On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:55:26 -0700 (PDT) 
 Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com> wrote:

 > Anyway, someone with the appropriate inclination needs to hack this into
 > /sys/arch/alpha/alpha/disksubr.c.  It's not too hard, since the code needed
 > is all in /sys/arch/i386/i386/disksubr.c. Naturally, the end goal is to
 > read _both_ the i386 and alpha disks. A really totally complete implementation
 > might even establish a common file both ports can use to read both types
 > of disk layouts.

You should not use the code from the i386 port, as it suffers from that
stupid "d partition" nonsense.

What really needs to happen is "slices", and Bill Studenmund and I are
working on a proposal for that.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>