On 17/11/2020 19.27, Tom Rini wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 11:05:36AM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Would it make sense to choose a canonical "Partition type GUID" [1] for >> partitions used to store a U-Boot environment? >> >> The partition type is mostly informational, but I'm thinking it might >> make sense to have some canonical thing to put into an image definition >> rather than having the tool use something random or a default which >> would often be "Linux filesystem data". >> >> If so, I propose 3de21764-95bd-54bd-a5c3-4abe786f38a8 , which is from >> https://www.uuidtools.com/v5 with a namespace of >> 25cbcde0-8642-47c6-a298-1a3a57cd256b (randomly generated just now, but >> should be used for future v5 uuids within U-Boot context [2]) and name >> "U-Boot environment" (sans quotes). >> >> >> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_type_GUIDs >> [2] >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Versions_3_and_5_(namespace_name-based) > > Sure. Do we need to, well, register that GUID with anyone so that other > tools will see and pick it up and print something nice?
I don't think so - there's no central authority for these. It seems that the GUID for "Linux filesystem data" was decided by someone proposing it on appropriate mailing lists. So I think just adding it to doc/README.gpt and hooking it up in lib/uuid.c should be enough. I'll send a patch. Rasmus
