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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1] partitions/efi: Add 'gpt_sector' kernel cmdline parameter
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24.02.2020 19:33, Karel Zak пишет:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 09:59:54AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> On 2/19/20 9:27 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 07:23:39PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>>>> The gpt_sector=<sector> causes the GPT partition search to look at the
>>>> specified sector for a valid GPT header if the GPT is not found at the
>>>> beginning or the end of block device.
>>>>
>>>> In particular this is needed for NVIDIA Tegra consumer-grade Android
>>>> devices in order to make them usable with the upstream kernel because
>>>> these devices use a proprietary / closed-source partition table format
>>>> for the EMMC and it's impossible to change the partition's format. Luckily
>>>> there is a GPT table in addition to the proprietary table, which is placed
>>>> in uncommon location of the EMMC storage and bootloader passes the
>>>> location to kernel using "gpt gpt_sector=<sector>" cmdline parameters.
>>>>
>>>> This patch is based on the original work done by Colin Cross for the
>>>> downstream Android kernel.
>>>
>>> I don't think a magic command line is the way to go. The best would be
>>> to reverse-engineer the proprietary partition table format. If that is
>>> too hard we can at least key off the odd GPT location based of it's
>>> magic number.
>
> +1
>
>> I thought that the backup GPT was always present in the standard location;
>
> If they have proprietary stuff on begin of the device and valid backup
> GPT at the end of the device then designer of this junk is crazy, because
> many GPT fdisk-like tools will try to recover from the backup header and
> overwrite the unknown (invalid) stuff at the begin of the device...

It's a problem created by vendor, but these devices are assumed to run
Android-only. So it's not really that bad :)

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