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From: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: fat: handle Windows formatted partition (thru USB Mass Storage)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 15:12:41 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200117061240.GO28530@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75Vc3dcJPf0hhEWJet_f24994gxMY2V_n_SSBzk3EG1OGPQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:31:49PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 9:20 PM Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> wrote:
> > On 1/16/20 11:39 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > >
> > >>> Obviously U-Boot's fat code cannot handle it.
> > >>
> > >> So precisely, U-Boot cannot handle nested partition( table)s?
> > >
> > > Seems so. We need to be able to supply the partition number we would
> > > like to open, something like
> > >    cmd <interface> [<dev>[:<partition>[:<nested partition>]]]
> > > otherwise it will require some (error prone) heuristics to understand
> > > which one user would like to use.
> > >
> >
> > I have formatted a USB stick Windows 10.
> 
> That is *not* the case I'm describing.
> 
> Maybe I described it wrong. Let me try again.
> 
> Prerequisites:
>  - the board with U-Boot and installed Linux OS on eMMC
>  - g_multi module in Linux OS that shares *one of the eMMC partitions*
> (pay attention here) as a disk to Windows host

I also misunderstood your assumption above; You are developing
a linux-based USB gadget for Windows (10)?

> Now, when you format that exposed disk (which is actually a partition
> on eMMC!) in Windows, you will get nested partitioning.

So why do you want to access *that* partition from U-Boot on the board?
I don't think it is a common case.

-Takahiro Akashi

> P.S. I can easily reproduce this on real device with latest U-Boot.
> U-Boot has obvious issue with recognizing such disks.
> 
> -- 
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-17  6:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-26  8:29 [U-Boot] [PATCH] fs: fat: handle deleted directory entries correctly AKASHI Takahiro
2019-11-27  4:34 ` AKASHI Takahiro
2019-12-05 22:09 ` Tom Rini
2020-01-13 10:52   ` fat: handle Windows formatted partition (thru USB Mass Storage) Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-13 10:53     ` Fwd: " Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-13 16:34     ` Tom Rini
2020-01-13 17:55       ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-01-13 19:15         ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-13 19:22           ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-13 20:58             ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-13 21:05               ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-01-13 21:52                 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-13 23:14                   ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-01-14  8:21                     ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-14  8:23                       ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-14 12:43                         ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-14 13:16                           ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-15  0:12                           ` AKASHI Takahiro
2020-01-16  2:01                             ` AKASHI Takahiro
2020-01-16 10:39                               ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-16 19:20                                 ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2020-01-16 20:31                                   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-17  6:12                                     ` AKASHI Takahiro [this message]
2020-01-17  9:47                                       ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-17 14:51                                         ` Tom Rini
2020-01-21  0:39                                         ` AKASHI Takahiro
2020-01-21 16:13                                           ` Andy Shevchenko

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