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

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk> 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?

Yes, fastboot just writes either raw block data or sparse images to
partitions. While the client tool can create the boot image for you,
that is purely a client side feature. What you can boot is determined
by your boot scripts. You can also boot an Android boot image with
bootm and without any fastboot support.

Rob