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Date:      Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:49:31 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Subject:   Re: Default support for GPT [was: Re: More than 8 labels per slice]
Message-ID:  <20040428204931.GA72739@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <408F11C5.5030403@freebsd.org>
References:  <200404270906.54407.current@schmalzbauer.de> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040427203300.51265B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20040428012657.GA7257@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <408F11C5.5030403@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:07:01PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> I remember there being rumors a year or two ago about
> Intel trying to sack legacy BIOS and MBR support on x86 entirely
> and force everyone to use EFI and GPT.

AMD doesn't have this desire, so please don't assume this for the new
AMD64 platform.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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