...

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