PartMan
Rick Murray (539) 13405 posts |
Hmmm, there’s an early incarnation of a partition manager in CVS. Sounds interesting. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 7932 posts |
I noticed when it appeared. |
Andrew Rawnsley (492) 1409 posts |
It’s related to work for one of the commercial ARMX6 customers. We have test ROMs supporting paritioned SATA and USB devices, but it is still early days. If anyone is interested, please contact me privately and we may be able to include you in the testing, assuming you have suitable kit. |
Mike Morris (1852) 89 posts |
I’d be interested but I’m responding here as others may have the same question – what exactly is ‘suitable kit’ in this instance? I currently have one 500GB & one 1TB USB hard drives which are part Filecore & part NTFS, one of which I’d be willing to repartition & use to trial your test ROMs. NB I’m running a Pandaboard, RO 5.22. |
Andrew Rawnsley (492) 1409 posts |
Whilst the USB-device support should work with on other hardware, at present the support is “baked into” ARMX6 ROMs, because that’s what the customer is using. It would probably be possible to produce soft-loaded SCSI modules for USB systems (and indeed, we test-format devices using USB connection to avoid accidentally damaging main drive), but right now we just have complete OS ROMs. So, suitable kit would mean an ARMX6 (or kit), a suitable drive and (ideally) a USB connection for partitioning (as explained in previous sentence). Bearing in mind that the work is being done by the lead ARMX6 coder, this is, I think, reasonable. Also, ARMX6 is by far our most widely used platform, which makes it a reasonable test environment. However, once the code is stable and more complete, there’ll be no reason for it not to work on USB devices on other platforms, and we’ll look to integration with TiMachine ROMs, followed by Panda when that stage is reached. If it is practical to offer soft load, that may be a possiblity too, but we don’t tend to go that route, as it is too easy for softload items to get “left around” and version muddles to occur. |
Jess Hampshire (158) 864 posts |
A tool that ADFS formatted part of a drive and then created a standard partition table and an entry to match would be really useful. The rest of the drive could then be partitioned on another OS. |