[PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation: usb: document bbu fastboot partition name

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Wed Jan 24 08:21:34 PST 2024


On 24.01.24 16:47, Bastian Krause wrote:
> After looking this up the nth time in the code base, it's really time to
> document this.
> 
> Also mention that ``fastboot getvar all`` lists the partitions.

Thank you!

Reviewed-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Bastian Krause <bst at pengutronix.de>
> ---
> Changes since (implicit) v1:
> - mention partitions in ``fastboot getvar all`` as suggested by Ahmad
> ---
>  Documentation/user/usb.rst | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/user/usb.rst b/Documentation/user/usb.rst
> index 95d6dd7e363..dfa53cf199a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/user/usb.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/user/usb.rst
> @@ -168,12 +168,13 @@ The Fastboot gadget supports the following commands:
>  ``fastboot flash`` additionally supports image types UBI and Barebox. For UBI
>  Images and a MTD device as target, ubiformat is called. For a Barebox image
>  with an available barebox update handler for the fastboot exported device, the
> -barebox_update is called.
> +barebox_update is called (exported as ``bbu-<update_handler_name>`` fastboot
> +partition).
>  
>  The barebox Fastboot gadget supports the following non standard extensions:
>  
>  - ``fastboot getvar all``
> -  Shows a list of all variables
> +  Shows a list of all variables, including exported partitions
>  - ``fastboot oem getenv <varname>``
>    Shows a barebox environment variable
>  - ``fastboot oem setenv <varname>=<value>``

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