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From: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
To: Philip Rakity <prakity@marvell.com>
Cc: Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@motorola.com>,
	"linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>,
	"arnd@arndb.de" <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [patchv3 4/4] MMC: MMC boot partitions support.
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:22:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3tyds9o0u.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C4AA76A-EBCA-47D2-B1BA-DF98DCB105FE@marvell.com> (Philip Rakity's message of "Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:09:07 -0700")

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 21 2011, Philip Rakity wrote:
> Aren't these the "hidden" partitions ?  Only available at boot time?

Yes, it's the previously-hidden boot partitions -- Andrei's patch
exposes them to Linux.

> I need to apply my patch to reset the boot partition -- or is that now
> in mmc-next

Your patch is in mmc-next.

> to see if the problem still happens.

Well, there isn't a problem per se, the system still boots fine -- the
boot partitions are being exposed as the patch intends them to.  I'm
just curious whether it's normal for two 1MiB partitions to be created
as a factory default.

Thanks,

- Chris.
-- 
Chris Ball   <cjb@laptop.org>   <http://printf.net/>
One Laptop Per Child

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-21  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-19 11:18 MMC/eMMC partitioning support Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-19 11:18 ` [RFC] MMC: MMC boot partitions support Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-19 12:13   ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-21 14:19   ` [PATCH] " Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-22  3:54   ` [PATCHv3] " Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-22 21:11   ` MMC partitions support (4th revision) Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-22 21:11   ` [PATCHv4] MMC: MMC boot partitions support Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-29 22:45     ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-30 12:03       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-30 20:07         ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-30 22:43           ` Chris Ball
2011-03-30 22:46             ` Chris Ball
2011-03-30 23:18               ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-30 23:34                 ` Chris Ball
2011-03-31  6:57                   ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-31 11:01                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-31 19:17                       ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-31 19:37                         ` Chris Ball
2011-03-31 20:01                           ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-03-31 20:03                           ` Chris Ball
2011-03-31 20:01                             ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-01  9:23                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 14:52                                 ` Chris Ball
2011-04-01  9:21                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-31 11:17           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-31 19:29             ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-01 10:38               ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 18:42                 ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-01 19:25                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 19:42                     ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-04 12:22                       ` [PATCH] " Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-04 11:52                         ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 21:13                           ` [patchv3 1/4] MMC: Rename erase_timeout to cmd_timeout_ms Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 21:13                           ` [patchv3 2/4] MMC: SDHCI R1B command handling + MMC_CAP_ERASE Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-12  9:06                             ` Dong, Chuanxiao
2011-04-12 18:05                               ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-13  1:59                                 ` Dong, Chuanxiao
2011-04-13  5:44                                   ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-15 21:34                                     ` Cyril Hrubis
2011-08-10 13:30                             ` Chris Ball
2011-04-11 21:13                           ` [patchv3 3/4] MMC: Allow setting CMD timeout for CMD6 (SWITCH) Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 21:13                           ` [patchv3 4/4] MMC: MMC boot partitions support Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 22:00                             ` Chris Ball
2011-04-11 22:10                               ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 22:22                                 ` Chris Ball
2011-04-11 22:18                                   ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 23:10                                     ` [patchv4 1/2] MMC: block.c cleanup for host claim/release Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 23:10                                     ` [patchv4 2/2] MMC: MMC boot partitions support Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-11 23:20                                     ` [patchv3 4/4] " Chris Ball
2011-04-11 23:24                                       ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-21  1:13                             ` Chris Ball
2011-04-21  1:30                               ` Chris Ball
2011-04-21  5:09                                 ` Philip Rakity
2011-04-21  5:22                                   ` Chris Ball [this message]
2011-04-21  5:31                                     ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-21  6:07                                       ` [RFC] MMC: Block: Ensure hardware partitions don't mess with mmcblk device naming Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-21  8:17                                         ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-21 14:44                                           ` Chris Ball
2011-04-22  0:20                                         ` Chris Ball
2011-04-22  3:46                                           ` [PATCH] " Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-22  3:50                                             ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-04-22 22:34                                             ` Chris Ball
2011-04-21  4:31                               ` [patchv3 4/4] MMC: MMC boot partitions support Jaehoon Chung

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