Paul Larson <paul.lar...@linaro.org> writes: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz < > marcin.juszkiew...@linaro.org> wrote: > >> W dniu 18.06.2012 15:02, YongQin Liu pisze: >> > Hi, Saugata >> > >> > We have a problem to use the mmcblk0p8 partition, do you know if we >> > can use it, and how can we use it? >> > >> > I created the 8th partition with fdisk command and the 8th partition >> > is listed in the output of fdisk -l command but it is not listed in >> > /proc/partitions file, even after reboot And also I can't use >> > mkfs.vfat -n sdcard /dev/mmcblk0p8 to format. >> > >> > Could you give me some help about this? >> >> Check /dev/mmcblk1p0 node number for answer. IIRC there is limited >> amount of partitions on MMC cards which Linux handles (a bit stupid >> limit imho). >> > Yes it is stupid, and it's bit us before [1]. The better thing is to > rethink your partitioning and see if you can come up with a better way to > lay it out. It's worked for us so far, but it's been tight on the lava > side due to the number of partitions that android wants, and especially > with the annoying hardcoded partition numbers that android uses. > The max partitions can be changed but requires rebuilding your kernel > MMC_BLOCK_MINORS on *every* machine that you will ever need to mess with > that mmc card on. So if you are building a master image on your laptop, > you'll need to rebuild that one, the kernels for all platform images you > want to boot on it, etc.
Gah. I don't think insisting every system involved in LAVA has a custom kernel can really work :/ One thing I _think_ we could do would be to share the boot and testboot partitions -- we could install the kernels to be tested in /boot/test-kernel or something and carefully tweak the commands we pass to uboot to load that kernel. Sounds like a fiddle, but might work? Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
