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* [PATCH linux-next v4 00/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Add NAND partitioning support
@ 2015-12-13 22:42 Simon Arlott
  2015-12-13 22:44 ` Simon Arlott
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From: Simon Arlott @ 2015-12-13 22:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ralf Baechle, David Woodhouse, Brian Norris, Kevin Cernekee,
	Florian Fainelli, Jonas Gorski
  Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List, MIPS Mailing List, MTD Maling List

The BCM963xx NAND flash boards have a different handling of the
partition layout from the NOR flash boards. For NAND there are offsets
for the partitions in nvram. Both types of boards use the same CFE
bootloader, nvram format and image tag in their rootfs partitions.

This patch series:
1-4:  Creates separate header files for bcm963xx_nvram and bcm_tag structures
5:    Updates the bcm_tag field image_sequence
6:    Removes the dependency on mach-bcm63xx from the bcm63xxpart parser
7:    Removes unused mach-bcm63xx nvram function
8-10: Cleanup and move NOR flash layout to a separate function
11:   Add NAND flash layout support

Patches 1-2 tested on BCM63XX with a BCM963168 (NAND) board.
Patches 3-11 compile tested on BCM63XX.
Patches 6-11 tested on BMIPS with a BCM963168 (NAND) board.
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v4: Move struct bcm_tag to include/linux/.

    Modify bcm63xx parser to read nvram from NOR flash and handle the
    NAND flash layout in the same parser.

v3: Fix includes/type names, add comments explaining the nvram struct.

    Use COMPILE_TEST.

    Ensure that strings read from flash are null terminated and validate
    bcm_tag integer values (this also moves reporting of rootfs sequence
    numbers to later on).

v2: Use external struct bcm963xx_nvram definition for bcm963268part.

    Removed support for the nand partition number field, it's not a
    standard Broadcom field (was added by MitraStar Technology Corp.).

-- 
Simon Arlott

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2015-12-13 22:42 [PATCH linux-next v4 00/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Add NAND partitioning support Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:44 ` Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:45 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 01/11] MIPS: bcm963xx: Add Broadcom BCM963xx board nvram data structure Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:46 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 02/11] MIPS: bcm63xx: nvram: Use nvram structure definition from header file Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:46 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 03/11] MIPS: bcm963xx: Move Broadcom BCM963xx image tag data structure Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:47 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 04/11] MIPS: bcm963xx: Move extended flash address to bcm_tag header file Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:48 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 05/11] MIPS: bcm963xx: Update bcm_tag field image_sequence Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:49 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 06/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Remove dependency on mach-bcm63xx Simon Arlott
2016-02-12 18:49   ` Brian Norris
2015-12-13 22:50 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 07/11] MIPS: bcm63xx: nvram: Remove unused bcm63xx_nvram_get_psi_size() function Simon Arlott
2016-01-26 19:16   ` Brian Norris
2016-02-12 18:53     ` Brian Norris
2015-12-13 22:51 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 08/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Extract read of image tag to separate function Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:51 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 09/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Null terminate and validate conversion of flash strings Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:52 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 10/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Move NOR flash layout to a separate function Simon Arlott
2015-12-13 22:53 ` [PATCH linux-next v4 11/11] mtd: bcm63xxpart: Add NAND partitioning support Simon Arlott
2016-01-27 23:07   ` Brian Norris

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