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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Ross Younger <wry@ecoscentric.com>
Cc: Simon Kallweit <simon.kallweit@intefo.ch>,
		"ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org"
	<ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: NAND review
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 14:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090519141710.GJ20046@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A12B877.9030404@ecoscentric.com>

> The partition definition is necessarily platform-specific, so doesn't fit
> anywhere else. 

I simply don't get this. 

Take a case i recently had with a NOR based system. I had a linux
kernel bug i had to trace down. So that i had human readable kernel
opps information, i rebuilt the kernel to include debug symbols. The
resulting kernel was too big to fit in the space allocated to it. So i
used redboot fis to zap both the root filesystem and the space holding
the kernel. I recreated the kernel partition a bit bigger and made the
root filesystem a bit smaller. I then installed the new kernel and the
root filesystem. I then had a booting system with opps with symbols,
not hex addresses.

At no point did i need to edit the HAL, rebuild and install a new
redboot. Why should NAND be different? Why cannot this partition
information be configured by redboot? Why must it be platform
specific?

        Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-19 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-19  8:27 Simon Kallweit
2009-05-19 13:47 ` Ross Younger
2009-05-19 14:17   ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2009-05-20 13:24     ` Bart Veer
2009-05-20 13:34       ` Rutger Hofman
2009-05-20 13:53         ` Andrew Lunn
2009-05-20 13:56           ` Gary Thomas
2009-05-20 14:22             ` Andrew Lunn
2009-05-20 15:22               ` Andrew Lunn
2009-05-20 15:34               ` Bart Veer
2009-05-20 13:58           ` Rutger Hofman
2009-05-20 14:16     ` Ross Younger
2009-05-20 14:21       ` Gary Thomas
2009-05-20 15:25         ` Ross Younger
2009-05-20 15:37           ` Gary Thomas
2009-05-19 16:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2009-06-03  8:51   ` Andrew Lunn
2009-06-03 10:21     ` Ross Younger
2009-06-03 10:48       ` Andrew Lunn
2009-06-03 11:52         ` Simon Kallweit
2009-06-03 12:26         ` Rutger Hofman
2009-06-03 13:33     ` Jürgen Lambrecht
2009-06-10 17:39     ` Nick Garnett
2009-06-11 11:25       ` Rutger Hofman
2009-06-13 16:31       ` Andrew Lunn
2009-06-18 14:10         ` Nick Garnett
2009-06-19  7:47           ` Andrew Lunn
2009-06-19 14:14             ` Ross Younger
2009-06-19 15:02               ` Andrew Lunn
2009-06-19 16:54               ` Jürgen Lambrecht
2009-06-29 11:09             ` Nick Garnett
2009-06-19  8:07           ` Andrew Lunn
2009-06-19 11:37             ` Daniel Morris
2009-06-19 12:06               ` Andrew Lunn
2009-05-20  1:02 ` Jonathan Larmour
2009-05-20  7:11   ` Simon Kallweit
2009-05-20 11:12     ` Rutger Hofman
2009-05-20 11:29       ` Simon Kallweit
2009-05-20 13:37         ` Rutger Hofman

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