> From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
> On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:55:26 -0700 (PDT) 
>  Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com> wrote:
>
> > Anyway, someone with the appropriate inclination needs to hack this into
> > /sys/arch/alpha/alpha/disksubr.c.  It's not too hard, since the code needed
> > is all in /sys/arch/i386/i386/disksubr.c. Naturally, the end goal is to
> > read both the i386 and alpha disks. A really totally complete implementation
> > might even establish a common file both ports can use to read both types
> > of disk layouts.
>
> You should not use the code from the i386 port, as it suffers from that
> stupid "d partition" nonsense.

Well, gee, I just meant: "look at it for reference" :-) but, as we've already
been informed, arm32 and mac68k are better references anyway.

> What really needs to happen is "slices", and Bill Studenmund and I are
> working on a proposal for that.

OK, if an implementation is coming then perhaps mbrlabel(8) is the best
thing to use right now.

        ross.harvey@computer.org