On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 11:05:36AM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > Hi, > > Would it make sense to choose a canonical "Partition type GUID" [1] for > partitions used to store a U-Boot environment? > > The partition type is mostly informational, but I'm thinking it might > make sense to have some canonical thing to put into an image definition > rather than having the tool use something random or a default which > would often be "Linux filesystem data". > > If so, I propose 3de21764-95bd-54bd-a5c3-4abe786f38a8 , which is from > https://www.uuidtools.com/v5 with a namespace of > 25cbcde0-8642-47c6-a298-1a3a57cd256b (randomly generated just now, but > should be used for future v5 uuids within U-Boot context [2]) and name > "U-Boot environment" (sans quotes). > > > [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)
Sure. Do we need to, well, register that GUID with anyone so that other tools will see and pick it up and print something nice? -- Tom
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