This article explains the partitions a bit: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/android-partitions-explained-boot-system-recovery-data-cache-misc/
You are correct in that if the boot.img hasn't changed, then you don't necessarily need to flash it. Having said that the boot.img for 1.1 would be different from 1.4 as the configurations are not the same. Regards, Naoki On Apr 4, 2014, at 12:48 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Could someone please explain the boot.img a little? > Specifically if it is unchanged then why bother to flash it at all? > Can I pull this file off of the device? > Should there be a different boot.img for each version (does 1.1 have a > different boot.img than of 1.4)? > > Also.. the end result of building is that a few img files are created. I can > then use fastboot to load these onto the device. > > How different is this from the zip file? > Would it be possible to create my own zip flash image -- so that I could use > cwm to flash the device? > And on that subject what would it take to sign the zip file so that I > would not need cwm at all? > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
