From: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] select EFI partition support by default
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:55:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106607858723703@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-106588409310269@msgid-missing>
>>>>> "John" = John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> writes:
John> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:00:47AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig
John> wrote:
>> > > + bool "EFI GUID Partition support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED
>> > > + default y if !PARTITION_ADVANCED && IA64
>> >
>> > Can we make CONFIG_LBD force on CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION too then?
>>
>> I know the LBD backport is used with SGI disklabels in production
>> enviroments. In fact that's the only production use I know of at
>> all...
John> Besides, unless I'm missing something, current 2.6 doesn't
John> prompt for LBD for IA64 at all ?
John> So, anybody want the patch :)
There's no need to prompt for CONFIG_LBD in 2.6, as all 64-bit
architectures use 64-bit variables for sector_t.
It's only on 32-bit architectures that it's necessary.
Under 2.4, however, CONFIG_LBD is (or should be) forced on for IA64.
Peterc
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-13 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-11 14:54 [PATCH] select EFI partition support by default John Levon
2003-10-11 16:11 ` Matt Domsch
2003-10-13 9:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-10-13 15:21 ` John Levon
2003-10-13 15:37 ` Matt_Domsch
2003-10-13 20:55 ` Peter Chubb [this message]
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