[PATCH 1/6] ARM: dts: am335x-phycore-som: Update NAND partition table

On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 09:56:20AM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
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The best solution would be to try to migrate away from static device
tree representations of partition info entirely. UBI volumes are best
where possible. If not, then some other kind of on-flash data structures
(along the lines of a GPT) with a corresponding MTD partition parser is
an OK alternative. Unfortunately, there isn't any good standard format
for this on MTD, so it's typically all custom -- and so people use the
easiest approach: device tree. And it's even more difficult with NAND,
which has reliability problems, especially with static data (e.g., read
disturb).

Just as a side note, there is some work in this area:
https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg232759.html

Anyway, the parser solution is helpful only if one can properly fix the
"flag day" first. And it requires a little bit more work to be generally
useful; I posted some work for this over a year ago, but bikeshedding
brought it down.

Best regards,
	ladis