On 3 May 2011 09:32, Tony MANSSON <tony.xpt.mans...@stericsson.com> wrote:
> The ST-Ericsson Snowball has an eMMC that need a first partition of unknown 
> type to make room for some files that the SoC needs in order to boot. We boot 
> up to u-boot here, and then proceeds either to the internal eMMC or to the SD 
> card, in both cases with the standard boot and root partitions as created by 
> Linaro-Media-Create.
>
> When creating images, this first partition is needed for the option 
> --image_file, but should not be created for the option --mmc.

This sounds like you would end up with different results from:
 * using "--mmc" to write directly to a card
 * using "--image_file" and then copying the image to card with dd

That would be very confusing and a bad idea I think, but perhaps
I'm misunderstanding?

-- PMM

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