Re: getting support for command-line flash partitioning

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 10:45 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

quoted

   so how is this being added to the files?  as in, who will add this
feature to the individual files, and get it pushed upstream, if that's
what's going to happen?  just curious as to how this feature will
eventually end up in the mainstream.

The owner of each board support ('map') file is expected to make sure
that it's kept up to date in my CVS tree. Periodically I push updates to
Linus, although individuals are welcome to send their own changes to
Linus as soon as they're committed to CVS too.

ok, i was just trying to figure out how the different versions of the
kernel i have have such differing levels of that CMDLINE support.

the original kernel tree i have from embedded planet (approx. 2.4.22)
has a small number of map files that make any reference to that
feature.  the CVS tree from denx (2.4.25) has considerably more.  and
neither the latest "bk pull" of the 2.5/2.6 kernel from bkbits.net, or
the standard 2.6 kernel on my fedora core system has *any* support for
that feature in the map files (even though the kernel has the internal
support).

i was just trying to figure out the logical flow of how that feature
worked its way in.  thanks.

rday

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