Re: CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION_POWERTEC needed on i386?

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Nicholas Clark wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:35:27PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering, since POWERTEC is an Acorn SCSI dislabel type, it's 
> > really not very necessary to the i386 prebuilt images -- except to Acorn 
> > users who want to mount the disks on their Intel boxes, some of whom 
> > might be on this list.  When I build images myself without the option, 
> > they work just fine on my machine.
> I think you'd be hard pressed to find Acorn users who have (Powertech
> Cards) && (i386 machines) && (want to mount the disks onto their i386 machine)
> && ((are incapable of building a custom kernel) || (somehow need to boot
> their i386 machine from their Powertech cards before they are able to build
> a custom kernel))
That's about the argument I used. :-)

> > So, as a "workaround", would any such people be heartbroken if this 
> > config option were dropped from the prebuilt i386 kernel images?  I'd 
> > like to recommend to the maintainer that this be dropped, but figured I 
> > should ask here first...
> So far I count zero people who expressed a preference.
> I don't have a Powertech card (and my x86 box is running FreeBSD) so it
> doesn't matter to me.
Thanks, will make the suggestion.

Zeen,
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-Adam P.

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