On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Alexander Sack asac@linaro.org wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Alexander Sack asac@linaro.org wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Shawn Guo shawn.gsc@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