On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 03:07:55PM +0200, Andreas Bießmann wrote :
Right, I didn't really care about the end of the kernel partition as the 9261ek has an 8MiB dataflash and my rootfs is in NAND. The kernel is around 1.7MiB using the default configuration. Maybe, we should also extend its partition ?
well, I don't care about that too cause we usually don't have a dataflash in our devices.
I think for the eval kits it would be nice to have a board support package which can be loaded from different media. Unfortunately I used to work with bare UBoot, vanilla kernel a.s.o. Therefore I have not such deep insight into the atmel provided bsp's. In short words: I tend to say we should increase the space for kernel partition but I fear to break some special bsp's. As I can see the kernel do not provide a special mapping here. If you are not aware of some other source (e.g. linux4sam), let us increase the space for kernel a bit.
Actually, the two use cases listed on linux4sam are:
- at91bootstrap, u-boot, kernel in dataflash and rootfs in nand - at91bootstrap, u-boot, kernel and rootfs in nand
See: www.at91.com/linux4sam/bin/view/Linux4SAM/GettingStarted
Actually, the 9rlek, 9260ek and 9261ek have a 4MiB dataflash and the 9263ek doesn't have an embedded dataflash. I guess I'll change the mapping to still get 2MiB for the kernel.
regards,