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