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

On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 at 16:29, Alexey Charkov <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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]> wrot=
e:
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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]> =
wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > 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
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> 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?
>

It doesn't but that's the EFI part of U-Boot we are changing here.
Cheers
/Ilias
> Best regards,
> Alexey