On 31 January 2014 21:20, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Friday, January 31, 2014 07:21:02 Ryan Harkin wrote: >> On 30 January 2014 21:31, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > the simulator knows nothing of disk partitions and things like that. you >> > have >> > to manage the disk image yourself. >> >> Mike, unless I misunderstand you, I don't think that is correct. >> >> The model reads the image file as if it were a disk with partitions inside >> it. For example, the standard images that we provides have two >> partitions: boot and root. > > the model reads the file as a file. it is the kernel itself that parses it > looking for partition tables/filesystems/etc... > > so i'm comfortable with my previous statement being correct.
Fair point. You are correct, the model knows nothing of partitions, it's the software on the model that looks after those details. I think the wording "you have to manage the disk image yourself." is open to mis-interpretation. > -mike _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
