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9 The protocol that is used over USB and UDP is described in [1]_.
11 The current implementation supports the following standard commands:
16 - ``erase`` (if enabled)
17 - ``flash`` (if enabled)
20 - ``reboot-bootloader``
21 - ``set_active`` (only a stub implementation which always succeeds)
23 The following OEM commands are supported (if enabled):
25 - ``oem format`` - this executes ``gpt write mmc %x $partitions``
27 Support for both eMMC and NAND devices is included.
32 The counterpart to this is the fastboot client which can be found in
33 Android's ``platform/system/core`` repository in the fastboot
34 folder. It runs on Windows, Linux and OSX. The fastboot client is
35 part of the Android SDK Platform-Tools and can be downloaded from [2]_.
43 The fastboot gadget relies on the USB download gadget, so the following
44 options must be configured:
48 CONFIG_USB_GADGET_DOWNLOAD
49 CONFIG_USB_GADGET_VENDOR_NUM
50 CONFIG_USB_GADGET_PRODUCT_NUM
51 CONFIG_USB_GADGET_MANUFACTURER
53 NOTE: The ``CONFIG_USB_GADGET_VENDOR_NUM`` must be one of the numbers
54 supported by the fastboot client. The list of vendor IDs supported can
55 be found in the fastboot client source code.
60 The fastboot protocol requires a large memory buffer for
61 downloads. This buffer should be as large as possible for a
62 platform. The location of the buffer and size are set with
63 ``CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_ADDR`` and ``CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_SIZE``. These
64 may be overridden on the fastboot command line using ``-l`` and
67 Fastboot environment variables
68 ------------------------------
73 Fastboot partition aliases can also be defined for devices where GPT
74 limitations prevent user-friendly partition names such as ``boot``, ``system``
75 and ``cache``. Or, where the actual partition name doesn't match a standard
76 partition name used commonly with fastboot.
78 The current implementation checks aliases when accessing partitions by
79 name (flash_write and erase functions). To define a partition alias
80 add an environment variable similar to::
82 fastboot_partition_alias_<alias partition name>=<actual partition name>
86 fastboot_partition_alias_boot=LNX
91 Variables retrived through ``getvar`` can be overridden by defining
92 environment variables of the form ``fastboot.<variable>``. These are
93 looked up first so can be used to override values which would
94 otherwise be returned. Using this mechanism you can also return types
95 for NAND filesystems, as the fully parameterised variable is looked
98 fastboot.partition-type:boot=jffs2
103 When executing the fastboot ``boot`` command, if ``fastboot_bootcmd`` is set
104 then that will be executed in place of ``bootm <CONFIG_FASTBOOT_BUF_ADDR>``.
109 The Fastboot implementation in U-Boot allows to write images into disk
110 partitions. Target partitions are referred on the host computer by
113 For GPT/EFI the respective partition name is used.
115 For MBR the partitions are referred by generic names according to the
118 <device type><device index letter><partition index>
120 Example: ``hda3``, ``sdb1``, ``usbda1``.
122 The device type is as follows:
124 * IDE, ATAPI and SATA disks: ``hd``
126 * USB media: ``usbd``
127 * MMC and SD cards: ``mmcsd``
128 * Disk on chip: ``docd``
131 The device index starts from ``a`` and refers to the interface (e.g. USB
132 controller, SD/MMC controller) or disk index. The partition index starts
133 from ``1`` and describes the partition number on the particular device.
135 Writing Partition Table
136 -----------------------
138 Fastboot also allows to write the partition table to the media. This can be
139 done by writing the respective partition table image to a special target
140 "gpt" or "mbr". These names can be customized by defining the following
141 configuration options:
145 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_GPT_NAME
146 CONFIG_FASTBOOT_MBR_NAME
151 Enter into fastboot by executing the fastboot command in U-Boot for either USB::
158 link up on port 0, speed 100, full duplex
159 Using ethernet@4a100000 device
160 Listening for fastboot command on 192.168.0.102
162 On the client side you can fetch the bootloader version for instance::
164 $ fastboot getvar version-bootloader
165 version-bootloader: U-Boot 2019.07-rc4-00240-g00c9f2a2ec
166 Finished. Total time: 0.005s
168 or initiate a reboot::
172 and once the client comes back, the board should reset.
174 You can also specify a kernel image to boot. You have to either specify
175 the an image in Android format *or* pass a binary kernel and let the
176 fastboot client wrap the Android suite around it. On OMAP for instance you
177 take zImage kernel and pass it to the fastboot client::
179 $ fastboot -b 0x80000000 -c "console=ttyO2 earlyprintk root=/dev/ram0 mem=128M" boot zImage
180 creating boot image...
181 creating boot image - 1847296 bytes
182 downloading 'boot.img'...
186 finished. total time: 2.766s
188 and on the U-Boot side you should see::
190 Starting download of 1847296 bytes
191 ........................................................
192 downloading of 1847296 bytes finished
194 ## Booting Android Image at 0x81000000 ...
195 Kernel load addr 0x80008000 size 1801 KiB
196 Kernel command line: console=ttyO2 earlyprintk root=/dev/ram0 mem=128M
197 Loading Kernel Image ... OK
205 .. [1] :doc:`fastboot-protocol`
206 .. [2] https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools