From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 3 9:14:34 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B9037B71F; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:14:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f33GEKK45741; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:14:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f33GCwY18120; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:12:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 09:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Doug Rabson Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk create_chunk.c write_disk.c Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, "David E. O'Brien" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Apr-01 Doug Rabson wrote: > On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> On 01-Apr-01 David E. O'Brien wrote: >> > obrien 2001/04/01 04:37:31 PDT >> > >> > Modified files: >> > lib/libdisk create_chunk.c write_disk.c >> > Log: >> > Try to untangle some of the #ifdef spaghetti. >> > Also, looking to the future, don't assume all the world is an i386 and >> > all >> > its disk layout brain damage will be repeated by other platforms. So >> > all >> > the diking out if we are an Alpha, becomes adding in if we are an i386. >> >> Actually, IA64 uses a MBR and slices, too. I'd almost rather you use #ifdef >> USE_SLICES or something like that and have each arch set appropriate defines >> to >> describe its disk layout. > > The ia64 *can* use an MBR and slices but it would prefer to use a new > partiioning scheme called GPT which is defined in the EFI spec. Ah. I'd just seen the MBR part, but the last spec I read was 0.99 and I think they released 1.1 2 days ago. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message