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5The U-Boot Documentation
6========================
7
8This is the top level of the U-Boot's documentation tree. U-Boot
9documentation, like the U-Boot itself, is very much a work in progress;
10that is especially true as we work to integrate our many scattered
11documents into a coherent whole. Please note that improvements to the
12documentation are welcome; join the U-Boot list at http://lists.denx.de
13if you want to help out.
14
15.. toctree::
16 :maxdepth: 2
Mario Six78a88f72018-07-10 08:40:17 +020017
Bin Meng7114d892019-10-27 05:19:45 -070018User-oriented documentation
19---------------------------
20
21The following manuals are written for *users* of the U-Boot - those who are
22trying to get it to work optimally on a given system.
23
24.. toctree::
25 :maxdepth: 2
26
27 build/index
28
Heinrich Schuchardt932b8f82020-04-24 23:31:20 +020029Developer-oriented documentation
30--------------------------------
31
32The following manuals are written for *developers* of the U-Boot - those who
33want to contribute to U-Boot.
34
35.. toctree::
36 :maxdepth: 2
37
38 develop/index
39
Heinrich Schuchardt73d95c22019-07-26 06:46:08 +020040Unified Extensible Firmware (UEFI)
41----------------------------------
42
43U-Boot provides an implementation of the UEFI API allowing to run UEFI
44compliant software like Linux, GRUB, and iPXE. Furthermore U-Boot itself
45can be run an UEFI payload.
46
47.. toctree::
48 :maxdepth: 2
49
50 uefi/index
51
Bin Mengd9756c42019-07-18 00:33:48 -070052Driver-Model documentation
53--------------------------
Heinrich Schuchardt73d95c22019-07-26 06:46:08 +020054
Bin Mengd9756c42019-07-18 00:33:48 -070055The following holds information on the U-Boot device driver framework:
56driver-model, including the design details of itself and several driver
57subsystems.
58
59.. toctree::
60 :maxdepth: 2
61
62 driver-model/index
63
Bin Mengc8fe9162019-07-18 00:33:46 -070064U-Boot API documentation
65------------------------
Mario Six78a88f72018-07-10 08:40:17 +020066
Bin Mengc8fe9162019-07-18 00:33:46 -070067These books get into the details of how specific U-Boot subsystems work
68from the point of view of a U-Boot developer. Much of the information here
69is taken directly from the U-Boot source, with supplemental material added
70as needed (or at least as we managed to add it - probably *not* all that is
71needed).
72
73.. toctree::
74 :maxdepth: 2
75
76 api/index
Bin Mengf0e608b2019-07-18 00:33:47 -070077
Bin Mengd8381382019-07-18 00:34:02 -070078Architecture-specific doc
79-------------------------
80
81These books provide programming details about architecture-specific
82implementation.
83
84.. toctree::
85 :maxdepth: 2
86
87 arch/index
88
Bin Meng428c3f52019-07-18 00:34:04 -070089Board-specific doc
90------------------
91
92These books provide details about board-specific information. They are
93organized in a vendor subdirectory.
94
95.. toctree::
96 :maxdepth: 2
97
98 board/index
99
Sam Protsenko586a1bf2020-01-24 17:53:44 +0200100Android-specific doc
101--------------------
102
103These books provide information about booting the Android OS from U-Boot,
104manipulating Android images from U-Boot shell and discusses other
105Android-specific features available in U-Boot.
106
107.. toctree::
108 :maxdepth: 2
109
110 android/index
111
Frédéric Danis9744d1a2020-03-20 10:59:22 +0100112Command line
113------------
114.. toctree::
115 :maxdepth: 2
116
117 pstore.rst
118
Bin Mengf0e608b2019-07-18 00:33:47 -0700119Indices and tables
120==================
121
122* :ref:`genindex`