From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 23 17:52:54 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C64388A3 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f175.google.com (mail-ig0-f175.google.com [209.85.213.175]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 83CA81DA for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igbud6 with SMTP id ud6so49636253igb.1 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:52:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:subject:mime-version:content-type:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:message-id:references:to; bh=+2RFbr0Cd7A8nzdERGylZwG+VT+B0iTE6GLXSSieOSE=; b=B4p/UmfMD84hocsnO60ohBPlmP0Opl41JCF/t39aaY8FAMJ+duQjtFIB0CoA3wuiu8 sIeB2VNvRJERmRkBUIcjp37QrYNkRspsS7FlDoe7feZchcBi0TvLoTJjuH/tpCu4k3qj qWcRqAM7qjZJGUJBqrK21XhAnVDP3zazmcqJEIC1dL4Sl416+TSKT84YMyCpL76Yl3ue jPIPYtfScfaMgzItu4SkK3G9QqcStARYmZdMu4ZpON6sK8+/VpLtaehzKLC5ShXv69Pm qOOaJymPLkuzYFaMaWbTHsjLKq8Grzn9WOPHOT0plp3rNU4XDl1vzVt9ctHr3fE0ex0g pRQA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmWUYdsjH9guzHSx6X/NWjqYuq+wXF/JlfpzRmvDPo7JnputDAOLIAgRs34q7k4+bh2yj6a X-Received: by 10.42.66.11 with SMTP id n11mr741020ici.83.1427133167720; Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:52:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netflix-mac.bsdimp.com ([50.253.99.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id y142sm1022687iod.25.2015.03.23.10.52.46 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Warner Losh Subject: Re: beaglebone boot from eMMC Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2070.6\)) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_81803602-54FD-4BDD-B92B-6413C632D8E7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 2.5b6 From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <756CA573-DBF6-4847-8D13-5D2586B2A1C8@kientzle.com> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:52:24 -0600 Message-Id: References: <3DF08C65-20E3-4524-B0E1-C5C096AA0FE8@hellmuth-michaelis.de> <756CA573-DBF6-4847-8D13-5D2586B2A1C8@kientzle.com> To: Tim Kientzle X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2070.6) Cc: freebsd-arm , Hellmuth Michaelis X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:52:55 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_81803602-54FD-4BDD-B92B-6413C632D8E7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Mar 22, 2015, at 9:41 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote: > 3) Geom rejects BSD labels with more than 255 sectors per track. The = BBB eMMC reads as 1024 sectors per track. Would it make sense to = remove the check in g_part_bsd.c that rejects labels with more than 255 = sectors? This is likely a good idea. In fact, nearly all of the bogus enforcement = in g_part can likely be removed / relaxed. They made sense in the = 1990=E2=80=99s, but in the world of highly artificial values (that often = change based on how the device is connected), they make almost no sense = anymore. Warner --Apple-Mail=_81803602-54FD-4BDD-B92B-6413C632D8E7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVEFLZAAoJEGwc0Sh9sBEACBEP/2R3RfDZ29CBBv3L93yp99dN HiyJ2zpiFL9qwXxjAgbTI9ebenikBBRfUTOhnv0jVefXlj7+aZhE2Nkm2QqzXZJe tt3TonFjGSYCRWkirY+EdwkU4CmXILVZMBKpgnj8fHwtk2jxeQEVYB8yIfHxoXE5 M3IE+YnvBA7mXaN+dOkpl5XxfL+yahNrD1SnOQcaZ5kQgiHczeyN2+LZa5nXkcUJ E6HgOMyTBiK61BtM5jhat+f+Y/ubdPzAzPlMAyldJveENcf9kCv5VNYGoId1UVW6 7M3ObHTLAdPYiZZGAGfpDvIZAVKF+Fly3H1h9I5Ed7hokL6c/0dj8bwJih5fv0Iz ZLGaFH3tAyooXAaCf5E3XffQS9o4pCf1jKoxf0AqHrU7z0H7CVsvMIDdEcTAwfFT Vx/GQoKgIF7kncl91qbQpg9wpXAkNaXlbrLD9fxoiDJubGWSae1TkAOtBMRZthSc 3evkD+O4ZoPqLJhFaCmsFBrKqtRa5bs7zbRhBO3q7bWiHVAHXo3mKHQIWT+iAAdi 6Ed6ECn5kKQfRw8GmeoRNzU3GDUTZSGbP1Are0iGhPiM6Ra+IT9R/7Vm6+9HwM5O LsQ+Elj0j5X7M89wI2n+STzeNFB8hwDfW7Yt/y+GVpw67z4QrBWzCx57xXLt2Sol 49rdv/xWQsyDOR9y60gn =QCiM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_81803602-54FD-4BDD-B92B-6413C632D8E7--