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Embedded Base Boot Requirements Specification
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Change EBBR to allow MBR partitioning #3

Closed glikely closed 6 years ago

glikely commented 6 years ago

GPT partitioning is preferred, but many SoCs use boot schemes that are incompatible with the GPT partition table.

Change the spec to allow MBR or GPT partitioning

glikely commented 6 years ago

DIscussed during weekly meeting. Agreed that EBBR should follow the UEFI spec in allowing both MBR and GPT partitioning. Also decided to make it clear that nonconforming schemes, like hybrid-mbr, are not allowed.