Problem partitioning discontinuous physical start address

[Daniel Ann]

Hey Jorn,

I was thinking concat must be doing something along this line but I
have tried it as I couldnt get any doc's on how to use it with command
line partition table parsing.
Or even setting it up with using make menuconfig.

Any hints on this please ?

Thanks.

On 9/30/05, Jörn Engel <joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 September 2005 16:36:06 +0900, Daniel Ann wrote:
> >
> > Im trying to partion my flash using partioning support (ie. parse
> > partition from the kernel argument) but for board with 2x intel flash
> > linearly connected, I can partition it no problem.
> >
> > Problem exist with board with 2x intel flash (16MB each) non-linearly connected.
> > One is located at 0x7C00_0000 and another at 0xFF00_0000. If I give
> > 0x7C00_0000 as a physical start address with length as 0x84000000 (ie.
> > (0xFFFF_FFFF - 7C00_0000) + 1)and select support for non-linear
> > mappings of flash chips, I get an error saying that its too large.
> >
> > What options do I have without having to write my own physmap.c. I've
> > had one before when I was using 2.4 kernel, but having moved to 2.6,
> > I'm trying not to make any custom changes and trying to stick with the
> > main stream.
> >
> > Any advice would be welcome. thanks.
>
> You could try concat.  iirc, it was created for this purpose.
>
> Jörn
>
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Daniel