[U-Boot] [PATCH] part:efi: add GUID for linux file system data

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 05:03:15PM +0200, Patrick Delaunay wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Patrick Delaunay <patrick.delaunay73 at gmail.com>
> ---
> 
> see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_type_GUIDs
> 
> nota 9 :
> Previously, Linux used the same GUID for the data partitions as Windows
> (Basic data partition: EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7).
> Linux never had a separate unique partition type GUID defined for its
> data partitions.
> This created problems when dual-booting Linux and Windows in UEFI-GPT
> setup.
> The new GUID (Linux filesystem data: 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4)
> was defined jointly by GPT fdisk and GNU Parted developers.
> It is identified as type code 0x8300 in GPT fdisk.
> (See definitions in gdisk's parttypes.cc)

Some of this should be in the main commit message, not the discarded
part.

>  include/part_efi.h | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

And without some changes to disk/part_efi.c I believe, this isn't used
anywhere so not actually changing behavior yet :)

-- 
Tom
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