wd@denx.de wrote on Thursday, November 08, 2007 8:29 PM:
In message 47F3F98010FF784EBEE6526EAAB078D1024F87C6@tq-mailsrv.tq-net.de you wrote:
OK, I see the point. I then propose to change the partitions to the following:
Why do you want to change everything again and again? Why cannot we simply settle now by what is being used by Linux, too?
I do not want to change everything again and again. The last change in the TQM5200 mtd partitioning was done by DENX (without posting the patch on the list, by the way), not by me. And this change is IMO not ideal, because the new partitioning does not suit for boards with less than 32 MiB flash memory (because the partition boarders do not lay on powers of 2). I tried to point this out on the linuxppc-dev mailing list, by commenting the patchset for the TQM5200 which contains the same (IMO wrong) partitions (in the dts).
There repeated changes are a maintenance nightmare for the users of
100% agreed. But the last change in U-Boot was done by DENX, without a chance of commenting for me. If I not fully agree on this changes, what else could I do than post a patch on the list for discussion?
the boards, so please restrict those to the cases where absolutely necessary. And keep in mind that U-Boot and Linus should be changed in sync.
Agreed. But TQM5200 support isn't in the Linus tree, yet. There were patches posted on the linuxppc-dev list. I tried to express my concerns regarding the flash partitioning on the list, to prevent getting an (IMO) unclean partitioning into the kernel. But propably I failed to express my concerns cleanly?
I don't know, what else I could do, to discuss/change a IMO wrong partitioning?
Best Regards, Martin Krause