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.img.gz
> > https://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/hikey/linaro/debian/365/hi6220-hikey-spin-table.dtb
> >
> > == FYI.
> >
> > For ATF/UEFI, you should use these two files instead:
> > https://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/hikey/linaro/debian/365/boot-fat.uefi.img.gz
> > https://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/hikey/linaro/debian/365/hi6220-hikey.dtb
> >
> > 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.

>
> Regards,
> Amit
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