Now that more and more devices are built using eMMC, providing a way to easily flash the system without too much hassle seems like a right thing to do.
Since fastboot is the most deployed tool to do that these days, we can just rely on it to provide a way to flash the various components in the system (SPL, U-Boot and the system itself) easily, especially since you can upload the U-Boot hosting the fastboot "server" through FEL.
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara andre.przywara@arm.com Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com --- cmd/fastboot/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/cmd/fastboot/Kconfig b/cmd/fastboot/Kconfig index 4ce7a775e28e..cbb9183ea266 100644 --- a/cmd/fastboot/Kconfig +++ b/cmd/fastboot/Kconfig @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ config FASTBOOT_USB_DEV
config FASTBOOT_FLASH bool "Enable FASTBOOT FLASH command" + default y if ARCH_SUNXI help The fastboot protocol includes a "flash" command for writing the downloaded image to a non-volatile storage device. Define