Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/utils/sysinst

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

ad%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 07:47:12PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > ad%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> > > Module Name:      src
> > > Committed By:     ad
> > > Date:             Sat Apr  4 10:38:00 UTC 2009
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > >   src/distrib/utils/sysinst: bsddisklabel.c
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > - Default to UFS2 if the platform can boot from it.
> > 
> > Should we reject UFS2 for root partition
> > if MD boot loader doesn't support it (like sparc64), or
> 
> If you can fit it into the MD code in sysinst why not.
> Ideally sparc64 would have a workaround.

bootblk for sparc64 (written in forth?) doesn't recognize
UFS2 superblock (yet).

> > MD sysinst doesn't handle ffsv2 primary boot (like alpha and pmax) ?
> 
> alpha and pmax seem unmaintained and as far as I can tell don't boot/work,
> so I don't care.

They have bootxx_ffsv2, but sysinst implicitly install bootxx_ffs.

In any case, __HAVE_UFS2_BOOT in types.h seems ambiguous for me.
Isn't it better to have some other macro in sysinst/arch/${MACHINE}/md.h ?
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Izumi Tsutsui