[Arm-netbook] Repartitioning the internal flash

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:34 PM, JLB <j at twu.net> wrote:
> Okay, this brings up a very important question that's been in the back of
> my mind: Exactly what/where IS the 'firmware' in these machines?

blocks 57376 to 60352 of /dev/mmcblk0, aka /dev/mmcblk0p1.

> I kind of
> was under the impression that the contents of /dev/mmcblk0p1 itself
> constituted the 'firmware'-- i.e. that the bootloader, kernel, etc. lived
> there.

 yyyep.  the S3C6410 is hard-wired to read from mmcblk0, starting at
whatever address u-boot happens to have been written to.

>  Am I wrong in this naive notion?

 nnnnope.

> Is there some separate
> chunk-o-memory, ASIDE from the 2GB flash (mmcblk0), which contains the
> 'firmware' (bootloader, splash screens, plus whatever else)?

 nnope.