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>> , and I don't see what
>> it buys us over the partitions/partition-names pair of properties.
>
>    I was thinking of using a signle multipart prop but dtc had no 
> support for it at that time...

The kernel (and probably most DTB parsers) cannot handle
unaligned integers in properties, even though it is a
perfectly fine thing to have.


Segher