From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 9 18:37:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD5137B405; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:37:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id F1C9A786E6; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:07:13 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:07:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Smith Cc: Joerg Wunsch , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "Dangerously Decidated" yet again (was : cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c) Message-ID: <20011210130713.C63585@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011210105703.I83634@monorchid.lemis.com> <200112100232.fBA2Wce04656@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200112100232.fBA2Wce04656@mass.dis.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 9 December 2001 at 18:32:38 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> On Sunday, 9 December 2001 at 19:46:06 +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: >>> >>> >>> Still, it's my opinion that these BIOSes are simply broken: > > Joerg's personal opinion can go take a hike. The reality of the > situation is that this table is required, and we're going to put it there. The reality of the situation is far from being clear. The only thing I can see is that you're trying to dictate things without adequate justification. You should reconsider that attitude. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message