On 9/23/06, Matthieu CASTET <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 02:50:02 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> It would be nice if you could use a generic way to pass this partition data
>> to the kernel from the mtd medium, instead of hardcoding it here.
>
> i often wish for such things myself :)
>
> unfortunately, the boot loader we utilize (u-boot) isnt exactly
> friendly to the idea of managing flash partitions like redboot, and
> what we have here is the current standard method for defining flash
> partitions with mtd
humm you could use cmdlinepart [1] and pass the partition as a kernel
string with uboot.
That's what we are doing and it works perfectly.
yes, that is an option ... we find that utilizing the board files "better" as:
- the boot syntax tends to be a little unwieldy
- embedded boards dont change, so if you're defining so much
board-specific information in the boards file, the partition map makes
sense there as well
- the dynamic partitioning aspect of declaring the map at runtime is
unnecessary due to the previous comment
but each to their own i guess
-mike
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