>What is in the recovery partition normally is a special program >(not Linux or Android) that allows for reflashing. Many people >don't understand that this is a separate program from the first-stage >bootloader.
interesting. this is definitely worth investigating more. On Jan 29, 2:30 am, Chris Stratton <cs07...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 28, 5:08 pm, parth shah <parthmshah2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Most of the time they use u-boot as a reference and then customize the > > u-boot to make their proprietary BL. > > That wouldn't exactly be legal, given that u-boot is GPL. > > They could probably make a work-a-like (for example, Android's > "Toolbox" is similar in concept to Busybox" but not a derivative work > thereof and so doesn't inherit its license) but they can't wave a wand > and make a customized version of u-boot itself proprietary. -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
