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From: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [U-boot] fastboot command question
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 06:56:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52161878.4070601@boundarydevices.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201308220708.51160.marex@denx.de>

Hi Marek,

On 08/21/2013 10:08 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Eric Nelson,
>
> Adding Wolfgang and Tom to CC.
>
>> On 08/21/2013 04:30 AM, TigerLiu at viatech.com.cn wrote:
>>> Hi, experts:
>>>
>>> Why not include cmd_fastboot.c in common directory in 2013.07 release
>>> package?
>>>
>>> Because of code license?
>>>
>>> Or other reason?
>>
>> Hi Tiger,
>>
>> You bring up a question we're interested in as well.
>>
>> It looks to me as if this died somewhere back in April of 2011
>> with this discussion:
>>
>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-April/thread.html#90983
>>
>> And a straw-man design document discussed here:
>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-April/thread.html/#091597
>>
>> And a message about licensing in May of 2012:
>> 	http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-May/125304.html
>>
>> Do we need a clean-room implementation in order to comply with?
>>
>> Is anybody working either the licensing or implementation of this?
>
> Not that I am aware of, but I did not follow this discussion at all. What is
> fastboot anyway, is that the android thing?
>

Yeah. It's the Google/Android equivalent of DFU (plus some additional
features).

Oddly, it has little to do with booting and isn't particularly fast ;)

Regards,


Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-22 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-21 11:30 [U-Boot] [U-boot] fastboot command question TigerLiu at viatech.com.cn
2013-08-22  0:30 ` Eric Nelson
2013-08-22  5:08   ` Marek Vasut
2013-08-22  9:52     ` TigerLiu at viatech.com.cn
2013-08-22 14:01       ` [U-Boot] " Eric Nelson
2013-08-22 13:56     ` Eric Nelson [this message]
2013-08-22 13:59   ` [U-Boot] [U-boot] " Tom Rini
2013-08-22 14:30     ` Eric Nelson
2013-08-22 15:02       ` Tom Rini
2013-08-22 15:26 ` Tom Rini
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-08-21 10:15 TigerLiu at viatech.com.cn

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