From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:29:27 +0000
Subject: Re: Minor tweak to silo regarding GPT labeled drives
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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