fastboot: Avoid reboots to userspace when using flashall/update.
Reboots to fastbootd (userspace fastboot) take a long time, particularly due to the orange AVB screen and the likelihood of devices having uart enabled. For "flashall", there is rarely a need to actually go into userspace, because all of super is getting thrown away. We can just flash super in the bootloader. In the past we didn't do this because computing super.img is expensive - both in terms of time (due to reading dependent images) and in terms of space (it's easily over 5GB). But we don't actually need to fully compute super.img. We can build a sparse_file containing the metadata/headers, with additional references to each image file containing partition data. Liblp provides the API to do that, and here, we simply need to translate the layout to libsparse. On Pixel, this reduces flashall time by around 35-50 seconds, or around 20% of total time, depending on whether uart is in use. There are some caveats, in which case we'll fall back to normal fastbootd. This does not work on non-A/B devices, on retrofit dynamic partition devices (Pixel 3), and in some other edge-casey scenarios. If it fails, -v will add logging information about why. Bue: 266982466 Test: fastboot flashall on Pixel 5+ Change-Id: Ie040da597d739faa7f834202184cec8f8e412076
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