Re: [PATCH 1/8] partitions/efi: use lba-aware partition records
From: Karel Zak
Date: Mon Sep 02 2013 - 06:11:03 EST
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:21:09PM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>
> +typedef struct _gpt_record {
> + u8 boot_indicator; /* unused by EFI, set to 0x80 for bootable */
> + u8 start_head; /* unused by EFI, pt start in CHS */
> + u8 start_sector; /* unused by EFI, pt start in CHS */
> + u8 start_track;
> + u8 os_type; /* EFI and legacy non-EFI OS types */
> + u8 end_head; /* unused by EFI, pt end in CHS */
> + u8 end_sector; /* unused by EFI, pt end in CHS */
> + u8 end_track; /* unused by EFI, pt end in CHS */
> + __le32 starting_lba; /* used by EFI - start addr of the on disk pt */
> + __le32 size_in_lba; /* used by EFI - size of pt in LBA */
> +} __attribute__ ((packed)) gpt_record;
> +
Maybe it would be better to rename this struct to "gpt_mbr_record" to
make it more obvious.
Karel
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