From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 8 11:51:42 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E201065672 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 11:51:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from simond@irrelevant.org) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D678FC1A for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 11:51:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lage12 with SMTP id e12so246576lag.13 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 04:51:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=irrelevant.org; s=irrelevant; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=gSe6N+7O7U4jyjQXIpgeOrAUTk/9PM2esBy0doaD9bU=; b=NZbMuM9odiTy9Z7J0ckJ2ZzEspFDRVotSK5BtuRiKkkeFG3XsVyLmGUKl0NnyvgPQv SYaVcMxQp5rGmtbrCS0VjNkrN8U3nSw51BsIuXXcETDxytP72apF8E0ETWSLC4HNjHcG DLzdY0fMJoIrO2WZ4GIXD066CnZacVKCvBQ6w= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=gSe6N+7O7U4jyjQXIpgeOrAUTk/9PM2esBy0doaD9bU=; b=DmSUI5OUFgt4foq+Px2tc3ULDGDn1/MHypNVZvOCu+7fLra5kjbLJyohVj3R1XXrWM lg5na1zauNSV0CG27N4UwBE+SjFcImpBpRUCEWDLjlavyuJXRip0OBWLUawshbvdJG6C hQbFjfCwl5Koh8JU6+XakQgmSijfKEG2V0Zo7MZ+v2ANaaPbI933aCMcS4VdViy3E8hP EAc/nsykzeYvp9K4V1jkjcBSH9C0WW4Szf/lrJ6IQhL0yHSNykxX5jyxhH39WATB6tgO j3adUt7CnWgobuvqMs1p+ylCzFY/h+pXi0irR4dyaUJt/t48iIsyjf34H8L5vS44YKsR Wh3w== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.111.200 with SMTP id ik8mr17777570lab.15.1344426695044; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 04:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.12.229 with HTTP; Wed, 8 Aug 2012 04:51:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [94.31.26.5] In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 12:51:35 +0100 Message-ID: From: Simon Dick To: Volodymyr Shcherbyna Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmM/EezEGSYxbvlXcM/rszDp7aSPag7asqP5rRJRA8lt7YhWnNNIDMEWVwgzDxbiV2ivyAs Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WinNT compatible drive tagging so that the 3rd stage can provide an accurate mapping of BIOS geometries for disks X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:51:42 -0000 On 8 August 2012 10:20, Volodymyr Shcherbyna wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Thanks for making FreeBSD so good OS. I would like to contribute to FreeBSD > and among high priority tasks I have found the one in the subject of this > mail (source: http://doc.ctrlaltdel.ch/freebsd/handbook/contrib.html). > > Unfortunately, I did not find any details regarding specifications of the > task as well as no information regarding accomplished progress in this > direction. Can you please share with me this info? I.e., what have been > done, what has to be done, and what are the goals? I think you may want to check the age of that handbook site, especially as the linux emulation part mentions stuff about installing on 2.1-STABLE so the issue you're asking about is probably no longer an issue in the first place.