[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] [rfc] parse the second area of android image

Andy Yan andyshrk at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 02:58:18 UTC 2017


Hi Tom and other maintainers:

2017-07-13 2:25 GMT+08:00 Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>:

> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 03:56:03PM +1000, Bin Chen wrote:
>
> > The second area of android image was intended to put a 2nd stage
> > bootloader but in practice were rarely used (in my knowledge).
> >
> > An proposal was made to the AOSP to (re)use the second area as the
> dtb[1],
> > This patch itself doesn't depend on that proposal being accepted but it
> won't
> > be that helpful as well if that proposal won't be accepted. But don't do
> > any harm as well.
> >
> > [1] https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/417447/
> > Signed-off-by: Bin Chen <bin.chen at linaro.org>
>
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
>
>

Can we get this patch applied now[1/2]?Because some  ARM32 platforms also
want to use the second area to stored dtb or other resource .



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