On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 05:26:10PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
From: Stefan Reinauer reinauer@chromium.org
ChromeOS uses a GPT partition table to partition the disk. However, Windows will refuse to install on a GPT partitioned disk if there is no EFI available (Even if there is an MBR, too) To hide the GPT partition table from Windows, we need to write it with a header magic other than "EFI PART". To support old and new systems, Check for the magic string "CHROMEOS" too.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer reinauer@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
Stephen brings up a good point in that this is a ChromeOS specific work-around for a real issue. With my TI hat on, we've been pushing the idea that our releases will be mainline + patches, and those patches will be things that are either backports, works in progress or simply not mainlineable patches (enforce a CONFIG_BOOTDELAY of 3 for all boards, add mojo to just load uImages to their XIP address, etc). In my mind, this patch falls into the last grouping and I hope you're OK with just holding onto this as a not appropriate for mainline change.
The rest of the series looks fine and no need to respin, I'll just skip this patch when I pick it up, assuming no further changes are needed elsewhere.