From: Safae Ouajih Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 23:50:19 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: android: add documentation for v3, v4 boot image header X-Git-Tag: baikal/mips/sdk6.2~4^2~3^2~207^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://git.baikalelectronics.ru/sdk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c2807c6b1a426c6384ed6a294c28482f8af1e470;p=uboot.git doc: android: add documentation for v3, v4 boot image header Update the Android documentation to describe version 3 and 4 of boot image header. Signed-off-by: Safae Ouajih Reviewed-by: Mattijs Korpershoek Reviewed-by: Simon Glass Tested-by: Mattijs Korpershoek --- diff --git a/doc/android/boot-image.rst b/doc/android/boot-image.rst index 71db02521b..c719b4d711 100644 --- a/doc/android/boot-image.rst +++ b/doc/android/boot-image.rst @@ -27,11 +27,21 @@ next image headers: * v2: used in devices launched with Android 10; adds ``dtb`` field, which references payload containing DTB blobs (either concatenated one after the other, or in Android DTBO image format) +* v3: used in devices launched with Android 11; adds ``vendor_boot`` partition + and removes the second-stage bootloader and recovery image support. The new + ``vendor_boot`` partition holds the device tree blob (DTB) and a vendor ramdisk. + The generic ramdisk in ``boot`` partition is loaded immediately following + the vendor ramdisk. +* v4: used in devices launched with Android 12; provides a boot signature in boot + image header, supports multiple vendor ramdisk fragments in ``vendor_boot`` + partition. This version also adds a bootconfig section at the end of the vendor + boot image, this section contains boot configuration parameters known at build time + (see [9]_ for details). v2, v1 and v0 formats are backward compatible. The Android Boot Image format is represented by -:c:type:`struct andr_img_hdr ` in U-Boot, and can be seen in +:c:type:`struct andr_image_data ` in U-Boot, and can be seen in ``include/android_image.h``. U-Boot supports booting Android Boot Image and also has associated command @@ -153,3 +163,4 @@ References .. [6] :doc:`avb2` .. [7] https://source.android.com/devices/bootloader .. [8] https://connect.linaro.org/resources/san19/san19-217/ +.. [9] https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/bootloader/implementing-bootconfig