[PATCH v1 2/3] colibri-imx7: specify MTD partitions on command line
Miquel Raynal
miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Mon Jan 23 10:58:18 CET 2023
Hi Francesco,
francesco at dolcini.it wrote on Mon, 16 Jan 2023 14:58:28 +0100:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 03:33:25PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On 1/13/23 19:45, Francesco Dolcini wrote:
> > > From: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini at toradex.com>
> > >
> > > Disable fdt_fixup_mtdparts(), instead pass MTD partition on the command
> > > line. This is the preferred method to be used when partitions are not
> > > statically defined into the DTS according the Linux MTD subsystem
> > > maintainer.
> >
> > Do we really want to do this ?
> > I thought passing the mtdparts via DT is the preferred way ?
>
> Yes, to me it seems like the most robust approach to minimize chances
> of regressions and boot issues.
>
> With the current dts schema, that expects the partitions to not be
> direct children of the nand controller node, but expecting having a
> nand-chip, and partitions as a child of the nand-chip this is the most
> likely approach to just works.
>
> For example if I add a partition node to my DTS, older U-Boot will just
> ignore it and add the partitions as children of the nand controller.
> In this case the current parser will just fails leading to another
> flavor of boot failure on our board.
>
> In reality I cannot really tell which u-boot/kernel combination is going
> to be used on our SOMs.
>
> Said that, what would be the disadvantages of having the partitions on
> the command line? Miquel?
It only works with the simplest parser, but that's anyway the one
implied when tweaking the DT from U-Boot to add the partitions.
If that works, then it looks the simplest approach indeed.
Thanks,
Miquèl
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