Qi - why only 3 partitions on SD card?

[Al Johnson]

On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there any specific reason why Qi[1] only tries to boot from partition 1
> - 3 when ther csn be 4 (four) primary prtitons on a SD card?
> Or is it just developer eccentrics or programmer laziness? :-)
>
> References:
> 1) http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Qi

I believe it's an arbitrary limit based on the assumption that with no gui it 
would be hard to select the intended partition. Given the touble people have 
with only 3 partitions it seems well founded.

This limitation is one of the reasons I'm still using u-boot. The other is the 
inability to pass optional kernel parameters when booting from NAND.