Linux System - Table 12 > Packages - Table 1 & 2 > uboot

\"This directory contains the source code for U-Boot, a boot loader forEmbedded boards based on PowerPC and ARM processors, which can beinstalled in a boot ROM and used to initialize and test the hardware orto download and run application code. The development of U-Boot isclosely related to Linux: some parts of the source code originate inthe Linux source tree, we have some header files in common, and specialprovision has been made to support booting of Linux images.\"