Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: uDPU: update partition table

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Mon Mar 21 2022 - 08:42:01 EST


On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 01:17:27PM +0100, Robert Marko wrote:
> Partition currently called "uboot" does not only contain U-boot, but
> rather it contains TF-A, U-boot and U-boot environment.
>
> So, to avoid accidentally deleting the U-boot environment which is
> located at 0x180000 split the partition.
>
> "uboot" is not the correct name as you can't boot these boards with U-boot
> only, TF-A must be present as well, so rename the "uboot" partition to
> "firmware".

Are there any ABI issues here? If these names are being used
somewhere, you are potentially breaking the boot. At minimum, i would
like to see something in the commit message which indicates you have
considered this and why you don't expect it to be a problem.

Andrew