Re: [RFT] libata hpa support

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:34:55PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> I'm testing a variant of it at the moment with no problems on x86. My
> first thought would be to check for endianness problems and the like but
> I don't see any.

Macbooks are x86.

> It may also fail to allow any resizing if the Macbook issues a security
> freeze from the firmware before the OS boots, if so we won't be able to
> resize the HPA or set/change passwords on the disk. If they are doing
> that then its a fairly sensible security choice.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/91940 
gives the traces we have.

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