shymega / booters-loader

This is a new bootloader that can be built for a wide variety of targets, and is based around a framework-oriented API. Highly experimental, here be dragons!

Welcome to booters

This is an experiment to create a new, libre bootloader for Android, UEFI (arm64/x86_64), and other embedded targets.

The history of this project stems from my dissatisfaction of chipset OEMs using permissively-licensed bootloaders for their boot process, and not contributing back. That, combined with a lack of documented and reviewed code, led to the creation of this project.

For example, I was trying to hack on a GUI to the LK bootloader (now DMCA'd, point in hand) for the Astro Slide by Planet Computers. This was an bad developer experience with the codebase, and I wanted something more readable to hack with. This bootloader keeps that desire alive.

License

You can see the licenses used with the REUSE tool by FSFE.