Hi Wolfgang,
Thanks for the suggestions.
I went through some of the documents. I found that the partitions and
their offsets and partition names are provided in the .dts file. I hope I have
understood it right.
Regards,
Afzal Nadirshah
-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:w...@denx.de]
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 5:37 PM
To: Afzal Nadirshah
Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Creating partitions on NAND flash
Dear Afzal Nadirshah,
In message <174230991e95d743b0c91df471ef44e8434f1c5...@mtw02msg02.mindtree.com>
you wrote:
>
> I would like to partition the NAND flash on a canyonlands board. As per my
> understanding, the partitioning is done using the "add_mtd_partitions"
> function in the file "drivers/mtd/mtdpart.c".
Look at the "mtdparts" command.
> I also understand that the information about a partition is stored in the
> structure : "struct mtd_partition" .
> I could not find out where this structure is getting populated in the u-boot
> code.
How about trying something like "grep -lr mtd_partition *" ?
> My aim is to add more such partitions on the NAND flash on my board. Any
> information regarding partitioning the flash is highly appreciated.
Reading the documentation is usually pretty helpful.
I really recommend it.
See for example
http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootCmdGroupFlash#UBootCmdFlMtdparts
and
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/BootTimeConfigurationOfMTDPartitions
Also, you should definitely look into UBI support if you're using this
on NAND flash.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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