Le lundi 06 avril 2015 à 23:13 +0200, Paul Kocialkowski a écrit : > (Resent from the correct address, sorry) > > I fancied the idea of using a GPT/EFI partition table for sdcards used > on sunxi devices, but it seems that GPT takes the first 34 sectors of > the card (with sectors of 512B, that's the first 17kiB), while the > U-Boot SPL starts at sector 16 (that's at 8kiB), so there is a conflict > here. > > Is anyone aware of another offset from which U-Boot SPL could be load by > the bootrom? I have started reverse engineering the bootrom code to find > out if there is such a thing in place (which I very much doubt, but who > knows, maybe Allwinner thought about this), but I'd appreciate any info > before spending too much time on it.
Oh, and needless to mention that the user manuals provide nothing useful about the boot process. Maybe I should just go and ask Allwinner people directly… > Thanks! > > -- > Paul Kocialkowski, Replicant developer > > Replicant is a fully free Android distribution running on several > devices, a free software mobile operating system putting the emphasis on > freedom and privacy/security. > > Website: http://www.replicant.us/ > Blog: http://blog.replicant.us/ > Wiki/tracker/forums: http://redmine.replicant.us/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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