From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 29 23:42: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 589D337B405; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:42:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g0U7fx630975; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:41:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0U7gPL01072; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:42:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 23:42:25 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Geom project, limited preview... Message-ID: <20020129234225.A981@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <42006.1012230011@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42006.1012230011@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message