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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel•crashing.org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, Stefan Roese <sr@denx•de>,
	david@gibson•dropbear.id.au
Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] 4xx: Convert Walnut flash mappings to new binding
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:20:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <addcdbe0ab5b83aa58fc4e7df37b0925@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1189877748.17593.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>

>> Maybe we can have  U-Boot  add  the  partition  information  if  it's
>> missing in the device tree, and extend the mtdparts command in U-Boot
>> to add / adjust settings so they match what is defined in U-Boot.
>
> That would be great for newer U-Boots.  For existing older ones, it
> doesn't really solve the problem.  But then again, there's no way to
> possibly define all the partitioning schemes people may have adopted to
> their needs on their boards.  And I believe that is why David has
> RedBoot and command line partitioning override what is in the DTS 
> today.

Yeah, partitioning information really doesn't belong in the device
tree -- with the possible exception of the partitions that the
firmware (uboot in this case) needs to know about anyway.

You *can* put all partitioning info in the device tree, but that
doesn't mean you *should* :-)


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-15 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-14 18:54 [patch 0/4] Small 4xx updates for 2.6.24 Josh Boyer
2007-09-14 18:54 ` [patch 1/4] cuimage for Bamboo board Josh Boyer
2007-09-15  2:19   ` David Gibson
2007-09-15 14:26     ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-14 18:54 ` [patch 2/4] Make partitions optional in physmap_of Josh Boyer
2007-09-15  2:21   ` David Gibson
2007-09-14 18:54 ` [patch 3/4] 4xx: Convert Walnut flash mappings to new binding Josh Boyer
2007-09-15  2:22   ` David Gibson
2007-09-15 14:25     ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-15  3:23   ` Stefan Roese
2007-09-15 14:26     ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-15 15:09       ` Wolfgang Denk
2007-09-15 17:35         ` Josh Boyer
2007-09-15 19:20           ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-09-17  2:03             ` David Gibson
2007-09-17  2:02         ` David Gibson
2007-09-14 18:54 ` [patch 4/4] 4xx: Convert Seqouia " Josh Boyer
2007-09-15  2:23   ` David Gibson
2007-09-15  3:32     ` Stefan Roese

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