From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Rini Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:00:38 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] doc/README.gpt: define partition type GUID for U-Boot environment In-Reply-To: <20201120104537.619-3-rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk> References: <07954a18-fc7d-aaa2-cd1c-649c131b485a@prevas.dk> <20201120104537.619-1-rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk> <20201120104537.619-3-rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk> Message-ID: <20210118130038.GN9782@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 Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:45:36AM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > When setting aside a GPT partition for holding the U-Boot environment, > having a partition type GUID [1] indicating "Linux filesystem" (as > most tools default to) is somewhat misleading - and there's no other > well-known type GUID that is better suited. So to have a canonical > value to put into the type field, define > > 3de21764-95bd-54bd-a5c3-4abe786f38a8 > > to mean a partition holding a U-Boot environment. > > This is a v5 namespace-name GUID [2], generated [3] from a namespace > of "25cbcde0-8642-47c6-a298-1a3a57cd256b" and name "U-Boot > environment". > > Should future type GUIDs be defined in the context of U-Boot, it's > sensible to use that same namespace GUID. > > [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) > [3] https://www.uuidtools.com/v5 > > Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 659 bytes Desc: not available URL: