[U-Boot] [RFC] fastboot: flashing to emmc hw boot (0, 1) partitions

[Marek Vasut]

On 6/12/19 3:22 PM, Igor Opaniuk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently a lot of boards started (AFAIK: Colibri/Apalis
> iMX6/iMX7/iMX8QXP; TI AM56XX [1] etc.) using hardware boot0/1
> partitions for storing U-boot blob (which obviously speeds up the
> booting process).
> 
> Taking into account that current implementation of fastboot driver
> does support only flashing images to "software" partitions in the user
> data area, does it make sense to add also the same support for
> boot0/boot1?
> 
> It will definitely simplify and unify the way of firmware flashing, as
> currently people are playing around with `mmc partinfo`/`mmc write`
> and flashing stuff manually instead of using fastboot (where it's
> enabled).
> 
> My suggestion is to introduce custom handling for `boot0` and `boot1`
> in the same manner as done for `zimage` [2] [3] for re-packing Android
> boot image with the new zImage. Example of flashing:
> 
> -> fastboot flash boot0 u-boot.img
> 
> Question: are there any objections (why it should not be
> done)/limitations I'm not aware of?
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions.
> 
> [1] http://git.ti.com/cgit/cgit.cgi/ti-u-boot/ti-u-boot.git/tree/board/ti/am65x/README?h=ti-u-boot-2018.01
> [2] http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=drivers/fastboot/fb_mmc.c;h=90ca81da9b5f338f09a27873fb142d142a07933e;hb=HEAD#l389
> [3] http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=drivers/fastboot/fb_mmc.c;h=90ca81da9b5f338f09a27873fb142d142a07933e;hb=HEAD#l188

+CC Lukasz, Peng.


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Best regards,
Marek Vasut