Re: [PATCH 2/6] disk: part_efi: Add missing endianness conversions
Alexey Charkov <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 5:07 PM Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]> 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? Best regards, Alexey