Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:43:45 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/101228: [nanobsd] [patch] Two more entries for FlashDevice.sub Message-ID: <17702.1154526225@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Aug 2006 07:32:32 CST." <20060802.073232.-494097392.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <20060802.073232.-494097392.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes : >flashdevice.sub has at best dubious value to start with. There are >literally thousands of geometries that we'd need to support. I'm afraid I have to agree with Warner here. I was hoping that the vendors would standardize on a limited number of geometries, but it seems that yet again my faith in the wisdom of hardware vendors is not supported by evidence. -- 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.
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