On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 09:56:20AM -0800, Brian Norris wrote: [snip] > The best solution would be to try to migrate away from static device > tree representations of partition info entirely. UBI volumes are best > where possible. If not, then some other kind of on-flash data structures > (along the lines of a GPT) with a corresponding MTD partition parser is > an OK alternative. Unfortunately, there isn't any good standard format > for this on MTD, so it's typically all custom -- and so people use the > easiest approach: device tree. And it's even more difficult with NAND, > which has reliability problems, especially with static data (e.g., read > disturb). Just as a side note, there is some work in this area: https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg232759.html > Anyway, the parser solution is helpful only if one can properly fix the > "flag day" first. And it requires a little bit more work to be generally > useful; I posted some work for this over a year ago, but bikeshedding > brought it down. Best regards, ladis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
