boot-time partitions and bootargs for 2.6.14

[Vitaly Bordug]

Assuming the board is 8272ads, you could try the MTD cvs from 
infradead.org,
I used to add the map for this board - look into drivers/mtd/maps/pq2fads.c

Dmytro Bablinyuk wrote:
>> In that case you should have a u-boot line of
>>
>> mtdparts=physically_mapped_flash:1024k(Linux),4096k(FS),2048k(Unused),512k(U-Boot),512() 
> 
> 
> 
> Yep, I set
> mtdparts=phys_mapped_flash:1024k(Linux),4096k(FS),2048k(Unused),512k(U-Boot),512() 
> 
> 
> I got flash discovery working and I set 'CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS=y' but 
> kernel is not even attempting to parse 'mtdparts'. It's not calling 
> 'parse_cmdline_partitions' function. Even if I got wrong 'mtd-id', it 
> still should attempt to parse 'mtdparts' (well, at least I think so).
> 
> Here is output:
> 
> Kernel command line: console=ttyCPM0,115200 root=31:01 rw rootfstype=jffs2
> PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 8192 bytes)
> Warning: real time clock seems stuck!
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> Memory: 62720k available (1572k kernel code, 408k data, 96k init, 0k 
> highmem)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (C) 2001-2003 Red Hat, Inc.
> JFFS2: default compression mode: priority
> fuse init (API version 7.2)
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> Generic RTC Driver v1.07
> Serial: CPM driver $Revision: 0.01 $
> ttyCPM0 at MMIO 0xf0011a00 (irq = 40) is a CPM UART
> ttyCPM1 at MMIO 0xf0011a20 (irq = 41) is a CPM UART
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler anticipatory registered
> io scheduler deadline registered
> io scheduler cfq registered
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32768K size 1024 blocksize
> loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> physmap flash device: 800000 at ff800000
> Found: Intel I28F016S3
> phys_mapped_flash: Found 4 x8 devices at 0x0 in 32-bit bank
> RedBoot partition parsing not available
> eth0: FCC ENET Version 0.3, 00:04:9f:91:22:33
> mii_reg: 600eb881
> eth0: Phy @ 0x0, type Davicom DM9161E (0x0181b881)
> eth1: FCC ENET Version 0.3, 00:04:9f:51:22:33
> mii_reg: 618eb881
> eth1: Phy @ 0x3, type Davicom DM9161E (0x0181b881)
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
> TCP reno registered
> TCP bic registered
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> 
> Does anybody has any idea of why parsing of 'mtdparts' is not even started?
> 
> I have enabled debug macro:
> 
> /* debug macro */
> #if 1
> #define dbg(x) do { printk("DEBUG-CMDLINE-PART: "); printk x; } while(0)
> #else
> #define dbg(x)
> #endif
> 
> Thank you
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-- 
Sincerely,
Vitaly