Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] partitions: Introduce NVIDIA Tegra Partition Table

From: Michał Mirosław
Date: Mon Mar 23 2020 - 15:17:57 EST


On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 07:34:24PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> All NVIDIA Tegra devices use a special partition table format for the
> internal storage partitioning. Most of Tegra devices have GPT partition
> in addition to TegraPT, but some older Android consumer-grade devices do
> not or GPT is placed in a wrong sector, and thus, the TegraPT is needed
> in order to support these devices properly in the upstream kernel. This
> patch adds support for NVIDIA Tegra Partition Table format that is used
> at least by all NVIDIA Tegra20 and Tegra30 devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra.c | 54 ++++
[...]

Please split off this part and make the information available to
userspace (pt_addr + pt_size) if found. This would make it easier
to support use the partition table later in initrd instead.

Best Regards
Michał Mirosław