Linux Plumbers Conference 2025

Android Boot: Next Steps

13 Dec 2025, 10:00

15m

"Hall A2/3" (Toranomon Hills Mori Tower)

Android MC Android MC

Speaker

Mr Dmitrii Merkurev (Google)

Description

Android boot flow and GBL quick recap
    - Current problems
    - GBL updates

Android meets FIT (Flattened Image Tree)
    - Existing boot headers structures vs FIT
    - Adoption proposal
    - Expected problems

Android + EFIStub
    - UKI (Unified Kernel Image) adoption
    - GBL as a EFIStub proposal

Presentation materials

Android_Boot_Next_Steps.pdf