[U-Boot] [Feature] Android Fastboot over Ethernet

[Alex Kiernan]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:25 PM, Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx.de> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Android Things on rpi supports fastboot over udp since most rpis don't
>> expose a suitable USB port for fastboor over USB. It also uses the A/B
>> booting mechanism similar to Pixel phones.
>>
>> The U-Boot code for the latest Android Things preview is in AOSP:
>> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/u-boot/+/android-o-mr1-iot-preview-7
>>
>> In particular, the fastboot over UDP support was added by
>> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/u-boot/+/018e7c25c7c0260a6d021c84521eab808657c1a8
>> and subsequent commits. "git log android-o-mr1-iot-preview-7 --not
>> v2017.07 --oneline --no-merges" should give you a cleaner list what
>> was added on top of 2017.07.
>>
>> I believe most of those patches (or cleaned up versions) were shared
>> in this list at the time.
>
> I would say that I would be more than happy to see patches adding this
> feature to u-boot's fastboot.
>

Weekend project... still WIP, but builds cleanly, just seeing what
Travis makes of it whilst I test it on a board:

https://github.com/akiernan/u-boot/tree/us-fastboot-udp

-- 
Alex Kiernan