Subject: Re: Adding cd9660 support to the i386/amd64 BIOS bootloader
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>
List: tech-install
Date: 06/22/2005 00:44:55
Simon Burge wrote:
> Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> 
> > Martin Husemann wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:06:07AM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> > > > ISO-9660 defines the default block size 2048 bytes for all platforms that
> > > > supports it.
> > > 
> > > I think what Simon means is: Sun (and some DEC CD drives) have physical
> > > blocksizes of 512 byte, emulated by the drives firmware.
> > 
> > Even if it is, we still have nothing to lose, because there's no platform
> > that have cd9660 support in their bootloaders. When it becomes a real
> > problem, we can easily fix it.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand.  The pmax first and second stage loaders can
> load a kernel of a cd9660 filesystem - this was added around late '99.
> Is this what you mean?

Thanks for letting me know that. Now I should find someone who can test the
patch against cd9660.c on pmax. :-)

Jun-Young