Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 12:00:21 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: phk@FreeBSD.ORG, Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: buildworld trouble: multiple struct dos_partition. Message-ID: <3E15EBD5.59BE0DB2@mindspring.com> References: <20030104043358.K4900-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans wrote:
> "pc98_partition" is OK, but "mbr_partition" is bogus since partition tables
> are not restricted to the MBR -- there is one in every extended partition.
>
> <sys/diskpc98.h> is similarly OK and <sys/diskmbr.h> is similarly bogus.
>
> "at386" would be a better prefix/suffix than "mbr" for the non-pc98 pc's.
> It is used for the main bus space header.
>
> The normal prefix for "partition table" seems to be "" according to google.
> FreeBSD has "dos_partition" and NetBSD has "mbr_partition".
The PReP specification ("PPC Reference Platform") goes into great
gory detail on DOS Partition Tables, as does the DEC Alpha boot
documentation. The fact is that DOS Partition tables are used in
a lot of places that are unrelated to x86.
PS: The PReP documentation is probably the finest documentation
for the DOS partition table format available anywhere.
-- Terry
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