From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 15:35:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7429216A4CE; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:35:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFEB443D3F; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:35:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j05FZPHr008144 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:35:25 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id j05FZJKI096931; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:35:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16860.2359.646545.119336@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:35:19 -0500 (EST) To: Peter Grehan In-Reply-To: <41D93EFB.5050104@freebsd.org> References: <41D4B6BD.3050705@freebsd.org> <20050101213630.GA3034@flow.eu.org> <20050101223317.GA6970@moof.catpipe.net> <41D75B55.2090502@freebsd.org> <20050102115505.GA28305@moof.catpipe.net> <41D93EFB.5050104@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPC miniinst.iso available X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:35:36 -0000 Peter Grehan writes: > >> WRT partitions, do you think it would be useful to have them within a > >>slice ? I've been thinking about allowing GPT partitions within a > >>slice for a while, although it does complicate the loader a bit. > > > > > > I don't really know, I assumed that was the way it worked on PPC as > > well as i386. But considering we don't have the slice restrictions, > > it does make sense to use one partition / slice (as OS X sees it). > > > > How is it on Alpha ? If there's a precedent there, it might be the > > way to go. > > Alpha uses native MBR slices/BSD partitions ala FreeBSD/i386. For the boot disk, the alpha uses native BSD partitions just like Tru64 with no x86 MBR or slices. There are all kinds of restrictions, like "a" must be root and must be the first partition on the disk. For non-boot disks, it can use other partitioning schemes, just like any other FreeBSD platform. What's wrong with just using the native Apple parition table for boot disks on PPC? Too few available paritions, what with all the driver and patch partitions? Drew