[U-Boot] [PATCH] part_efi: fix protective_mbr struct allocation

[Lukasz Majewski]

Hi Tom,

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 09:19:04AM +0100, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> > Hi Albert, Tom
> > 
> > > Hi Lukasz,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:45:41 +0100, Lukasz Majewski
> > > <l.majewski at majess.pl> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I think, that the patch for fixing the unaligned access in this
> > > > function has already been posted by Piotr Wilczek. We have
> > > > experienced similar issues with Samsung's Exynos4 based targets.
> > > > 
> > > > [PATCH V2] disk:efi: avoid unaligned access on efi partition
> > > > 
> > > > Despite its disappearance from patchwork it shall be available
> > > > at mailing list archive.
> > > > 
> > > > The v1 can be found at the following link:
> > > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/282753/
> > > 
> > > Neither V1 nor V2 have disappeared from patchwork. A "filter" on
> > > the subject, selecting "any" state and "both" archived and
> > > non-archived patches will return both:
> > > 
> > > V1: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/282753/ (New)
> > > V2: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/314717/ (Deferred)
> > > 
> > > (I think that the patchwork web interface does not make it
> > > possible at all to remove a patch anyway)
> > 
> > Thanks for pointing out. Now it is perfectly visible :-)
> 
> I've also un-deferred, for now, the patch as well.
> 
> > > > Inclusion of v2 has been postponed since there was a discussion
> > > > if we shall allow unaligned access (-mno-unaligned-access flag)
> > > > at armv7 (after patches posted by Tom).
> > > > 
> > > > As fair as I can tell, we will keep the current approach so, I
> > > > think that Tom will be willing to pull this patch (v2) now.
> > > 
> > > Agreed, but then we should make sure no one has comments on V2
> > > that they might have withheld due to the initial rejection of V2.
> > 
> > Any comments? 
> > 
> > This patch do fix unaligned access problem on Trats2 (Exynos4412),
> > when we restore/create GPT, so I would like to know if there are
> > any new inquires regarding this patch.
> 
> Can you give me some steps on how to hit this bug?  I believe it's a
> bug and I believe we need to fix it, I just want to investigate a few
> things while we've got a trigger case right now.  Thanks!

The easiest way is to type:

gpt write mmc 0 $partitions

before that you shall define several uuid's.

For reference please look into the Trats2/Trats code
and ./doc/README.gpt

As a side note - I'm using following toolchain:
CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/eldk-5.4/armv7a/sysroots/i686-eldk-linux/usr/bin/armv7a-vfp-neon-linux-gnueabi/arm-linux-gnueabi-

It is 4.7.2 from denx.de.

> 



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Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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