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

On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 5:39=E2=80=AFPM Ilias Apalodimas
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hrmm,
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> On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 at 16:36, Ilias Apalodimas
> <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > 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:
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> > > > On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 at 15:33, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> =
wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > 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]=
et> wrote:
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> > > > > > > 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.

Got it, thank you!

Best regards,
Alexey