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

Chin Liang See
2015-12-12T23:59:48Z

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.

Thanks
Chin Liang

>
> > The environment will be used to determine the image offset for
> > mentioned boot images from boot partition.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Chin Liang