From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 24 9: 4:31 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A082C37B401; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:04:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from leviathan.cnchost.com (leviathan.cnchost.com [207.155.252.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1C943E3B; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from bitblocks.com (adsl-209-204-185-216.sonic.net [209.204.185.216]) by leviathan.cnchost.com id MAA18418; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:03:59 -0400 (EDT) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.14] Message-ID: <200210241603.MAA18418@leviathan.cnchost.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Takahashi Yoshihiro , bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:04:13 +0200." <1120.1035450253@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:03:52 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> >Breakage of the non-GEOM case continues. > >> > >> The non-GEOM case is no longer going to be supported. > > > >Don't remove non-GEOM support. Currently, GEOM does not work on > >pc98. Why do you remove GEOM support, even though you know this > >problem? > > First of all, exactly 50% of the reports I have say that GEOM works > on pc98, so it is _not_ true that "GEOM does not work on pc98". Until that number reaches 100% it would not be wise to burn the non-GEOM bridge. > In the meantime it would be valuable to get more data, I can't belive > that only two PC98 machines, on of which is in Denmark, run -current ? If you have had reports of only two PC98 machines that certainly is not a big enough sample! Here is a *non* PC98 machine report. My 4 year old Toshiba Ultium (a Ppro machine with onboard aic 7880 scsi controller) does not boot. It can't find the root device and drops into the rootmount menu. Until now I haven't had any time to even hook up a serial port -- hope to send a more detailed report today. Also realize that the time period for shaking out this feature just isn't long enough. People have real lives and limited time. Even if GEOM were perfect. It is the nature of PC beast. If Bruce Evans leaves we will lose a voice of restraint. And *that* won't be replaced so easily. If at all. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message