Re: Minor tweak to silo regarding GPT labeled drives

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On 20/01/16 17:29, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 06:17:34PM +0000, Bryce wrote:
>> I've been prompted by a couple of folk to pass along this minor patch for silo
>> Newer sparc firmware, mostly in the T4 and above range, along with sun(vtoc) now
>> support gpt labelled drives on the system boot drive (and theoretically some can
>> also support msdos? not tried it)
>>
>> The problem with sillo is that it actively looks to see if a sun label magic is
>> written but GPT has no such 'magic' and silo would moan.
>>
>> Phil
>> =--=
>>
>>
>> >From 5d5994b88513f2e45701460d275a2d29ab89c40b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Dazed and confused <clueless@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Can the original author be found and attributed?
>
> I recall davem would like silo patches to be signed off, like kernel patches.
>
> 	Sam
The original author is myself, that is the raw patch from the internal svn repo.


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