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From: "Middelschulte, Leif" <Leif.Middelschulte@klsmartin.com>
To: "barebox@lists.infradead.org" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: erroneous behavior for iMX+GPT
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 14:15:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ec68b5aec8f0a144e9391dd1dfabe129ecdd4b6a.camel@klsmartin.com> (raw)

Hi,

setting up GPT on an iMX6, I noticed a small bug subject to CONFIG_PARTITION_DISK_EFI_GPT_NO_FORCE that leads to unparsed GPTs.

Background: The iMX supports the mmc user partition as bootmedia source too.

Problem: The (additional) filetype check[0] fails, if the given buffer contains multiple, subsequent file(type)s. The buffer might contain the beginning of a disk that contains i.e. a Barebox image
*and* a partition table. The function file_detect_type returns a single (first recognized) type[1]. In my case, it returns the Barebox image type.

There is a comment about this additional check noting it will be mandatory as it will be "[..] added to the EFI Spec. per Intel after v1.02.". Anybody can elaborate on that?
That feedback could help to understand why file_detect_partition_table is insufficient in this case.


[0] https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/tree/common/partitions/efi.c#n372
[1] https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/barebox/tree/common/filetype.c#n352

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             reply	other threads:[~2019-10-07 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-07 14:15 Middelschulte, Leif [this message]
2019-10-14 12:25 ` Sascha Hauer
2019-10-14 12:30   ` Middelschulte, Leif
2019-10-14 12:45     ` s.hauer
2019-10-14 13:02       ` Middelschulte, Leif

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