Denx (a.k.a. U-Boot) Retires

https://www.denx.de/

by synergy20 • 8 months ago

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kevin_thibedeau• 8 months ago

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bsimpson• 8 months ago

For those missing the reference, NAMBLA is the "man/boy love association" (as in pedophiles).

octoberfranklin• 8 months ago

Back before SWATting was a thing, signing up people you disliked as members of NAMBLA was all the rage.

If you ask me it was funnier, and less risk of anybody actually dying.

rfmc• 8 months ago

I mean, North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes are not that bad.

bitwize• 8 months ago

It's also the name of a mathematical vector derivative operator (∇).

rdlw• 8 months ago

Interesting, I only knew it as the del until now

neilv• 8 months ago

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.

henearkr4• 8 months ago

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.

benzible• 8 months ago

I'm sure you have a list of things that you would not want to be "one typo away" from.

numpad0• 8 months ago

Never heard of the term in question, is the word similar sounding to this by accident or is it tongue-in-cheek inspiration of some sort?

stephen_g2• 8 months ago

I've never heard of it either until reading these comments (I'm in Australia). Assuming the NA in that acronym means North America (?) and given that Denx and this new entity is German it's probably safe to assume that they haven't heard of it either.

mcmoor• 8 months ago

I've seen other comment for the supposed unsavory thing but I've never heard about it, like, at all. Only know it as the mathematical operator. Also being used as card name for a children card game that's a bit infamously censor heavy so I think it's safe enough https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Mathmech_Nabla

gspr• 8 months ago

Don't help those unsavory people hog a large part of our shared namespace.

rmoriz• 8 months ago

The founder and owner, Wolfgang Denk, sadly passed away in 2022. https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2022-October/497955.h...

Deeg9rie9usi• 8 months ago

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• 8 months ago

U-Boot is pretty cool, I like how scriptable it is.

joezydeco• 8 months ago

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.

rcxdude• 8 months ago

Yeah, I strongly prefer barebox, if it's an option. You can just write shell scripts in it.

mmmlinux• 8 months ago

Doesn't most of the embedded Linux world run on u-boot? whats going to happen to that market now?

akdev1l• 8 months ago

Seems that it will be maintained by those using it (eg: companies and hobbyists alike)

U-boot will not die from this

jojomodding• 8 months ago

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• 8 months ago

So long and denx for all the fish!

bayindirh• 8 months ago

And for the (yellow) submarines!

zoobab• 8 months ago

Damn i have a Denx parallel port JTAG adaptor Somewhere in my stock:

http://www.zoobab.com/denx-bdm4jtag

Enjoy retirement!

rogermeier• 8 months ago

Wolfgang and me introduced the concept of the SPDX-License-Identifier, see https://spdx.dev/learn/handling-license-info/ also landed within the Kernel later, beside of many things we did for our stuff at Siemens, upstream first such as https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/tree/master/board/siemens

andrekandre• 8 months ago

  > After 20 successful years in the embedded world, the DENX holders decided to wind-down operations and retire. ... As a result of this process, the company entered voluntarily liquidation. 

  > Still looking for great support ? Former DENX’s engineers joined NABLA, a new company created to provide high level support .... You will find the same expertise and quality support you experienced in many years in DENX.

first impression is, i wonder if they ever considered just selling the company to the employees and let them continue it...?

trenchpilgrim• 8 months ago

Looks like the founder passed away a few years ago, perhaps this was easier for his inheritors.

Denx (a.k.a. U-Boot) Retires

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