On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 12:21:00AM +0300, 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, That's weird, because nothin in Linux relies in EFI partition tables. > 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. Didn't we plan to just support the actual partition table format insted?
