2011/9/28 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> It allows gerneral purpose partitions in MMC Device. >> And I try to simpliy make mmc_blk_alloc_parts using mmc_part structure suggested by Andrei Warkentin. >> After patching, we can see general purpose partitions like this. >>> cat /proc/partitions >> 179 0 847872 mmcblk0 >> 179 192 4096 mmcblk0gp4 >> 179 160 4096 mmcblk0gp3 >> 179 128 4096 mmcblk0gp2 >> 179 96 1052672 mmcblk0gp1 > > We notice there are 32 minors between 128 and 96, > how are these allocated? You can insert maximum minors in menuconfig. I set to 32. > >> 179 64 1024 mmcblk0boot1 >> 179 32 1024 mmcblk0boot0 > > Does this mean that each GP-partition can contain an MBR and thus several > subpartitions so we get things like: > > mmcblk0gp1p1, mmcblk0gp1p2... > > Yes, We can divide dos partitions(included MBR) using fdisk like your words(mmcblk0gp1p1, mmcblk0gp1p2...) > Yours, > Linus Walleij > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
