Hi David

The properties I am proposing are Solaris properties.  It looks to me
like OBP IEEE-1275 already supports different block sizes, but chose a
"block-size ( -- block-len )" 'method' implementation in conjunction
with the "deblocker" and "disk-label" standard support packages instead
of a 'property' implementation.  Also, it seems to me that using
"block-size" as a Solaris property name, instead of "blksize", might
cause confusion since the Solaris property name would then conflict
with the already defined OBP "block-size" method.

Please let me know if my understanding is flawed.

-Chris

> Chris,
>
> Is there any reason not to spell out the property names,
> as in block-size, device-block-size, etc? The property
> namespace is intended to be human readable names.
>
> Also, the 64-bit properties should really be described
> as arrays of 2 32-bit ints, hi, low. (if you want
> property compatibility with OF-encoding, which we
> usually tend to do. There's no such thing as a 64-bit
> int prop in OF.)
>
> It would be nice if the fast-track included the formal
> definitions for all these properties, in the usual
> form.
>
> Thanks,
> -David
>


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