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

[Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>]

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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