u-boot/doc/board/qualcomm/sdm845.rst
Dzmitry Sankouski 80565ec6f0 board: samsung: add Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+(SM-G96x0) board
Samsung S9 SM-G9600 - Snapdragon SDM845 version of the phone,
for China \ Hong Kong markets.
Has unlockable bootloader, unlike SM-G960U (American market version),
which allows running u-boot as a chain-loaded bootloader.

Signed-off-by: Dzmitry Sankouski <dsankouski@gmail.com>
Cc: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
2021-10-31 11:25:38 -04:00

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
.. sectionauthor:: Dzmitry Sankouski <dsankouski@gmail.com>
Snapdragon 845
================
About this
----------
This document describes the information about Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
supported boards and it's usage steps.
SDM845 - hi-end qualcomm chip, introduced in late 2017.
Mostly used in flagship phones and tablets of 2018.
U-Boot can be used as a replacement for Qualcomm's original ABL (UEFI) bootloader.
It is loaded as an Android boot image through ABL
Installation
------------
First, setup ``CROSS_COMPILE`` for aarch64. Then, build U-Boot for your board::
$ export CROSS_COMPILE=<aarch64 toolchain prefix>
$ make <your board name here, see Boards section>_defconfig
$ make
This will build ``u-boot.bin`` in the configured output directory.
Boards
------------
starqlte
^^^^^^^^^^^^
The starqltechn is a production board for Samsung S9 (SM-G9600) phone,
based on the Qualcomm SDM845 SoC.
More information can be found on the `Samsung S9 page`_.
.. _Samsung S9 page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S9