Boot Images

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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).

[[https://gist.github.com/azureru/478fe60ee5b9ec545fa5eb286fb2c4be|Working with kernel and ramdisk]]

= mkbootimg =

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

[[https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/tools/mkbootimg|mkbootimg]]

= mtk_mkbootimg =
#TODO

= unmkbootimg =
#TODO