From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Ball Subject: Re: [patchv3 4/4] MMC: MMC boot partitions support. Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:22:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1302556424-21951-4-git-send-email-andreiw@motorola.com> <3C4AA76A-EBCA-47D2-B1BA-DF98DCB105FE@marvell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from void.printf.net ([89.145.121.20]:60747 "EHLO void.printf.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750704Ab1DUFSf (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:18:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3C4AA76A-EBCA-47D2-B1BA-DF98DCB105FE@marvell.com> (Philip Rakity's message of "Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:09:07 -0700") Sender: linux-mmc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org To: Philip Rakity Cc: Andrei Warkentin , "linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org" , "arnd@arndb.de" 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 One Laptop Per Child