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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: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:39:28 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200121003927.GA8146@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VcfJN4dW+G7QvHuuEt-wdpOsKNAqPXw979BurNEasz9Ng@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 11:47:03AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 8:13 AM AKASHI Takahiro
> <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:31:49PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > 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)?
> 
> No.

Really? I've got messed up now.
- Why do you need to use g_multi to access the disk?
- Where is a disk attached to?
- Are Linux and Windows running on the same board?

-Takahiro Akashi

> > > 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.
> 
> What I'm trying to do is to copy some bootables to that partition from
> Windows machine in order to boot them via U-Boot.
> That's allow me not to disturb stock image on that board.
> 
> If U-Boot is not going to support nested partitioning, perhaps I can
> submit a documentation fix to advertise this explicitly.
> 
> -- 
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-21  0:39 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
2020-01-17  9:47                                       ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-01-17 14:51                                         ` Tom Rini
2020-01-21  0:39                                         ` AKASHI Takahiro [this message]
2020-01-21 16:13                                           ` Andy Shevchenko

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