On 09-Nov-2015 3:50 pm, "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?
UEFI has fastboot protocol support and that is what we are already using on AOSP reference build for hikey.
+1 on deprecating the proprietary bootloader for AOSP.
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