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authorGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>2013-10-17 17:04:47 +0300
committerGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>2013-10-17 17:41:49 +0300
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tree093c4311a737210bbdd3d1919f8193cb5f017241 /Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt
parentd570142674890fe10b3d7d86aa105e3dfce1ddfa (diff)
parent34ec4de42be5006abdd8d0c08b306ffaa64d0d5d (diff)
Powerpc KVM work is based on a commit after rc4.
Merging master into next to satisfy the dependencies. Conflicts: arch/arm/kvm/reset.c
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-Embedded device command line partition
+Embedded device command line partition parsing
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-Read block device partition table from command line.
-The partition used for fixed block device (eMMC) embedded device.
-It is no MBR, save storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed
+Support for reading the block device partition table from the command line.
+It is typically used for fixed block (eMMC) embedded devices.
+It has no MBR, so saves storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed
by absolute address of data on the block device.
Users can easily change the partition.