[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] mac-parts.c: restrict checking of partition status flags to CHRP partitions only

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk
Mon Feb 13 17:45:24 CET 2017


On 11/02/17 11:13, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> Early versions of MacOS X don't correctly set the partition status flags when
> creating the OS partition. Relax the status flag checks so they are only applied
> to CHRP partitions which allows us to both meet the intention of the CHRP
> specification and also enable OpenBIOS to boot OS partitions from OSs such as
> MacOS X DPs.
> 
> With thanks to Steven Troughton-Smith <steve at highcaffeinecontent.com> for the
> in-depth investigation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk>

Looks good here and no further comments, so pushed to master.


ATB,

Mark.




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