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SubjectRe: retry [PATCH] partition : add support for sysv68 partitions
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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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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