Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/17] board: cleanup genimage partition-type-uuid shortcuts

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Hello Brandon,

On Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:16:14 -0600
Brandon Maier <brandon.maier@gmail.com> wrote:

> Buildroot boards using genimage's "partition-type-uuid" can use either a
> full GUID or one of the shortcuts defined in genimage[1]. The Buildroot
> manual recommends using the "L", "U", or "F" shortcuts over a full GUID;
> but does not specify how any other GUID should be defined.
> 
> This series tries to bring consistency to partition-type-uuid by making
> shortcuts the preferred method. First we update the Buildroot manual to
> say shortcuts should be preferred when available. Then we update all
> boards to use shortcuts.
> 
> This series is partially implementing Thomas suggestion to have
> consistency when using "L" vs "root-${ARCH}" vs full GUIDs[2].

Thanks for working on this! However, I'm slightly confused as to what
the goal of this series is in the overall process of making things more
consistent.

With your series enabled, some root filesystems still use L, some use
root-*, which isn't very consistent. Is your series "only" about
replacing full GUID by shortcuts, for the moment?

I'm fine with going this way, but then the PATCH 01/17 should be
accurate about what's recommended nowadays. Because saying in the doc
we want L for the rootfs, but many genimage.cfg use root-* isn't really
great.

Thanks!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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