On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:46:38PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote:
> On 03/07/2018 10:08, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 11:59 PM Alexander Graf <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 02.07.18 20:40, William Mills wrote:
> [...]
> > > > I am still trying to figure out if a real issue exists or will soon
> > > > exist.  If this issue is real, I think it should be addressed in UEFI
> > > > but if not there then in EBBR.  We move "disks" around a lot more than
> > > > other people do.
> > > 
> > > Yes, let's double check with Hannes :).
> > 
> > On Dragonboard 820c, that has on board UFS disk:
> > 
> > Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
> > Disk /dev/sda: 6335488 sectors, 24.2 GiB
> > Model: THGBF7G8K4LBATRB
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 4096/4096 bytes
> > 
> 
> Hmmm. That's interesting. I had assumed that on UFS devices, device
> partitions would be used and the GPT would be omitted. Evidently that is not
> done on the 810c.

I might be missing something but can EFI run on top of raw hardware
device partitions? I didn't think EFI provided any means to locate an
ESP except when they are described in one of the three supported
ways (GPT, MBR or El Torito).


Daniel.


> Is that just because sticking with GPT is the 'known-working-solution'? Will
> there eventually be a time when OSes use UFS-native partitioning? Or should
> the recommendation be to keep doing GPT partitioning on the whole device?
> 
> I'm assuming that UFS-native partitioning allows for better management of
> the underlying flash media, but I'm no expert.
> 
> How do UFS partitions show up in Linux right now?
> Do we have good partitioning tools for UFS?
> Will UFS partitioning cause issues for the distros?

> 
> g.
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