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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v1] DOS_PBR block type is also valid dos block type.
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:11:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5140B34A.9060601@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJxxZ0M_eUbV48Mu+RxXHcYEB3YUE+XioO5adNhBr=8oLtW5uQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/11/2013 08:59 PM, Sonic Zhang wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> On 03/11/2013 03:56 AM, sonic.adi at gmail.com wrote:
>>> From: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
>>>
>>> - Should return 0 for both DOS_MBR and DOS_PBR block types in test_part_dos().
>>
>> What problem does this solve?
>>
>> I don't believe this change is correct. The purpose of test_part_dos()
>> is to determine whether a block device contains an MS-DOS partition table.
>>
>> Such a partition table is present in an MBR, but not a PBR. A PBR
>> contains a *FAT file-system, and does not include a partition table.
> 
> The SD card formated by windows 7 into one FAT partition can't be
> initialized correct in u-boot function init_part() after you reuse the
> function test_block_type() in function test_part_dos(). So, files on
> that partition can't be displayed when running command "fatls mmc 0".
> 
> The only difference in your change is to mark dos partition with flag
> DOS_PBR invalid.

Hmmm. I obtained an SD card that had been formatted in Windows 7
(inserted SD card, right-clicked on it in Explorer, selected Format,
selected default FAT32 options), and could not reproduce this issue.

Can you give more explicit instructions on how to reproduce this
problem? Perhaps a hexdump of the first sector would also help, or
uploading a heavily compressed image of the SD card that I can dd onto mine.

Also, what branch/commit of U-Boot are you using?

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-13 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-11  9:56 [U-Boot] [PATCH v1] DOS_PBR block type is also valid dos block type sonic.adi at gmail.com
2013-03-11 17:28 ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-12  2:59   ` Sonic Zhang
2013-03-13 17:11     ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2013-03-14  2:51       ` Sonic Zhang
2013-03-14  4:36         ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-14  7:31           ` Sonic Zhang
2013-03-14 17:53             ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-15  5:10     ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-15  6:36       ` Sonic Zhang
2013-03-15 13:14         ` Tom Rini
2013-03-15 17:09         ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-15 17:29           ` Tom Rini
2013-03-15 12:46       ` Tom Rini
2013-03-15 17:07         ` Stephen Warren
     [not found]   ` <CAJxxZ0Pk2CtS0FuYJyZDqq3NyUZEnCjnjsksx7buv8RiLf+3vQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <513E9C79.2000708@wwwdotorg.org>
2013-03-13  2:58       ` Sonic Zhang
2013-03-13 16:51         ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-13 17:01           ` Stephen Warren

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