Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] disk: Allow alternate EFI partition signature

2012-10-17 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > Stephen brings up a good point in that this is a ChromeOS specific > work-around for a real issue. With my TI hat on, we've been pushing > the idea that our releases will be mainline + patches, and those patches > will be things that are either

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] disk: Allow alternate EFI partition signature

2012-10-17 Thread Simon Glass
Hi Tom, On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Tom Rini wrote: >> >> Stephen brings up a good point in that this is a ChromeOS specific >> work-around for a real issue. With my TI hat on, we've been pushing >> the idea that our releases will b

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] disk: Allow alternate EFI partition signature

2012-10-17 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 05:26:10PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote: > From: Stefan Reinauer > > ChromeOS uses a GPT partition table to partition the disk. > However, Windows will refuse to install on a GPT partitioned > disk if there is no EFI available (Even if there is an MBR, too) > To hide the GPT p

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] disk: Allow alternate EFI partition signature

2012-10-16 Thread Stephen Warren
On 10/15/2012 11:17 AM, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Stephen Warren > wrote: > > On 10/12/2012 06:26 PM, Simon Glass wrote: > > From: Stefan Reinauer > > > > > ChromeOS uses a GPT partiti

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] disk: Allow alternate EFI partition signature

2012-10-15 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Stephen Warren wrote: > On 10/12/2012 06:26 PM, Simon Glass wrote: > > From: Stefan Reinauer > > > > ChromeOS uses a GPT partition table to partition the disk. > > However, Windows will refuse to install on a GPT partitioned > > disk if there is no EFI available (

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] disk: Allow alternate EFI partition signature

2012-10-15 Thread Stephen Warren
On 10/12/2012 06:26 PM, Simon Glass wrote: > From: Stefan Reinauer > > ChromeOS uses a GPT partition table to partition the disk. > However, Windows will refuse to install on a GPT partitioned > disk if there is no EFI available (Even if there is an MBR, too) > To hide the GPT partition table fro

[U-Boot] [PATCH 5/7] disk: Allow alternate EFI partition signature

2012-10-12 Thread Simon Glass
From: Stefan Reinauer ChromeOS uses a GPT partition table to partition the disk. However, Windows will refuse to install on a GPT partitioned disk if there is no EFI available (Even if there is an MBR, too) To hide the GPT partition table from Windows, we need to write it with a header magic othe