[parted-devel] map gpt partitions to msdos primary entries

[Jim Meyering]

Olaf Hering <olh at suse.de> wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Olaf Hering <olh at suse.de> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2007 May 14, Olaf Hering wrote:
>> >
>> > Was this patch already applied to parted?
>> > Or will parted strictly follow the EFI spec and force a "fixed" msdos
>> > partition table.
>> >
>> > Btw, I dont have time to work on this feature anymore.
>> >
>> >> This patch adds a new 'set X map_gpt_to_msdos Y' function.
>> >> Using it will break the EFI spec (I cant verify it because the EFI spec
>> >> is not free).
>> ...
>>
>> Hi Olaf,
>>
>> Almost a year ago, I requested test case additions (would have
>> been nice, but not required) and some minor changes to your patch:
>>
>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/1610/focus=1615
>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.devel/1610/focus=1616
>>
>> but it looks like you never replied to either message.
>
> As I said, I dont have time nor the hardware to work on this anymore.

That's a shame.
I hope someone with the required hardware will
pick up where you left off.