Boot Images

The boot image consists of several pieces.

Boot image

ramdisk

This is comprised of executables and other files needed for initial ramdisk to start and load the rest of the operating system.

kernel

This is the kernel that runs between the Android software and the hardware

This comes in three forms. Uncompressed (Image), Compressed (Image.gz) and Compressed with appended dtb (Image.gz-dtb).

dtb

This can be a part of the kernel(Image.gz-dtb) or a separate part of the boot image (dtb).

Working with kernel and ramdisk

mkbootimg

mkbootimg is a set of scripts used to pack and unpack Android Boot Images

mkbootimg

mtk_mkbootimg

#TODO

unmkbootimg

#TODO

AndroidDevelopment/BootImage (last edited 2023-06-07 01:00:02 by rumplestilzken)