doc: Document partition specifications

This documents the way U-Boot understands partitions specifications.
This also updates the fastboot documentation for the changes in the
previous commit.

Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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Sean Anderson
2021-02-05 09:39:02 -05:00
committed by Marek Vasut
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@@ -154,6 +154,10 @@ The device index starts from ``a`` and refers to the interface (e.g. USB
controller, SD/MMC controller) or disk index. The partition index starts
from ``1`` and describes the partition number on the particular device.
Alternatively, partition types may be specified using :ref:`U-Boot's partition
syntax <partitions>`. This allows specifying partitions like ``0.1``,
``0#boot``, or ``:3``. The interface is always ``mmc``.
Writing Partition Table
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