Hi Joanne,

On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 11:20 AM jdow [off-list ref] wrote:

On 20180627 23:45, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 6:59 AM Michael Schmitz [off-list ref] wrote:

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Am 28.06.2018 um 09:20 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:

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And as stated in my other reply to the patch:
partition needs 64 bit disk device support in AmigaOS or AmigaOS
like
operating systems (NSD64, TD64 or SCSI direct)

I'd probably leave it at 'disk needs 64 bit disk device support on
native OS', and only print that warning once.

This is fine with me.

OK, I'll go with that.

Do we really need the warning?
Once the parsing is fixed doing 64-bit math, it does not matter for Linux
anymore.

Dual booting.

(Dial/Triple/...) Booting older AmigaOS variants is an issue anyway, with
or without Linux.

It's like _Linux_ printing warnings that you cannot use your disk, created with
Solaris 2, on an old SunOS 4.1 machine ;-)

IMHO (s)he who creates partitions on large disks should make sure (s)he only
uses them on machines that can handle them.  This is not a Linux issue.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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