Re: install/59600: sysinst does not correctly recognize the partition on x68k.

["Martin Husemann via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/59600; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: Tetsuya Isaki <isaki%pastel-flower.jp@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: install/59600: sysinst does not correctly recognize the
 partition on x68k.
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:12:07 +0200

 On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 01:15:46PM +0900, Tetsuya Isaki wrote:
 > Removing conditions for d_bbsize and d_sbsize in x68k's
 > md_disklabel_is_default() will fix this problem.
 > But I don't know the historical reason for this.
 
 There is no good reason for this as far as I remember, it is all a hack.
 Your change looks reasonable.
 
 An alternative aproach is to teach sysinst about Human68k partition tables,
 are there docs for them? I still plan to do something simmilar for apple
 partition maps on Macs (but my todo list is too long).
 
 Martin