[U-Boot] [PATCH] fastboot: check for alias when looking up partition by name

Steve Rae srae at broadcom.com
Fri Mar 20 17:30:23 CET 2015


Hi Lukasz,

On 15-03-20 12:50 AM, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
>>
>>
>> On 15-03-12 10:17 AM, Michael Scott wrote:
>>>
>>> On 03/12/2015 09:23 AM, Steve Rae wrote:

[... snip ...]

>>>> An interesting feature (which seems unnecessary to me...) However,
>>> A bit of background:
>>>
>>> We are using fastboot support on Nvidia Jetson-TK1 platform where
>>> a GPT limitation sets partition names to 3 letters.
>>>
>>> IE: LNX = boot, APP = system and UDA = userdata.
>> OK -- then this patch makes much more sense!
>> - so when the user performs "mmc part", (I'm assuming it will list
>> the "3 letter names"), then they perform "fastboot flash LNX
>> boot.bin" (which makes sense to me....)
>> - or they can setup these aliases and perform "fastboot flash boot
>> boot.bin" (I would probably stick with the former myself...)
>> Thanks, Steve
>>>
>>> To present a "normal" fastboot experience to users, we use this
>>> patch.
>>>
>>>> Acked-by: Steve Rae <srae at broadcom.com>
>>>
>>> Thank you for the Ack!
>
> Are there more comments for this patch?
>

No - the feature is OK
(personally - I would use the names that match what "mmc part" displays; 
so I don't think that I would create any aliases....)

Acked-by: Steve Rae <srae at broadcom.com>


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