MTD Partitioning (Was: [PATCH][RFC] PPCBoot Environment Kernel Module)

[Marius Groeger]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, andrew may wrote:

> > > Well one thing that we plan (John and I work together) ontop of
> > > this is to use some env vars for the partition table for flash.
> >
> > Ummm... "use some env vars for the partition table for flash".
>
> see linux/drivers/mtd/redboot.c and any of the mtd/maps/*.c that
> call add_mtd_partitions() as for the partitions I am talking about.

Good news for you guys here: we just checked in a new module on
infradead.org implementing just that. It's drivers/mtd/cmdline.c and
allows you to specify the entire partition table via a kernel command
line option. Thus, on ppcboot/armboot, you just set the bootargs
variable and be done with it.

I'd be interested in any feedback on this.

Regards
Marius

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