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-================
-Android Fastboot
-================
-
-Overview
-========
-
-The protocol that is used over USB and UDP is described in the
-``README.android-fastboot-protocol`` file in the same directory.
-
-The current implementation supports the following standard commands:
-
-- ``boot``
-- ``continue``
-- ``download``
-- ``erase`` (if enabled)
-- ``flash`` (if enabled)
-- ``getvar``
-- ``reboot``
-- ``reboot-bootloader``
-- ``set_active`` (only a stub implementation which always succeeds)
-
-The following OEM commands are supported (if enabled):
-
-- oem format - this executes ``gpt write mmc %x $partitions``
-
-Support for both eMMC and NAND devices is included.
-
-Client installation
-===================
-
-The counterpart to this is the fastboot client which can be found in
-Android's ``platform/system/core`` repository in the fastboot
-folder. It runs on Windows, Linux and OSX. The fastboot client is
-part of the Android SDK Platform-Tools and can be downloaded from:
-
-https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools
-
-Board specific
-==============
-
-USB configuration
------------------
-
-The fastboot gadget relies on the USB download gadget, so the following
-options must be configured:
-
-::
-
- CONFIG_USB_GADGET_DOWNLOAD
- CONFIG_USB_GADGET_VENDOR_NUM
- CONFIG_USB_GADGET_PRODUCT_NUM
- CONFIG_USB_GADGET_MANUFACTURER
-
-NOTE: The ``CONFIG_USB_GADGET_VENDOR_NUM`` must be one of the numbers
-supported by the fastboot client. The list of vendor IDs supported can
-be found in the fastboot client source code.
-
-General configuration
----------------------
-
-The fastboot protocol requires a large memory buffer for
-downloads. This buffer should be as large as possible for a
-platform. The location of the buffer and size are set with
-``CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_ADDR`` and ``CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_SIZE``. These
-may be overridden on the fastboot command line using ``-l`` and
-``-s``.
-
-Fastboot environment variables
-==============================
-
-Partition aliases
------------------
-
-Fastboot partition aliases can also be defined for devices where GPT
-limitations prevent user-friendly partition names such as "boot", "system"
-and "cache". Or, where the actual partition name doesn't match a standard
-partition name used commonly with fastboot.
-
-The current implementation checks aliases when accessing partitions by
-name (flash_write and erase functions). To define a partition alias
-add an environment variable similar to:
-
-``fastboot_partition_alias_<alias partition name>=<actual partition name>``
-
-for example:
-
-``fastboot_partition_alias_boot=LNX``
-
-Variable overrides
-------------------
-
-Variables retrived through ``getvar`` can be overridden by defining
-environment variables of the form ``fastboot.<variable>``. These are
-looked up first so can be used to override values which would
-otherwise be returned. Using this mechanism you can also return types
-for NAND filesystems, as the fully parameterised variable is looked
-up, e.g.
-
-``fastboot.partition-type:boot=jffs2``
-
-Boot command
-------------
-
-When executing the fastboot ``boot`` command, if ``fastboot_bootcmd`` is set then
-that will be executed in place of ``bootm <CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_ADDR>``.
-
-Partition Names
-===============
-
-The Fastboot implementation in U-Boot allows to write images into disk
-partitions. Target partitions are referred on the host computer by
-their names.
-
-For GPT/EFI the respective partition name is used.
-
-For MBR the partitions are referred by generic names according to the
-following schema:
-
- <device type><device index letter><partition index>
-
-Example: ``hda3``, ``sdb1``, ``usbda1``
-
-The device type is as follows:
-
- * IDE, ATAPI and SATA disks: ``hd``
- * SCSI disks: ``sd``
- * USB media: ``usbd``
- * MMC and SD cards: ``mmcsd``
- * Disk on chip: ``docd``
- * other: ``xx``
-
-The device index starts from ``a`` and refers to the interface (e.g. USB
-controller, SD/MMC controller) or disk index. The partition index starts
-from ``1`` and describes the partition number on the particular device.
-
-Writing Partition Table
-=======================
-
-Fastboot also allows to write the partition table to the media. This can be
-done by writing the respective partition table image to a special target
-"gpt" or "mbr". These names can be customized by defining the following
-configuration options:
-
-::
-
- CONFIG_FASTBOOT_GPT_NAME
- CONFIG_FASTBOOT_MBR_NAME
-
-In Action
-=========
-
-Enter into fastboot by executing the fastboot command in U-Boot for either USB:
-
-::
-
- => fastboot usb 0
-
-or UDP:
-
-::
-
- => fastboot udp
- link up on port 0, speed 100, full duplex
- Using ethernet@4a100000 device
- Listening for fastboot command on 192.168.0.102
-
-On the client side you can fetch the bootloader version for instance:
-
-::
-
- $ fastboot getvar bootloader-version
- bootloader-version: U-Boot 2014.04-00005-gd24cabc
- finished. total time: 0.000s
-
-or initiate a reboot:
-
-::
-
- $ fastboot reboot
-
-and once the client comes back, the board should reset.
-
-You can also specify a kernel image to boot. You have to either specify
-the an image in Android format *or* pass a binary kernel and let the
-fastboot client wrap the Android suite around it. On OMAP for instance you
-take zImage kernel and pass it to the fastboot client:
-
-::
-
- $ fastboot -b 0x80000000 -c "console=ttyO2 earlyprintk root=/dev/ram0 mem=128M" boot zImage
- creating boot image...
- creating boot image - 1847296 bytes
- downloading 'boot.img'...
- OKAY [ 2.766s]
- booting...
- OKAY [ -0.000s]
- finished. total time: 2.766s
-
-and on the U-Boot side you should see:
-
-::
-
- Starting download of 1847296 bytes
- ........................................................
- downloading of 1847296 bytes finished
- Booting kernel..
- ## Booting Android Image at 0x81000000 ...
- Kernel load addr 0x80008000 size 1801 KiB
- Kernel command line: console=ttyO2 earlyprintk root=/dev/ram0 mem=128M
- Loading Kernel Image ... OK
- OK
-
- Starting kernel ...