From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Rae Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:30:23 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] fastboot: check for alias when looking up partition by name In-Reply-To: <20150320085010.69159f40@amdc2363> References: <1426093351-8998-1-git-send-email-michael.scott@linaro.org> <5501BD75.4020006@broadcom.com> <5501CA1F.5000903@linaro.org> <5501D782.3000503@broadcom.com> <20150320085010.69159f40@amdc2363> Message-ID: <550C4B1F.4070700@broadcom.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Lukasz, On 15-03-20 12:50 AM, Lukasz Majewski wrote: > Hi Steve, > >> >> >> On 15-03-12 10:17 AM, Michael Scott wrote: >>> >>> On 03/12/2015 09:23 AM, Steve Rae wrote: [... snip ...] >>>> An interesting feature (which seems unnecessary to me...) However, >>> A bit of background: >>> >>> We are using fastboot support on Nvidia Jetson-TK1 platform where >>> a GPT limitation sets partition names to 3 letters. >>> >>> IE: LNX = boot, APP = system and UDA = userdata. >> OK -- then this patch makes much more sense! >> - so when the user performs "mmc part", (I'm assuming it will list >> the "3 letter names"), then they perform "fastboot flash LNX >> boot.bin" (which makes sense to me....) >> - or they can setup these aliases and perform "fastboot flash boot >> boot.bin" (I would probably stick with the former myself...) >> Thanks, Steve >>> >>> To present a "normal" fastboot experience to users, we use this >>> patch. >>> >>>> Acked-by: Steve Rae >>> >>> Thank you for the Ack! > > Are there more comments for this patch? > No - the feature is OK (personally - I would use the names that match what "mmc part" displays; so I don't think that I would create any aliases....) Acked-by: Steve Rae