From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Minor tweak to silo regarding GPT labeled drives
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:29:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160120172927.GA22726@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <569D2C3E.5060608@oracle.com>
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 06:17:34PM +0000, Bryce wrote:
> I've been prompted by a couple of folk to pass along this minor patch for silo
> Newer sparc firmware, mostly in the T4 and above range, along with sun(vtoc) now
> support gpt labelled drives on the system boot drive (and theoretically some can
> also support msdos? not tried it)
>
> The problem with sillo is that it actively looks to see if a sun label magic is
> written but GPT has no such 'magic' and silo would moan.
>
> Phil
> =-->
>
> >From 5d5994b88513f2e45701460d275a2d29ab89c40b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Dazed and confused <clueless@somewhere.com>
Can the original author be found and attributed?
I recall davem would like silo patches to be signed off, like kernel patches.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-20 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-18 18:17 Minor tweak to silo regarding GPT labeled drives Bryce
2016-01-20 12:23 ` Anatoly Pugachev
2016-01-20 17:29 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2016-01-20 17:40 ` Bryce
2016-01-20 18:29 ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-01-21 0:11 ` Anatoly Pugachev
2016-01-21 12:52 ` Anatoly Pugachev
2016-01-21 18:56 ` David Miller
2016-03-30 1:23 ` David Miller
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