Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 02:00:39 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?=20Horst=20G=FCnther=20Burkhardt=20III?= <horst@sxemacs.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bootloader installation Message-ID: <20081008020039.EJX00000@dommail.onthenet.com.au>
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Hi Nathan, >We really need to make installation work better. Yep. >Can we include a port of Apple's HFS implementation >in base? I know APSL1 was impossible, but are there any >thoughts on APSL2 now? Having HFS support should also be >valuable on x86 with more people dual-booting >FreeBSD/OS X now. ZFS shows how to incorporate a piece of s/w that may even have an unfriendly license. The ppc loader can do a boot-time module load so the same trick can be applied. I would imagine a port of Apple HFS code to be a "big job" with differences in the o/s maybe harder to mask out than with ZFS/Solaris since the OSX and FreeBSD have significant incompatible overlap. >I suppose that writing a simple write-only HFS >implementation should not be too hard, either. >Maybe this could be hooked into gpart bootcode? As Marco mentioned, there is hfsutils. Also, NetBSD had a Google SoC project to implement HFS, that at least produced some usable code: http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/hfs/ I don't know that the status is in NetBSD proper. later, Peter.
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