diff --git a/common/Kconfig b/common/Kconfig
index 0a14bde..fc08e31 100644
--- a/common/Kconfig
+++ b/common/Kconfig
@@ -767,6 +767,16 @@ config UPDATE_TFTP_MSEC_MAX
 	default 100
 	depends on UPDATE_TFTP
 
+config ANDROID_AB
+	bool "Android A/B updates"
+	default n
+	help
+	  If enabled, adds support for the new Android A/B update model. This
+	  allows the bootloader to select which slot to boot from based on the
+	  information provided by userspace via the Android boot_ctrl HAL. This
+	  allows a bootloader to try a new version of the system but roll back
+	  to previous version if the new one didn't boot all the way.
+
 endmenu
 
 menu "Blob list"
diff --git a/common/Makefile b/common/Makefile
index ad390d0..dfa348c 100644
--- a/common/Makefile
+++ b/common/Makefile
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ endif
 endif
 
 obj-y += image.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_ANDROID_AB) += android_ab.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ANDROID_BOOT_IMAGE) += image-android.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_$(SPL_TPL_)OF_LIBFDT) += image-fdt.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_$(SPL_TPL_)FIT) += image-fit.o
diff --git a/common/android_ab.c b/common/android_ab.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3a6a52c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/android_ab.c
@@ -0,0 +1,290 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 The Android Open Source Project
+ */
+
+#include <android_ab.h>
+#include <android_bl_msg.h>
+#include <common.h>
+#include <memalign.h>
+#include <u-boot/crc.h>
+
+/**
+ * Compute the CRC-32 of the bootloader control struct.
+ *
+ * Only the bytes up to the crc32_le field are considered for the CRC-32
+ * calculation.
+ */
+static uint32_t ab_control_compute_crc(struct andr_bl_control *abc)
+{
+	return crc32(0, (void *)abc, offsetof(typeof(*abc), crc32_le));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Initialize andr_bl_control to the default value.
+ *
+ * It allows us to boot all slots in order from the first one. This value
+ * should be used when the bootloader message is corrupted, but not when
+ * a valid message indicates that all slots are unbootable.
+ */
+static int ab_control_default(struct andr_bl_control *abc)
+{
+	int i;
+	const struct andr_slot_metadata metadata = {
+		.priority = 15,
+		.tries_remaining = 7,
+		.successful_boot = 0,
+		.verity_corrupted = 0,
+		.reserved = 0
+	};
+
+	if (!abc)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	memcpy(abc->slot_suffix, "a\0\0\0", 4);
+	abc->magic = ANDROID_BOOT_CTRL_MAGIC;
+	abc->version = ANDROID_BOOT_CTRL_VERSION;
+	abc->nb_slot = ANDROID_NUM_SLOTS;
+	memset(abc->reserved0, 0, sizeof(abc->reserved0));
+	for (i = 0; i < abc->nb_slot; ++i)
+		abc->slot_info[i] = metadata;
+
+	memset(abc->reserved1, 0, sizeof(abc->reserved1));
+	abc->crc32_le = ab_control_compute_crc(abc);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Load the boot_control struct from disk into newly allocated memory.
+ *
+ * This function allocates and returns an integer number of disk blocks,
+ * based on the block size of the passed device to help performing a
+ * read-modify-write operation on the boot_control struct.
+ * The boot_control struct offset (2 KiB) must be a multiple of the device
+ * block size, for simplicity.
+ *
+ * @param[in] dev_desc Device where to read the boot_control struct from
+ * @param[in] part_info Partition in 'dev_desc' where to read from, normally
+ *			the "misc" partition should be used
+ * @param[out] pointer to pointer to andr_bl_control data
+ * @return 0 on success and a negative on error
+ */
+static int ab_control_create_from_disk(struct blk_desc *dev_desc,
+				       const disk_partition_t *part_info,
+				       struct andr_bl_control **abc)
+{
+	ulong abc_offset, abc_blocks;
+
+	abc_offset = offsetof(struct andr_bl_msg_ab, slot_suffix);
+	if (abc_offset % part_info->blksz) {
+		printf("ANDROID: Boot control block not block aligned.\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+	abc_offset /= part_info->blksz;
+
+	abc_blocks = DIV_ROUND_UP(sizeof(struct andr_bl_control),
+				  part_info->blksz);
+	if (abc_offset + abc_blocks > part_info->size) {
+		printf("ANDROID: boot control partition too small. Need at");
+		printf(" least %lu blocks but have %lu blocks.\n",
+		       abc_offset + abc_blocks, part_info->size);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+	*abc = malloc_cache_aligned(abc_blocks * part_info->blksz);
+	if (!*abc)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	if (blk_dread(dev_desc, part_info->start + abc_offset, abc_blocks,
+		      *abc) != abc_blocks) {
+		printf("ANDROID: Could not read from boot control partition\n");
+		free(*abc);
+		return -EIO;
+	}
+
+	log_debug("ANDROID: Loaded ABC, %lu blocks\n", abc_blocks);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Store the loaded boot_control block.
