On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Alexander Sack <a...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Alexander Sack <a...@linaro.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Shawn Guo <shawn....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The u-boot.imx really needs to be at offset 1KB on card to make imx51 >>> ROM happy. Even I create the "non-FS data" partition from 0 cylinder >>> with sfdisk, it actually starts from sector 63 (offset ~ 32KB). We >>> can not really get the u-boot.imx into this partition for now. >> >> I think the non-FS data partition is only there so you dont get it >> offered as free space if you later run fdisk etc.. Maybe see if >> creating that non-fs partition hurts even if the start offset is a bit >> odd. > > I think this is the only pending change left. I talked to Jamie and > since we want to get the main feature in asap, we decided to merge > your current patch. Please submit a follow up commit with the > non-fs-data partition soonish.
What is the advantage of a non-fs-data partition over just leaving empty space at the beginning of the block device? /Amit _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
