Re: [microblaze-uclinux] FAT FS troubles

[John Williams <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David, Rudi,

David McCullough wrote:


>>Trust me I have dug very deep in to it. It is not an endianes
>>problem. It reeds the MBR, and then goes to sector 233. There
>>is NO reference to sector 233 in the MBR (or at least I have
>>not found it).
>>VFAT and FAT are identical up to all of this. VFAT includes
>>long file names ... unwillingly I have been learning a lot
>>about the structure of MBR, and FAT file system ...
> 
> I was trying to say that I run 2.4 on my desktop.  In fact the 2.4
> kernel I run was compiled from the uClinux 2.4.x sources.
> 
> The FAT fs is working fine for me on my desktop (x86),  and I also
> know that it is working in our products (ARM based).  All of which are
> using the uClinux 2.4.x kernel.

I think it's due to partition table issues - the skeleton upon which 
Rudi's driver is based has no partition support.  It will take a few 
changes to add proper partition support, as per chapter 12 in Linux 
device drivers.

Regards,

John

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