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List:       haiku-development
Subject:    [haiku-development] Re: EFI and GPT
From:       Axel Dörfler <axeld () pinc-software ! de>
Date:       2012-12-29 22:32:05
Message-ID: 50DF6F65.3010404 () pinc-software ! de
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On 12/29/2012 02:54 AM, Alexander von Gluck wrote:
> On 2012-12-28 14:34, François Revol wrote:
>> No idea.
>> Btw, I really wonder why it's called EFI instead of GPT...
> I was wondering that while I added the Haiku GPT UUID.
>
> The GPT specification comes from the Intel EFI specification...
> although it really should be called GPT to avoid confusion.

It was used to be called EFI GPT back when I implemented it. Feel free 
to rename it to GPT if you like; that's how I would call it today, too.

Bye,
    Axel.


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