[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH 1/1] FAT Bare Partition Support

Michal Simek monstr at seznam.cz
Mon Jun 16 10:58:54 CEST 2008


Hi Antonio

I am not responsible for this part of U-BOOT but your patch contain coding style
violation.

Regards,
Michal Simek

> Logic unit:
> Purpose:    Add support for bare partitions (no partition table)
> Author:     Antnoio R. Costa <antonio.costa <at> atmel.com>
> Date  :     11 Jun 2008
> 
> Status:
> ~~~~~~
> Some SD cards are not formatted with a partition table but with
> just a bare partition at the beginnig of the memory.
> 
> I modified get_partition_info_extended to call test_block_type
> as done by print_partition_extended. In this way bare FAT partitions
> are recognised. Now we need a test for Ext2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antonio R. Costa <antonio.costa at atmel.com>
> 
> diff --git a/disk/part_dos.c b/disk/part_dos.c
> index 4d778ec..e5cc8aa 100644
> --- a/disk/part_dos.c
> +++ b/disk/part_dos.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
>  /*
> + * (C) Copyright 2008 Atmel Corp.
> + * Antonio R. Costa <antonio.costa <at> atmel.com>
> + *                  <costa.antonior <at> gmail.com>

choose only one email

>   * (C) Copyright 2001
>   * Raymond Lo, lo at routefree.com
>   * Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd at denx.de.
> @@ -53,6 +56,11 @@ static inline int le32_to_int(unsigned char *le32)
>  	   );
>  }
>  
> +static inline int le16_to_int(unsigned char *le16)
> +{
> +    return ((le16[1] << 8) + le16[0]);
> +}
> +

this should be in header file

>  static inline int is_extended(int part_type)
>  {
>      return (part_type == 0x5 ||
> @@ -166,12 +174,20 @@ static int get_partition_info_extended (block_dev_desc_t *dev_desc, int ext_part
>  	unsigned char buffer[DEFAULT_SECTOR_SIZE];
>  	dos_partition_t *pt;
>  	int i;
> -
> +	

Coding style issue.

>  	if (dev_desc->block_read (dev_desc->dev, ext_part_sector, 1, (ulong *) buffer) != 1) {
>  		printf ("** Can't read partition table on %d:%d **\n",
>  			dev_desc->dev, ext_part_sector);
>  		return -1;
>  	}
> +
> +/* 
> + * ARC:	This check is bad: 
> + * unfortunately both MBR and FAT bootsector
> + * have a sign 0x55aa @ 0x1FF
> + * I replaced it by test_block_type as in
> + * print_partition_extended
> + 
>  	if (buffer[DOS_PART_MAGIC_OFFSET] != 0x55 ||
>  		buffer[DOS_PART_MAGIC_OFFSET + 1] != 0xaa) {
>  		printf ("bad MBR sector signature 0x%02x%02x\n",
> @@ -179,7 +195,19 @@ static int get_partition_info_extended (block_dev_desc_t *dev_desc, int ext_part
>  			buffer[DOS_PART_MAGIC_OFFSET + 1]);
>  		return -1;
>  	}
> -
> +*/
> +	i=test_block_type(buffer);
> +	
> +	if(i==-1) {
> +		printf ("bad MBR sector signature 0x%02x%02x\n",
> +			buffer[DOS_PART_MAGIC_OFFSET],
> +			buffer[DOS_PART_MAGIC_OFFSET + 1]);
> +		return -1;
> +	}
> +	
> +	if(i==DOS_PBR)
> +		return -1;
> +	
>  	/* Print all primary/logical partitions */
>  	pt = (dos_partition_t *) (buffer + DOS_PART_TBL_OFFSET);
>  	for (i = 0; i < 4; i++, pt++) {
> @@ -193,6 +221,7 @@ static int get_partition_info_extended (block_dev_desc_t *dev_desc, int ext_part
>  			info->blksz = 512;
>  			info->start = ext_part_sector + le32_to_int (pt->start4);
>  			info->size  = le32_to_int (pt->size4);
> +
>  			switch(dev_desc->if_type) {
>  				case IF_TYPE_IDE:
>  				case IF_TYPE_SATA:
> @@ -208,6 +237,13 @@ static int get_partition_info_extended (block_dev_desc_t *dev_desc, int ext_part
>  				case IF_TYPE_DOC:
>  					sprintf ((char *)info->name, "docd%c%d\n", 'a' + dev_desc->dev, part_num);
>  					break;
> +				case IF_TYPE_MMC:
> +					sprintf ((char *)info->name, "mmc%c%d\n", 'a' + dev_desc->dev, part_num);
> +					break;
> +				case IF_TYPE_SD:
> +				case IF_TYPE_SDHC:
> +					sprintf ((char *)info->name, "sd%c%d\n", 'a' + dev_desc->dev, part_num);
> +					break;
>  				default:
>  					sprintf ((char *)info->name, "xx%c%d\n", 'a' + dev_desc->dev, part_num);
>  					break;
> 
> 

Regards,
Michal Simek





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