Re: change hp700 disklabel location

[email protected] (ITOH Yasufumi)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hp700
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thank you for looking at this.
OK, I'm going to commit this shortly.

[email protected] writes:
> On Saturday, October 18, 2003, at 10:16  AM, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> 
> > I guess there are very few people who have disks for NetBSD/hp700,
> > so I wonder if compat code is really needed..
> 
> Heh, true enough.  Ok, maybe it's not necessary :-)

Actually, I haven't get an executable (/sbin/init) running on a disk,
while it runs on an NFS. :-|

[email protected] writes:
> Is it worth changing MAXPARTITIONS to 16 at the same time?
> (if it hasn't already been done)

OpenBSD has already changed the value to 16.

[email protected] writes:
> On 2003.10.18 09:54 Klaus Klein wrote:
> 
> > > I chose the location LABELSECTOR=1, LABELOFFSET=0,
> > > which is used on many archs.
> > > Do you think it okay to commit this change?
> > FWIW, this also matches Mach's location.
> ... and the OpenBSD location:
> egrep 'HPPA_LABEL(SECTOR|OFFSET)' src/sys/arch/hppa/include/disklabel.h
> #define HPPA_LABELSECTOR        1               /* sector containing 
> label */
> #define HPPA_LABELOFFSET        0               /* offset of label in 

Hmm, it seems they changed the values after we grabbed their source.

Thanks,
-- 
ITOH Yasufumi
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