Re: [PATCH] Add AIX disk support

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 12:46 +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:52:01PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > The attached patch adds support for probing/clobbering AIX disk labels.
> > These look a lot like MS-DOS, but are just different enough to cause
> > some problems unless they get detected and clobbered separately.  Useful
> > on various IBM ppc64 hardware that you can run Linux on.
> 
> Are there any docs for these?

Not to my knowledge.  It was mostly a combination of observation and
Matt poking some people at IBM, if I remember correctly.

> Also, will this break pc98 support?

Not sure... if so, they haven't used any of our releases in the past
year.  I can't think of how it would from what I remember of pc98 stuff,
though.

> Are there any pc98 users left?

That begs the first question of were there ever any to begin with ;)

Jeremy