[U-Boot] [PATCH 11/13] sunxi: Add support for android boot image

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Tue Sep 1 09:15:59 CEST 2015


On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 08:08:58AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 16:46 +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > When using the fastboot boot command, the image sent to U-Boot will be an
> > Android boot image. If the support is missing, that won't obviously work,
> > so we need it in our configuration.
> 
> Dumb question: Is it possible to boot anything _other_ than an android
> boot image via fastboot?

AFAIK, the fastboot tool will automatically generate an android boot
image when given any image, and will send that. I don't think there's
any way to circumvent that behaviour.

> If not then one of the two config options really ought to imply the
> other.

Yeah, probably.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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