From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13776 invoked by alias); 16 May 2009 10:43:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 13766 invoked by uid 22791); 16 May 2009 10:43:45 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ascomax.hasler.ascom.ch (HELO ascomax.hasler.ascom.ch) (139.79.135.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 16 May 2009 10:43:40 +0000 Received: from eiger.ma.tech.ascom.ch (eiger.ma.tech.ascom.ch [139.79.100.1]) by ascomax.hasler.ascom.ch (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n4GAhWWs003692; Sat, 16 May 2009 12:43:33 +0200 (MEST) Received: from [139.79.100.143] (helo=donkey.ma.tech.ascom.ch) by eiger.ma.tech.ascom.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 1M5HMY-0006u1-00; Sat, 16 May 2009 12:43:30 +0200 Received: from lunn by donkey.ma.tech.ascom.ch with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M5HMa-0004Sp-Gf; Sat, 16 May 2009 12:43:32 +0200 Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 10:43:00 -0000 From: Andrew Lunn To: Ross Younger Cc: John Dallaway , ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org, Rutger Hofman , Simon Kallweit , Sergei Gavrikov Subject: Re: NAND & YAFFS Message-ID: <20090516104332.GE31991@ma.tech.ascom.ch> References: <4A0AD212.60208@ecoscentric.com> <4A0B198F.6020109@dallaway.org.uk> <4A0D9D4D.6070308@ecoscentric.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A0D9D4D.6070308@ecoscentric.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-05/txt/msg00019.txt.bz2 > I've now created an interim drop of the docs and posted it to bugzilla: > http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1000770 Hi Ross Im having trouble getting my head around partitions. If i understand the documentation correctly, the only thing the concept does it prevent a buggy filesystem or application reading data from a different partition than it "opened" with cyg_nand_get_partition(). The partition has zero affect on addressing. Am i missing something? What else are partitions good for? Andrew