On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 10:10 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>   "This field shall not be used by UEFI firmware."
> In practice, some EFI implementations interpret this "shall not" as
> "must not" and refuse to use such a partition entry.

In ISO standardese, "shall [not]" is a requirement [prohibition], while
"must" is the result of proving a theorem using other statements in the
document.

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