Hi Stephen, > On 08/24/2012 02:48 AM, Lukasz Majewski wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > > > I'm writing to you, since I've posted a patch series regarding GPT > > support for Samsung Trats board (you were on the CC). > > > > e.g. http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/179785/ > > > > I think, that we can cooperate to provide better EFI/GPT support. > > > > In mine implementation the "gpt" command (with several sub > > commands) has been proposed > > - we can discuss if this is a correct way to go. > > > > Moreover, at this patch series a "weak" GUID generator is > > implemented. For now it is "good enough", since I consider the > > restoration as an emergency situation. > > I think that (perhaps optionally) allowing the user to specify their > own UUIDs would be a good idea; whatever was generating the script > being executed might have access to a better entropy source.
I think, that passing UUID as the command argument would be a better option than inventing own GUID generator, especially when tools like uuid were available. > > > However,I wonder how can we provide better GUID (and in general > > random numbers pool) generator for u-boot. > > > > Maybe md5sum command can be used with some running clock (WDT, or > > system clock from u-boot start up) data to provide better entropy? > > If there's a standard way of retrieving wall-clock, MAC address, ... > it'd definitely be a good idea to include those entropy sources. > -- Best regards, Lukasz Majewski Samsung Poland R&D Center | Linux Platform Group _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot