[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] usb: gadget: fastboot miscellaneous patches

[Marek Vasut]

On Wednesday, October 01, 2014 at 10:44:46 PM, Steve Rae wrote:
> On 14-10-01 05:13 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Wednesday, October 01, 2014 at 04:03:21 AM, Eric Nelson wrote:
> >> Hi Marek,
> >> 
> >> On 09/30/2014 04:59 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at 09:47:07 PM, Eric Nelson wrote:
> >>>> Hi Marek,
> >>>> 
> >>>> On 09/30/2014 12:37 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >>>>> On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at 09:05:39 PM, Eric Nelson wrote:
> >>>>>> While trying to configure Nitrogen6X boards to use Android Fastboot,
> >>>>>> I found a number of places where the implementation doesn't appear
> >>>>>> to match the latest host tools on AOSP.
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Eric Nelson (3):
> >>>>>>    usb: gadget: fastboot: add max-download-size variable
> >>>>>>    usb: gadget: fastboot: explicitly set radix of maximum download
> >>>>>>    size usb: gadget: fastboot: terminate commands with NULL
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Just to make sure, are those fixes for 2014.10 or new stuff for next
> >>>>> ?
> >>>> 
> >>>> These patches are against master, but should apply against usb/next
> >>>> and dfu/next and "next" is fine for us.
> >>> 
> >>> 3/3 looks like a bugfix though. Is that a bugfix ?
> >> 
> >> I wasn't able to get fastboot to do much of anything without all three.
> >> 
> >> -- lack of max-download-size simply stopped downloads
> >> -- the missing radix caused my host to think that the 0x07000000
> >> size (copied from Beagle) was 1.8 MiB instead of 100+ MiB.
> >> -- the lack of termination showed up as a request to download
> >> a **huge** image when I tried to send u-boot.imx. I think I got
> >> lucky that the next characters in the buffer looked like hex digits.
> >> 
> >> I suspect that others are either holding on to some local patches
> >> or are perhaps using old versions of the Fastboot host program.
> >> 
> >> After applying all three, I was able to configure for flashing on
> >> an MMC device, but I don't have anything configured to use EFI
> >> partitions, so there's no immediate route to usage for us.
> >> 
> >> I'd really like to be able to "fastboot flash bootloader u-boot.imx"
> >> and program SPI-NOR and also be able to boot a kernel and RAM disk
> >> using "fastboot boot uImage uramdisk.img", but neither of them seems
> >> very close. The first needs some more structure, and the latter seemed
> >> to decide its' own address for the kernel and simply ignore the
> >> RAM disk.
> >> 
> >> I have the sense that this code is pretty much a work in progress,
> >> but I'd like to hear otherwise from those who have used it.
> > 
> > OK, so let's wait for the others' opinions.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Marek Vasut
> 
> I would recommend 1/3 & 2/3 for 2014.10 (I'm not certain about 3/3
> because I don't think that it can actually occur on my boards....)
> Thanks, Steve

OK, Lukasz, do you want to send me a PR with those two ?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut