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Date:      Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:43:45 +0100
From:      phk@phk.freebsd.dk
To:        Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/alpha make-release on FreeBSD/i386: dislabel problem 
Message-ID:  <4073.1045385025@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:41:20 %2B0900." <20030216174120D.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <20030216174120D.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Makoto Matsushita writes:
>
>phk> Not yet.  I think adding a "-m architecture" flag to disklabel is the
>phk> way around this problem, but have not had time to do so.
>
>Thanks, I'm waiting until you have enough time to do since I have
>little knowledge about this issue:)
>
>BTW, what's changes do you imagine?  Make a table which holds
>architecture name, label size, offset, etc and use it in
>disklabel.c:makebootarea()?

Something like that.

>Maybe it requires some changes in <sys/disklabel.h> since LABELOFFSET
>and other macros are defined inside of architecture-dependent #ifdefs...

Doing this would actually make LABELOFFSET obsolete.

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