[Buildroot] [PATCH 3/5] board/raspberrypi: provide partition description for the new genimages

[Maxime Hadjinlian]

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
> Maxime, All,
>
> On 2014-01-04 18:12 +0100, Maxime Hadjinlian spake thusly:
>> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
>> > On 2014-01-04 17:40 +0100, Maxime Hadjinlian spake thusly:
>> >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
>> >> > +partalign=$((1048576))
>> >> > +size=$((32*1048576))
>> >> > +mbr_type=$((0x83))
>> >> > +size=$((9*1048576))
>> >> > +mbr_type=$((0xc))
>> >> Could you please add comments over the various size and also the
>> >> different type used, 0x83 is not really user friendly to read.
>> >
>> > 0x83 and 0xc are partition types, and there is a pointer in the manual
>> > for where to find their meanings and the different values:
>> >
>> >     * mbr_type (mandatory): the partition [type]
>> >
>> > where [type] is a pointer to:
>> >     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_type#List_of_partition_IDs
>> >
>> > But I can add such comments as this is an example.
>> Even if it's not an example.
>> This kind of file are meant to be read by humans, and as such, every
>> information such as partition type or size, should be along side a
>> comments for the human reader.
>
> <humour>
> Sorry, but I can read 9*1048576 very easily. But I'm no good reference,
> since I know by heart those powers of 2 up to about 16777216... :-p
>
> As for 0x83 and 0xc, I have run fdisk so many a time that I know what
> they mean, too! :-p
> </humour>
"I don’t even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, red-head" ;)
>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>
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