[U-Boot] [U-boot] fastboot command question

[Eric Nelson]

Hi Marek,

On 08/21/2013 10:08 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Eric Nelson,
>
> Adding Wolfgang and Tom to CC.
>
>> On 08/21/2013 04:30 AM, TigerLiu at viatech.com.cn wrote:
>>> Hi, experts:
>>>
>>> Why not include cmd_fastboot.c in common directory in 2013.07 release
>>> package?
>>>
>>> Because of code license?
>>>
>>> Or other reason?
>>
>> Hi Tiger,
>>
>> You bring up a question we're interested in as well.
>>
>> It looks to me as if this died somewhere back in April of 2011
>> with this discussion:
>>
>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-April/thread.html#90983
>>
>> And a straw-man design document discussed here:
>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-April/thread.html/#091597
>>
>> And a message about licensing in May of 2012:
>> 	http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-May/125304.html
>>
>> Do we need a clean-room implementation in order to comply with?
>>
>> Is anybody working either the licensing or implementation of this?
>
> Not that I am aware of, but I did not follow this discussion at all. What is
> fastboot anyway, is that the android thing?
>

Yeah. It's the Google/Android equivalent of DFU (plus some additional
features).

Oddly, it has little to do with booting and isn't particularly fast ;)

Regards,


Eric