From: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
MTD Maling List <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next v4 00/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Add NAND partitioning support
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 22:44:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <566DF4E6.3030702@simon.arlott.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <566DF43B.5010400@simon.arlott.org.uk>
On 13/12/15 22:42, Simon Arlott wrote:
> The BCM963xx NAND flash boards have a different handling of the
> partition layout from the NOR flash boards. For NAND there are offsets
> for the partitions in nvram. Both types of boards use the same CFE
> bootloader, nvram format and image tag in their rootfs partitions.
>
> This patch series:
> 1-4: Creates separate header files for bcm963xx_nvram and bcm_tag structures
> 5: Updates the bcm_tag field image_sequence
> 6: Removes the dependency on mach-bcm63xx from the bcm63xxpart parser
> 7: Removes unused mach-bcm63xx nvram function
> 8-10: Cleanup and move NOR flash layout to a separate function
> 11: Add NAND flash layout support
These patches are also available on github against next-20151211:
https://github.com/lp0/linux/commits/20151213-bcm63xxpart-v4
(Yes I am aware that the summary line and description of the patches are
not suitable for merging.)
--
Simon Arlott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-13 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-13 22:42 [PATCH linux-next v4 00/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Add NAND partitioning support Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:44 ` Simon Arlott [this message]
2015-12-13 22:45 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 01/11] MIPS: bcm963xx: Add Broadcom BCM963xx board nvram data structure Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:46 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 02/11] MIPS: bcm63xx: nvram: Use nvram structure definition from header file Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:46 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 03/11] MIPS: bcm963xx: Move Broadcom BCM963xx image tag data structure Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:47 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 04/11] MIPS: bcm963xx: Move extended flash address to bcm_tag header file Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:48 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 05/11] MIPS: bcm963xx: Update bcm_tag field image_sequence Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:49 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 06/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Remove dependency on mach-bcm63xx Simon Arlott
2016-02-12 18:49 ` Brian Norris
2015-12-13 22:50 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 07/11] MIPS: bcm63xx: nvram: Remove unused bcm63xx_nvram_get_psi_size() function Simon Arlott
2016-01-26 19:16 ` Brian Norris
2016-02-12 18:53 ` Brian Norris
2015-12-13 22:51 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 08/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Extract read of image tag to separate function Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:51 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 09/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Null terminate and validate conversion of flash strings Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:52 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 10/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Move NOR flash layout to a separate function Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:53 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 11/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Add NAND partitioning support Simon Arlott
2016-01-27 23:07 ` Brian Norris
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