From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Detlev Zundel Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:02:17 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] strawman Fastboot in U-Boot Design Doc In-Reply-To: (John Rigby's message of "Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:07:24 -0600") References: Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi John, > Here a first draft design doc. It is based in part on the Fastboot > implementation in the rowboat git repo (pointer below). Thanks for this piece of documentation. Itcertainly helped me understand that the "boot" part in fastboot is kind of a misnomer, right? Again it shows that a bad description can lead thoughts astray.... [...] > Purpose > ======= > > Mainline support for Android Fastboot would be useful. Arguing the merits > of Fastboot vs DFU is not in the scope of this document. This document > is to discuss design goals/requirements of an implementation of > Fastboot in U-Boot. So in essence you say that fastboot is an "alternative" implementation of the "idea" behind DFU? Or is DFU (functionally) a subset of fastboot? It may be worth extending on that aspect so that people knowing DFU can "hook into" the discussion. [...] > Questions > ======== > > Should a Fastboot host program be included in the U-Boot source? I would certainly welcome a "reference" implementation for a GNU/Linux host. Hopefully this will prevent multiple works later on. Maybe even writing a small library and having a simple command line wrapper would be good (like flat device tree and libfdt). Best wishes Detlev -- Is this a private fight or can anyone join in? -- Old Irish saying -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: dzu at denx.de