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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:12:53 -0700
From:      Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r273865 - in head: sbin/fsck_msdosfs sys/boot/amd64/boot1.efi
Message-ID:  <20141030231253.GA50728@ambrisko.com>
In-Reply-To: <5452B940.1090609@freebsd.org>
References:  <201410301552.s9UFq1WV098951@svn.freebsd.org> <5452B940.1090609@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 03:18:40PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
| You may want to change the generation of boot1.efifat to have a 4096 
| byte sector size. We also need to find out if all EFI BIOSes can deal 
| with 4096-byte FAT filesystems on 512-byte disks.

Yes, there is more work in general to make this fully working.  Atleast
this give people a starting point.  It looks like we should be able to
test this with Qemu since it takes a physical sector size as an argument.

Hopefully makefs can learn to do FAT32 and avoid these issues.

Bruce's comments are good and I'll take a look his suggested changes.

Right now I'm trying to figure out why UEFI PXE is hanging after
the first file is looked up on some machines.

Thanks,

Doug A.
 
| On 10/30/14 08:52, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
| >Author: ambrisko
| >Date: Thu Oct 30 15:52:01 2014
| >New Revision: 273865
| >URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/273865
| >
| >Log:
| >   Make UEFI booting of 4Kn disks work:
| >         -	convert boot1.efi to corrrectly calculate the lba for what 
| >         the
| >   	media reports and convert the size based on what FreeBSD uses.
| >   	The existing code would use the 512 byte lba and convert the
| >   	size using 4K byte size.
| >         -	make fsck_msdosfs read the boot block as 4K so the read 
| >         doesn't
| >   	fail on a 4Kn drive since FreeBSD will error out parition reads
| >   	of a block.  Make the bpbBytesPerSec check a multiple of 512 since
| >   	it can be 512 or 4K depending on the disk.  This allows fsck to
| >   	pass checking the EFI partition on a 4Kn disk.
| >   
| >   To create the EFI file system I used:
| >   	newfs_msdos -F 32 -S 4096 -c 1 -m 0xf8 <partition>
| >   This works for booting 512 and 4Kn disks.
| >   
| >   Caveat is that loader.efi cannot read the 4Kn EFI partition.  This isn't
| >   critical right now since boot1.efi will read loader.efi from the ufs
| >   partition.  It looks like loader.efi can be fixed via making some of the
| >   512 bytes reads more flexible.  loader.efi doesn't have trouble reading
| >   the ufs partition.  This is probably a simple fix.
| >   
| >   I now have FreeBSD installed on a system with 4Kn drives and tested the
| >   same code works on 512.
| >   
| >   MFC after:	1 week
| >
| >Modified:
| >   head/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/boot.c
| >   head/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/dosfs.h
| >   head/sys/boot/amd64/boot1.efi/boot1.c
| >
| >Modified: head/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/boot.c
| >==============================================================================
| >--- head/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/boot.c	Thu Oct 30 15:41:25 2014 (r273864)
| >+++ head/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/boot.c	Thu Oct 30 15:52:01 2014 (r273865)
| >@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ readboot(int dosfs, struct bootblock *bo
| >  	    boot->bpbResSectors + boot->bpbFATs * boot->FATsecs -
| >  	    CLUST_FIRST * boot->bpbSecPerClust;
| >  
| >-	if (boot->bpbBytesPerSec % DOSBOOTBLOCKSIZE != 0) {
| >+	if (boot->bpbBytesPerSec % DOSBOOTBLOCKSIZE_REAL != 0) {
| >  		pfatal("Invalid sector size: %u", boot->bpbBytesPerSec);
| >  		return FSFATAL;
| >  	}
| >
| >Modified: head/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/dosfs.h
| >==============================================================================
| >--- head/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/dosfs.h	Thu Oct 30 15:41:25 2014 (r273864)
| >+++ head/sbin/fsck_msdosfs/dosfs.h	Thu Oct 30 15:52:01 2014 (r273865)
| >@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@
| >  #ifndef DOSFS_H
| >  #define DOSFS_H
| >  
| >-#define DOSBOOTBLOCKSIZE 512
| >+/* support 4Kn disk reads */
| >+#define DOSBOOTBLOCKSIZE_REAL 512
| >+#define DOSBOOTBLOCKSIZE 4096
| >  
| >  typedef	u_int32_t	cl_t;	/* type holding a cluster number */
| >  
| >
| >Modified: head/sys/boot/amd64/boot1.efi/boot1.c
| >==============================================================================
| >--- head/sys/boot/amd64/boot1.efi/boot1.c	Thu Oct 30 15:41:25 2014 
| >(r273864)
| >+++ head/sys/boot/amd64/boot1.efi/boot1.c	Thu Oct 30 15:52:01 2014 
| >(r273865)
| >@@ -168,9 +168,12 @@ static int
| >  dskread(void *buf, u_int64_t lba, int nblk)
| >  {
| >  	EFI_STATUS status;
| >+	int size;
| >  
| >+	lba = lba / (bootdev->Media->BlockSize / DEV_BSIZE);
| >+	size = nblk * DEV_BSIZE;
| >  	status = bootdev->ReadBlocks(bootdev, bootdev->Media->MediaId, lba,
| >-	    nblk * bootdev->Media->BlockSize, buf);
| >+	    size, buf);
| >  
| >  	if (EFI_ERROR(status))
| >  		return (-1);
| >



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