[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] Android and arm64 improvement

[Bin Chen]

Hello Tom,

Any feedback on this?

On 27 January 2018 at 16:59, Bin Chen <bin.chen at linaro.org> wrote:

>
> I rebased the two patches submitted (quite )a while ago on top of
> current U-boot master fb4413295c765aa8c013650984dc2d908964c81d
> (and there were no conflicts).
>
> The first patch added the support of parsing the second area of Android
> image so
> that it can be used for good. On Poplar board, we are using that area for
> dtb.
> The first patch shouldn't impact any functionality since
> it is new.
>
> The second patch moves the booti_setup out of booti.c. It was the result
> of a
> discusion[1] how to better support the arm64 Android image.
>
> I have boot tested it on Poplar board[2] with additional patch[3] that is
> built on top of the booti. I have hacked version of using bootm but it
> seems quit
> mess up - need lots of changes in different places ("Shotgun Surgery") to
> handle
> Android specific and/or arm64 specific code. Now, I feel a separate
> bootandroid command might be a cleaner solution.
>
> That being said, the second patch doesn't depend on or impact any change we
> might have in the future for better Android support.
>
> [1] https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2017-July/297933.html
> [2] https://github.com/96boards-poplar/Documentation
> [3] https://github.com/pierrchen/u-boot/commit/
> 8463e6177654026746161487d0f0bd8998bb7a5b
>
> Bin Chen (2):
>   parse the second area of android image
>   move booti_setup to arch/arm/lig/image.c
>
>  arch/arm/lib/Makefile  |  2 +-
>  arch/arm/lib/image.c   | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  cmd/booti.c            | 92 +++++++-----------------------
> --------------------
>  common/image-android.c | 19 +++++++++++
>  include/image.h        | 11 ++++++
>  5 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/lib/image.c
>
> --
> 2.15.0
>
>


-- 
Regards,
Bin