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From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
To: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
Cc: "Yanhong Wang" <yanhong.wang@starfivetech.com>,
	"Simon Glass" <sjg@chromium.org>, "Andrew Davis" <afd@ti.com>,
	"Alper Nebi Yasak" <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>,
	"Stefan Roese" <sr@denx.de>,
	"Andre Przywara" <andre.przywara@arm.com>,
	"Jérôme Carretero" <cJ-uboot@zougloub.eu>,
	"Harald Seiler" <hws@denx.de>,
	u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] spl: allow loading via partition type GUID
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 12:01:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+5hdpP54Y54OU6x@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230216152956.130038-1-heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>

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On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 04:29:56PM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:

> Some boards provide main U-Boot as a dedicated partition to SPL.
> Currently we can define either a fixed partition number or an MBR
> partition type to define which partition is to be used.
> 
> Partition numbers tend to conflict with established partitioning schemes
> of Linux distros. MBR partitioning is more and more replaced by GPT
> partitioning.
> 
> Allow defining a partition type GUID identifying the partition to load
> main U-Boot from.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
[snip]
> +config SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_GPT_PARTITION_TYPE
> +	string "GPT Partition Type on the MMC to load U-Boot from"
> +	depends on SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_USE_GPT_PARTITION_TYPE
> +	default d2f002f8-e4e7-4269-b8ac-3bb6fabeaff6

Is there a reason to use any other GUID value here? If not, just define,
or use it directly with a comment.  If there is a reason for other
values to be used:

Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>

-- 
Tom

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-16 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-16 15:29 [PATCH v2 1/1] spl: allow loading via partition type GUID Heinrich Schuchardt
2023-02-16 17:01 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2023-02-16 17:19   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2023-02-16 17:22     ` Tom Rini
2023-02-16 20:17 ` Simon Glass
2023-02-16 21:31   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2023-02-17  2:55     ` Simon Glass
2023-02-17  6:55       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2023-02-17 10:34         ` Mark Kettenis
2023-02-17 11:06           ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2023-02-17 15:03             ` Tom Rini
2023-02-19 19:52             ` Mark Kettenis
2023-02-19 21:21               ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2023-02-21 19:41         ` Simon Glass
2023-02-26 14:56           ` Simon Glass

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