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Streamlining the Final Leap: Unifying U-Boot’s Pre-OS Cleanup

Streamlining the Final Leap: Unifying U-Boot’s Pre-OS Cleanup

What happens in the final moments before U-Boot hands control over to the operating system? Until recently, the answer was, “it’s complicated.” Each architecture like ARM, x86, and RISC-V had its own way of handling the final pre-boot cleanup, leading to a maze of slightly different functions and duplicated code. It was difficult to know…