From: richardretanubun <richardretanubun@ruggedcom.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Add support for CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION (GUID Partition Table)
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:27:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DA5C45.4080803@ruggedcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48DA4559.2010608@ruggedcom.com>
Hi Wolfgang
Andrew Dyer wrote:
>> Also, please enlighten me: what is "EFI", and what is a "GUID"
>> partition table, and which systems do use that?
>
> EFI is the PC BIOS replacement that Intel came up with, most notably
> used on Apple's Intel based computers. A blurb about EFI is here -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface
The GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) Partition Table (GPT) is a part of EFI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
Sorry about the mangled patch, I hope this works better:
Tested the patch on a MPC8349EMITX Eval board
Sorry for the mishap, please use this patch. I test-sent it to myself and it applies.
Somehow the previous one chops of the " <nl>" to "<nl>", breaking diff.
- Richard Retanubun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-24 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-23 21:39 [U-Boot] [PATCH] Add support for CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION (GUID Partition Table) richardretanubun
2008-09-23 22:09 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-09-23 22:19 ` Andrew Dyer
2008-09-24 13:49 ` richardretanubun
2008-09-24 15:27 ` richardretanubun [this message]
2008-09-26 15:13 ` richardretanubun
2008-10-06 20:10 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION: Added support for EFI partition in cmd_ext2fs.c richardretanubun
2008-10-14 13:16 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-10-14 13:15 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] Add support for CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION (GUID Partition Table) Wolfgang Denk
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