Hi

On Mar 31, 10:33 pm, Shachar Shemesh <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 31/03/11 08:43, Bjarke F. wrote:

> I think the thing you are missing is that the boot loader is not (as far
> as I know) open source. There is (was - have not looked in quite a
> while, and my info might be out of date) an implementation of the
> fastboot protocol in the AOSP tree, but that's just the USB protocol for
> talking between the boot loader and a PC through a USB cable, not the
> boot loader itself.

Yes, that is definitely part of my confusion. :) I have come to the
understanding that the implementation in bootable/bootloader/legacy is
a reference implementation for a bootloader, with the most useful part
being the fastboot+usbloader implementation.

> As such, you can look at what the kernel does in order to leave the mark
> for the boot loader to boot into recovery, but not what the boot loader
> is doing with this info.

That is exactly what I am chasing right now, but I cannot find the
code were the kernel leaves this mark. See my answer to Srikant for a
description of where I have been searching.

> I hope this clears up the confusion (or, make someone correct me, so I
> know better :-).

A bit, thanks. :)

/Bjarke

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