Embedded doesn't mean we can't have nice things. As Linux kernel developers we have grown accustomed to the comfort afforded to us by Kconfig, device trees, the device-driver model, multi-platform kernel images, the kernel having sane defaults and virtual filesystems giving us shell-level access to debug and introspect the system. Why can't we have this in the boot environment? We can and you'll see how, welcome to barebox. What began as a rejected patchset for adding Kconfig to U-Boot has now been a full-fledged bootloader in its own right for 13 years. barebox is powering millions of devices around the world. In his talk, Marco will give a brief overview of barebox from a kernel developer's point of view and show how easy it is to add support for a new i.MX8M board. The attendees will see barebox in action and learn how to leverage the VFS for hardware bringup, kernel debugging and booting the system in production.