>>>>> "hpa" == H Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: hpa> I would very much like a reference for a platform which has hpa> firmware which can successfully boot from 4K-logical media. It hpa> would be very useful for bootloader testing. I have yet to find one. hpa> Aligning partitions is something we should have done long ago. It hpa> affects RAID and many flash drives just as much or more than hpa> 4K-sectored disks. Yup. hpa> As far as partitioning... I believe we should be using GPT hpa> partition tables where possible. Even on non-EFI systems, it's hpa> simply a much better partition table format. Agreed. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
