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authorAlexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>2015-02-08 23:52:00 +0100
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2015-02-14 08:40:34 +0000
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wic: allow creation of partitions not in table
For some architectures it is necessary to reserve space on disk without it being present in the partition table. For example, u-boot on i.mx is placed at an offset of 1kB on the sdcard. While it would be possible to create a partition at that offset and place u-boot there, it would then be necessary to update the default u-boot environment to use partition 2 on the mmc instead of partition 1. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
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@@ -737,6 +737,12 @@ DESCRIPTION
to start a partition on an x KBytes
boundary.
+ --no-table: This option is specific to wic. Space will be
+ reserved for the partition and it will be
+ populated but it will not be added to the
+ partition table. It may be useful for
+ bootloaders.
+
* bootloader
This command allows the user to specify various bootloader