U-Boot 2025.07 Brings New Code For Apple M1/M2 & Raspberry Pi, exFAT Support
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U-Boot 2025.07)
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- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/U-Boot-2025.07-Released
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U-Boot 2025.07 is out today as the newest version of this popular open-source boot loader that is widely-used among embedded devices across different CPU architectures.
U-Boot 2025.07 brings new and improved hardware support, including for the likes of the Apple M1 and M2 SoCs, NXP i.MX8 / i.MX9, AMD Versal, Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Tegra, and more. Plus there is also exFAT file-system support now present in U-Boot.
The U-Boot 2025.07 [1]release announcement sums up the release highlights as:
"- Inspired by barebox "bthreads" we now have "uthreads".
- We have exFAT support now.
- General improvements, updates and new support in the following architectures / SoCs: Apple M1/2, i.MX8/9, sunxi, STM32, StarFive, TI K3, Rockchip RK3528 and RK3576 (and general improvements to older chips), MIPS Boston platforms, SoCFPGA, Atmel sama9x60 and sama5d2, Raspberry Pi, AMD/Xilinx (Versal, Versal Gen 2, ZynqMP), Marvell platforms, assorted Tegra platforms, Qualcomm platforms, Rensas R-Car and likely more I've missed.
- Once again a number of improvements within the EFI loader subsytem
- A number of cleanups and improvements in the networking, DFU, MMC, i2c, SCSI and other subsystems. Also a few series addressing more general code quality and cleanups.
- Additional testing within CI on more (QEMU) platforms."
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20250707195913.GR6424@bill-the-cat/T/#u
U-Boot 2025.07 brings new and improved hardware support, including for the likes of the Apple M1 and M2 SoCs, NXP i.MX8 / i.MX9, AMD Versal, Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Tegra, and more. Plus there is also exFAT file-system support now present in U-Boot.
The U-Boot 2025.07 [1]release announcement sums up the release highlights as:
"- Inspired by barebox "bthreads" we now have "uthreads".
- We have exFAT support now.
- General improvements, updates and new support in the following architectures / SoCs: Apple M1/2, i.MX8/9, sunxi, STM32, StarFive, TI K3, Rockchip RK3528 and RK3576 (and general improvements to older chips), MIPS Boston platforms, SoCFPGA, Atmel sama9x60 and sama5d2, Raspberry Pi, AMD/Xilinx (Versal, Versal Gen 2, ZynqMP), Marvell platforms, assorted Tegra platforms, Qualcomm platforms, Rensas R-Car and likely more I've missed.
- Once again a number of improvements within the EFI loader subsytem
- A number of cleanups and improvements in the networking, DFU, MMC, i2c, SCSI and other subsystems. Also a few series addressing more general code quality and cleanups.
- Additional testing within CI on more (QEMU) platforms."
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20250707195913.GR6424@bill-the-cat/T/#u
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