[U-Boot] [PATCH] Add support for offset of a filesystem within a block-device

Tom Rini
2014-03-12T19:33:18Z

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 08:17:47PM +0100, Hannes Petermaier wrote:

> Good idea, i've also thougt about this way ....
> but what happens in case of OS is going to re-partitioning the drive
> (flash), delete all partitions (dummy-part also) an puts the first
> (new) partition behind the part-table (vxWorks can handle up to four
> partitions and we give end-user the possibility to create/delete
> partitions) ? First partition becomes laying over U-Boot @ 384k (and
> some other stuff which may be stored there).
> To prevent this case we would have to modify "fdisk" of vxWorks,
> which i would like to prevent because this is a common part of OS
> and would affect all mass-storage.
> With my solution, OS never can see/delete any other (dummy)
> partitiion - it has always "a normal drive" accessible.

Since this is really eMMC, mark SPL/U-Boot as protected? I'd swear such
a thing is allowed, but I've just been looking at QSPI things recently
not eMMC so I might have some mental mismatch.

--
Tom
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