[PATCH] ARM: shmobile: dts: koelsch: Fix flash partition label and size

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Mon Dec 1 00:05:37 PST 2014


Hi Simon,

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 09:34:05AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 03:50:45PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>> >> On 11/26/2014 3:13 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
>> >> >"loader"---0x0000_0000-0x0008_0000 [loader program (readonly)]
>> >> >"user"  ---0x0008_0000-0x0060_0000 [U-Boot + bootargs + dt + uImage (readonly)]
>> >> >"flash" ---0x0060_0000-0x0400_0000 [filesystem and free (read/write)]
>> >>
>> >> >["user"'s assumed breakdown]
>> >> >U-boot+ bootargs(0x0008_0000-0x0010_0000) 512KB
>>
>> KiB
>>
>> You may want to split this explicitly in 256 KiB for U-boot, and 256 KiB for the
>> U-boot bootargs, to help people needing low-level recovery.
>
> Are you suggesting 4 partitions or just an adjustment of the assumption
> documented in the changelog?

Just the documentation.

I thought about having more partitions, though. But the two 256 KiB
blocks are just
two erase blocks.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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