[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 4/6] bcm53xx: bcm47xxpart: add support for parsing device tree partitions

Álvaro Fernández Rojas noltari at gmail.com
Sat May 16 07:53:55 EDT 2015


This patch splits firmware partition based on TRX header, while ofpart won't be able to split firmware partition into kernel (linux) + rootfs.
It's very similar to bcm63xx code, where bcmtag contains the information needed to split linux partition into kernel + rootfs.

El 16/05/2015 a las 13:16, Rafał Miłecki escribió:
> On 16 May 2015 at 13:11, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
>> On 05/16/2015 12:53 PM, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>  ...-bcm47xxpart-parse-device-tree-partitions.patch | 156 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 156 insertions(+)
>>>  create mode 100644 target/linux/bcm53xx/patches-3.18/401-mtd-bcm47xxpart-parse-device-tree-partitions.patch
>>>
>> What is the difference to just using the existing device tree  partition
>> parser: drivers/mtd/ofpart.c ?
> 
> Ack for the question, when submitting patches more complex that "add
> LEDs", please *describe* them / the changes.
> 
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