From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Lunn Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] ARM: dt: mvebu: ix4-300d: remove whole flash partition Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 17:52:58 +0100 Message-ID: <20151128165258.GG32356@lunn.ch> References: <1448709248-21177-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> <1448709248-21177-2-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1448709248-21177-2-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Sebastian Hesselbarth Cc: Jason Cooper , Gregory Clement , Rob Herring , Pawel Moll , Mark Rutland , Ian Campbell , Kumar Gala , Russell King , Benoit Masson , linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:14:05PM +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote: > Current NAND node has an additional flash partition for the whole > flash overlapping with real partitions. Remove this partition as > the whole flash is already represented by the NAND device itself. If i remember correctly, we discussed this when the contribution was made. I think the stock firmware might use this for applying updates. Maybe Benoit can comment? If so, removing this will break compatibility with stock firmware. Do we want to do that? There are a few other mvebu dts files with a partition spanning the whole flash. Should we remove them as well? Andrew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html