PINE64+ 2GB - with U-Boot SPL 2019.10 - bootaa64.efi do not find UFS partition

[Thomas Skibo]

> U-Boot SPL 2019.10 (Oct 10 2019 - 18:05:29 +0200)
> DRAM: 2048 MiB
> Trying to boot from MMC1
> NOTICE:  BL31: v2.0(release):
> 
> >>
>  FreeBSD EFI boot block
> 
>     Loader path: /boot/loader.efi
> 
>     Initializing modules: ZFS UFS
>     Load Path: /efi\boot\bootaa64.efi
>     Load Device: 
> /VenHw(e61d73b9-a384-4acc-aeab-82e828f3628b)/SD(0)/SD(0)/HD(1,0x01,0,0x403b,0x20000)
>     Probing 3 block devices...... done
>      ZFS found no pools
>      UFS found no partitions
> Failed to load '/boot/loader.efi'
> panic: No bootable partitions found!
> ## Application terminated, r = 1


I’ve been looking into this.  As of u-boot v2019.10, there are some extra checks in efi_disk_read_blocks() and now it will fail with EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER if the buffer isn’t aligned.  In my case, efi_disk_read_blocks() was called with a buffer address of 0x1da06040 but with this->media->io_align = 512.  (See lib/efi_loader/efi_disk.c line 125.). Evidently,loader.efi is making disk calls with unaligned buffers but it wasn’t an issue until these checks were added.  That’s as far as I got debugging this.


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Thomas Skibo
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