[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v1 0/5] Add fastboot UDP support

[Lukasz Majewski]

Hi Alex,

> Open questions:
> 
> - what's the correct way of attributing the original authors? I've
> added Co-authored-by, is that right? checkpatch doesn't seem to know
> any of the co- tags

I think that two authors (Alex and Jocelyn) have replied to your e-mail.

Maybe it would be doable to have S-o-B or Acked-by from them?

> - currently there's no NAND support and I've no way of testing that,
> so my inclination is towards leaving it like that until someone with
> that particular itch to scratch can look at it

As I've written in the other mail - please look into "mtdparts".

> - you can select both USB and UDP fastboot, but the comments in the
>   AOSP code suggest that needs fixing - again, I've no board I can
> test USB fastboot on

I need to check if I do posses a bort with fastboot support (as I
mostly test DFU).

> - the USB and UDP code want consolidating, with this series there
> would then be two separate implementations of the same protocol

Yes - this is an issue. 

For USB the fastboot protocol (at least some its logic) is implemented
in drivers/usb/gadget/f_fastboot.c

I think that some medium agnostic code (like protocol itself) can be
unified.

I also think that it would be a good idea to have ./drivers/fastboot
directory introduced to move common code there - and leave only USB
related code in f_fastboot.c

Please as a reference, look on how ./drivers/dfu is organised.

> - the syntax for the USB fastboot command changes from `fastboot
> <controller>` to `fastboot usb <controller>`, that feels unacceptable
> and we probably want something like `fastboot <controller>` or
> `fastboot udp`?

Similar issue was with "thor"/"ums"/"dfu" command previously.

For backward compatibility we can make an alias:

fastboot <controller> -> fastboot usb <controller>

IMHO, it would be great to have

fastboot usb <controller>
fastboot udp ip.... (etc)

(It would be great to have the same syntax as it is in Android).

> - unrelated to this series, but a show-stopper for me, there's no FIT
> image support, but that doesn't feel unsolveable - something like add
> an option to pass in the load address and/or use loadaddr, then
> something else to let you override the bootm invocation on the server
> side




Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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