On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 09:10:39PM +0100, Philipp Tomsich wrote: > Some architectures require their SPL loader at a fixed address within > the first 16KB of the disk. To avoid an overlap with the partition > entries of the EFI partition table, the first safe offset (in bytes, > from the start of the device) for the entries can be set through > CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION_ENTRIES_OFF (via Kconfig) > > When formatting a device with an EFI partition table, we may need to > leave a gap between the GPT header (always in LBA 1) and the partition > entries. The GPT header already contains a field to specify the > on-disk location, which has so far always been set to LBA 2. With this > change, a configurable offset will be translated into a LBA address > indicating where to put the entries. > > Now also allows an override via device-tree using a config-node (see > doc/device-tree-bindings/config.txt for documentation). > > Tested (exporting an internal MMC formatted with this) against Linux, > MacOS X and Windows. > > Signed-off-by: Philipp Tomsich <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom
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