[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] Enable mmc to write sparse images

Jassi Brar jassisinghbrar at gmail.com
Tue May 8 03:59:10 UTC 2018


On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 12:04 PM,  <jassisinghbrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh at linaro.org>
>
> Hi,
>
>  Having capability to flash sparse images from mmc subsystem could be useful.
> For example, non-android/fastboot platforms could leverage the concept. Or
> some platforms that need to 'pull' updates (get images over tftp and flash
> using mmc). Or when we want to flash image at some non-zero offset from the
> start of a partition. Or simply when USB-Device has issues for fastboot
> to work (my itch).
>
>  This patchset first cleans and makes write_sparse_image agnostic of
> fastboot and then adds a new 'swrite' command to 'mmc'.
>
> Jassi Brar (3):
>   fastboot: sparse: remove redundant argument to write_sparse_image
>   fastboot: sparse: make write_sparse_image useable for non-fastboot
>   mmc: support writing sparse images
>
>  cmd/mmc.c              | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  common/fb_mmc.c        |  7 +++--
>  common/fb_nand.c       |  6 +++--
>  common/image-sparse.c  | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>  include/image-sparse.h |  6 +++--
>  5 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>
A polite reminder to look into the patchset please.

Thank


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