Re: retry [PATCH] partition : add support for sysv68 partitions

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:21:12PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 	Hi Philippe,
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > Add support for the Motorola sysv68 disk partition table (slices in motorola
> > doc).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
> > 
> > diff -r 1b54f1d81bc5 fs/partitions/Kconfig
> > --- a/fs/partitions/Kconfig	Thu Apr 12 15:44:52 2007 -0700
> > +++ b/fs/partitions/Kconfig	Fri Apr 13 15:51:58 2007 +0200
> > @@ -236,3 +236,12 @@ config EFI_PARTITION
> >  	help
> >  	  Say Y here if you would like to use hard disks under Linux which
> >  	  were partitioned using EFI GPT.
> > +
> > +config SYSV68_PARTITION
> > +	bool "SYSV68 partition table support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED
> > +	default y if M68K
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > +	help
> > +	  Say Y here if you would like to be able to read the hard disk
> > +	  partition table format used by Motorola Delta machines (using
> > +	  sysv68).
> > +	  Otherwise, say N.
> 
> Bummer, I saw your patch before, but I never noticed the `default y if M68K'.
> 
> Can you please tell me on which platforms SYSV68 partition tables are commonly
> used (I guess the Motorola MVME boards?), 

I guess so. I have a disk for my MVME167 lying around here somewhere
with SYSV/68 on it. If you want, I can verify what exact machines it
runs on, but I guess "every 68k MVME" is a safe enough bet.

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