From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Eugene Korenevsky <ekorenevsky@gmail.com>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] efi: take size of partition entry from GPT header
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:27:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180911162741.GC3902@linux-r8p5> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180911161527.GA30689@vnote>
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, Eugene Korenevsky wrote:
>Use gpt_header.sizeof_partition_entry instead of sizeof(gpt_entry)
>for GPT entry size.
>According to UEFI 2.7 spec 5.3.1 "GPT overview":, the size of a GUID Partition
>Entry element is defined in the Size Of Partition Entry field of GPT header.
>The GPT with entries sized more than sizeof(gpt_entry) is not illegal.
>OVMF firmware from EDK2 perfectly works with it, see edk2-tianocore source
>code.
But _why_ is this needed? Does this firmware need larger sized entries (ie: does
not work without it)?
Thanks,
Davidlohr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-11 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-11 16:15 [PATCH v2] efi: take size of partition entry from GPT header Eugene Korenevsky
2018-09-11 16:27 ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2018-09-11 16:42 ` Eugene Korenevsky
2018-09-11 22:56 ` kbuild test robot
2018-09-11 22:59 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-09-11 23:20 ` kbuild test robot
2018-09-12 8:38 ` Karel Zak
2018-09-13 13:06 ` David Laight
2018-09-13 19:48 ` Eugene Korenevsky
2018-09-14 9:01 ` David Laight
2018-09-14 11:07 ` kzak
2018-10-06 18:41 ` Eugene Korenevsky
2018-10-08 11:15 ` Karel Zak
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