From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NZ9Jw-00064b-8z for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:44:32 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZ9Ju-00064M-2w for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:44:30 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZ9Jo-00064A-LX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:44:28 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42408 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZ9Jo-000647-Eg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:44:24 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:34866 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZ9Jo-0007uc-4h for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:44:24 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NZ9Jm-0005Gw-L9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:44:22 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NZ9Jm-0002gM-5C for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:44:22 +0100 Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:44:22 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20100124204422.GB10054@thorin> References: <20090804201512.GA15811@thorin> <20090817140657.GP32551@thorin> <20100122165300.GA14428@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] nested partitions X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:44:30 -0000 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