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From: "Artem B. Bityutskiy" <dedekind@yandex.ru>
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Hello KimM,

KimM wrote:
> I need support for dynamic MTD partition tables in Linux. Currently there's four
> ways of doing this: cmdlineparsing, Redboot, ARM way or my own way. 
> 

Please, pay your attention to UBI:

http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubi.html

This is a new technology, so no barand boot-loaders support it yet. But 
it is completely "dynamic".

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.