diff --git a/cmd/ab_select.c b/cmd/ab_select.c
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 The Android Open Source Project
+ */
+
+#include <android_ab.h>
+#include <command.h>
+
+static int do_ab_select(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
+			char * const argv[])
+{
+	int ret;
+	struct blk_desc *dev_desc;
+	disk_partition_t part_info;
+	char slot[2];
+
+	if (argc != 4)
+		return CMD_RET_USAGE;
+
+	/* Lookup the "misc" partition from argv[2] and argv[3] */
+	if (part_get_info_by_dev_and_name_or_num(argv[2], argv[3],
+						 &dev_desc, &part_info) < 0) {
+		return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
+	}
+
+	ret = ab_select_slot(dev_desc, &part_info);
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		printf("Android boot failed, error %d.\n", ret);
+		return CMD_RET_FAILURE;
+	}
+
+	/* Android standard slot names are 'a', 'b', ... */
+	slot[0] = BOOT_SLOT_NAME(ret);
+	slot[1] = '\0';
+	env_set(argv[1], slot);
+	printf("ANDROID: Booting slot: %s\n", slot);
+	return CMD_RET_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+U_BOOT_CMD(ab_select, 4, 0, do_ab_select,
+	   "Select the slot used to boot from and register the boot attempt.",
+	   "<slot_var_name> <interface> <dev[:part|#part_name]>\n"
+	   "    - Load the slot metadata from the partition 'part' on\n"
+	   "      device type 'interface' instance 'dev' and store the active\n"
+	   "      slot in the 'slot_var_name' variable. This also updates the\n"
+	   "      Android slot metadata with a boot attempt, which can cause\n"
+	   "      successive calls to this function to return a different result\n"
+	   "      if the returned slot runs out of boot attempts.\n"
+	   "    - If 'part_name' is passed, preceded with a # instead of :, the\n"
+	   "      partition name whose label is 'part_name' will be looked up in\n"
+	   "      the partition table. This is commonly the \"misc\" partition.\n"
+);