On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 10:05 +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Sometimes, an special partition is included in the device tree including all
> the
> partitions. Like in:
>
> partit...@ff000000 {
> reg = < 0x000000 0x800000 >;
> label = "Root File System";
> };
> partit...@ff800000 {
> reg = < 0x800000 0x1a0000 >;
> label = "Bitstream";
> };
> ...
> partition...@ff000000 {
> reg = < 0x000000 0x1000000 >;
> label = "Full FLASH";
> };
>
> Because two nodes of a device tree cannot have the same name, but all the
> partitions must be named "partition", this special partition is invalid.
>
> This patch makes ofpart.c only check for the firt part of the name, and
> ignore the rest, allowing this special partition.
I fail to see the point of this "special" partition in the first
place...
Things would make more sense if you had a full flash device
whose child nodes are the partitions.
Ben.
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