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

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

[shulin.zhou]

hi,
   Now I working on porting android fastboot protocol to U-boot,does
somebody add fastboot protocol patches to U-boot?
shulin

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

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi shulin,

>    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?

Cheers
  Detlev

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

[Bas Mevissen]

Resend, forgot to copy the list.

> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:31:06 +0200, Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de> wrote:
>> Hi shulin,
>>
>>>    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.

-- 
Bas

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

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi Bas,

>> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:31:06 +0200, Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de> wrote:
>>> Hi shulin,
>>>
>>>>    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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[U-Boot] android fastboot support on U-boot

[Bas Mevissen]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:09:48 +0200, Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de> wrote:

> 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 :(
> 

OK, there appears to be U-boot support as well.
It needs a util on the host, but for development purposes that would be
fine.

A usb-storage like solution would be more flexible. It could have the
option to poke around in a jffs2 image while still in u-boot. Very nice
when the firmware doesn't boot or let you log in due to a small mistake
in the image.

But I guess that jffs2 R/W support in U-Boot is a bridge or two to far
:-))

-- 
Bas

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

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi Bas,

> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:09:48 +0200, Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de> wrote:
>
>> 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 :(
>> 
>
> OK, there appears to be U-boot support as well.
> It needs a util on the host, but for development purposes that would be
> fine.
>
> A usb-storage like solution would be more flexible. It could have the
> option to poke around in a jffs2 image while still in u-boot. Very nice
> when the firmware doesn't boot or let you log in due to a small mistake
> in the image.

Is that fastboot usb-storage based?  From the wiki-page that you
referenced I only see that you also need a separate host tool to use it.
So that's not much of a difference, is it?

> But I guess that jffs2 R/W support in U-Boot is a bridge or two to far
> :-))

And maybe a bridge I would not invest time anymore as UBI+UBIFS seems to
be the weapon of choice against the fallability of NAND devices.

Cheers
  Detlev

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

[Bas Mevissen]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:11:38 +0200, Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de> wrote:

> Is that fastboot usb-storage based?  From the wiki-page that you
> referenced I only see that you also need a separate host tool to use it.
> So that's not much of a difference, is it?
> 

No, the usb-storage based thing was something I had in mind as a
solution for easy firmware update and manipulation.

-- 
Bas

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

[John Rigby]

The omapzoom project has a u-boot with fastboot support.

http://git.omapzoom.org/?p=repo/u-boot.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/omap4_dev_fastboot

Beware, that the u-boot base rev is very old.

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Bas Mevissen <abuse@basmevissen.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:11:38 +0200, Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de> wrote:
>
>> Is that fastboot usb-storage based? ?From the wiki-page that you
>> referenced I only see that you also need a separate host tool to use it.
>> So that's not much of a difference, is it?
>>
>
> No, the usb-storage based thing was something I had in mind as a
> solution for easy firmware update and manipulation.
>
> --
> Bas
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