# FU740 manual references BBL rather than OE

**URL:** https://forums.sifive.com/t/fu740-manual-references-bbl-rather-than-oe/4633
**Category:** HiFive Unmatched
**Created:** [April 19, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/fu740-manual-references-bbl-rather-than-oe/4633 "2021-04-19T17:53:00Z")
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### Author: ![jstraus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@jstraus](https://forums.sifive.com/u/jstraus)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/fu740-manual-references-bbl-rather-than-oe/4633/1 "2021-04-19T17:53:00Z")

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[fu740-c000-manual-v1p2.pdf](https://sifive.cdn.prismic.io/sifive/18febb04-50b6-4880-9bf3-631e40daa809_fu740-c000-manual-v1p2.pdf) describes the FSBL as loading and executing the Berkeley Boot Loader (BBL) image, but it seems this reference is obsolete, as the [freedom-u-sdk](https://github.com/sifive/freedom-u-sdk) repo only provides instructions for building the OpenEmbedded (OE) boot image.

Or am I missing something?

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### Author: ![jimw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@jimw](https://forums.sifive.com/u/jimw)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/fu740-manual-references-bbl-rather-than-oe/4633/2 "2021-04-19T18:16:25Z")

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The title mentions fu540, the text mentions fu740. The fu540 manual was written over 3 years ago, and only updated once, so ignore that. For the fu740 manual, I reported that internally as a bug a few months ago. I think it was just copied from the fu540 manual. We have a draft revision to fix it, waiting for review, but I think the software team is busy trying to get as much software work done as possible before the hardware release. I can remind them that they need to work on documentation too.

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### Author: ![jstraus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@jstraus](https://forums.sifive.com/u/jstraus)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2021, 9:04pm UTC](https://forums.sifive.com/t/fu740-manual-references-bbl-rather-than-oe/4633/3 "2021-04-19T21:04:40Z")

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Thanks for the feedback confirming that I am not missing something.

I have fixed the title to refer to FU740.
