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Date:      Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:42:25 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Geom project, limited preview...
Message-ID:  <20020129234225.A981@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <42006.1012230011@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <42006.1012230011@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 04:00:11PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> I'm interested in getting in touch with people who are interested in
> writing modules for Geom or people who work new architectures and
> have to contest strange disklabel formats -> get in touch with me.

It looks to me that the EFI GUID Partition Table (GPT) can be dealt
with almost trivially with Geom. This would be a good thing for the
ia64 port and upcoming EFI based ia32 systems (if any).

BTW, the documented discovery order under EFI is 1) GPT, 2) ISO-9660
and 3) Legacy MBR. This would imply that self-discovery as you
suggest for MBR and BSD would have some constraints, whether it's
one we hardcode or provide through a more dynamic mechanism.

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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