RFC: Partition type GUID for U-Boot environment

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 11:05:36AM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Would it make sense to choose a canonical "Partition type GUID" [1] for
> partitions used to store a U-Boot environment?
> 
> The partition type is mostly informational, but I'm thinking it might
> make sense to have some canonical thing to put into an image definition
> rather than having the tool use something random or a default which
> would often be "Linux filesystem data".
> 
> If so, I propose 3de21764-95bd-54bd-a5c3-4abe786f38a8 , which is from
> https://www.uuidtools.com/v5 with a namespace of
> 25cbcde0-8642-47c6-a298-1a3a57cd256b (randomly generated just now, but
> should be used for future v5 uuids within U-Boot context [2]) and name
> "U-Boot environment" (sans quotes).
> 
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_type_GUIDs
> [2]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Versions_3_and_5_(namespace_name-based)

Sure.  Do we need to, well, register that GUID with anyone so that other
tools will see and pick it up and print something nice?

-- 
Tom
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