From owner-cvs-sbin Tue Apr 18 17:42:45 1995 Return-Path: cvs-sbin-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA28742 for cvs-sbin-outgoing; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 17:42:45 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA28726 ; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 17:42:26 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA14342; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 10:35:40 +1000 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 10:35:40 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199504190035.KAA14342@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sysinstall disk.h mbr.h Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-sbin@freefall.cdrom.com, gpalmer@freefall.cdrom.com, julian@ref.tfs.com, phk@ref.tfs.com Sender: cvs-sbin-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> Make that and I could live with it. This code >> is meaningless on other platforms. Maybe . Certainly not , which is supposed to be machine indepennent. There are currently two machine- dependent warts in : it assumes that the function that fills in the slice tables is named `dsinit()', and it has a machine- dependent field ds_type, which can't be correctly handled without the list of partition types. >It might not be, I don't really know. What happens on an alpha box that >has NT and OSF on it? Maybe there should a sys/foreignOS tree. It could hold everything for foreign OS's except file systems. Bruce