From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 7A607E01096; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 09:51:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, SPF_HELO_PASS,WEIRD_PORT autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -0.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low * trust * [80.91.229.3 listed in list.dnswl.org] * -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record * 0.0 WEIRD_PORT URI: Uses non-standard port number for HTTP * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6869E00B1C for ; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 09:50:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZkxMF-0002jT-J0 for yocto@yoctoproject.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 18:50:55 +0200 Received: from ppp-2-86-169-83.home.otenet.gr ([2.86.169.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 18:50:55 +0200 Received: from gmane by ppp-2-86-169-83.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 2015 18:50:55 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: yocto@yoctoproject.org From: Robert Berger Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 19:50:38 +0300 Message-ID: <561941DE.8050106@reliableembeddedsystems.com> References: <10D57FBA9FD7C14FB49EE17590E1AF94011F907751@svr-exc-03.intern.wipotec.de> <561807B5.2010206@reliableembeddedsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-2-86-169-83.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cc: Yocto list discussion Subject: Re: VFAT patent EP 0 618 540 X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 16:51:01 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, On 10/09/2015 10:58 PM, Christian Ege wrote: > A decent U-Boot can load the kernel from ext4. And I do not know any ROM > loader which needs vfat, except maybe this TI SOCs... Yep that's what I mean. The on-chip loader, which loads MLO,... Anyhow I tried to come up with a scenario where someone might possibly want to use vfat. > > Regards, > Christian Regards, Robert ..."Engineering is a science of tradeoffs" -- Yale Patt (computer architecture guru) My public pgp key is available,at: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x90320BF1