On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2013/6/24 [email protected] <[email protected]>:
>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Flávio Silveira <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Good evening,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to create a dts file for my router which is not supported yet
>>> and I'm stuck on the definition of partitions.
>>>
>>> Do I have to follow the same as stock firmware?
>>>
>>> Router's serial log with stock firmware shows this:
>>>
>>> Creating 8 MTD partitions on "raspi":
>>> 0x000000150060-0x0000003cc060 : "rootfs"
>>> 0x000000050000-0x0000003e0000 : "upgrade"
>>> 0x000000040000-0x000000050000 : "devconf"
>>> 0x000000030000-0x000000040000 : "devdata"
>>> 0x0000003e0000-0x000000400000 : "langpack"
>>> 0x000000000000-0x000000400000 : "flash"
>>> 0x000000000000-0x000000030000 : "u-boot"
>>> 0x000000030000-0x000000038000 : "boot env"
>>
>> Partitions should not overlap. This partition table doesn't seem to be valid.
>
> Parititions can overlap, even with DT, but you just need to make sure
> that node addresses are unique, such that if you want to make
> overlapping partitions of this kind:
Why would you want overlapping partitions?
>
> firmware@30000 {
> reg = <0x30000 0x10000>;
> name = "firmware";
> };
>
> rootfs@30001 {
> reg = <0x30000 0x2000>;
> };
>
> Since both firmware and rootfs start at the same offset, you still
> need them to have an unique node name if you want the MTD OF parser to
> be able to parse *both* of them.
> --
> Florian
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