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[PATCH RESEND] GPT: add support for PReP GUID

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Message #14 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Phillip Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>
To: Avik Sil <aviksil <at> linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: parted-devel <at> lists.alioth.debian.org, bug-parted <at> gnu.org,
 dbkreling <at> br.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [parted-devel] [PATCH RESEND] GPT: add support for PReP GUID
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 22:10:03 -0400

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On 10/07/2013 09:12 PM, Avik Sil wrote:
> On 10/07/2013 07:59 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: Doesn't this old
> platform only understand the apple partition map, and not gpt?
> Picking a guid out of the air isn't going to teach the firmware to
> look for it.
> 
>> Yes, and firmware support for it is also being added. For
>> example, in guest firmware SLOF, this support has already been
>> added [1]. And GRUB2 also now supports PReP GUID [2].

Oh, I thought this was an obsolete platform not in production any
more?  I suppose if it is still being updated then the patch looks
good to me.

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