boot: use packed attribute for edd_params* structures and their substructures

The sole purpose of this change is to make sure that sizeof produces
"canonical" sizes for these structures.  This is to avoid triggering
bugs in the BIOSes that properly handle only the canonical values of
input length provided to INT 13h AH=48h.
The canonical sizes are: 30 for v2, 66 for v3, etc.
Buggy BIOS code probably looks like:
if (input_length > 30) {   /* > v2 */
	assume that input length is 66 /* assume v3 or later */
}

This should fix boot problems at least on Supermicro X8DT6 and possibly
on P410i Smart Array Controller (as found in e.g. HP DL360 G7).

Reported by:	gnn, np, rstone
Debugged by:	rstone
Discussed with:	ae, np, rstone
MFC after:	4 days
This commit is contained in:
avg 2012-11-14 11:05:16 +00:00
parent f3878af120
commit a15bb2d1cb

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@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ struct edd_params {
uint16_t sector_size;
uint16_t edd_params_seg;
uint16_t edd_params_off;
};
} __packed;
struct edd_device_path_v3 {
uint16_t key;
@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ struct edd_device_path_v3 {
uint64_t device_path;
uint8_t reserved2[1];
uint8_t checksum;
};
} __packed;
struct edd_params_v3 {
struct edd_params params;
struct edd_device_path_v3 device_path;
};
} __packed;
struct edd_device_path_v4 {
uint16_t key;
@ -91,12 +91,12 @@ struct edd_device_path_v4 {
uint64_t device_path[2];
uint8_t reserved2[1];
uint8_t checksum;
};
} __packed;
struct edd_params_v4 {
struct edd_params params;
struct edd_device_path_v4 device_path;
};
} __packed;
#define EDD_FLAGS_DMA_BOUNDARY_HANDLING 0x0001
#define EDD_FLAGS_REMOVABLE_MEDIA 0x0002