Porting of a bootloader to a new hardware platform requires a detailed knowledge of the underlying hardware. This is a service which Advantech provides to alleviate our customer from the investment in time required for such a task.

Our experience extends across x86 and MIPs-based processor architectures and allows us to share intimate porting knowledge with our customer's development teams. With new hardware devices for which no support exists in bootloaders such as U-Boot, the initial development efforts can be quite significant. But once the experience has been acquired and the porting process understood we are able to complete ports to customised hardware platforms in a reasonable time frame.