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		<title>Das U-Boot: The Universal Boot Loader</title>
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				<h1>Das U-Boot <small><i>The Universal Boot Loader</i></small></h1>
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				<li><a href="https://source.denx.de/u-boot" class="header_link">Source code</a></li>
				<li><a href="https://docs.u-boot.org/" class="header_link">Documentation</a></li>
				<li><a href="https://libera.irclog.whitequark.org/u-boot" class="header_link">IRC logs</a></li>
				<li><a href="https://source.denx.de/u-boot/custodians" class="header_link">Custodians</a></li>
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				Welcome to U-Boot's website.
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				Das U-Boot, often shortened to U-Boot, is a free and open-source boot loader for various embedded devices, 
				whose purpose is to perform various hardware initialization tasks and boot the device's operating system kernel. 
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				U-Boot is loaded from a supported storage device, such as a microSD card or SPI flash, and the operating system kernel is 
				loaded from a storage device supported by U-Boot on the particular system, such as a microSD card or eMMC chip. 
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				U-Boot also provides a command-line interface on the system console or serial port, which allows the user to interact with 
				the boot process in various ways.
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				Often described as the universal boot loader, U-Boot is available for many architectures, including ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, 
				RISC-V, x86 and x86_64. If you want to learn more about U-Boot, you may wish to read the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_U-Boot">Wikipedia U-Boot article</a>
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			<h2>Current status</h2>
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				<b>Latest stable release:</b> <a href="https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/tree/v2023.10?ref_type=tags">v2023.10</a> (<a href="https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/archive/v2023.10/u-boot-v2023.10.tar.gz">download</a>), released Mon 02 October 2023
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				<b>Latest release candidate:</b> <a href="https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/tree/v2024.01-rc2?ref_type=tags">v2024.01-rc2</a> (<a href="https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/archive/v2024.01-rc2/u-boot-v2024.01-rc2.tar.gz">download</a>), released Mon 06 November 2023
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				Merge window is <b>CLOSED</b>, <a href="https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/tree/next?ref_type=heads"><code>next</code></a> branch is <b>OPEN</b>
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			<h2>Get involved</h2>
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				There are different ways to get involved in the U-Boot community, as described below.
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			<h3>Mailing lists</h3>
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				To post to the mailing list, send your email messages to <a href="mailto:u-boot@lists.denx.de">u-boot@lists.denx.de</a>.
				You may also consider <a href="https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot">subscribing</a>.
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				U-Boot custodian trees also have their own mailing list.
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			<h4>Mailing list archives</h4>
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				<li><a href="https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/">lists.denx.de</a></li>
				<li><a href="https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot">lore.kernel.org</a></li>
				<li><a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/">mail-archive.com</a></li>
				<li><a href="https://marc.info/?l=u-boot">marc.info</a></li>
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			<h3>Chat with us</h3>
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				The IRC channel is on the <a href="https://libera.chat">Libera.Chat</a> IRC network. Use the following parameters in your IRC client:
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			<ul>
				<li>Server: <code>irc.libera.chat</code></li>
				<li>Ports: <code>6667</code> (plain) and <code>6697</code> (TLS, recommended)</code></li>
				<li>Channel: <code>#u-boot</code></li>
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				<a href="https://libera.irclog.whitequark.org/u-boot">Archived logs</a> of this channel are also available.
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