Re: [PATCH] M68k IDE updates

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, [iso-8859-1] Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 15 April 2003 10:11:37 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > BTW, Atari uses MS-DOS style partitioning.
> 
> Interesting. Then how do you explain this (2.5.67)
> config MSDOS_PARTITION
> 	bool "PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support" if PARTITION_ADVANCED
> 	default y if !PARTITION_ADVANCED && !AMIGA && !ATARI && !MAC && !SGI_IP22 && !ARM && !SGI_IP27
> 
> or this (2.4.20)
>    if [ "$CONFIG_AMIGA" != "y" -a "$CONFIG_ATARI" != "y" -a \
>         "$CONFIG_MAC" != "y" -a "$CONFIG_SGI_IP22" != "y" -a \
>         "$CONFIG_SGI_IP27" != "y" ]; then
>       define_bool CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION y
>    fi
> 
> In both cases, CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION is always y, *except* for Atari
> and some others. According to your comment above, that should be
> changed, shouldn't it?

Bummer, better check the sources first (I never had an Atari). Atari uses its
own partitioning scheme.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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