[U-Boot] [PATCH] gpt: Fix the protective MBR partition size

[Steve Rae <srae@broadcom.com>]

(+ Lukasz)
Interesting - I'll defer to Lukasz...
Thanks, Steve

On 15-01-08 03:26 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> According to the UEFI Spec (Table 16, section 5.2.3 of the version 2.4 Errata
> B), the protective MBR partition record size must be set to the size of the
> disk minus one, in LBAs.
>
> However, the current code was setting the size as the total number of LBAs on
> the disk, resulting in an off-by-one error.
>
> This confused the AM335x ROM code, and will probably confuse other tools as
> well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
> ---
>   disk/part_efi.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/disk/part_efi.c b/disk/part_efi.c
> index 612f0926b62b..5ca17c138e96 100644
> --- a/disk/part_efi.c
> +++ b/disk/part_efi.c
> @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ static int set_protective_mbr(block_dev_desc_t *dev_desc)
>   	p_mbr->signature = MSDOS_MBR_SIGNATURE;
>   	p_mbr->partition_record[0].sys_ind = EFI_PMBR_OSTYPE_EFI_GPT;
>   	p_mbr->partition_record[0].start_sect = 1;
> -	p_mbr->partition_record[0].nr_sects = (u32) dev_desc->lba;
> +	p_mbr->partition_record[0].nr_sects = (u32) dev_desc->lba - 1;
>
>   	/* Write MBR sector to the MMC device */
>   	if (dev_desc->block_write(dev_desc->dev, 0, 1, p_mbr) != 1) {
>