[coreboot] Automatic drive enumeration

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri Sep 12 15:27:49 CEST 2008


Peter Stuge wrote:
> Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>   
>>> evaluating all current disklabel schemes
>>>       
>> I still like Amiga's Rigid Disk Label best. It stores the
>> firmware's filesystem driver for each file in the "partition table"
>> to a partition so the firmware can always read a disk, no matter
>> how new and weird the filesystem is. It also has no limitation on
>> partitions.
>>     
>
> Now we're talking.
>   
'bout what?
> Do you know if there is some documentation for it still, or at least
> some code?
>   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Rigid_Disk_Block
http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~stepan/bin/amiga-fdisk-0.04.tar.gz
> Do we want to consider different architectures at this point already?
>   
Don't we always?


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