[U-Boot-Users] mtdparts

[Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:47:08PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > In above scheme my custom part function allowed only chpart [34], so it
> > was not even possible to change partition to evn sector for example.
> 
> Ummm... I can understand what you mean, but this is  not  how  things
> normally  are  done  in a UNIX environment. It seems a very arbitrary
> restriction to me, which I wouldn;t like if I was working on  such  a
> system.

Ack. I have no strong requirement for such feature.

> > Moreover it was pretty easy to construct kernel command line this way:
> > setenv bootargs '$bootargs root=/dev/mtdblock$partition ro rootfstype=jffs2'
> 
> What prevents you from doing the same now?

Previously I did it in environment:

if test -n $swapos; then
	if test $ospart -eq 0; then chpart 4; else chpart 3; fi;
	setenv swapos; saveenv;
else
	if test $ospart -eq 0; then chpart 3; else chpart 4; fi;
fi
flashargs=run setpart; fixroot; setenv bootargs $bootargs \
	root=/dev/mtdblock$partition ro rootfstype=jffs2
fboot=run flashargs;fsload;bootm

This no longer possible, because $partiton is nand0,1 now, so finding
corresponding Linux device is more tricky. For now I solved it in C by
writing new command which does the trick. Hush doesn't support 'eval'
nor something like echo $fs`echo $ospart` where fs0=/dev/mtdblock3
and fs1=/dev/mtdblock4, so it's hard to do it using builtin commands.
In case I'm the only one who needs something like this, I'm perfectly
fine with my current solution.

Best regards,
	ladis