In message tRKYbCxtg4wg.vWbVtGHk@mailout.dof.se you wrote:
=> We also need to understand if we are talking about the same thing. I have this feeling that mtdparts exist to divide the rootfs into several areas while the dataflash partioning is there purely for U-boot purposes.
Please see for example http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/BootTimeConfigurationOfMTDPartitions, and look up the section about "mtdparts" in CHANGELOG-before-U-Boot-1.1.5
OK, seems reasonable to use mtdparts, except that I think it would be useful to be able to supply arguments in an incremental way so you can build up your partition table using multiple mtdparts commands.
Also, I am not sure that mtdparts know about 1056 byte pages. Maybe "k" could mean 1056 for dataflash parts?
Best Regards Ulf Samuelsson