From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Nelson Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 06:56:08 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot] [U-boot] fastboot command question In-Reply-To: <201308220708.51160.marex@denx.de> References: <52155BBC.3040307@boundarydevices.com> <201308220708.51160.marex@denx.de> Message-ID: <52161878.4070601@boundarydevices.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.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