newbie: dynamic partition creation possible

Michael Palme m.palme at goepel.com
Tue Aug 20 00:13:18 EDT 2002


thanks for the answer...

i am not sure about the terms, but i can explain what i need in more 
clear way: i would like to have support for writing binary images into 
the flash devices (no filesystem etc.). i need different "partitions" on 
the flash and i dont want to hardcode that --
i have seen in cmdline.c that this is possible via kernel parameters.
i'm not absolutely sure what kernel options are needed and what are 
unnecessary.

cheers ... Michael



Jörn Engel schrieb:

>On Mon, 19 August 2002 12:55:58 +0200, Michael Palme wrote:
>  
>
>>i would like to know if it is possible to create flash dynamic 
>>partitions (i mean other way than directly in the sources). in the howto 
>>ive read it is impossible, but in some sources i found 
>>part_type="static" -- and so i've concluded "dynamic" is also an option? 
>>if this is possible can somebody explain the way to do it please.
>>    
>>
>
>What exactly do you mean by "dynamic"?
>
>There are two methods to create partitions:
>- Use a partition table parser and create a partition table.
>- Provide a mapping driver and hard-code the partition layout in the
>  driver.
>
>Do you mean partition table?
>
>Jörn
>
>  
>





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