From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulf Samuelsson Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 20:23:21 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Question about CFG_ENV_ADDR during RAMBOOT References: <20070530134759.87A86353AF8@atlas.denx.de> Message-ID: <019201c7a2ef$47e4aa00$0302a8c0@atmel.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de > In message you wrote: >> >> => We also need to understand if we are talking >> about the same thing. >> I have this feeling that >> mtdparts exist to divide >> the rootfs into several >> areas while the dataflash >> partioning is there purely >> for U-boot purposes. > > Please see for example > http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/BootTimeConfigurationOfMTDPartitions, > and look up the section about "mtdparts" in > CHANGELOG-before-U-Boot-1.1.5 > OK, seems reasonable to use mtdparts, except that I think it would be useful to be able to supply arguments in an incremental way so you can build up your partition table using multiple mtdparts commands. Also, I am not sure that mtdparts know about 1056 byte pages. Maybe "k" could mean 1056 for dataflash parts? Best Regards Ulf Samuelsson