On 6 April 2015 at 23:13, Paul Kocialkowski <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
You can use GPT nonetheless. http://linux-sunxi.org/Bootable_SD_card#GPT_.28experimental.29 HTH Michal -- 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.
