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On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 09:49:08PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote:
> Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net> wrote:
[...]
> > I really hate that awful hack.  It will probably prevent booting an
> > amd64 kernel on an i386 userland for as long as we lack devfs...
>=20
> Why this? Isn't it only a problem if using partitions beyond 'h'?

The only common minor numbers are for device 0, partitions a through h.
All other devices and partitions are different...  Sure, it might work
in some situations (well, once compat_netbsd32(4) handles mount(2)
correctly), but that's hardly satisfactory.  And there are many more
issues related to device majors.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005.

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