Re: Mainlining android fastboot support to upstream u-boot

2011-05-11 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Zach, In message you wrote: > > Would you be able to join us at UDS > (https://wiki.linaro.org/Events/2011-05-LDS)? We can also set up a > conference line as well. As discussed, I'll try and attend remotely. But Heiko Schocher, one of our engineers, will be there and attend both the linar

Re: Mainlining android fastboot support to upstream u-boot

2011-04-25 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear John Rigby, In message you wrote: > > Ok, I had already read both of those posts and when I read "design" I > was thinking that Android Fastboot exists and the feature list is > already set as is the wire protocol, so I don't see that we have a lot > of flexibility in those areas. The only

Re: Mainlining android fastboot support to upstream u-boot

2011-04-24 Thread Zach Pfeffer
Wolfgang, Would you be able to join us at UDS (https://wiki.linaro.org/Events/2011-05-LDS)? We can also set up a conference line as well. -Zach On 24 April 2011 09:25, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear John Rigby, > > In message you wrote: >> >> So Wolfgang,  let's assume that Fastboot could coexist

Re: Mainlining android fastboot support to upstream u-boot

2011-04-24 Thread John Rigby
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear John Rigby, > > In message you wrote: >> >> So Wolfgang,  let's assume that Fastboot could coexist with and share >> code with the DFU implementation.  Would that be more acceptable?  Or > > It is always nice if features can share commo

Re: Mainlining android fastboot support to upstream u-boot

2011-04-24 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear John Rigby, In message you wrote: > > So Wolfgang, let's assume that Fastboot could coexist with and share > code with the DFU implementation. Would that be more acceptable? Or It is always nice if features can share common code, but here this is actually completely unrelated to the ques

Re: Mainlining android fastboot support to upstream u-boot

2011-04-23 Thread John Rigby
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Zach Pfeffer wrote: >>> So, "Google uses it aside", it seems that being able to boot via USB >>> is a useful thing and fastboot is a particular solution; I'm not >>> entirely sure what other USB u-boot extensions exist apart from those >> >> Well, DFU support is a

Re: Mainlining android fastboot support to upstream u-boot

2011-04-22 Thread Zach Pfeffer
>> So, "Google uses it aside", it seems that being able to boot via USB >> is a useful thing and fastboot is a particular solution; I'm not >> entirely sure what other USB u-boot extensions exist apart from those > > Well, DFU support is a standard solution, and the LF / CELF has just > recently as

Re: Mainlining android fastboot support to upstream u-boot

2011-04-22 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Zach Pfeffer, In message you wrote: > > So, "Google uses it aside", it seems that being able to boot via USB > is a useful thing and fastboot is a particular solution; I'm not > entirely sure what other USB u-boot extensions exist apart from those Well, DFU support is a standard solution, a

Re: Mainlining android fastboot support to upstream u-boot

2011-04-21 Thread Zach Pfeffer
>> What else?  I know one issue maybe why does this need to exist when >> other solutions exist.  I think that since Android uses it, it is >> somewhat of a de facto standard. > > Oh. Android uses it. It must be The Right Thing (TM), then, I guess. > Probably like some of the Linux kernel code they

Re: Mainlining android fastboot support to upstream u-boot

2011-04-21 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear John Rigby, In message you wrote: > > > If you are discussing requirements for U-Boot, and plan to get these > > merged in to mainlineU-Boot one day, it would probably be a good idea > > to discuss these plans on the U-Boot mailing list as well - ideally > > before any design is cast in iron

Mainlining android fastboot support to upstream u-boot

2011-04-20 Thread John Rigby
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Jim Huang, > > In message you wrote: >> >> My idea is that we require abstract 'bootloader' component in Android >> device/linaro/common, and (patched) 'u-boot' would be the provider of >> 'bootloader' component in >> device/linaro/Lin