[ler at FreeBSD.org: Add gpart_geom_gpt to amd64 DEFAULTS?]

[Larry Rosenman]

So, what would it take to move it forward?  I can gen up a Phab and/or
PR.

I'd like to see it make 12.

Thanks.

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 07:10:14PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> Sorry to not get back to you... I've been hurrying to get stuff related to
> 12 out of my queue...
> 
> We currently have:
> options         GEOM_PART_BSD
> options         GEOM_PART_EBR
> options         GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT
> options         GEOM_PART_MBR
> 
> in there. I don't think it would be bad to add
> 
> options         GEOM_PART_GPT
> 
> as well... It likely should be added to arm64 DEFAULTS as well.
> 
> std.armv[67] is less clear, though, since they boot off of MBR for the most
> part.
> 
> Warner
> 
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Larry Rosenman <ler at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > I had sent this privately to imp@, but received no response.
> >
> > Can we have a discussion about it?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > ----- Forwarded message from Larry Rosenman <ler at FreeBSD.org> -----
> >
> > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:01:55 -0500
> > From: Larry Rosenman <ler at FreeBSD.org>
> > To: imp at FreeBSD.org
> > Subject: Add gpart_geom_gpt to amd64 DEFAULTS?
> > User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716
> >
> > Warner,
> >     I moved over to your amd64 minimal configuration, which got me back
> >     ~400 meg of memory.  I doing that, I hadn't added geom_part_gpt to
> >     the config, nor loader.conf, so my first boot failed.  I'm
> >     wondering if it makes sense to add geom_part_gpt to the amd64/i386
> >     DEFAULTS file since GPT is becoming more the norm.
> >
> >     Comments?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Larry
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> >
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> > Larry Rosenman                         https://people.FreeBSD.org/~ler/
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Larry Rosenman                         https://people.FreeBSD.org/~ler/
Phone: +1 214-642-9640                 E-Mail: ler at FreeBSD.org
US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Drive, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106
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