From: Michael Trimarchi <trimarchi@gandalf.sssup.it>
To: "Nikhil Bansal (nikbansa)" <nikbansa@cisco.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: MTD Partitions
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:19:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4516CC35.5010507@gandalf.sssup.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ED07EE9DB42A8945877C9794BA15040805D582@xmb-sjc-229.amer.cisco.com>
Nikhil Bansal (nikbansa) wrote:
>Hi,
>
>>From what I understand you need to provide the partitioning details of
>MTD devices at the compile time. I was wondering if there is any way to
>partition a flash device at runtime based on the sectors. For Example:
>partition 1 from sector 1 to sector 10, partition 2 from sector 11 to
>sector 20.
>
>The thing is that we have a board with a flash chip on it and
>configuration of this chip may vary based on several factors. I don't
>have the luxury of compiling the kernel for each such requirement :( I
>think I read somewhere that at this point, partitioning can be done at
>compile time only but just wanted to confirm.
>
>By the way, we can keep the number of partitions fixed but size needs to
>be varied. Please let me know if it can be done.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Nikhil
>
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Hi,
I think that you can use cmdline partition option in the kernel. I use
it in the IXDP465
Regards Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-24 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-22 22:26 MTD Partitions Nikhil Bansal (nikbansa)
2006-09-23 0:08 ` Josh Boyer
2006-09-24 18:19 ` Michael Trimarchi [this message]
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2004-04-16 7:33 MTD partitions Tobias Arp
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