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To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk create_chunk.c write_disk.c 
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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 14:13:15 -0700
From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 01-Apr-01 David E. O'Brien wrote:
> > obrien      2001/04/01 04:37:31 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     lib/libdisk          create_chunk.c write_disk.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Try to untangle some of the #ifdef spaghetti.
> >   Also, looking to the future, don't assume all the world is an i386 and al
    l
> >   its disk layout brain damage will be repeated by other platforms.  So all
> >   the diking out if we are an Alpha, becomes adding in if we are an i386.
> 
> Actually, IA64 uses a MBR and slices, too.  I'd almost rather you use #ifdef
> USE_SLICES or something like that and have each arch set appropriate defines 
    to
> describe its disk layout.

Umm, that's not what I remember.. it is EFI based, and uses pure LBA
partitioning.

Cheers,
-Peter
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