[PATCH] android_ab: Add option to skip decrementing tries

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Tue Jul 18 15:58:16 CEST 2023


On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 05:05:48PM -0500, Joshua Watt wrote:

> It is is sometimes desired to be able to skip decrementing the number of
> tries remaining in an Android A/B boot, and instead just check which
> slot will be tried later. This can commonly be be the case for platforms
> that want to A/B u-boot itself, but are required to boot from a FAT MBR
> partition. In these cases, u-boot must do an early check that the MBR
> points to the correct A/B boot partition, and if not rewrite the MBR to
> point to the correct one and reboot. Decrementing the try count in this
> case is not desired because it means that each u-boot might constantly
> ping-pong overwriting the MBR and rebooting until all the retries are
> used up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker at gmail.com>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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