[PATCH] Make number of GPT partitions a configurable option

[Sascha Hauer]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:59:33PM +0530, Santosh Sivaraj wrote:
> * Santosh Sivaraj <santosh at fossix.org> wrote (on 2014-01-09 21:36:41 +0530):
> 
> adding list, missed it.
> > > > 
> > > > Can we instead allocate the partitions dynamically? This limitation to
> > > > eight partitions we currently have is not nice, but making it
> > > > configurable is not a proper fix.
> > > 
> > > agreed but a limit will be good too
> > > 
> > > Best Regards,
> > > J.
> > > > 
> > > > Sascha
> > > > 
> > 
> > We could keep a configurable maximum, with a high default, but do the allocation
> > dynamically. I will try to send in a patch, we can discuss how it needs to be
> > done over it.

It shouldn't be configurable in Kconfig. That's not a question a user
should have to answer when configuring barebox. I high default would be
fine with me though since memory usually is an infinite resource in
barebox.

Sascha

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