From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 14 20:50:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA26384 for alpha-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 20:50:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA26378 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 20:50:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.60 #1) id 0wRrY8-0000CN-00; Wed, 14 May 1997 21:49:52 -0600 To: Andrew Gallatin Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 May 1997 20:24:42 EDT." <199705150024.UAA01463@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> References: <199705150024.UAA01463@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> <199705141522.LAA31644@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> <199705140110.VAA31030@hurricane.cs.duke.edu> <11626.863576303@time.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 21:49:52 -0600 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : Another rather important issue that needs to be hashed out is what sort : of disk-layout to support. Are you going to be using NT/Linux style : fdisk slices, or are you going to be using the entire disk like NetBSD : & Digital UNIX do? Or both? (sorry if this has already been decided, I : just joined the list yesterday & haven't been able to get an archive : yet ;) I was leaning toward a slices thing (optional) and a disk label, just like the current FreeBSD does. It is required for the ARC console for booting that we have a FAT file system around, and so we gotta support that at some point. Besides, the code is basically already written. :-) I think that most of the features needed by the FreeBSD kernel when running will likely be very minimal and easily translated between the various flavors of PALs (or even just use the OSF PAL routines). Warner