[HN Gopher] Denx (a.k.a. U-Boot) Retires
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       Denx (a.k.a. U-Boot) Retires
        
       Author : synergy20
       Score  : 91 points
       Date   : 2025-11-13 14:10 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.denx.de)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.denx.de)
        
       | kevin_thibedeau wrote:
       | NABLA is one typo away from some unsavory people.
        
         | bsimpson wrote:
         | For those missing the reference, NAMBLA is the "man/boy love
         | association" (as in pedophiles).
        
         | rfmc wrote:
         | I mean, North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes are not that
         | bad.
        
         | bitwize wrote:
         | It's also the name of a mathematical vector derivative operator
         | ([?]).
        
           | rdlw wrote:
           | Interesting, I only knew it as the del until now
        
             | weinzierl wrote:
             | OMG, how did you remember that                 nabla x
             | nabla = labla(ce)?
        
               | henearkr wrote:
               | I think you meant Laplace (Laplacian operator).
        
             | okanat wrote:
             | And I thought only [?] is called "del".
        
         | neilv wrote:
         | I used to study news, which meant reading a lot of it, so maybe
         | I'm not representative, but I immediately noticed that.
         | 
         | Whoever tastefully drew their logo in lowercase might've warned
         | them not do it as all-caps elsewhere, if they were aware of the
         | US brand issue.
         | 
         | If I had to refer to this brand name in text, such as in specs,
         | I wouldn't do all-caps like they have. (To US people, who may
         | be familiar with the toxic brand from written news, US
         | journalism style guides tend to put initialisms and acronyms in
         | all-caps, unlike in parts of Europe.) I would capitalize only
         | the first letter.
        
         | henearkr wrote:
         | To scientific-oriented minds it only refers to the mathematical
         | operator.
         | 
         | I personally did not know about, and don't care about, the
         | "horrifying" thing you see in nabla. And I will keep being like
         | that.
         | 
         | If we were to start tracking all the things that are "a typo
         | away from a bad thing", not a lot of words would be left.
        
       | rmoriz wrote:
       | The founder and owner, Wolfgang Denk, sadly passed away in 2022.
       | https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2022-October/497955.h...
        
         | Deeg9rie9usi wrote:
         | Wolfgang was a great man. Beside of U-Boot his company was also
         | deeply involved in the Linux real-time extension Xenomai:
         | https://lore.kernel.org/xenomai/87v8oa60bx.fsf@xenomai.org/
        
       | fukka42 wrote:
       | U-Boot is pretty cool, I like how scriptable it is.
        
         | joezydeco wrote:
         | U-boot is scriptable, but it's awkward. You put snippets of
         | shell-like commands into environment variables and then connect
         | them all together. It's the most powerful bootloader I've ever
         | worked with, but writing new stuff and debugging it is tedious.
        
       | mmmlinux wrote:
       | Doesn't most of the embedded Linux world run on u-boot? whats
       | going to happen to that market now?
        
         | akdev1l wrote:
         | Seems that it will be maintained by those using it (eg:
         | companies and hobbyists alike)
         | 
         | U-boot will not die from this
        
         | jojomodding wrote:
         | The answer is in the link you clicked: U-boot will be
         | maintained as the open-source project it is, with some
         | engineers previously working at Denx going to a specific
         | different company with the express purpose of supporting
         | U-boot.
        
       | dominicq wrote:
       | So long and denx for all the fish!
        
         | bayindirh wrote:
         | And for the (yellow) submarines!
        
       | zoobab wrote:
       | Damn i have a Denx parallel port JTAG adaptor Somewhere in my
       | stock:
       | 
       | http://www.zoobab.com/denx-bdm4jtag
       | 
       | Enjoy retirement!
        
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