[PATCH v2] ARM: i.MX: increase barebox partition sizes

Fabio Estevam festevam at gmail.com
Wed Apr 27 05:43:00 PDT 2016


On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:

> Normally the environment is much smaller, so I wouldn't expect issues
> here. The alternative to making the environment smaller would be to move
> other partitions to the back. This would probably hurt more, especially
> since a regular fdisk starts the first partition at offset 1MiB.
>
> Another approach would be to use a MBR partition for the environment
> instead of using the raw device.
>
>>
>> Shouldn't this change be done by a separate patch?
>
> We can't increase the barebox partition without shrinking the
> environment right behind it. Or do you mean that we first shrink

Ok, got it. I wasn't aware of this 1MiB requirement, so all is fine then.

Thanks



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