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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Queries/suggestions regarding patch series "grub2: add support for arm and aarch64"
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 12:00:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181102120042.060a3451@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFA6WYPKMzjuCv1hFyByOTg_7vGKytWO3OZf4La21VyuF8CffQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Sumit,

On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 16:23:37 +0530, Sumit Garg wrote:

> Yes disk-signature is disk-wide identifier. But it could work with
> multiple partitions in following manner:
> 
> Like the change, I have proposed with disk-signature = 0xDEEDBEEF,
> PARTUUID=deedbeef-02 refers to 2nd partition in disk with
> corresponding signature.

Aaah, yes, I had entirely missed the -02 part in the root=PARTUUID=
statement. Indeed, it's a lot clearer now how this can work.

> AFAIK, I don't think partitioning format changes for a particular
> device boot sequence if underlying disk changes (usb, sata, mmc etc.).
> So "-02" string should remain a constant.

Yes, absolutely! Thanks for the additional explanation!

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-02 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-23  5:58 [Buildroot] Queries/suggestions regarding patch series "grub2: add support for arm and aarch64" Sumit Garg
2018-10-30  9:05 ` Sumit Garg
2018-10-30 19:23 ` Erico Nunes
2018-11-01  2:02   ` Carlos Santos
2018-11-02 10:04   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-11-02 10:53     ` Sumit Garg
2018-11-02 11:00       ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2018-11-02 13:10         ` Erico Nunes
2018-11-05 10:30     ` Carlos Santos

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