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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2003-03-16 00:11:49 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2003-03-16 00:11:49 +0000
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Teach disklabel(8) about different hardware architectures.
This is aimed at creating floppies during cross-releases. For different endianness machines, a tool like bswapfs(8) is necessary to make the generated floppies readable on the target machine. While here, fixed unaligned access on Alphas. Tested on: i386, alpha
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diff --git a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8 b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
index 6a57d40..3ca49ff 100644
--- a/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
+++ b/sbin/disklabel/disklabel.8
@@ -48,31 +48,37 @@
.Nm
.Fl w
.Op Fl nr
-.Ar disk disktype Ns | Ns Cm auto
+.Op Fl m Ar machine
+.Ar disk type
.Op Ar packid
.Nm
.Fl e
.Op Fl nr
+.Op Fl m Ar machine
.Ar disk
.Nm
.Fl R
.Op Fl nr
+.Op Fl m Ar machine
.Ar disk protofile
.Pp
.Nm
.Fl B
.Op Fl b Ar boot
+.Op Fl m Ar machine
.Ar disk
.Nm
.Fl w B
.Op Fl n
.Op Fl b Ar boot
-.Ar disk disktype Ns | Ns Cm auto
+.Op Fl m Ar machine
+.Ar disk type
.Op Ar packid
.Nm
.Fl R B
.Op Fl n
.Op Fl b Ar boot
+.Op Fl m Ar machine
.Ar disk protofile
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
@@ -167,7 +173,8 @@ To write a standard label, use the form
.Nm
.Fl w
.Op Fl nr
-.Ar disk disktype Ns | Ns Cm auto
+.Op Fl m Ar machine
+.Ar disk type
.Op Ar packid
.Pp
The required arguments to
@@ -187,6 +194,13 @@ The
.Ar packid
must be quoted if it contains blanks.
.Pp
+If the
+.Fl m
+option is given, then label will be written so that
+it is understood by the target
+.Ar machine ;
+defaults to the current hardware architecture.
+.Pp
If
.Fl n
is used, no data will be written to the device, and instead the
@@ -199,7 +213,7 @@ will be written directly.
A side-effect of this is that any existing bootstrap code will be overwritten
and the disk rendered unbootable.
See the boot options below for a method of
-writing the label and the bootstrap at the same time.
+writing the and the bootstrap at the same time.
If
.Fl r
is not specified,
@@ -212,7 +226,7 @@ In either case, the kernel's in-core label is replaced.
.Pp
For a virgin disk that is not known to
.Xr disktab 5 ,
-.Ar disktype
+.Ar type
can be specified as
.Cm auto .
In this case, the driver is requested to produce a virgin label for the
@@ -270,6 +284,7 @@ To edit an existing disk label, use the form
.Nm
.Fl e
.Op Fl nr
+.Op Fl m Ar machine
.Ar disk
.Pp
This command reads the label from the in-core kernel copy, or directly from the
@@ -288,6 +303,14 @@ When the editor terminates, the label file is used to rewrite the disk label.
Existing bootstrap code is unchanged regardless of whether
.Fl r
was specified.
+.Pp
+If the
+.Fl m
+option is given, then the label will be written so that
+it is understood by the target
+.Ar machine ;
+defaults to the current hardware architecture.
+.Pp
If
.Fl n
is used, no data will be written to the device, and instead the
@@ -300,6 +323,7 @@ To restore a disk label from a file, use the form
.Nm
.Fl R
.Op Fl nr
+.Op Fl m Ar machine
.Ar disk protofile
.Pp
.Nm
@@ -317,6 +341,14 @@ clobbered if
is specified, and will be unaffected otherwise.
See the boot options below for a
method of restoring the label and writing the bootstrap at the same time.
+.Pp
+If the
+.Fl m
+option is given, then the label will be written so that
+it is understood by the target
+.Ar machine ;
+defaults to the current hardware architecture.
+.Pp
If
.Fl n
is used, no data will be written to the device, and instead the
@@ -345,6 +377,7 @@ on the base disk should probably be updated; see
.Nm
.Fl B
.Op Fl b Ar boot
+.Op Fl m Ar machine
.Ar disk
.Pp
This form installs the bootstrap only.
@@ -357,11 +390,18 @@ disk.
This command is typically run on a slice such as
.Pa da0s1 .
.Pp
+The
+.Fl m
+option should be specified if the label was
+created for a different hardware architecture,
+.Ar machine .
+.Pp
.Nm
.Fl w B
.Op Fl n
.Op Fl b Ar boot
-.Ar disk disktype Ns | Ns Cm auto
+.Op Fl m Ar machine
+.Ar disk type
.Op Ar packid
.Pp
This form corresponds to the
@@ -372,6 +412,14 @@ If run on a base disk, this command will create a
.Dq dangerously-dedicated
label.
This command is normally run on a slice rather than a base disk.
+.Pp
+If the
+.Fl m
+option is given, then the label and bootstrap will be written so that
+they are understood by the target
+.Ar machine ;
+defaults to the current hardware architecture.
+.Pp
If
.Fl n
is used, no data will be written to the device, and instead the
@@ -381,6 +429,7 @@ disk label that would have been written will be printed to standard output.
.Fl R B
.Op Fl n
.Op Fl b Ar boot
+.Op Fl m Ar machine
.Ar disk protofile
.Pp
This form corresponds to the
@@ -396,6 +445,14 @@ The bootstrap commands always access the disk directly, so it is not necessary
to specify the
.Fl r
option.
+.Pp
+If the
+.Fl m
+option is given, then the label and bootstrap will be written so that
+they are understood by the target
+.Ar machine ;
+defaults to the current hardware architecture.
+.Pp
If
.Fl n
is used, no data will be written to the device, and instead the
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