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
next prev 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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