On 24-02-19, Sascha Hauer wrote: > We have specified a GUID for GPTs to be used as barebox environment > partition, but so far we haven't made any use of that. This series > changes that. We now start using environment partitions when we find > them, provided the board code hasn't specified any other partition. > > This likely doesn't change much for existing boards because most of > them actually have an environment partition specified. For new boards > however it becomes feasible to not register a partition explicitly. > > Something that has hold me back from doing this earlier was that barebox > was not able to create an environment partition itself, so barebox > couldn't persist the environment on an unpartitioned device. Now with > parted support this has changed, so I think it's worth it to give it a > try now. > > Sascha LGTM, feel free to add my: Reviewed-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Sascha Hauer (3): > partitions: efi: Allow to create barebox environment partition > bootsource: add function to get device_node we booted from > environment: use barebox environment from GPT partitions > > commands/parted.c | 2 +- > common/bootsource.c | 14 +++++++++ > common/environment.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > common/oftree.c | 7 +---- > common/partitions/efi.c | 3 ++ > include/bootsource.h | 1 + > include/efi/partition.h | 3 ++ > 7 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.39.2 > > >
