Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:25:51 +0100 From: phk@FreeBSD.ORG To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c Message-ID: <2340.1040055951@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:20:15 EST." <XFMail.20021216112015.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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In message <XFMail.20021216112015.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes: > >On 14-Dec-2002 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> phk 2002/12/14 09:34:28 PST >> >> Modified files: >> sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c >> Log: >> Don't fill in the table with the BIOS idea about disk-geometry, we don't >> use it. This saves a surprising number of bytes. > >It might be nice to use it at some point to improve sysinstall's geometry >guesses. At least that was the plan. Well, ACPI can tell us too, and that will even tell which drive is which, something this old hack didn't tell us. -- 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message
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