[U-Boot-Users] FW: USB SUPPORT & get_vfatname

Adrian Filipi adrian.filipi at eurotech.com
Thu Apr 24 21:02:29 CEST 2008


 	The patch didn't improve my first few test cases.  CF and USB on 
an EP93xx board.

 	I'm sending you an image off-list.

 	Adrian
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Linux Software Engineer | EuroTech, Inc. | www.eurotech-inc.com

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, michael wrote:

> Hi,
> I try my fix and old version of u-boot system. The only different is the 
> align of the buffer. The hardware that I have is tested with the 32Mb, 64Mb, 
> 128Mb, 256Mb, and it works fine.
> I try the scripts without any problem... but the tests doesn't cover all the 
> possibility. Can you send me a dd of a compact flash of 64Mb that failed. I 
> rewrite it and test and maybe
> post a patch.
>
> Regards Michael
>
> Adrian Filipi wrote:
>>
>>     FYI, I too have been seeing this problem.  It is 100% reproducible. It 
>> seems to be a FAT32 problem with media 256MB and smaller.
>>
>>     I have tried various media sizes between 64MB and 2GB, MMC/SD, USB and 
>> CF media types, different boards (PXA270, EP93xx and IMX31), and lastly 
>> both the 1.3.2 and the 1.2.0 releases.
>>
>>     The 64MB, 128MB and 256MB fails under *ALL* cases when using FAT32. All 
>> the other sises work with FAT32 and *all* of the media works fine with 
>> FAT16.
>>
>>     FYI, I use "mkfs.vfat -F 32" under linux to make the filesystems.
>>
>>     All fingers are pointing to the FAT32 code and not hardware dependent 
>> code.  It looks like a media size related problem.  This is also an old bug 
>> given that it's in the 1.2.0 sources.
>>
>>     Adrian
>
>




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