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Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next v4 00/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Add NAND
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From: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
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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