On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Koen Kooi koen.kooi@linaro.org wrote:
On 9 November 2015 at 11:20, Amit Kucheria amit.kucheria@linaro.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Guodong Xu guodong.xu@linaro.org wrote:
Hi, All
In this email, I want to check: is there anybody who are still working with fastboot and these two (boot-fat.emmc.img and dtb) files? If nobody reply, I will remove them.\
So, here is what and why. :)
As some of you may know, Fastboot (as bootloader) is deprecated for hikey. (As a replacement, ATF/UEFI should be used. Linaro releases ATF/UEFI for hikey in source code and in binary). But for backward compatibility, we still release kernel images and dtbs which can work together with fastboot in snapshot builds for a long time. Like these: https://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/hikey/linaro/debian/365/boot-fat.emmc.... https://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/hikey/linaro/debian/365/hi6220-hikey-s...
== FYI.
For ATF/UEFI, you should use these two files instead: https://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/hikey/linaro/debian/365/boot-fat.uefi.... https://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/hikey/linaro/debian/365/hi6220-hikey.d...
Please refer to https://github.com/96boards/documentation/wiki/HiKeyUEFI , for UEFI start guide.
I'd like to this deprecation since we have already have ATF/UEFI and uboot support for Hikey to satisfy most developers.
But don't AOSP builds mandate fastboot support?
fastboot-the-protocol or fastboot-the-bootloader? If it's the protocol, both UEFI and u-boot support that. UEFI using the fastboot.efi file in VFAT and u-boot natively.
I should've been more specific - fastboot the protocol. And I didn't know u-boot supported this natively.
In that case, +1 for the deprecation.