Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:20:41 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-user@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r245061 - user/hrs/releng/release/sparc64 Message-ID: <50E909A9.2080102@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20130106.023817.477940685460339224.hrs@allbsd.org> References: <201301051623.r05GNIwK079250@svn.freebsd.org> <50E85612.1020903@freebsd.org> <20130106.023817.477940685460339224.hrs@allbsd.org>
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On 01/05/13 12:38, Hiroki Sato wrote: > Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote > in <50E85612.1020903@freebsd.org>: > > nw> With these changes, if you add -B big to the makefs flags for the boot > nw> fs and find a way to do sunlabel on not-sparc64 (this is the same as > nw> geom_part_vtoc8, right?), you should be able to cross-build sparc64 > nw> media (as you can already do with all other platforms). > > Thank you! I will add -B to makefs. So, is a powerpc build on LE > platforms also affected? > > For sunlabel replacement I am trying gpart since g_part_vtoc8 is > available as a kernel module even for non-sparc64 platforms. > However, it is difficult to set CHS parameters manually. In the ISO > image generation script, I just concatenated an ISO image and a UFS > image then wrote a VTOC8 label over it. While this needs the offset > parameter of the UFS image and it must be in cylinders, the > sectors/cylinder parameter is dynamically determined by the media > size. > > -- Hiroki > PPC ISO generation already has all the correct flags (and uses g_part_apm), and so already can be cross-built. I haven't tried IA64 but it looks like it should work. -Nathan
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