Forcing Boot from the Kernel Recovery Partition

Applications can force Quickboot to boot from the kernel recovery partition, even when the kernel-primary partition is valid.

The kernel-recovery partition has the KERNEL_RECOVERY type.

To force Quickboot to boot from the kernel-recovery partition

  1. Set bit 31 in a value that you write to the APBDEV_PMC_SCRATCH0_0 scratch register.
  2. Trigger a soft-reboot.