+ *
+ * Store back to the same location it was read from with
+ * ab_control_create_from_misc().
+ *
+ * @param[in] dev_desc Device where we should write the boot_control struct
+ * @param[in] part_info Partition on the 'dev_desc' where to write
+ * @param[in] abc Pointer to the boot control struct and the extra bytes after
+ *                it up to the nearest block boundary
+ * @return 0 on success and a negative on error
+ */
+static int ab_control_store(struct blk_desc *dev_desc,
+			    const disk_partition_t *part_info,
+			    struct andr_bl_control *abc)
+{
+	ulong abc_offset, abc_blocks;
+
+	abc_offset = offsetof(struct andr_bl_msg_ab, slot_suffix) /
+		     part_info->blksz;
+	abc_blocks = DIV_ROUND_UP(sizeof(struct andr_bl_control),
+				  part_info->blksz);
+	if (blk_dwrite(dev_desc, part_info->start + abc_offset, abc_blocks,
+		       abc) != abc_blocks) {
+		printf("ANDROID: Could not write back the misc partition\n");
+		return -EIO;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Compare two slots.
+ *
+ * The function determines slot which is should we boot from among the two.
+ *
+ * @param[in] a The first bootable slot metadata
+ * @param[in] b The second bootable slot metadata
+ * @return Negative if the slot "a" is better, positive of the slot "b" is
+ *         better or 0 if they are equally good.
+ */
+static int ab_compare_slots(const struct andr_slot_metadata *a,
+			    const struct andr_slot_metadata *b)
+{
+	/* Higher priority is better */
+	if (a->priority != b->priority)
+		return b->priority - a->priority;
+
+	/* Higher successful_boot value is better, in case of same priority */
+	if (a->successful_boot != b->successful_boot)
+		return b->successful_boot - a->successful_boot;
+
+	/* Higher tries_remaining is better to ensure round-robin */
+	if (a->tries_remaining != b->tries_remaining)
+		return b->tries_remaining - a->tries_remaining;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+int ab_select_slot(struct blk_desc *dev_desc, disk_partition_t *part_info)
+{
+	struct andr_bl_control *abc = NULL;
+	u32 crc32_le;
+	int slot, i, ret;
+	bool store_needed = false;
+	char slot_suffix[4];
+
+	ret = ab_control_create_from_disk(dev_desc, part_info, &abc);
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		/*
+		 * This condition represents an actual problem with the code or
+		 * the board setup, like an invalid partition information.
+		 * Signal a repair mode and do not try to boot from either slot.
+		 */
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	crc32_le = ab_control_compute_crc(abc);
+	if (abc->crc32_le != crc32_le) {
+		printf("ANDROID: Invalid CRC-32 (expected %.8x, found %.8x), ",
+		       crc32_le, abc->crc32_le);
+		printf("re-initializing A/B metadata.\n");
+
+		ret = ab_control_default(abc);
+		if (ret < 0) {
+			free(abc);
+			return -ENODATA;
+		}
+		store_needed = true;
+	}
+
+	if (abc->magic != ANDROID_BOOT_CTRL_MAGIC) {
+		printf("ANDROID: Unknown A/B metadata: %.8x\n", abc->magic);
+		free(abc);
+		return -ENODATA;
+	}
+
+	if (abc->version > ANDROID_BOOT_CTRL_VERSION) {
+		printf("ANDROID: Unsupported A/B metadata version: %.8x\n",
+		       abc->version);
+		free(abc);
+		return -ENODATA;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * At this point a valid boot control metadata is stored in abc,
+	 * followed by other reserved data in the same block. We select a with
+	 * the higher priority slot that
+	 *  - is not marked as corrupted and
+	 *  - either has tries_remaining > 0 or successful_boot is true.
+	 * If the selected slot has a false successful_boot, we also decrement
+	 * the tries_remaining until it eventually becomes unbootable because
+	 * tries_remaining reaches 0. This mechanism produces a bootloader
+	 * induced rollback, typically right after a failed update.
