From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nested partitions
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:44:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100124204422.GB10054@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1001221038420.1606@oretfbsg.Jrfg.Fha.PBZ>
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:43:09AM -0800, Seth Goldberg wrote:
>
> The UEFI specification specifies support for nested MSDOS labels (MSDOS
> labels that include partitions in which another MSDOS partition table can
> be nested). This is not talking just about extended partitions, but
> about the ability to arbitrarily nest MSDOS partition tables. I can't
> point you to a specific implementation that uses that functionality, but
> the fact that it's specified should be enough to allow us to be flexible
> here. Why limit the nesting if architecturally it's not a problem to
> support (as Vladimir's existing implementation already supports arbitrary
> nesting).
Note that it is very easy for Intel to specify and implement that: in their
world there's only one partition label type (plus another one which is
backward compatible with the first).
--
Robert Millan
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-24 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-11 15:51 [PATCH] nested partitions Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-16 20:52 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-31 7:58 ` Marco Gerards
2009-07-31 9:39 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-31 19:48 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-07-31 20:25 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-02 22:17 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-02 22:36 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-02 22:02 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-02 22:09 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-02 22:25 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-02 22:44 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-04 20:15 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-17 13:00 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-17 14:06 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-17 14:34 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-23 22:57 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-24 13:39 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-25 20:14 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-25 23:07 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-25 23:13 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2009-08-26 0:50 ` Robert Millan
2009-08-25 20:35 ` Seth Goldberg
2009-08-25 21:12 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-22 16:53 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-22 18:03 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-24 20:41 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-24 21:20 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-25 7:23 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-25 0:38 ` Bruce Dubbs
2010-01-25 4:56 ` Michal Suchanek
2010-01-25 7:31 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-25 7:52 ` Robert Millan
2010-01-25 8:25 ` Grégoire Sutre
2010-01-22 18:43 ` Seth Goldberg
2010-01-24 20:44 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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