On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 10:50:35AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:41:18AM -0400, nick black wrote: > > Marco d'Itri left as an exercise for the reader: > > > And the preseeding syntax is as powerful as it is inconvenient. > > > > Implementing support for more partition formats, if missing, should be > > > rather easy. > > > But which ones do we need for architectures which are not actually dead? > > > > So, as I responded to Adrian [0], the only missing partition > > types appear to be amiga, atari, and sun. Adding them ought be > > simple enough, though I'd need testers with the hardware, or > > access to the hardware. > > I'd start with asking porters of m68k and sparc64 whether today's systems > even run anything but Linux. I think there's little point in keeping compat > with 80s' OSes. > > At a risk of drawing ire of m68k/sparc64 folks, I'd also suggest not putting > your tuits there until this millenium's hardware is covered well. This might be needed for booting purposes. 80ies Workstations tend to have ROMs/BIOSes much like UEFI today and may even be booting files from a Filesystem on a specific partition and thus disk label type. So you are not breaking compatibility with 80ies OSes but the platform as a whole. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f@zz.de Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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