[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 3/3] rename GPT partitions to detect boot failure

Alison Chaiken
2017-06-10T23:27:42Z

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 11:51 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:

> I think you are talking about two parts here, and I strongly feel
> these should be kept separate.
>
> The first part is support for renaming GPT partitions. The idea is
> clean, but should it not rather be kept general and let the user
> provide the new name as argument, i. e. implement a generic
> "gpt rename" command instead of a hard-wired "gpt flip"?
>
> The second part is the flipping of the partition names. This is in
> my opinion policy, and should also not be hardwaired into this
> command, but left to the user. Maybe I do nmot want to fall back to
> the ‘backup’ partition after a single boot attempt, but instead try
> other things first, like booting another kernel or another device
> tree blob?
>
> I feel this should be not so much hardwired, but leave more freedom
> for the user's creativity.
>

Lukasz has already made similar suggestions. In the following message is
a new version which attempts to implement them.

Thanks to Lothar and Lukasz for all their help.

Best wishes,
Alison Chaiken
Peloton Technology