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

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

	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?), so we can enable it by default on a
more sensible subset of M68K?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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