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| author | Marco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de> | 2023-03-27 15:12:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> | 2023-04-17 09:00:44 +0200 |
| commit | ef25a0ce960dd6af3bb386eeddb3d40907e16c3c (patch) | |
| tree | 608c6429854668e210884274cd73a6d714e0a78d | |
| parent | 7e1678e5f5a83d6e3e7ede405ad5ed1f48a13971 (diff) | |
| download | barebox-ef25a0ce960dd6af3bb386eeddb3d40907e16c3c.tar.gz | |
Documentation: barebox environment: recommend a partition type GUID for GPT partitions
The partition type GUID was generated randomly. Having a defined GUID
should reduce the risk of collisions in the future.
The GUID and a phandle reference to the storage medium could be used as
replacement for device-path if the medium supports GPT.
Signed-off-by: Marco Felsch <m.felsch@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.barebox.org/20230327131218.247157-1-m.felsch@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,environment.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,environment.rst b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,environment.rst index 8a57bf1add..40239f424a 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,environment.rst +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,environment.rst @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ the path to the environment. Supported values for <type>: be the label for MTD partitions, the number for DOS partitions (beginning with 0) or the name for GPT partitions. +If the *environmnet* is located in a GPT partition, use +``6C3737F2-07F8-45D1-AD45-15D260AAB24D`` as partition type GUID. + The file-path is the name of a file located in a FAT filesystem on the device named in device-path. This filesystem will be mounted and the environment loaded from the file's location in the directory tree. |