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Date:      Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:56:42 -0500
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bootloader installation
Message-ID:  <48EBCD0A.9000807@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081007194308.GA1268@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
References:  <1223393073.15248.151.camel@horst-tla> <48EB821B.80503@freebsd.org> <20081007194308.GA1268@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE>

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Christian Brueffer wrote:
>>
>> We really need to make installation work better. 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.
>>
>> I suppose that writing a simple write-only HFS implementation should not 
>> be too hard, either. Maybe this could be hooked into gpart bootcode?
>> -Nathan
>> _______________________________________________
>>     
>
> Take a look at http://people.freebsd.org/~yar for an old hfs port from
> the 5.x days.  Unfortunately it never made it into the base system,
> maybe someone here would like to pick it up?
>   
I used that on 5.3. It worked great. But the HFS code, the license, and 
the VFS layer have all changed a lot since then. I think it would be 
best to restart it from scratch. I asked about the license because the 
APSL was why it never made it into the tree in the first place.
-Nathan



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