Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932240AbbLNKP3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2015 05:15:29 -0500 Received: from mail-oi0-f51.google.com ([209.85.218.51]:34110 "EHLO mail-oi0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932099AbbLNKP1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Dec 2015 05:15:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151212013349.GA86087@google.com> References: <1449292763-129421-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> <20151210205449.GL144338@google.com> <20151212013349.GA86087@google.com> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 11:15:26 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7agzF6VlizIqF8aljl9cCiDoymA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] mtd: partitions: add of_match_table support From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Brian Norris Cc: MTD Maling List , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Boris Brezillon , Linus Walleij , Geert Uytterhoeven , Simon Arlott , Jason Gunthorpe , Jonas Gorski , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , devicetree-spec@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring , =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , Hauke Mehrtens , Arnd Bergmann , David Hendricks Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1609 Lines: 38 Hi Brian, On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Brian Norris wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 09:44:37AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Brian Norris >> wrote: >> > IOW, I wouldn't expect MBR or GPT to work well on large raw NAND flash, >> > and so I don't plan to do that sort of work myself. If you can provide >> > some better argument for it, and some nice maintainable code to go with >> > it, then of course it could be considered :) >> >> There's also NOR FLASH (e.g. SPI-NOR), which is what most boards I'm >> working on have. > > OK. But these flash are often used for the boot firmware, no? And then, > does the boot code have to be provided at one end of the flash (e.g., > bottom)? If so, then something like MBR or GPT will likely not apply, > since they reserve the first (and sometimes last) blocks of the medium. If the boot firmware is in the first few blocks, Amiga RDB or BSD disklabel come to the rescue... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/