From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:29:55 +0000
Subject: Re: Minor tweak to silo regarding GPT labeled drives
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Hi Bryce.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:40:14PM +0000, Bryce wrote:
> On 20/01/16 17:29, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > 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
> The original author is myself, that is the raw patch from the internal svn repo.
Great.

Then I suggest to await feedback from Anatoly and then please re-submit 
like a proper patch with a proper changelog including signed-off-by,
and Tested-by.
And with a real name in the From part- so git picks up the real name.

	Sam