Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 09:12:58 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk create_chunk.c write_disk.c Message-ID: <XFMail.010403091258.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104030929410.72918-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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On 03-Apr-01 Doug Rabson wrote: > On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, 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 >> > all >> > 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. > > The ia64 *can* use an MBR and slices but it would prefer to use a new > partiioning scheme called GPT which is defined in the EFI spec. Ah. I'd just seen the MBR part, but the last spec I read was 0.99 and I think they released 1.1 2 days ago. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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