From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: Embedded Linux PPC list Subject: Re: kernel option "Command line partition table parsing" From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:24:51 EDT." Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:57:05 +0200 Message-Id: <20040629125710.B6B28C109F@atlas.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message you wrote: > > i'm intrigued by the above kernel option. currently, i define my > MTD partitions in drivers/mtd/maps/rpxlite.c, using structs map_info, > mtd_info, etc., and calling the appropriate routines, which works just > fine. > > will this kernel option actually let me define the basic MTD > partitions completely from the kernel command line without messing > with rpxlite.c? or am i misreading the purpose of this option? Yes, it will. See http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/BootTimeConfigurationOfMTDPartitions Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the per- son who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place. - Larry Wall in the perl man page ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/