Subject: Re: partition lookup code
To: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
From: Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@ieee.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/18/2002 09:07:41
itojun@iijlab.net wrote:

> 	sys/arch/*/*/disksubr.c contains very similar code for:
> 	- searching disklabel on DOS MBR partition
> 	- searching disklabel on specific location
> 	  (location varies by platform)
> 	- some other disklabel lookup function
> 
> 	i'm wondering if someone have made these functions MI...

I haven't done it, but I agree with you.  I was thinking of
making the code MI and specifying in MD header files which
partition-grovelling routines to consider.  I considered doing
this to get my hp300 disks to work on i386.  In the end I
didn't have too, since I could place both disklabels on the
disk without trouble.

	-- Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@ieee.org>