[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/7] cmd: bootimg: Add bootimg command
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Fri Sep 20 17:45:00 UTC 2019
Hi,
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 12:28, Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> This command can be used to extract fields and image payloads from
> Android Boot Image. It can be used for example to implement boot flow
> where dtb is taken from boot.img (as v2 incorporated dtb inside of
> boot.img). Using this command, one can obtain needed dtb file from
> boot.img in scripting manner, and then apply needed dtbo's (from "dtbo"
> partition) on top of that, providing then the resulting image to bootm
> command in order to boot the Android.
>
> Also right now this command has the sub-command to get an address and
> size of recovery dtbo from recovery image. It can be further parsed using
> 'dtimg' command and merged into dtb file (for non-A/B devices only, see
> [1,2] for details).
>
> [1] https://source.android.com/devices/bootloader/boot-image-header
> [2] https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/dto/partitions
>
> Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko at linaro.org>
> ---
> cmd/Kconfig | 8 +++
> cmd/Makefile | 1 +
> cmd/bootimg.c | 177 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 186 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 cmd/bootimg.c
Shouldn't this be a subcommand of avb?
Regards,
Simon
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