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Patch to allow disk support to work with non CHS devices

From: "Andy Jackson" <andy at xylanta dot com>
To: "eCos Patches" <ecos-patches at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:09:23 +0100
Subject: Patch to allow disk support to work with non CHS devices
Organization: Xylanta Ltd
References: <446B4BBB.9030605@arcom.com> <20060517162333.GP14082@lunn.ch> <446B50E8.4010804@arcom.com> <20060519101759.GF7128@lunn.ch>
Reply-to: "Andy Jackson" <andy at xylanta dot com>

The attached patch allows a non CHS disk type device (flash based for example) to signal that the LBA information in the MBR should be used to determine disk/partition size rather than the CHS values. It also makes debugging CDL controlled.

Andy..

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