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

Chin Liang See clsee at altera.com
Mon Dec 14 16:31:40 CET 2015


On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 14:34 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 01:53:53 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Mon 2015-12-14 13:20:28, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > On Monday, December 14, 2015 at 12:51:16 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:

[..]

> I sense the overlapping partitions are a matter of taste here.
> 
> > > > Just because trap is documented does not mean that it is not
> > > > nasty. 199.95 pages to go.
> > > 
> > > Do you have a better idea how to satisfy both sets of people,
> > > ones which
> > > want kernel on a separate partition and ones which want to use
> > > single
> > > UBI volume then ?
> > 
> > If you expect people to read a comments explaining a situation, you
> > can easily add an explanation and (commented out) alternative
> > configutation that can be used.
> 
> I do not want to maintain multiple configurations, especially is
> there is
> known working alternative which covers all the usecases.
> 

I believe the boot command will abstract these different use cases. We
will have different command for qspiload_raw and qspiload which is the
default that utilize ubifsload. 

Thanks
Chin Liang

> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut


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