U-Boot
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 12, 2025first mention
Oct 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“the u-boot project does support the board and I was able to flash a newer u-boot”
OrangePi 5 Ultra owner running vanilla kernelon “The Orange Pi 6 Plus”
“U-boot and coreboot are free (ring -2 if they include ACPI / SMM, else still ring 0).”
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“Have you checked out uboot?”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Wolfgang and me introduced the concept of the SPDX-License-Identifier”
Threads where it came up
- Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly? 1 mention
- My audio interface has SSH enabled by default 1 mention
- The Orange Pi 6 Plus 1 mention
- Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5 1 mention
- Never Bet Against x86 1 mention
- OrangePi 6 Plus Review: The New Frontier for ARM64 SBC Performance 1 mention
Also written as u-boot. Data: u-boot.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 7
“u-boot with display support and graphical menu”
“have to accept that as an artefact of U-Boot”
“the u-boot project does support the board and I was able to flash a newer u-boot”
“U-Boot nowadays speaks UEFI :)”
“U-boot and coreboot are free (ring -2 if they include ACPI / SMM, else still ring 0).”
“vanilla uboot firmware”
“Have you checked out uboot?”