From: Tom Rini Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:34:42 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] arm: am57xx: Add vendor partition to Android GPT table for eMMC In-Reply-To: <1507866425-10827-1-git-send-email-praneeth@ti.com> References: <1507866425-10827-1-git-send-email-praneeth@ti.com> Message-ID: <20171014023442.GL12015@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:47:02PM -0500, Praneeth Bajjuri wrote: > 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: Praneeth Bajjuri Reviewed-by: Tom Rini -- Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: