Recent Advances in U-Boot

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U-Boot shows concrete engineering: ~6,000 commits per year and four releases, migrated old Kconfig to full Kconfig and turned on LTO (builds 4x slower, ~5% smaller), adds binman image builder that composes FIT/FIP/CBFS blobs and supports fetch-missing tools, implements standard-boot boot-dev/boot-flow (priority rules, EFI and verified-boot alternatives), expands CI with QEMU/emulator tests and GitLab jobs, formalizes DT schema, adds tracing that exports traces for conversion to a flamegraph, and experiments with cyclic background tasks and an Expo GUI.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:00Dealing with SoC complexity
3. 5:12Complexity example 2: Configuration
4. 10:45UEFI support
5. 11:22VBE-Verified Boot for Embedded
6. 12:56Documentation
7. 15:11Devicetree and Schema

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