[U-Boot] Adding new partition in uboot

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear David Gibson,

In message <20100401185147.GA17447 at yookeroo> you wrote:
>
> > Let me know if we need to increase size of the blob or something which i m
> > missing.
> > This is going to help  a lot if you can reply.
> 
> For this case where there's a flash partition that's sometimes there
> and sometimes not, it might be simpler to put all the partitions,
> including the not-always-present ones in the dts.  Then you can use
> fdt_nop_subnode() to remove the extra one on systems where it's not
> present.

A completely different approach woul dbe NOT to try defining the flash
partitions in the device tree, but use command line partitioning in
combination with the "mtdparts" command support in U-Boot. For
frequently changing configurations this is probably the most flexible
approach.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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