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Date:      Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:39:19 -0800
From:      Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>
To:        Patryk Zadarnowski <patrykz@ilion.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 64bit OS?
Message-ID:  <20000219183919.C23349@sharmas.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <200002200142.MAA03468@mycenae.ilion.eu.org>; from Patryk Zadarnowski on Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 12:42:14PM %2B1100
References:  <200002192013.MAA96756@apollo.backplane.com> <200002200142.MAA03468@mycenae.ilion.eu.org>

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On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 12:42:14PM +1100, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote:
> One more thing about GPTs (I thought I'll leave that till last. ;)
> Jochen Liedtke holds a German patent on them, although he will
> probably be fairly easily convinced to give FreeBSD rights to use
> them. I'll be happy to ask (if we're interested.)

It looks like the hardware has to implement GPTs and know how to
walk them. How can FreeBSD use them without hardware support ?

	-Arun


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