mtdparts howto required!!

[Robin Gilks]

Don't you just love it when someone replies to their own post!!

Problem solved - it would be nice if it were written down somewhere that 
the physmap.c example is only that - a non-working example in that it 
doesn't define a master mtd device which means you can't define the 
partitions on it!!

Also, when a master device is defined there is nothing to indicate that 
the mtdparts command line has to use the same name as the mtd_id - in 
fact I've found nothing that defines what mtd_id is. Who would have 
believed that I needed a command line of the form
mtdparts=phys_mapped_flash:7M(jffs2),256K(u-boot),-(kernel)
in order to use the default name (which doesn't work for reasons above 
anyway!!)

Oh well - its kept me entertained for 3 days instead of doing real work...

Robin Gilks wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> I'm trying to map 3 partitions into a single flash device using the 
> mtdparts command line stuff. I'm using a 2.4.22 kernel cross compiled 
> from i686 to PowerPC with mtd patches from CVS as of 19th Feb.
> 
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