Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] partitions: Introduce NVIDIA Tegra Partition Table
From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Mon Mar 23 2020 - 15:59:58 EST
23.03.2020 22:17, MichaÅ MirosÅaw ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> 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.
Please clarify what do you mean by "use the partition table later in
initrd instead".