Representing flash partitions in devicetree Partitions can be represented by sub-nodes of an mtd device. This can be used on platforms which have strong conventions about which portions of a flash are used for what purposes, but which don't use an on-flash partition table such as RedBoot. The partition table should be a subnode of the mtd node and should be named 'partitions'. This node should have the following property: - compatible : (required) must be "fixed-partitions" Partitions are then defined in subnodes of the partitions node. For backwards compatibility partitions as direct subnodes of the mtd device are supported. This use is discouraged. NOTE: also for backwards compatibility, direct subnodes that have a compatible string are not considered partitions, as they may be used for other bindings. #address-cells & #size-cells must both be present in the partitions subnode of the mtd device. There are two valid values for both: <1>: for partitions that require a single 32-bit cell to represent their size/address (aka the value is below 4 GiB) <2>: for partitions that require two 32-bit cells to represent their size/address (aka the value is 4 GiB or greater). Required properties: - reg : The partition's offset and size within the mtd bank. Optional properties: - label : The label / name for this partition. If omitted, the label is taken from the node name (excluding the unit address). - read-only : This parameter, if present, is a hint to Linux that this partition should only be mounted read-only. This is usually used for flash partitions containing early-boot firmware images or data which should not be clobbered. - lock : Do not unlock the partition at initialization time (not supported on all devices) Examples: flash@0 { partitions { compatible = "fixed-partitions"; #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; partition@0 { label = "u-boot"; reg = <0x0000000 0x100000>; read-only; }; uimage@100000 { reg = <0x0100000 0x200000>; }; }; }; flash@1 { partitions { compatible = "fixed-partitions"; #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <2>; /* a 4 GiB partition */ partition@0 { label = "filesystem"; reg = <0x00000000 0x1 0x00000000>; }; }; }; flash@2 { partitions { compatible = "fixed-partitions"; #address-cells = <2>; #size-cells = <2>; /* an 8 GiB partition */ partition@0 { label = "filesystem #1"; reg = <0x0 0x00000000 0x2 0x00000000>; }; /* a 4 GiB partition */ partition@200000000 { label = "filesystem #2"; reg = <0x2 0x00000000 0x1 0x00000000>; }; }; };