Re: [RFT,PATCH] Move embedding to appropriate partmap files

[Seth Goldberg]

Hi,

> > > Can this go in util/i386/pc/ instead?  This is basicaly ad-hoc code and
> > > doesn't seem very meaningful in generic partmap/*.c.
> > We may want to embed more in the future. Actually I think it's not
> > ad-hoc. Basically partition map defines a function which gives back
> > the sectors available for embedding.
>
> Is embedding useful elsewhere?

  Yes!  Solaris currently embeds the legacy GRUB stage2 loader in a 
non-filesystem slice within the Solaris partition (and we put stage1 in the 
PBR, which allows us to play nicely with Linux distributions who like to jam 
their boot loaders in the MBR).

 --S