[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/5] Update fastboot sparse image handling

[Steve Rae]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Sergey Kubushyn <ksi at koi8.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, Steve Rae wrote:
>
> Quick question before diving in -- does anybody work on making
> fastboot able to flash multiple devices?
>
> There are some braindead designs (e.g. Variscite SOMs) that have both
> eMMC and NAND on board and only able to boot off of NAND. Android
> FS layout uses insane number of partitions so it would be logical to
> put some of those onto NAND while keeping others on eMMC. However at
> present time the target device for "flash" command is a compile-time
> option that only allows writing to one device.
>
> Is anybody working on this currently? I don't want to re-invent the
> wheel. I will come up with initial RFC if nobody work on this...

I am not aware of anyone working on this -- I look forward to your RFC!
Thanks, Steve

>
>> While retaining the storage abstraction feature implemented in U-Boot,
>> this series updates the fastboot sparse image handling by
>> (1) fixing broken code,
>> (2) resync'ing with the upstream code, and
>> (3) improving performance when writing CHUNK_TYPE_FILL
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - series rebased onto v2016.07-rc1
>>
>> Steve Rae (5):
>>  fastboot: sparse: remove session-id logic
>>  fastboot: sparse: resync common/image-sparse.c (part 1)
>>  fastboot: sparse: resync common/image-sparse.c (part 2)
>>  fastboot: sparse: implement reserve()
>>  fastboot: sparse: improve CHUNK_TYPE_FILL write performance
>>
>> common/fb_mmc.c                 |  79 +++----
>> common/fb_nand.c                | 106 +++++----
>> common/image-sparse.c           | 478
>> +++++++++++++++-------------------------
>> drivers/usb/gadget/f_fastboot.c |  47 ++--
>> include/fastboot.h              |   4 +-
>> include/fb_mmc.h                |   7 +-
>> include/fb_nand.h               |   7 +-
>> include/image-sparse.h          |  29 ++-
>> 8 files changed, 312 insertions(+), 445 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 1.8.5
>>
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