[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] disk: part_efi: parse and store partition UUID

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sun Sep 2 19:45:27 CEST 2012


Dear Stephen Warren,

In message <1345158942-31512-1-git-send-email-swarren at wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> 
> Each EFI partition table entry contains a UUID. Extend U-Boot's struct
> disk_partition to be able to store this information, and modify
> get_partition_info_efi() to fill it in.
> 
> The implementation of uuid_string() was stolen from the Linux kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>

Can we please make this addition dependent on EFI support being
enabled?  Otherwise the increased memory footprint will hit all users,
even if they never use EFI at all.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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