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Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks)
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Marco Gerards |
Subject: |
Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks) |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:18:52 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Timothy Baldwin <address@hidden> writes:
> Only 16EiB on RISC OS, openfirmware and grub-emu.
>
> The Linux block device code in util/biosdisk.c still needs fixing or
> removing.
> I am working on a rewrite of the i386 boot sector code which supports 64bit
> disk addresses and understands partition tables (PC and GPT) and some
> filesystems (maybe only FAT).
Cool.
> * include/grub/types.h (grub_lba_t): New typedef.
Why did you choose this name? What about using grub_sector_t instead
as name?
I still have to look at the RISC OS patches you sent in so far. I
hope you can still wait a bit, my own hacking already consumes all
time I have... :-/. Sorry for this very long delay.
Thanks,
Marco
- [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Timothy Baldwin, 2005/10/21
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks),
Marco Gerards <=
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2005/10/21
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Marco Gerards, 2005/10/21
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Timothy Baldwin, 2005/10/21
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2005/10/21
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Timothy Baldwin, 2005/10/22
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2005/10/27
- Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Timothy Baldwin, 2005/10/28
Re: [patch] 64 bit disk address support (= 8192EiB disks), Timothy Baldwin, 2005/10/23