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Being able to flash images across cdba enables new use cases, such as bootstrapping development boards directly in a cdba lab. Some features are still missing, like serial number matching - and it would be very useful to have a progress bar when transferring gigabytes of data, but these can be added incrementally.

The end result is the ability to run:
cdba -b board -h host write 0 fastboot.img boot.img

Moving between the Linux kernel's list.h and this one is confusing, as
list_add() prepends in one case and appends in the other. Rename the
function to clarify the API. Introduce an operation for those cases
where a prepend is desired.

Also introduce a list_len() operation, which can be useful to save
clients from open-coding this.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@oss.qualcomm.com>
In order to implement flash support, as well as aid in maintenance
situations, support for requesting the board to be powered on into
EDL/flashing mode is useful.

So far the payload of the MSG_POWER_ON message has been ignored by the
server, so we can tread the absence of payload as "NORMAL" power on
request and introduce the power_on_mode enumeration to define the values
in this (optional) byte.

A new key definition is also added to the protocol, representing the
holding down the EDL "key", but not exposed on the client side yet.

The device logic is wired up such that the power-on sequence will now
request the drivers to hold the EDL key while powering on, if the
power-on mode is "EDL".

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@oss.qualcomm.com>
When the EDL key is held during power up, the device will enter EDL
mode, making the board ready for firmware flashing.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@oss.qualcomm.com>
The client can now request the device to enter EDL mode and the server's
device and driver model can power up the board to this state.

Introduce four new messages to the cdba protocol:
- EDL_PRESENT: used by the server to signal the presence of the EDL
  device
- EDL_DOWNLOAD: used by the client to transfer a binary blob to the
  server, mimicing the fastboot protocol
- EDL_FLASH: used by the client to indicate the target for the
  downloaded binary blob. The server may start flashing the image if
  supported.
- EDL_RESET: used by the client to request that the flash operations are
  finalized and the board restarts.

Introduce a new "EDL" module that will look for EDL USB devices and if
found signal the client about its presence.

Implement EDL_DOWNLOAD by streaming the incoming blob into a temporary
file, let EDL_FLASH tag the image with information about where it should
be written. Then as we're relying on QDL, invoke the external tool as
part of the EDL_RESET, "flushing out" the pending operations.

Support for matching EDL device by serial number is left as a todo item.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@oss.qualcomm.com>
For some unknown reason, when I wrote this I choose to build the
outgoing messages in an event-based manner, queuing the operation that
will produce the message, rather than just queuing the message directly.

Let's simplify this by just queueing the actual messages directly and
change the main loop to simply drain the queue.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@oss.qualcomm.com>
The boot payload can be massive (GBs) so queueing it upfront will
consume a lot of RAM, unnecessarily. Allow the transmit queue to carry
references to a file descriptor instead of the actual payload.

As the queue is consumed each chunk is read from the file and
transmitted. As we use zero-length messages to represent EOF, let's use
that as our signal for closing the file descriptor as well.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@oss.qualcomm.com>
With the server supporting alternative power-on mechanisms, EDL
notifications and flashing support, the client interface can now be
implemented.

Allow a series of "write <target> <image>" arguments on the command line
register images and their target. Request the server to power on the
device into the newly supported EDL state, then as the EDL notification
arrives push the images and request them to be flashed by the server.

It is assumed that the flashing operations is only desired on the first
discovery of a device in EDL mode at this time, as test-scenarios across
reboot typically doesn't involve resetting storage content.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@oss.qualcomm.com>
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