I have a request to support GPT over MTD to have the MTD informations without U-Boot environment(CONFIG_ENV_IS_NOWHERE is a other requirement of my project to manage several board configuration with the same defconfig; boot from NAND or NOR or SDCARD).
The current idea is to use the GPT header format to save the partitioning information directly in flash device (NOR or NAND), then the U-Boot MTD variables are rebuild from these GPT partitions and can be used by DISTRO command to search bootable binary.
This information are directly used by BootRom to locate and load the first bootstage.
The added code is under a new CONFIG : CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION_MTD and in the new file "disk/part_efi_mtd.c"
For implementation details, see doc/README.gpt.mtd
TODO: full support for modified command (if needed) today I limit the support for the command expected used by DISTRO macro: + gpt write + part list
PLANNED: DISTRO macro update for automatic boot on GPT bootable partition found in MTD devices => as it is needed for my project, I will propose an other patch when this on will be accepted
the current level is tested manually on sandbox with :
make O=sandbox sandbox_defconfig make O=sandbox dd if=/dev/zero of=spi.bin bs=1M count=4 sandbox/u-boot -d sandbox/arch/sandbox/dts/test.dtb
=> sf probe SF: Detected M25P16 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 2 MiB
=> setenv nor_part "name=part1,size=64KiB;name=part2,size=128KiB;\ name=boot,type=linux,bootable,size=512KiB" => gpt write nor 0 $nor_part Writing GPT: success!
=> part list nor 0 Part Start LBA End LBA Name Attributes Type GUID Partition GUID 1 0x00000080 0x000000ff "part1" attrs: 0x0000000000000000 type: ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 type: data guid: d117f98e-6f2c-0040-00b2-331a19f91cb2 2 0x00000100 0x000001ff "part2" attrs: 0x0000000000000000 type: ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 type: data guid: 25718777-d0ad-0000-8060-02cb591c9737 3 0x00000200 0x000005ff "boot" attrs: 0x0000000000000004 type: 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 type: linux guid: 8a4bb8b4-e304-0040-0036-aff5c9c495b1
=> setenv mtdids "nor0=nor0" => setenv mtdparts "mtdparts=" => mtdparts gpt nor0 => mtdparts device nor0 <nor0>, # parts = 3 #: name size offset mask_flags 0: part1 0x00010000 0x00010000 0 1: part2 0x00020000 0x00020000 0 2: boot 0x00080000 0x00040000 0
active partition: nor0,0 - (part1) 0x00010000 @ 0x00010000
defaults: mtdids : none mtdparts: none
=> part list nor 0 -bootable nor_boot_part => printenv nor_boot_part nor_boot_part=3
test filtering feature (can be used to mask some partitions to linux according the GUID) 1/ only add MTD for some guid = linux 2/ then add MTD for some guid = data
=> mtdparts delall => setenv mtdparts "mtdparts=" => setenv mtdids "nor0=nor0" => mtdparts gpt nor0 linux => mtdparts
device nor0 <nor0>, # parts = 1 #: name size offset mask_flags 0: boot 0x00080000 0x00040000 0
active partition: nor0,0 - (boot) 0x00080000 @ 0x00040000
defaults: mtdids : none mtdparts: none
=> mtdparts gpt nor0 data => mtdparts
device nor0 <nor0>, # parts = 3 #: name size offset mask_flags 0: part1 0x00010000 0x00010000 0 1: part2 0x00020000 0x00020000 0 2: boot 0x00080000 0x00040000 0
active partition: nor0,2 - (boot) 0x00080000 @ 0x00040000
defaults: mtdids : none mtdparts: none
Changes in v5: - rebase of the top of latest u-boot master - solve warning and error (dont' include linux/mtd/mtd.h in part.h)
Changes in v4: - change RFC to PATCH - update cover letter - rebase on v2017.03
Changes in v3: - solve issue in compute partition_entry_lba update : missing / lba_size - rework and split patches for unrelated change after review from Cristophe Kerello and Simon Glass - rebase on v2017.03-rc1
Changes in v2: - split serie to reduce patches size (separate disk part and cmd impact and add precursor patch) - split large function
Patrick Delaunay (16): uuid: add a function for GUID string parsing disk: part: refactor part_print_efi to prepare GPT over MTD disk: part: refactor part_get_info_efi to prepare GPT over MTD disk: part: prepare_backup_gpt_header rework disk: part: compute partition_entry_lba disk: part: efi: export internal function disk: part: add support of GPT partitioning over MTD cmd: gpt: remove blk_desc parameter in static function cmd: gpt: use error number in set_gpt_info cmd: gpt: add print_gpt_info_err cmd: gpt: update write command to support GPT over MTD cmd: part: update command to support GPT over MTD cmd: mtdparts: move PART_ADD_DESC_MAXLEN cmd: mtdparts: update command to support GPT over MTD uuid: remove dependency with io.h sandbox: GPT over MTD test
cmd/gpt.c | 128 +++++++++---- cmd/mtdparts.c | 144 ++++++++++++++- cmd/part.c | 49 ++++- configs/sandbox_defconfig | 3 + disk/Kconfig | 17 ++ disk/Makefile | 1 + disk/part_efi.c | 140 +++++++------- disk/part_efi_int.h | 36 ++++ disk/part_efi_mtd.c | 457 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ doc/README.gpt.mtd | 189 +++++++++++++++++++ include/configs/sandbox.h | 6 + include/part.h | 15 +- include/uuid.h | 1 + lib/uuid.c | 48 ++++- 14 files changed, 1111 insertions(+), 123 deletions(-) create mode 100644 disk/part_efi_int.h create mode 100644 disk/part_efi_mtd.c create mode 100644 doc/README.gpt.mtd