Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 01/17] docs/manual/writing-rules: add shortcuts for genimage partition-type-uuid

["Brandon Maier" <brandon.maier@gmail.com>]

On Mon Nov 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM CST, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:31:38 +0000
> Niklas Cassel via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org> wrote:
>
> > > I left it out of this series as I haven't looked too closely into
> > > which of "L" or "root-*" is better. It doesn't seem like a simple
> > > choice, as U-Boot has a lot of board-specific settings.
> > >
> > > Do you and Thomas feel confident that root-$ARCH should be the preferred type?
> >
> > For new boards being added to buildroot, definitely.
>
> I don't have a strong feeling at this point, but it looks like the
> Discoverable Partition Specification is getting quite well standardized
> (https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/discoverable_partitions_specification/)
> and adopted. And genimage indeed supports those now, so we should
> probably move in this direction.

If there aren't any hard blockers to using L or root-$ARCH. Then I agree
a written specification is a great reason to prefer root-$ARCH, thanks
for digging that up! I will add a link to this specification in the docs
as well.

>
> That being said, having as a first step our defconfigs comply with our
> existing policy would already be good.

Yes I would like to bring them all into alignment. The intent for this
patch series was just to get rid of the "full GUID" to make things
simpler. I intend to have a second patch series to then update
L/root-$ARCH.

Thank you for the feedback!
Brandon

>
> Thomas
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