This documents the new partition names added in the previous commit.
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson sean.anderson@seco.com ---
doc/android/fastboot.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/android/fastboot.rst b/doc/android/fastboot.rst index 2877c3cbaa..2ca80ae844 100644 --- a/doc/android/fastboot.rst +++ b/doc/android/fastboot.rst @@ -151,6 +151,34 @@ The device index starts from ``a`` and refers to the interface (e.g. USB controller, SD/MMC controller) or disk index. The partition index starts from ``1`` and describes the partition number on the particular device.
+ +Alternate Partition Names +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Partitions may also be specified like:: + + devnum.hwpartnum#partname + +or like:: + + devnum.hwpartnum:partnum + +Where + + * ``devnum`` is the MMC device number. This defaults to 0. + * ``hwpartnum`` is the hardware partition number. This defaults to 0 (the user + partition on eMMC devices). + * ``partname`` is the partition name on GPT devices. Partitions do not have + names on MBR devices. + * ``partnum`` is the partition number, starting from 1. The partition number 0 + is special, and specifies that the whole device is to be used as one + "partition." + +If neither ``partname`` nor ``partnum`` is specified and there is a partition +table, then partition 1 is used. If there is no partition table, then the whole +device is used as one "partion." Examples of alternate partition names include +``0.1``, ``0#boot``, and ``:3``. + Writing Partition Table -----------------------