+	 */
+
+	/* Safety check: limit the number of slots. */
+	if (abc->nb_slot > ARRAY_SIZE(abc->slot_info)) {
+		abc->nb_slot = ARRAY_SIZE(abc->slot_info);
+		store_needed = true;
+	}
+
+	slot = -1;
+	for (i = 0; i < abc->nb_slot; ++i) {
+		if (abc->slot_info[i].verity_corrupted ||
+		    !abc->slot_info[i].tries_remaining) {
+			log_debug("ANDROID: unbootable slot %d tries: %d, ",
+				  i, abc->slot_info[i].tries_remaining);
+			log_debug("corrupt: %d\n",
+				  abc->slot_info[i].verity_corrupted);
+			continue;
+		}
+		log_debug("ANDROID: bootable slot %d pri: %d, tries: %d, ",
+			  i, abc->slot_info[i].priority,
+			  abc->slot_info[i].tries_remaining);
+		log_debug("corrupt: %d, successful: %d\n",
+			  abc->slot_info[i].verity_corrupted,
+			  abc->slot_info[i].successful_boot);
+
+		if (slot < 0 ||
+		    ab_compare_slots(&abc->slot_info[i],
+				     &abc->slot_info[slot]) < 0) {
+			slot = i;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (slot >= 0 && !abc->slot_info[slot].successful_boot) {
+		printf("ANDROID: Attempting slot %c, tries remaining %d\n",
+		       ANDROID_BOOT_SLOT_NAME(slot),
+		       abc->slot_info[slot].tries_remaining);
+		abc->slot_info[slot].tries_remaining--;
+		store_needed = true;
+	}
+
+	if (slot >= 0) {
+		/*
+		 * Legacy user-space requires this field to be set in the BCB.
+		 * Newer releases load this slot suffix from the command line
+		 * or the device tree.
+		 */
+		memset(slot_suffix, 0, sizeof(slot_suffix));
+		slot_suffix[0] = ANDROID_BOOT_SLOT_NAME(slot);
+		if (memcmp(abc->slot_suffix, slot_suffix,
+			   sizeof(slot_suffix))) {
+			memcpy(abc->slot_suffix, slot_suffix,
+			       sizeof(slot_suffix));
+			store_needed = true;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (store_needed) {
+		abc->crc32_le = ab_control_compute_crc(abc);
+		ab_control_store(dev_desc, part_info, abc);
+	}
+	free(abc);
+
+	if (slot < 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return slot;
+}
diff --git a/include/android_ab.h b/include/android_ab.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c1b901d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/android_ab.h
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 The Android Open Source Project
+ */
+
+#ifndef __ANDROID_AB_H
+#define __ANDROID_AB_H
+
+#include <common.h>
+
+/* Android standard boot slot names are 'a', 'b', 'c', ... */
+#define ANDROID_BOOT_SLOT_NAME(slot_num) ('a' + (slot_num))
+
+/* Number of slots */
+#define ANDROID_NUM_SLOTS 2
+
+/**
+ * Select the slot where to boot from.
+ *
+ * On Android devices with more than one boot slot (multiple copies of the
+ * kernel and system images) selects which slot should be used to boot from and
+ * registers the boot attempt. This is used in by the new A/B update model where
+ * one slot is updated in the background while running from the other slot. If
+ * the selected slot did not successfully boot in the past, a boot attempt is
+ * registered before returning from this function so it isn't selected
+ * indefinitely.
+ *
+ * @param[in] dev_desc Place to store the device description pointer
+ * @param[in] part_info Place to store the partition information
+ * @return The slot number (>= 0) on success, or a negative on error
+ */
+int ab_select_slot(struct blk_desc *dev_desc, disk_partition_t *part_info);
+
+#endif /* __ANDROID_AB_H */
diff --git a/include/android_bl_msg.h b/include/android_bl_msg.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f37e01a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/android_bl_msg.h
@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause */
+/*
+ * This file was taken from the AOSP Project.
+ * Repository: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bootable/recovery/
+ * File: bootloader_message/include/bootloader_message/bootloader_message.h
+ * Commit: 8b309f6970ab3b7c53cc529c51a2cb44e1c7a7e1
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 The Android Open Source Project
+ */
+
+#ifndef __ANDROID_BL_MSG_H
+#define __ANDROID_BL_MSG_H
+
+/*
+ * compiler.h defines the types that otherwise are included from stdint.h and
+ * stddef.h
+ */
+#include <compiler.h>
+#include <linux/sizes.h>
+
+/*
+ * Spaces used by misc partition are as below:
+ * 0   - 2K     Bootloader Message
+ * 2K  - 16K    Used by Vendor's bootloader (the 2K - 4K range may be optionally
+ *              used as bootloader_message_ab struct)
+ * 16K - 64K    Used by uncrypt and recovery to store wipe_package for A/B
+ *              devices
+ * Note that these offsets are admitted by bootloader, recovery and uncrypt, so
+ * they are not configurable without changing all of them.
+ */
+#define ANDROID_MISC_BM_OFFSET		0
+#define ANDROID_MISC_WIPE_OFFSET	SZ_16K
+
+/**
+ * Bootloader Message (2-KiB).
+ *
+ * This structure describes the content of a block in flash
+ * that is used for recovery and the bootloader to talk to
+ * each other.
+ *
+ * The command field is updated by linux when it wants to
+ * reboot into recovery or to update radio or bootloader firmware.
