Can u-boot used to boot Linux be used to boot a newly ported android Froyo kernel ?

If you do not need the 'fastboot' functionality, it should be possible to use the Linux u-boot for Android also.

Hi Donald,

On which platform you are working? Linux u-boot should work for android as well.

Thanks and Regards,

Pankaj Bharadiya

 Vishveshwar, Pankaj,

Using the Android SDK (not the linux SDK) is it possible to change the U-boot parameters to just boot the linux portion of Android, but not Andorid itself.
Goal is to have the host talk to Linux on the targets via terminal and then make some updates on the filesystem. Then reboot to change the u-boot parameters for android and finally boot android.

Is it something that would work?

thanks and best regards,

Anthony

AnBer said:

Using the Android SDK (not the linux SDK) is it possible to change the U-boot parameters to just boot the linux portion of Android, but not Andorid itself.

It should be possible to boot a linux filesystem using the u-boot from Android SDK.

But the android filesystem is not at all compatible with the standard linux filesystem, so I don't think it is possible to "turn off" android functionality.

You could have a minimal linux filesystem on a separate partition and modify the u-boot args for the kernel uImage to use this partition instead of the regular android partition.