Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-02 Thread Daniel Thompson
On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 10:37:49AM -0400, William Mills wrote: > All, > > I rely on your greater knowledge to help me understand these questions. > Thanks in advance. > > 1) GPT and block size > 1A) By querying the device > 1B) Some MBR magic? There's some comments in the fdisk man p

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-02 Thread William Mills
On 07/02/2018 12:15 PM, Daniel Thompson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 10:37:49AM -0400, William Mills wrote: >> All, >> >> I rely on your greater knowledge to help me understand these questions. >> Thanks in advance. >> >> 1) GPT and block size >> 1A) By querying the device >> 1B) So

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-02 Thread William Mills
On 07/02/2018 02:40 PM, William Mills wrote: > > > On 07/02/2018 12:15 PM, Daniel Thompson wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 10:37:49AM -0400, William Mills wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> I rely on your greater knowledge to help me understand these questions. >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> 1) GPT and

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-02 Thread Daniel Thompson
On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 02:40:50PM -0400, William Mills wrote: > > Not sure that matters much though: if you want to fix it up you would > > arrange for the fixup logic to be part of your initramfs. > > > > Yes, initramfs would be a good place to fix this. But it means firmware > must deal with

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-02 Thread Alexander Graf
On 02.07.18 20:40, William Mills wrote: > > > On 07/02/2018 12:15 PM, Daniel Thompson wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 10:37:49AM -0400, William Mills wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> I rely on your greater knowledge to help me understand these questions. >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> 1) GPT and block

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-03 Thread Nicolas Dechesne
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 PM Alexander Graf wrote: > > > > On 02.07.18 20:40, William Mills wrote: > > > > > > On 07/02/2018 12:15 PM, Daniel Thompson wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 10:37:49AM -0400, William Mills wrote: > >>> All, > >>> > >>> I rely on your greater knowledge to help me un

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-03 Thread Hannes Reinecke
On 07/02/2018 11:58 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > On 02.07.18 20:40, William Mills wrote: >> >> >> On 07/02/2018 12:15 PM, Daniel Thompson wrote: >>> On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 10:37:49AM -0400, William Mills wrote: All, I rely on your greater knowledge to help me understand these q

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-03 Thread William Mills
On 07/03/2018 02:52 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > On 07/02/2018 11:58 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> >> On 02.07.18 20:40, William Mills wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 07/02/2018 12:15 PM, Daniel Thompson wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 10:37:49AM -0400, William Mills wrote: > All, > > I r

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-03 Thread William Mills
On 07/03/2018 05:08 AM, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 PM Alexander Graf wrote: >> On 02.07.18 20:40, William Mills wrote: >>> On 07/02/2018 12:15 PM, Daniel Thompson wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 10:37:49AM -0400, William Mills wrote: >>> I am still trying to figur

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-03 Thread Nicolas Dechesne
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 1:13 PM William Mills wrote: > > > On 07/03/2018 05:08 AM, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 PM Alexander Graf wrote: > >> On 02.07.18 20:40, William Mills wrote: > >>> On 07/02/2018 12:15 PM, Daniel Thompson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 10:3

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On 03/07/2018 10:08, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 PM Alexander Graf wrote: On 02.07.18 20:40, William Mills wrote: [...] I am still trying to figure out if a real issue exists or will soon exist. If this issue is real, I think it should be addressed in UEFI but if not

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-03 Thread Daniel Thompson
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:46:38PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote: > On 03/07/2018 10:08, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 PM Alexander Graf wrote: > > > On 02.07.18 20:40, William Mills wrote: > [...] > > > > I am still trying to figure out if a real issue exists or will soon >

RE: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-03 Thread Dong Wei
.cambridge.arm.com Subject: Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:46:38PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote: > On 03/07/2018 10:08, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 PM Alexander Graf wrote: > > > On 02.07.18 20:40, William Mills wrote: > [..

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-03 Thread Grant Likely
On 03/07/2018 16:58, Daniel Thompson wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:46:38PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote: On 03/07/2018 10:08, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 PM Alexander Graf wrote: On 02.07.18 20:40, William Mills wrote: [...] I am still trying to figure out if a rea

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-03 Thread William Mills
On 07/03/2018 12:24 PM, Grant Likely wrote: > On 03/07/2018 16:58, Daniel Thompson wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:46:38PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote: >>> On 03/07/2018 10:08, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 PM Alexander Graf wrote: > On 02.07.18 20:40, William

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-04 Thread Grant Likely
On 03/07/2018 17:24, Grant Likely wrote: On 03/07/2018 16:58, Daniel Thompson wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:46:38PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote: On 03/07/2018 10:08, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 PM Alexander Graf wrote: On 02.07.18 20:40, William Mills wrote: [...]

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-04 Thread Nicolas Dechesne
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 11:57 AM Grant Likely wrote: > > On 03/07/2018 17:24, Grant Likely wrote: > > On 03/07/2018 16:58, Daniel Thompson wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:46:38PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote: > >>> On 03/07/2018 10:08, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-04 Thread Daniel Thompson
On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 10:57:16AM +0100, Grant Likely wrote: > > It would be reasonable for one or more LUNs to be dedicated to firmware > > which gets us out of the shared ESP scenario and the OS can do what it > > wants with the GPT in the 'general-purpose' LUN. > > Actually reading the UFS spe

Re: [Arm.ebbr-discuss] Questions about GPT

2018-07-08 Thread William Mills
I did this days ago but I guess I never sent it. On 07/03/2018 08:04 AM, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 1:13 PM William Mills wrote: >> >> >> On 07/03/2018 05:08 AM, Nicolas Dechesne wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 PM Alexander Graf wrote: On 02.07.18 20:40, Willia