+ * It is also updated by the bootloader when firmware update
+ * is complete (to boot into recovery for any final cleanup)
+ *
+ * The status field is written by the bootloader after the
+ * completion of an "update-radio" or "update-hboot" command.
+ *
+ * The recovery field is only written by linux and used
+ * for the system to send a message to recovery or the
+ * other way around.
+ *
+ * The stage field is written by packages which restart themselves
+ * multiple times, so that the UI can reflect which invocation of the
+ * package it is.  If the value is of the format "#/#" (eg, "1/3"),
+ * the UI will add a simple indicator of that status.
+ *
+ * We used to have slot_suffix field for A/B boot control metadata in
+ * this struct, which gets unintentionally cleared by recovery or
+ * uncrypt. Move it into struct bootloader_message_ab to avoid the
+ * issue.
+ */
+struct andr_bl_msg {
+	char command[32];
+	char status[32];
+	char recovery[768];
+
+	/*
+	 * The 'recovery' field used to be 1024 bytes.  It has only ever
+	 * been used to store the recovery command line, so 768 bytes
+	 * should be plenty.  We carve off the last 256 bytes to store the
+	 * stage string (for multistage packages) and possible future
+	 * expansion.
+	 */
+	char stage[32];
+
+	/*
+	 * The 'reserved' field used to be 224 bytes when it was initially
+	 * carved off from the 1024-byte recovery field. Bump it up to
+	 * 1184-byte so that the entire bootloader_message struct rounds up
+	 * to 2048-byte.
+	 */
+	char reserved[1184];
+};
+
+/**
+ * The A/B-specific bootloader message structure (4-KiB).
+ *
+ * We separate A/B boot control metadata from the regular bootloader
+ * message struct and keep it here. Everything that's A/B-specific
+ * stays after struct bootloader_message, which should be managed by
+ * the A/B-bootloader or boot control HAL.
+ *
+ * The slot_suffix field is used for A/B implementations where the
+ * bootloader does not set the androidboot.ro.boot.slot_suffix kernel
+ * commandline parameter. This is used by fs_mgr to mount /system and
+ * other partitions with the slotselect flag set in fstab. A/B
+ * implementations are free to use all 32 bytes and may store private
+ * data past the first NUL-byte in this field. It is encouraged, but
+ * not mandatory, to use 'struct bootloader_control' described below.
+ *
+ * The update_channel field is used to store the Omaha update channel
+ * if update_engine is compiled with Omaha support.
+ */
+struct andr_bl_msg_ab {
+	struct andr_bl_msg message;
+	char slot_suffix[32];
+	char update_channel[128];
+
+	/* Round up the entire struct to 4096-byte */
+	char reserved[1888];
+};
+
+#define ANDROID_BOOT_CTRL_MAGIC   0x42414342 /* Bootloader Control AB */
+#define ANDROID_BOOT_CTRL_VERSION 1
+
+struct andr_slot_metadata {
+	/*
+	 * Slot priority with 15 meaning highest priority, 1 lowest
+	 * priority and 0 the slot is unbootable
+	 */
+	u8 priority : 4;
+	/* Number of times left attempting to boot this slot */
+	u8 tries_remaining : 3;
+	/* 1 if this slot has booted successfully, 0 otherwise */
+	u8 successful_boot : 1;
+	/*
+	 * 1 if this slot is corrupted from a dm-verity corruption,
+	 * 0 otherwise
+	 */
+	u8 verity_corrupted : 1;
+	/* Reserved for further use */
+	u8 reserved : 7;
+} __packed;
+
+/**
+ * Bootloader Control AB.
+ *
+ * This struct can be used to manage A/B metadata. It is designed to
+ * be put in the 'slot_suffix' field of the 'bootloader_message'
+ * structure described above. It is encouraged to use the
+ * 'bootloader_control' structure to store the A/B metadata, but not
+ * mandatory.
+ */
+struct andr_bl_control {
+	/* NULL terminated active slot suffix */
+	char slot_suffix[4];
+	/* Bootloader Control AB magic number (see BOOT_CTRL_MAGIC) */
+	u32 magic;
+	/* Version of struct being used (see BOOT_CTRL_VERSION) */
+	u8 version;
+	/* Number of slots being managed */
+	u8 nb_slot : 3;
+	/* Number of times left attempting to boot recovery */
+	u8 recovery_tries_remaining : 3;
+	/* Ensure 4-bytes alignment for slot_info field */
+	u8 reserved0[2];
+	/* Per-slot information. Up to 4 slots */
+	struct andr_slot_metadata slot_info[4];
+	/* Reserved for further use */
+	u8 reserved1[8];
+	/*
+	 * CRC32 of all 28 bytes preceding this field (little endian
+	 * format)
+	 */
+	u32 crc32_le;
+} __packed;
+
+#endif  /* __ANDROID_BL_MSG_H */
