From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 17:22:19 -0400 From: Tom Vier To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Mark Hatle , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, yellowdog-devel@lists.yellowdoglinux.com Subject: Re: RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc Message-ID: <20000709172219.C12414@zero> References: <39661556.D86AA2DA@mvista.com> <20000707222137.1227@192.168.1.10> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000707222137.1227@192.168.1.10>; from bh40@calva.net on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:21:37AM +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 12:21:37AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >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, ... i'd vote for "ext2", "hfs", etc. call them what they are, and keep it simple, instead of "Linux_Ext2fs" or something similar. imho, partition types should be a "soft" standard. eg, an installer should default to only showing Apple_UNIX_SVR2 (or whatever standard partition names are created) unless the user selects "show all" or similar option. this is somewhat offtopic, though. -- Tom Vier DSA Key id 0x27371A2C ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/