[HN Gopher] Wolfgang Denk, creator of the U-Boot bootloader, has...
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Wolfgang Denk, creator of the U-Boot bootloader, has died
Author : gdgghhhhh
Score : 220 points
Date : 2022-10-23 14:31 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| gonzo wrote:
| Sad day.
|
| I used ppcboot at musenki 20 years ago (2001-2002) on a set of
| MPC 824x boards.
|
| Wolfgang was always helpful.
|
| Support was removed in 2014
| https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2014-December/198820....
| IYasha wrote:
| He's a true OpenSource propagator, and a professional. In growing
| world of embedded systems, the importance of U-Boot is hard to
| overestimate. What a loss!
| minraws wrote:
| Very true, I have seen many people who won't go nearly as far
| in their professional life for supporting OSS, including
| myself. And U-boot is just incredible to say the least.
| joezydeco wrote:
| Almost every embedded Linux system, especially on ARM platforms,
| uses u-boot to start up. And that includes Android.
|
| It's everywhere and it's all invisible to you. But it's a crucial
| piece of code.
| minraws wrote:
| Many thanks for standing strong for and with Open Source, Rest in
| Peace, dear sir. :)
| lol768 wrote:
| There are some tributes on LWN: https://lwn.net/Articles/912052/
|
| Would also vote for the black banner treatment, U-Boot is
| pervasive. It runs on satellites in space, it runs on the phones
| in our pockets:
| https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2006-December/018577....
| Deeg9rie9usi wrote:
| He was also a great supporter of Xenomai:
| https://lore.kernel.org/xenomai/eca5db9d-5e39-672a-e190-1c8e...
|
| https://lore.kernel.org/xenomai/87v8oa60bx.fsf@xenomai.org/T...
| _0ffh wrote:
| Wow, I didn't even know about this. It's a cool project!
| soneil wrote:
| We use u-boot at work, in completely uninteresting places. You
| don't think about it, it just is. Curl is probably a good
| equivalence - its pervasiveness is more impressive than its
| extremes.
| xony wrote:
| RIP ,no match to it ,its used everywhere
| _0ffh wrote:
| Agree with others, black banner appropriate.
| qbasic_forever wrote:
| Wow RIP, u-boot is fantastic and it's a real loss to have its
| creator gone.
| rolph wrote:
| i vote the man deserves a black banner.
| Toutouxc wrote:
| Often someone's obituary gets posted on HN who was well known in
| some parts of the IT community, but not well known enough to have
| a Wikipedia page or a bio somewhere.
|
| One thing that I usually want to know (and that's usually hard to
| find), and it's not out of morbid curiosity, is how old the
| person was and whether their death was sudden and tragic or more
| or less natural and expected.
|
| I know the loss hurts in either case, but it's somehow much more
| comforting knowing that e.g. an 82 year-old kernel dev demi-god
| grandpa died in his sleep, having lived a long, fruitful life,
| than that some game dev prodigy in her late twenties got hit by a
| drunk driver.
|
| RIP Wolfgang, I read a bit about your work and it sounds like you
| did enough good for several lives.
| Macha wrote:
| He was employed 25 years ago, at least long enough to be senior
| to the author of this post, so that puts a lower bound of 50
| (which at least matches with how he looks in his profile on his
| company's about section).
|
| Still unfortunate if he's just 50, however.
| lizardactivist wrote:
| What happens to U-Boot now? Will it continue to live on, or will
| it be replaced by something else from another vendor?
| bragr wrote:
| I doubt anything changes. It's open source under the GPL2 and
| is used by everyone under the sun so there is plenty of
| motivation to maintain it.
| josemanuel wrote:
| I believe the project is headed by Tom Rini.
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