On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 06:37:23PM +0530, Hrishikesh Bhandiwad wrote: > In the nand partition table specifying the offset addresses > directly instead of using the macro MTDPART_OFS_APPEND to gain > runtime efficiency while nand initialization. > MTDPART_OFS_APPEND has the value (-1) ,if assigned to offset, > a runtime calculation of actual offset happens each time nand is > initialized [ Refer: drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c: allocate_partition()]. > To avoid this , specify actual offset. > > Signed-off-by: Hrishikesh Bhandiwad <hrishikesh.b@xxxxxx> did you measure any significant gains when doing this ? Also, why only beagle ? why not all boards already ? Measurment data of how long it takes for the runtime calculation of the offset to complete would be nice to see. -- balbi
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