On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:08:05AM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > Martin Jansa wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 01:36:31PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > > > > > > Note: I sent a patch to the kernel that fixes PROM layout and introduces > > > two partitions in PROM: Boot PROM System and EN-JP DB3. > > > > With 2.6.32-rc3 I don't see that 2nd PROM partition and didn't noticed > > any special Kconfig option for that (in case someone wanted to make your > > change optional) > > Patch was not yet applied. You can apply it from the list. Maybe I will > re-send and add config option.
Yes config option could be usefull for those depending on same mtd numbering as was in older kernels. > In fact, the partition called "Boot PROM Filesystem" is a DB3 file that > contains English-Japanese dictionary. I guess that there is no Boot PROM > Filesystem, but a bootloader. It is invisible in current kernels. With your patch and physmap in kernel its as expected dev: size erasesize name mtd0: 00700000 00800000 "Boot PROM System" mtd1: 006c0000 00800000 "EN-JP Data File" mtd2: 00700000 00004000 "smf" mtd3: 00500000 00004000 "root" mtd4: 00400000 00004000 "home" ANG r...@zjama ~ $ dd if=/dev/mtdblock1 of=en-jp.dict.dbf bs=1024 6912+0 records in 6912+0 records out Lets see if I can learn JP a bit from it :). > I can only guess why designers decided to place translation dictionary > to the fast and expensive mask-programmable PROM. -- uin:136542059 jid:martin.ja...@gmail.com Jansa Martin sip:jama...@voip.wengo.fr JaMa _______________________________________________ Zaurus-devel mailing list Zaurus-devel@lists.linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zaurus-devel
