GPT byte-swapping patches

[Matt_Domsch]

Due to Intel madness, RFC-defined UUIDs and GUIDs and Intel's specification
of efi_guid_t aren't quite the same.  Close, but no cigar...  The RFC
defines a uuid as a blob of char[16], and the underlying structure (if any)
is *really* big-endian.  Of course, Intel went and defined the underlying
structure to be little-endian (at least on disk).  So, uuid_generate(uuid)
gives a perfectly valid big-endian uuid, but needs to have some fields
byte-swapped to be considered an efi_guid_t.  Likewise, an efi_guid_t needs
to be byte-swapped back to a big-endian uuid prior to calling uuid_unparse()
on it.

Also in 1.5.6, gpt_probe() and related _is_pmbr_valid() needed a few
PED_CPU_TO_LEXX conversions to be safe.

Patches to 1.4.23 and 1.5.6 provided.
http://domsch.com/linux/patches/parted/parted-1.4.23-gpt-swab.patch
http://domsch.com/linux/patches/parted/parted-1.5.6-gpt-swab.patch

Thanks,
Matt

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