Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 21:49:52 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@CS.Duke.EDU> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Message-ID: <E0wRrY8-0000CN-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 May 1997 20:24:42 EDT." <199705150024.UAA01463@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> References: <199705150024.UAA01463@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> <199705141522.LAA31644@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> <199705140110.VAA31030@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> <11626.863576303@time.cdrom.com> <E0wRjz7-0007TB-00@rover.village.org>
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: Another rather important issue that needs to be hashed out is what sort : of disk-layout to support. Are you going to be using NT/Linux style : fdisk slices, or are you going to be using the entire disk like NetBSD : & Digital UNIX do? Or both? (sorry if this has already been decided, I : just joined the list yesterday & haven't been able to get an archive : yet ;) I was leaning toward a slices thing (optional) and a disk label, just like the current FreeBSD does. It is required for the ARC console for booting that we have a FAT file system around, and so we gotta support that at some point. Besides, the code is basically already written. :-) I think that most of the features needed by the FreeBSD kernel when running will likely be very minimal and easily translated between the various flavors of PALs (or even just use the OSF PAL routines). Warner
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