6 Apr
2023
6 Apr
'23
1 a.m.
On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 16:33:46 +0100, Tobias Waldekranz wrote:
Block maps are a way of looking at various sources of data through the lens of a regular block device. It lets you treat devices that are not block devices, like RAM, as if they were. It also lets you export a slice of an existing block device, which does not have to correspond to a partition boundary, as a new block device.
This is primarily useful because U-Boot's filesystem drivers only operate on block devices, so a block map lets you access filesystems wherever they might be located.
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Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
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Tom