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

[Bin Chen]

On 24 August 2017 at 12:58, Andy Yan <andyshrk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 .
>

Let me know if I need to rebase it or something.

p.s: sorry I was busy with other stuff, so wasn't able timely resend/update
the patches.


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>> Tom
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Regards,
Bin