[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH, resend] Support dynamic/patched NAND ENV offset

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Jul 8 23:12:31 CEST 2008


In message <48739036.2080806 at freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> > I also have another patchset for what I call 'dynpart' support, i.e. the
> > dynamic calculation of a unit-specific partition table that ensures the
> > net size of partitions are as per spec, no matter how many of the
> > factory default blocks are located where.  So it would even support
> > NAND devices with a worse spec than the ones that we were using.
> 
> Interesting...  Would such a patch eliminate the need for this one, by 
> making the environment a dynamic partition?  Is there any (plan for) 
> Linux support?

What's the relation of this to the mtdparts handling in U-Boot and
Linux?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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