Re: [U-Boot] android fastboot support on U-boot

30 Aug 2010


      Hi Bas,
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On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:31:06 +0200, Detlev Zundel dzu@denx.de wrote:
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Hi shulin,
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Now I working on porting android fastboot protocol to U-boot,does
somebody add fastboot protocol patches to U-boot?
Can yopu please tell me what the "the android fastboot" protocol is?
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Fastboot
"Fastboot is protocol used to update the flash filesystem in Android
devices from a host over USB. It allows flashing of unsigned partition
images."
I was already wondering how feasible it would be to have a board with
USB slave behave like an USB memory stick to flash the firmware by
simply copying a file from the host to it.
Yet another alternative for the problem already solved by DFU[1]?  Damn,
after some recent activity in this area again I was starting to raise my
hopes that more people realize such a thing exists already :(
Thanks
  Detlev
[1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/USB_DFU
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