[U-Boot] [U-BOOT] operate on a udisk with fat32 fs, and 2048 block size will cause system to restart

wesley xie elelonger at gmail.com
Mon Jul 19 10:45:15 CEST 2010


sorry, typo in the title, it is 4096

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:44 PM, wesley xie <elelonger at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a udisk(My MP3), which is fat32 format, and the fs block size is
> 4096(report by u-boot).
>
> enable USB and FAT support for u-boot.
>
> do "usb start" cause the system to restart. after looking into the u-boot
> code,  I find that the "DEFAULT_SECTOR_SIZE" in disk/part_dos.h is too
> small(512) to fit a fat sector, so system run into a "out of range" trouble
> when it go into usb_storage.c/usb_stor_read() function.
>
> and I also need to change the "FS_BLOCK_SIZE" in include/fat.h to 4096,
> otherwise, the "fatinfo/fatls/fatread" would run into the same trouble.
>
> These is also check in u-boot-2010.06 code.
>
> The FAT doc say the number of bytes per sector will be one of 512 , 1024,
> 2048, 4096, so i guess that I may need to use something like "malloc" to
> alloc the sector buffer ? But it seems difficult to do.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> /WX
>


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