Re: [PATCH v2 00/19] state: allow lookup of barebox state partition by Type GUID

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On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 02:06:55PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> So far, we had basically three ways to reference barebox,state on block
> devices:
> 
>   - On platforms with device tree, we point at a fixed partition
>     described in the DT
> 
>   - On platforms without device tree, we have a custom binding that
>     does a global lookup by partuuid (or a more obscure one by diskuuid).
> 
> Both are less than optimal. The first clashes with the need to use
> a GPT partition for the state and the second doesn't allow relating the
> UUID with an actual device for the case where e.g. both an SD-Card and
> an eMMC are flashed with the same image.
> 
> This series fixes that by:
> 
>   - Supporting definition of fixed partitions that are identical to
>     GPT/MBR partitions.
> 
>   - Alternatively, support pointing barebox-state backend at a
>     GPT-partitioned device and the partition with the barebox-state
>     Type GUID will be taken.

Applied, thanks

Sascha

> 
> Changelog written in each patch
> 
> Ahmad Fatoum (19):
>   common: partitions: decouple from EFI GUID definition
>   efi: define efi_guid_t as 32-bit aligned guid_t
>   cdev: fix for_each_cdev macro
>   of: partition: support of_partition_ensure_probed on parent device
>   state: fix deep probe handling
>   of: of_path: always call of_partition_ensure_probed before resolving
>   driver: add new cdev_is_partition helper
>   commands: stat: remove code duplication for type info
>   cdev: use more descriptive struct cdev::diskuuid/partuuid
>   cdev: record whether partition is parsed from OF
>   cdev: have devfs_add_partition return existing identical partition,
>     not NULL
>   block: parse partition table on block device registration
>   common: partitions: record whether disk is GPT or MBR partitioned
>   block: add cdev_is_block_(device|partition|disk) helpers
>   of: export new of_cdev_find helper
>   state: factor device path lookup into helper function
>   cdev: use cdev::dos_partition_type only if cdev_is_mbr_partitioned
>   common: partitions: efi: record type UUID in cdev
>   state: allow lookup of barebox state partition by Type GUID
> 
>  arch/sandbox/board/hostfile.c  |  4 --
>  common/block.c                 |  4 ++
>  common/blspec.c                |  2 +-
>  common/bootm.c                 |  2 +-
>  common/partitions.c            |  4 +-
>  common/partitions/dos.c        |  4 +-
>  common/partitions/efi.c        | 11 ++++--
>  common/partitions/parser.h     |  6 ++-
>  common/state/state.c           | 50 ++++++++++++++++++------
>  drivers/ata/disk_ata_drive.c   |  5 ---
>  drivers/base/driver.c          |  2 +-
>  drivers/block/efi-block-io.c   |  9 +----
>  drivers/block/virtio_blk.c     |  8 +---
>  drivers/mci/mci-core.c         |  6 ---
>  drivers/misc/storage-by-uuid.c |  4 +-
>  drivers/nvme/host/core.c       |  5 ---
>  drivers/of/of_path.c           | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  drivers/of/partition.c         | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++---
>  drivers/of/platform.c          |  2 +-
>  drivers/usb/storage/usb.c      |  5 ---
>  fs/devfs-core.c                | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  fs/fs.c                        | 33 +++++++++++-----
>  include/block.h                | 15 ++++++++
>  include/driver.h               | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  include/efi.h                  | 19 ++++++++--
>  include/efi/partition.h        | 27 ++++++-------
>  include/of.h                   |  1 +
>  include/state.h                |  4 ++
>  lib/Makefile                   |  1 +
>  lib/uuid.c                     | 15 ++++++++
>  30 files changed, 351 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 lib/uuid.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 
> 
> 

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