From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] disk: part_efi: add support for the Alternate GPT
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 15:41:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140505194154.GT22182@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5367E4EA.1040404@broadcom.com>
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 12:22:18PM -0700, Steve Rae wrote:
>
> On 14-05-05 11:43 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:26:44AM -0700, Steve Rae wrote:
> >
> >>Hmmm - perhaps "Secondary" would be more accurate wording than "Alternate"
> >>(v2 coming...)
> >Is there any "official" name for this in the GPT spec?
> >
> I proposed "Secondary" because it matched "doc/README.gpt"; and it
> is often called "secondary GPT" (for example:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table)
> However, the UEFI Specifaction (Version 2.3.1, Errata A) calls it
> "backup GPT" 18 times, and "alternate GPT" once (and never calls it
> "secondary GPT")....
I would go with backup GPT and update the README.gpt too please.
--
Tom
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-29 22:31 [U-Boot] [PATCH] disk: part_efi: add support for the Alternate GPT Steve Rae
2014-05-05 10:50 ` Przemyslaw Marczak
2014-05-05 16:12 ` Steve Rae
2014-05-05 18:26 ` Steve Rae
2014-05-05 18:43 ` Tom Rini
2014-05-05 19:22 ` Steve Rae
2014-05-05 19:41 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2014-05-05 19:54 ` Steve Rae
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