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    To understand what every file is responsible for you should understand how MPU starts up. As I understood from your qestion you use NXP (Freescale) i.MX microprocessor family. It includes small ROM loader, which will make basic system setup (interfaces to memory, clock tree etc.), search for media to boot from (based on burned OTP bits or GPIO), find bootloader (u-boot in your case) in exact address which is specified in datasheet, load and start it. U-boot will init more interfaces (e.g. Ethernet), find arguments that should be passed to Kerne...

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