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

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Aug 16 01:36:51 UTC 2018


This is a bit of a no-brainer yes change, but I'll give people a day or so
to object.

Warner

On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 7:32 PM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> Please review https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16740
>
> Warner
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Larry Rosenman <ler at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Larry Rosenman                         https://people.FreeBSD.org/~l
>> er/
>> > > Phone: +1 214-642-9640                 E-Mail: ler at FreeBSD.org
>> > > US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Drive, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > ----- End forwarded message -----
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Larry Rosenman                         https://people.FreeBSD.org/~l
>> er/
>> > > Phone: +1 214-642-9640                 E-Mail: ler at FreeBSD.org
>> > > US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Drive, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106
>> > >
>>
>> --
>> 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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