On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:47:03PM -0500, Praneeth Bajjuri wrote: > From: Vishal Mahaveer <vish...@ti.com> > > Add vendor partition to Android GPT table for eMMC. > > A Vendor image contains SoC-specific code and configuration. > > Prior to Android 8.0, the vendor partition was optional ; > files belonging to these images were placed in boot.img or system.img > with symlinks (such as /vendor >/system/vendor ) when absent. > > Android 8.0 makes the vendor partition mandatory > > The goal is to modularize Android partitions with standard interface between > the Android Platform (on system.img ) and vendor-provided code(on vendor.img). > > This standard interface enables the Android Platform to be updated > without affecting the SoC partitions. This makes it possible to upgrade a > device system.img from Android 8.0 to Android P while other images (such as > vendor.img) remain at Android 8.0. This modularity enables timely > Android platform upgrades (such as monthly security updates ) > without requiring SoC/ODM partners to update SoC- and device-specific code. > > Signed-off-by: Vishal Mahaveer <vish...@ti.com> > Signed-off-by: Praneeth Bajjuri <prane...@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> -- Tom
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