[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/6] arm: socfpga: cyclone5-socdk: Enabling mtd partitioning layout

Marek Vasut
2015-12-13T00:01:17Z

On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 12:59:48 AM, Chin Liang See wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-12-12 at 16:36 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 07:30:46 AM, Chin Liang See wrote:
> [...]
>
> > > > Can you share the final layout before you roll out patches ?
> > >
> > > Sure, plan to do so but need to away from desk just now.
> > >
> > > Here is the old layout
> > > 256k(spl)
> > > 64k(env)
> > > 64k(dtb)
> > > 256k(boot)
> > > 16m(kernel)
> > > 16m(rootfs)
> > >
> > > The new one would like this
> > > 256k(spl)
> >
> > I'd say you should just call this u-boot, see above for the
> > rationale.
> >
> > > 256k(env)
> > > 15872k(boot)
> > > 16m(rootfs)
> > >
> > > The boot partition can be used as ubi part or raw partition.
> > > It contains the linux dtb, u-boot and linux images.
> >
> > Is that an UBIFS partition ? If so, why don't you just use two UBI
> > volumes ?
>
> For backward compatibility, it can be raw if user want to stick with
> old way.

If you're breaking the partitioning layout anyway, you don't have to
care about the "old way", right ?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut