[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 18/30] sunxi: Add uENV partition on gpt partition table

[Jagan Teki]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 09:49:39PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
>> Insert 128KiB uENV partition after loader2 on gpt partition table.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com>
>
> What is the point of this partition?

Yes for u-boot environment.

>
> If it is to store the environment, it was discussed to add it into the
> esp partition.

If it is part of esp are we sure env part from esp is always unchanged
expect u-boot saveenv?, I would prefer env has separate partition
because, there could be chance of formatting esp from host and copy
Linux images instead of fastboot write or any other media write.