Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 May 2007 09:47:44 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: retry [PATCH] partition : add support for sysv68 partitions |
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On Wed, 9 May 2007, Philippe De Muyter wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:21:12PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Philippe De Muyter wrote: > > > Add support for the Motorola sysv68 disk partition table (slices in motorola > > > doc). > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> > > > > > > diff -r 1b54f1d81bc5 fs/partitions/Kconfig > > > --- a/fs/partitions/Kconfig Thu Apr 12 15:44:52 2007 -0700 > > > +++ b/fs/partitions/Kconfig Fri Apr 13 15:51:58 2007 +0200 > > > @@ -236,3 +236,12 @@ config EFI_PARTITION > > > help > > > Say Y here if you would like to use hard disks under Linux which > > > were partitioned using EFI GPT. > > > + > > > +config SYSV68_PARTITION > > > + bool "SYSV68 partition table support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED > > > + default y if M68K > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > + help > > > + Say Y here if you would like to be able to read the hard disk > > > + partition table format used by Motorola Delta machines (using > > > + sysv68). > > > + Otherwise, say N. > > > > Bummer, I saw your patch before, but I never noticed the `default y if M68K'. > > > > Can you please tell me on which platforms SYSV68 partition tables are commonly > > used (I guess the Motorola MVME boards?), so we can enable it by default on a > > The Motorola VME boards are the only ones I am aware of. I must also add > that the partitions themselves are sysv partitions. > > > more sensible subset of M68K? > > Feel free to replace or suppress the `default' directive. I actually wrote > that for a i586 laptop to access/reinstall disks of sysV68 machines using > a USB/SCSI adapter, but I don't think `default y' is a good idea :). > > What do you think of > `default y if VME' > or > `default y if M68K && SYSV_FS'
I prefer `default y if VME'.
BTW, perhaps PPC based Motorola MVME boards use SYSV68 partition tables, too?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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