[PATCH] Zaurus: Fix PROM partition table for spitz

Stanislav Brabec utx at penguin.cz
Thu Oct 22 17:13:34 EDT 2009


Eric Miao wrote:
> I'm a bit upset that some things else may depend on the original
> layout (though that's incorrect), and this possibly breaks the
> sequence numbering of /dev/mtd?.

It can break in many ways, e. g. by compiling one as module and another
into kernel, and depends on order of modules load.

That is why software should search partitions by name.

AFAIK, nothing uses the EN-JP or initial bootloader data in the 2.6.x
distros, so it should be just safe housekeeping.


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