From owner-freebsd-ia64 Tue May 21 7:42: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail17.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E1A537B407 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 07:39:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28305 invoked from network); 21 May 2002 14:39:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail17.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 21 May 2002 14:39:23 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4LEdMF95043; Tue, 21 May 2002 10:39:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200205210954.11393.dfr@nlsystems.com> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:39:02 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Doug Rabson Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/efi/libefi copy.c elf_freebsd.c src Cc: ia64@FreeBSD.ORG, Ruslan Ermilov , Marcel Moolenaar , Peter Wemm , Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 21-May-2002 Doug Rabson wrote: > On Monday 20 May 2002 9:07 pm, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <20020520200445.998BC380A@overcee.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes: >> >Basically write some userland tools to create it according to the specs >> > and make sure EFI likes it. It Shouldn't Be *That* Hard(TM) :-). >> > >> >It's a convenient time to do it since it's pure 64 bit, and with the UFS2 >> > and large file system stuff in the pipeline, it would be convenient to >> > not have to invent Yet Another Proprietary Format. >> >> We're on our way, but it would be nice catching a wild one for compat >> testing. > > Since there are no bogus limitations on numbers of partitions etc. we could > even use GPT partitions directly on EFI platforms instead of subdividing a > single GPT partition using disklabel (which is typically limited to only six > usable partitions). Peter keeps harrassing me with that suggestion every time I've talked to him about this, so I know that's what he wants to do. :) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message