MTD Flash Partition: change possible?

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 12:23 +0200, Arno Steffen wrote:
> In my embedded system the Flash-partition table is compiled into kernel.
> Is there a way to change partition table without booting a new kernel? How?
> 
> Background: I want to update an embedded system and change the size of
> partitions. But tools as flash_eraseall and nandwrite use partitions
> of the current kernel. If I want to change the size of the partitions,
> this is impossible.
> If I first flash a new kernel with new partition table, I have to
> reboot and the system will not start, as the old partitioning scheme
> is still active.

There were at least 2 patches. One from Nokia - it was ok, but a small
change was requested and the author disappeared. One was from Samsung -
I did not look at it so far. The patches were sent to the MTD mailing
list a month or 2 ago.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)