9. U-Boot Porting
In Part I of this book, we discussed how to create applications directly on top of hardware—that is, bare metal applications. In Part II, we talk about a special bare metal application: U-Boot. In this chapter, we discuss porting U-Boot to the goldfish platform. Since QEMU includes a mini-bootloader, it can boot a Linux kernel directly. Consequently, no one has ported U-Boot to the goldfish platform. This workaround is not really a complete boot process, like the processes we would see in a real hardware environment.
In this chapter, we begin by building the U-Boot source code. We then discuss how to port U-Boot to the goldfish platform, working through this process step by step. By the end of this chapter, you should be able ...
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