[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/6] arm: socfpga: cyclone5-socdk: Enabling mtd partitioning layout

[Marek Vasut]

On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 08:54:38 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> (Please, trim your emails when replying)
> 
> On Mon 2015-12-14 01:58:04, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 01:43:58 AM, Chin Liang See wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 01:22 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 01:11:27 AM, Chin Liang See wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 16:42 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > > > On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 02:03:02 PM, Chin Liang See
> > > 
> > > After grabbing a coffee
> > 
> > That's a good idea, though I think I will make do with a green tea (抹茶).
> > 
> > > and rethinking, we can have 2 MTD_PARTITION
> > > where one for backward compatiblity (supporting raw) while another for
> > > UBI.
> > > 
> > > MTDPARTS_RAW
> > > 256k(spl),
> > > 256k(env),
> > > 15872k(boot),
> > > -(rootfs)
> > > 
> > > MTDPARTS_UBI
> > > 256k(spl),
> > > 256k(env),
> > > -(UBI)
> > > 
> > > We should make UBI as default then. If user care about backward
> > > compatiblity, they shall use the MTDPARTS_RAW then.
> > 
> > Try this:
> > 
> > mtdparts=1m(u-boot),256k(env1),256k(env2),14848k(boot),112m(root),- at 1536k
> > (UBI)
> > 
> > This will create overlapping partitions "boot,root" and "UBI" .
> 
> Just because you can does not mean that you should. This looks like a
> nasty trap for a user.

Please explain in detail why do you think so.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut