[PATCH 04/19] arm: define DPS root partition type UUID

Vincent Mailhol mailhol at kernel.org
Mon Jun 15 09:09:00 PDT 2026


DPS [1] assigns GPT partition type UUIDs to operating system partitions.
Root partitions use architecture-specific type UUIDs so the OS can
discover the intended root filesystem without relying on a root= cmdline
option.

Define DPS_ROOT_PARTITION_TYPE_UUID in asm/dps_root.h for ARM and select
ARCH_HAS_DPS_ROOT_PARTITION_TYPE_UUID.

[1] The Discoverable Partitions Specification (DPS)
Link: https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/discoverable_partitions_specification/

Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig                | 1 +
 arch/arm/include/asm/dps_root.h | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 73e6647bea46..deedb5d808fb 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ config ARM
 	select ARCH_HAS_DMA_ALLOC if MMU
 	select ARCH_HAS_DMA_OPS
 	select ARCH_HAS_DMA_WRITE_COMBINE if !ARM_DMA_MEM_BUFFERABLE
+	select ARCH_HAS_DPS_ROOT_PARTITION_TYPE_UUID
 	select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
 	select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
 	select ARCH_HAS_KEEPINITRD
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/dps_root.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/dps_root.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e9f0f24bcac2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/dps_root.h
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+
+#ifndef _ASM_ARM_DPS_ROOT_H
+#define _ASM_ARM_DPS_ROOT_H
+
+#define DPS_ROOT_PARTITION_TYPE_UUID "69dad710-2ce4-4e3c-b16c-21a1d49abed3"
+
+#endif /* _ASM_ARM_DPS_ROOT_H */

-- 
2.53.0




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