[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 00/16] GPT over MTD

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 03:11:31PM +0100, Patrick Delaunay wrote:

> 
> I have a request to support GPT over MTD to have the MTD informations
> without U-Boot environment(CONFIG_ENV_IS_NOWHERE is a other requirement
> of my project to manage several board configuration with
> the same defconfig; boot from NAND or NOR or SDCARD).
> 
> The current idea is to use the GPT header format to save the partitioning
> information directly in flash device (NOR or NAND), then the U-Boot MTD
> variables are rebuild from these GPT partitions and can be used by DISTRO
> command to search bootable binary.
> 
> This information are directly used by BootRom to locate and load
> the first bootstage.
> 
> The added code is under a new CONFIG : CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION_MTD
> and in the new file "disk/part_efi_mtd.c"
> 
> For implementation details, see doc/README.gpt.mtd
> 
> TODO: full support for modified command (if needed)
>       today I limit the support for the command expected
>       used by DISTRO macro:
>       + gpt write
>       + part list

... what I said just now to v3 applies here really, sorry for the
confusion.

-- 
Tom
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