From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 19 18:39:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 638BA37BDC5 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:39:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adsharma@c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA23777; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:39:19 -0800 Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:39:19 -0800 From: Arun Sharma To: Patryk Zadarnowski Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64bit OS? Message-ID: <20000219183919.C23349@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <200002192013.MAA96756@apollo.backplane.com> <200002200142.MAA03468@mycenae.ilion.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <200002200142.MAA03468@mycenae.ilion.eu.org>; from Patryk Zadarnowski on Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 12:42:14PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message