Utilization of u-boot bootloader at Samsung's Linux powered platforms has a long history. For Tizen 3.0 the reference devices for mobile profile (RD_PQ and Odroid U3/X2) are due to run with u-boot developed with open source philosophy applied. It means that the code was developed, reviewed and tested first in the open source and then reused in Tizen.
Introduced changes to mainline code were minimal and only necessary for assuring backward compatibility. In his presentation Lukasz will briefly cover history and future plans of u-boot development for Tizen (as e.g. ongoing work on single binary for Odroid U3 and M0), explain key aspects of persuading community to accept solutions tunned for mobile devices, present remarkable u-boot's war stories and give a handful of tips for successful cooperation with community.