From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 20:56:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BF5106569C for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:56:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu (ice.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D5D8FC1B for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:56:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9280286D61; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:56:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ice.icecube.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 04993-04; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:56:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net (i3-dhcp-172-16-55-165.icecube.wisc.edu [172.16.55.165]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAF7786B19; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:56:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <48EBCD0A.9000807@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:56:42 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081002) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian Brueffer References: <1223393073.15248.151.camel@horst-tla> <48EB821B.80503@freebsd.org> <20081007194308.GA1268@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> In-Reply-To: <20081007194308.GA1268@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ice.icecube.wisc.edu Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML Subject: Re: bootloader installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:56:55 -0000 Christian Brueffer wrote: >> >> We really need to make installation work better. Can we include a port >> of Apple's HFS implementation in base? I know APSL1 was impossible, but >> are there any thoughts on APSL2 now? Having HFS support should also be >> valuable on x86 with more people dual-booting FreeBSD/OS X now. >> >> I suppose that writing a simple write-only HFS implementation should not >> be too hard, either. Maybe this could be hooked into gpart bootcode? >> -Nathan >> _______________________________________________ >> > > Take a look at http://people.freebsd.org/~yar for an old hfs port from > the 5.x days. Unfortunately it never made it into the base system, > maybe someone here would like to pick it up? > I used that on 5.3. It worked great. But the HFS code, the license, and the VFS layer have all changed a lot since then. I think it would be best to restart it from scratch. I asked about the license because the APSL was why it never made it into the tree in the first place. -Nathan