Subject: [PATCH] ARM i.MX51: Add Digi ConnectCore devicetree

From: [email-masked] (Dirk Behme)
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 19:59:17 +0200

Am 02.04.2014 19:44, schrieb Robert Schwebel:
> [adding Nicolas to Cc]
>
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 02:53:18PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:39:35PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 10:48:26AM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
>>>> +&nfc {
>>>> +	pinctrl-names = "default";
>>>> +	pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_nfc>;
>>>> +	nand-bus-width = <8>;
>>>> +	nand-ecc-mode = "hw";
>>>> +	nand-on-flash-bbt;
>>>> +	#address-cells = <1>;
>>>> +	#size-cells = <1>;
>>>> +	status = "okay";
>>>> +
>>>> +	partition at 0 {
>>>> +		label = "boot";
>>>> +		reg = <0x00000 0x80000>;
>>>> +	};
>>>> +
>>>> +	partition at 1 {
>>>> +		label = "env";
>>>> +		reg = <0x80000 0x40000>;
>>>> +	};
>>>
>>> @Sascha, does the argument that we shouldn't have partition table in the
>>> mainline dtb still stands?
>>
>> Yes, I still think the partitions shouldn't be in the Linux dts files.
>
> The dtb files for the Atmel Xplained board also has a partition
> definition, so the same comment applies there, too.
>
> Besides being no hardware description, this implies a certain way of
> using the system; for example, with the "kernel" plus "rootfs"
> partitions, it suggests that you can't have the kernel in the standard
> root filesystem (which is possible with barebox and the freedesktop.org
> bootloader specification).

Just out of curiosity, because I never got a good answer to this 
question (but maybe I asked the wrong way):

If not in the dts, where should the partition table be put instead, then?

Best regards

Dirk