VBE has been a long-running project to create a smaller and faster alternative to EFI. It was originally introduced as a concept in 2022, along with a sandbox implementation and a simple firmware updater for fwupd. In the intervening period an enormous about of effort has gone into getting this landed in U-Boot for a…
A few weeks ago I took a look at Qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU which can boot in milliseconds. Qboot was written by Paolo Bonzini and dates from 2015 and there is an LWN article with the original announcement. I tried it on my machine and it booted in QEMU (with kvm) in…
Welcome to the new official blog for Das U-Boot! For over two decades, the U-Boot mailing list has been the vibrant hub of our development discussions. While the mailing list remains our primary channel for patches and technical conversations, this blog will serve as a new platform to share deeper insights, project news, and community…