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

Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 16:38:24 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot
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Hrmm,

On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 at 16:36, Ilias Apalodimas
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 at 16:29, Alexey Charkov <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 5:07=E2=80=AFPM Ilias Apalodimas
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 at 15:33, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wr=
ote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 at 13:20, Ilias Apalodimas
> > > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > 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
> >
> > 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.

Ok I was too fast on replying. You can keep this patch. It's not for
the EFI loader.

Thanks
/Ilias
> Cheers
> /Ilias
> > Best regards,
> > Alexey