From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bryce Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:40:14 +0000 Subject: Re: Minor tweak to silo regarding GPT labeled drives Message-Id: <569FC67E.2040709@oracle.com> List-Id: References: <569D2C3E.5060608@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <569D2C3E.5060608@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org 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 > 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.