[U-Boot] [PATCH] disk: part_efi: add support for the Alternate GPT

Steve Rae srae at broadcom.com
Mon May 5 21:22:18 CEST 2014


On 14-05-05 11:43 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:26:44AM -0700, Steve Rae wrote:
>
>> Hmmm - perhaps "Secondary" would be more accurate wording than "Alternate"
>> (v2 coming...)
> Is there any "official" name for this in the GPT spec?
>
I proposed "Secondary" because it matched "doc/README.gpt"; and it is 
often called "secondary GPT" (for example: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table)
However, the UEFI Specifaction (Version 2.3.1, Errata A) calls it 
"backup GPT" 18 times, and "alternate GPT" once (and never calls it 
"secondary GPT")....



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