From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 16 15:44: 6 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC0F37B401; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:44:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFCAE43EC5; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:44:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBGGPpk5002341; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:25:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: John Baldwin Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c From: phk@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:20:15 EST." Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:25:51 +0100 Message-ID: <2340.1040055951@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , John Baldwin writes: > >On 14-Dec-2002 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> phk 2002/12/14 09:34:28 PST >> >> Modified files: >> sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c >> Log: >> Don't fill in the table with the BIOS idea about disk-geometry, we don't >> use it. This saves a surprising number of bytes. > >It might be nice to use it at some point to improve sysinstall's geometry >guesses. At least that was the plan. Well, ACPI can tell us too, and that will even tell which drive is which, something this old hack didn't tell us. -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message