From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: richardretanubun Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:27:01 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Add support for CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION (GUID Partition Table) In-Reply-To: <48DA4559.2010608@ruggedcom.com> References: <48D96215.3020706@ruggedcom.com> <20080923220942.7BF56248CD@gemini.denx.de> <48DA4559.2010608@ruggedcom.com> Message-ID: <48DA5C45.4080803@ruggedcom.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Wolfgang Andrew Dyer wrote: >> Also, please enlighten me: what is "EFI", and what is a "GUID" >> partition table, and which systems do use that? > > EFI is the PC BIOS replacement that Intel came up with, most notably > used on Apple's Intel based computers. A blurb about EFI is here - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface The GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) Partition Table (GPT) is a part of EFI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table Sorry about the mangled patch, I hope this works better: Tested the patch on a MPC8349EMITX Eval board Sorry for the mishap, please use this patch. I test-sent it to myself and it applies. Somehow the previous one chops of the " " to "", breaking diff. - Richard Retanubun