On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 11:00:53AM +0200, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
> Le mardi 01 septembre 2015 à 08:08 +0100, Ian Campbell a écrit :
> > On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 16:46 +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > When using the fastboot boot command, the image sent to U-Boot will be an
> > > Android boot image. If the support is missing, that won't obviously work,
> > > so we need it in our configuration.
> > 
> > Dumb question: Is it possible to boot anything _other_ than an android
> > boot image via fastboot?
> > 
> > If not then one of the two config options really ought to imply the
> > other.
> 
> Well, those options have not been moved to Kconfig yet, but when they
> do, there should indeed be such a dependency.
> 
> Otherwise, I believe it still makes sense to have two separate options
> because one might want Android boot image support without fastboot.

Ah, good point, Android stores its kernel/initrd in that format. So
even if you don't want fastboot, you might want the support for the
image itself.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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