Re: [PATCH 2/6] disk: part_efi: Add missing endianness conversions

On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 5:07=E2=80=AFPM Ilias Apalodimas
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 at 15:33, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 at 13:20, Ilias Apalodimas
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 at 15:40, Alexey Charkov <[email protected]> wr=
ote:
> > > >
> > > > Several GPT header fields are read without converting from
> > > > little-endian, which is wrong on big-endian hosts.
> > >
> > > Probably because we got no BE architecture running EFI.
> >
> > Isn't the EFI spec explicitly LE?
>
> Ah yes, I forgot that part.
> Alexey, you can drop that patch in v2

Does that mean no BE system can ever have a GUID partition table on
any disks relevant to U-Boot, including removable storage? It doesn't
have to boot via EFI to benefit from GPT-formatted storage, does it?

Best regards,
Alexey