[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH v3 00/16] GPT over MTD

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 10:06:40AM +0100, Patrick Delaunay wrote:

> 
> I have a request to support GPT over MTD to be able to have dynamic
> MTD informations without U-Boot environment(CONFIG_ENV_IS_NOWHERE
> is a other requirement of my project).
> 
> The idea is to use the GPT header to save partitioning information directly
> in flash device (NOR or NAND), then the MTD variables are rebuild from
> these GPT partitions and can be used by DISTRO to search bootable binary.
> 
> I make a first prototyping for this request but I want ask you if this
> feature is acceptable for U-Boot and if this patches, after some update
> and cleanups, would be merged in U-Boot mainline.
> Do you see already some blocking points ?
> 
> - added code is under a new CONFIG : CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION_MTD
> - for implementation details, see doc/README.gpt.mtd
> 
> TODO:
> - full support for modified command
>   today I limit the support for the command used by DISTRO macro:
>   + gpt write
>   + part list
> - DISTRO macro update for automatic boot on GPT bootable partition
>   found in MTD devices

This also adds a ton of warnings in odd places, please fix that before
removing the RFC tag (and tag the whole series RFC next time too
please), thanks!

-- 
Tom
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