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diff --git a/doc/README.gpt b/doc/README.gpt index 5c133f3..f822894 100644 --- a/doc/README.gpt +++ b/doc/README.gpt @@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ of the Primary. ---------------------- Offset Size Description - 0 16 B Partition type GUID - 16 16 B Unique partition GUID + 0 16 B Partition type GUID (Big Endian) + 16 16 B Unique partition GUID in (Big Endian) 32 8 B First LBA (Little Endian) 40 8 B Last LBA (inclusive) 48 8 B Attribute flags [+] @@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ To restore GUID partition table one needs to: Fields 'name', 'size' and 'uuid' are mandatory for every partition. The field 'start' is optional. + option: CONFIG_RANDOM_UUID + If any partition "UUID" no exists then it is randomly generated. + 2. Define 'CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION' and 'CONFIG_CMD_GPT' 2. From u-boot prompt type: @@ -168,11 +171,20 @@ To restore GUID partition table one needs to: Useful info: ============ -Two programs, namely: 'fdisk' and 'parted' are recommended to work with GPT -recovery. Parted is able to handle GUID partitions. Unfortunately the 'fdisk' -hasn't got such ability. +Two programs, namely: 'gdisk' and 'parted' are recommended to work with GPT +recovery. Both are able to handle GUID partitions. Please, pay attention at -l switch for parted. "uuid" program is recommended to generate UUID string. Moreover it can decode (-d switch) passed in UUID string. It can be used to generate partitions UUID passed to u-boot environment variables. +If optional CONFIG_RANDOM_UUID is defined then for any partition which environment +uuid is unset, uuid is randomly generated and stored in correspond environment +variable. + +note: +Each string block of UUID generated by program "uuid" is in big endian and it is +also stored in big endian in disk GPT. +Partitions layout can be printed by typing "mmc part". Note that each partition +GUID has different byte order than UUID generated before, this is because first +three blocks of GUID string are in Little Endian. |