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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Adam Yergovich <ayergo@jkmicro.com>
Subject: Re: Access entire device with mtdblock0
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Adam Yergovich wrote:
> There was a grand feature in the 2.4 flavor of MTD that i used wherein 
> mtdblock0 was assigned the entirety of the device.  This made updating 
> the flash image very easy.
> 
> I've since started messing around with 2.6 flavors, and while i have a 
> working map that gives the partitions i can no longer access the entire 
> device.  I've tried a few things without success to get it to work.
> 
> Any recommendations on a simple way to create a partition using the 
> entirety of flash?

Hey, I use that feature with 2.4 too, and I'm looking at porting a
device to 2.6.  I'll be interested in the answer.

-- Jamie