Re: Clarification on firmware location on removable storage

2023-10-23 Thread Daniel Thompson
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 02:44:45PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > On 23.10.23 13:30, Daniel Thompson wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 09:10:45AM -0500, Jon Humphreys wrote: > > > Heinrich Schuchardt writes: > > > > I personally would prefer firmware using the firmware folder in the ESP > >

Re: Clarification on firmware location on removable storage

2023-10-23 Thread Heinrich Schuchardt
On 23.10.23 13:30, Daniel Thompson wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 09:10:45AM -0500, Jon Humphreys wrote: Heinrich Schuchardt writes: I personally would prefer firmware using the firmware folder in the ESP over using a firmware partition because the partitioning scheme would not be firmware spe

Re: Clarification on firmware location on removable storage

2023-10-23 Thread Daniel Thompson
On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 09:10:45AM -0500, Jon Humphreys wrote: > Heinrich Schuchardt writes: > > I personally would prefer firmware using the firmware folder in the ESP > > over using a firmware partition because the partitioning scheme would > > not be firmware specific. > > I argue the opposite

Re: Clarification on firmware location on removable storage

2023-10-20 Thread Jon Humphreys
Heinrich Schuchardt writes: > On 10/20/23 08:01, Jon Humphreys wrote: > How does the TI ROM identify the boot partition? Is that bit 2 "Legacy > BIOS Bootable" in the GPT partition attributes field? Current devices are MBR only. Is is whatever gets set if you use the parted "set boot on" comma

Re: Clarification on firmware location on removable storage

2023-10-20 Thread Heinrich Schuchardt
On 10/20/23 08:01, Jon Humphreys wrote: Heinrich Schuchardt writes: High Jon, thanks for pointing out where the specification is unclear. I guess a half-sentence is missing saying "if both a dedicated firmware partition and the EFI system partition are both supported by the firmware". If

Re: Clarification on firmware location on removable storage

2023-10-19 Thread Jon Humphreys
Heinrich Schuchardt writes: > > High Jon, > > thanks for pointing out where the specification is unclear. > > I guess a half-sentence is missing saying "if both a dedicated firmware > partition and the EFI system partition are both supported by the > firmware". If I follow you, more precisely i

Re: Clarification on firmware location on removable storage

2023-10-19 Thread Heinrich Schuchardt
On 10/19/23 23:05, Jon Humphreys wrote: Hi all. I need clarification on where firmware should be located when booting from removable shared storage. Statements in the intro of 4.2 seem to contradict later statements in 4.2.2 of the EBBR [1]. Section 4.2.2 states that to make it easier to use s