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Subject: Re: GEOM_MTD
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In message: <201002171359.27822.jhb@freebsd.org>
            John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: On Thursday 11 February 2010 11:02:34 am Alexandr Rybalko wrote:
: > Hi,
: > 
: > in attachment GEOM module to support MTD partitioning.
: > All systems in which I have seen support MTD partitions do it via values in 
: source code.
: > For more convenient change the partitions, I use hints.
: > 
: > Example hints file also in attachment.
: > In this example one of partitions (0x00040000-0x003e0000) split by keyword 
: '--PaCkImGs--' into two partitions ("kernel" and
: > "roots")
: > Others think things will be clear from the file itself.
: 
: Hmm, it appears that the attachment was stripped.  Perhaps you could post the 
: code to a public URL?  Also, I would suggest that using
: 
: hint.mtd.X.start="search"
: 
: might be more intuitive than
: 
: hint.mtd.X.search="start"
: 
: Then each partition always had a 'start' and 'end' value.  You could just 
: reject hints that have 'search' for both the start and end.

I'm concerned about how general this will be, mostly because I've seen
things in the Linux world either pass in the partitioning, or the
partitioning was hard coded in the platform files.

Warner