> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 12:49:25 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Mark Kettenis <[email protected]>
>
> > Could it be this problem is related to
> > sys/arch/amd64/stand/efi/include/i386/efibind.h using sys/stdint.h
> > which looks like it will make uint64_t unsigned long on for BOOTIA32.EFI
> > not unsigned long long?
>
> We consistently define uint64_t as unsigned long long (unlike some
> other OSes) so this shouldn't be the case.
>
> I didn't look in detail at the report yet, but I can confirm that I
> had a similar problem on the Asus x205ta. I worked around it by
> nuking the GPT and using a traditional MBR partition table instead.
> Never got around investigating the issue any further.
Seems that this is a structure memberalignment issue:
For BOOTX64 we have:
(gdb) print &((EFI_BLOCK_IO_MEDIA *)0)->LastBlock
$1 = (EFI_LBA *) 0x18
wheras for BOTIA32 we get:
(gdb) print &((EFI_BLOCK_IO_MEDIA *)0)->LastBlock
$1 = (EFI_LBA *) 0x14
Looking at the struct definition:
typedef struct {
UINT32 MediaId;
BOOLEAN RemovableMedia;
BOOLEAN MediaPresent;
BOOLEAN LogicalPartition;
BOOLEAN ReadOnly;
BOOLEAN WriteCaching;
UINT32 BlockSize;
UINT32 IoAlign;
EFI_LBA LastBlock;
} EFI_BLOCK_IO_MEDIA;
We see that the 64-bit code has padding between IoAlign and LastBlock
to make sure that LastBlock is properly aligned. That padding isn't
there in the 32-bit code since the System V ABI doesn't require 64-bit
alignment here. But I guess the 32-bit Windows ABI does.
