From: Bastian Krause <bst@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>,
Bastian Krause <bst@pengutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: state: recommend a partition type GUID for state GPT partitions
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 13:59:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210129125936.20053-1-bst@pengutronix.de> (raw)
The partition type GUID was generated randomly. Having a defined GUID
should reduce the risk of collisions in the future.
A dedicated GUID could also allow us to implement a fallback in case no
state backend property is defined. This could then look for a GPT
partition with this partition type GUID and use that as the backend.
dt-utils could do the same in userspace. This would be similar to [1].
[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/
Signed-off-by: Bastian Krause <bst@pengutronix.de>
---
Documentation/user/state.rst | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/user/state.rst b/Documentation/user/state.rst
index 54aa396257..a0e27d4fe8 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/state.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/state.rst
@@ -579,6 +579,9 @@ content, its backend-type and *state* variable layout.
};
};
+If the *state* variable set is set to be located in a GPT partition, use
+``4778ed65-bf42-45fa-9c5b-287a1dc4aab1`` as the partition type GUID.
+
SRAM
####
--
2.30.0
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