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+There are some things which have to be done for the alpha version:
+- LABELSECTOR, LABELOFFSET, BBSIZE & SBSIZE are undefined in fdisklabel.h
+ These values are different for different versions of NetBSD and I don't
+ have the alpha source tree for NetBSD yet (It's not in 1.0 but in current).
+ I guess Linux/Alpha uses the same values.
+- The alpha fdisklabel.c requires a few functions from fdisk.c.
+ ("make test" shows the undefined symbols when fdisk.c is missing)
+ All the other functions/variables shouldn't be declared. I didn't do
+ that because I didn't want to change much in fdisk.c.
+- The disklabel in fdisklabel.c is the NetBSD disklabel which might
+ differ from the Linux/Alpha disklabel in some parts.
+- bselect () should be called from main () immediately. Under Linux/Alpha
+ it's the main menu and not a submenu.
+
+fasten@informatik.uni-bonn.de