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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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