[PATCH] TiVo partition support

From: Steven Pritchard
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 12:15:44 EST


While trying to work out a problem with my Series 2 TiVo, I noticed
that recent kernels still don't have support for the modified Mac
partition table the TiVos use. Below is a lightly tested patch for
2.6.17 (which applies cleanly to 2.6.18 also) that adds the support.

This isn't even remotely original work. I adapted this from the patch
I found here:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/maxwells.daemon/tivo/downloads/tivo-partition-support-1.patch

Pete Zaitcev has an equivalent patch here (which I found after I had
already rebased the above patch):

http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/linux-2.6.16-rc5-tivo1.diff

diff -ur linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/partitions/Kconfig linux-2.6.17/fs/partitions/Kconfig
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/partitions/Kconfig 2006-06-17 20:49:35.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/partitions/Kconfig 2006-09-27 13:23:42.000000000 -0500
@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@
Say Y here if you would like to use hard disks under Linux which
were partitioned on a Macintosh.

+config TIVO_PARTITION
+ bool "TiVo partition map support" if MAC_PARTITION
+ help
+ Say Y here if you would like to include support for TiVo partitions.
+
config MSDOS_PARTITION
bool "PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED
default y
diff -ur linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/partitions/mac.c linux-2.6.17/fs/partitions/mac.c
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/partitions/mac.c 2006-06-17 20:49:35.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/partitions/mac.c 2006-09-27 13:25:21.000000000 -0500
@@ -46,11 +46,26 @@
md = (struct mac_driver_desc *) read_dev_sector(bdev, 0, &sect);
if (!md)
return -1;
- if (be16_to_cpu(md->signature) != MAC_DRIVER_MAGIC) {
- put_dev_sector(sect);
- return 0;
+
+ switch(be16_to_cpu(md->signature)) {
+ case MAC_DRIVER_MAGIC:
+ secsize = be16_to_cpu(md->block_size);
+ break;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_TIVO_PARTITION
+ case TIVO_DRIVER_MAGIC:
+ /* The TiVo map does not have a valid Mac block 0
+ * fill in the block size.
+ */
+ secsize = 512;
+ break;
+#endif
+
+ default:
+ put_dev_sector(sect);
+ return 0;
}
- secsize = be16_to_cpu(md->block_size);
+
put_dev_sector(sect);
data = read_dev_sector(bdev, secsize/512, &sect);
if (!data)
diff -ur linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/partitions/mac.h linux-2.6.17/fs/partitions/mac.h
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/partitions/mac.h 2006-06-17 20:49:35.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/partitions/mac.h 2006-09-27 13:26:30.000000000 -0500
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
#define MAC_STATUS_BOOTABLE 8 /* partition is bootable */

#define MAC_DRIVER_MAGIC 0x4552
+#define TIVO_DRIVER_MAGIC 0x1492

/* Driver descriptor structure, in block 0 */
struct mac_driver_desc {
-
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