On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 01:59:36PM +0100, Bastian Krause wrote: > The partition type GUID was generated randomly. Having a defined GUID > should reduce the risk of collisions in the future. > > A dedicated GUID could also allow us to implement a fallback in case no > state backend property is defined. This could then look for a GPT > partition with this partition type GUID and use that as the backend. > dt-utils could do the same in userspace. This would be similar to [1]. > > [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/ > > Signed-off-by: Bastian Krause <bst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/user/state.rst | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) Applied, thanks Sascha > > diff --git a/Documentation/user/state.rst b/Documentation/user/state.rst > index 54aa396257..a0e27d4fe8 100644 > --- a/Documentation/user/state.rst > +++ b/Documentation/user/state.rst > @@ -579,6 +579,9 @@ content, its backend-type and *state* variable layout. > }; > }; > > +If the *state* variable set is set to be located in a GPT partition, use > +``4778ed65-bf42-45fa-9c5b-287a1dc4aab1`` as the partition type GUID. > + > SRAM > #### > > -- > 2.30.0 > > > _______________________________________________ > barebox mailing list > barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox > -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
