[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] sunxi: Add default partition scheme

[Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:21:49PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 17/11/17 08:27, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > 
> > I guess I also have a side question here. How do the installers deal
> > with the ESP partition? Would they create a new filesystem on it no
> > matter what, or are they a bit smarter than that?
> 
> I would expect any installer to not mess with the ESP. After all the ESP
> belongs to the firmware, and multiboot (both multiple Linux versions as
> well as other OSes like Windows or BSD) is one main feature of the ESP.
> 
> The only exception might be if the ESP is not formatted.
> 
> > My actual question being what will happen if one stores the U-Boot
> > environment on that partition, and then runs an installer? Would the
> > environment be gone?
> 
> I would say that the ESP is a perfect place for the environment. It's
> FAT and it belongs to firmware, so OSes are just expected to *add* their
> bootloaders, without touching any other file on it.

Ok, perfect then, thanks!

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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