[PATCH] Documentation: barebox environment: recommend a partition type GUID for GPT partitions
Marco Felsch
m.felsch at pengutronix.de
Mon Mar 27 06:12:18 PDT 2023
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 at pengutronix.de>
---
.../devicetree/bindings/barebox/barebox,environment.rst | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
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.
--
2.30.2
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