[PATCH 2/2] arm: mvebu: Espressobin: Setup MTD partitions when booting kernel

Andre Heider a.heider at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 18:29:48 CEST 2020


On 19/08/2020 16:24, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Due to different partition layouts in different U-Boot versions, DTS for
> Espressobin in Linux does not contain any definition of MTD partitions.
> See commit https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00954566464a4 for more details.
> 
> This patch via ft_board_setup() hook fills current partition layout used by
> U-Boot, so booted kernel would see correct MTD partitions layout.
> 
> U-Boot env partition is calculated from CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET option.
> 
> First partition contains secure firmware, ARM trusted firmware and U-Boot
> with checksums. So it is not possible to replace just one image (e.g.
> U-Boot) without updating other parts where is stored checksum of U-Boot.
> Therefore there is no extra partition defined for U-Boot and first
> partition is called just 'firmware'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>

Tested-by: Andre Heider <a.heider at gmail.com>


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