Re: [LinuxBIOS] FILO issues

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Peter Stuge  [070407 06:04]:
> In blockdev.c unsigned long is used for the sector, this will
> overflow when a kernel is beyond 2TB on a drive. The IDE driver
> users sector_t which is typedef:ed to uint64_t or unsigned long long.
> Maybe GRUB2 will be here before this becomes a problem.

There is no portable 128 bit type on 32bit platforms. Except you use a
struct {
 u64 low;
 u64 high;
};

I think the problem is on x86 you need all registers at once to describe
a single 128bit value ;)

This has been nasty in linuxbios.