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

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Tue Sep 1 13:29:02 CEST 2015


On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 11:46:05AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 11:00 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> > Le mardi 01 septembre 2015 à 08:08 +0100, Ian Campbell a écrit :
> > > 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?
> > > 
> > > If not then one of the two config options really ought to imply the
> > > other.
> > 
> > Well, those options have not been moved to Kconfig yet, but when they
> > do, there should indeed be such a dependency.
> > 
> > Otherwise, I believe it still makes sense to have two separate options
> > because one might want Android boot image support without fastboot.
> 
> Then fastboot should depend on android boot image support but not vice
> -versa.

Indeed, but it's not yet a Kconfig option.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
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