On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:45:36AM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > When setting aside a GPT partition for holding the U-Boot environment, > having a partition type GUID [1] indicating "Linux filesystem" (as > most tools default to) is somewhat misleading - and there's no other > well-known type GUID that is better suited. So to have a canonical > value to put into the type field, define > > 3de21764-95bd-54bd-a5c3-4abe786f38a8 > > to mean a partition holding a U-Boot environment. > > This is a v5 namespace-name GUID [2], generated [3] from a namespace > of "25cbcde0-8642-47c6-a298-1a3a57cd256b" and name "U-Boot > environment". > > Should future type GUIDs be defined in the context of U-Boot, it's > sensible to use that same namespace GUID. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_type_GUIDs > [2] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Versions_3_and_5_(namespace_name-based) > [3] https://www.uuidtools.com/v5 > > Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villem...@prevas.dk>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom
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