[Skiboot] [PATCH 0/5] FFS Partitioner

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Mar 24 14:33:50 AEDT 2017


Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com> writes:
> Hello all,
>
> I've posted this series in a variety of forms as RFCs
>
> RFC v1: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/613460/
> RFC v2: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/700238/
>
> There are two important parts to this series:
> 1. libflash/libffs now know how to generate TOCs not just read them
> 2. external/ffspart which is a simple C program to use the new
> libflash functionality
>
> It is by no means perfect. There could absolutely more tests but isn't
> that always true.
>
> There haven't been many functionality changes from the RFC - mostly
> API cleanups and restructuring so as to actually have some kind of an
> ffs abstraction. The major difference is the test cases which did
> catch bugs, so hopefully this series is significantly more bug free
> than the RFCs.

It appears good enough to merge at this point in time, so, merged to
master as of 5f7e491556b5af3d04bc6241cd080922c7801030.

Next step? See if we can rework the op-build PNOR construction process
to be a lot nicer :D

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



More information about the Skiboot mailing list