From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Mark Hatle , , Subject: Re: RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 00:21:37 +0200 Message-Id: <20000707222137.1227@192.168.1.10> In-Reply-To: <39661556.D86AA2DA@mvista.com> References: <39661556.D86AA2DA@mvista.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >with "Apple_" > >My vote: let the kernel still look for Apple_UNIX_SVR2 the way it does >now. Then I would like it to be able to use anything that starts with >"Linux". That way people can name there parts types whatever they want, >but Linux_ext2 and Linux_swap should be defaults. The kernel will be able to use anything. The only kernel change concerns the root auto-detect stuff. What will need to change, however, are the various distro installers, pdisk, yaboot, perhaps quik, ... Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/