Bug#751704: sunxi MMC boot SPL vs. GPT partition (Re: Bug#751704: partman-base 173: partman overwrites parts of u-boot)

[Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:43:24AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Of course another option is to have the boot code on SD or eMMC,
> and have the boot code read the kernel and everything else from a SATA
> drive or somethign else which does use GPT.  Just a bit annoying to need
> multiple devices.

For a quite large number of sunxi-based devices, MMC/SD is the
only useable storage option.  Not all SOCs of the sunxi-family
have a SATA controller and even on devices with those that have
one, it is often not available on a connector, so splitting the
boot code and the rest of the installation onto different storage
devices is unfortunately not possible for a significant part of
the hardware base.

Regards,
Karsten
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