-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Andy Green wrote: >> Is it the right thing, part of a larger solution? It at least enables >> the device to boot. > > Hmm, MTDPARTS_DEFAULT looks in fact more like a problem than the > solution. If you use that by accident, your partitions will almost > certainly differ from the ones you get with "dynpart". > > Given that we start with lots of small partitions, followed by the > reasonably big kernel, and then the rootfs, chances are that you'll > hit the first bad block in the kernel partition, and thus end up > with confusion about where exactly the rootfs starts, which should > be fun given jffs2's extreme tolerance to anomalies. > > So not using MTDPARTS_DEFAULT at all is probably better. I'll look > into this during the partitioning cleanup.
Great. Right now the "default" isn't very meaningful -- Something Needs Doing. Maybe it should redo the bad block test in that case and regenerate a correct mtdparts before saveenv-ing it. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHkLIEOjLpvpq7dMoRAu9aAJ9NYYu5gluLOExcKGFTepklwvOyeACffUEe uf92I798W8G7QRWtlBsG23w= =4wJZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
