[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 0/3] Implement "fastboot flash" for eMMC

[Marek Vasut]

On Friday, June 20, 2014 at 08:18:42 AM, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> > This series implements the "fastboot flash" command for eMMC devices.
> > It supports both raw and sparse images.
> > 
> > NOTES:
> > - the support for the "fastboot flash" command is enabled with
> > CONFIG_FASTBOOT_FLASH
> > - the support for eMMC is enabled with CONFIG_FASTBOOT_FLASH_MMC_DEV
> > - (future) the support for NAND would be enabled with
> > CONFIG_FASTBOOT_FLASH_NAND(???)
> > - thus the proposal is to place the code in common/fb_mmc.c and
> > (future) common/fb_nand.c(???), however, this may not be the
> > appropriate location....
> 
> Would you consider another approach for providing flashing backend for
> fastboot?
> 
> I'd like to propose reusing of the dfu flashing code for this purpose.
> Such approach has been used successfully with USB "thor" downloading
> function.
> 
> Since the "fastboot" is using gadget infrastructure (thanks to the
> effort of Rob Herring) I think that it would be feasible to reuse the
> same approach as "thor" does. In this way the low level code would be
> kept in one place and we could refine and test it more thoroughly.

I'm all for this approach as well if possible.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut