Hi! Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> skribis:
> On 2020-03-29, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: >> Hi Ludo, >> >> On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:44:39 +0200 >> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: >> >>> Oh, really? I’m surprised partitioning causes problems (though I’m >>> not familiar with embedded dev!). >> >> Well, maybe not that bad, but it's pretty bad. >> >> It's because the boot sector for ARM, for some unfathomable reason, is not >> the first sector but has basically a vendor-dependent sector number somewhere >> in the middle of the disk :P Oh I see, I actually noticed that in (gnu bootloader u-boot) and in Buildroot, it’s terrrrible. > I haven't really looked at buildroot at all... but I suspect buildroot > is just a collection of all these criteria applied on a board-by-board > basis, but most of these boards don't actually require specific > partition layout, per se, it's just nice to not clobber the raw offsets > of various parts of the boot process... but creating partitions for each > of those can make installation less error-prone in some cases. Yeah, I guess we could keep importing them like Danny did in the past, but of course it would be nice to have an automated process to do that. Ludo’.
