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From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] disk: Allow alternate EFI partition signature
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:36:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121017233627.GM27770@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350087972-1581-5-git-send-email-sjg@chromium.org>

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 05:26:10PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> From: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@chromium.org>
> 
> ChromeOS uses a GPT partition table to partition the disk.
> However, Windows will refuse to install on a GPT partitioned
> disk if there is no EFI available (Even if there is an MBR, too)
> To hide the GPT partition table from Windows, we need to write
> it with a header magic other than "EFI PART". To support old
> and new systems, Check for the magic string "CHROMEOS" too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer@chromium.org>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

Stephen brings up a good point in that this is a ChromeOS specific
work-around for a real issue.  With my TI hat on, we've been pushing
the idea that our releases will be mainline + patches, and those patches
will be things that are either backports, works in progress or simply
not mainlineable patches (enforce a CONFIG_BOOTDELAY of 3 for all
boards, add mojo to just load uImages to their XIP address, etc).  In my
mind, this patch falls into the last grouping and I hope you're OK with
just holding onto this as a not appropriate for mainline change.

The rest of the series looks fine and no need to respin, I'll just skip
this patch when I pick it up, assuming no further changes are needed
elsewhere.

-- 
Tom
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-17 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-13  0:26 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/7] ide: Add printf format string for CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA option Simon Glass
2012-10-13  0:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/7] usb: Support the " Simon Glass
2012-10-13  2:01   ` Marek Vasut
2012-10-13  0:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/7] disk: Make the disk partition code work with no specific partition types Simon Glass
2012-10-13  0:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/7] disk: Address cast and format errors Simon Glass
2012-10-13  0:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] disk: Allow alternate EFI partition signature Simon Glass
2012-10-15 15:19   ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-15 17:17     ` Stefan Reinauer
2012-10-16 17:58       ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-17 23:36   ` Tom Rini [this message]
2012-10-17 23:39     ` Stefan Reinauer
2012-10-17 23:49       ` Simon Glass
2012-10-13  0:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/7] fs: Add a Coreboot Filesystem (CBFS) driver and commands Simon Glass
2012-10-22 15:22   ` Tom Rini
2012-10-31 22:28     ` Simon Glass
2012-10-31 22:41   ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-11-01  1:22     ` Tom Rini
2012-11-02  2:23       ` Simon Glass
2012-11-03 15:04         ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-11-03 21:11           ` Simon Glass
2012-11-05 22:19             ` Simon Glass
2012-11-06  7:27               ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-11-06 22:13                 ` Simon Glass
2012-11-06 22:23                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-11-06 22:35                     ` Simon Glass
2012-11-07 12:38                       ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-11-07 16:18                         ` Simon Glass
2012-10-13  0:26 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 7/7] config: Enable CBFS, ext4 for coreboot Simon Glass
2012-10-22 20:38   ` Tom Rini
2012-10-23  5:36     ` Simon Glass
2012-10-22 21:05 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/7] ide: Add printf format string for CONFIG_SYS_64BIT_LBA option Tom Rini

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