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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87ef9fxq5z.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Content-Language: en-US X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20190114_064623_248043_ED5A0424 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 17.02 ) X-BeenThere: linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org, Andreas Fenkart , krzysztof.michonski@digitalstrom.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-amlogic" Errors-To: linux-amlogic-bounces+linux-amlogic=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org Hi Peter, On 14/01/2019 15:35, Peter Korsgaard wrote: >>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Armstrong writes: > > > Hi Andreas, > > On 14/01/2019 10:54, Andreas Fenkart wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> What is a feasible way to port the vendor supplied > >> drivers/amlogic/mmc/emmc_partitions.c into something that could be > >> mainlined? My thought is to create a custom block/partition/amlogic.c > >> driver. Would that have a chance to be included in mainline? > > > Basically, Amlogic uses the eMMC main partition as a MTD devices and uses a > > custom DT partition scheme to export named MTD partitions to user-space. > > > They don't use any "standard" partitions schemes on the eMMC main HW partition. > > > Mainline will never support DT-defined MMC partitions, and will never support > > a MTD indirection to a MMC HW partition either. > > > You can try to implement something similar using FUSE, but it won't be simple. > > Not knowing anything about the vendor driver, if this is just about > splitting up a single eMMC partition in sub blocks and not about MTD, > then this can be easily done with the dm-linear target of device mapper, > E.G. something like: > > dmsetup create FOO --table "0 linear /dev/mmcblk0 " > Indeed, it would help, thanks for the pointer. Andreas, this should be done from user-space in an initramfs code right before switching root to the legacy userspace, for example, nothing in the kernel will be accepted to do that. Neil _______________________________________________ linux-amlogic mailing list linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-amlogic