On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
All NVIDIA Tegra20..124 Android devices use proprietary bootloader which supplies the gpt_sector=<sector> kernel cmdline parameter that should be used for looking up the EFI partition table on internal EMMC storage. If the kernel cmdline parameter isn't supplied, then the partition is expected to be placed around the last but one sector of EMMC. Apparently this was done in order to hide the PT from a usual userspace tools since EFI entry exists only for compatibility with a Linux kernel, while a custom proprietary partition table is what is really used by these Android devices, thus these tools may corrupt the real PT, making device unbootable and very difficult to restore. Add support for the gpt_sector cmdline parameter which will be used for finding EFI entry on internal EMMC storage of NVIDIA Tegra20+ devices.
Since this is proprietary and playing yucky games hiding the pt, why not just force for the fallback on Nvidia's side and always just use the entry at the end of the block device? I'm not loving introducing a generic parameter for an obscure ad-hoc feature. Thanks, Davidlohr
