[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/5] Use Android DT image format for TI boards

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sun Apr 22 20:12:56 UTC 2018


Hi,

On 17 April 2018 at 14:57, Andrew F. Davis <afd at ti.com> wrote:
> On 04/16/2018 03:32 PM, Sam Protsenko wrote:
>> Android documentation recommends using new image format for storing dtb
>> and dtbo files: [1]. Using that format, we can pack several dtb files to
>> dtb.img, and also pack several dtbo files to dtbo.img. Then those images
>> should be flashed to eMMC partitions, called "dtb" and "dtbo"
>> respectively.
>>
>
>
> I'm not convinced adding yet another one-off Android specific partition
> format is what we need right now. With FIT images this is a solved
> problem, why does Android need to go down a different path here?

Agreed.

Regards,
Simon


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