From 2b9a31d762f0441ab87cb76524c005adf54d6719 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Mi=C5=82ecki?= Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 23:13:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] dt-bindings: mtd: partitions: support marking rootfs partition MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Reviewed-by: Rob Herring Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20221022211318.32009-1-zajec5@gmail.com --- .../devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/fixed-partitions.yaml | 1 + Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/fixed-partitions.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/fixed-partitions.yaml index ad3ccd2..d66a6e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/fixed-partitions.yaml +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/fixed-partitions.yaml @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ examples: partition@0 { label = "filesystem"; reg = <0x00000000 0x1 0x00000000>; + linux,rootfs; }; }; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml index f1a02d8..a25cd23 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/partitions/partition.yaml @@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ properties: immune to paired-pages corruptions type: boolean + linux,rootfs: + description: Marks partition that contains root filesystem to mount and boot + user space from + if: not: required: [ reg ] -- 2.7.4