The following reply was made to PR toolchain/30673; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: toolchain/30673: A single arch host disklabel isn't enough
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 22:26:46 +0100

 On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:35:01AM +0000, Simon Burge wrote:
 
 > >Synopsis:       single arch host disklabel isn't enough
 
 > >Description:
 > 	Currently there is only a single host disklabel command per
 > 	architecture.  The problem is that different machine types
 > 	within an architecture may have different label sectors and
 > 	offsets, so a single machine type disklabel isn't enought.
 
 I'm currently rewriting part of disklabel and may well address these
 issues.  There are some gotchas lurking though.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk