From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:27:40 -0500 Subject: RFC: Partition type GUID for U-Boot environment In-Reply-To: <718cf749-9c73-12cd-c15c-5e794f1749b7@prevas.dk> References: <718cf749-9c73-12cd-c15c-5e794f1749b7@prevas.dk> Message-ID: <20201117182740.GC5340@bill-the-cat> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 659 bytes Desc: not available URL: