[U-Boot] [PATCH] disk: part_efi: add support for the Alternate GPT
Steve Rae
srae at broadcom.com
Mon May 5 21:54:55 CEST 2014
On 14-05-05 12:41 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 12:22:18PM -0700, Steve Rae wrote:
>> 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")....
> I would go with backup GPT and update the README.gpt too please.
>
OK (v3 coming...)
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