[U-Boot] [U-Boot, v3, 1/3] part_efi: support padding between the GPT header and partition entries

[Tom Rini]

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 <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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