[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 3/4] mtdparts: add new sub-command "spread"

Ben Gardiner bengardiner at nanometrics.ca
Sat Aug 28 05:59:13 CEST 2010


On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> On 08/27/2010 04:46 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>> For now, I guess don't worry about sharing the code.
>
> Plus, I've got some changes to the NAND command/util code I'm about to send
> out that touch this -- if sharing is going to be a pain, I can go back to
> the version that only passes back "fits with bad blocks", "fits with no bad
> blocks", or "doesn't fit", and doesn't deal with 64-bit sizes because it's
> only used by read/write which is limited by pointer size.  That simpler
> version is 128 bytes smaller in my build.

I imagine you don't have to go back. I wouldn't want to make the merge
harder; but as long as there is a way to get the the
size-including-bad-blocks and truncation status given an offset and
target size. Please continue your work and I'll find a way to make
'mtdparts spread' fit with it after your post..

Best Regards,
Ben Gardiner

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