Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:39:02 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: ia64@FreeBSD.ORG, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/efi/libefi copy.c elf_freebsd.c src Message-ID: <XFMail.20020521103902.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200205210954.11393.dfr@nlsystems.com>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< 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
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