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dt-bindings: mtd: partitions: support marking rootfs partition
authorRafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Sat, 22 Oct 2022 21:13:17 +0000 (23:13 +0200)
committerMiquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Mon, 7 Nov 2022 16:14:17 +0000 (17:14 +0100)
commit2b9a31d762f0441ab87cb76524c005adf54d6719
treed02e8f7f6eb8336001e6bd6cd372cb9311ecbf18
parent895d68a39481a75c680aa421546931fb11942fa6
dt-bindings: mtd: partitions: support marking rootfs partition

Linux needs to know what to use as root device. On embedded devices with
flash the only common way to specify that is cmdline & root= parameter.

That solution works with U-Boot which is Linux & cmdline aware but isn't
available with all market bootloaders. Also that method is fragile:
1. Requires specific probing order on multi-flash devices
2. Uses hardcoded partitions indexes

A lot of devices use different partitioning methods. It may be
"fixed-partitions" or some dynamic partitioning (e.g. based on parts
table). For such cases allow "linux,rootfs" property to mark correct
flash partition.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20221022211318.32009-1-zajec5@gmail.com
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/fixed-partitions.yaml
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml