[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] TQM5200B: update MTD partition layout

[Martin Krause]

wd at denx.de wrote on Thursday, November 08, 2007 8:29 PM:
> In message
> <47F3F98010FF784EBEE6526EAAB078D1024F87C6 at tq-mailsrv.tq-net.de> you
> wrote:  
> > 
> > OK, I see the point. I then propose to change the partitions to the
> > following:
> 
> Why do you want to change everything again and again? Why  cannot  we
> simply settle now by what is being used by Linux, too?

I do not want to change everything again and again. The last change
in the TQM5200 mtd partitioning was done by DENX (without posting the
patch on the list, by the way), not by me. And this change is IMO not 
ideal, because the new partitioning does not suit for boards with less
than 32 MiB flash memory (because the partition boarders do not lay
on powers of 2). I tried to point this out on the linuxppc-dev mailing
list, by commenting the patchset for the TQM5200 which contains the
same (IMO wrong) partitions (in the dts).

> There repeated changes are a maintenance nightmare for the  users  of

100% agreed. But the last change in U-Boot was done by DENX, without a
chance of commenting for me. If I not fully agree on this changes, what
else could I do than post a patch on the list for discussion?

> the  boards,  so  please restrict those to the cases where absolutely
> necessary. And keep in mind that U-Boot and Linus should  be  changed
> in sync.

Agreed. But TQM5200 support isn't in the Linus tree, yet. There were
patches posted on the linuxppc-dev list. I tried to express my 
concerns regarding the flash partitioning on the list, to prevent 
getting an (IMO) unclean partitioning into the kernel. But propably
I failed to express my concerns cleanly?

I don't know, what else I could do, to discuss/change a IMO wrong
partitioning?

Best Regards,
Martin Krause