Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] partitions: Introduce NVIDIA Tegra Partition Table

[Dmitry Osipenko]

25.02.2020 03:20, Stephen Warren ÐÐÑÐÑ:
> On 2/24/20 4:18 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> All NVIDIA Tegra devices use a special partition table format for the
>> internal storage partitioning. Most of Tegra devices have GPT partition
>> in addition to TegraPT, but some older Android consumer-grade devices do
>> not or GPT is placed in a wrong sector, and thus, the TegraPT is needed
>> in order to support these devices properly in the upstream kernel. This
>> patch adds support for NVIDIA Tegra Partition Table format that is used
>> at least by all NVIDIA Tegra20 and Tegra30 devices.
> 
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra.c b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/tegra.c
> 
>> +static void __init tegra_boot_config_table_init(void)
>> +{
>> +ÂÂÂ void __iomem *bct_base;
>> +ÂÂÂ u16 pt_addr, pt_size;
>> +
>> +ÂÂÂ bct_base = IO_ADDRESS(TEGRA_IRAM_BASE) + TEGRA_IRAM_BCT_OFFSET;
> 
> This shouldn't be hard-coded. IIRC, the boot ROM writes a BIT (Boot
> Information Table) to a fixed location in IRAM, and there's some value
> in the BIT that points to where the BCT is in IRAM. In practice, it
> might work out that the BCT is always at the same place in IRAM, but
> this certainly isn't guaranteed. I think there's code in U-Boot which
> extracts the BCT location from the BIT? Yes, see
> arch/arm/mach-tegra/ap.c:get_odmdata().

Thank you very much, I didn't know about that.

I checked whether Nexus 7 and A500 have a correct pointer in the BIT and
they have it. I'll take it into account in v2, thank you again.