Subject: Re: -DUSE_MBR in disklabel
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: port-hpcarm
Date: 07/27/2002 17:40:40
On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 04:38:50PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > Um, what makes you think we don't have a shared arm userland?  I'm
> > currently running binaries compiled on my cats on my acorn32, and have
> > no desire for that to change.
> > What userland programs does USE_MBR effect?
> 
> We are only talking about addind -DUSE_MBR to disklabel for hpcarm. It
> only means that hpcarm's disklabel binary will be different from other
> arm ports.


it is helpful to have userland be the same for all members of
a given MACHINE_ARCH.  if you want it on for hpcarm, please turn
it on for all arms.

ultimately all of the disklabel/mbr munging stuff should be available
on all platforms anyway, so just make things easier in the meantime.

-Chuck