[PATCH] doc: android: fastboot: Document halt behaviour

Sam Day me at samcday.com
Fri Jun 19 01:53:23 CEST 2026


Hello Mattijs,

On Monday, 15 June 2026 at 10:29 PM, Mattijs Korpershoek <mkorpershoek at kernel.org> wrote:

> It's possible to interrupt the fastboot command from the U-Boot shell
> using the Ctrl-c keybinding.
> 
> Document this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mattijs Korpershoek <mkorpershoek at kernel.org>
> ---

LGTM, thanks. I added this patch as a dependency of the v2 series for
introducing CONFIG_CMD_FASTBOOT_ABORT_KEYED.

Kind regards,
-Sam

Reviewed-by: Sam Day <me at samcday.com>

>  doc/android/fastboot.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/android/fastboot.rst b/doc/android/fastboot.rst
> index 19e2ee9d4074..818b8815ebdc 100644
> --- a/doc/android/fastboot.rst
> +++ b/doc/android/fastboot.rst
> @@ -212,6 +212,11 @@ or initiate a reboot::
> 
>  and once the client comes back, the board should reset.
> 
> +It's possible to interrupt the fastboot command using Ctrl-c::
> +
> +   => fastboot usb 0
> +   Operation aborted.
> +
>  You can also specify a kernel image to boot. You have to either specify
>  the an image in Android format *or* pass a binary kernel and let the
>  fastboot client wrap the Android suite around it. On OMAP for instance you
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 1e80ee41441c612f05787a93bbef4e6e422e29d1
> change-id: 20260615-fastboot-doc-ctrl-c-3fac73518cfe
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Mattijs Korpershoek <mkorpershoek at kernel.org>
> 
> 


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