Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 9 May 2002 17:05:46 -0400
From:      Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys sun_disklabel.h
Message-ID:  <20020509170546.C2566@locore.ca>
In-Reply-To: <32502.1020977392@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:49:52PM %2B0200
References:  <200205092022.g49KMxZ94992@freefall.freebsd.org> <32502.1020977392@critter.freebsd.dk>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Apparently, On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:49:52PM +0200,
	Poul-Henning Kamp said words to the effect of;

> 
> Why didn't you just enable GEOM ?
> 

The commit message is inaccurate.  The header is needed to build disklabel(8)
which has to write a sun compatible disklabel so we can boot from disk.

Jake

> Poul-Henning
> 
> In message <200205092022.g49KMxZ94992@freefall.freebsd.org>, "David E. O'Brien"
>  writes:
> >obrien      2002/05/09 13:22:59 PDT
> >
> >  Added files:
> >    sys/sys              sun_disklabel.h 
> >  Log:
> >  Add a hack (ported from NetBSD) to support Sun disk labels.
> >  This code works by converting the Sun label to a struct disklabel, which
> >  is probably even the right thing for reading a label. The original
> >  checksum is taken over, so that the label source can be distinguished.
> >  
> >  The NetBSD code to wrap a BSD-style disklabel into the Sun disklabel has been
> >  deleted for now - don't know whether that is really desirable, after all Sun
> >  disklabels could just be used always (BSD disklabels are going to have
> >  problems with PROM compatability).  The dsinit() call in diskopen() has been
> >  #ifdef'ed out for now, this will be changed to use the minimal slice struct
> >  in case of dsinit() failure.
> >  
> >  Submitted by:   tmm
> >  Obtained from:  NetBSD
> >  
> >  Revision  Changes    Path
> >  1.1       +101 -0    src/sys/sys/sun_disklabel.h (new)
> >
> 
> -- 
> Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
> FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020509170546.C2566>