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* [PATCH V2 1/2] dt-bindings: mtd: partitions: support marking rootfs partition
@ 2022-10-21  6:00 Rafał Miłecki
  2022-10-21  6:00 ` [PATCH V2 2/2] mtd: core: set ROOT_DEV for partitions marked as rootfs in DT Rafał Miłecki
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Rafał Miłecki @ 2022-10-21  6:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Miquel Raynal, Richard Weinberger, Vignesh Raghavendra,
	Rob Herring, Krzysztof Kozlowski
  Cc: Mikhail Zhilkin, Christian Marangi, Wolfram Sang,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni, Martin K . Petersen, Jens Axboe,
	Andrew Morton, linux-mtd, devicetree, linux-kernel,
	Rafał Miłecki

From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>

Linux needs to know what to use as root device. On embedded devices with
flash the only common way to specify that is cmdline & root= parameter.

That solution works with U-Boot which is Linux & cmdline aware but isn't
available with all market bootloaders. Also that method is fragile:
1. Requires specific probing order on multi-flash devices
2. Uses hardcoded partitions indexes

A lot of devices use different partitioning methods. It may be
"fixed-partitions" or some dynamic partitioning (e.g. based on parts
table). For such cases allow "linux,rootfs" property to mark correct
flash partition.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
---
V2: Use "linux,rootfs" as more accurate. Thanks Rob.
---
 .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/fixed-partitions.yaml  | 1 +
 .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml         | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/fixed-partitions.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/fixed-partitions.yaml
index ad3ccd250802..d66a6e3bcb56 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/fixed-partitions.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/fixed-partitions.yaml
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ examples:
         partition@0 {
             label = "filesystem";
             reg = <0x00000000 0x1 0x00000000>;
+            linux,rootfs;
         };
     };
 
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml
index f1a02d840b12..a25cd23a34c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ properties:
       immune to paired-pages corruptions
     type: boolean
 
+  linux,rootfs:
+    description: Marks partition that contains root filesystem to mount and boot
+      user space from
+
 if:
   not:
     required: [ reg ]
-- 
2.34.1


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