From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: RFC: Partition type GUID for U-Boot environment
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:27:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201117182740.GC5340@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <718cf749-9c73-12cd-c15c-5e794f1749b7@prevas.dk>
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 11:05:36AM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would it make sense to choose a canonical "Partition type GUID" [1] for
> partitions used to store a U-Boot environment?
>
> The partition type is mostly informational, but I'm thinking it might
> make sense to have some canonical thing to put into an image definition
> rather than having the tool use something random or a default which
> would often be "Linux filesystem data".
>
> If so, I propose 3de21764-95bd-54bd-a5c3-4abe786f38a8 , which is from
> https://www.uuidtools.com/v5 with a namespace of
> 25cbcde0-8642-47c6-a298-1a3a57cd256b (randomly generated just now, but
> should be used for future v5 uuids within U-Boot context [2]) and name
> "U-Boot environment" (sans quotes).
>
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_type_GUIDs
> [2]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Versions_3_and_5_(namespace_name-based)
Sure. Do we need to, well, register that GUID with anyone so that other
tools will see and pick it up and print something nice?
--
Tom
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-17 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-17 10:05 RFC: Partition type GUID for U-Boot environment Rasmus Villemoes
2020-11-17 12:21 ` Marcin Juszkiewicz
2020-11-17 12:59 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2020-11-17 18:27 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2020-11-20 8:59 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2020-11-20 10:45 ` [PATCH 0/3] add partition " Rasmus Villemoes
2020-11-20 10:45 ` [PATCH 1/3] lib/uuid.c: change prototype of uuid_guid_get_str() Rasmus Villemoes
2021-01-18 13:00 ` Tom Rini
2020-11-20 10:45 ` [PATCH 2/3] doc/README.gpt: define partition type GUID for U-Boot environment Rasmus Villemoes
2021-01-18 13:00 ` Tom Rini
2020-11-20 10:45 ` [PATCH 3/3] doc/README.gpt: reflow partition type GUID table Rasmus Villemoes
2021-01-18 13:00 ` Tom Rini
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