Subject: Re: x86 boot/root wedge identification
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/20/2004 16:22:31
--OQhbRXNHSL5w/5po
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:01:19PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> While this means passing in a lot more data to the kernel, it means you=
=20
> can match disklabel information and GPT GUIDs without having to=20
> actually parse that info in machine-dependent code.

If size is a concern, perhaps you could pass a hash of the sector to
match against, before handing that sector on to label-reading code?

--
Dan.
--OQhbRXNHSL5w/5po
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (NetBSD)

iD8DBQFBdgQnEAVxvV4N66cRAnpOAJ4lVuuQnN8i1ZCV74+oKD7WSQCHngCgjEBH
juIE4hMAQBKILbsFUiGBSn0=
=BAlH
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--OQhbRXNHSL5w/5po--